BookAuthors: Alexander, Rudolph. (2010)
As a macro HBSE textbook, this book’s primary focus is social institutions, organizations, and communities. The introductory chapter, Chapter 1, provides a foundation by defining social work, social environment, and human needs. It explains why human needs exist and what causes human needs. Additionally, this chapter discusses human needs in the international communities, particularly those extremely poor communities wracked by considerable human rights violations, as defined by the United Nations. At the end of the chapter is the conceptual framework that I have identified as world systems theory. Overall, the book is grounded in world systems theory as it provides, in part, an under... 
