Social Policy category: 9249 books
The Social Protection Indicator
Assessing Results for the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to developing and updating a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia and the Pacific. This 2016 report is the first comprehensive assessment of government social protection programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Although social marketing is generally associated with communication activities and mass media, there exists a broader scope of social marketing that utilizes a systematic approach to defining concepts, behaviors, and products for promotion and distribution. Dynamics of Competitive Advantage and Consumer...
On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine
125 Years of Rerum Novarum
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical. Drawn from research presented at the 2016 Heilbronn Symposia on Economics and the Social Sciences, this book resumes the discussion on the origin, dissemination and impact of the Catholic...
Social Forces and States
Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels...
Making Good Decisions
Law for Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
What does the law require of social workers when deciding how to intervene to protect children and adults at risk? What social work standards should guide decisions about whether, when and how to invoke statutory powers and duties in practice?
Making Good Decisions provides an accessible and...
Social Rights in Russia
From Imperfect Past to Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Russia's human rights record, especially violations of the right to life, liberty and freedom of expression, has been the subject of much international concern. Social, or welfare, rights, on the other hand, including the right to housing, health and access to social security, have received much less...
by Aled Griffiths, John Williams, Gwyneth Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Social work law is at the foundation of all social work practice, from shaping professional boundaries to determining the level of intervention. Every case is complex and unique and therefore requires different legal treatment; this means it is absolutely vital that social workers not only understand...
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World
Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular, how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social...
Embodying the Social
Constructions of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
This book opens the series with a consideration of the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of departure, it deals with the processes through which social problems and social inequalities are constructed. In particular, it examines the shifting ways in which our ideas...
Social Work in a Corporate Era
Practices of Power and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A striking new feature of the welfare systems in many Western countries is the extent to which market relations have permeated social services. Conceptions of 'risk management' now dominate the way parents and children are responded to, while new technologies aim to 'measure' their relationship with...
Crossing the Line
Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This pioneering book is the first to explore the experiences of homeless people in Russia in the late Soviet period and during post-socialist transition. Through their own stories, it introduces us to the hidden world of vagrants, itinerant workers and the street homeless - roofless people living...
Making Good Decisions
Law for Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
What does the law require of social workers when deciding how to intervene to protect children and adults at risk? What social work standards should guide decisions about whether, when and how to invoke statutory powers and duties in practice?
Making Good Decisions provides an accessible and...
Our Voices
Aboriginal Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
The second edition of Our Voices is a ground-breaking collection of writings from Aboriginal social work educators who have collaborated to develop a toolkit of appropriate behaviours, interactions, networks, and intervention. The the text explores a range of current and emerging social work practice...