Sociology

Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those 'on the inside', that is, service users, carers and practitioners.

Welche Technologien sind die Wegbereiter für digitale Innovationen und welche neuen Nutzungsformen gehen mit diesen einher?

Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline'specifically the concept of "e;capital"e; has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list.

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class.

As a punishment for our most serious crimethe intentional killing of a victim in an egregious waythe death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

Greece's economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerity policies that have been implemented.

This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as 'trouble' through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people's sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.

Each year in Canada residential burglary accounts for the loss of more than 40 million dollars in property and cash.

This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games.

Mit dem Start des Aktionsprogramms "Frühe Hilfen für Eltern und Kinder und soziale Frühwarnsysteme" und mit der Einführung des BKiSchG hat sich für die Soziale Arbeit ein lang gefordertes Arbeitsfeld verankert: Frühe Hilfen.

From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "e;Mormon question"e; debated central questions of constitutional law.

This book presents a sociological perspective on (non-)sexual intimate relationships in contemporary Japan.

The analysis of the impediments to political development is one of the most important discussions which has major theoretical and political consequences.

An Applied Psychologist's Initiation to the Study of Gifted Children My interest in the subject matter of this book, the peer relations of gifted children, intensified enormously as result of my' involvement with one gifted child during my days as a school psychologist.

The increased interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems often builds on the underlying assumption that entrepreneurs have equal access to resources, participation, and support.

This book has been replaced by Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4146-1.

The number of street children in developed and developing nations is rising, often in the midst of prosperity.

Conflict between managers and direct reports affects their work and influences how productive and effective an organization can be.

From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound.

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama's presidency, with a focus on ethnicity, gender, and culture as they interact with communication.

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use.

First published in 1920, Social Theory endeavours to put together the social contents of various experiences of the ordinary man, and to make them, as far as they form one, a coherent and consistent whole.

Eine berufliche Neuorientierung mit 45plus wird künftig eher die Regel als die Ausnahme sein und kann verschiedene Gründe haben.

This book analyzes the historical quest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to export its revolution to the Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond.

At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.

With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.

According to recent statistics by the U.

Infancy is one of the most fascinating periods in the human life cycle.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.

First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

Tackling precarious work has been described by the United Nations (UN)'s International Labour Organization (ILO) as the main challenge facing the world of work.

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives.

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.

Documents the recent developments in privatisation through 25 country case-studies.

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries.

In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption, and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities?

Based on a six-year project at INSEAD, top scholars put these developments into perspective.

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist-Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).

The recent tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico and resultant ethical consequences for the engineering profession are introduced and discussed.

D-scoring Method of Measurement presents a unified framework of classical and latent measurement referred to as D-scoring method of measurement (DSM).