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  • The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

    Edited by Magda Nico, Gary Pollock ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.Inequalities are not static, easily measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life. They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Young People in Risk Society: The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity

    The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity

    by Mark Cieslik, Gary Pollock ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: Loosely divided into two sections, this book's first part includes chapters which explore young people's identities and youth cultures in relation to issues such as drug use, education and dance music. In various ways, the authors examine whether there is a need to rethink the existing theories and concepts which have informed the study of youth cultures and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe

    From Survey to Ethnography

    Edited by Hilary Pilkington, Gary Pollock, Renata Franc ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, the authors discuss substantive issues relating to young people’s attitudes and activism including: attitudes to the European Union and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Measuring Youth Well-being

    How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy

    Edited by Gary Pollock, Jessica Ozan, Haridhan Goswami, Gwyther Rees, Anita Stasulane ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP). It draws on the original empirical data from a panel of experts in the field of child well-being as well as field experiences from a number of European countries. MYWeB explored strategies and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course

    Evidence from Longitudinal Research

    by Shameem Oomur, Susan E Luczak, Aleksandra Szymczyk, Haridhan Goswami, Gary Pollock, Workneh Yadete, Maheen Sultan, Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Sarah Baird, Robert Blum, Leah Koenig, Laurence Steinberg, Emma Sorbring, Ann T. Skinner, Concetta Pastorelli, Patrick S Malone, Qin Liu, Sevtap Gurdal, Kenneth Dodge, Laura Di Giunta, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Marc Bornstein, Dario Bacchini, Suha M Al Hassan, Liane Peña Alampay, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Sombat Tapanya, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Jennifer E Lansford, Sheri A Lippman, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Jennifer Ahern, Torsten B Neilands, Emily Agnew, Audrey Pettifor, Ilze Plavgo, Lilli Loveday ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us.This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Education

    by Harry Daniels, Philip Garner ...
    This volume provides overviews and approaches to inclusive education from around the world. It defines the philosophical, political, educational and social implications of "inclusion", and maps out the dilemmas facing its successful implementation. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants

    East Asian Communities in Germany

    by Zi Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing.Zi Wang takes an innovative look at migration and wellbeing by examining the crucial role language – a quintessential part of the international migration experience – plays in migrants’ wellbeing. Drawing on ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe

    Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

    by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskály, Ahmet Kule, Maria Maki Haberfeld ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules.Using a ... Read more

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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD