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Dangerous Digestion
The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country’s...
by Claudia Liebenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Berlin School of Economics and Law, course: Public Management and Governance in the EU, language: English, abstract: Why does a comparison of different social security systems with in the European Union(EU) make...
Numeracy as Social Practice
Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Learning takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, embedded in local practices, traditions and interactions. But whereas the importance of social practice is increasingly recognised in literacy education, Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives is the first book to fully...
Social work in the community
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from an experiential learning perspective, enabling the reader not only to understand the ideas and methods...
by Jo Cunningham, Steve Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Sociological perspectives and their application to social work are an inherent part of the QAA benchmark statements in the social work degree. In addition, graduates must understand how sociological perspectives can be used to dissect societal and structural influences on human behaviour at individual,...
Community Practice
Conceptual Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Here is the only book that gives you a comparison of model frameworks and a critique of multiple perspectives. Community Practice: Conceptual Models (along with its companion volume, Community Practice: Models in Action) illustrates the diverse ways that community practice is conceived and delineates...
Reframing Visual Social Science
Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the subject of social work ethics. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Sarah Banks argues that this can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, it is part of a progressive...
Social work
The rise and fall of a profession?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book traces the changing fortunes of radical and critical social work, and examines the theory, context and application of such approaches. Radical social work of the 1970s declined as the rise of neoliberalism over subsequent decades changed the nature of the welfare state along with what social...
Strategy Mix for Nonprofit Organisations
Vehicles for Social and Labour Market Integrations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In many countries, particularly in continental Europe, societies have been plagued by high unemployment for several decades. Simultaneously, due to recent shifts from industrial to service-oriented post-industrial societies, labor as a significant culture code is increasingly loosing importance. Because...
Blogs and Tweets, Texting and Friending
Social Media and Online Professionalism in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Blogs and Tweets, Texting and Friending: Social Media and Online Professionalism in Health Care summarizes the most common mistakes - and their legal and ethical ramifications -made in social media by busy health care professionals. It gives best practices for using social media while maintaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This edited volume offers a clear in-depth overview of research covering a variety of issues in social search and recommendation systems. Within the broader context of social network analysis it focuses on important and up-coming topics such as real-time event data collection, frequent-sharing pattern...
Social Networking
Redefining Communication in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age fulfills a pressing demand in social network literature by bringing together international experts from the fields of communication, new media technologies, marketing and advertising, public relations and journalism, business, and education.
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Knowledge Creation in Community Development
Institutional Change in Southeast Asia and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” led by social entrepreneurs and/or social enterprises, emerged in the...