Society and Social Sciences

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories.

Meet soccer superstar Lionel Messi!

This concise introduction to evidence-based social work practice culls the most salient chapters from the interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Manual to form a student-friendly overview of the issues and interventions they will encounter throughout their BSW or MSW program.

This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations.

Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.

This volume reflects nearly two years of Zoom interviews conducted leading up to and following the 2020 US election.

This book analyzes the challenges of North Korea's nuclear threat today and the shortcomings of nuclear defense theory.

When science directs its theoretical and empirical tools toward itself, metatheoretical reflections or sociological studies of science emerge.

Unterstutzung fur Eltern mit psychischen ErkrankungenBietet Hilfsmoglichkeiten fur die ganze FamilieKlart auf und ermutigt, offen mit psychischen Erkrankungen umzugehenKonkrete Tools und praktische Ubungen fur erste VerbesserungenPsychische Erkrankungen belasten die ganze Familie und stellen Eltern vor gro e Herausforderungen.

This study revolves around the issue of the participation of juvenile defendants in the youth court.

From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "e;sacred institution"e; of marriage has turned into a public battleground.

This book views the whistleblower as a key character in democratic societies.

The Social and Emotional Core of Equity Leadership: A Guide for Driving Change in Schools is a practical guide for educational leaders committed to creating inclusive schools where all students feel a sense of belonging.

How much legal discretion do arbitrators truly have in investment treaty arbitration?

Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women.

Technologies, applications and practices for virtual environments create interactive and immersive experiences and blend the transitions and permeabilities between the virtual and physical world.

International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century.

This textbook provides a focused and comprehensive overview of applied social psychology and its interconnections with social policy and selected laws in India.

En estas paginas, Omar Adrian Charo explora la interconexion entre mente, cuerpo y emociones, con una innovadora vision sobre la salud y el bienestar.

This edited book examines decolonization in applied linguistics, focusing on language teacher preparation across the Global North and South.

This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through 'invited spaces' offered by the government and 'claimed spaces' created by the poor.

This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape of literary theory, encompassing formalism, structuralism, modernism, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, marxism, ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and techno-criticism.

Mexico's national soccer teams compete against teams from around the world in major events, including the Olympic Games, the World Cup, and the Concacaf Gold Cup.

This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’.

With remarkable speed, the Sixties have gone from lived history to mythology.

Il libro si occupa di riattivazione urbana, una particolare forma di intervento sul costruito, che oltre alla dimensione fisico-spaziale dei luoghi considera anche e soprattutto le dinamiche sociali e relazionali che l'intervento è in grado di attivare.

In recent years, scholars of International Relations have increasingly turned their attention to the question of how to decolonize knowledge.

Prolonged and productive employment of older workers is a necessary condition to maintain welfare and social security systems threatened by ageing populations.

This book invites readers into a space of reflection, emotion, and ethical inquiry.

The two-volume set LNCS 16063-16064 constitutes the proceedings of 20th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2025, which took place in Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, UK, September 2025.

This book analyzes the challenges of North Korea's nuclear threat today and the shortcomings of nuclear defense theory.

Discover a hidden masterpiece from one of historys greatest writersnow available in its most complete and accessible form.

The aim of this book is to explore the human-animal relationship as a new subject of political education and to make it accessible for critical reflection.

This book examines the relation between agitation and social change in the digital context.

Online product testing programs have evolved into a significant marketing tool, allowing consumers to apply to test products for free or at a discounted rate in exchange for providing reviews or completing surveys.

This book explores the transformative power of urban public space for women's empowerment.

This book explores the multifaceted themes of home, belonging, and multiculturalism in contemporary British South Asian fiction.

Wie hängen Wissen und Politik zusammen?

Soccer is a huge part of England's culture.

Das Buch bietet eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die Qualitative Netzwerkforschung.

Erst nachdem die qualitative Forschung sich methodisiert hat, konnte sie sich in der Weise in der Sozial- und insbesondere Bildungswissenschaft etablieren, in der sie es heute ist.

This book provides novel empirical material on the phenomenon of Islamic higher education.

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert nicht nur Technik, sondern auch Werte und Verantwortung.

When science directs its theoretical and empirical tools toward itself, metatheoretical reflections or sociological studies of science emerge.

As China’s flagship platform for cultural diplomacy and international engagement, the global expansion of Confucius Institutes has been accompanied by growing controversy—particularly in the West.

This book draws upon empirical, conceptual and theoretical evidence from a variety of studies on student and teacher well-being in Asian contexts.

This book is to present a review and new research findings to upgrade the understanding of social attitudes.

This book critically examines the development of the post-authoritarian Indonesian National Armed Forces’ (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) military modernisation agenda and its impact towards civil-military relations.

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium's numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Das Jahrbuch widmet sich dem Spannungsfeld von Organisation und (Un-)Gerechtigkeit und geht der Frage nach, wie Organisationen Gerechtigkeit herstellen, aushandeln oder auch behindern.