Social Policy category: 9249 books
by A. Dinham
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the social and capital seem increasingly unbalanced, this book examines whether faiths can help rebalance society through drawing communities together.
How Groups Matter
Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/cultural/ethnic...
by M. Rostila
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigates social capital in relation to health and health inequalities in European welfare states.
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Americans have made it perfectly clear they do not want Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs touched by Congress. If you are concerned about Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Compensation, Food Stamps and other social programs this book is a must-read for you. Byron Goines...
Social Work for Sociologists
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Social Work for Sociologists introduces important frameworks, concepts, models, and skills from social work that will help sociologists as they plan their human service careers and will prepare them to tackle social problems with practical solutions.
Tackling Social Exclusion in Europe
The Contribution of the Social Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America. The response of the new social economy (primarily voluntary and co-operative sectors) to social exclusion and employability in the context of crises of unemployment and the...
The Social Issue in Contemporary Society
Relations Between Companies, Public Administrations and People
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
It is widely observed that societies are changing, and new social issues are raising. The relationship between actors in the global environment and in the local as well, is changing because of financial crisis, new technological revolution, climate change, richness reallocation and concentration....
Progressive Punishment
Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award
The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation...
Doing Care, Doing Citizenship
Towards a Micro-Situated and Emotion-Based Model of Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families. Grounded in empirical research that involves different types of care and family contexts, the book situates...
by Yanzhong Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book reviews the development of China’s social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage. By emphasizing the role of the social security system in regulating income distribution, it points out some problems in the current social security framework that are becoming...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
This textbook presents an integrative approach to thinking about research methods for social justice. In today's education landscape, there is a growing interest in scholar-activism and ways of doing research that advances educational equity. This text provides a foundational overview of important...
A Return to Social Justice
Youth Justice, Ideology and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime. Drawing on philosophy, new research, and practitioners’ views, a new organizational structure and approach is developed. Urwin outlines the philosophical...
by Suzy Braye, Michael Preston-Shoot
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This fully revised fourth edition of a well-respected textbook seeks to build social workers' confidence in legal interpretation and implementation - practitioners must not only know the law; they must also have a critical appreciation of its implications for human rights, civil liberties and social...
Youth Unemployment and Health
A Comparison of Six European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Youth unemployment has become one of the most crucial social problems in many EU countries. In the 90s it can be observed that in most Western countries, the rate of youth unemployment have risen dramatically, in some of these countries the unemployment problem can be considered primarily a problem...