Classical approaches to organizational management and early organizational theories were designed to predict and control behavior in organizations. Max Weber (1864-1920) developed an ideal type or pure form of bureaucracy (Weber, 1992) as a formal system of organization and administrat...
Social Care Theory and Practice Learning Outcome 1 The purpose of this essay is to identify and explain how values can influence practice in social care settings. These values underpin anti-discriminatory practice and in turn are supported by various pieces of key legislation. According to...
One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...