Social and ethical issues

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University.

Workplace violence can occur anywhere: schools, office buildings, hospitals, or late-night convenience stores.

High profile media reports of young people committing suicide after experiencing bullying have propelled a national conversation about the nature and scope of this problem and the means to address it.

In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country's development landscape and urban-rural relationships.

An intimate account of an anthropologist's relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.

Guidelines for the clinical practice of medicine have been proposed as the solution to the whole range of current health care problems.

How can an environment be created in Cuba in which safety is not sacrificed for more open markets and politics?

Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences and original research.

Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development.

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity.

The arts, and particularly music, are well-known agents for social change.

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of intervention; involvement; and the ethical dilemmas for the scholar in a democratic space.

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In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

Seven award-winning plays by rising stars of contemporary theater herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today's stage.

The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably.

Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized.

A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages.

Nurse Migration in Asia explores the ever-increasing need for a larger nursing and healthcare workforce in Asia, where countries are undergoing rapid transformation, given economic globalisation and commercial expansion.

Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers.

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The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular fascination.

Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families.

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women.

This timely book advances a new vision for educational justice centered on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of youth, parents, families, and communities of color and other groups who are seeking to transform local schools and communities across the United States.

Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development.

Named an ALA 2024 Feminist Rise Book Project Winner * Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science Friday Best Science Book of Summer 2023 An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community abortion care and support work: what it looks like, how each and every one of us can practice and incorporate it into our daily lives, and what we can imagine and build together in a post-Roe v.

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies.

In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world.

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous.

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities.

Describes how child sexual abuse can occur in formal organizations and how organization theory can advance understanding of this phenomenon.

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts.

While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry.

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This book brings a transnational perspective to the study of immigrant integration in contemporary Western European societies, with a specific focus on transnational Turkish Islam and Turkish integration in Great Britain.

This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration.

This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings.

Standing at the intersection of immigration and welfare reform, immigrant Latin American women are the target of special scrutiny in the United States.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.