Midgley gives a comprehensive account of wor ld social conditions and social welfare institutions. He als o looks issues of social work practice, social developments, and the activities of international agencies and their coll aborative efforts. '
Examining the factors that have influenced i nner-city life, this book identifies the best-researched sol utions for improving the circumstances of children and young people living in the cities. '
Considered by many to be a modern classic, Ancient Israel offers a fascinating, full-scale reconstruction of the social and religious life of Israel in Old Testament times. Drawing principally on the text of the Old Testament itself, as well as from archaeological evidence and information gathered from the historical study of Israel's ......
Postmodernism is frequently described as dealing a death-blow to sociology. This book, however, argues that it is a mistake to conceive postmodernism in terms of a fatal attack upon what sociologists do. The contributors locate the identity of sociology `after' postmodernism as a contested site which opens up the possibility of re-imagining the enterprise of sociology. They show how this re-imagination might be conducted and trace some of the key potential consequences.
This volume demonstrates how the emotions in mass industrial societies have been neglected to devastating effect. It shows how emotion has become increasingly separated from action, how - in a world of disjointed and synthetic emotions - social solidarity has become increasingly problematic, and how compassion fatigue has increasingly replaced ......
The contributors offer a variety of perspect ives on the issue of established cultural values and practic es that are reflected both in activities of the state, and i n organised activities against it. '
This volume offers a variety of perspectives on politics and culture. The authors are united in their assumption of, and inquiry into, the pre-existing cultural values and practices that are brought to and reflected in activities of the state, as well as in organized activities against the state. The authors also address the intercultural nature ......
This work documents the considerable damage done by the migration of cynical academic ideas into music journalism - demonstrated architypically by Kurt Cobain, a martyr to postmodernism in music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and ......
This work documents the considerable damage done by the migration of cynical academic ideas into music journalism - demonstrated architypically by Kurt Cobain, a martyr to postmodernism in music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and ......
