Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Chrystine Julian
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
A “Best Of” collection of political and social commentary poems by Chrystine Julian
by Matthew Kaplan, Mariano Sanchez, Jaco Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations,...
Adoption
A Brief Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience.
Murdering Animals
Writings on Theriocide, Homicide and Nonspeciesist Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and “theriocide” (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously. Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable animals...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist...
Urban Public Spaces
From Planned Policies to Everyday Politics (Illustrated with Brazilian Case Studies)
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens. It presents...
by Meredith W Watts Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is an important book for social scientists interested in the influence of gender on certain types of behavior. Several perspectives are presented on the general topic of biopolitics and gender, including the points of view of brain science, endocrinology, ethology, psychophysiology, and such...
by Roni Berger
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
***I felt like an alien who fell down to earth, not understanding the rules of the game, making all the possible mistakes, saying all the wrong things.
Your whole life is in the hands of other people who do not always mean well and there is nothing you can do about it. They can decide...
Social Freedom in a Multicultural State
Towards a Theory of Intercultural Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this book explores how to face current challenges to multiculturalism without reifying culture, group and identity.
Ageing, Narrative and Identity
New Qualitative Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency.
Inclusion Matters
The Foundation for Shared Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Social inclusion is on the agenda of governments, policymakers, and nonstate actors around the world. Underpinning this concern is the realization that despite progress on poverty reduction, some people continue to feel left out. This report aims to unpack the concept of social inclusion and understand...
by Krzysztof Michalski
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate compatriots,...
European Capitalist Welfare Societies
The Challenge of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare...
Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful
Scrutinizing States and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Despite the enormous economic, physical and social impacts of crimes committed by states and corporations, they are still relatively under-researched within contemporary social science—partly because of the perpetrator’s ability to evade critical scrutiny. The contributions in this book map out...