Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Robert W. McChesney
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, author of Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Summary of The Divide
by Matt Taibbi | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Divide: by Matt Taibbi | Includes Analysis Preview: The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories and rarely heard cases...
Human Capitalism
How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and...
Favela
Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first...
American Sociology
From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities.
Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population.
Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness
Political Participation in a Neo-Liberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary empirical evidence with key ideas from classical...
by Amartya Sen
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key...
by Simon McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This title explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic as well as a theoretical overview of the main approaches to education and development. It emphasises the fact that education is profoundly shaped by national and local cultures even if many issues are shared...
No Place Like Home
Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial investment they will ever make. We are deeply committed...
The Economic Lifecycle, Gender and Intergenerational Support
National Transfer Accounts for Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage also offers important insights into an often...
Sociology in Sweden
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in particular on scientific boundaries, gender and the relationship between sociology and the Swedish welfare state.
The Revolution Will Be Improvised
Critical Conversations On Our Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity.
Post-growth economics, sustainability, water privatisation, rejuvenation biotechnology, cyber-security and the war on drugs are some of the topics...
Beyond Neoliberalism
A World to Win
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state. This groundbreaking book lays out an analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century. These dynamics of forces are traced...