Social category: 205239 books
by Brij Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The author explores a nexus of varied abstract issues and protean realities that relates to social justice, its complex manifestations and inordinate conundrums. Its counter-factual to think of a world without a social problem. The author, based on his half-a-century of experience, deep insight, and...
by Jane Dode
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this volume I discuss the four biggest unpleasant surprises that recent graduates and newly employed social workers are confronted with in their career. These four surprises are also the biggest causes of burnout, bitterness, and early retirement (including getting fired and changing careers)....
by Mr Tim Butler, Dr. Paul Watt
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now...
Poverty, inequality and social work
The impact of neo-liberalism and austerity politics on welfare provision
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus...
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Social Engineering in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic” Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating “sensible” citizens,...
by Beth R. Crisp
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Faith-based organizations continue to play a significant role in the provision of social work services in many countries but their role within the welfare state is often contested. This text explores their various roles and relationships to social work practice, includes examples from different countries...
The Death of Social Democracy
Political Consequences in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Whereas many writers and scholars interested in the field of social democracy have focused on factors such as the role of economic globalization and electoral pressures, Ashley Lavelle explores the importance of the collapse of the post-war economic boom and lower growth rates since then. He examines...
Rethinking Social Exclusion in India
Castes, Communities and the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In recent years exclusionary policies of the Indian state have raised questions concerning social harmony and economic progress. During the last few decades the emergence of identity politics has given new lease of life to exclusionary practices in the country. Castes, communities and ethnic groups...
Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect
A Practical Guide for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
"[A] concise and detailed description of a very complex issue...rich in detail and insight."
--Leslie J. Temme, LCSW
School of Social Work, Adelphi University
"[A] 'must have' resource for practicing professionals and an invaluable teaching tool for social work students....This...
Signal Crimes
Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events? How do such incidents shape the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do some crimes and disorders matter more than others in influencing how we think, feel, and act about our...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness...
by Hazel Andrews, Teresa Leopold
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
As the events management field expands as an area of study, there is a need to move beyond the business and marketing-driven approaches which dominate the literature towards a more advanced conceptual analysis and understanding of events from a socio-cultural context.
This book addresses this...
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises...
Media, Society, World
Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply.
Yet...