Terms starting with K

Kai-Hoken

அனைவருக்கும் காப்பீடு தேவை

The Japanese national health insurance coverage system established in 1961, which uses both a voluntary (employees and employers contribute to a national health…

Kai-Nenkin

கை நெங்கின்

In Japan, the national old age pension system. Established in 1959, the program is a contributory pension insurance system, paying a flat rate benefit to retire…

kaizen

கெய்ஸன்

The Japanese concept of improvement, betterment, reform, self-motivation, and personal growth. It refers not only to improvement of social conditions but also t…

Kaposi's sarcoma

மென்தசை கூர் அணுப்புற்று, மென்தசை கூரணுப்புற்று

A form of cancer in which tumors grow in the blood vessel walls. Symptoms include purple or brown lumpy spots appearing on the skin and mucous membranes of the …

kapuna

கபூனா

Native Hawaiian female elders, considered in the traditional Hawaiian culture to be the custodians of family history, the primary sources of wisdom, and the arb…

karma

கர்மா, வினைப்பயன், ஊழ்வினை

The belief, originating in Eastern philosophies and religions, that one exists within a context of destiny and that one's life is understood as ultimately beyon…

Kelley, Florence (1859-1932)

புளாரன்ஸ் கெல்லி (1859-1932)

Crusader for child labor laws and protections for workers, Kelley helped organize the National Consumers League (NCL), and with Lillian Wald, founded the Childr…

Kellogg, Paul Underwood (1879-1958)

பால் அண்டர்வுட் கெல்லாக் (1879-1958)

Founder and editor from 1909 to 1952 of The Survey, social work's unofficial and vastly influential journal. The Survey was one of the few national publications…

Kenworthy, Marion E. (1891-1980)

மரியான் எட்வீனா கென்வோர்தி (1891-1980)

Social work educator, physician, and psychoanalyst, she developed conceptual frameworks that integrated psychoanalytic theory with social work knowledge. In add…

Keogh Plan

கியோக் திட்டம்

A retirement pension system for self-employed people. Also known as the HR-10 plan, Keogh permits self-employed people, including social workers in private prac…

Kerner Commission

கெர்னெர் (விசாரணைக்) கமிஷன்

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, a fact-finding group appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 and headed by Governor Otto Kerner of…

Keynesian economics

கெயின்சியப் பொருளியல்

The theories of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), including the recommendation that during economic slumps, government should increase public s…

kibbutz

கிபுட்ஸ், சேர்ந்திருத்தல், கூடிவாழ்தல்

A collective residential community in Israel. Residents own almost no personal property and work for the community not for a salary but for goods and services f…

Kibei

கிபே

Japanese Americans who are born in the United States but travel to Japan for education or temporary or permanent residence. See also Sansei generation.

kidnapping

ஆட்கடத்தல்

The crime of taking persons by force or manipulation and holding them against their will or that of their legal guardian.

kidney dialysis

கூழ்மப்பிரிப்பு அல்லது சிறுநீர் பிரித்தல், இடைச்சவ்வூடு மூலம் பிரித்தல், சிறுநீர் கலவைப் பிரிப்பு, குருதி / இரத்தச் சுத்…

See hemodialysis.

Kiibler-Ross death stages

கூபார் ராசின் மரண நிலைகள்

The psychological reactions to impending death described by Elisabeth Kithler-Ross in 1969, based on her interviews with terminally ill patients. The five stage…

kinesalgia

தசை இயக்க வலி

Vivid pain that is experienced only with movement.

kinesics

உடலசைவியல்

Nonverbal communication through body motions. See also communication theory.

kinship

உறவுமுறை, பந்துத்துவம், தாயதி, தாயத்தனம், சொந்தம், பண்புத் தொடர்பு

A group of people bound by the same blood-line (genetic inheritance). Use of the term usually implies other characteristics shared by the family, such as simila…

kinship care

உறவுமுறை பாதுகாப்பு

The full-time nurturing and protection of children by adult relatives other than parents; these adults may have family ties or other important bonds, such as be…

kleptomania

திருட்டார்வம், அணிச்சைத் திருட்டு

1. Compulsive stealing. 2. An impulse control disorder in which the person unlawfully takes property belonging to another. The theft act is motivated by emotion…

knee-jerk liberal

உடனடி எதிர்வினை. மிகைஉணர்வு, மூடன்

A disparaging term applied (mostly by conservatives) to people who, supposedly without thought, elect to raise taxes and mobilize resources to solve social prob…

knowledge base

அறிவுத் தளம்

In social work, the aggregate of accumulated information, scientific findings, values, and skills and the methodology for acquiring, using, and evaluating what …

Kohutian theory

கோகூசியன் கோட்பாடு

See self-psychology.

koro

பூள் (ஆண்குறி) சுருங்கச்சம், பூள் சுருங்கி உள்வாங்கும் அச்சம்

A culture-bound syndrome, found especially among peoples of Chinese and East Asian ancestry, in which a man experiences intense anxiety that his penis will rece…

Korsikoff's disease

கோர்ஸிகோஃப் அறிகுறி

Amnesia related to the prolonged heavy use of alcohol.

Krankenkassen

நோயுற்றவர்களுக்கான / உடல்நலங் குன்றியவர்களுக்கான நிதி

In Germany, the "sick fund." This program, originating informally in German localities in the 1850s, was based on money collected from voluntary public contribu…

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

கு குளக்ஸ் கிளான்

A loose confederation of white supremacist groups and secret societies comprising people who oppose the advancement of minority groups, including Jews, Roman Ca…

kupah

குபா

In Jewish tradition, a community fund; members of a local Jewish community contributed to this fund as a form of tzedakah (social justice obligation) to be disp…