The Importance and Value of Older Employees

This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among older employees. Others have studied ageing populations in terms of the economic burden or the pressure on healthcare services and generally view the rising numbers of senio…

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the…

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities. The authors draw on their diverse experiences in research, practice, and education to suggest interdisciplina…

Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations

This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced pop…

Reproduction of Inequality and Social Exclusion

This book is a detailed account of how hierarchy has been maintained historically by the Nepali state, affirming the uniqueness of a caste-based social order by bringing outsiders, especially ethnic groups and religious minorities, into the caste fold. Focusing on the contemporary state of Dalits, the community that was and is put at the bottom of a very hierarchical social order in Nepal, the …

Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human relationships remain strained. Bearing in mind South Africa's tortuous and divisive past, this book brings to light many issues, prospe…

Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards for organization-based and direct volunteering which offer path-breaking opportunities. The global statistical standards on v…

COVID-19 and Social Protection

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same ti…

Life Expectations of the People

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness. Based on large-scale survey data combined with the corresponding sociological theory for analysis, it presents detailed information, compelling arguments, and well-founded conclusions, offerin…

Early Identification and Intervention of Suicide Risk in Chinese Young Adults

This book presents a concise introduction to the contemporary research and practice of suicide prevention, and it addresses the cognitive and neurological aspects of suicide. With the inclusion of extensive thought-provoking material, this book is of great value to clinicians, researchers, educators, students, and anyone who are broadly interested in suicide assessments and interventions. The a…

Social Policy, Service Users and Carers

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers. While service user and carer involvement has become more and more prominent in social policy over recent years, it is rarely the case that the perspectives of service users and carers goes beyond consultation to truly meaningful involvement and co-production. This book is un…

Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Lati…

This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the …

Compliance Ethnography

This book explores how small businesses respond to the law. By detailing the intricate ways in which businesses come to comply with or violate legal regulations, it shows a very different picture of compliance that completely changes the way we think about how businesses respond to the law, how we can capture such responses, and what explains their behaviors. The book moves us beyond a static a…

Bygone Utopias and Farm Protest in the Rural Midwest

This book explores those who long for “bygone utopias,” times before rapid, culturally destructive social change stripped individuals of their perceived agency. The case of the wave of foreclosure protests that swept through the rural American Midwest during the 1930s illustrates these themes. These actions embodied a utopian understanding of agrarian society that had largely disappeared by…

Framing Welfare Recipients in Political Discourse

This book explores the shift towards individual responsibility that is increasingly evident in welfare systems across the world. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, social policy, and political science, with a particular focus on migration, minorities, political discourse, securitisation, social justice and human rights. "This book offers a compellin…

Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities

This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality…

Ambivalences of Inclusion in Society and Social Work

This book represents the work of the European Research Network: Inclusive Society and the Role of Social Work, which comprises researchers from Barcelona, Spain; Koblenz, Germany; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and Zagreb, Croatia. The authors present research results and reflections from these four different European countries to provide a comprehensive introduction and discussion of the ambival…

Hospital Capacity Management: Insights and Strategies

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1st

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978-0-367-70858-0

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xvii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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610.28 Dic h

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism interrogates the emergence of far-right nationalist 'defence leagues' in Australia and the UK. Throughout the book, Liam Gillespie refers to these groups as defence nationalists: that is, as nationalists who imagine themselves as defenders of the nation and therefore national subjects par excellence. Drawing on original research, psychoa…

The Dynamics of Welfare Markets

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets. It maps the common ground and uncovers new research directions for the future study of actors, policies and institutions shaping the growth and dynamics of European wel…

Social Theory

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts. Each chapter is devoted to a specific thematic area, including the state, governance, the economy, civil society, culture, language, knowledge, the self, emotions, the body, and social justice. Each chapter details the key issues for debate and the relevant…

SOCIETAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: GLOBAL CASE STUDIES OF COLLABOR…

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978-1-138-05445-5

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xiv, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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301.2 Soc s

DIGITAL SOCIOLOGY

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978-0-7456-8478-9

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vii, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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301.01 Mar d

KNOWLEDGE MODELLING AND BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN HEALTHCARE: ADVANCES AND APPLIC…

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1st

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-367-69661-0

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xviii, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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610.285 Kno k

Lean Healthcare Systems Engineering for Clinical Environments: A Setp-by Step…

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978-0-367-75532-4

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xxii, 203 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

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610.285 63 Opp l

Information Technology and Data in Healthcare: Using and Understanding Data

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1st

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978-1-032-08227-1

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xviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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610.28 Har i

HEALTHCARE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: HOW CONSUMERISM, TECHNOLOGY AND PANDEMIC A…

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1st

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-367-47657-1

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xxxvii, 229 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

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610.28 Mar h

COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE PADA PROGRAM CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) P…

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana Collaborative Governance Pada Program Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) PT Bukit Asam Tbk Tanjung Enim. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh fakta bahwa kekayaan sumber daya alam yang memadai di Kabupaten Muara Enim belum mampu menurunkan angka kemiskinan masyarakat sekitar, hal ini berkaitan dengan pelaksanaan program CSR perusahaan setem…

The New Social and Impact Economy

This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe. The new social and impact economy is an attempt to conceptualize developments after the 2008 economic crisis, which emphasized the pifalls of the Neo-Liberal economic system. In the aftermath of the crisis, new organizational entities evolved, which combined social and business o…

PENERAPAN PRINSIP GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PADA SATUAN KERJA CORPORATE SOCIA…

This research aims to find out how the principles of accountability and transparency of Good Corporate Governance are implemented in the Corporate Social Responsibility Work Unit of PT Bukit Asam Tbk using Stewardship Theory (1991) consisting of four dimensions of Accountability, namely, Honesty and Legal Accountability, Process Accountability, Program Accountability. , and Policy Accountabilit…

Future-Proofing the Judiciary

This book reinvigorates the field of socio-legal inquiry examining the relationship between law and demography. Originally conceived as 'population law' in the 1960s following a growth in population and a use of law to temper population growth, this book takes a new approach by examining how population change can affect the legal system, rather than the converse. It analyses the impact of demog…