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Social Trends in American Life
Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Social Trends in American Life assembles a team of leading researchers to provide unparalleled insight into how American social attitudes and behaviors have changed since the 1970s. Drawing on the General Social Survey--a social science project that has tracked demographic and attitudinal trends in...
The Coal Nation
Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Social science research is emerging on a range of issues around large and small-scale mining, connecting them to broader social, cultural, political, historical and economic factors rather than purely measuring the environmental impacts of mining. Within this broader context of global scholarly attention...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R
A User’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal...
Human Rights in Canada
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and...
Youth Activism and Solidarity
The non-stop picket against Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers...
Understanding Urban Tourism
Image, Culture and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Despite the formidable growth of urban tourism there has been little of the critical engagement that one would expect from the social sciences: the rich potential of contemporary social science for urban tourism has yet to be realised. Martin Selby's exciting new textbook makes available to practitioners...
Tourism and Global Environmental Change
Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely...
Social Safeguards
Avoiding the Unintended Impacts of Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Large-scale development projects oftentimes end up creating negative impacts that affect vulnerable populations with particular intensity. Projects likely to displace families from their homes, degrade the living conditions of indigenous peoples or intensify social conflicts at local levels are not...
Social Policy for an Aging Society
A Human Rights Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, it can easily lead to discrimination that impacts human rights. Based on the premise that social policy must reflect human rights principles, this graduate-level...
Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care
A Practical Guide to Understanding, Maintaining and Managing Your Professional Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these boundaries can lead to unprofessional conduct and negative consequences for both worker and client.
This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Personality and Roles: Sources of Regularities in Social Behavior For behavioral scientists, whether they identify primarily with the science of psychology or with that of sociology, there may be no challenge greater than that of discovering regularities and consistencies in social behavior. After...
Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou
From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring...
Place, Policy and Politics
Do Localities Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies.
The key aspects of these...
Genocide as Social Practice
Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political...