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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined...
Divided Cities
Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants...
Social Dynamics of the Urban
Studies from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it...
Social Research
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
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The perfect book for any student taking a research methods course for the first time!
The new edition of David and Sutton's text provides those new to social research with a comprehensive...
The Segregated Origins of Social Security
African Americans and the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth...
by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of contemporary film, a genre...
Basic Income and the Left
A European Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is one of the most hotly debated ideas of recent years on the left – and, indeed, right. The potential threat to millions of current jobs posed by robotization and artificial intelligence combined with the rise of inequality has contributed to making it a core...
The New Human Rights Movement
Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.
In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an...
Spatial Questions
Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
"Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology"
- John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department...
Property and Power in Social Theory
A Study in Intellectual Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
Property and power perform a key role in social and political theories of class inequality and social stratification, however, theorists have yet clearly to define these concepts, their mutual boundaries and scopes of application. This book answers the property/power puzzle by undertaking a broad...
Social Movements and Their Technologies
Wiring Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political subject,...
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called Morphogenic Society? This volume...
Ecology and Equity
The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses...