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  • Gender-based violence

    Social implications for health

    by Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg, Anne Kirschner, Cersosimo Giuseppina ...
    Series Book 43 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    The central issue of this volume is violence against women and young girls as part of symbolic or systemic violence, overt or subtle, and its impact on their health and general well-being. Recognised as a determinant of health, violence has been aptly described as a silent epidemic affecting women not only in Europe but globally.This book aims to provide an additional platform for discussing the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    by Owen Flanagan, Joseph E. LeDoux, Bobby Bingle, Daniel M. Haybron, Batja Mesquita, Michele Moody-Adams, Songyao Ren, Anna Sun, Yolonda Y. Wilson ...
    The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book ... Read more

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  • Families, care and work-life balance services. Case studies of best practices

    by Elisabetta Carrà ...
    Series series Quaderni del Centro Famiglia
    Under what conditions can a family service be considered a good practice? This volume assumes a relational outlook to answer this crucial question. In this perspective, personal social services must be relational and reciprocal, i.e. on a provider-user-provider sharing basis. Social problems, in fact, have a relational origin, as they arise from lack of agency capability by relational networks. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Children with Gender Identity Disorder

    A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis

    by Simona Giordano ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades ago. Yet stories of children with an in-between gender have always been, albeit symbolically, a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Children and Peace

    From Research to Action

    Edited by Nikola Balvin, Daniel J. Christie ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversity, ... Read more

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  • Political Trust and Distrust in Governance

    A Comparative Analysis in Times of Crisis

    Edited by Christian Lahusen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    This edited volume provides new, nuanced answers to questions concerning the complex nature of political trust and distrust, exploring the role they play within democratic governance and the implications that varying degrees of trust can have on relations between citizens and institutions.In times of uncertainty and crisis, trust and distrust become a particularly important topic of public concern ... Read more

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  • The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Nancy E. Snow ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways.What is the role of civic virtues in public life? How does possessing civic virtues affect persons and their capacities for participation in the public order? The chapters in this volume combine philosophical and empirically ... Read more

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  • The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication

    Edited by Shuang Liu, Adam Komisarof, Zhu Hua, Levi Obijiofor ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Communication offers a global, interdisciplinary, and contextual approach to understanding the complexities of intercultural communication in our diverse and interconnected world. The handbook brings together established theories, methodologies, and practices and provides a comprehensive exploration of intercultural communication in response to the challenges and ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • A Social Psychology of Protest

    Individuals in Action

    by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Bert Klandermans ...
    Protest is typically rare behavior, yet the first decade of the twenty-first century has been named the era of protest. Successful protests bring masses to the streets, and the emergence of social media has fundamentally changed the process of mobilization. What protests need to be successful is demand (grievances, anger, and indignation), supply (protest organizations), and mobilization (effective ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sex Work by Numbers

    Bridging Economics and Social Sciences to Understand the Hidden World of Commercial Sex

    by Stef Adriaenssens ...
    In social science research, scholars can be challenged when those involved are vested in keeping their activities, experiences, or realities hidden. In the case of prostitution, while well-designed quantitative studies adopting encompassing data are scarce, recent scholarship has made great strides. Addressing the need to inform the predominant value debates with evidence-based analyses, Sex Work ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rethinking Culture in Health Communication

    Social Interactions as Intercultural Encounters

    by Elaine Hsieh, Eric M. Kramer ...
    Rethinking Culture in Health CommunicationAn interdisciplinary overview of health communication using a cultural lens—uniquely focused on social interactions in health contextsPatients, health professionals, and policymakers embody cultural constructs that impact healthcare processes. Rethinking Culture in Health Communication explores the ways in which culture influences healthcare, introducing ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

    Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

    Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is ... Read more

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