Social Policy category: 9249 books
Changes in American Morality
Of the People; by the People; for the Self
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2001
CHANGES IN AMERICAN MORALITY: OF THE PEOPLE; BY THE PEOPLE; FOR THE SELF, contends that America has lost touch with the fundamental ethics of its founding principles. This, coupled with the deleterious effects of individualism; liberalism; materialism, and relegating religion to the fringes of the...
by Beatriz Castro Carvajal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2014
El interés de este libro es el de estudiar la relación del Estado colombiano y la Iglesia católica en un ámbito preciso: la asistencia social, que si bien se encuentra ubicada en las decisiones políticas del Estado colombiano dentro de un marco legal, su exploración nos muestra otro tipo de...
When Prisoners Come Home
Parole and Prisoner Reentry
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release....
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability
Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made ‘citizenship inclusion’ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this...
Bible-Carrying Christians
Conservative Protestants and Social Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
In the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of Protestant churches whose members habitually carry their Bibles with them. These churches--often referred to as "evangelical" or "fundamentalist"--play a crucial role in shaping American society. In this book, David Watt draws on years of fieldwork...
Rediscovering Voluntary Action
The Beat of a Different Drum
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.
by Earle F. Zeigler
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Through the Eyes of a Concerned Liberal argues that the socio-political position of liberalism is the only one that can get us back on course toward the now-vanishing "enlightenment ideal". This was the vision of the "founding fathers," looking to a time when all of the conditions...
Consumer Demographics and Behaviour
Markets are People
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
*This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products. It is also a book for teachers and students of consumer behaviour to grasp the importance...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice research.
This volume...
Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe
Challenges to Social Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues that the liberal paradigm of activation introduced into labour market policies in all Western European states challenges the specific patterns of social citizenship in each country.
Societal Dynamics and Fragility
Engaging Societies in Responding to Fragile Situations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Today's world is changing at breakneck speed, shaking the very foundations of many societies. Increased mobility through massive urbanization and migration allows people unprecedented access to different cultures and ideas; advanced technologies speed the pace of human interaction; the globalization...
The Sexual State
"How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along"
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
The Sexual Revolution—and the breakdown of the Family—has brought misery to millions. In The Sexual State Jennifer Roback Morse shows that the Sexual Revolution did not just “happen” like a force of nature. Rather, it was deliberately created by “elites,” harnessing the power of the State,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena. This includes exploring the underlying social roots or origins of politics and power; the organisation, management, and process of political power structure; and the effects of political decision-making and power structures on the surrounding society and culture.
Austerity as Public Mood
Social Anxieties and Social Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving. It examines the powerful appeal of these concepts as part...