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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

This book is second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume in ...

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe Selected Cases

This introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The ...

Conviviality at the Crossroads The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters

Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book ...

Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation

This book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. ...

Emerging States at Crossroads

This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding ...

Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes Case Studies for Theory and Practice

This book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication ...

Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

This book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” ...

International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance

This book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple ...

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change

This book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores ...

Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development

This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. ...

New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations ...

Physical Disability and Sexuality Stories from South Africa

This open book explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted ...

Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands

The Pacific Island and Oceanic nations arehometo indigenous cultures that are thousands of years old. The indigenous people ...

Social Dynamics in Swiss Society

Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open ...

Social Innovation in Higher Education : Landscape, Practices, and Opportunities

The book includes a selected set of peer-reviewed chapters presenting different perspectives against which relevant actors ...

Sociological Practice

The second edition of this text focuses on how to plan, carry out, analyze, and evaluate interventions at the micro, meso, ...

The Organized Crime Community : Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block

In his social investigative writings on "the serious crime community" which describes the loose merger of corporate interests, ...

The Sociology of Community Connections

Intervention to bring about beneficial social change is the theme of this second edition of Sociological Practice. Written ...

The State of Economics, the State of the World

The book begins with three sweeping essays by Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow (in one of his last published works), Amartya ...

Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

This book identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative ...

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