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Doing Social Network Research
Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis?
If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book...
Social Justice and Medical Practice
Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
How do we understand and respond to the pressing health problems of modern society? Conventional practice focuses on the assessment and clinical treatment of immediate health issues presented by individual patients. In contrast, social medicine advocates an equal focus on the assessment and social...
Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification
Methods and Concepts in the Analysis of Social Distance
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational inequalities where they see, for example, that the typical friendship patterns of people from one occupation are often very different to those of people...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The second edition of this celebrated book by two of the world's leading researchers in social work introduces readers to the main theories, theorists and perspectives that contribute to the debate on social work theory and social work methods. It brings together some outstanding international researchers...
Transforming Society
Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole – encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the conceptual as well as operational aspects of social...
by Kish Bhatti-Sinclair, Robert Adams, Lena Dominelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Concerns about social justice and equality are woven into the historyof social work and welfare, yet practitioners and service users continueto experience discrimination. While the obstacles to real equality areconstantly changing, the need remains for social work practice that is inclusive,empowering...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This volume is devoted to the fascinating topic of social communication - fascinating because communication is ubiquitous, in that one cannot not communicate. And yet, the art of effective communication can be extremely demanding and elusive, because a tricky trade-off problem has to be solved. For...
by Robert Snape
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen...
Latinos in an Aging World
Social, Psychological, and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book fosters a deeper understanding of the growing Latino elderly population and the implications on society. It examines post-WWII demographic and social changes and summarizes research from sociology, psychology, economics, and public health to shed light on the economic, physical, and mental...
by Karen Christensen, Doria Pilling
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. It is the first handbook to cover social care work research from around the world, including both low- and middle-income countries...
by Martyn Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising ‘social haunting’: the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.
Examining the relationship...
Avant-Garde Sociology
An Introduction to Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Avant -Garde Sociology focuses upon building the theoretical position that social reality is defined as seven primary areas that simultaneously work as independent variables and might also be influenced as dependent variables in any social structural relationship or entity. In addition, this book...
by Vivien Burr
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and health, it clearly explains...
Practical social pedagogy
Theories, values and tools for working with children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Social pedagogical work is a field of practice that is indebted to and illuminated by aspects of knowledge from sociology and psychology, but many practitioners feel that social pedagogical theories are too abstract and distant from the challenges faced in practice. In Practical Social Pedagogy Jan...