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Improving Personal And Organisational Performance In Social Work (PDF)
by Jane HolroydWithin health and social care settings, high levels of sustained performance from individuals, teams, organisations and multi-agency collaborations are required. This book offers a service-oriented leadership approach for Social Work managers and looks to enhance personal effectiveness and ultimately organisational performance through human behaviour, thought and communication.
Intensive Culture: Social Theory, Religion and Contemporary Capitalism (PDF)
by Scott LashContemporary culture, today's capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterised as intensive. This thought provoking, innovative book is dedicated to the study of such intensive culture.
Interviewing In Qualitative Research (PDF)
by Nigel KingInterviewing is used very widely in qualitative research, and takes many different forms.
Introducing Child Care Social Work
by Jill Davey Jennifer Bigmore Keith BrownThis book provides a practitioner's perspective on the challenges and developments of working in Child Care Social Work in the current context of organisational and social change. Drawing on the experience of social work practitioners who have undertaken the Post-Qualifying Child Care Specialist Award, the book shows how these challenges are being met in everyday practice, providing a forum to share their knowledge and experience with others and contribute to best practice. It will be of interest to social work practitioners and students and all those interested in the reality of current child care practice.
Introducing International Social Work
by Sue Lawrence Karen Lyons Graeme Simpson Nathalie HueglerThis book guides the reader through the international development of social work and discusses how aspects of globalisation are making it an increasingly international activity and profession. Individual chapters locate the UK population historically and currently as a multicultural community and explore the international issues that social workers in the UK confront in their daily practice with children and families, people with mental health issues and older people. This text helps students meet the academic benchmarks and National Occupational Standards that require them to locate social work practice in a European and international context.
Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures And Contexts (PDF)
by Shuang LiuBooks on intercultural communication are rarely written with an intercultural readership in mind. In contrast, this multinational team of authors has put together an introduction to communicating across cultures that uses examples and case studies from around the world.
Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning Through Practice (PDF)
by David Walton'An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge.. Innovative, creative and clever' - Times Higher Education.
Journalism: A Critical History (PDF)
by Martin ConboyTraditional news values no longer hold: infotainment has the day. Journalism is in a terminal state of decline. Or so some contemporary commentators would argue. Although there has been a great diversity in format and ownership over time, Conboy demonstrates the surprising continuity of concerns in the history of journalism.
Key Concepts In Ethnography (PDF)
by Karen O'ReillyAt last, an accessible, authoritative, non-nonsense guide to the key concepts in one of the most widely used methodologies in social science: Ethnography.
Key Concepts in Social Work Practice (PDF)
by Aidan WorsleyThis book is a quick and accessible reference guide to the key concepts that social work students and professionals need to understand to be effective. The authors place practice at the centre of the text, and include a host of case examples to bring the concepts to life.
Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity (PDF)
by Nasar Meer'A conceptually power-packed volume that is at once erudite and accessible, expansive and focused, true to sociological traditions yet stimulatingly exploratory. Scholars and students will be served very well by this absorbing, far-reaching enquiry into ethnicity and race.'- Raymond Taras, Tulane University
Knowing Capitalism (PDF)
by N. J. Thrift'This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents.
Key Themes in the Ethnography of Education: Achievements and Agendas (PDF)
by Sara DelamontThis is a beautifully written book that takes the reader to the heart of ethnography as experience. Readers can walk in the shoes of ethnographers who have travelled before them, and learn as they learned. Sara Delamont is an undisputed expert in both ethnography and education, and here illustrates she is also a tour de force in writing style.
Key Thinkers on Space and Place (PDF)
by Phil Hubbard Rob KitchenIn this new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, editors Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin provide us with a fully revised and updated text that highlights the work of over 65 key thinkers on space and place.
Leisure Studies: Themes And Perspectives (PDF)
by Shaun BestWhat is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of 'over-work'? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity?
Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century (PDF)
by Colin Rochester Steven Howlett Angela PaineWhile volunteering has played a prominent role in most societies throughout history, the current weight of expectation about the contribution it can make to individual development, social cohesion and addressing social need has never been greater - at the global, European and national level. Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century has been designed to meet this unprecedented interest. While the main focus is on volunteering in the UK the book is informed by and, in turn, contributes to international perspectives on voluntary action. It provides an overview of the concepts and theories which explain the nature of volunteering; reviews the data on who volunteers and for what; examines key organizational issues for volunteer managers; and discusses the enduring challenges which volunteering continues to face in the 21st century - the need to change its image; the push for an inclusive approach; the danger of formalization; and the threat to its independence.
