Social Policy category: 9249 books
Oppression and Resistance in Southern Higher and Adult Education
Mississippi and the Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several...
The Other America
Poverty in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life?
Transparent Lives
Surveillance in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
"Although most Canadians are familiar with surveillance cameras and airport security, relatively few are aware of the extent to which the potential for surveillance is now embedded in virtually every aspect of our lives. We cannot walk down a city street, register for a class, pay with a credit...
by TaraElla
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
What does liberal mean? There can be no agreement, it seems. It all goes back to a historical split in liberalism, actually. Since most democracies functioned on a two-party system, alliances had to be chosen. Once liberalism had split, instead of choosing each other, welfare liberals chose to side...
by William John Cox
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
With her novels, The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand created the philosophy of Objectivism, which continues to influence conservative American politics. Now, after all of these years, a political balance is provided by Sam, an entirely fact-based political philosophy narrated...
Modern Japan
A Social and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, Tipton links everyday lives with major historical developments, charting...
by Friedrich Edding
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The study by Dr Friedrich Edding is, as far as I can see, the first paper to treat the economic side of the Refugee problem in Western Germany in an impartial form, showing, on the basis of new figures, its positive as well as its negative aspect and effect. Anyhow it may be of some use to underline...
Human Ecology
Contemporary Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology. Academic, political, and, indeed, public interest in the environmental sciences is on the rise. This is no doubt spurred...
by D. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life balance.
Caught
The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities...
Not a Crime to Be Poor
The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Awarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you've read Evicted” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Essential...
Dis/abled Childhoods?
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
This edited collection explores the intersectionality of childhood and disability. Whereas available scholarship tends to concentrate on care-giving, parenting, or supporting and teaching children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, the contributors to this collection...
Global Marriage
Cross-Border Marriage Migration in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a uniquely global view of an expanding field that challenges these and other stereotypes of cross-border marriage.