Book Reviews : Donald I. Warren: Helping Networks. How People Cope With Problems in Urban Community, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 1981. 248 pp
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Book ReviewsDonald I. Warren: Helping Networks. How People Cope With Problems in Urban Community, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 1981. 248 pp SAGE Publications, Inc.1982DOI: 10.1177/000169938202500420 Eva Öresjö Department of Sociology, University of Lund How should social care and helping be organized in the future'? This is an issue which is being more and more discussed in Scandinavia in connection with a critique of the present organization of public services. It is proposed that a larger part of these services should be run on an informal basis. Two different reasons are referred to: 1. Economic - the public services of social care and helping will become unreasonably expensive if a redistribution among communities and citizens does not take place. 2. Qualitative - social care and helping would be more humane if people in the neighbourhood took greater responsibility for this work. One would therefore also expect general cooperation and communion m the neighbourhood. However, this discussion is not unique for Scandinavia. The same points are also mentioned by Donald I. Warren m his book Helping Networks. But it is not so much about that that Warren's book is dealing. The purpose of the book is more to present