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Agenda for Social Justice
Solutions for 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of...
Rebel Girls
Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
From anti-war walkouts to anarchist youth newspapers, rallies against educational privatization, and workshops on fair trade, teenage girls are active participants and leaders in a variety of social movements. Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas illuminates the experiences...
Social Education in Asia
Critical Issues and Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship on social education by drawing on the research findings and/or experiences from scholars in eight East and Southeast Asian societies. In this regard the editors of this book hope that it will be a significant addition to the literature, and will shed...
Globalization and Social Movements
Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This clear and concise book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms—economic, political, cultural, and technological alike. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially...
Essays on Social Issues & How They Impact African Americans and Other People of Color
Law, Literature, and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Essays on Social Issues spans the gamut of social and political issues in law, literature and social work. It provides a diverse perspective on the practical implications of social policy, marginalization, and The Arts as it relates to people of color. Not only does this research consider traditional...
Wit's Pilgrimage: Theatre and the Social Impact of Education in Early Modern England
Theatre and the Social Impact of Education in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This title was first published in 2000: England experienced something of a social revolution in the years from the early 16th century to the Civil War. This work seeks to add a new dimension to the discussion of this phenomena by focusing on the emerging role and function of social behaviour as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Social Justice and Communication Scholarship explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can...
The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary
A Guide to Fabled Threats to, and Defenses of, Naturalistic Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
The (Expanded)Social ScientistOs Bestiary addresses a number of important theoretical and philosophical issues in the social sciences from the perspective of contemporary philosophy of science. The book discusses and critiques the various arguments that purport to establish that it is a mistake to...
by Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides readers with a wide-ranging,...
The Contexts of Social Mobility
Ideology and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another. The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement...
by Harold J. Bershady
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics desirable for social knowledge, showing that Parsons deems the relativistic and subjectivistic arguments...
Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
As the richest cities in the world's most populous nation, Hong Kong and Shanghai have recently experienced dynamic growth spurred by more and better-managed capital. These cities also have social problems whose solutions will cost money. Their urban populations are aging. Health finance at the level...
Welfare Words
Critical Social Work & Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
‘An impassioned and thorough dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform…get reading, get angry, get ready’. - Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London
'Rigorous, meticulously researched and edgy, Garrett’s new book seeks to understand the ideology...
Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World
Cases and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts – from disaster relief in China to child protection work...