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by Bittu Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Social Networking is a step-to-step guide for those who want to earn money using different social networks, such as Facebook, Google Adsense, blogging, etc. This book will show you how to use different social networks and making money online through them. Starting from making your online presence, it...
African American Community Practice Models
Historical and Contemporary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can “see” and “learn” when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change. This text celebrates African American experiences and challenges you to understand the black experience from the...
by Caroline Skehill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Historically Black College Leadership & Social Transformation
How Past Practices Inform the Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Historically Black College Leadership & Social Transformation Little research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective social transformation leadership in American college and university leadership. The authors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantly White...
The Modern Social Conflict
The Politics of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Revolutions are melancholy moments in history—brief gasps of hope that emerges from misery and disillusionment. This is true for great revolutions, like 1789 in France or 1917 in Russia, but applies to lesser political upheavals as well. Conflict builds into a state of tense confrontation, like...
The social market economy in the age of globalization - problems and perspectives
problems and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2008
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,8, European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, 55 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic...
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
A Critical History of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of...
Wisdom, Justice and Charity
Canadian Social Welfare through the Life of Jane B. Wisdom, 1884-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
One of Canada’s first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at pivotal moments. Wisdom’s transnational career took her...
Art and Social Movements
Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the...
by Steven K. Baum
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
"Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone to believe them. To that end, Steven K. Baum has an answer. In this...
Transgression as a Mode of Resistance
Rethinking Social Movement in an Era of Corporate Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Since industrialization, two major theoretical perspectives have accompanied the vibrant practice of social change. The first, hegemony, emerged as a less deterministic route to revolution from Marxist theory, and forms the common sense of social movement today. Within hegemonic resistance, rhetoric...
A Social Theory of the Nation-State
The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of...
Psychology After Deconstruction
Erasure and social reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker, and presents a newly written introduction...
by Tim May, Malcolm Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader issues. The book is intended for undergraduate and...