Paul Adams, PhD

Professor

Henke Hall Rm. 142
Tel: 808.956.6123
E-mail: pladams@hawaii.edu

Education:

D.S.W. (Ph.D.), University of California, Berkeley (name of degree changed to Ph.D., 1988) 1979

M.S.W., University of Sussex, England 1970

Dip. Soc. Admin., London School of Economics and Political Science 1968

B.A./M.A., Oxford University, England (English Language and Literature) 1964

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Academic

2001 to present Professor, School of Social Work, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Chair, M.S.W. Program, 2003 to 2004

1998-2001 Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

1993-1998 Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Portland State University

1991-1994 Professor, School of Social Work, The University of Iowa

1986-1988 Associate Director, School of Social Work, The University of Iowa

1986 Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

1986 Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich

1983-1984 Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, University of North London, England

1981-1990 Associate Professor, School of Social Work, The University of Iowa

1979-1981 Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, The University of Iowa

1975-1979 Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas, Austin

1973-1975 Teaching Associate, University of California, Berkeley

1965-1967 Part-time undergraduate seminar and tutorial teaching in English Literature: University College, Oxford and St. Clare’s Hall, Oxford

Practice

1970-1972 Social Worker, Inner London Probation and After-Care Service, London

Publications:

Books

1995 Adams, P., & Nelson, K. E. (Eds.). Reinventing human services: Community- and family-centered practice. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

1982 Adams, P. Health of the state. New York: Praeger.

Chapters

2000 Adams, P. Bringing the community back in: Patch and family group decision-making. In G. Burford & J. Hudson (Eds.), Family group conferencing: New directions in community-centered child & family practice (pp.105-119). New York: Aldine de Gruyter

1997 Adams, P., & Nelson, K. E. Reclaiming community: An integrative approach to human services. In M. J. Austin (Ed.), Human services integration. New York: Haworth.

1997 Adams, P., & Dominick, G. L. The old, the young, and the welfare state. In R. B. Hudson (Ed.), The future of age-based public policy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

1995 Adams, P., & Krauth, K. Working with families and communities: The patch approach. In P. Adams & K. E. Nelson (Eds.), Reinventing human services: Community and family centered practice. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

1994 Adams, P., & Krauth, K. Empowering workers for empowerment-based practice. In L. Gutierrez & P. Nurius (Eds.), Education and research for empowerment practice. Seattle, WA: Center for Policy and Practice Research, School of Social Work, University of Washington.

1994 Adams, P., & Freeman, G. Has the New Deal welfare state outlived its usefulness? A debate. In H. J. Karger & J. Midgley (Eds.), Controversial issues in social policy. Needham Hts., MA: Allyn & Bacon.

1991 Adams, P. Old age pensions in the German Democratic Republic, 1949–1989. In M. B. Tracy & F. C. Pampel (Eds.), International handbook on old-age insurance. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

1990 Adams, P. The unity of economic and social policy in the German Democratic Republic. In B. Deacon & J. Szalai (Eds.), Social policy in the new eastern Europe: What prospects for socialist welfare? Aldershot, UK: Avebury.

1982 Freeman, G., & Adams, P. The politics of social security: Expansion, retrenchment, and rationalization. In A. Stone & E. J. Harpham (Eds.), The political economy of public policy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

1982 Adams, P., & Freeman, G. Social services under Reagan and Thatcher: A comparative political-economic analysis. In N. Fainstein & S. Fainstein (Eds.), Urban policy under capitalism. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

1981 Adams, P. Politics and social work practice: A radical dilemma. In M. Mahaffey & J. Hanks (Eds.), Practical politics: Social work and political responsibility. New York: National Association of Social Workers.

Refereed Articles

2004 Adams, P. Assessment as learning: The role of minor assignments in teaching and learning. Advances in Social Work, 5(1), 47-60.

2004 Adams, P. Classroom assessment and social welfare policy: Addressing challenges to teaching and learning. Journal of Social Work Education, 40(1), 121-142.

2004 Adams, P., & Chandler, S.M. Responsive regulation in child welfare: Systemic challenges to mainstreaming the family group conference. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 31(1), 93-116.

2004 Burford, G., & Adams, P. Restorative justice, responsive regulation, and social work. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 31(1), 7-26.

2002 Adams, P., & Chandler, S.M. Building partnerships to protect children: A blended model of family group conferencing. Family Court Review, 40(4), 503-517.

2002 Adams, P. Interweaving formal and informal care: The case of family group conferencing. Social Development Issues 23(3), 36-42.

1997 Adams, P., & Nelson, K. E. Reclaiming community: An integrative approach to human services. Administration in Social Work, 21(3/4), 67-81.

1995 Adams, P., & Dominick, G. L. The old, the young, and the welfare state. Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, 19(3), 38-42.

