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  • The Global Lives of German Migrants

    Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course

    Edited by Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider, Nils Witte ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social ... Read more

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  • Social Dominance

    An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

    by Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto ...
    This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child’s Right to Participate

    Edited by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Karmen Toros ...
    Series series The Focus On Series
    This book explains and discusses how a child’s right to freedom of expression is upheld through practice and decision-making in Child Protection Services (CPS).Using the right to expression as stipulated in Article 12.2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a point of departure, it explains what CPS practices should look like and how they must operate to uphold and ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth

    Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

    Edited by Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

    Edited by Peter Cane, Herbert Kritzer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Freedom Rising

    Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    by Christian Welzel ...
    This book presents a comprehensive theory of why human freedom gave way to increasing oppression since the invention of states - and why this trend began to reverse itself more recently, leading to a rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democracy. Drawing on a massive body of evidence, the author tests various explanations of the rise of freedom, providing convincing support of a well ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America

    Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality

    Edited by Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

    Edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, Martin Richards ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Banning Transgender Conversion Practices

    A Legal and Policy Analysis

    by Florence Ashley ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Survivors of conversion practices – interventions meant to stop gender transition – have likened these to torture. In the last decade, bans on these deeply unethical and harmful processes have proliferated, and governments across the world are considering following suit.Banning Transgender Conversion Practices considers pivotal questions for anyone studying or working to prevent these harmful ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Changing Faces of Families

    Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts

    Edited by Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Family Sociology
    With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

    Edited by Manfred Schmitt, Clara Sabbagh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice research.This volume substantiates this academic legacy and the research prospects of the ISJR in the field of justice theory and ... Read more

    $287.09 USD