Social Services category: 2206 books
Public Works and Social Protection in sub-Saharan Africa
Do public works work for the poor?
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Public Works Programmes (PWPs) are widely implemented throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa, often with funding from major international donor agencies. They are perceived to present a "win-win" policy option, providing employment to the chronically poor while also creating assets for...
The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Still a Semi-Sovereign State?
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes...
The Masses are the Ruling Classes
Policy Romanticism, Democratic Populism, and Social Welfare in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Masses are the Ruling Classes proposes the radical, yet seemingly innocuous view that social policy in the United States is determined by mass consent. Contemporary explanations of decision making in the US typically attribute power over policy making to a variety of hidden forces and illegitimate...
Key Topics in Social Sciences
An A-Z guide for student nurses
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Key Topics in Social Sciences is a collection of short articles summarising the most important concepts in sociology and psychology that student nurses will need to understand. Each entry is intended to give a brief introduction to the topic as a prompt for writing essays and assignments.
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Vulnerability and young people
Care and social control in policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often escape attention. This distinctive book...
by Michael Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Focusing on human welfare and the environment from a social policy perspective, this text shows how environmental concerns are becoming increasingly central to policy-making and discusses the roles of central and local government in relation to environmental issues.
The Environment and Social Policy...
Medical Outcasts
Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America,...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 10, 2014
(A5, 188 PÁGINAS) - A burguesia e / ou o capitalismo, antagonista do materialismo dialetivo da história, inconformada com o suposto “fim do capitalismo” preconizado por Marx, como medida ideológica reacionária, pode-se afirmar, nesse sentido , vai passar a usar a ideologia como um verdadeiro...
by Steve Hothersall, Mr Mike Maas-Lowit, Professor Malcolm Golightley
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Since the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, mental health law, policy, practice and ethos have changed dramatically in Scotland. This book provides a thorough grounding in the key issues in mental health and presents a clear picture of the current Scottish mental health scene. By highlighting...
El impacto de la crisis en las familias y en la infancia
Observatorio social de España
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Este estudio analiza el impacto de la crisis financiera y económica sobre la situación de la infancia y las familias en España, y de aquellos sectores más vulnerables a la exclusión social.
De ahí que cada componente del estudio realice un análisis de la situación en un contexto determinado...
Fostering Friendship
Pair Therapy for Treatment and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A great number of children and adolescents face a world of violence and isolation. In this book, the members of the Group for the Study of Interpersonal Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston describe in detail an innovative intervention...
Fostering Nation?
Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America’s...
Six speeches of the New Deal
There is another way to leave the crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This book contains six speeches and three letters containing, in simple language that FDR used to address citizenship, the main actions of its program and policy justification but above all moral. One way frivolous and cavalier, hegemonic neoliberal thinking has eluded the history of capitalism without...
Yes We Can?
White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....