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| Theories | Key Theorists | Principles/Therapies/Movements | Getting Started: Some Literature Review Sources |
| Social Theory | Encyclopedia of Social Theory Social Work Library Reference, HM 425.E471 2005 | ||
| Utilitarianism | Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill |
A doctrine of ethics that the purpose of all action should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people and that the value of anything is determined by its utility. The philosophy is often applied in the distribution of health care resources, as in decisions regarding the expenditure of public funds, e.g., Social Security (people who don't need it get it, while small businesses that can't afford to pay it risk going out of business). |
Sociological Abstracts (CSA)  Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EBSCO) |
| Classical Sociological Theory |
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Dialectical materialism, mode of production, and economic factors determine the structure of society. Rationalization (rules, codes and procedures demystify and displace religion, tradition, and sentiment without increasing knowledge). Ways of behaving are determined by forces outside the self; people are powerless. |
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| Structural Theories Related to Social Groups and Social Change | Famous
Sociologists |
People actively create class structures within society Challenges and changes structures which oppress Focus for transformational change is on the structures of society which perpetuate classism, sexism, racism, patriarcy, ageism, heterosexism, ableism, and imperialism.
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| Social Psychology | William
James George Herbert
Mead |
Symbolic Interactionism People interpret or define each other's actions instead of merely react to each other's actions. Social change is brought about by interpretation, not factors outside of the person. |
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| Psychoanalytic Theories
Classical Analytic Theory
Existential Psychology
Neo-Freudians
Humanistic Theories |
Sigmund
Freud |
Structural division of the psyche into
id, ego, and superego derived from instinctual drives. Projection,
introjection, repression and regression Ego-psychology "Neo-Adlerians"
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Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EBSCO) PsycINFO (EBSCO) |
| Structural Theory |
W. Ronald D. Fairbairn | Relational psychoanalysis: |
PsycINFO (EBSCO) |
| Post-Industrial and Post-Modern |
Theory.org.uk (critical social theory, queer theory, postmodernism) |
Social constraints are dissolving | PsycINFO (EBSCO) |
| Milan Systemic Approach | |||
| Communitarianism |
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Communitarian Network |
Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EBSCO) Literature
Review (Thomson, Laura Hamilton. 2001.) |
| Grounded Theory | Glaser and Strauss | Qualitative research employing content analysis of documents, participant observation, open-ended interviews, focus groups, and ethnography. Provides an emic understandings of the world: (categories are drawn from respondents themselves and tend to focus on making implicit belief systems explicit) |
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| Deviance Theory | Sociological Abstracts(CSA)
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| Social Movement Theory | Social Movements | Sociological Abstracts (CSA) |
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| Systems Theory | Talcott
Parsons George Homans |
Santa Fe Institute |
New directions in systems theory: Chaos and complexity (article in Social Work Jul 1998; Vol.43, Iss.4, 357-372.) |
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