1994 Marketing social change: The case of family preservation. Children and Youth Services Review, 16(5/6), 417-431.

1992 Pampel, F. C., & Adams, P. Demographic change and public support for children: Family allowance expenditure in advanced industrial democracies. Social Service Review, 66(4), 524-546.

1991 Adams, P. War, peace, and “the system”: Three perspectives. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 18(3), 75-100.

1990 Adams, P. Children as contributions in kind: Social security and family policy. Social Work, 35(6), 492-498.

1990 Adams, P. State capitalism and social policy: The unity of economic and social policy in the German Democratic Republic. Research in Social Policy, 2, 1-27.

1989 Tracy, M. B., & Adams, P. Age at which pensions are awarded under social security: Patterns in ten industrial countries, 1960-86. International Social Security Review, 42, 447-461.

1989 Adams, P. Family policy and labor migration in East and West Germany. Social Service Review, 63(2), 245-263.

1988 Adams, P. Social democracy, war, and the welfare state. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 15, 27-45.

1985 Adams, P. Social policy and the working class. Social Service Review, 59, 387-402.

1983 Freeman, G., & Adams, P. Ideology and analysis in American social security policymaking. Journal of Social Policy (UK), 12, 75-95.

1979 Adams, P., & Freeman, G. On the political character of social service work. Social Service Review, 53, 560-572. Reprinted in Catalyst, 7 (1980), 71-82, and in N. Gilbert & H. Specht (Eds.), The emergence of social welfare and social work, 2nd ed. Itasca, IL: Peacock.

1978 Adams, P. Social control or social wage: On the political economy of the “welfare state.” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 5, 46-54. Reprinted in R. Dale et al. (Eds.), Education and the state, Vol. 2, Lewes, England: Falmer Press.

1977 Adams, P. Social policy and war. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 4, 419-432.

1971 Adams, P., & Wilson, K. To advise, assist, befriend — and punish? Social Work Today 1(10) (January), 34-36.

1966 Adams, P. L. C. Knights and soil erosion. Oxford Review 1 (Michaelmas), 57-68.

Non-Refereed Articles and Reports (Selected)

1995 Adams, P., Alter, C., Krauth, K., St. Andre, M., & amp;Tracy, M. Strengthening families and neighborhoods: A community-centered approach. Final report on the Iowa Patch Project to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa School of Social Work.

1994 Adams, P., & Krauth, K. Community-centered practice to strengthen families and neighborhoods: The Patch approach. National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. Prevention Report, Fall, 2-5.

1989 Tracy, P., Adams, P., Tracy, M. B., Uhel, & J-I. Jean-Ives Uhel. Child welfare in Canada. Prepared for the U.S. Committee, International Council on Social Welfare, for submission to Office of Human Development Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Book Reviews

2003 Adams, P. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 23(3/4), 212-214. Book review. The faces of social policy: A strengths perspective. Tice, C.J., & Perkins, K. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

1996 Adams, P. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 77(5), 315-316. Book review. Malign neglect: Homelessness in an American city. Wolch, J., & Dear, M. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

1991 Adams, P. Children and Youth Services Review. Book review. Children and the transition to the market economy: Safety nets and social policies in central and eastern Europe. Cornia, G. A., & Sipos, S. (Eds.). Aldershot, UK: Avebury.

1990 Adams, P. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 4(1), 171-175. Book review. From charity to enterprise: The development of American social work in a market economy. Wenocur, S., & Reisch, M. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

1988 Adams, P. Social Work, 33(1), 72-74. Book review. In the shadow of the poorhouse: A social history of welfare in America. Katz, M. B. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

1984 Adams, P. Critical Social Policy (UK), 11, 137-139. Book review. Contradictions of the welfare state. Offe, C. Edited by John Keane. London: Hutchinson, 1984. Reprinted in Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 12 (1984), 744-748.

1984 Adams, P. Critical Social Policy (UK), 9, 114-118. Book review. The new class war: Reagan’s attack on the welfare state and its consequences. Piven, F. F., & Cloward, R. A. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.

1980 Adams, P., & Freeman, G. Journal of Social Policy (UK), 9, 545-549. Lead review. The political economy of the welfare state. Gough, I. London: Macmillan, 1979.

1978 Adams, P. Contemporary Sociology, 9, 691-692. Book review. Class struggle, the state and medicine: An historical and contemporary analysis of the medical sector in Great Britain. Navarro, V. New York: Prodist, 1978.

1978 Adams, P. Contemporary Sociology, 7, 472-473. Book review. Radical social work. Bailey, R., & Brake, M. (Eds.). New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Professional Presentations (Selected):

University and School

2002 Presenting yourself: CV’s, interviews, and ‘job talks.’ Preparing Future Faculty Series Panel. University of Hawaii-M?noa Graduate Division and the Center for Teaching Excellence/Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support. November 6.

