charity organization society movement (COS)

an approach to social movements that asserts that they can be successful only when participants develop shared understandings and definitions of some situation that impels the participants to feel aggrieved or outraged, motiving them to action

Defensive social movement

a social movement seeks to try out new ways of cooperation and living together

Offensive social movement

a social movement, brought to the US from england in the late 1800s, that turned attention to the environmental hazards of industrialization and focused on research, service, and social reform

Settlement house movement

large-scale collective actions to make change, or resist change, in specific social institutions

describes a family transition process following a stressful event

(A) the family system

(B) the family’s resources

(C) the family’s definitions about the event

 (X) the crisis

ABC-X Model of Coping

   focus on the physical environment as a source of sensory information that is essential for human well-being. light, color, heat, texture, or scent

may vary by intensity, frequency, duration, number of sources

Stimulation Theories

focus on the issue of how much control we have over our physical environment and the attempts we make to gain control

Control Theories

privacy, personal space, territoriality, & crowding.

Four concepts that are central to control theories

contend that uniform patterns of behavior occur in particular places

Tied to a specific place, and the setting may have a more powerful influence on behavior than characteristics of the individual.

Behavior setting theories

portion of the environment influenced primarily be geological and nonhuman biological forces

The Natural Environment Theories

: humans have a genetically based need to affiliate with nature

Biophilia

mind, body, & spirit

water, trees, and sunlight

refers to the behavior of individuals and small groups as they seek control over physical space.

Territoriality

is one that evokes feelings of ownership that we control on a relatively permanent basis

Primary territory

less important to us than primary territories, & control of them does not seem as essential

Secondary territory

open to anyone in the community, and we generally make no attempt to control access to them.

Public territories

conflict with clearly identified opponents, dense informal networks, and share distinct collective identity.

Distinguishing features of social movements

 single episode of protest is not a social movement.

developed out of the confluence of two social movements: charity organization society movement and settlement house movement.

History Social Movements and Social Work:

Escalated Force Model

honors the right to demonstrate peacefully, tolerates disruptive forms of protest, high priority on communication and avoids coercive control

Negotiated Control Model

social movements maintained by computer, provides easy/passive entry into activism and internet is rich resource for social movement as it bypass mainstream media like providing information, linkages, coordinating actions and mobilization/fundraising.

Computer-mediated social movement communication

•       Recovery…to the family’s previous level of functioning

•       Maladaptation: permanent deterioration in family’s functioning

•       Bonoadaptation: improvement on the family’s functioning over the previous level of functioning

•       Stress pileup: a series of crises that may deplete the family’s resources and expose the family to increasing risk of very negative outcomes.

Possible outcomes after the stressful event