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World-Regional Social Policy and Global Governance
New research and policy agendas in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This volume explores the case for and the prospects of the development of world-regional social policies as integral elements of a pluralistic, equitable and effective system of global governance.
Focusing on transnational regionalism, this book examines the trajectory and crossing over of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The purpose of this study is to illuminate the pathways of Iranian influence in Iraq in order to provide U.S. decision makers with a possible strategy to counter Iran's malignant influence...
Social Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Current Status, Determinants and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers....
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain
Perspectives on Change and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart...
Being an E-learner in Health and Social Care
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
E-learning is a new, exciting and increasingly popular way of learning for health and social care professionals, both in the pre- and post-qualification stages. However, many people are apprehensive about what it involves and whether they will be able to study effectively in this way.
This...
Social Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
The Constitution of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book investigates the history of the post-war welfare state in Germany and its normative foundations, with special emphasis on constitutional issues. The author, formerly Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich, and President of the Max-Planck-Society,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive...
Democracies in Flux
The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social capital in eight advanced democracies around the...
The Social Life of Things
Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1988
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and...
Social Networks and Social Exclusion
Sociological and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
How important are social networks to daily life? There is now substantial evidence that attachment to a network may be vital in securing employment, in promoting good health, in maintaining positive relationships, and in supporting people in transitions through the life course. Equally, lack of access...
Social Research
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations.
The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to social...
Applying Social Psychology
From Problems to Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The Second Edition of this best selling textbook continues to offer a simple, systematic, step-by-step guide to doing applied psychology.
Using the authors' own PATH model, the text presents a new methodology for applying primarily social psychological theory to a wide range of social...
by Donna Dustin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Based upon George Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis and incorporating aspects of social theory, this book examines the introduction of care management to social work practice. Donna Dustin analyzes care management as an example of the managerial application of efficiency, calculability, predictability...
Social and Cultural Dynamics
A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before World War II. This revised version, written some...