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Pandora's Dilemma
Theories of Social Welfare for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child welfare, online education, the devolution of the welfare state, and its sequel, the investment state, illuminate critical factors determining the future...
by Donald W. Katzner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I have three reasons for bringing out the ensuing collection of essays. First, since analysis without measurement (this is generally not the same thing as what is commonly referred to as "qualitative methods" or "qualitative research" in the social science literature) is a relatively...
Social Education in Asia
Critical Issues and Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship on social education by drawing on the research findings and/or experiences from scholars in eight East and Southeast Asian societies. In this regard the editors of this book hope that it will be a significant addition to the literature, and will shed...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Forensic Criminology gives students of criminology and criminal justice an introduction to the forensic realm and the applied forensic issues they will face when working cases within the justice system. It effectively bridges the theoretical world of social criminology with the applied world of the...
The Culture of Conformism
Understanding Social Consent
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
“[Hogan’s] goal is not merely to explain but to provide tools of understanding that will be of practical value to those who struggle for justice and freedom. Drawing from an impressive array of sources, his valuable study advances both ends considerably, no mean accomplishment.”—Noam Chomsky
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in...
Working with Men
Feminism and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature.
Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a controversial collection of essays written by feminists...
Monsters in the Machine
Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these films...
Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology
Selected Conference Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on “Developing Synergies between Islam & Science and Technology for Mankind’s Benefit” held at the International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in October 2014. The papers cover a broad...
Globalization and Social Movements
Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This clear and concise book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms—economic, political, cultural, and technological alike. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially...
Israeli Nationalism
Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture...
Environmental News in South America
Conflict, Crisis and Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies,...
Wittgenstein among the Sciences
Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the...
Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory
I move therefore I am
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’...