Social and ethical issues

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit einer Reihe von provokanten Fragen auseinander: Warum sind die heutigen Gesellschaften so abhängig von den konstruktiven und destruktiven Auswirkungen der Individualisierung?

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention.

A model of counseling that can be gracefully integrated into the functioning of the local church.

This book examines the complexities of women's lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers.

This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned, and still needed to cope with the challenges.

This book explores the implementation of educational policies aimed at addressing educational inequalities and specifically focuses on Luxembourg's pioneering plurilingual education policy in non-formal early childhood education and care.

This Element explores how Bahá''í scriptures provide a blueprint for building a new, more mature world culture where nonviolence prevails.

Parallelgesellschaften, Moscheenstreit, Zwangsheirat: Es scheint, als habe man ein ganz genaues Bild der Nachfolgegenerationen türkischer Einwanderer.

This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asians living in the Far East.

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity.

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

Any teenage boy who discloses sexual abuse is facing an emotional ordeal.

Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond.

Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations.

This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology and includes contemporary examples, case studies and debates to encourage critical engagement.

In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur conceptualizes religious discourse within psychoanalysis.

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Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives.

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!

This book marks the retirement of Professor Sheila McLean, whose contribution to the discipline of medical law has been truly ground breaking.

Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.

This issue focuses on "e;radical interactionism,"e; which recent emergence as an alternative perspective to conventional symbolic interactionism has sparked fierce debate in both North America and Europe.

Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora.

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

In January 2000, Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions-the first such action by any governor in the history of the United States.

Sexual Abuse in Residential Treatment provides comprehensive information on behavioral manifestations of sexual abuse in residential settings and the safety and developmental needs, staff training, and management strategies necessary to protect both residents and staff.

The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other as a source of grotesque horror.

The United States, often described as a nation of immigrants, has the most diverse population in the world.

Wenn über 110 Top Managerinnen aus fünf Nationen im Rahmen einer internationalen wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung über Karriere und Führung reflektieren, dann entstehen fundierte Leitlinien für Frauen im weltweiten Management, die in gehobenen Funktionen kommen und bleiben.

Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.

The meaning of 'forgiveness' and its role within restorative justice are highly contested.

The Euro-crisis of 2009-2012 vividly demonstrated that European Union policies matter for the distribution of resources within and between European nation-states.

The Netherlands' response to AIDS is widely regarded as well organized and effective.

There exist problematic attitudes and beliefs about dwarfism that have rarely been challenged, but continue to construct people with dwarfism as an inferior group within society.

This study examines the political sources of violence against religious minorities in India.

Suizid – ein Tabuthema, über das wir sprechen müssenDer Verlust eines geliebten Menschen gehört zu den schwersten Erfahrungen, die man machen kann.

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children's understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life.

While women are generally perceived to be less competitive than men, women compete in many ways and in a variety of situations.

The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south.

At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North America.

In Ottoman Passports, Ilkay Yilmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1908.

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide?

Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation Service in England and Wales.

Addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights.