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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Over the past few decades, as administrative and technological complexity has increased, so has the role and importance of administrative practice in social work. For those making the switch from front-line practice to administration and management there is, therefore, a real need to prepare and enhance...
Dream and Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Helen Taylor Greene, William G. Jones, Athena M. King, Taj'ullah Sky Lark, Jamela M. Martin, Marcus L. Martin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Amardo...
by Matthew O. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to...
by Anne Fortune, Robert Miller , Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice. Chapters address different approaches to qualitative inquiry, applications to essential areas...
Neighbor Networks
Competitive Advantage Local and Personal
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing." This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including...
Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe
Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care...
Social Class and Transnational Human Capital
How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people’s social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class...
Social Class in Europe
An introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential....
The Power of the Stranger
Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers - people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar...
by Victoria Carty
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The emergence of new communication technologies (such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms) has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context...
Modernising social work
Critical considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
New Labour's modernisation agenda has produced an avalanche of change that has posed formidable challenges for everyone involved in social work, whether as service users, practitioners or managers. Modernising Social Work provides a radical appraisal of the far-reaching changes in their theoretical,...
Social Media Abyss
Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures...
by Wendy W. Moe, David A. Schweidel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to political campaigns...