Социология
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Space and geography are important aspects of social science research in fields such as criminology, sociology, political science, and public health. Many social scientists are interested in the spatial clustering of various behaviors and events. There has been a rapid development of interest in regression methods for analyzing spatial data over recent years, but little available on the topic that is aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduate classes in the social sciences...
| Автор | Jun Zhu |
In recent years, urban uprisings, insurrections, riots, and occupations have been an expression of the rage and desperation of our time. So too have they expressed the joy of reclaiming collective life and a different way of composing a common world. At the root of these rebellious moments lies thresholds—the spaces to be crossed from cities of domination and exploitation to a common world of liberation. Towards the City of Thresholds is a pioneering and ingenious study of...
| Автор | Stavros Stavrides |
This book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in both Norway and the United States, despite key organizational differences. Križ explores ways that children can be empowered to participate in child protection investigations and decisions after removal from home. The author shows how children can be encouraged to develop and express their own opinions and explores tools for child protection workers to negotiate complex boundaries around the inclusion of children in...
| Автор | Križ, Katrin |
Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on...
| Автор | Helen Cosis Brown |
Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women’s bodies and women’s lives. People—of any and no gender—have protested and theorized, penned manifestos and written poetry and songs, testified and lobbied, gone on strike and fomented revolution, quietly demanded that there is an “I” and loudly proclaimed that there is a “we.” The Book of Feminism chronicles this history of defiance and tracks it around the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Back Cover Thomas Jefferson wrote “a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy.” The American Citizens’ Handbook’s mission is to bring that line of thinking to the forefront of the immigration arena. What started as a search for a questionable confirmation of a lone statistic ended after close to two years of research, being a candid conversation from a concerned citizen on inaccurate data with self-serving agendas. Inside this cover, you will discover startling...
| Автор | Clements Jarboe |
Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty. The attempt to eradicate prejudice has several dire consequences for the individual and society as a whole.
| Автор | Theodore Dalrymple |
Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more—much more—to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never answered, or even acknowledged, the corresponding question: What would be the size and nature of a welfare state that was not contemptibly austere, that did not urgently need new...
| Автор | William Voegeli |
The Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and pragmatists in the UN, EU, post-modern states of Europe, NGOs, corporations, prominent foundations, and most importantly, in America’s leading elites, seek to establish “global governance.” Further, they understand that in order to achieve global governance, American sovereignty must be subordinated to...
| Автор | John Fonte |
Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.It’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people...
| Автор | Jonathan V. Last |
Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble , Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the...
| Автор | Amanda Phillips |
The construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—whether to build it or not—has become a hot-button issue in contemporary America. A recent impasse over funding a wall caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, sharpening partisan divisions across the nation. In the Arizona borderlands, groups of predominantly white American citizens have been mobilizing for decades—some help undocumented immigrants bypass...
| Автор | Emine Fidan Elcioglu |
This is an essential practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding that supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK. The authors explore the current context of adult safeguarding in the UK, together with the legislation, rights and principles that are the basis of best practice, and with a focus on developments in practice...
| Автор | Spreadbury, Kate |
Students in social science courses communicate, socialize, shop, learn, and work online. When they are asked to collect data for course projects they are often drawn to social media platforms and other online sources of textual data. There are many software packages and programming languages available to help students collect data online, and there are many texts designed to help with different forms of online research, from surveys to ethnographic interviews. But there is no textbook available...
| Автор | Gabe Ignatow |
Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not tell the whole story. Pictures are also at the epicenter of journalism, and when photographers and editors illustrate fatalities, it often...
| Автор | Jessica M. Fishman |
In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case Britain's 12 million disabled people are a drain on the public purse. In Crippled , leading commentator Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality, telling the story of those most affected by this devastating regime. This includes a paralyzed man forced to crawl down the stairs because the council wouldn't provide accessible...
| Автор | Frances Ryan |
Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology inspires students to develop their sociological imaginations, to see the world and personal events from a new perspective, and to confront sociological issues on a day-to-day basis. Organized around the «Social World» model, a conceptual framework that demonstrates the relationships among individuals (the micro level); organizations, institutions, and subcultures (the meso level); and societies and global structures (the macro level), Jeanne H....
| Автор | Kathleen Odell Korgen |
One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why were we so easily controlled and why were our controllers so willing to do it? In The Case for Democracy, David Seedhouse explores the psychological biases; distorted risk perceptions; frenetic journalism; the disputed...
| Автор | David Seedhouse, Dr. |
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed fresh light on the ways that social media and digital technologies can be effectively harnessed to support relationship-based social work practice. However, it has also highlighted the complex risks, ethics and practical challenges that such technologies pose. This book helps practitioners and students navigate this complex terrain and explore and build upon its multiple opportunities. It uses real-life examples to examine how practitioners can assess the impact of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This eBook edition of «Leviathan» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes. Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory....
| Автор | Thomas Hobbes |
¿De dónde proviene el dinero que financia las campañas electorales? ¿Quién está en campaña, el dinero o el partido? ¿Cómo se canaliza este dinero? ¿Qué «deudas» genera y cómo se pagan? Este libro estudia la financiación electoral, sobre todo la que proviene de los grandes donantes —los ricos y las grandes empresas— y va hacia los principales partidos y candidatos que disputan el control del Congreso y la Presidencia, desde un enfoque crítico y realista, centrado en el poder y la captura del...
| Автор | Francisco Durand |
Estas crónicas escritas por Pilar Lozano, a lo largo de varios años de trabajo periodístico, son un duro recorrido por la historia de vida de niños y niñas y adolescentes que estuvieron vinculados, como en los peores tiempos de la esclavitud, con los grupos armados ilegales de Colombia. Estas, y otras historias de este libro, muestran la huella del conflicto en la infancia de nuestro país. Este libro reitera la tragedia humanitaria que simboliza para las niñas, los niños y los pueblos...
| Автор | Pilar Lozano |
"Aquesta pandèmia és un avís del planeta perquè canviem el nostre model econòmic: hem de viure amb menys." Que es produeixi una pandèmia global o que en ple segle xxi haguem de cridar «llibertat presos polítics» no són fets casuals. Hem construït un món de relacions internacionals complexes, amb un sistema capitalista que perpetua les desigualtats controlat per governants i poders fàctics que actuen sense frens, en un planeta que està dient prou, mentre la Mediterrània s'omple de...
| Автор | Arcadi Oliveres |
Este libro, producto de investigación del grupo REPENSARelDERECHO, está dividido en cuatro partes estrechamente relacionadas: Posontológico, pospolítico, posjurídico; Hacia un concepto crítico y posfundacional de lo político; Elementos para una teoría decolonial del derecho y: Hacia una hermenéutica crítica en clave diatópica, reconstruyendo el vínculo que puede establecerse entre ontología, derecho, política y epistemología en los términos posconvencionales que se ha podido presentar en lo...
| Автор | Óscar Mejía Quintana |