Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction - Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies -- Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies -- Part I - Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics -- Decline of Community? - Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societie -- Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method -- Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? -- Part II - Theoretical Controversies -- Introduction: Theoretical Controversies -- Section I - Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action -- Preventive Planning - A Strategy With Loss of Purpose -- Basic Problems of Prevention -- Verwendungsforschung - Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work -- Section II - Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy -- Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work -- Cooptation and Counterculture - The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed -- Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention -- Prevention Through Institutional Change? - The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services -- Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? - On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work -- Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts -- Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk -- The Lady Is Not for Burning - The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support -- Part III - Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention -- Introduction: Evaluation Strategies -- Section I - Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research.

Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation -- An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review -- Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family - Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopathology -- Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies -- Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research -- Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry -- Section II - The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields -- Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention -- Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction -- Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform -- Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes -- Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts -- Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs -- The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research -- Section III - Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research -- Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime -- Incarceration and Recidivism -- School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment -- Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability - Findings From a Panel Study -- Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data - New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research -- The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes - The Example of Life-Course Analysis -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

The volume contains a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium of the Special Research Unit "Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, in December 1988. The theoretical discussions focus on the societal causes of the increased demand for social prevention and the theoretical, political and ethical limits of such measures. Furthermore methodological problems (meta-analysis, evaluation research and longitudinal research) are discussed in general articles and special research reports. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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