Harvey A. Farberman, Stephen J. Finch, Paula K. Bergman
{"title":"Confidentiality vs. mandated reporting of child abuse: a social work research dilemma","authors":"Harvey A. Farberman, Stephen J. Finch, Paula K. Bergman","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80009-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80009-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The tension between protecting the privacy rights of a respondent and the legally mandated obligation to report suspicion of child abuse confronts the researcher with a dilemma: to breach confidentiality is unethical; to not report is illegal. Example cases are presented in which the reporting of suspected child abuse breaches respondent confidentiality. The argument is advanced that the decision to breach confidentiality may well lead to: self-censorship by researchers, lack of candor by respondents, suppressed survey response rates, interviewer deception, oppression of disempowered groups, and impairment of the self-correcting aspects of disciplined inquiry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 101-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80009-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of economists in social change: explaining the end of state socialism in Hungary","authors":"Johanna K. Bockman","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80011-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80011-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I analyze articles in the Hungarian reform economics journal ACTA Oeconomica from the 1960s to the 1980s, to show the ways Hungarian economists reconstructed the economy and the economics discipline. Through such reconstructions, Hungarian economists created a large network with economists at its center as essential mediators between the economy, the party-state, and the rest of society. Economists expanded economics as a discipline and extended economics beyond its disciplinary realm, undermining the party-state's hegemony and making economic solutions a panacea for all of Hungary's problems. The spread of economic discourse and economic solutions along these networks is an important explanation of the fall of state socialism. This paper is an attempt to bring together the sociology of science, the sociology of economics, and studies of Eastern Europe from a historical perspective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 141-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80011-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I was just learning the ropes”: becoming a practitioner of safer sex","authors":"Lisa Jean Moore","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80005-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80005-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On the eve of the 21 st century, diverse communities face a future of continual management of the AIDS epidemic. Changes in sexual activity have become the primary method to curb the continued transmission of HIV. Safer sex has emerged as a collection of practices and ideas deployed to combat the spread of AIDS. Since sex workers make it their business to exchange sexual services for economic compensation, many have become extremely sophisticated in their innovations and expressions of eroticism using safer sex techniques. Based on original empirical research, this paper explores how becoming a competent practitioner of safer sex involves the alignment of particular social conditions and transformations of identity.</p><p>I'm very angry about the fact that people keep talking about safe sex educators and safe sex control of the sex workers because we're not the problem. If anything, we're one small population where there is a solution going on. There are a lot of people, doctors and health educators included, who don't have a clue and could learn a lot from us. That's true. And see when you're talking to a health educator, they don't have hands-on experience. The tips they give you, they're not things you're going to go home and do, you know? I mean you want to learn it from somebody who actually knows how to have fun doing it. Yeh, I'm so tired of that myth. Excuse me, but if you doctors do know anything about safe sex, most of them learned it from us. So please, stop trying to save us. Come learn from us; let us educate you.-Michelle, 6 year veteran prostitute</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 41-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80005-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The formative nature of conducting research for a metropolitan park district","authors":"David Scott","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80004-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80004-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper I show that conducting ongoing research for a metropolitan park district is very much a formative process <span>(Blumer, 1969)</span>. My job description, the nature of the projects, the needs of park district staff, the perceived needs of constituents, my personal needs, the resources at my disposal, and the help I was able to secure on different projects were all contexts that influenced how research projects were conducted, and how findings were interpreted and reported. Yet none of these were determinative in their own right. Getting projects done required interpretation and negotiation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 25-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(97)80004-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wm. Alex Montosh, Howard B. Kaplan, Karen S. Kubena, Robyn Bateman, Wendall Landmann
{"title":"Platelet status, stress and social support in the elderly","authors":"Wm. Alex Montosh, Howard B. Kaplan, Karen S. Kubena, Robyn Bateman, Wendall Landmann","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80016-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80016-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using data from a study of social support, stressful life events, and nutritional status among the elderly (n = 424), models based on earlier work by Kaplan were tested in order to determine the effects of adverse life events, lack of social support, and dysphoria on the platelet status of elderly women and men. Platelet status is a risk factor in coronary heart disease and has been shown in laboratory studies to be negatively affected by experimentally induced stressful circumstances. The present study takes into account naturally occurring life events as well as social support. It also takes into account additional factors known to affect platelet status such as age, health status, medication, and social class background. The findings suggest that the platelet status of elderly men and women is affected by differing adverse life experiences and differing kinds of social support and social support network characteristics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 39-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80016-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James D. Campbell, Joseph B. Stanford, Bernard Ewigman
