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The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
by Peter Bramham and Stephen WaggThis book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.
Social Work Practice (PDF)
by Veronica Coulshed Joan OrmeHaving sold over 75,000 copies across its four editions, Social Work Practice remains a trusted text for all students and practitioners. It offers essential introductory guidance for all areas of study and provides the fundamentals for understanding skills, processes and contexts of social work. This comprehensive text is divided into three easily navigable parts: * Part I guides you through the social work process, detailing each stage and offering a new chapter on reflection; * Part II introduces key methods of intervention, encompassing a broad range of theories and approaches, including new material on strengths based approaches and solution focused practice; * Part III identifies the variety of contexts in which social work takes place, with individuals (both children and adults), groups and communities. Together the three parts offer a complete foundation to every social work course, with cross-referencing and signposting allowing you to easily navigate the content. Numerous practice examples and summaries of research illustrate the discussion and extensive further resources and websites compel you to explore topics further. This is a 'must buy' text that you will return to again and again throughout your training and professional practice.
Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches
by Felicia Chan Angelina KarpovichGenre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.
Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture
by Melanie WatersA timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena.
Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance (Rethinking International Development series)
by Sara C. Motta and Alf Gunvald NilsenPopular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize development in an age of neoliberal hegemony.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines (International Economic Association Series)
by Lorenzo Sacconi Margaret Blair R. Edward FreemanCorporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioural economics.
Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History
by Edith SnookDivided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.
Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)
by Paul ThomasThis book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims.
Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe: Making Multicultural Democracy Work? (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
by Laura Morales and Marco GiugniHow can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This book examines the effect of migrants' individual attributes and resources, their social capital and the political opportunities on their political integration.
Social Lives with Other Animals: Tales of Sex, Death and Love
by E. CudworthA provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes.
White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling (Identity Studies in the Social Sciences)
by D. Reay G. Crozier D. JamesThis book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness.
Defining Moments: Navigating through Business and Organisational Life
by P. ShawOur lives are full of defining moments, but do we recognize them? We often fail to appreciate the significance of these moments. At work the pressure can be relentless and we can fail to enjoy these moments. The author shows how to recognize and appreciate these moments, which in turn helps us to better cope during more difficult times.
Being Sociological (PDF)
by Steve Matthewman Catherine Lane West-Newman Bruce CurtisSociology throws new light on the world we think we know. It can challenge long-held assumptions and it offers a spectrum of possibilities to extend our understandings of everyday life, politics, culture and relationships. It opens our eyes to alternatives for tackling social problems and connects every one of us to each other. Being Sociological is an entertaining, inspiring, intelligent introduction to this vast and illuminating subject. Each chapter follows a clear path through a core sociological process – from working and consuming to believing and communicating. With intriguing examples, clear definitions of essential jargon and stimulating theoretical explanation, the book focuses on the most important issues and ideas that inform sociology. The new edition: • Expands the international range of examples and voices represented • Draws on expertise of leading academic contributors from across seven countries • Includes even more coverage of hot topics in new chapters on globalization and the environment • Uses a clear structure throughout each chapter to ease the reading experience • Aids understanding and learning with new features, including discussion points, annotated suggestions for further reading, an expanded glossary, and enhanced web support at http://www.palgrave.com/sociology/matthewman2e. This is the resource all students new to the subject need in order to start their sociological journey with understanding, knowledge, imagination and confidence.
Global Civil Society 2011: Globality and the Absence of Justice (Global Civil Society Yearbook)
by H. Seckinelgin Billy WongGlobal Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state.
Critical Social Psychology: An Introduction (PDF)
by Brendan Gough Majella Mcfadden Matthew McdonaldWhat can critical social psychology teach us about our sense of identity? How have psychosocial and feminist approaches challenged our understanding of subjectivity? Where is this complex and fast-moving field heading? This new edition of Critical Social Psychology addresses these questions and more, providing important insight into social psychology. Thoroughly updated and revised, it clearly outlines approaches such as social constructionism and psychoanalysis, and explains how these ideas can illuminate topics like social influence and prejudice. The second edition of Critical Social Psychology * includes two new chapters on applied health psychology and applied work psychology * uses 'critical thinking boxes' to demonstrate the practical application of theory and debates, helping you engage with the different ideas * contains revised content including an expanded section on research methods, as well as enhanced coverage of action research and critical narrative approaches Guiding you through the key topics in social psychology and mapping the critical approaches onto each concept, Critical Social Psychology is essential reading for students of both psychology and other social sciences.
Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism (Gender and Politics)
by Mona Lena Krook Fiona MackayPolitical institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.
Aesthetic Communication
by O. ThyssenThis book deals with the organizational use of aesthetic means. Based on the idea that organizations are systems of communication, it is shown that consciously or not, organizations have always used aesthetic means to reinforce their communication.
Corporate Entrepreneurship (PDF)
by Paul BurnsThis leading core textbook, authored by a recognised authority on the subject, covers entrepreneurial transformation in larger organizations and shows how this can be achieved by building an organizational architecture that encourages creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. Drawing together research from a number of business disciplines and combining this with numerous corporate examples, this innovative text explains how to create an organization that fosters entrepreneurship and how an entrepreneurial organizational structure manifests itself in different industries and companies. Written in a coherent and engaging style, this book offers an accessible combination of theory and practice that encourages students to approach the subject both critically and creatively. This is an essential textbook for students studying Corporate Entrepreneurship at upper undergraduate and postgraduate level on Entrepreneurship and Business & Management degree programmes. The book also caters for students of Entrepreneurship in Engineering and Technology Management departments, and for all those studying Strategy, Innovation and Leadership.
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)
by Yvette Taylor, Sally Hines and Mark E. CaseyThis book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, and are re-constituted in relation to class, disability, ethnicity, gender and age.
Territory, Globalization and International Relations: The Cartographic Reality of Space
by J. StrandsbjergGlobalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the modern state and globalisation are based on a cartographic reality of space. In consequence, claims that globalization represents a spatial challenge to state territory are deeply problematic.
Learning Regional Innovation: Scandinavian Models
by Marianne Ekman Björn Gustavsen Björn Terje Asheim Öyvind PålshaugenParticipation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcement of other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of innovation that can make innovation open to broad participation.
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Welfare States and Political Opportunities
by Marco GiugniThis book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.
Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives
by Emma Rich, Lee F. Monaghan and Lucy AphramorThis book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'.
Rethinking Family Practices (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
by D. MorganLeading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life balance.
The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation (Discourse Approaches To Politics, Society And Culture Ser. #20)
by Tope OmoniyiThis is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and accommodation. The multiple religious coverage in the essays (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as well as more or less global panorama.