Social Policy category: 9249 books
Who Marries Whom?
Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated. Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality. This book demonstrates that in most modern societies the educa tional system has become an increasingly important marriage...
Eisenhower and Social Security
The Origins of the Disability Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
A clear and concise history of the Social Security disability program. This book chronicles how competing ideologies coalesced into the program we have today. Detailed is how the personalities of the leading politicians of the day, including FDR, Eisenhower, Paul Douglas and Walter George, influenced this landmark piece of legislation.
by Istvan Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural...
The New Social Division
Making and Unmaking Precariousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat.
Social Insurance
America’s Neglected Heritage and Contested Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
What has America done to protect its citizens from life-changing but common risks such as death of a family breadwinner, ill health, disability, involuntary unemployment, outliving retirement savings, and birth into a poor family? Each, in its own way, burdens—and possibly devastates—unlucky individuals...
Beyond These Walls
Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
“You should definitely read this book… What really struck me in reading Beyond These Walls was that Tony Platt had very seriously and carefully considered the contributions of social movements—feminist, queer, disability, and labor.” —Angela Davis
Beyond These Walls is an ambitious...
The Price of Safety
Hidden Costs and Unintended Consequences for Women in the Domestic Violence Service System
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Specialized public resources for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are increasingly common and diverse--from protection order courts and dedicated domestic violence units in police precincts to a vast network of community-based emergency shelters and counseling services. Yet little consensus...
Youth Gangs in International Perspective
Results from the Eurogang Program of Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies. But while delinquent youth form gangs worldwide, youth gang research has generally...
The British in Rural France
Lifestyle migration and the ongoing quest for a better way of life
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The British in rural France is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding post-migration lives that incorporates culturally-specific imaginings, lived experiences,...
Families and Personal Networks
An International Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania. Drawing on national surveys of family trajectories and...
by José Paulo Netto
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Este livro tematiza o surgimento da profissão, vinculando a sua história à emergência do Estado burguês na idade do monopólio, aos projetos das classes sociais fundamentais e à execução das políticas sociais. Discute também a estrutura teórico-prática do Serviço Social fundada em peculiar sincretismo.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media. It offers insights into Chinese public opinion for an international readership, and to promote the media literacy and crisis coping capacity of all social sectors by integrating multiple research perspectives, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability. Though improvements of the living conditions have been regularly principal demands along with civil and political liberties in the...
by United Nations
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Este libro pretende ser un aporte para la investigación, análisis y diseño de propuestas dirigidas a las personas mayores en el área de protección social. Una de sus principales contribuciones es el vínculo que hace entre el envejecimiento y la igualdad. Para ello plantea un novedoso desarrollo...