{"title":"The social pregnancy interaction model: conceptualizing cognitive, social and cultural barriers to prenatal care","authors":"James D. Campbell, Joseph B. Stanford, Bernard Ewigman","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80018-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80018-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although prenatal care appears to improve perinatal outcome, many women fail to seek care. Research has established the importance of removing structural barriers for women by improving financial access, establishing providers of care, and providing transportation. Such steps are essential, but not sufficient to ensure that all women receive adequate prenatal care. Individual experiences, attitudes, beliefs, social setting, and culture are important in the decision to seek prenatal care. Most research on these nonstructural barriers to prenatal care, however, has been limited by the use of inadequate instruments and retrospective and cross-sectional collection of data. More importantly, this field of inquiry lacks a comprehensive theoretical framework to guide its research agenda. In this paper, we propose the social pregnancy interaction model (SPIM), a theoretical model for predicting the utilization of prenatal care which incorporates the theory of reasoned action and the concept of social pregnancy from symbolic interaction theory. The SPIM illustrates that a woman's decision to initiate prenatal care occurs within a social, cultural, and historical context that depends on social interpretations. If validated, this model has the potential to increase our understanding of the process of initiating prenatal care, to provide much greater predictive power in anticipating the use of prenatal care, and to facilitate the development and evaluation of effective approaches to increase the early utilization and continuation of prenatal care in a variety of cultural, social, and economic settings. The model also may be useful for studying other issues surrounding pregnancy such as family planning, contraceptive behavior, infertility, and elective abortion. We conclude by framing a research agenda and posing a series of research questions that emerge from this model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 81-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80018-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Triple trouble: Alcohol abuse by women with disabilities","authors":"Li Li, Jo Ann Ford","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80019-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80019-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using data from a multi-state survey on substance use among people with disabilities, this study provides a primary examination of alcohol use patterns and drinking related problems for women with disabilities. An inspection of patterns of use reveals evidence that alcohol use is at least as prevalent among women with disabilities as in the general female population. It is also found that health and family problems are more likely to be reported by female drinkers with disabilities than other consequences. In the discussion section, authors address the issues of social stigma and pressures to provide a better understanding of alcohol abuse among women with disabilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 99-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80019-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Longitudinal study of awareness, recall, and acceptance of alcohol warning labels","authors":"Michael B. Mazis, Louis A. Morris, John L. Swasy","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80020-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80020-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research reports the results of a 5-year (1989–1993) longitudinal study on consumer awareness of warning messages on alcoholic beverage containers. Adjusting for false positives, about one-third of respondents in the 1993 survey were “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to believe that alcoholic beverages containers contain warning messages. However, reported awareness has shown only a small increase since 1991. Respondents were also asked to indicate the content of the warning message. Adjusting for false positives, about one-quarter of respondents mentioned either the birth defects or driving warnings. Recall of the birth defects message has shown steady growth, while recall of the driving message has failed to increase since 1991. The rate of learning about alcohol warnings varied by education level; more educated respondents learned about the warnings more quickly than did less educated respondents. Recall was greatest among young and “heavy” consumption segments; about 40 percent of respondents in these two segments recalled at least one of the warning messages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 111-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80020-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupation-specific earnings attainment of Asian Indians and whites in the United States: gender and nativity differentials across class strata","authors":"Gopal K. Singh, Augustine J. Kposowa","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80022-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80022-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using census data drawn from the 5 percent 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample, this study examines the extent to which Asian Indian men and women in the United States have gained earnings parity with their nonHispanic white counterparts. Occupation-specific earnings for Asian Indians and nonHispanic whites are modeled as a function of individual human capital variables (e.g., education, work experience, English language proficiency, marital status, health status, naturalization status, and length of immigration) as well as community-level characteristics such as minority labor market concentration, industrial structure, and areal wage rate of the labor market. The results of the multivariate regression analyses reveal that both native- and foreign-born Asian Indians have not reached earnings parity with majority whites. They are at a substantial earnings disadvantage relative to their nonHispanic white counterparts of equivalent human capital and structural background. Furthermore, the comparatively disadvantaged earnings position of Asian Indians, which suggests possible labor market discrimination against them, is not uniform across the various occupational/class positions. The extent of economic discrimination directed against Asian Indian men seems to be more pronounced in the lower class strata (clerical/sales and blue-collar categories) than in the professional and managerial class. No evidence of discrimination is found against Asian Indian women employed in the upper and lower white collar occupations, although those beloging to the working/blue-collar class seem to experience some degree of economic discrimination based on their Asian Indian ethnicity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 137-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80022-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}