Book Review: How Emotions Work. By Katz,Jack, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 407 pages,hardcover, ISBN: 0226425991

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Theories of Social Casework,Robert W. Roberts and Robert H. Nee,Eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. 440 Pages, $9.75 Hardbound

Empathy and social work education behaviors comprising empathy, an important social work skill, were delineated. The impact of professional social work education upon empathy was found, contrary to hypothesis, to be significantly positive. Students identified personal maturation, human behavior classes, and experiential parts of the curriculum as being most beneficial in enhancing empathy. The best students were found to have the highest levels of empathy on the videotape criterion measure. Moreover, female students had slightly higher empathy scores than males. There was no evidence of higher levels of empathy in students specializing in microsystem intervention.     

Book Review: Calvinism Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. By Knowles,Anne Kelly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (University of Chicago Geography Research Paper,No. 240), 1997. Paper,ISBN: 0-226-44853-3

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Book Review: Restless Nation: Starting Over in America. By James M. Jasper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 296 pages,hardcover, ISBN: 0-226-39478-6

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The Chicago School,So-Called

Many sociologists believe in the myth of a Chicago School, a unified and coherent body of thought and research practice carried on at the University of Chicago from the 1920s through the 1960s. Chicago never constituted such a coherent system and is better understood as a school of activity, a group of people who cooperated in the day-to-day running of a major department.