PATHFINDERS: SOCIAL WORK
Scope|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: Social work
encompasses an organized division of professional
services providing welfare services to the needy,
handicapped, mentally ill as well as delinquents and
criminals. Training in social work includes a major
emphasis on sociology.
(Jary, David & Julia, Sociology) The purpose of this
pathfinder is to serve aas a guideline for student
research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing
of all materials in the library on this topic, but as a
selective sampling of the many types of materials
available.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF HQ9.E52 1995 Encyclopedia of Marriage & the Family
REF HV 12.E497 2005 Encyclopedia of Social Welfare
History
REF HM 291.D4857 1993 Encyclopedia of Violence
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Allahyari, Rebecca Anne.
Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral
Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 2000.
Arksey, Hilary.
Interviewing for Social Scientists: An Introductory
Resource with
Examples. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications,
1999.
Bane, Mary Jo.
Lifting up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty &
Welfare Reform. Washington, D.C: Brookings
Institution Press, 2003.
Banerjee, Abhijit.
Understanding Poverty. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
Bills, David B.
The Sociology of Education and Work. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2004.
Cornfield, Daniel B.
Worlds of Work: Building an International Sociology of
Work. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
2002.
Estes, Carroll L.
Social Policy & Aging: A Critical Perspective.
Thousand Oaks, Calif:
Sage Publications, 2001.
Putnam, Robert D.
Better Together: Restoring the American Community.
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Reed, Christopher Robert.
All the World is Here!: The Black Presence at White City.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Reese, Ellen.
Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present.
Berkely: University Of California Press, 2005.
Roberts, Dorothy E.
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. New
York: Basic
Books, 2002.
Starbuck, Gene H.
Families in Context. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson
Learning,
2002.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full-text journals
available through our databases in:
Open Access Journals in
Social Sciences
Open Access Journals in
Social & Public Welfare
WEB SITES
Child Welfare League of America
http://cwla.org/
National Association
of Social Worker
http://www.naswdc.org/
The New Social
Worker: The Magazine for Social Work Students & Recent
Graduates (free)
http://www.socialworker.com
World Wide Web
Resources for Social Workers
http://www.nyu.ed/socialwork/wwwrsw/
Updated
08/24/2007
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