This book is second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume in ...
Continue readingThis introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The ...
Continue readingConviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book ...
Continue readingThis book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. ...
Continue readingThis volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding ...
Continue readingThis book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication ...
Continue readingThis book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” ...
Continue readingThis book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple ...
Continue readingThis book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores ...
Continue readingThis book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. ...
Continue readingInterest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations ...
Continue readingThis open book explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted ...
Continue readingThe Pacific Island and Oceanic nations arehometo indigenous cultures that are thousands of years old. The indigenous people ...
Continue readingUsing longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open ...
Continue readingThe book includes a selected set of peer-reviewed chapters presenting different perspectives against which relevant actors ...
Continue readingThe second edition of this text focuses on how to plan, carry out, analyze, and evaluate interventions at the micro, meso, ...
Continue readingIn his social investigative writings on "the serious crime community" which describes the loose merger of corporate interests, ...
Continue readingIntervention to bring about beneficial social change is the theme of this second edition of Sociological Practice. Written ...
Continue readingThe book begins with three sweeping essays by Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow (in one of his last published works), Amartya ...
Continue readingThis book identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative ...
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