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  • Researching Happiness

    Qualitative, Biographical and Critical Perspectives

    by Ilona Suojanen, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Barbara Holthus, Sarah Coulthard, Kelly Johnson, David Beel, Claire Wallace, Richard Gibbons, David Tross, Nicholas Hill, Neil Thin ...
    In the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing.This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today, such as how to conduct happiness ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Happiness Riddle and the Quest for a Good Life

    by Mark Cieslik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the meaning of happiness in Britain today, and observes that although we face challenges such as austerity, climate change and disenchantment with politics, we continue to be interested in happiness and living well. The author illustrates how happiness is a far more contested, social process than is often portrayed by economists and psychologists, and takes issue with ... Read more

    $28.49 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

  • Key Concepts in Youth Studies

    by Mark Cieslik, Donald Simpson ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context?Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson here provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research and developments in the field, as well as discussing the fundamental ideas underlying the discipline as a whole, it offers a comprehensive yet ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Gender and Lifelong Learning

    Critical Feminist Engagements

    Edited by Carole Leathwood, Becky Francis ...
    This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions ... Read more

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  • Women, Oppression and Social Work

    Issues in Anti-Discriminatory Practice

    Edited by Lesley Day, Mary Langan ...
    Many of the gains of the women's movement over the past 20 years now seem threatened by the combined effects of prolonged economic insecurity, reductions in the scope of welfare provision and a general shift in the climate of public opinion to the right. Social workers are faced with the growing damands of a more inpoverished and more unstable society, with less resources to meet these demands. In ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Working with Men

    Feminism and Social Work

    by Kate Cavanagh, Viviene E Cree ...
    One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature.Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a controversial collection of essays written by feminists about men. In what has been a previously unexplored area of social work, the contributors to Working ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice

    Edited by Kathy Edwards, Dana Fusco, Pam Alldred, Fin Cullen ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms in locations around the world. The editors have brought together an international team of contributors who reflect the wide range of approaches that identify as youth work, and the even wider range of approaches that identify variously as community work or ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth

    Contemporary Policy and Practice

    Edited by Peter Kraftl, John Horton, Faith Tucker ...
    This original book explores the importance of geographical processes for policies and professional practices related to childhood and youth. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds explore how concepts such as place, scale, mobility and boundary-making are important for policies and practices in diverse contexts. Chapters present both comprehensive cutting-edge academic research ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Analysing Families

    Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice

    Edited by Alan Carling, Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards ...
    While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the dramatic changes that are taking place. By contrast, Analysing Families directly addresses the social processes responsible for these changes - how social policy interacts with what families actually do. Topics covered include:* the relationship between ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    In Search of A Future

    Edited by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative policies. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD