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by Mary Chayko
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Second Edition brings together the latest research from many relevant fields to examine how contemporary social life is mediated by various digital technologies: the internet, social media, and mobile devices. The book explores such...
The Social Media Revolution: An Economic Encyclopedia of Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting
An Economic Encyclopedia of Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Social media shapes the ways in which we communicate, think about friends, and hear about news and current events. It also affects how users think of themselves, their communities, and their place in the world. This book examines the tremendous impact of social media on daily life.
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Societies of Social Innovation
Voices and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Social innovation is a concept that is associated with a range of experiences, dimensions, and fields within the language of management and economics and in the social and productive uses of technology, and this study seeks to clarify the meanings and uses of social innovation in contemporary societies....
Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The book provides an up-to-date analytical and empirical treatment of some important interactions between paid and unpaid labour and the social economy. The emphasis on the motivations for paid and unpaid labour, and on how these factors contribute to efficiently providing social services, gives...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Given the high rate of social media use by the public, organizations are compelled to engage with key audiences through these outlets. Social media engagement requires organizations to actively participate with public groups, and this highly-interactive exchange raises a new set of ethical concerns...
Nonprofit Management
A Social Justice Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Nonprofit organizations are increasingly concerned with the need to demonstrate how social justice principles impact every aspect of their work. This is the only textbook to explicitly integrate social justice principles into the management of a nonprofit organization. It provides students with the...
Interviewing in Social Science Research
A Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working relationship with her interviewees? What should the dynamics of talking and listening in interviews be?...
by Fabio Rojas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Theory for the Working Sociologist makes social theory easy to understand by revealing sociology's hidden playbook. Fabio Rojas argues that sociologists use four different theoretical "moves" when they try to explain the social world: how groups defend their status, how people strategically...
The Activist's Handbook
Winning Social Change in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist's Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama. Shaw details how activists can best use the Internet and social media,...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined...
Social Science and Policy-Making
A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This collection of essays examines how the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform and later, especially after World War II, as a tool in federal policymaking and policy analysis. It also uses arenas of policymaking, such as early childhood education and welfare and its...
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism
Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2010
J.S. Woodsworth, a founding member and leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (forerunner of the New Democratic Party) and member of Parliament, was a social policy pioneer who promoted human welfare and rights over interests of property or finance. The essays in Human Welfare, Rights,...
Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture
Why Media is Not the Answer
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Is violence on the streets caused by violence in video games? Does cyber-bullying lead to an increase in suicide rates? Are teens promiscuous because of Teen Mom? As Karen Sternheimer clearly demonstrates, popular culture is an easy scapegoat for many of society's problems, but it is almost always...