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The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as education, violence, discrimination, substance abuse, public health, and environment. The volume...
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Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that...
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Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative research: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case...
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At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies.
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5) Política y movimientos sociales en Chile. Antecedentes y proyecciones del estallido social de Oct
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El libro aborda el cómo los actores tradicionales y los movimientos emergentes reformulan la política clásica, rompen con o se alejan de ella, y cómo la política institucional se reconstruye en relación a estos movimientos.
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Este libro se propone contribuir en la generación de reflexiones teóricas y metodológicas que cuestionan e interpelan el fenómeno migratorio desde una mirada jurídica, a partir de análisis propios de esos terrenos, pero también sustentados en el abordaje de referentes empíricos concretos que caracterizan el escenario migratorio contemporáneo. Dichas reflexiones derivan en debates nutridos del conocimiento jurídico que abonan a una comprensión...
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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...
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Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also...
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Este volumen examina por primera vez en España de forma completa, la movilidad urbana sostenible y los problemas de regulación que se plantean en las ciudades a la hora de mejorarla e impulsarla. El libro analiza su importancia en relación con el diseño de la ciudad y la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos a la vez que estudia los derechos a elegir los medios de movilidad y las consecuencias que de ello se derivan, especialmente en cuanto a las...
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En un mundo cada vez más plural y cambiante es imprescindible cuestionarse el papel que juegan las ideologías en la configuración de los movimientos sociales, políticos, económicos, culturales y científicos. Con este fin se reunen en este volumen una serie de colaboraciones orientadas a fomentar el debate público necesario para comprender la complejidad de nuestro tiempo y la dificultad de la convivencia plural en un entorno multicultural y...
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This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice. Contributors from around the world (from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from Indigenous values and philosophies, challenge environmental destruction, gain consent in divided communities, maintain or breach...
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Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. With...
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There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still dominated by medical interests. Bringing together leading...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching political and social consequences across the globe. Published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book addresses the greatest social challenges facing the world as a result of the pandemic. The authors propose public policy solutions to help refugees, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, indigenous populations and the invisible poor of the Global South....
15) Les intelligences artificielles au prisme de la justice sociale. Considering Artificial Intellige
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Cet ouvrage collectif s'inscrit dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire justice sociale et intelligence artificielle Abeona-ENS-OBVIA. Il propose une réflexion multidisciplinaire sur les enjeux des usages de l'intelligence artificielle, mais surtout à partir d'une perspective de justice sociale.
Le concept de justice sociale permet d'inclure des dimensions, principalement saisies par les sciences sociales et humaines, et qui ne sont pas traditionnellement...
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Tanto para el análisis de la política contemporánea como para el estudio de las fronteras, la coyuntura marcada por la caída del muro de Berlín y el periodo subsiguiente seguirán siendo por mucho tiempo referencias obligatorias. El énfasis y el trasfondo de lo que ha venido sucediendo en las fronteras amazónicas, en otros países de América e incluso en Europa, durante las tres últimas décadas, así lo confirman. Este contexto global de...
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Dichotomien erleichtern das Denken. Sie geben Orientierung, sind Grundlage von rationalen Entscheidungen, geben Anleitung zur Systematisierung und nicht selten zur Bewertung. An ihre Grenzen gerät eine binäre Logik, wenn sich Phänomene nicht innerhalb einer zweiwertigen Ordnung bestimmen lassen. Die Überführung starrer, dualistischer (Denk-)Formen in eine erweiterte Verhältnisbestimmung bildet den Anspruch sozialwissenschaftlicher Ansätze,...
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Resultado de la última reunión de la Asociación Interdisciplinar José de Acosta, la obra recoge las ponencias y comunicaciones que sobre el ocio y el trabajo se presentaron en la misma. Se analiza la cuestión desde el punto de vista económico; desde el sociológico, con un análisis estadístico del paro y del ocio; desde el educativo, estudiando la educación de la persona y de la sociedad para aprovechar al máximo el ocio, y desde el ético....
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The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but including other Middle Eastern countries. Some are historically or politically oriented while others take a more sociological approach. Papers deal with...
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This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.
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