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From Opinion-Based to Evidence-Based Social Work: The Swedish Case
This article presents an account of Sweden’s Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice (IMS), located in Stockholm, Sweden. The article places IMS in the context of making Swedish social care services less opinion-based and more evidence-based. The institute is an example of how policy-driven processes promote the use of evidence-based practices in this European nation. The article incl…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6. November 2010 .pp. 714-722
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- 10497315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Toward Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Child Welfare
Drawing on the authors’ experience in the international Campbell Collaboration, this essay presents a principled and pragmatic approach to evidence-informed decisions about child welfare. This approach takes into account the growing body of empirical evidence on the reliability and validity of various methods of research synthesis. It also considers wide variations in the cultural, economic, an…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 723-725
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- 10497315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Ja…
The Working Holiday is a relatively new but rapidly growing form of transnational mobility. In Australia, Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) form the largest group of Japanese temporary migrants, and their numbers have been increasing. In this paper, I will discuss the experience of returned WHMs in the light of Japanese labour practice. For my interlocutors, the motivations for taking a Working Hol…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 267 - 28
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- 10357823
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- Asian Studies Review
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Private Governance of Climate Change in Hong Kong: An Analysis of Drivers and…
This study examines how corporate governance of climate change is developing in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong), Asia's leading financial centre. It situates corporate actions within the broader framework of urban multi-stakeholder climate governance. In the absence of international obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and government regulation to reduce greenhouse gas (…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 287 - 30
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South Korea's Meandering Path to Globalisation in the Late Twentieth Century
Globalisation, or segyehwa1 in Korean, has recently been the central theme in discussions of South Korean political economy, particularly in strategic policy-making discourses since the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, which was triggered by the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. The serious nature of the South Korean currency meltdown in 1997 resulted at first glance in a striking trans…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010, pages 309 - 327
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- 10357823
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Envisioning Seoul as a World City: The Cultural Politics of the Hong-dae Cult…
This article explores how the vision of a world city influences local cultural politics, by looking at an attempt to construct a cultural quarter in Seoul, South Korea. The Hong-dae area of Seoul has a reputation as a vibrant place of urban amenities, emerging cultural forms, and neighbourhoods of cultural workers and artists. In 2003, the city government announced a policy to create a Cultural…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 329 - 34
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Portrayals of Non-North Koreans in North Korean Textbooks and the Formation o…
This article examines the portrayal of non-North Koreans in North Korean textbooks to assess the influences on the formation of North Korean identity, and how such identity formation is important in Kim Jeong-il's retention of power. This study not only looks closely at textual representations; it also examines how political and ideological changes in North Korea had a critical influence on the…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 349 - 36
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Implementing the Regulation on Places of Worship in Indonesia: New Problems, …
This article examines the local implementation of the national Joint Regulation 2006 on places of worship in Indonesia. It focuses on the case study of the Protestant Christian Batak Congregation, which became one of the first churches to successfully challenge the authority of a local leader to cancel its permit to build a church. I begin by exploring the history of the regulation of permits f…
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 403 - 419
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The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept of Satoyama and…
The term satoyama gained currency in Japan in postwar decades as a term that describes a sphere of “encultured” nature that has traditionally existed on the periphery of rural settlements, but which is increasingly threatened by industrialisation, urban development, rural depopulation and changing lifestyles. Satoyama is appealing as a concept because it represents a sphere in which nature and …
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 421 - 441
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Representations of the Masculine in Tagame Gengoroh's Ero SM Manga
Tagame Gengoroh (1964-) is a Japanese manga writer who specialises in erotic gay male SM themed comics. Though prolific and having a substantial cult following in his native Japan, parts of the US and Europe, his work has not received the academic attention it deserves. This essay explores how Tagame constructs masculinity in three stories set in the context of wartime Japan. By drawing on seve…
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 443 - 465
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The Mystery of Capital: Eurasian Entrepreneurs' Socio-Cultural Strategies for…
Unlike economic capital, which is visible and easy to calculate, social capital is intangible and difficult to assess. Although both types of capital are crucial in determining social relations and social behaviour, little solid research has been done on the latter. This paper attempts to use the rags-to-riches story of Sir Robert Ho Tung, a first-generation Hong Kong Eurasian entrepreneur who …
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 467 - 487
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Exploring the Conditions for Cooperative Energy Governance: A Comparative Stu…
A central but often unasked question in political and sociological scholarship concerns the conditions that precipitate cooperation on large-scale transnational energy projects, especially among “developing” and “emerging” economies. Using the example of two multi-billion dollar pipeline systems - the Trans-ASEAN Natural Gas Pipeline (TAGP) Network in Southeast Asia and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC…
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 489 - 511
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Emigration, Generation, and Collective Memories: The Presence of the Past for…
Research on memory of public events consistently reveals generational effects, where individuals remember best the events from their “critical years” of adolescence and early adulthood—a phenomenon attributed to privileged encoding or retrieval of memories due to primacy of experience. Prior research, however, has not decoupled the youthful period from transitional experiences more generally, r…
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- Vol. 73 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 223-244
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- 01902725
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Age Identity in Context: Stress and the Subjective Side of Aging
The passage of time is fundamentally experienced through people’s interaction with their social worlds. Life-course scholars acknowledge the multiple aspects of time-based experience but have given little attention to age identity in a dynamic context. Drawing from a stress-process model, we expected that turbulence within people’s family relations and health declines would produce increases in…
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- Vol. 73 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 245-264
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Advice-implicative Interrogatives: Building “Client-centered” Support in …
Interactional research on advice giving has described advice as normative and asymmetric. In this paper we examine how these dimensions of advice are softened by counselors on a helpline for children and young people through the use of questions. Through what we term “advice-implicative interrogatives,” counselors ask clients about the relevance or applicability of a possible future course of a…
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- Vol. 73 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 265-287
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Gender and Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice: Do Self-assessments of Abilit…
The gender gap in entrepreneurship has typically been understood through women’s structural disadvantages in acquiring the resources relevant for successful business ownership. This study builds on resource-based approaches to investigate how cultural beliefs about gender influence the process by which individuals initially come to identify entrepreneurship as a viable labor-market option. Draw…
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- Vol. 73 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 288-304
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REVIEW OF TRUTH, ERROR, AND CRIMINAL LAW: AN ESSAY IN LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGY, BY …
In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court wrote, “The basic purpose of a trial is the determination of truth.”1 This is Larry Laudan’s guiding premise in his “essay on legal epistemology.” Without ascertaining the facts about a crime, he writes, it is impossible to achieve justice, since a just resolution crucially depends on correctly figuring out who did what to whom.2 Thus, he continues, “it is en…
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- Volume 15, Number 1, March 2009, pp. 55-66
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- 1352-3252
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PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
The most powerful response to growing skepticism about the intelligibility of the idea of private ownership has been cast in terms of an owner's rights to the exclusive use of an object. In these pages, I argue that this response suffers from three basic deficiencies—rather than merely explanatory gaps—that render it unable to overcome the specter of skepticism. These deficiencies reflect a sha…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010.pp. 1-35
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GUILT, ANGER, AND RETRIBUTION
This article focuses primarily on the emotion of guilt as providing a justification for retributive legal punishment. In particular, I challenge the claim according to which guilt can function as part of our epistemic justification of positive retributivism, that is, the view that wrongdoing is both necessary and sufficient to justify punishment. I show that the argument to this conclusion rest…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010. pp. 59-76
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THE GETTIER PROBLEM AND LEGAL PROOF
This article explores the relationships between legal proof and fundamental epistemic concepts such as knowledge and justification. A survey of the legal literature reveals a confusing array of seemingly inconsistent proposals and presuppositions regarding these relationships. This article makes two contributions. First, it reconciles a number of apparent inconsistencies and tensions in account…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010.pp. 37-57
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