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Innovation in Social Services
The Public-Private Mix in Service Provision, Fiscal Policy and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
EU member states have seen high levels of unemployment in recent years especially amongst young people. At the same time the fiscal crisis of welfare states has made it difficult for them to invest in new jobs and new economic growth. The EU, at least since the enactment of the Amsterdam treaty, has...
Survival under Uncertainty
An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more...
Transhumanism
Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous...
by Keith Whitfield, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
"The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines...This multidisciplinary review of the literature on minority aging presents the scholarship related to public health and 'social, behavioral, and biological concerns' of aged minorities...
Aging in China
Implications to Social Policy of a Changing Economic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos. It also looks at the changing demographics in Mexico and its impact on the health and financial well-being of aging Mexicans and Mexican Americans....
Ordinary Genomes
Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig’s analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how scientific knowledge and culture are entwined: Genetics may transform society, but society also transforms...
Quality of Life
Concept, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy.
This innovative book discusses this crucial topic, assessing the criteria for judging attempts to raise quality of life, including the satisfaction of basic and social...
by Edward J. Mullen
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...
Atoms, Bytes and Genes
Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
"Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to challenge these developments in public opinion. This book traces historical debates over atoms, bytes...
Problems of an Urban Society
The Social Framework of Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting. Many of the problems - of social and economic decay - are not new; indeed they are perennial problems of urban societies. As the complexities...
After Method
Mess in Social Science Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant. If this is the case, methods are always political, and it raises the question of what kinds of social realities we want to create.
Most...
Democracies in Flux
The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social capital in eight advanced democracies around the...
by Robert W. Rieber, Robert J. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual...