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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “cersosimo giuseppina”
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  • Park and Burgess’s Sociology

    Creation, Evolution and Legacy

    Edited by Giuseppina Cersosimo ...
    This volume explores the enduring influence of Introduction to the Science ofSociology, published a century ago by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess. It bringstogether scholars from the United States, Canada, and Italy, who collectivelydemonstrate the work’s enduring relevance and its important role in the dialoguebetween European and American sociology. The contributors examine topics raisedin the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Gender-based violence

    Social implications for health

    by Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg, Anne Kirschner, Cersosimo Giuseppina ...
    Series Book 43 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    The central issue of this volume is violence against women and young girls as part of symbolic or systemic violence, overt or subtle, and its impact on their health and general well-being. Recognised as a determinant of health, violence has been aptly described as a silent epidemic affecting women not only in Europe but globally.This book aims to provide an additional platform for discussing the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Moral Boundaries

    A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

    by Joan Tronto ...
    In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Against Happiness

    by Owen Flanagan, Joseph E. LeDoux, Bobby Bingle, Daniel M. Haybron, Batja Mesquita, Michele Moody-Adams, Songyao Ren, Anna Sun, Yolonda Y. Wilson ...
    The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sociology

    by Christine Poolos ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    Sociology, the study of human behavior in social groups, is a relatively recent discipline within the social sciences, which examine human behavior, culture, and society using scientific methodology in both research and analysis. This resource explains the rise of the social sciences, in particular sociology, charting the history of the discipline and its founders. The key principles and ... Read more

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  • Families, care and work-life balance services. Case studies of best practices

    by Elisabetta Carrà ...
    Series series Quaderni del Centro Famiglia
    Under what conditions can a family service be considered a good practice? This volume assumes a relational outlook to answer this crucial question. In this perspective, personal social services must be relational and reciprocal, i.e. on a provider-user-provider sharing basis. Social problems, in fact, have a relational origin, as they arise from lack of agency capability by relational networks. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Making Social Science Matter

    Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again

    by Bent Flyvbjerg ...
    Translated by Steven Sampson ...
    Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. Why has social science failed in attempts to emulate natural science and produce normal theory? Bent Flyvbjerg argues that the strength of social sciences lies in its rich, reflexive analysis of values ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Children with Gender Identity Disorder

    A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis

    by Simona Giordano ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades ago. Yet stories of children with an in-between gender have always been, albeit symbolically, a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Children and Peace

    From Research to Action

    Edited by Nikola Balvin, Daniel J. Christie ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversity, ... Read more

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  • Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World

    System, Scale, Culture

    by Richard E. Lee, Franco Moretti ...
    In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallerstein ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Political Trust and Distrust in Governance

    A Comparative Analysis in Times of Crisis

    Edited by Christian Lahusen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    This edited volume provides new, nuanced answers to questions concerning the complex nature of political trust and distrust, exploring the role they play within democratic governance and the implications that varying degrees of trust can have on relations between citizens and institutions.In times of uncertainty and crisis, trust and distrust become a particularly important topic of public concern ... Read more

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  • Power

    A Radical View

    by Steven Lukes ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Since its publication in 1974, Power has consolidated its reputation as a classic work and a major reference point within social and political theory by assessing the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power.New to the Revelations series, this revised edition presents a brand new introduction by Steven Lukes on the nature of the power debate in the world today. It includes the ... Read more

    $29.19 USD