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by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African-American Perspective, Second Edition is an updating of the classic text that presents leading black scholars discussing complex human behavior problems faced by African-Americans in today’s society. This new edition provides fresh theories...
Social Entrepreneurship in the Greater China Region
Policy and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book offers the first exploration into the development of social enterprises in the Greater China region, consisting of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Mainland China. By drawing on the research and experience of over a dozen scholars and practitioners from across the area, it offers a picture of...
by Katrin Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 2,0, University of Nottingham (Nottingham Trent University), 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Civil Rights Movement in the USA, women's movements all over the world, peace and anti-war...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations.
This book systematically...
by Paul Seager
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Written by Dr Paul Seager, a social psychology specialist who teaches at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, Social Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers key areas that students are expected to be confident...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Social work is a profession that is increasingly involved with issues which have a global dimension. This Handbook tackles the global/local aspect of social work in its various forms and interrogates the key concerns that societies are facing through an international lens. The contributors show that,...
Advocacy for Social Change
Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition can influence national-level social policies. Based on extensive empirical research on two national organizations and their local affiliates, one focusing...
Social Safeguards
Avoiding the Unintended Impacts of Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Large-scale development projects oftentimes end up creating negative impacts that affect vulnerable populations with particular intensity. Projects likely to displace families from their homes, degrade the living conditions of indigenous peoples or intensify social conflicts at local levels are not...
Social Policy for an Aging Society
A Human Rights Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, it can easily lead to discrimination that impacts human rights. Based on the premise that social policy must reflect human rights principles, this graduate-level...
Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care
A Practical Guide to Understanding, Maintaining and Managing Your Professional Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these boundaries can lead to unprofessional conduct and negative consequences for both worker and client.
This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries...
Genocide as Social Practice
Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political...
Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems
A Causal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Uniquely focusing on intersections of social problems, multilevel statistical modeling, and causality; the substantively and methodologically integrated chapters of this book clarify basic strategies for developing and testing multilevel linear models (MLMs), and drawing casual inferences from such...
Introduction to social policy analysis
Illuminating welfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences the decision to have children to how everyday terms such as ‘youth crime’ or ‘poverty’ reveal...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Become a confident and effective practitioner with Practising Social Work in a Complex World. It provides the clearest and most authoritative introduction available to working in situations characterised not only by risk and change but also by high pressure to deliver successful outcomes.
The...