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

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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

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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…

International Migration, Remittances and Brain Drain

This book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs). It analyzes the most recent global, regional and national data as well as the arguments for and against the emigration of highly skilled personnel and remittances, thereby highlighting policies aimed at optimizing the link be…

Invisible Borders

This book analyses residency, a form of municipal membership that plays a strategic role in administrative processes in Italy. Residency is a two-faced juridical status: a means for exercising rights and moving freely within a state territory and, at the same time, a tool of control that operates through identification and registration. Gargiulo investigates residency both historically and theo…

Visual Securitization

This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream med…

Migration and Discrimination

This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also present…

Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…

The Global Old Age Care Industry

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple …

Dealing with Disasters

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges—cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled healing practit…

Multiplitism

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. It revisits existing sociological approaches and discusses their limitations, before suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively, the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics. Utilising its p…

Development, Governance and Gender in South Asia

This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region. It familiarizes the reader with the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of governance and development. Contributing authors pay close attention to the socio-political and economic developments in South Asia in t…

Debordering Europe

This contributed volume analyzes in depth how a border area is constantly reshaped as migration policies harden, and what kind of social, political and economic impacts are produced at local and international level. The study is focused on Ventimiglia, an Italian town located 6 km away from the French-Italian border on the gulf of Genoa with a long story of commerce, custom and smuggling activi…