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How You Can Become an Invincible Social Worker
The Real Deal on Beating Burnout in Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Do you want to erase the word burnout from your vocabulary? Do you want to not only survive, but thrive in the field of Social Work? Are you ready to rekindle the love you once had for Social Work? This powerful book will show you the secrets to successfully beating burnout in Social Work from someone...
Why Social Movements Matter
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central...
Right Social Justice
Better ways to help the poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
For decades, Social Justice has been trumpeted as the means of assisting the downtrodden. Rarely have any of its proponents proved that it is other than an egalitarian ideology, without an analytical base. Assisting the poor may be a good thing but only if programs to aid them are effective and only...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term...
Ordering Lives
Family, Work and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It...
The Fiscalization of Social Policy
How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This money does not come from social...
Norms in the Wild
How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The philosopher Cristina Bicchieri here develops her theory of social norms, most recently explained in her 2006 volume The Grammar of Society. Bicchieri challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of the social sciences. She argues that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists place...
by Michael Mulkay
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science are dependent on social action only in a very special and limited sense. In Science and the Sociology of Knowledge...
Post-Soviet Social
Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties,...
Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and Social Movements
Resistance and Dissent in Mexico's Sugar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and Social Movements critically examines struggles for social justice in an era of neoliberal globalization. Its framework makes significant connections between debt restructuring, privatizations, free-market policies, and grassroots efforts to create alternatives...
by W. G. Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals. The Social Animal is a short, wide-ranging, witty and accessible book that sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live within...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The idea of corporations exercising corporate social responsibility has spread from the West and is now firmly embedded in Asian countries and in Asian corporations. The latest trend in corporate social responsibility, evident also in Asia, is for corporations to apply corporate social responsibility...
Market Society
Markets and Modern Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on critical notions of social order, social...
by Dylan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This bookcontends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist ‘common sense’ among activists. The author argues that the vital dynamics of anarchism and social movements need to be combined with a reappraisal of the Communist party and state. While cynicism towards...