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Language in Action
Psychological Models of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction. It is the primary site of social interaction in all cultures and the place where social and cultural meaning takes shape. Face-to-face conversation between children and parents...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Social psychology and politics are intricately related, and understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in psychology. This volume surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of politics, featuring cutting-edge research from a...
The Automaticity of Everyday Life
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
As Skinner argued so pointedly, the more we know about the situational causes of psychological phenomena, the less need we have for postulating internal conscious mediating processes to explain those phenomena. Now, as the purview of social psychology is precisely to discover those situational causes...
Higher Education and Social Inequalities
University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a way of reproducing social advantage for the better off. With the number of young people from the very highest socio-economic groups entering university...
The Twilight of Social Conservatism
American Culture Wars in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Despite many Americans’ triumphant proclamations that Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 elections signified a post-partisan, post-racial society, it seems that the United States is more divided than ever. From the rise of the Tea Party, to strident anti-immigration and anti-welfare movements, to the...
Politics of Segmentation
Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a historical comparison of Italy and Germany post-1945, the book shows how a high...
World Ordering
A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge...
Social Work and Disasters
A Handbook for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity across the world, causing significant destruction to individuals and communities. Yet many social workers are ill-prepared for the demands of this field of practice. This bookdiscusses the role of social workers in disaster work, including in disaster-preparedness,...
Social Work in a Corporate Era
Practices of Power and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A striking new feature of the welfare systems in many Western countries is the extent to which market relations have permeated social services. Conceptions of 'risk management' now dominate the way parents and children are responded to, while new technologies aim to 'measure' their relationship with...
Professional Development in Social Work
Complex Issues in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Social work practice in the twenty-first century is continually changing. Contemporary practitioners work in complex areas and have to do so quickly and competently. This text helps qualified social workers, as well as those about to qualify, to build on their initial studies in order to develop professionally.
The...
by Carlos Sosa Araque
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The modern society is determined by a rational economic system, based on the individualistic behavior of man, which determines and models social institutions where the elements associated to equality and solidarity are not properly incorporated into the economic systems. We deem it necessary to explore...
Crossing the Line
Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This pioneering book is the first to explore the experiences of homeless people in Russia in the late Soviet period and during post-socialist transition. Through their own stories, it introduces us to the hidden world of vagrants, itinerant workers and the street homeless - roofless people living...
Social Change in a Material World
How Activity and Material Processes Dynamize Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of...
Researching Religion
Why We Need Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Researching Religion: Why We Need Social Science establishes the relevance of social science for the study of religion and promotes a particular kind of social science. Even if we confine ourselves to academic disciplines, there are very many ways of viewing religion. Certain kinds of questions about...