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Beyond Common Sense - Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform (Paperback, New Ed): Fred Wulczyn,... Beyond Common Sense - Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform (Paperback, New Ed)
Fred Wulczyn, Richard P. Barth, Ying-Ying T. Yuan, Brenda Jones Harden, John Landsverk
R1,348 Discovery Miles 13 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is a primary focus of the book. Because policymakers have to make decisions that allocate resources, a basic understanding of incidence in the public health tradition is important, as is evidence that speaks to the question of what works clinically. The rest of the book addresses the evidence. Chapter 2 integrates bio-ecological and public health perspectives to give the evidence base coherence. Chapters 3 and 4 combine evidence from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, and the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to offer an unprecedented profile of children as they enter the child welfare system. Chapters 5 and 6 address the broad question of what works. A concluding chapter focuses on policy and future directions, suggesting that children starting out, children starting school, and children starting adolescence are high-risk populations for which explicit strategies have to be formed. This timely volume offers useful insights into the child welfare system and will be of particular interest to policymakers, academics with an interest in Child Welfare Policy, Social Work educators, and Child Advocates. Fred Wulczyn is a research fellow at Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Richard P. Barth is the Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina. Ying-Ying T. Yuan is senior vice president at Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc. Brenda Jones Harden is associate professor at the Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland. John Landsverk is director of the NIMH-funded Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at Children's Hospital, San Diego.

Disabled Students in Higher Education - Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy (Hardcover): Sheila Riddell, Teresa... Disabled Students in Higher Education - Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy (Hardcover)
Sheila Riddell, Teresa Tinklin, Alastair Wilson
R5,088 Discovery Miles 50 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raises the challenging questions that policy-makers, vice-chancellors and government officials are reluctant to ask. A highly qualified team of authors have closely analyzed rates of participation and the experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period. They compare the responses of eight different universities to the new anti-discriminatory practice, contrasting their social profiles, academic missions, support systems for disabled students and approaches for the implementation of change. Change comes under particular scrutiny, with a close examination of each university's interpretation of 'reasonable adjustments', and the extent to which they have modified their campuses and teaching accordingly. Student case studies are used throughout to illustrate the real impact of institutional responses to the legislation. Disabled Students in Higher Education will make fascinating reading for students of education, social policy, politics, and disability studies, and for those working towards accredited university teacher status.

Communities in the Countryside (Paperback): Green Communities in the Countryside (Paperback)
Green
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Complexity and Social Movements - Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos (Hardcover): Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh Complexity and Social Movements - Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos (Hardcover)
Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh
R3,908 R2,735 Discovery Miles 27 350 Save R1,173 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-to-face gatherings and protests constitute a 'multitude' not easily grasped through established models of social and political change. Drawing upon extensive empirical research and utilizing concepts drawn from the natural and social sciences this book suggests a framework for understanding mobilization, identity formation and information flows in global social movements operating within complex societies. It suggests that this 'movement of movements' exhibits an emergent order on the edge of chaos, a turbulence that is recasting political agency in the twenty-first century.

Reshaping Social Life (Hardcover): Sarah Irwin Reshaping Social Life (Hardcover)
Sarah Irwin
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Caught up in current social changes, we do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. In sociological analyses there is a conceptual gap between subjectivities and social structural processes, and we face real difficulties in understanding social change and diversity. Through analysis of key areas of social life, here, Sarah Irwin develops a new and exciting resource for better understanding our changing social world. Breaking with conventional approaches and reconnecting the subjective with the objective, Irwin's book develops a new conceptual and analytical perspective with social relationality, interdependence and social context at its heart. The new perspective is developed through grounded analyses of empirical evidence, and draws on new data. It explores and analyzes: * significant changes in family forms, fertility, gender relations and commitments to employment, children and care, both now, and with comparisons to early twentieth century developments * the meshing of norms and social relations in contexts of change * diverse values, norms and perceptions of fairness, analyzed with respect to diversity over the life course, and in respect of gender, ethnicity and social class. Through analysis of context, Irwin offers new insights, and tackles puzzles of explanation. Reshaping Social Life offers a fascinating and innovative way of slicing into and re-interrogating our changing social world, and is sure to become a landmark resource for students, scholars and researchers.

