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Book Macrosocial Change in Historical Perspective

Download or read book Macrosocial Change in Historical Perspective written by Lawrence Michael Busch and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Macro Social Work Practice

Download or read book Macro Social Work Practice written by Carolyn J. Tice and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macro Social Work Practice: Advocacy in Action shows students studying in macro social work practice how to enact change at the organizational, community, societal, and global levels. An emphasis is placed on engaging in macro practice using the tenets of the award-winning author team’s Advocacy Policy and Practice Model (APPM) that highlight the inclusion of economic and social justice, supportive environment, human needs and rights, and political access.

Book Macro Social Work Practice

Download or read book Macro Social Work Practice written by Carolyn J. Tice and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empower your students to become advocates for change. Macro Social Work Practice: Advocacy in Action shows students studying in macro social work practice how to enact change at the organizational, community, societal, and global levels. An emphasis is placed on engaging in macro practice using the tenets of the award-winning author team’s Advocacy Policy and Practice Model (APPM) that highlight the inclusion of economic and social justice, supportive environment, human needs and rights, and political access. Beginning with a history of macro practice and continuing with contemporary issues facing social workers, this new text helps readers learn how to enact advocacy, informed by key orientations and perspectives and grounded in timely and relevant examples and causes. FREE DIGITAL TOOLS INCLUDED WITH THIS TEXT SAGE edge gives instructors and students the edge they need to succeed with an array of teaching and learning tools in one easy-to-navigate website.

Book Toward a Global Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susantha Goonatilake
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780253211828
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Toward a Global Science written by Susantha Goonatilake and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a model of the civilizational construction of science, the author views science without Eurocentric blinders. She shows how science was built by transfers from non-European groups and why the historiography of science has to be rethought.

Book Emile Durkheim on the Family

Download or read book Emile Durkheim on the Family written by Mary Ann Lamanna and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2001-10-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This valuable source for a systematic and comprehensive understanding of Durkheim′s ideas on the family constitutes a major addition to the literature on the family, social theory, women′s studies, and family law. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above." -CHOICE Emile Durkheim on the Family is intended to bring attention to this classical sociologist′s work on the family. Durkheim′s writings in this area are little known, but the family was nevertheless one of his primary interests, the subject of an intended book that was never written. Durkheim′s ideas on the family appear only in scattered sources and a number of those sources have not been translated into English. Durkheim′s Sociology of the family has not heretofore been presented and analyzed holistically. The purpose of Lamanna′s book is to bring together Durkheim′s ideas on the family from diverse sources and to present his family sociology systematically and comprehensively. Quotations from Durkheim′s writing or speaking enrich the analysis. Durkheim′s work on the family is situated in its historical context and comparisons are drawn to present-day sociology of the family is situated in its historical context and comparisons are drawn to present-day sociology of the family and family issues. Chapter topics include: Durkheim′s life and times His evolutionary theory of the family Methodologies for studying the family The changing relationship of kin Conjugal family and the state The interior of the family Family policy Gender Sexuality An examination of Durkheim′s work on the family reveals its close connections to his wee-known books and theories. Emile Durkheim on the Family should interest audiences in sociology of the family, social theory, family science, European intellectual history women′s studies, legal history, and those generally interested in family studies and / or nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe.

Book Historical Pragmatics

Download or read book Historical Pragmatics written by Andreas H. Jucker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

Book Social Change  Gender and Violence

Download or read book Social Change Gender and Violence written by V. Nikolic-Ristanovic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on large research material collected in Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria Social change, Gender and Violence is the book which explores the impact of transition from communism and war on everyday life of women and men, as well as the way how everyday life and gender related changes affect women's vulnerability to domestic violence and trafficking in women. The book also explores the impact of micro level changes on development of civil society, women's movement, and legal and policy changes regarding violence against women. This is a unique book, which tries to look at violence against women as connected to oppression of both women and men. It argues that violence against women in post-communist and war affected societies is significantly connected to the increase of social stratification, economic hardship, unemployment, instability, uncertainty and related social stresses, changes in gender identity and structural inequalities brought by new world order. Using largely accounts of more than hundred interviewed people, the author shows vividly how, in post-communist societies, the contradictions of capitalism are interlaced with the mostly negative relics of communism. Moreover, the book shows how contradictory processes in post-communist societies have led to a rather paradoxical result: political pluralism and a capitalist economic system generated both violence against women and a women's movement, albeit not the conditions for a reduction of violence.

Book The Role of Community Mindedness in the Self Regulation of Drug Cultures

Download or read book The Role of Community Mindedness in the Self Regulation of Drug Cultures written by Anke Stallwitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth. It fills the scientific gap created by the conventional research in heroin research, which is usually conducted in urban areas and relies on treatment and prison populations. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with twenty-four heroin users, this book depicts and analyzes the nature and historical development of the local heroin scene. It illustrates the features and internal structures of the subculture, and it examines the manner in which both are influenced by the location-specific geographical, cultural and socio-economic conditions. It thus reveals complex causal associations that are hard to recognize in urban environments. Complete with a list of references used and recommendations for future research, this book is a vital tool for progressive and pragmatic approaches to policy, intervention and research in the field of illicit drug use.

Book Women and Macro Social Work Practice  Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Download or read book Women and Macro Social Work Practice Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by F. Ellen Netting and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In social work, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Social Work, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of social work. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Book Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective

Download or read book Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective written by Komp, Kathrin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing. The lifecourse perspective suggests that individuals’ experiences at an early age can influence their decisions and behaviour at a later age. This much-needed volume combines insights from different disciplines and real-life experiences to describe the theories and practices behind this idea. It therefore caters to the needs of scholars, practitioners and policy makers in a range of areas including sociology and political science.

Book Religion and Family Links

Download or read book Religion and Family Links written by Donald Swenson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text captures the important relationship between religion and the family with a review of relevant literature on the subject, synthesizing it within a theoretical framework. The book shows how these two social institutions work – or don’t work together. Much of the research is historical in nature. This assists the reader in understanding the links between the two social phenomena. Literature is drawn from folk religion, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Book Analysis of Change

Download or read book Analysis of Change written by Uwe Engel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By making both causal and process analyses possible, panel data has enjoyed increasing popularity in empirical science. In this compilation, several statistical techniques are presented in the face of a growing need to analyze panel data. Measurement error, missing data, heterogeneous populations and particular requirements for causal interference make the analysis of change more difficult. Readers will find up-to-date approaches covering a wide range of topics. Among these are loglinear and probit models, state space models, and structural equation and multilevel growth curve models of panel data.

Book Macro Social Marketing Insights

Download or read book Macro Social Marketing Insights written by Ann-Marie Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macro-social marketing is an approach to solving wicked problems. Wicked problems include obesity, environmental degradation, smoking cessation, fast fashion, gambling, and drug and alcohol abuse. As such, wicked problems are those problems that are so complex and multifaceted, it is difficult to define the exact problem, its contributing factors, and paths to a solution. Increasingly, governments, NGOs, and community groups are seeking to solve these types of problems. In doing so, the issues with pursuing macro-level change are beginning to emerge. Issues stem from the interconnected nature of stakeholders involved with a wicked problem—where one change may create a negative ripple effect of both intended and unintended consequences. Macro-social marketing, then, provides a holistic and systemic approach to both studying and solving wicked problems. Within the chapters of this book, macro-social marketing approaches to analysing and defining wicked problems, to identifying stakeholders and potential ripple effects, and to implementing macro-level change are presented. In this emerging area of academia, the theories, models, and approaches outlined in this book are cutting edge and provide a critical approach from top researchers in the area. Both practical and theoretical aspects are presented as well as caveats on such societal and/or country-wide change. A must-have for social marketing academics and those interested in macro-level change at a practical or theoretical level.

Book Institutional Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald L. Jepperson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-04
  • ISBN : 1107078377
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Institutional Theory written by Ronald L. Jepperson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively collects the essential theoretical ideas of 'sociological neo-institutionalism', one of the leading approaches in social theory.

Book Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing

Download or read book Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing written by Russell W. Belk and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised second edition of a best-selling Handbook is an essential resource for qualitative researchers and practitioners in marketing. Developments in artificial intelligence and software have contributed to huge changes in qualitative methodologies since the first edition was published in 2006, and this updated Handbook acknowledges and critiques these fascinating scholarly advancements. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Book Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change

Download or read book Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change written by Lisa J. Crockett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. For those interested in the health and well-being of youth, such instances of social upheaval raise the question of how young people are affected socially and psychologically by societal changes, and whether their development is compromised or enhanced. This important volume considers the processes through which societal changes exert an impact on the course of adolescent development and identify individual and contextual factors that can modify the impact of social change and enhance the likelihood of a successful transition to adulthood.

Book Critical and Cultural Interactionism

Download or read book Critical and Cultural Interactionism written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction. In spite of the work of figures such as Robert E. Park, Everett C. Hughes, Erving Goffman, Herbert Blumer, Norman K. Denzin and Gary Alan Fine, interactionism – perhaps owing to its association with the perspective of symbolic interactionism – remains something of an odd man out in mainstream sociology. This book seeks to rectify this apparent neglect by bringing together critical social theories and microsociological approaches to research, thus revealing the critical and cultural potentials in interactionism – the chapters arguing that far from being oriented towards the status quo, interactionism in fact contains a critical and cultural edge. Presenting the latest work from some of the leading figures in interactionist thought to show recent developments in the field and offer an overview of some of the most potent and prominent ideas within critical and cultural criminology, Critical and Cultural Interactionism will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in interactionism, social theory research methods and criminology.