Social category: 205239 books
Analysing social policy concepts and language
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as “welfare state” and “social security” but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy...
The Altruistic Imagination
A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Social work and social policy in the United States have always had a complex and troubled relationship. In The Altruistic Imagination, John H. Ehrenreich offers a critical interpretation of their intertwined histories, seeking to understand the problems that face these two vital institutions in American...
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...
Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work
Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific...
Dimensions of Urban Social Structure
The Social Areas of Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census of information,...
From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers
Transformation of the Social Question
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two...
Rural Social Work
Building and Sustaining Community Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice
Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework...
The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work
A Social Constructionist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In the current political climate of the U.S., there are noeasily apparent solutions to the social problems we face.William M. Epstein claims that people in need have been poorly served and misled by the American system of social welfare. This is one of those rare works emanating from a social welfare...
Social Work Intervention in an Economic Crisis
The River Communities Project
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
With the collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s, economic devastation hit the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region. Social Work Intervention in an Economic Crisis strives to deepen understanding of the impact of the economic tragedy in the Pittsburgh region and to present social workers’efforts...
by Mr Mark E F Lymbery
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
This book provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the development of social work with older people in the UK. The coherent structure draws together the key themes involved in working with older people, and clearly demonstrates how to translate these into real-life practice.
Key...
Social Work
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
What are the key ideas that underpin social work practice?
This inspiring Reader brings together some of the most significant ideas which have informed social work practice over the last forty years. Exploring these fundamental ideas, the book includes commentaries that allow the reader to...
Handbook of European Societies
Social Transformations in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
European integration is one of the most ambitious and socially far-reaching developments in world politics and in world economics. Against growing opposition and despite increasing social heterogeneity, the European Union continues to expand and to acquire new competences. But to what extent is the...
Sport and Social Movements
From the Local to the Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present...