Download or read book Moralising Poverty written by Serena Romano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we judge the poor? Do we fear them? Do we have a moral obligation to help those in need? The moral and social grounds of solidarity and deservedness in relation to aid for poor people are rarely steady. This is particularly true under contemporary austerity reforms, where current debates question exactly who is most ‘deserving’ of protection in times of crisis. These arguments have accompanied a rise in the production of negative and punitive sentiments towards the poor. This book breaks new ground in the discussion of the moral dimension of poverty and its implications for the treatment of the poor in mature welfare states, drawing upon the diverse political, social and symbolic constructions of deservedness and otherness. It takes a new look at the issue of poverty from the perspective of public policy, media and public opinion. It also examines, in a topical manner, the various ways in which certain factions contribute to the production of stereotyped representations of poverty and to the construction of boundaries between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ in our society. Case studies from the UK and Italy are used to examine these issues, and to understand the impact that a moralising of poverty has on the everyday experiences of the poor. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in contemporary social work, social policy and welfare systems.
Download or read book Quantitative History and Uncharted People written by Johan Fourie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups. This book makes the case that quantitative history offers a way to fill these gaps in the archive. Showcasing 13 case studies from the South African past, it applies quantitative sources, tools and methods to social histories from below to uncover the experiences of unchartered peoples. Examining the occupations of slaves, victims of the Spanish flu, health of schoolchildren and more, it shows how quantitative tools can be particularly powerful in regions where historical records are preserved, but questions of bias and prejudice pervade. Applying methods such as GIS mapping, network analysis and algorithmic matching techniques it explores histories of indigenous peoples, women, enslaved peoples and other groups marginalised in South African history. Connecting quantitative sources and new forms of data interpretation with a narrative social history, this book offers a fresh approach to quantitative methods and shows how they can be used to achieve a more complete picture of the past.
Download or read book Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice written by Laura Tarkiainen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements. Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as: • What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness? • How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act? • How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline workers and individual citizens participate in constructing un/deservingness? • What kind of practical implications and consequences deservingness representations have for policy making, frontline work and research This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social work, sociology, social psychology, political science and media studies.
Download or read book Otsrot Ha Talmud written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasures of the Talmud Being a Series of Classified Subjects in Alphabetical Order from A to L Comp from the Babylonian Talmud and Tr written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Handbook on Public Sociology written by Lavinia Bifulco and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world.
Download or read book The Faith of a Quaker written by John William Graham and published by Cambridge [England] : University Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethics of Citizenship written by John MacCunn and published by Glasgow : J. Maclehose. This book was released on 1894 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature The drama to 1642 written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moralising Space written by Matthew Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, a controversial figure who introduced the modern science of sociology and the republican Religion of Humanity. Moralising Space examines how from the 1850s Comte’s British followers practised this science and religion with the aim to create a global network of 500 utopian city-states. Curiously the British Positivists’ work has never been the focus of a full-length study on modern sociology and town planning. In this intellectual history, Matthew Wilson shows that through to the interwar period affiliates to the British Positivist Society – Richard Congreve, Frederic Harrison, Charles Booth, Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford – attempted to realise Comte’s vision. With scarcely used source material Wilson presents the Positivists as an organised resistance to imperialism, industrial exploitation, poverty and despondency. Much to the consternation of the church, state and landed aristocracy they organised urban interventions, led ad hoc sociological surveys and published programmes for realising idyllic city-communities. Effectively this book contributes to our understanding of how Positivism, as a utopian spatial design praxis, heavily influenced twentieth-century architecture and planning.
Download or read book Savings Banks for landowners farmers and labourers a paper etc written by Edward GIRDLESTONE and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on Economic Science Delivered under the auspices of the Committee on Labour and Capital appointed by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science written by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (ENGLAND) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living Decently written by Peter Denis Travers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Decently describes material well-being in Australia at the end of the 1980s, and, in doing so, reaches conclusions that are surprisingly positive.Material affluence was at an all-time high. Although Australia was not the world leader in equality, it still ranked around the middle of the dozen most equal countries in the world. Australia is a world leader when it comes to social mobility: advantage and disadvantage are not always passed onfrom one generation to the next. Where disadvantage does exist, it is often compensated for by advantages in other aspects of life. Thus, the aged in Australia generally have low incomes, but they enjoy extremely high rates of home ownership. In the late 1980s, Australians were indeed `livingdecently'. Unpersuaded by the `gloom and doom' accounts of life in Australia that abound, and particularly sceptical of accounts of ever-increasing poverty, even in times of economic prosperity, the authors examined the measures used in these accounts and concluded that they make it difficult toreach any conclusion other than a gloomy one. Accordingly, they have designed better measures of a more accurate and rather more encouraging picture of how Australians were living at the end of the 1980s.It is argued, however, that this rosy picture may not last. It was built on low levels of unemployent, high rates of home ownership, and `good enough' social security, health and education systems. All these features are under threat in the 1990s. The book goes on to make recommendations on howAustralians might live as decently in the future as they have in the past.Living Decently is a challenging and timely offering to the literature on material well-being, poverty, welfare and social economics in Australia today. Its findings are cause for cautious optimism and provide a direction for future action.
Download or read book Ethical Democracy written by Stanton Coit and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hospital written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 14-41 have separately paged nursing section.
