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Social Protection in Southern Africa
New Opportunities for Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A new generation of innovative social protection strategies is emerging in southern Africa. Although cash transfers are most prevalent, some country strategies include combinations of interventions such as food, livelihood inputs and support, asset building, public works and social services. The strategies...
by Karen Harry, Barbara J. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This volume of proceedings from the fourteenth biennial Southwest Symposium explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest. The authors use diverse and innovative approaches and a variety of different data sets to examine the economic, social, and...
The Institutionalization of Social Welfare
A Study of Medicalizing Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears...
The Social Photo
On Photography and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world.
With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of seek to communicate...
Social Cognition
How Individuals Construct Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Social cognition is a key area of social psychology, which focuses on cognitive processes that are involved when individuals make sense of, and navigate in their social world. For instance, individuals need to understand what they perceive, they learn and recall information from memory, they form...
A Genealogy of Social Violence
Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Examining the mimetic theory of René Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic...
by P. Madhu
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2005 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: A, , course: Inter-deciplinary Social Science, language: English, abstract: This thesis introduces and theoretically explores the idea of 'praxis intervention' and tries to support it with the help...
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations
On the Transformation of Social Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Although neural network models have had a dramatic impact on the cognitive and brain sciences, social psychology has remained largely unaffected by this intellectual explosion. The first to apply neural network models to social phenomena, this book includes chapters by nearly all of the individuals...
Extremist Propaganda in Social Media
A Threat to Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Extremist Propaganda in Social Media: A Threat to Homeland Security presents both an analysis of the impact of propaganda in social media and the rise of extremism in mass society from technological and social perspectives. The book identifies the current phenomenon, what shall be dubbed for purposes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The increasing trend and prevalence of incivilities-targeting punitive regulatory measures across Europe raises important issues regarding the legitimacy, effectiveness and impact of such formal social control. Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities addresses the pertinent issues of current...
Substance Use in Social Work Education and Training
Preparing for and supporting practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Substance use has become an increasingly common concern for all aspects of social work practice, and especially when working with mental health and vulnerable families. This requires all social workers to have sufficient education and training in alcohol and other drugs across a range of settings.
This...
Show me your playlist and I tell you who you are
An investigation of the social psychological foundation of musical playlists
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 1,0, Uppsala University, language: English, abstract: In the age of social networking and music streaming, playlists are a common tool for organizing, sharing or exchanging music in the digital realm. Most research,...
Social Work Values
An Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Originally published in 1983 Social Work Values is a sustained enquiry about the present situation of social work. It describes the treatment of social work values in the social work literature and in research, and pursues three distinct avenues towards an improvement on the present unsatisfactory...