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L'objectif principal du livre L'Amérique du Nord : une histoire des identités et des solidarités est d'explorer l'histoire transnationale des trois partenaires nord-américains au cours des XIXe, XXe et XXIe siècles. Les réflexions proposées dans cet ouvrage permettent de voir que, si l'intégration s'avère fragile sur certains terrains, elle laisse entrevoir également des liens nord-américains beaucoup plus durables, ainsi que des contacts...
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The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as education, violence, discrimination, substance abuse, public health, and environment. The volume...
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The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but including other Middle Eastern countries. Some are historically or politically oriented while others take a more sociological approach. Papers deal with...
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Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative research: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case...
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Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. With...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching political and social consequences across the globe. Published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book addresses the greatest social challenges facing the world as a result of the pandemic. The authors propose public policy solutions to help refugees, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, indigenous populations and the invisible poor of the Global South....
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This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.
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At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies.
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Los Servicios Sociales son un sistema del Bienestar Social amplio, complejo y multinivel. En este libro se analizan los dos niveles del sistema desde una perspectiva territorial. Para el nivel de Servicios Sociales generales se presentan datos sobre su organización y funcionamiento, fruto de una encuesta realizada a todos los centros municipales de Servicios Sociales de la provincia. El nivel de Servicios Sociales especializados se ha investigado...
10) Política y movimientos sociales en Chile. Antecedentes y proyecciones del estallido social de Oct
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El libro aborda el cómo los actores tradicionales y los movimientos emergentes reformulan la política clásica, rompen con o se alejan de ella, y cómo la política institucional se reconstruye en relación a estos movimientos.
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Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book provides accessible insights into pressing social problems in the United States in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes public policy responses for victims and justice, precarious populations, employment dilemmas and health and well-being.
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Este libro se propone contribuir en la generación de reflexiones teóricas y metodológicas que cuestionan e interpelan el fenómeno migratorio desde una mirada jurídica, a partir de análisis propios de esos terrenos, pero también sustentados en el abordaje de referentes empíricos concretos que caracterizan el escenario migratorio contemporáneo. Dichas reflexiones derivan en debates nutridos del conocimiento jurídico que abonan a una comprensión...
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Cet ouvrage met en relief le nouvel essor des expressions culturelles autochtones et les conditions de leur réception. Il s'appuie sur des études et des analyses qui mettent en relief la manière dont nos sociétés se transforment, grâce à une véritable renaissance des cultures autochtones ayant cours depuis quelques décennies, et les enjeux et les défis que cela représente du point de vue de leur reconnaissance. Ce sont avant tout les relations...
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El análisis del discurso es hoy en día un campo interdisciplinario y muy heterogéneo de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. La diversidad de los rápidos desarrollos en el campo teórico y metodológico internacional dificulta la identificación de las aportaciones propias de cada disciplina. Por ello, este libro se interesa por teorías y métodos específicamente sociológicos del análisis del discurso. Los estudios sociológicos del discurso...
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This volume places the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of U.S. policy, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, the failure of efforts in the 1940s to extend national social benefits and economic planning, and the backlashes against "big government" that followed reforms of the 1960s and early 1970s. Historical analysis reveals that certain social policies have flourished in the United States: those that have appealed...
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Este volumen examina por primera vez en España de forma completa, la movilidad urbana sostenible y los problemas de regulación que se plantean en las ciudades a la hora de mejorarla e impulsarla. El libro analiza su importancia en relación con el diseño de la ciudad y la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos a la vez que estudia los derechos a elegir los medios de movilidad y las consecuencias que de ello se derivan, especialmente en cuanto a las...
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Restorative justice is spreading like wildfire across the globe. How can we explain this burst of energy? This anthology makes the bold claim that restorative justice is a vibrant social justice movement. It is more than a great idea gone viral, more than the extension of the legal system, and more than enacting new legislation. Beginning in 2015, the contributors of this volume took part in a series of dialogues sponsored by the Zehr Institute for...
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Resettlement is a global phenomenon once again at the forefront of political debate in Newfoundland and Labrador. This collection, edited by political scientist Isabelle Cté and geographer Yolande Pottie-Sherman, presents an assembly of interdisciplinary voices situating Newfoundland and Labrador resettlement (past, present, and future) in conversation with relocation debates in other places such Quebec and Northern Canada, Greenland, and Ireland....
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Esta obra reúne una serie de ensayos sobre el contexto de la paz negociada entre las FARC-EP y el Estado de Colombia, a partir de la labor realizada por la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No repetición, entre los años 2016-2021. En la investigación desarrollamos, siguiendo a Antonio Gramsci, una propuesta de acercamiento a la "historia integral" de los subalternos. Por ello, este es un ejercicio novedoso, inter...
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“Mothers, Community, and Friendship” is an anthology that explores the complexities of mothering/motherhood, communities, and friendship from across interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives. The chapters in this text not only examine how communities and friendship shape and influence the various spectrums of motherhood, but also analyze how communities and friendship are necessary for mothers. Through personal, reflective, critical...
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