Social category: 205239 books
Language As Social Action
Social Psychology and Language Use
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves together research from philosophy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, social and cognitive psychology,...
The Future of Social Work
Seven Pillars of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of “social” and “work.” Social work, like all other professions, will undergo dramatic changes as apps and algorithms overtake human operations. The failure of social sciences in general and social work in particular...
Exploring Social Change
Process and Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Social change is intrinsic to our social lives and to the study of the social sciences. The interaction of changes within different contexts – economic, political and cultural – shapes our life experience.
But how exactly do we define social change, and how can we recognise its significance...
Empirical Foundations of the Common Good
What Theology Can Learn from Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The idea of the common good was borrowed by the Fathers of the early Catholic Church from the rich philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. It has been a fundamental part of Catholic thinking about social, political, and economic life throughout the Catholic intellectual tradition, from...
by Karin Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
How can social workers be more effective in collaborative work? What are the skills, knowledge and values required for collaborative practice? How does collaborative social work practice impact on the experience of service-users and carers?
These questions are faced by social...
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Ireland in Europe and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy, and thus an attractive destination for immigrants from Eastern Europe and further afield. This produced a singular social laboratory, which this book explores in all its complexity...
Social Work in Health Settings
Practice in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains itsuse of the Practice in Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in health care settings. The PIC framework is used to cover a broad range of social work practice sites, settings and populations...
by Christian Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media...
Environmental Practice in the Human Services
Integration of Micro and Macro Roles, Skills, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Environmental Practice in the Human Services points to the need for the human services to return to their historic mission of environmental change. It moves beyond the more general conceptual emphasis on person-in-environment toward the development of an environmental practice technology based on...
Basic Social Policy and Planning
Strategies and Practice Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In Basic Social Policy and Planning, Burch presents a generic process for professional intervention and social work leadership that is required of those who desire to achieve improvements in the lives of those they serve. Burch developed this text and guide so that even persons with no prior formal...
Social Marketing and Public Health
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The last ten years have seen tremendous advances in the theory and practice base of social marketing globally. Social Marketing and Public Health: Theory and Practice introduces new conceptual models and approaches to influence behaviour that promotes health and prevents disease. This new edition...
by Ainin Sulaiman, M Muzamil Naqshbandi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The social media phenomenon has vastly changed the landscape of communication around the world. Boundaries have disappeared, and now people can be easily connected for a variety of purposes. In Social Media: Dynamism, Issues, and Challenges, editors Ainin Sulaiman & M Muzamil Naqshbandi present...
Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
Welfare Regimes in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased...
The Trend of «Socializing Social Welfare» Policy in China
A study on Service Quality and Social Capital in the Society-run Home for the Aged in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
China has one-fifth of the world’s total elderly population. This rapidly aging population presents serious challenges to the state to develop a social service system. To satisfy increasing demands for diversified and continuous care, a policy known as «Socializing social welfare» was introduced...