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Clinical Sociology Review, 1992
Drawing on participant observations and interventions while counseling 160 heroin addicts over a ... more Drawing on participant observations and interventions while counseling 160 heroin addicts over a two-year period, the author explores the possibilities and limitations of using sociology to counter his clients' addictions to heroin and other drugs. Important historical changes have brought about new conflicting viewpoints within the methadone maintenance clinic, where acupuncture and Chinese herbal treatments are now available alongside Western medicine Although sociologists have written harsh accounts of "getting the treatment," they have tended to support methadone maintenance, which has been demonstrated to stem crime and HIV, among other socially beneficial ends. Clinical sociologists can resocialize addicts to mentally-healthful social solidarities, demystify the socially destructive effects of drugs, and criticize ineffective, dehumanizing treatment techniques and ideologies When a counselor sits down with a client who is a heroin addict attempting to heal or to cope with addiction, a sociologist would identify these two people as taking part in a definable status-role relationship. Specifically, the status of a counselor is attached to the roles of active listener, monitor
Social Sciences, The Law and First and Other Peoples: A Commentary on Resources, 2020
This is the first part of a several part publication dealing with the Social Sciences, the Law, t... more This is the first part of a several part publication dealing with the Social Sciences, the Law, the Media, and First and Other Peoples. The next parts of the article will be published in subsequent issues of the FSSA.
On January 28-29, 2016, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, the Canadian Stu... more On January 28-29, 2016, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, the Canadian Studies Program sponsored a conference, “Fossil Fuels and Radical Sovereignties: Boardrooms, Blockades, and Jurisdictional Struggles over Oil and Gas Development in ‘North America,’” that dealt with major current issues relating to the law and the environment with a particular emphasis on the rights of First Peoples, frequently described by the terms, Aboriginal or Indigenous. Due to work, I missed several of the presentations, but I was able to hear many of the papers and engage in conversations, observations, and raise questions with several of the presenters and attendees. While the conference presenters showed real concern for justice toward the environment and First Peoples and several of the papers offered excellent summaries of recent relevant social action and legal cases, they lacked references to the social sciences of the law relevant to these events and cases. Instead of using this extensive literature to interpret their material, the presenters frequently substituted an analytical concept more derivative of identity politics than the social sciences. Thus I critically review several issues of interest to social scientists, by focusing on perhaps the least ideological of the papers with a more in-depth reference to concepts of major researchers in the areas of social sciences, the law, the environment, and First Peoples.
American Anthropologist
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Small Group Research, 1988
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... 95 Danette M. Schott, Starr Niego, Alisa Mallari, M. Jane Park, and Janette Mince Section D P... more ... 95 Danette M. Schott, Starr Niego, Alisa Mallari, M. Jane Park, and Janette Mince Section D Programs Designed for Youths of All Ages ... 187 Anne Belden, M. Jane Park, and Janette Mince Chapter 17 Get Real About AIDS®: A High School-Based STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention ...
Journal of Community Psychology
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Clinical Sociology Review, 1992
Drawing on participant observations and interventions while counseling 160 heroin addicts over a ... more Drawing on participant observations and interventions while counseling 160 heroin addicts over a two-year period, the author explores the possibilities and limitations of using sociology to counter his clients' addictions to heroin and other drugs. Important historical changes have brought about new conflicting viewpoints within the methadone maintenance clinic, where acupuncture and Chinese herbal treatments are now available alongside Western medicine Although sociologists have written harsh accounts of "getting the treatment," they have tended to support methadone maintenance, which has been demonstrated to stem crime and HIV, among other socially beneficial ends. Clinical sociologists can resocialize addicts to mentally-healthful social solidarities, demystify the socially destructive effects of drugs, and criticize ineffective, dehumanizing treatment techniques and ideologies When a counselor sits down with a client who is a heroin addict attempting to heal or to cope with addiction, a sociologist would identify these two people as taking part in a definable status-role relationship. Specifically, the status of a counselor is attached to the roles of active listener, monitor
Social Sciences, The Law and First and Other Peoples: A Commentary on Resources, 2020
This is the first part of a several part publication dealing with the Social Sciences, the Law, t... more This is the first part of a several part publication dealing with the Social Sciences, the Law, the Media, and First and Other Peoples. The next parts of the article will be published in subsequent issues of the FSSA.
On January 28-29, 2016, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, the Canadian Stu... more On January 28-29, 2016, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, the Canadian Studies Program sponsored a conference, “Fossil Fuels and Radical Sovereignties: Boardrooms, Blockades, and Jurisdictional Struggles over Oil and Gas Development in ‘North America,’” that dealt with major current issues relating to the law and the environment with a particular emphasis on the rights of First Peoples, frequently described by the terms, Aboriginal or Indigenous. Due to work, I missed several of the presentations, but I was able to hear many of the papers and engage in conversations, observations, and raise questions with several of the presenters and attendees. While the conference presenters showed real concern for justice toward the environment and First Peoples and several of the papers offered excellent summaries of recent relevant social action and legal cases, they lacked references to the social sciences of the law relevant to these events and cases. Instead of using this extensive literature to interpret their material, the presenters frequently substituted an analytical concept more derivative of identity politics than the social sciences. Thus I critically review several issues of interest to social scientists, by focusing on perhaps the least ideological of the papers with a more in-depth reference to concepts of major researchers in the areas of social sciences, the law, the environment, and First Peoples.
American Anthropologist
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Small Group Research, 1988
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... 95 Danette M. Schott, Starr Niego, Alisa Mallari, M. Jane Park, and Janette Mince Section D P... more ... 95 Danette M. Schott, Starr Niego, Alisa Mallari, M. Jane Park, and Janette Mince Section D Programs Designed for Youths of All Ages ... 187 Anne Belden, M. Jane Park, and Janette Mince Chapter 17 Get Real About AIDS®: A High School-Based STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention ...
Journal of Community Psychology
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