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Social Constructionisms
Approaches to the Study of the Human World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Social constructionism is one of the key ideas in the social sciences, offering different frameworks for understanding the human world. But what does it mean when we say that something is 'socially constructed'? What exactly do we construct in our social interaction? And what actually 'does' the constructing?
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Skills for Using Theory in Social Work
32 Lessons for Evidence-Informed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Using theory, research evidence and experiential knowledge is a critical component of good social work. This unique text is designed to help social work students and practitioners to integrate theorizing into practice, demonstrating how to search for, select and translate academic knowledge for practical...
Housing Disadvantaged People?
Insiders and Outsiders in French Social Housing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even a legal action against the State to obtain a social home. Despite this, France is suffering...
From Social Citizenship towards a European Welfare State - A vague concept as a driving force?
A vague concept as a driving force?
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (School of Management and Governance), course: European Social Policies, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the past decades social...
by Kieran Keohane
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions...
Social Development and Social Work
Learning from Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability. In the contemporary period, social development and social work are at the forefront of dealing with abject poverty and some of the world’s most difficult problems. This book highlights the contemporary African experience in addressing...
Social Death
Questioning the life-death boundary
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases. With an individual, it can occur before or after physical death. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have applied the concept to very diverse issues – including genocide, slavery, dementia, hospitalisation, and bereavement....
The Social Cure
Identity, Health and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
A growing body of research shows that social networks and identities have a profound impact on mental and physical health. With such mounting evidence of the importance of social relationships in protecting health, the challenge we face is explaining why this should be the case. What is it that social...
Social Policy and Public Policy
Inequality and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the 1960s. Because the volume is structured as a survey, it is neither exhaustive or defi nitive. It does...
The Risk of Social Policy?
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This thoroughly updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy, and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which...
by Robert R. Geyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important. This exciting new textbook provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of this contested area and examines...
The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization
How the EU Influences the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union’s social role in the world, assessing the EU’s ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives.
Focusing explicitly on the EU, the authors address the extent of coherence...
The Ecosocial Transition of Societies
The contribution of social work and social policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual...