Social Policy category: 9249 books
The Social Labs Revolution
A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach,...
Music, Health and Wellbeing
Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this...
Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes
Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural theories. There are two main...
by Tom B. Bottomore
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology...
Lesbians of Color
Social and Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services helps you understand the ways in which lesbians of color perceive important issues related to their oppression and discrimination by...
by Chan Kwok-bun, Chan Wai-wan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises. For these executives, business and social life alike...
by Neil J. Smelser
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
A pithy and clear guide to the process of creating and evaluating theory in the social sciences. Using a simple model of theory creation and assessment--and applying it in depth to foundational and still-relevant social and economic theorists such as Durkheim, Marx and Parsons--Neil Smelser shows...
by Michael Stolleis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system...
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...
Communication in China
Political Economy, Power, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The stakes for control over the means of communication in China have never been so high as the country struggles with breathtaking social change. This authoritative book analyzes the key dimensions of the transformation in China's communication system since the early 1990s and examines the highly...
by Hanita Kosher, Asher Ben-Arieh, Yael Hendelsman
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work. It guides social work professionals and students through the history of children's rights. It also includes a call for a paradigm shift from...
Disabling Barriers
Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse...
Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors
Islamic Organisations in Italy and Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book offers a comparative examination of Islamic welfare activities across urban areas in both Switzerland and Italy, in order to address general issues relating to the welfare engagement of Islamic organisations in Europe.
Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors describes how Islamic...
Visionaries In Our Midst
Ordinary People who are Changing our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This well-researched and theoretically informed book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. Earl Fitz argues that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated...