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by Ellen Burkemper, William J Hutchison, Jan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Examine new research and innovative programs targeted to serve vulnerable populations!
This collection highlights innovative programs and interventions targeted toward underserved, vulnerable, and marginalized populations, including the homeless, immigrants, refugees, female ex-offenders, people...
Social Work ASWB Bachelors Exam Guide
A Comprehensive Study Guide for Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
“Dawn gave us the tools we needed to take the exam, and let me tell you—she was on point! Not only did she cover the content areas we needed to focus in on, but she also showed us how to read and interpret the questions on the exam.”
—Ammu D. Kowolik, LMSW, McSilver Institute for Poverty...
Assessment for Social Justice
Perspectives and Practices within Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Assessment for Learning (AfL) has become an established idea within higher education, based on the evidence that assessment is one of the most powerful drivers of student learning and thus can be harnessed as a means to improve learning. Assessment for Social Justice looks at assessment in higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Social psychologists have always been concerned with two-person interactions and the factors enabling one person to gain dominance. Although social psychology has devised a revolutionary set of techniques to investigate the phenomenon of power, hypotheses are too often ambiguously stated, research...
by Spicker, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency,...
Social-Ecological Transformation
Reconnecting Society and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book advances a social-ecological theory to reconnect nature and society through sustainable transformation of interacting social and ecological systems. Social ecology develops as an interdisciplinary science by using knowledge from the social sciences, especially sociology and economics, and...
Taking it seriously
Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Promoting young people's access to social rights as a means for their inclusion and participation in society! In and around many cities, social and economic imbalances have led to the development of disadvantaged neighbourhoods, where diversity is also accompanied by poverty and often marginalisation...
Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level
Individuals and Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
While social work policy can be considered the what, and practice, the how, the study of human behavior is concerned with why. Why do people do the things they do? Why do individuals behave differently in groups than when alone? Why do some people become the victims of their lives while others who...
by Hans Fink
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The programmes of political parties and movements are attempts to formulate policies or guidelines in relation to social change. Social philosophy concerns the fundamental issues on which those programmes divide. This introductory work gives an account of several highly influential systems of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions...
Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?
Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s. Egypt's...
Older People, Ageing and Social Work
Knowledge for practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
'Essential reading for practitioners, educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people.' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham
The reality of our ageing population means all social workers need to...
Terror
Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
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The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html.
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Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy
The End of the Social Contract
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered, entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been in a “cultural war” over moral values...