Social category: 205239 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many...
by Ginny Garcia-Alexander, Hyeyoung Woo, Matthew J. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This textbook helps students in the health sciences prepare for the social foundations portion of the medical college entrance exam. It provides a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts, theories, and methodologies in sociology that the exam requires. This book offers a condensed overview...
Gender and Social Hierarchies
Perspectives from social psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship between gender and social status. It comprises a collection of innovative approaches which seek to understand the pervasiveness of status asymmetry between...
Social Capital and Institutional Constraints
A Comparative Analysis of China, Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia have demonstrated how social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, community building, social movement, and economic development.
This...
Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion
Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Exploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey data from Germany to engage with questions surrounding the relationship between ethnic diversity and issues such as welfare...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Make sure your clients get the best possible care throughout their lives
Contemporary Issues of Care presents the latest research findings on human behavior and the social environment for social workers practicing at the individual, family, and community levels. This timely book applies the...
Social Media and Local Governments
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Today, social media have attracted the attention of political actors and administrative institutions to inform citizens as a prerequisite of open and transparent administration, deliver public services, contact stakeholders, revitalize democracy, encourage the cross-agency cooperation, and contribute...
Bridging Social Psychology
Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Bridging Social Psychology illuminates the unique contribution the field of social psychology can bring to understanding major scientific and societal problems. The book focuses on illustrating the benefits and costs of bridging social psychology with other fields of psychology, including cognitive,...
Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe
The ‘Catching Up’ -- A Myth or a Strategy?
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe explores the way in which social sciences, in comparison with other sciences in Europe, have been divided by the political orders of West and East. As part of the field of science policies in Europe, this book contributes to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The term 'resilience' refers to a person's capacity to handle difficulties, demands and pressure without experiencing negative effects. Traditionally, social work has focused on the nature and impact of resilience in children and adults who have experienced traumatic events, but it is increasingly recognised...
The Social Self and Everyday Life
Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism
This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective...
Social Entrepreneurship
Working towards Greater Inclusiveness
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book explores social entrepreneurship vis-à-vis participation of marginalized communities.
Based on in-depth case studies that highlight the efforts of selected third sector organisations, this book brings to light the emergence of social entrepreneurship in India. The cases focus on...
by Howard B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book is about human behavior and, more particularly, about a class of human behaviors-those behaviors by people that have themselves as the object of their behaviors. These self-referent behaviors are social in nature in the sense that in large measure, they are the outcomes of pervasive social...