Social Science category: 175800 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The decisions a corporation makes affect more than just its stakeholders and can have wide social, environmental, and economic consequences. This facilitates a business environment built around the practical regulations and transparency necessary to ensure ethical and responsible business practice....
Social Media and the Law
A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen—and have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields. But as rapidly...
Intercultural Cities
Policy and Practice for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory. In recent years, demographic changes in cities in many parts of the world have led to increasing concerns about...
Celebrating Urban Community Life
Fairs, Festivals, Parades, and Community Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Communal celebrations bring out the best in us, offering a place for people to come together and take a break from the routines of daily life. They are a vital aspect of city life and are increasingly popular as an urban development strategy.
Celebrating Urban Community Life is a comprehensive...
Community Organization and Development
from its history towards a model for the future
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book traces the development of community development/organization as it evolved separately in Britain and the United States, and how the social and political situations in each country determined the various shapes and directions it took. In presenting a comprehensive history of the subject,...
by Thomas E. Drabek
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Since the first edition of The Human Side of Disaster was published in 2009, new catastrophes have plagued the globe, including earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand, tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri, floods in numerous locations, Hurricane Sandy, and the infamous BP oil spill. Enhanced with new cases...
Risk
A Study of Its Origins, History and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural...
A Most Human Enterprise
Controversies in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studies in which plagiarism was alleged, subjects were mislead or seriously abused, and research denigrated certain demographics, Donald O. Granberg and John...
Effective Social Work with Children, Young People and Families
Putting Systems Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
This book looks at the changing context of children and young people's services heralded by the structural, organisational and funding changes put forward in Eileen Munro's Review of Child Protection. It is strongly grounded in research and theory, and gives specific consideration to how systems theory...
by Nigel Horner
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolutions of social work practice. Now in its fourth edition, Horner's classic introductory text looks at how issues such as the Personalisation Agenda, the work of the Reform Board, and how the notion of a Big Society...
by Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Gender, Work and Space explores how social boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different places. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in different parts of the city, the authors...
Narcissistic parenting in an insecure world
A history of parenting culture 1920s to present
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
In this provocative history of parenting, Harry Hendrick analyses the social and economic reasons behind parenting trends. He shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious...
by Iris Carlton-LaNey, Tanya Smith Brice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people’s lives – and for social science. Drawing upon new, empirically grounded, theoretically innovative studies,...