L Alex Swan
Biographic Data
| ID | 167125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Alex Swan |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Swan |
| SIGNATURE | SWAN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Southern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Social Psychology of Driving Behavior: Communicative Aspects of Joint-Action
This paper identifies destiny-drivers, casual-cautious drivers, and socialoccasion drivers, as tire primary participations ill the driving environment, anti argue.f that accidents occur when there is a breakdown ill establishing joint-actio" among and between these drivers. Left/tillers are also discussed within the context of the above designated drivers, and another potentially dangerous driver; the meditator, is introduced. 77u~meditator is on…
Grounded-Encounter Therapy: A Sociodiagnostic and Sociotherapeutic Approach
provides a framework for the development of approaches for situational change and client growth. GET is a dynamic approach that provides a creative interplay between research, theory, education, and practice that produces knowledge and Grounded explanations for the purpose of application by the sociotherapist, and/or the clients to problems that are social in nature. Encounter establishes the methodological basis of the approach, and Grounding es…
Survival and Progress: The Afro-American Experience
Clinical Sociology: Problems and Prospects
The notion that sociology and sociologists can be "clinical" is beginning to take roots, even though the roots are not well established in the field of "mental health" and other fields having to do with therapy and change. Other clinical professionals do not question the argument that sociology has knowledge and information that can be applied to problems affecting the individual, group, organization, industry and the community. Neither is there …
Clinical Sociologists: Coming Out of the Closet
For several years, many sociologists have been practitioners in personal development and social change. They have worked in various clinics, mental health centers, juvenile delinquency and crime prevention programs, drug addiction programs, suicide prevention centers, and family growth and development programs, applying sociological thinking and knowledge. Moreover, many sociologists have developed therapeutic skills, methods, interactive strateg…
Research and Experimentation in Prisons
Research and experimentation in prisons have traditionally been undertaken under the guise of deter mining the cause of criminal behavior and of develop ing approaches and programs that would assist the in mate to live more successfully in society. It is argued in this work that the prison system is inherently coercive; consequently, it is not possible for an inmate to freely consent to risky procedures to alter his/her behavior. Therefore, infor…
Conscription Protest and Social Conflict: The Life and Death of a Draft Resistance Movement
A Methodological Critique of the Moynihan Report
(1974). A Methodological Critique of the Moynihan Report. The Black Scholar: Vol. 5, The Black Family, pp. 18-24
Clinical Sociology: Problems and Prospects
The notion that sociology and sociologists can be "clinical" is beginning to take roots, even though the roots are not well established in the field of "mental health" and other fields having to do with therapy and change. Other clinical professionals do not question the argument that sociology has knowledge and information that can be applied to problems affecting the individual, group, organization, industry and the community. Neither is there …
A Methodological Critique of the Moynihan Report
(1974). A Methodological Critique of the Moynihan Report. The Black Scholar: Vol. 5, The Black Family, pp. 18-24
A Methodological Critique of the Moynihan Report
(1974). A Methodological Critique of the Moynihan Report. The Black Scholar: Vol. 5, The Black Family, pp. 18-24
Conscription Protest and Social Conflict: The Life and Death of a Draft Resistance Movement
Research and Experimentation in Prisons
Research and experimentation in prisons have traditionally been undertaken under the guise of deter mining the cause of criminal behavior and of develop ing approaches and programs that would assist the in mate to live more successfully in society. It is argued in this work that the prison system is inherently coercive; consequently, it is not possible for an inmate to freely consent to risky procedures to alter his/her behavior. Therefore, infor…
Clinical Sociologists: Coming Out of the Closet
For several years, many sociologists have been practitioners in personal development and social change. They have worked in various clinics, mental health centers, juvenile delinquency and crime prevention programs, drug addiction programs, suicide prevention centers, and family growth and development programs, applying sociological thinking and knowledge. Moreover, many sociologists have developed therapeutic skills, methods, interactive strateg…
Clinical Sociology: Problems and Prospects
The notion that sociology and sociologists can be "clinical" is beginning to take roots, even though the roots are not well established in the field of "mental health" and other fields having to do with therapy and change. Other clinical professionals do not question the argument that sociology has knowledge and information that can be applied to problems affecting the individual, group, organization, industry and the community. Neither is there …
Survival and Progress: The Afro-American Experience
Grounded-Encounter Therapy: A Sociodiagnostic and Sociotherapeutic Approach
provides a framework for the development of approaches for situational change and client growth. GET is a dynamic approach that provides a creative interplay between research, theory, education, and practice that produces knowledge and Grounded explanations for the purpose of application by the sociotherapist, and/or the clients to problems that are social in nature. Encounter establishes the methodological basis of the approach, and Grounding es…
The Social Psychology of Driving Behavior: Communicative Aspects of Joint-Action
This paper identifies destiny-drivers, casual-cautious drivers, and socialoccasion drivers, as tire primary participations ill the driving environment, anti argue.f that accidents occur when there is a breakdown ill establishing joint-actio" among and between these drivers. Left/tillers are also discussed within the context of the above designated drivers, and another potentially dangerous driver; the meditator, is introduced. 77u~meditator is on…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)