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Social Movements
The Structure of Collective Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead...
Race and Social Problems
Restructuring Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
As much as Americans believe in the promise of an egalitarian, color-blind society, the reality is far from that ideal. People of color consistently lag behind their white counterparts in key quality-of-life areas. Despite many significant gains, widespread structural inequalities continue to exist...
Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices
Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality,...
Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care
The Gateshead Community Care Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2003: This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources to individual...
Perfecting Social Skills
A Guide to Interpersonal Behavior Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That man is a social being is almost axiomatic. Our interpersonal relation ships can be sources of the most rewarding or the most painful of human experiences. To a large measure our accomplishments in life depend on the facility with which we interact with others-our social skill. The acquisition...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book brings together literatures that in large part have been separated by the nature of the social target that is involved. Historically, research...
Policing and Social Media
Social Control in an Era of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This book investigates various public aspects of the management, use, and control of social media by police agencies in Canada. This book aims to illustrate the process by which new information technology—namely, social media—and related changes in communication formats have affected the public...
Engaging with Social Work
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for future change. Engaging with Social Work equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work and human services practice,...
Engaging with Social Work
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the diverse and contested world of social work. It explores the key concepts and theoretical frameworks underpinning contemporary social work practice, as well as relevant professional skills and strategies from a critical perspective. In a rapidly...
The Social Work and K-12 Schools Casebook
Phenomenological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This volume offers a collection of nine case studies from clinical social workers in K-12 schools, each from a phenomenological perspective, with the objective of educating Master of Social Work students and early career social work clinicians. Each chapter is framed with pre-reading prompts, reading...
Social Influence Network Theory
A Sociological Examination of Small Group Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Social influence network theory presents a mathematical formalization of the social process of attitude changes that unfolds in a social network of interpersonal influences. This book brings the theory to bear on lines of research in the domain of small group dynamics concerned with changes of group...
Uncovering Social Life
Critical Perspectives from Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In an era when rapid social change, the disappearance of traditional communities, the rise of political populism and the threat posed by radical religious movements makes it appear that ‘all that is solid melts into air’, the classical sociological problem of how peaceable societies can be created...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This book answers the question of whether we can apply evolutionary theories to our understanding of the development of social structures.
Social networks have increasingly become the focus of many social scientists as a way of analyzing these social structures. While many powerful network analytic...
by Dominique Moyse Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This second edition of The Social Work Student's Research Handbook provides an essential guide for social work students beginning to participate in research. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. Each chapter...