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Social Research
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
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The perfect book for any student taking a research methods course for the first time!
The new edition of David and Sutton's text provides those new to social research with a comprehensive...
The Segregated Origins of Social Security
African Americans and the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth...
Social Capital, Resilience and Adaptation on Small Islands
Climate Change on the Isles of Scilly
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands’ adaptive capacity to climate change. The case study of the Isles of Scilly, UK, shows how social structures can play a very important role for climate change adaptation. It is argued that social features...
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
A Social Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Since the publication of the first edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, several generations of students have successfully used this classic text, which takes a social systems approach to human behavior. This systems approach is still widely accepted in the human services disciplines,...
by David West
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements.
In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless...
by Fred Yager, Jan Yager PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Along with Medicare, Social Security is one of the "rites of passage" as older Americans retire. After contributing funds to this program their entire working life, people are anxious to start getting their monthly checks. Following a brief look at why Social Security was established and...
by Dirk Tänzler, Konstadinos Maras
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corruption. The approach of social constructivism taken in this volume is able to reconstruct the 'construction of corruption' both from a societal perspective,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Neoliberalism and austerity have led to a growing inequality gap and increasing levels of poverty and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Chris Jones and Tony Novak look at consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they...
The Genome Factor
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social...
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Most social scientists and philosophers claim that sociology and philosophy are disjoint fields of inquiry. Some have wondered how to trace the precise boundary between them. Mario Bunge argues that the two fields are so entangled with one another that no demarcation is possible or, indeed, desirable....
Guidance Note
Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban...
Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century
In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The greatest problems facing humanity today are climate change, poverty, and the increasing separation between the rich and poor. The aim of this book is to examine the social constructions that have led to these breakdowns, and provide potential solutions that are based on a fundamental change in...
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Reviving Social Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society’s profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for stunning insurgencies at opposite ends of the political...
Rapid Climate Change
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The book reviews the science of climate change and explains why it is one of the most difficult problems humanity has ever tackled. Climate change is a "wicked" problem bound up with problems of population growth, environmental degradation, and world problems of growing social and economic...