Musical Visitors to Britain (Hardcover): Peter Gordon Musical Visitors to Britain (Hardcover)
Peter Gordon
R2,743 Discovery Miles 27 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder. This book paints a broad picture of the changing nature of musical life in Britain over the centuries, through the eyes and ears of foreign musicians. After considering three of the eighteenth century's greatest musical figures, the authors consider the rise of the celebrity composer in the nineteenth century, and go on to consider the influence of new forms of transport which allowed travel more freely from the Continent and the USA. Musical Visitors to Britain also charts the new opportunities presented by the opening of public halls, the growth of music festivals, and the regular influx of composers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ending with the impact of new musical forms such as jazz. As much a social as a musical history of Britain, this book will be of interest to anyone studying or working in these fields, as well as to general readers who want to discover more about our musical heritage.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 1 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 1 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R6,564 Discovery Miles 65 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 4 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 4 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R6,560 Discovery Miles 65 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 6 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 6 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R6,571 Discovery Miles 65 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity - Volume 8 (Hardcover): Kennith Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity - Volume 8 (Hardcover)
Kennith Thompson
R6,576 Discovery Miles 65 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends - Incomplete Theory and Complete Bibliography (Paperback, New): Irving Louis Horowitz,... Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends - Incomplete Theory and Complete Bibliography (Paperback, New)
Irving Louis Horowitz, Andrew McIntosh, Patrick Ivins, Deborah Berger
R1,062 R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Save R154 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On the occasion of Irving Louis Horowitz's seventy-fifth birthday, a special two-part volume has been assembled, it includes: a set of twelve essays reflecting the range of ideas with which he has been involved over the past five decades, and a complete list of his writings during the same period, 1951-2004. The use of Shakespeare's well-known phrase from "Henry V " as a metaphor for combat and struggle was selected as epitomizing Horowitz's life and work. The essays and articles are a small selection of a large of writings that over the years have attracted a fair share of attention--both approving and disapproving. It is to be hoped that this sampling of his writing, along with a complete listing of his work will explain the title, but more, illuminate his sense of doing social science, one at once classic and postmodern. As Jacques Barzun wrote of Horowitz's volume of "Tributes" to other social scientists: "he offers a unique education in the history of ideas about man and society." The articles included in the volume are drawn from public lectures and private memoirs: Predicting and Remembering Scholarly Publishing as the Word Made Flesh Three Worlds of Development: 35 Years Later Editing "Society" Final Thoughts, Last Hurrahs Social Science as a Moral Calling Gauging Genocide Cuban Communism and Cuban Studies The Logic of Transaction A Prologue to Academic Freedom The Aims and Principles of Social Research Sociology and the Common Culture Facts, Values and Science

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 7 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 7 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R4,808 Discovery Miles 48 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 5 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 5 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R4,792 Discovery Miles 47 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 3 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 3 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R4,813 Discovery Miles 48 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 2 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson The Early Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Vol 2 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R4,806 Discovery Miles 48 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reshaping Social Life (Paperback, New Ed): Sarah Irwin Reshaping Social Life (Paperback, New Ed)
Sarah Irwin
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Caught up in current social changes, we do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. In sociological analyses there is a conceptual gap between subjectivities and social structural processes, and we face real difficulties in understanding social change and diversity. Through analysis of key areas of social life, here, Sarah Irwin develops a new and exciting resource for better understanding our changing social world. Breaking with conventional approaches and reconnecting the subjective with the objective, Irwin's book develops a new conceptual and analytical perspective with social relationality, interdependence and social context at its heart. The new perspective is developed through grounded analyses of empirical evidence, and draws on new data. It explores and analyzes: * significant changes in family forms, fertility, gender relations and commitments to employment, children and care, both now, and with comparisons to early twentieth century developments * the meshing of norms and social relations in contexts of change * diverse values, norms and perceptions of fairness, analyzed with respect to diversity over the life course, and in respect of gender, ethnicity and social class. Through analysis of context, Irwin offers new insights, and tackles puzzles of explanation. Reshaping Social Life offers a fascinating and innovative way of slicing into and re-interrogating our changing social world, and is sure to become a landmark resource for students, scholars and researchers.

Talking Policy - How social policy is made (Paperback): Rob Watts Talking Policy - How social policy is made (Paperback)
Rob Watts
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When we catch a bus, visit a doctor, borrow a book from the library or enrol in a course we benefit from the social policies of government. Talking Policy explains how the myriad programs and services we take for granted are developed and delivered, and how this fits into the political process. There is a human and political aspect to social policy-making; it's not all rational solutions to measurable problems. The authors explain how issues come to be defined as social problems, and offer an account of the historical development of social policy and the welfare state in Australia. They also outline the competing political and philosophical ideas which influence the different ways in which governments respond to social inequality and needs in the community.With detailed case studies from variety of areas of social policy making, Talking Policy is a valuable introduction to this complex and important field. Talking Policy is an informative, insightful book that is also absorbing and challenging.' Lois Bryson, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle With a commitment to reinvigorate policy debate, the authors make a convincing case that at its heart policy-making is about competing ethical visions, that ideas count, and that words serve as tools in this political and contested activity.'Associate Professor, Carol Bacchi, University of Adelaide

The Body - A Reader (Hardcover): Mariam Fraser, Monica Greco The Body - A Reader (Hardcover)
Mariam Fraser, Monica Greco
R5,257 Discovery Miles 52 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.

