Social Policy category: 9249 books
Where There is No Government
Enforcing Property Rights in Common Law Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
It is safe to say that a sizeable majority of the world's population would agree with the proposition that that property rights are important for political and social stability as well as economic growth. But what happens when the state fails to enforce such rights? Throughout sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In 1992, a summer course 'Demographic Perspectives on Living Arrangements' as well as a one-day workshop 'Recent Issues in Household Modelling' were held in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. This volume is based on the lectures delivered during the summer course, as well as on the presentations made in...
by Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women’s labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production.
In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario’s economic...
Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy
Neighborhoods and Crime in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their local community. This concept is one of several forms of formal and informal social control that predict the overall functioning of a community. In this...
by Tom Dwyer, Mikhail K Gorshkov, Ishwar Modi;Chunling Li;Mokong Simon Mapadimeng
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream...
by Andrew Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In recent years education has become increasingly perceived as an area of risk. A number of highly publicized incidents have heightened awareness of the potential dangers to be found in teaching institutions. Although there is now a substantial conceptual literature on risk and the meaning of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism.
Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global...
Violations of Trust
How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional...
by Timothy Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects...
Moving to Opportunity
The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the MTO program took a largely untested approach: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty...
Mejor que decir es hacer, mejor que prometer es realizar
Estado, gobierno y políticas sociales durante el peronismo (1943-1955): proyectos y realidades
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Los dirigentes peronistas fueron elaborando un discurso en el que las dimensiones simbólicas del Estado se articularon con la búsqueda de una mayor igualdad social, pero la primacía no dejó de recaer en ningún momento en la construcción del Estado. Este libro analiza exahustivamente tales recorridos y sus contradicciones.
by Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations. RTW laws forbid requiring union membership even at union-represented worksites. The core of the 22 long-term RTW states was the Confederacy, cultural descendants of rigidly hierarchical agrarian feudal...
Colonization and Development in New Zealand between 1769 and 1900
The Seeds of Rangiatea
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This book details the interactions between the Seeds of Rangiatea, New Zealand’s Maori people of Polynesian origin, and Europe from 1769 to 1900. It provides a case-study of the way Imperial era contact and colonization negatively affected naturally evolving demographic/epidemiologic transitions...
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment?
Benefit Sanctions in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique. It comprises twelve chapters dealing with the terms ‘cruel’, ‘inhuman’ and ‘degrading’ that are used as a benchmark for assessing benefit sanctions; benefit sanctions as...