2002 State and community in Family Group (‘Ohana) Conferencing. Law and Society Group. May 6.

2002 Program assessment and the curriculum. Faculty Curriculum Retreat. School of Social Work, April 19.

2002 Presentation and discussion of Braithwaite, J. (2002), Restorative justice and responsive regulation. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Law and Society Group. April 18.

2002 Our self-study and re-accreditation. Forum sponsored by the School of Social Work and Alumni and Friends. March 20.

2002 Re-accreditation: The self-study process. School of Social Work Alumni and Friends. February 12.

National and International

2004 Restorative Justice. Hawaii Legal Seminars, Honolulu, HI, November 17.

2002 Using Classroom Assessment Techniques to improve policy teaching. The Policy Conference, Charleston, SC, June 15-18.

2002 Adams, P., Chandler, S.M., & Livingston, A.M. ‘Ohana Conferencing. 39th Annual Conference, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, June5-8.

2002 Learning from indigenous practices and creating new harmonies: Opportunity and challenge. 47th Annual Program Meeting, Council on Social Work Education, Nashville, TN, February 24-27.

2001 Adams, P., & Zalenski, J. Changing systems and practice to strengthen communities. Smale Memorial Symposium, National Institute for Social Work, London, U.K., November 22.

2001 Interweaving formal and informal care and control: The case of family group conferencing. 12th Symposium, Inter-University Consortium on International Social Development, Istanbul, Turkey, June 19-24.

2000 Managing coalitions for change: Managing patch innovations. Working together: A patch partnership approach to well-being. Conference sponsored by Vermont Agency of Human Services. Burlington, VT, April 3-4.

1999 Implementation issues in community-based partnerships. Second National Roundtable on Innovative Community-Based Partnerships, Jacksonville, Florida, February 8-10.

1998 Community as partner: A community-centered approach to field education. 44th Annual Program Meeting, Council on Social Work Education, Orlando, Florida, March 5-8.

1998 Community-based teams and child protection. Special meeting of the State of Hawaii, Blueprint for Change Committee and Blueprint for Change Task Force, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 5.

1996 Going patch: Issues in the transfer and management of innovation. Eleventh National Conference of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Washington, DC, September 18-21.

1995 Reinventing human services: Building family-centered systems. Building on Family Strengths: Research and Programs in Support of Children and Families Conference, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, Portland, OR, June 1-3.

1994 The development of patch in the United Kingdom and its transfer to the United States. Wingspread Conference, Community-centered practice to strengthen families and neighborhoods: The patch approach. Wingspread, Racine, WI, September 16-18.

1994 Building partnerships with families: The community social work approach. Building on Family Strengths: A National Conference on Research, Advocacy, and Partnership. Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, April 10-12.

1994 Adams, P., & Alter, C. A community-based service innovation and an advanced generalist curriculum: A case of reciprocal development. Annual Program Meeting, Council on Social Work Education, Atlanta, March 5-8.

1993 Adams, P., & Krauth, K. Empowering workers for empowerment-based practice. Working Conference on Education and Research for Empowerment Practice, University of Washington, Seattle, October 7-8.

1992 Working with families and communities. 33rd Annual Family Life Conference, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD, October 28.

1992 Improving service delivery through international technology transfer: The Patch Project. World Assembly Information Exchange, National Association of Social Workers, Washington, DC, July.

1992 Social work education—A funders’ market? Family preservation and the marketing of social change. Annual Program Meeting of the Council for Social Work Education, Kansas City, March 1.

1991 After the cold war: The “new world order” and the welfare state. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Cincinnati, August.

1991 War, peace, and the welfare state. Annual Symposium of the Iowa Chapter, National Association of Social Workers, Des Moines, April.

1991 Children as contributions in kind: Children, families, and social security. Changing Families Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, February.

1990 Social provision for children and population policy in Eastern and Western Europe. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, DC, August.

1990 Tracy, M. B., &Adams, P. International comparison of social security systems and policies. Symposium sponsored by Mission Interministerielle de Recherche et d’Experimentation and Ministere Francais des Affaires Sociales, Paris, June 13-15.

1990 Pampel, F., & Adams, P. Demographic change and intergenerational transfers to children: Family allowance expenditure in advanced industrial democracies. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Toronto, May.

1989 Welfare reform—Gorbachev style. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Berkeley, August.

1989 Perestroika and class struggle. Working Conference on Bridging Class Back In, University of Kansas, Lawrence, April.

1989 Children as contributions in kind: Integrating social security and family policy. Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Chicago, March.

1988 Gorbachev’s reforms and social policy in the GDR. 20th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, November.

1988 The unity of economic and social policy in the German Democratic Republic. International conference on Socialism and Social Policy, sponsored by the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and the International Social Policy Research Unit, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, UK, April.

