This chapter discusses the theorising of social work in the field of systems theory. In particular, it takes Niklas Luhmann’s biopsychosocial systems theory as the starting point. Luhmann’s transdisciplinary theory has been widely received in the German-speaking world. For social work, which is ...
Ecological systems theory is explicated as a current form of successive systems models used in social work. Behavior principles assumptive in this model are identified: of exchange balance, inner consistency, and dialectial change. Several misconceptions of ecological systems theory and a cultist aspec...
Public policy Using systems theory and social exchange theory to understand factors that impact retentionturnover and motivation to work in a public child welfare agency UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON WillisNicole GPublic child welfare work can be extremely challenging in a system with more complex client ...
Systems Engineering — Theory & Practice, founded in March 1981, is a comprehensive sci-tech journal issued at home and abroad. It is in the charge of the China Association for Science and Technology and sponsored by the Systems Engineering Society of China. The journal publishes significant rese...
(actors) represented government and regulatory bodies/industry groups, than the social and individual level. This highlights the challenge of ecological models where the different levels of the system (e.g., ecological systems theory [63]) depict a ‘metaconcept’ but do not provide guidance on ...
Treating that theory as a post-Saussurean version of Saussure’s ‘linguistics of langue’, I present arguments for the inclusion of parole: I will argue that variation cannot be ignored because even within a synchronic état de langue it could affect the ‘system’, i.e., langue; and ...
As explained in the section “Introduction”, the deliberate focus on the social sciences and humanities provided a dedicated space for these disciplines to frame research questions without feeling constrained to accommodate the concerns of other disciplines and agendas, thereby helping to create research...
2.2.2. Smartness–engagement relationship explained by personalization mechanisms Drawing from social exchange theory (Blau, 2017), several researchers argue that customers show engagement when brands or firms demonstrate investments beyond their mere economic obligations (Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005; Hollebe...
3): the first explained 60% of the variance, canonical R2 = 0.60, and the second clarified 33% of the variance, canonical R2 = 0.42. In combination, the discriminant functions significantly differentiated between TR and no-TR groups (First function: Wilks’ λ = 0.23, χ227...
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