Sociometry and Social Work Theory

Sociometry Analysis System Applying Fuzzy Theory

Ecological Systems Theory in Social Work

Ecological systems theory is explicated as a current form of successive systems models used in social work. Behavior principles assumptive in this model are identified: of exchange balance, inner consistency, and dialectial change. Several misconceptions of ecological systems theory and a cultist aspect of its current popularity are addressed. Advantages, including the emergence of practice pri...

SOcIAL wORK In THEORy AnD pRAcTIcE Of RESTORATIvE juSTIcE

The honour of becoming guest editors of this journal is closely connected with collaborating in a European action research project. The EU-funded project “Restorative Justice at post-sentencing level; supporting and protecting victims” was carried out in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and in several partner countries, among them Croatia, between 1st January 2013 and 31st December 2014. The lead pa...

Sociometry in France and the United States

or by, J. L. Moreno and sociology, but it does show that work in both France and the United States aims at establishing a truly scientific basis for sociology. John Stuart Mill maintained that the experimental method could not be applied to the social sciences. His canon of the experimental method grew out of physics; logic3' aspects were emphasized, material aspects disregarded. Moreno writes ...

IDENTITY THEORY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY Identity theory had its beginnings in structural symbolic interactionism (Stryker 1980) and social identity theory began with work on social categorization

Identity theory and social identity theory have more points of overlap than differences in their understanding of the self. For this reason, we argue that the unification of these two theories is advisable in order to both avoid redundancies in theorizing about the self and to provide a uniform approach to the multifaceted nature of identities in terms of their bases, their processes, and their...