1st Edition
Human Behavior in the Environment A Justice for Vulnerable Populations Approach
By James Angelo Forte
Copyright 2026
464 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
464 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
464 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Social workers prioritize understanding and advocating for unjustly at-risk vulnerable populations. Honoring this moral imperative requires critical empathy, imagination, knowledge, theorizing, and action.
This textbook provides a comprehensive, practical, and normative framework for assessing a population with a problem in a place, for using standards of justice to appraise "what is", "what... Read more
1.Profiling Injustice: The Moral Imperative and Method. 2.Critical and Pragmatic Problem Solving. 3.Positionality in Rigged Hierarchies. 4.Recognition Injustice. 5.Resource Injustice. 6.Representation Injustice. 7.Rights Violations. 8.Environmental Injustice. 9.Privilege and Penalty. 10.Vulnerability and Resiliency. 11.Plausible Explanations.
Biography
James Angelo Forte is a Professor at the School of Social Work, Salisbury University, a social worker, and a researcher/theorist with interests in critical symbolic interactionism, justice/injustice, vulnerable populations, and the legacy of Jane Addams.
