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Author : Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0472115731
The first cultural and political history of German Freemasonry in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Author : Jarret T. Crawford,Lee Jussim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351622554
Social scientists have long known that political beliefs bias the way they think about, understand, and interpret the world around them. In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists themselves have allowed their own political biases to influence their research. These biases may influence the development of research hypotheses, the design of studies and methods and materials chosen to test hypotheses, decisions to publish or not publish results based on their consistency with one’s prior political beliefs, and how results are described and dissemination to the popular press. The fact that these processes occur within academic disciplines, such as social psychology, that strongly skew to the political left compounds the problem. Contributors to this volume not only identify and document the ways that social psychologists’ political beliefs can and have influenced research, but also offer solutions towards a more depoliticized social psychology that can become a model for discourse across the social sciences.
Author : Peter Baldwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428939
By analyzing the competing concerns of different social "actors" behind the evolution of social policy, this study explains why some nations had an easy time in developing a welfare state while others fought long entrenched battles.
Author : Fred W Powell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761964126
The Politics of Social Work provides a major contribution to debates on the politics of social work, at the beginning of the 21st Century. It locates social work within wider political and theoretical debates and deals with important issues currently facing social workers and the organisations in which they work. By setting the current crisis of identity social workers are experiencing in international context, Fred Powell analyses the choices facing social work in postmodern society. Fred Powell explores in this text contemporary and historical paradigms of social work from its Victorian origins to the development of reformist practice in the welfare state to radical social work, responses to social exclusion, the rennaissance of civil society, multiculturalism, feminism and anti-oppressive practice. In conclusion the he examines the options facing social work in the 21st century and argues for a civic model of social work based on the pursuit of social justice in an inclusive society.
Author : Martyn Hammersley
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012407453
Is social research political? Should it be political? What are the implications of the politicization of social research? Recent years have seen a growing range of challenges to the idea that research should be governed by the principle of value neutrality. Critical, feminist, antiracist and postmodernist analyses have argued that social research is intrinsically political. In this stimulating and often controversial book, Martyn Hammersley weighs the arguments offered in support of these positions. He considers the fundamental issues that the debate raises about the nature of social research, its political dimensions and its contemporary relevance. At the same time he provides a robust defence of value neutrality as a con
Author : Stephen Pimpare
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231551892
The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society’s most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies. This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. Helping readers develop sustainable strategies at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, this book is a hands-on manual to contemporary American politics, showing social workers and social work students how to engage in effective activism. Stephen Pimpare, a political scientist with extensive experience as a social work practitioner and instructor, offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system. He distills key research and insights from political science and related disciplines into a practical resource for social work students, instructors, and practitioners looking to deepen their policy knowledge and capacity to achieve change.
Author : Margaret Weir,Ann Shola Orloff,Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691222004
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 simultaneously to middle-class and lower-income people, while not involving direct bureaucratic interventions into local communities. The editors suggest how new family and employment policies, devised along these lines, might revitalize broad political coalitions and further basic national values. The contributors are Edwin Amenta, Robert Aponte, Mary Jo Bane, Kenneth Finegold, John Myles, Kathryn Neckerman, Gary Orfield, Ann Shola Orloff, Jill Quadagno, Theda Skocpol, Helene Slessarev, Beth Stevens, Margaret Weir, and William Julius Wilson.
Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849354417
What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical, they take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to, and within, nature. More importantly, they develop a solid, historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology, the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.
Author : Steven L. B. Jensen,Charles Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316519233
A pioneering study in the history of social rights, filling a significant gap in human rights scholarship and practice.
Author : Bruce Curtis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802085857
Curtis discusses census making as a political project, investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic, religious, and sectional struggles.
Author : Sam Hickey,Tom Lavers,Miguel Nino-Zarazua,Jeremy Seekings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198850342
"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)"
Author : Frederick George Bailey
Publisher : Berkeley, U. of Califorina P
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Odisha (India)
ISBN : 0520000617
Author : Ralph Leon Beals
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780202367989
Politics of Social Research addresses itself to the question of the behavior appropriate for social scientists conducting research sponsored by or otherwise involving government agencies--our own and those of other countries. The simple patriotism that suggests that social scientists, like other citizens, should not hesitate to put their skills at the service of their government is questioned here and by practitioners. This is partly because of outright disagreement with government policies and partly because of the threat to independence posed by massive government funding. As this book plainly shows, the problems are especially acute for social scientists working abroad, where they are viewed as de facto representatives of American policy while at the same time they must accommodate to the policies of foreign governments. Beals begins by describing specific and precipitating problems--Project Camelot and other research undertakings that met with difficulties--and a general review of the kinds of problems people engaged in social research encounter (concealment and misrepresentation, nationalism and colonialism, protection of subjects, etc.) These problems are then placed in historical and ideological perspective. This reveals differing views of the relationship between social scientists and government and the meanings and uses of various kinds of research. The book also contains a survey of the particular problems encountered by research social scientists in each of the major areas outside the United States. First published in 1969, and here reissued with a new introduction, this volume remains essential reading for all who are concerned with improving the responsible use of social research by governments, while safeguarding the freedom and integrity of the research and the researcher. Ralph L. Beals was chairman of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alan Woolfolk is director, core curriculum at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta.
Author : Kathleen Thelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107053168
This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.
Author : Staci K. Haines
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623173883
An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and trauma survivors who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders. Just as health practitioners need to consider the societal factors underlying trauma, so too must activists understand the physical and mental impacts of trauma on their own lives and the lives of the communities with whom they organize. Trauma healing and social change are, at their best, interdependent. Somatics has proven to be particularly effective in addressing trauma, but in practice it typically focuses solely on the individual, failing to integrate the social conditions that create trauma in the first place. Staci K. Haines, somatic innovator and cofounder of generative somatics, invites readers to look beyond individual experiences of body and mind to examine the social, political, and economic roots of trauma—including racism, environmental degradation, sexism, and poverty. Haines helps readers identify, understand, and address these sources of trauma to help us bridge individual healing with social transformation.
