Social Science category: 175800 books
Lesbians of Color
Social and Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services helps you understand the ways in which lesbians of color perceive important issues related to their oppression and discrimination by...
Caregiver Substance Use and Child Trauma
Implications for Social Work Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Research has consistently shown that there is a link between caregiver substance use and child maltreatment, but less attention has been given to child trauma exposure. The co-occurrence of caregiver substance misuse and child trauma exposure is a prevailing problem that has confounded social work...
Emergentist Marxism
Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness,...
by Barbara Celarent, Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through...
The Pink Tide
Media Access and Political Power in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Over the last two decades, military and authoritarian regimes in Latin America have receded as indigenous social movements and popular protests have demanded and won peaceful transitions to democratically-elected governments. Across the entire Southern hemisphere, democracy arose with a radical flourish,...
Rural Social Movements in Latin America
Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
"A remarkable collection. The chapters provide extremely useful information on a range of social movements generally not well covered in academic work--and the coverage is provided by people who are either activists within the movements themselves or long-time supporters."--Wendy Wolford,...
Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that...
Sexual Ethics
A Study of Borderland Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In his treatment of the issues raised by the movements of women for equal rights a century ago, Michels anticipated controversies and conflicts about which people care deeply today. He took a clear position in support of the desirability of equality between the sexes. In consequence, it remains relevant...
by Christopher Phillipson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Few areas of life will remain untouched by the accompanying changes to cultural, economic and social life. This book interrogates various understandings of ageing, and provides a critical assessment of attitudes and...
All our welfare
Towards participatory social policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory...
Austerity Policies
Bad Ideas in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today. At a time when the economy is growing and pay levels finally rising, the necessity...
Achieving Social Impact
Sociology in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research. Analyzing the impact...
by Chan Kwok-bun, Chan Wai-wan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises. For these executives, business and social life alike...
The Future of Social Movement Research
Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding...