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Toynbee Hall and the American Settlement Movement
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Toynbee Hall and the American settlement houses had their origins in middle-class, largely college-educated men and women who were concerned with the conditions of the urban poor as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Toynbee Hall and the American settlement houses had their origins in middle-class, largely college-educated men and women who were concerned with the conditions of the urban poor. They saw in the settlement house an opportunity to share their lives and culture with the poor and to allay the dangers of class struggle. Toynbee Hall, founded in 1885, served as a direct impetus to the pioneer settlement houses in the United States. Americans imitated its form and many of its practices, but the circumstances of American life led to significant changes on the English model. By 1900, the American movement dwarfed its British predecessors, and international leadership passed to American settlement-house officials.read more
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A Short History of Child Protection in America
TL;DR: The history of child protection in America is divisible into three eras: colonial times to 1875, the era before organized child protection, and the era of government-sponsored child protection as discussed by the authors.
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A Historical Analysis of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: The Unfinished Journey toward an Empirically Grounded Profession
Nathanael J. Okpych,James L-H Yu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a historical account of social work practice that situates the evidence-based practice (EBP) movement as an attempt to fulfill a long-standing ambition to develop a practice grounded in empirical research.
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Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States
Theda Skocpol,Gretchen Ritter +1 more
TL;DR: In the early 20th century, the United States was tentatively experimenting with what might be called a maternalist welfare state as discussed by the authors, where adult American women were helped as mothers, or as working women who deserved special protection because they were potential mothers.
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Bridging the Fragmented Community
TL;DR: In this article, a fluid concept of community is proposed in response to the fragmentation and diversity caused by globalization in the local community, and it is argued that to bridge different interests in the community, settlement houses, as a third sector organization, is an effective community-building mechanism.
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The bleaching syndrome among people of color implications of skin color for human behavior in the social environment
TL;DR: In this paper, a statistically significant relationship between self-identified skin color correlated with light skin providing evidence of the Bleaching Syndrome (the conscious awareness of the cognitive and attitudinal levels of the similarities and differences between the dominant group mainstream and dominated out-group to negate one's self for the purposes of assimilation).
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Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America 1790-1865
W. Ivan Hoy,Richard Carwardine +1 more