Practical Social Work Series: Equality, Diversity and Social Justice (5th edition) (PDF)
by Neil ThompsonContemporary society is characterised by its ever-increasing diversity. Having sold over 70,000 copies across its four editions, Neil Thompson's classic text remains a trusted introduction to the challenges of promoting social justice and equality. Addressing the ways in which social workers can effectively challenge inequality within society, the book explores the many forms of discrimination that can lead to disadvantage, disempowerment and oppression.
White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism (PDF)
by Doane, Ashley W.|Bonilla-Silva, EduardoWhat does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of whiteness. What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of whiteness.
Using Social Theory: Thinking through Research (PDF)
by Michael PrykeIf there is a single question that presses upon the intellect of the current generation of social scientists, it is surely: what do the great insights of social theory imply for the way we conduct research and write about the social world?. Until now there has been no single text to turn to that explores the epistemological complexities of field work, the problems of writing and language, and of the logics of inquiry that link theory, method and evidence. Using Social Theory is a magisterial effort to open up the black-box of research methods, and to provide students, in a way that no other comparable text has done, with a road map for the practice of the contemporary human sciences' - Michael Watts, Chancellor's Professor of Geography and Director Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley From theory talk to making it walk, Using Social Theory is one of the most useful and interesting books on the market.
Understanding Stuart Hall (PDF)
by Helen Davis'This is the most lucid and engaged account of Stuart Hall's work. Meticulously, and with an exemplary generosity, Helen Davis patiently unravels the threads of Hall's intellectual history. The result is a most useful and thoughtful book, which could prove to be indispensable for students of cultural studies' - Graeme Turner, University of Queensland Understanding Stuart Hall traces the development of one of the most influential and respected figures within cultural studies. Focusing on Stuart Hall's writings over a period of nearly fifty years, this volume offers students and academics a cogent and exploratory route through complex and overlapping areas of analysis. In her critical assessment of Hall's most important contributions to academic and public debate, Davis shows the extent to which his analyses of race and ethnicity have been informed by early studies of Marxism, class and 'societies structured in dominance'. Davis offers fresh insight into the formation of one of the most prolific, charismatic and controversial intellectuals of his generation. Despite having been branded a 'cultural pessimist', Stuart Hall has long been associated with encouraging new, cutting-edge scholarship within the field. This volume concludes with a discussion of Hall's most recent political and academic interventions and his continuing commitment to innovation within the visual arts.
Using Documents in Social Research (PDF)
by Lindsay PriorUsing Documents in Social Research offers a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research. The books argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity, and therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature of human activity they are integral to the research process. Key features of the book include: . Alerts students to the diversity of social scientific research documents. . Outlines the various strategies and debates that need to be considered in order to integrate the study of documents into a research project.
Virtual Ethnography (PDF)
by Christine HineCutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of net life', Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions as: what challenges do the new technologies of communication pose for research methods? Does the Internet force us to rethink traditional categories of culture' and society'? In this compelling and thoughtful book, Hine shows that the Internet is both a site for cultural formations and a cultural artefact which is shaped by people's understandings and expectations. The Internet requires a new form of ethnography. The author considers the shape of this new ethnography and guides readers through its application in multiple settings.
Visual Methods In Social Research (PDF)
by Marcus BanksThere has been an explosion of interest in visual culture</p
What is Social Work?: Context and Perspectives (PDF)
by Nigel HornerIt is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolutions of social work practice. Now in its Fourth Edition, Nigel Horner's classic introductory text looks at how issues such as the Personalisation Agenda, the work of the Reform Board, and how the notion of a Big Society and the recent contractions in government spending have impacted on practice and education.
WJEC A2 Sociology: Study and Revision Guide (PDF)
by David Bown Janis Griffiths Barbara GreenallEndorsed by WJEC, and written by a team of experienced senior examiners this is the only study and revision guide that precisely matches the WJEC A2 Sociology course. It contains essential course notes, revision advice, and examiner tips on how to boost grades as well as a Qamp;A section with model student answers, examiner commentaries and marks.