Social category: 205239 books
Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories
History, Contexts, and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts, and Narrative presents the unique opportunity to examine how culture and social norms have combined with chance, coincidence, and serendipity to form the professional identities of men and women who were among the first generation...
Towards Social Renewal
Basic Issues of the Social Question
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Although this book was first published in 1919, it remains highly relevant to social problems encountered today. Uniquely, Steiner's social thinking is not based on intellectual theory, but on a profound perception of the archetypal spiritual nature of social life. As he suggests in this classic work,...
by Gabriel Barhaim
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book argues that the transition by Western society to late modernity has weakened the social order, creating a quasi-anomic state that favors those conditions that place culture in a position of prominence. The preponderance of culture over social, with its affinity for profane and its immanent...
Social Policy
Theories, Concepts and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. The lively and readable text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding...
A Passion for Society
How We Think about Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does “the problem of suffering” serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work,...
Social Media and Democracy
Innovations in Participatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement.
Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly...
Double Standard
Social Policy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In Double Standard, James W. Russell shows how and why different models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States and Europe. The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent political developments that are having significant policy consequences, including...
by Xinyuan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker
Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community...
Businesses with a Difference
Balancing the Social and the Economic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy?...
The Social Fund 20 Years On
Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years. This has provided a timely opportunity to not only critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in the past two decades, but also to place it within its historical context. There is a particular need to engage with the...
Social Security Works!
Why Social Security Isnt Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system-people who know that Social Security will not go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful...
Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture
A Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture: A Political Economy Perspective presents a critical analysis of the leading positions in social psychology from the perspective of classical and contemporary theories of consumer culture. The analysis seeks to expand social psychological theory by...
by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical...
Scaling Up
The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit...