Download or read book Policy Worlds written by Cris Shore and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them.
Download or read book The Research Relationship written by G. Clare Wenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, it seemed likely that by the end of that decade, if current trends continued, the majority of social researchers would be working under contract to government and other agencies which commissioned policy-relevant investigations. This shift towards contracted and commissioned research threw into heightened relief the importance of greater understanding of the often problematic relationship between researchers on the one hand, and funding agencies and policy-making bodies on the other. This book was directed at both social scientists who were or would in the future be involved in social policy research, and at administrators, planners and policy makers who often had responsibility for funding such research and who were also its potential users. The authors provide accounts of research in a wide variety of settings, conducted on behalf of a diverse range of sponsors, in order to confront, describe and try to understand the tensions which develop between the two sides of the policy research relationship. While there is, of course, no suggestion here that there are tailor-made solutions that can eradicate difficulties, the feeling is expressed that improvements in the research relationship are possible and highly desirable. The primary objective of the book was to provide an impetus for greater understanding and collaboration that could lead to such improvements.
Download or read book Anthropology of Policy written by Cris Shore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology.
Download or read book Sociology Anthropology and Social Policy written by Careers Research and Advisory Centre (Cambridge, England) and published by Trotman, Limited. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each CRAC degree course guide covers one or more related subject areas, providing at-a-glance comparisons of degree courses in the same subject. Tables show: the different types of degree courses at every UK institution; and degree combination subjects, and where they can be studied.
Download or read book Sociology Anthropology and Social Policy written by Careers Research and Advisory Centre (Cambridge, England) and published by Trotman, Limited. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular among university applicants and their advisors, the CRAC Degree Course Guide provides information on: What it's like to study Sociology, Anthropology & Social Policy at degree level, the courses and combinations on offer at each university and college, how the course is taught and assessed, admission requirements for each course plus an indication of the number of students per course, which subjects within the degree course are offered, which are compulsory and which are optional, how your degree course can contribute to a professional qualification, work experience and Socrates-Erasmus opportunities and the career options for the degree course you've chosen
Download or read book The Anthropology of Welfare written by Iain Edgar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa. Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example: * Maternity services * Children with learning difficulties * Children's homes * Mothers' centres * People with HIV * Mental health centres * Housing * Care and provision for the elderly. Contributors focus on comparative welfare systems - examples are taken from urban and rural areas of the UK, USA, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, and New Zealand. In each case the theoretical and methodological appropriateness of social anthropology for the study of welfare, and the insights gained by bringing anthropology and welfare together are examined. The Anthropology of Welfare will be essential reading for those studying anthropology, social work and social policy and will be of interest to teachers, practitioners and researchers in applied social welfare fields.
Download or read book Sociology Anthropology Social Policy Social Work written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular among university applicants and their advisors, the CRAC Degree Course Guide provides information on: what it's like to study Architecture, planning and surveying at degree level, the courses and combinations on offer at each university and college, how the course is taught and assessed, admission requirements for each course plus an indication of the number of students per course, which subjects within the degree course are offered, which are compulsory and which are optional, how your degree course can contribute to a professional qualification, work experience and Socrates-Erasmus opportunities and the career options for the degree course you've chosen
Download or read book State of Health written by Amy Cooper and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first century—Venezuela under Hugo Chávez—for a revealing description of how people’s lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor’s visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services. State of Health offers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.
Download or read book Social Policy and Social Change written by Jillian Jimenez and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of Social Policy and Social Change is a timely examination of the field, unique in its inclusion of both a historical analysis of problems and policy and an exploration of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to them. The New Edition of this seminal text examines issues of discrimination, health care, housing, income, and child welfare and considers the policies that strive to improve them. With a focus on how domestic social policies can be transformed to promote social justice for all groups, Jimenez et al. consider the impact of globalization in the United States while addressing developing concerns now emerging in the global village.
Download or read book Policy Research written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Policies and Emotions written by Angélica De Sena and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities. The authors show how social policies build sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. After discussing violence against women as a case study in order to understand the current state of social policies, the authors then describe how the “place” and “value” of education have become central features to social policies in order to disband conflict. Finally, they explain the emergence of a social phenomenon in the last sixteen years in Latin America and particularly Argentina: the compensatory consumption system and the resulting emergence of the “assisted citizen.”
Download or read book Social Identities Aross Life Course written by Jenny Hockey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text brings together sociological, anthropological and social policy perspectives on the life course with a view to developing the conceptual rigour of the term as well as to exploring the rich range of debates and issues it encompasses. Linking traditional sociological and anthropological concerns with more recent postmodern debates centred on the self, identity and time, the book integrates theoretical debates about childhood, youth, middle age and later life with empirical material in an illuminating and innovative way.
Download or read book Social Policy written by Paul Spicker and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this leading international text introduces students to the concepts and methods of social policy.
Download or read book Sociology Anthropology and Development written by Michael M. Cernea and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentally Sustainable Development Studies and Monograph Series No. 3. A listing of works published by World Bank sociologists and anthropologists, this bibliography serves as a vehicle for exchanging experiences and promoting interdisciplinar
Download or read book Handbook of Political Anthropology written by Harald Wydra and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook engages the reader in the major debates, approaches, methodologies, and explanatory frames within political anthropology. Examining the shifting borders of a moving field of enquiry, it illustrates disciplinary paradigm shifts, the role of humans in political structures, ethnographies of the political, and global processes. Reflecting the variety of directions that surround political anthropology today, this volume will be essential reading to understanding the interactions of humans within political frames in a globalising world.
Download or read book Sociology and Social Policy written by Herbert J. Gans and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range of studies on what people, institutions, and social structures do with, for, and against one another. These works from across Gans’s areas of interest—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—together make a powerful call to action for the field of sociology.
Download or read book British Qualifications written by Kogan Page and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications is ever-changing. The new edition of this highly successful and practical guide provides thorough information on all developments. Fully indexed, it includes details on all university awards and over 200 career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications.It acts as an one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents, and will also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.
