SWK 3010: Human Behavior & the Social Environment

Studies in Empowerment: Steps Toward Understanding & Action by Robert Hess This adaptable book offers diverse applications of the empowerment model to the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness. Topics span the developmental trends of empowerment as an individual achievement, a community experience, and a professional aim in relation to social intervention strategies and tactics.

Community Psychology by Julian Rappaport

Black Empowerment: Social Work in Oppressed Communities by Barbara Solomon

Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective by Partha Dasgupta & Ismail Serageldin Observations on social capital / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Notes on social capital and economic performance / Robert M. Solow -- Social capital in the creation of human capital / James S. Coleman -- Defining social capital : an integrating view / Ismail Serageldin and Christiaan Grootaert -- Formal and informal institutions / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Creating and harnessing social capital / Anirudh Krishna -- The formation of social capital / Jonathan H. Turner -- Getting things done in an antimodern society : social capital networks in Russia / Richard Rose -- Social capital : a fad or a fundamental concept? / Elinor Ostrom -- Understanding social capital : learning from the analysis and experience of participation / Norman Uphoff -- Economic growth and social capital in Italy / John F. Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam -- Social capital : evidence and implications / Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett -- Social capital, the state, and development outcomes / Ajay Chhibber -- Trust in large organizations / Rafael La Porta ... [et al.] -- Economic progress and the idea of social capital / Partha Dasgupta.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work--but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures--whether they be PTA, church, or political parties--have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe. Like defining works from the past, such as The Lonely Crowd and The Affluent Society, and like the works of C. Wright Mills and Betty Friedan, Putnam's Bowling Alone has identified a central crisis at the heart of our society and suggests what we can do.