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Friedman, Helen L. – Social Work, 1975
This article investigates the reasons why young single girls are keeping their babies far more often than they did a few years ago, and the role of the helping professions in dealing with these young mothers. (BW)
Descriptors: Adoption, Helping Relationship, Illegitimate Births, Parents
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Hardman, Dale G. – Social Work, 1975
Three experienced social workers discuss the question "Do we or don't we impose middle-class norms on lower-class clients?" The discussion covered the general areas of (1) imposing values, (2) scapegoating, (3) functional norms, and (4) fatalism and poverty. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Group Norms, Middle Class Standards, Role Conflict
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Kilty, Keith M.; Meenaghan, Thomas M. – Social Work, 1995
A particular ideology about science and objectivity has emerged in a climate of clear preferences concerning desirable and not-so-desirable populations, problems, and program strategies. Although the scientific process is believed to introduce objectivity, the picture that such quantitative methods provide in human services professions is…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Higher Education, Politics, Research Methodology