Social category: 205239 books
by Paul J.J. Welfens
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Economic globalization is a complex phenomenon where the links between social security expenditures and globalization are not well understood so far. This study summarizes new key findings and highlights new theoretical insights in the field of social security systems, labor standards, taxation and...
by Frederic G. Reamer
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
For more than a decade, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics for its comprehensive introduction to ethical decision making and practical guidance regarding professional misconduct. This new edition incorporates the legal and technological realities...
A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
An Exploration of the Changing Role and Status of Women in Irish Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern...
by Alex Broom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health...
by Paul McLean
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere – from the architecture of our brains to global transportation systems. And networks are especially ubiquitous in the social world: they provide us...
Understanding European Movements
New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions...
Social Work in a Risk Society
Social and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes from Beck, Giddens, Rose to explore the impact of risk society and neo liberalism on social work.
Social Policy for Effective Practice
A Strengths Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
For use as a text in foundations generalist social policy courses, either at the baccalaureate or master’s level, this book examines the process of defining need, analyzing social policy, and developing new policy. A clear philosophical base and a common theoretical framework underlie the discussion...
Reverse Engineering Social Media
Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Gehl adeptly uses...
Competition, Coordination, Social Order
Responsible Business, Civil Society, and Government in an Open Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The author analyses competition as one of four coordinating mechanisms helping agents mutually to orientate their actions, avoid chaos, and produce social order. Competition is a key dimension of developed societies. It helps to structure and is also conducive to social change. Competing agents constrain...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied...
Social Exclusion, Compound Trauma and Recovery
Applying Psychology, Psychotherapy and PIE to Homelessness and Complex Needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Responding to the growing number of psychologically-informed services for people experiencing social exclusion and, in particular, homelessness, this book gives professionals the information and understanding they need to be fully informed in their practice with this client group. It begins with theory,...
Body Problems
Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food society. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses the dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories but...