Rövid leírás:
Social Workers Count provides social workers and those in neighboring disciplines with the background necessary to engage the quantitative aspects of policy and social issues relevant to social work. Readers will also learn how to effectively participate in debates and discussions regarding such content.
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Hosszú leírás:
Social work students are often required to take courses in the domain of quantitative literacy, but struggle with the relative inattention to policy and social issues of special significance to professional social workers. These courses, as well as the books written for them, may also present mathematical demands many social workers are unprepared to meet. However, issues such as poverty measurement, adjustment of the purchasing power of social welfare benefits,
demographic strains on the Social Security program, and probability theory as a means of estimating the likelihood of child abuse or neglect represent only a few of the many quantitative problems related to the concerns of professional social workers. Written in an accessible style, Social Workers Count
provides social workers and those in neighboring disciplines with the background necessary to engage the quantitative aspects of policy and social issues relevant to social work.
What a wonderfully clear and informative book! I found myself learning about things I should have learned long ago but didn’t, like what balance sheets are or the nitty-gritty of how the Electoral College works. Michael Lewis is a friendly, easy-going guide to all of these and so much more. He’s the civics teacher (and math teacher, social science teacher, and economics teacher) we all wish we had.”
-Steven Strogatz, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University; Author, The Joy of x
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Arguments and Social Issues
Chapter 2. The Math You Need to Know
Chapter 3. Measurement and Social Issues
Chapter 4. Demography and Social Issues
Chapter 5. The Mathematics of Personal Finance
Chapter 6. The Mathematics of Budgets
Chapter 7. Probability and Social Issues
Chapter 8. Statistics and Social Issues
Chapter 9. The Mathematics of Political and Social Decisions
References
Index
