Social Policy category: 9249 books
Taming Childhood?
A Critical Perspective on Policy, Practice and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience. Although in academic terms children...
Housing in the United Kingdom
Whose Crisis?
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger ‘generation rent,’ to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom. Current differences reflect long-established cleavages...
Governing Bodies
American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely...
Social Development
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Walking through social development’s key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers:
Definitions and an historical evolution of social...
Social Work
Voices from the inside
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those ‘on the inside’, that is, service users, carers and practitioners.
Drawing on a narrative tradition, fifty-nine people from across the UK tell their stories about how and why social...
by Lauretta Conklin Frederking
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social Justice presents a new framework for social justice that will change the way people think about social justice and change the way people implement social...
by Francine Mestrum
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
As the world's neo-liberal economic order continues to self-destruct in a climate of non growth and widening inequality, the birth of new social movements and alternatives are disrupting the old politics and business "as usual" in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The Social Commons: Rethinking...
by Manohar Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It...
What Truth Sounds Like
Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize
NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • Time • Publisher's Weekly
A stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller...
Confronting Inequality
How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International...
For Discrimination
Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding Fisher v. University of Texas, For Discrimination is at once the definitive reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues and a principled work of advocacy for clearly defined justice.
What precisely...
Squeezed
Why Our Families Can't Afford America
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
One of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich,...
by Patricia Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Retirement is not the time to cut all ties and head off to live in a warm climate but rather to ask: Who do I want to be near? How will my relationships be reaffirmed? What do I care about? What can I create and contribute to the world?
Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes...
The Chinese State in Transition
Processes and contests in local China
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The attention of the outside world focuses inevitably on Beijing and national level politics. Nonetheless, it may actually...