Thesis (doctoral)--Ruprecht-Karl-Universität in Heidelberg.

Thesis (doctoral)--Philippsuniversität zu Marburg.

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Alexander-Universität zu Erlangen.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bern, 1919. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [v]-vii).

The Protection of Children Act in British Columbia makes provision for the removal and the restoration of guardianship to natural parents. This process, which is designed to safeguard the rights of both parents and children, involves the two disciplines of social work and the law. The social worker is directly concerned with the decision to apprehend a child and, subject to the decision of the court, separate him from neglectful parents. He is also concerned with enabling the parents to ameliorate the circumstances of neglect, and to assist them to apply to the court for the restoration of parental rights. The social work process thus goes on before the apprehension, during the court hearing, and after the committal of the child. The final disposition in both the removal and the restoration of guardianship is made by the judge of the juvenile court. This study is undertaken to illuminate the elements involved in social work responsibility in this area of child welfare practice. A sample group of families was selected, and their experience assessed for analytical and illustrative purposes. The study concentrates on two sets of factors: (1) those present at the time of removal of guardianship, and (2) the circumstances which enabled the restoration of parental rights. The data are evaluated on the basis of (a) parental strengths, (b) the nature of community concern and action, (c) the role of the social agency, (d) the nature of the client-social worker relationship, and (e) the part played by the juvenile court. Parental strengths are rated on the basis of objective and subjective criteria, developed from concepts pertinent to social diagnosis. The study brings out the need for definitive criteria on which to rate parental adequacy, in order that the grave decision to separate the child from his parents may he made with the greatest possible accuracy in diagnosis. There is responsibility for social workers to define the type of neglect which embraces psychological as well as physical factors, and to interpret this definition to the larger community for incorporation into legislation. Changing trends in child protection theories should be made known to the judges of the juvenile court in order that the socio-legal process is conducted to the best advantage of both parents and children. The social agency must maintain contact with natural parents after the removal of their children, as it has been shown that change can take place in parental capacity, or parental circumstances such as remarriage. This is an area clearly worthy of further research. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

M.A., Journalism and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2006 / The focus of this study is on the coverage of industrial action by the Mail & Guardian between 1999 and 2004. Mainly, the study seeks to understand the coverage of labour issues by the newspaper in post-apartheid South Africa. It is argued that the coverage, or lack of coverage, of labour issues by the paper is related to socio-economic and political conditions in the country. Literature on the influential role the ownership and control of media play in the content of news, as well as the influence of advertising, is analysed to attain a clear understanding of the pattern of coverage of labour news in post-apartheid South Africa. Therefore, the study uses the coverage of industrial action as a yardstick to measure as well as to understand the extent and the shift in editorial content of the newspaper with specific reference to industrial action. The main argument of the study is that the prevailing socio-economic and political conditions in South Africa, brought about by the advent of democracy, coupled with structural limitations play a fundamental role in determining the manner in which working-class issues are currently covered by the Mail & Guardian. It emerges in the study that the manner in which labour news in general and industrial action in particular are covered has shifted and thus replaced in the main by articles on labour politics. The extent to which the Mail & Guardian covers industrial action in the post-apartheid era has declined, and more emphasis is being placed on other beats that are not directly the interests of the poor and the working class.

Denna uppsats är en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av nyhetsrapporteringen och opinionstexterna om upploppen i Husby i maj 2013. De undersökta tidningarna är The Guardian, Svenska Dagbladet och Aftonbladet, under tidsperioden 20 maj – 2 juni 2013. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilka perspektiv som lyftes upp, vilka som fick komma till tals och hur de framställdes, vilken retorik som användes och vilken typ av våld som fick störst utrymme i artiklarna. Vi jämför även tidningarna sinsemellan för att se skillnader och likheter. Resultatet analyseras och jämförs sedan med teorier om "vi och dem" av Stuart Hall från boken Representations, teorier om retorik från Martin Conboys bok The language of the news, teorier om våld av Slavoj Zizek från boken Violence, samt med tidigare forskning. Resultaten visar att hälften av de undersökta nyhetsartiklarna hade som huvudsaklig vinkel att beskriva våldet som skett och vilka som drabbats av det, och hälften hade som vinkel att förklara orsaker till upploppen. Alla sex undersökta opinionsartiklar hade som vinkel att förklara orsaker till upploppen. De som fick komma till tals mest i nyhetsartiklarna var boende i Husby som inte deltagit i upploppen, och den näst vanligast förekommande källan var polisen. Minst utrymme att komma till tals på fick deltagare i upploppen. Detta stämde överrens med tidigare forskning om vilka det var som fick uttala sig i medierna om upploppen. Det vanligaste retoriska greppet i nyhetsartiklarna var känsloargumentation, och det vanligaste retoriska greppet i opinionstexterna var logisk slutledning. Den typ av våld som fick störst utrymme i nyhetsartiklarna var det subjektiva våldet, vilket överrensstämde med tidigare forskning, samt med Slavoj Zizeks teorier om att subjektivt våld får mer uppmärksamhet än objektivt våld. I opinionsartiklarna fick det objektiva våldet störst utrymme och där hade journalisterna samma syn på våld som Slavoj Zizek, att subjektivt våld uppstår som en reaktion på det objektiva våldet.

Diatrivē epi diktatoria--Panepistēmio Athēnōn, 1968. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-24) and indexes.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 125-127.