Social Science category: 175800 books
by Spicker, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency,...
Taking it seriously
Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Promoting young people's access to social rights as a means for their inclusion and participation in society! In and around many cities, social and economic imbalances have led to the development of disadvantaged neighbourhoods, where diversity is also accompanied by poverty and often marginalisation...
by John Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Culture, Development and Social Theory
Towards an Integrated Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The...
by Per-Olof H. Wikström
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions...
Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Shaping Debates and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and practitioners present different perspectives regarding...
by John Levi Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies...
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction
A Biopsychosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the...
The Next Fifty Years
Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that...
Socialism and Modern Science
Darwin, Spencer, Marx
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Italian criminologist Enrico Ferri was one of the first in his field to focus on the social and economic causes of criminal behavior. His unique approach came about in part as a result of Ferri's own staunch support of socialism. In this compelling analysis, Ferri connects the dots between socialism and its applications and value in the sciences.
Social Work Under Pressure
How to Overcome Stress, Fatigue and Burnout in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Stress, fatigue and burnout are serious problems in the social work profession. High case loads, staff shortages, budget cuts and the challenging nature of the job contribute to high levels of stress, and social workers can crack under the pressure. This accessible book demonstrates how managers and...
Doing Relationship-Based Social Work
A Practical Guide to Building Relationships and Enabling Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Relationships and communication are the foundation of good social work practice. This book offers a new model, drawn from research and practical experience, which describes how to carry out effective relationship-based social work.
Doing Relationship-Based Social Work provides a refreshing...
by Craig A. Hill, Elizabeth Dean, Joe Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Provides the knowledge and tools needed for the future of survey research
The survey research discipline faces unprecedented challenges, such as falling response rates, inadequate sampling frames, and antiquated approaches and tools. Addressing this changing landscape, Social Media, Sociality,...