THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES AS A CASE OF MODELLING
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 April 1990
Abstract
In this paper a sector will be dealt with, which is lately characterized by an increase in decision‐making in a scientific rationalized way, i.e. the sector of personal social services. Decision‐making is in many cases closely related and attributable to the fact that the social services are increasingly availing themselves of personal computers. An innovation which is most often discussed in terms of technological rationalization and facilitation for the provision of personal social services. This may be the case as long as the computer is used as just another, be it a different, mode, to provide services, e.g. to do away with routine, administrative, and management tasks, such as record keeping (Bloom 1975), information retrieval systems (Rubin 1976), fiscal management (Mutschler 1983), etc.
Citation
Kenis, P. (1990), "THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES AS A CASE OF MODELLING", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 10 No. 4/5/6, pp. 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013101
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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