1987 Social democracy, war, and the welfare state: Germany 1905-1918. Annual Program Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, August.

1987 The warfare-welfare state in historical and international perspective. Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, St. Louis, March.

1986 Welfare states in the world economy: Migration and social security in the two German states. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, August.

1985 Bukharin, state capitalism, and the origins of the welfare state. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, DC, August.

1984 Adams, P., & Nelson, K. Responding to the attack on the welfare state: The British experience. Presented to the South-East Iowa Branch of the National Association of Social Workers, October.

1984 Thatcherism in comparative perspective: The myth of authoritarian populism. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Critical Social Policy, Manchester, England, February.

1984 Nelson, K., & Adams, P. Social work education in the United States and England. Presented to faculty and students, and faculty consultation, at the Instituto Superior de Servico Social, Lisbon, Portugal, February.

1984 Social workers and politics in Britain, 1975-1984. Presented to faculty and students at the Department of Social Administration, University of Hull, England, April.

1983 A radical approach to teaching social policy analysis. Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Fort Worth, March.

1982 Rationality and reprivatization in the British welfare state. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, September.

1982 Problems of retrenchment: Cutting social services in Britain and the United States. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, September.

1981 Restructuring the welfare state. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto.

1980 Freeman, G., & Adams, P. Social security and economic performance: A comparative perspective. Annual Meeting of the Council for European Studies, Washington, DC, October.

1980 Freeman, G., & Adams, P. Public pensions and the economy. International social security policy colloquium, Public Pensions: The European Experience, President’s Commission on Pension Policy, Washington, DC, October.

1980 Is the welfare state functional for capitalism? Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York.

1980 Health policy issues. Annual Meeting of the Iowa Chapter, American Association of Hospital Social Work Directors, Coralville, Iowa.

1979 Freeman, G., & Adams, P. The politics of retrenchment: Social security in comparative perspective. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.

1979 Freeman, G., & Adams, P. The political economy of social security reform in the United States, Britain, and France. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston.

1978 Politics and social work practice. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco.

1976 The political economy of the “welfare state”: Social control or social wage. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York.

1971 The ideology of casework. Workshop on the Place of Casework in Social Work, National Institute for Social Work, London, May.

Professional Service:

University Service

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Case Western Reserve University

Portland State University

University of Iowa

Journal Editing and Other Professional Service

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, forthcoming, 2004.

Member, Editorial Policy Board, Journal of Applied Social Sciences, 1999–.

Member, Iowa Advisory Board, Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1991–.

Member, Advisory Board, Critical Social Policy (UK), 1980–.

Associate Editor, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 1976–; Book Review Editor, 1980–1985.

Assistant Editor, Case Con (UK), 1970-1972.

Editor, Oxford Review, 1965–1967.

Article reviewing for:

Professional Associations

Council on Social Work Education

COA certified site visitor, 2003—.

Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development:

American Humane Association, Children's Division

Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups.

Law and Society Association

Society for the Study of Social Problems:

National Association for Family-Based Services.

National Association of Social Workers.

Community Service

Awards/Grants/Honors (Selected):

International Who's Who, 2001.

Co-Principal Investigator. “Community Outreach Partnership Center for North/Northeast Portland.” Grant from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1996–1999. $400,000.

Award for Distinguished Service, American Association of University Professors, Portland State University Chapter, 1996.

Director, Wingspread Conference on Community-Based Practice to Strengthen Families and Neighborhoods: The Patch Approach, September, 1994. Sponsored by the Johnson Foundation and the School of Social Work, University of Iowa, with support from the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and by the Regional Research Institute on Human Services, Portland State University.

Paul Adams and Kristine Nelson, Directors, Obermann Faculty Research Seminar on Family- and Community-Based Approaches to Social Problems, Center for Advanced Studies and National Resource Center on Family Based Services, University of Iowa, July 6–31, 1993. $40,000.

Principal Investigator. “Going Local: Patch and Neighborhood Approaches. A Transfer from the United Kingdom.” Grant #90PD0196 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 1991-1994. $300,000.

German Democratic Republic Studies Association of the United States, travel grant to Berlin, November 1988.

Center for Advanced Studies, Interdisciplinary Research Project grant (with Professor Fred Pampel, Sociology), University of Iowa, Summer 1988.

German Democratic Republic Studies Association of the United States, travel grant for research and to present a paper in Leeds, U.K. and Berlin (GDR), April 1988.

Study of Retirement Age Practices in Ten Industrial Countries (with Martin Tracy), sponsored by the International Social Security Association, Geneva, 1987–1988. $20,000.

Favorite Quotes:

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.
-- Larry Laudan, Science and Relativism (1990, p. x)

If there is no truth, there is no injustice. --Norman Geras, Language, truth and justice, New Left ReviewI/209 (1995), p.110.

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