Judging the Image - Art, Value, Law (Hardcover): Alison Young Judging the Image - Art, Value, Law (Hardcover)
Alison Young
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Art, value, law--the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order." Judging the Image" extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. This book provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority, and the legal imagination. Concepts of memory and interpretation, violence and aesthetic, authority and legitimacy are considered in a diverse range of sites, including:
* body, performance, and regulation
* judgment, censorship, and controversial artworks
* graffiti and the aesthetics of public space
* HIV and the art of the disappearing body
* witnessing, ethics, and the performance of suffering
* memorial images--art in the wake of disaster.
This book will be fascinating reading for students and academics working at the crossroads of aesthetics, crime, law, and culture.

Sleep and Society - Sociological ventures into the (un)known ... (Paperback, New Ed): Simon J. Williams Sleep and Society - Sociological ventures into the (un)known ... (Paperback, New Ed)
Simon J. Williams
R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as:

  • the 24-hour society
  • sleep and work
  • homelessness
  • dream analysis
  • the medicalization and commodification of sleep.

Written by a key international figure in medical sociology, this is the first sociological examination of sleep, making it important reading for academics and advanced students of medical sociology, health studies, and sociology, as well as for professionals and policy makers involved in the area.

India's Partition - The Story of Imperialism in Retreat (Hardcover): Devendra Panigrahi India's Partition - The Story of Imperialism in Retreat (Hardcover)
Devendra Panigrahi
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on new source material available in both England and India, India's Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule was the result of internal forces in both countries, while the split of the subcontinent along religious lines served as a harbinger for things to come. Panigrahi argues that partition was not a foregone conclusion and was not the favoured option for most of the main parties, but rather was the result of a unique set of circumstances.
An erudite exploration of the highly complex relations between India and Britain leading up to independence and the split, India's Partition looks at the leaders who made far-reaching decisions - and their motivations - during this critical time.

Picturing the Social Landscape - Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination (Hardcover): Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman Picturing the Social Landscape - Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination (Hardcover)
Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing domestic space * visualizing urban landscapes * visualizing social change. The collection showcases different methods in different contexts through the examination of a variety of topical issues. Methods covered include photo and video diaries, the use of images produced by respondents, the use of images as prompts in interviews and focus groups, documentary photography, photographic inventory and visual ethnography. The result is an exciting and original collection that will be indispensable for any student, academic or researcher interested in the use of visual methods.

Sites of Sport - Space, Place and Experience (Hardcover): John Bale, Patricia Vertinsky Sites of Sport - Space, Place and Experience (Hardcover)
John Bale, Patricia Vertinsky
R4,366 Discovery Miles 43 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising tendencies of sport and the importance of local culture and a sense of place. This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. At a time when the importance of spacial theories and spacial metaphors to sport is being increasingly recognised, this pioneering work on the changing landscape of sporting life will appeal to students of the history, sociology and management of sport.

Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millenium - A Sociological Profile (Paperback, New Ed): Andrew M Greeley Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millenium - A Sociological Profile (Paperback, New Ed)
Andrew M Greeley
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most sociologists of religion describe a general decline in religious faith and practice in Europe over the last two centuries. The secularizing forces of the Enlightenment, science, industrialization, the influence of Freud and Marx, and urbanization are all felt to have diminished the power of the churches and demystified the human condition. In Andrew Greeley's view, such overarching theories and frameworks do not begin to accommodate a wide variety of contrasting and contrary social phenomena. "Religion at the End of the Second Millenium," engages the complexities of contemporary Europe to present a nuanced picture of religious faith rising, declining, or remaining stable.

While challenging the secularization model, Greeley's approach is not polemical. He examines belief in God and in life after death, belief in superstition and magic, convictions about the relations between church and state, attitudes toward religion and science, and the effect of religion on the everyday lives of people. Drawing upon statistical and empirical data spanning twenty years, Greeley shows that while religion has increased in some countries (most notably the former communist countries and especially Russia) in others it has declined (Britain, the Netherlands, and France). In some countries it is relatively unchanged (primarily the traditional Catholic countries), and in still others (some of the social democratic countries) it has both declined and increased. In terms of individuals, Greeley finds that religion becomes more important to people as they age. He observes that surveys showing less religion among the young ignore the possibility that the age correlation is a life cycle matter and not a sign of social change.

Patently, religion in Europe changed enormously between the end of the first millenium and the end of the second. In Greeley's judgment, the change has been an improvement, not because superstition has been eliminated (it has not), but because freedom to exercise religious belief has replaced compulsion.

Questioning Identity - Gender, Class, Nation (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Kath Woodward Questioning Identity - Gender, Class, Nation (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Kath Woodward
R5,376 Discovery Miles 53 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why is 'identity' important - in people's lives and in the social sciences? How much control do we have over shaping our own identities? Are we more uncertain about our identities now than in the past? Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Ethnicity provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences. The world in the twenty-first century may be an increasingly unstable place, but changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. key social divisions of gender, class, 'race' and ethnicity, this book shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in people's lives. What is happening when people identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out and forge new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even security about who we are, or are these structures constraints on our freedom to choose our own identities? How far is it possible to forge new identities in changing times? This key text will be essential reading for students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity in contemporary society.

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