Social Science category: 175800 books
by Manohar Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It...
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain
Perspectives on Change and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Today’s practitioners and researchers are looking, now more than ever, at the ethical issues that are raised through the practice of social work and social services. As such, it is crucial that they are up-to-date on the latest data on how to address, manage, and overcome ethical issues in their...
Social Policy and Social Change
Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
The Second Edition of Social Policy and Social Change is a timely examination of the field, unique in its inclusion of both a historical analysis of problems and policy and an exploration of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to them. The New Edition of this seminal text examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Social workers play a crucial part in contemporary society by ensuring that individuals are able to address, overcome, and manage obstacles in their daily lives. In an effort to better serve their clients, many practitioners have turned to evidence-based practice. Evidence Discovery and Assessment...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even...
Quixote's Ghost
The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the...
Experimental Practice
Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the...
The Badlands of Modernity
Heterotopia and Social Ordering
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?
New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but...
Citizen Voices
Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment. The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have...
International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
This issue of Cairo Papers takes up the various dimensions of migration and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region over different periods in the last two centuries. It looks at both the migration of waves of Italians and Greeks to Egypt from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and...
Natural Resource Use and Global Change
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Social Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Building on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and global resource flows in contemporary society. Barriers to global sustainability are identified and conditions for transforming industrial economies towards new sustainable resource use are described.
Imperfect Oracle
The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and “intelligent design,” the use of DNA in solving...