The Evolution of Forensic Social Work in the United States: Implications for 21st Century Practice by Tina Maschi, Mary Lou Killian Searles

“…For 21st century problems, forensic social workers are particularly well equipped to assume a leadership position and ongoing efforts in the pursuit of individual and social reform. The potential for the next century of forensic social workers is one of high anticipation. …”
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A utilitarian perspective of volunteer tourism in Africa. by Simeon E.H. Davies, Carolé Olivier

“…The key commonality between utilitarian theory and volunteer tourism is the premise that both are doctrines that emphasise social reform, and that good or happy consequences matter. …”
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A survey of college students’ willingness to participate in social practice with perceived environmental support based on the applied mixed research method by Yingxin Li, Zhou Jin, Gaoqi Dong, Ran Zheng, Ting Wang

“…Contemporary social reform promotes rapid social transformation, and social practice has a special educational function in higher education. …”
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Storytelling as an act of subversion: Call for action in Hulu's TV series The Handmaid's Tale by Kaličanin Milena

“…With the help of Atwood herself, who has been collaborating with the series cast, producers, and director in screenwriting, this TV adaptation draws attention to contemporary issues of political conflicts, sexual slavery, war, toxic pollution, poverty, LGBTQ, women's rights, as well as the need to address these issues and ultimately influence a long-craved social reform. The theoretical framework of the research relies on the concepts of transmedial narratology as elaborated by Thon (2015, 2016), Ryan (2014), Rajewski (2005), Gobyn (2019) and others.…”
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[es] Los fundamentos normativos de las profesiones y los deberes de los trabajadores sociales by Damián Salcedo Megales

“…Some remarks, finally, on professional identity and basic commitments to social reform are deduced from the basic account of the normative foundations for social work I offer.…”
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Globalization, Yankee Imperialism, and Machismo in the Mexican Narco-Narrativa by Michael K. Walonen

“…Elmer Mendoza’s The Acid Test, on the other hand, sees a sad inevitability in continuing drug violence and an exiled but not effaced possibility of moral action and leftist populist social reform, while Yuri Herrerra’s Kingdom Cons uses the figure of the drug trafficking kingpin to allegorizes the relationship of art to worldly power and stress the need of art to distance itself from capitalist criminality and propagandistic social functioning.…”
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Women in Morocco by Meriem El Haitami

“…Therefore, they redefine parameters of religious authority and define a new model of activism that seeks to cultivate collective pious conduct within society and thus contribute to a comprehensive social reform. Therefore, this article explores the dynamics of female religious authority in Morocco in light of the current social and political changes. …”
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Framing Good Food: Communicating Value of Community Food Initiatives in the Midst of a Food Crisis by Irena Knezevic

“…As such, the diverse economies framing offers new possibilities for alternative food, and for more general discussions of social reform.…”
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MORAL TEACHINGS AT HOME AS SEEN IN LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN by Huili Li, Rizki Februansyah

“…A detailed analysis of the American culture here includes its social reform thinking — transcendentalism, literary traditions, women’s social status in the time, and the religious origins behind these values. …”
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China as a Complex Risk Society by Chang Kyung-Sup

“…Gradual reform is in practice a sort of peripatetic pluralism in economic and social reform for maximizing developmental utilities of all types of human, material, and institutional resources—a policy line inevitably accompanied by similarly plural sources and factors of social, economic, and ecological risks. …”
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Figh principles and rules based on the rationality and unity of Muslims in modern Islamic civilization by Fatemeh fallah tafti

“…Planning this important issue in a jurisprudential environment and by expressing the Shariah ruling of its obligation or sanctity, in addition to speeding up the impact of the social reform movement, it causes a horizon beyond the recommendation and praise of these two important and at the same time interrelated matters. put in front of Islamic societies. …”
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City memory and saptial imagination in the Mahua fiction (1950-2003) by Lim, Chia Yen

“…Besides that, narrative of city image and the sense of place proposed by Kevin Lynch and Yi-Fu Tuan respectively will be applied in order to examine the writing juxtaposed to the transformation of urban space due to the modernization-industrialization process during the BN-Mahathir Regime, the transnational and trans-city movement of the Chinese youth, and the city as a platform for the masses to bring about social reform. Social issues in post-colonial period and Bumiputraism-new policies period were mostly discussed in their realism writings whereas the contents in the era of Mahathir regime emphasized historical and political issues in the city space. …”
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Entering into a Community-University Collaboration by Gayle M. Woodsum

“…But as is typical for a fledgling grassroots organization bent on accomplishing frontline social reform, the way we might publicly characterize our efforts doesn’t always fall in line with the full reality of how we actually experience them. …”
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Saleh School, Center for the Existence of Hayat Tayyeb, with an emphasis on the local community by maryam baradaran, zahra sadat nayeripour

“…The school, which is part of a community, can be active in, participate in, accept and participate in the ongoing social reform process. This partnership can be done with local agencies, especially schools, universities, and other entities, to identify problems, issues and needs, and to plan for solutions to problems in a network. …”
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Juvenile Justice in Comparative Perspective: A Study of Indonesian State Law and Islamic Law by Adrian Hadiputra, Muhammad Azil Maskur, Ridwan Arifin, Ikram Amrullah, Hibatullah Maajid

“…The concept of "ta'zir" (discretionary punishment) plays a significant role in ensuring that juvenile offenders are treated with fairness, aiming at their moral and social reform. This comparative study highlights the similarities and differences between the two legal systems in addressing juvenile crime, considering the broader cultural and legal contexts that shape juvenile justice policies in Indonesia and Islamic law. …”
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Folklore Goes to War: Folksongs, Yangge and Storytelling in Communist Bases during the Second Sino-Japanese War by Selina Gao

“…In communist bases of the North China Plain in particular, a New Literature and Art Movement began with the collection and organization of folk literature and art, which was in turn remoulded into effective and highly politicized anti-Japanese and social reform messages to promote mass mobilization. …”
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The Irony from the perspective of the Reception Theory by Ali Andalib, Sayyed Heaidar Far e Shirazi, Mohammad Javad Pourabed, Naser Zare

“…This research deals with the irony as a social mediator, a mechanism aimed at communicating the social reform messages. This mechanism has been considered by many contemporary Arab researchers. …”
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“GODINA RASPLETA” – JUGOSLAVIJA 1968: studentske demonstracije i tuzlanske reakcije // “YEAR OF RESOLVE” - YUGOSLAVIA 1968: student demonstrations and Tuzla’s reactions by Jasmin Jajčević

“…Student dissatisfaction was initiated by the inefficiency of the implementation of economic and social reform, and the decline in the standard of living not only of the broader strata of society, which had a negative impact on the student population. …”
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Layering Public Park Histories: Uncovering the Effects of Restoration Idea[l]s in Post-War Urban Spaces in Germany and the U.S. by Laura Brannan Fretwell, Eliane Schmid

“…The paper offers an approach for critically examining the planning histories of parks that were created under the justification of restoration but operated as sites of contestation and ideology during moments of societal, political, and social reform. Highlights: • Historical inquiry into the study of public urban park planning and development…”
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On the Path of the Prophet in Unsettled Times: Sudan’s Republican Brotherhood Looks Abroad by Steve Howard

“…Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909–1985) founded the Republican Brotherhood in the early 1950s to promote social reform through a new understanding of divine revelation which had emerged during his two years of khalwa or retreat. …”
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