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Intergenerational Relationships
Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!
Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures focuses on how family and community relationships are affected by pressing social problems. Respected international authorities...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the categorization of the other. It does this by exploring...
Policy Design in the European Union
An Empire of Shopkeepers in the Making?
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This edited collection addresses a paradox at the heart of the European Union: if it is a constantly enlarging empire of governance, how can almost thirty member states design policies as an administrative whole, whilst narrowly approaching all political issues from one economic point of view? The...
Social Torture
The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government...
by Gini Graham Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A short introduction to the major concepts and approaches used in the social sciences, especially in sociology, anthropology, and leisure, recreation, and tourism. It's an ideal supplement to a more detailed text on research methods, as a guide to help choose which research methods to use in a study,...
Welfare Reform in East Asia
Towards Workfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with...
Thinking about the Lifecourse
A Psychosocial Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
How we change over time - who we love, what work we do, how we die - is shaped both by internal, and external influences. This book explores the important subject of human growth and development by combining the social context of how people live with their personal ways of thinking and being. The result...
by Martin Webber
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Mental health social workers work within multidisciplinary teams, often based in health settings. The variety of services they work within are shaped by mental health policy that is increasingly being influenced by research evidence of 'what works'. This fully-revised second edition has a new chapter...
by Daniel Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of...
Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication
Cognition/culture/power
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers...
Social Assistance and Conditional Cash Transfers
Proceedings of the Regional Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The regional workshop, held on 23-24 July 2009 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), brought together people from ADB, its developing member countries, partner development agencies, research institutes, and civil society organizations to share their views and experience on social protection and its...
The Fight Over Food
Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.” —Interview with farmer in Skagit County, Washington
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by China Development Research Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it...
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Assessment of the Energy Sector
Enhancing Social Sustainability of Energy Development in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven. Women, the poor, and excluded groups experience energy poverty more severely. To address this imbalance,...