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It is essential for social work students to know about social policy, to know why studying social policy is important in the social work degree, and to understand how social policy, when implemented, has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable people. This book...
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For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have...
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Macht ist der entscheidende Faktor in der Politik. Der politische Handlungsspielraum wird durch die Macht, eine Handlung auszuführen oder sie zu unterlassen, erst eröffnet. Sie ist demnach auch einer der zentralen Untersuchungsgegenstände der Politikwissenschaft. Wie...
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Die Twentes zogen vermutlich zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts, eventuell aus dem niederländischen Twente nach Osnabrück.Die ersten sicheren urkundlichen Erwähnungen weisen sie als Träger bedeutender Ämter aus, zunächst als Richter und Schöffen, dann als Bürgermeister. Sie...
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Working with lesbians and gay men is a largely neglected area of social work practice. This book provides social workers and other professionals with an overview of a number of key challenges and concerns that play a significant part in the lives of lesbians and gay...
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How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been...
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The relationship between social thought and earth processes is an oddly neglected part of the social sciences. This exciting book offers to make good the deficit by exploring how human activity and planetary processes impact upon each other. The book: • Provides...
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"This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis." ...
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Sociology has long lacked the sense of propulsive direction that it possesses in the 1960s and early 70s. The subject has fragmented in a series of interlocking fields and sub-disciplines. Is there a way of revitalizing the subject? Where can we look for guides to build...
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This book tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancien régime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which applies sociological concepts it creates a European-scale picture of the professions spanning...
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Wer kann uns von der Shoah an ihrem dichtesten Punkt, den Gaskammern von Auschwitz-Birkenau, berichten und ein Bild darüber vermitteln, wie Millionen Menschen starben? Die Häftlinge des «Sonderkommandos» arbeiteten in den Gaskammern und Krematorien von...
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AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: Making the Wounded Whole is a revealing account of AIDS activism within Black churches in New York City. AIDS has taken a devastating toll on the Black community. Blacks make up approximately 13% of the total United States...
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Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit through the academic study of the German language and literature in Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the...
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Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has...
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Mit Angela Merkel wird 2005 zum ersten Mal eine Frau Bundeskanzlerin in Deutschland. Nach einem nur wenige Monate dauernden Blitzwahlkampf setzte sie sich gegen Amtsinhaber Gerhard Schröder durch. Ein Sieg der Union über Rot-Grün oder der Sieg einer Frau über einen...
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Die Mystik kann als zentrale Form christlicher Frömmigkeit gelten. Doch welche spezifischen Kennzeichnungen besitzt sie in und seit der Neuzeit?Die Publikation erörtert diese Frage mit Blick auf die Konzeptionen von Mystikerinnen wie Simone Weil, Edith Stein oder...
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The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology challenges the dominant understanding of the Holy Spirit in African Christian salvific discourse.The most prevalent approach in reflections on the Holy Spirit and salvation in African Christian theology insists...
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What are the critical gaps in thinking about reflexivity and social research? How is reflexive practice shaped by the contexts and cultures in which researchers work? How might research practice respond to twin demands of excellence and relevance in the...
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SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods, not just in its specialist methods journals like Qualitative Inquiry but in the 'empirical' journals such as Social Studies of Science. Delving into SAGE's deep backlist of qualitative research...
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In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society. This, in turn, has brought about new and contentious forms of regulation, surveillance and control. There is a...
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