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Taylor & Francis Ltd Re-Thinking Social Research: Anti-Discriminatory
Book SynopsisSocial research plays an important part in the social sciences and in the planning and implementation of personal social services. Whilst considerable attention has been paid to the methods used to undertake social research, little has been done to explore the processes under which it is carried out. This volume explores the process of social research from an anti-discriminatory perspective. Contributors address themes connected to every aspect of social research from its design, through fieldwork to implementation of findings. Papers adopt critical perspectives to explore issues to do with many aspects of power and 'difference' in research including the power of black feminist research, issues in collaborative research, anti-discriminatory methodologies, quality of life in people with learning difficulties and participatory research. The book addresses many key issues which have been at the centre of current social debate and offers a unique contribution to the literature on research methodology. As such, it is likely to have a wide readership with both academic audiences and practice based welfare professions.Trade Review’...provides practical direction for any researcher who seeks to actively work for change against all forms of discrimination and oppression.’ Professor Donna M. Mertens, Gallaudet University, USA ’This book offers a wealth of insights...If the goal of social work research is to offer guidance to social work practitioners and policy makers, then this book is a must read for those undertaking and teaching social work research.’ Mary Valentich, The University of Calgary, Canada ’...an important book. It should be read by administrators and field staff in health and human service agencies, researchers, social action groups, and academics responsible for research education of students in the helping and healing professions.’ James Gripton, Emeritus Professor, The University of Calgary, Canada ’This collection of much needed articles provides an excellent way to generate discussion on research within welfare provision. This is a book that will be very valuable to students, academics, welfare practitioners and administrators.’ Kum-Kum Bhavnani, University of California, USATable of ContentsContents: Rethinking social research: research in an unequal world; Feminist challenges to traditional research: have they gone far enough?; Black children in the public care system: some issues for anti-discriminatory research; Exploring ways of giving a voice to people with learning disabilities; Lost in a straight reality: lesbians and gay men in social research; Critical life histories: key anti-oppressive research methods and processes; Developing a feminist participative research framework: evaluating the process; Doing service based research: some lessons from the all-Wales strategy; Anti-discriminatory practitioner social work research: some basic problems and possible remedies; Empowerment and social research: elements for an analytic framework; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Negative Images: A Simple Matter of Black and
Book SynopsisThat black young people have been subject to unequal treatment in the youth justice system has been the belief of some individuals and groups, reinforced, at best, by anecdotal evidence. Negative Images: A Simple Matter of Black and White? provides not only evidential weight to uphold this view but also provides some insights into the processes by which it comes about. Findings of a case study detailed in the book demonstrate how in one youth court black youths were over-represented amongst those receiving high-tariff sentencing and that this over-representation could not be explained by seriousness or persistence of offending. Whilst responsibility for differential sentencing has often been laid at the door of Magistrates, this study reveals how social work court report practice may be contributing to the situation.Table of ContentsContents: The Backdrop: Introduction; Racism; Changing ideologies and the development of the juvenile justice system in England and Wales; Social Inquiry Reports: Historical developments and literature review; The juvenile justice system and Race. Negative Images: Wolverhampton, social services and the local juvenile justice system; Research methodology; Quantitative research; Qualitative research; Summary of findings and recommendations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Qualitative Computing: Using Software for
Book SynopsisAs qualitative researchers incorporate computer assistance into their analytic approaches, important questions arise about the adoption of new technology. Is it worth learning computer-assisted methods? Will the pay-off be sufficient to justify the investment? Which programs are worth learning? What are the effects on the analysis process? This book complements the existing literature by giving a detailed account of the use of four major programs in analyzing the same data. Priority is given to the tasks of qualitative analysis rather than to program capability and the programs are treated as tools rather than as a discipline to be acquired. The key is not what the programs allow researcher to do, but whether the tasks that researchers need to undertake are facilitated by the software. Thus the study develops a user-centred approach to the adoption of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. The author emphasises qualitative analysis as a creative craft, but one which must increasingly be subject to rigorous methodological scrutiny. The adoption of computer-aided methods offers opportunities, but also dangers and ultimately this book is about the scientific qualitative research. Written in a distinctive and succinct style, this book will be valuable to social science researchers and students interested in qualitative research and in the potential for computer-assisted analysis.Table of ContentsContents: Getting into... and getting on with qualitative computing; Approaches to qualitative computing; Text searching and data exploration; Category building and finding meaning; Theory building; Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press Class Practices How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs
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Cambridge University Press Health Policy in a Globalising World
Book SynopsisIncreasing recognition of the impact globalisation is having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degradation and demographic change. A distinguished international team of contributors explores these issues within a wide range of topics and geographic regions.Trade Review"The book no doubt will be very useful as a text in graduate social work policy and health policy classes as well as to those professionals interested in social and public policy, health and globalisation. The editors and contributors are to be commended for addressing complex issues which are not only urgent but timely as well." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Mizanur R. Miah, SIU - CarbondaleTable of ContentsForeword Gro Harlem Bruntland, Director General, World Health Organisation; Preface Anthony B. Zwi; Part I: 1. An introduction to global health policy Kelley Lee, Suzanne Fustukian, Kent Buse; 2. The public health implications of multilateral trade agreements M. Kent Ranson, Robert Beaglehole, Carlos M. Correa, Zafar Mirza, Kent Buse and Nick Drager; 3. Globalisation and multilateral public-private health partnerships: issues for health policy Kent Buse and Gill Walt; 4. Global solutions to local health problems: where is the evidence? The case of private health care providers in developing countries Ruairi Brugha and Anthony B. Zwi; 5. Regulation in the context of global health markets Lilani Kumaranayake and Sally Lake; 6. Global policy networks: the propagation of health care financing reform since the 1980s Kelley Lee and Hilary Goodman; 7. The globalisation of health sector reform policies: is 'lesson drawing' part of the process? Barbara McPake; 8. Cost-effectiveness analysis and priority setting: global approach without local meaning? Lilani Kumaranayake and Damian Walker; Part II: 9. Global rhetoric and individual realities: linking violence against women and reproductive health Susannah Mayhew and Charlotte Watts; 10. The globalisation of DOTS: tuberculosis as a global emergency John Porter, Kelley Lee and Jessica Ogden; 11. Ageing and health policy: global perspectives Peter Lloyd-Sherlock; 12. Workers health and safety in a globalising world Suzanne Fustukian, Dinesh Sethi and Anthony B. Zwi; 13. Globalisation, conflict and the humanitarian response Anthony B. Zwi, Suzanne Fustukian and Dinesh Sethi; Part III: 14. Globalisation and health policy: trends and opportunities Kent Buse, Nick Drager, Suzanne Fustukian and Kelley Lee.
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Cambridge University Press riskandreason
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Cambridge University Press Family and Social Policy in Japan Anthropological Approaches Contemporary Japanese Society
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Cambridge University Press Power and the Ruling Classes in Northeast Brazil
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Cambridge University Press Early Preventn Adult AntiSoc Behav Cambridge Studies in Criminology
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Cambridge University Press The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform Theory Evidence and Policy
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Cambridge University Press The Benefits of Subsidized Housing Programs
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Cambridge University Press Game Theoretic Analysis of Voting in Committees
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Cambridge University Press Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
Book SynopsisThis book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Table of ContentsPart I. The Theory Developed: 1. A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes; 2. The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income; 3. A theory of institutional innovation: description, analogy, specification; 4. Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation; Part II. The Theory Applied: 5. Land policy and American agriculture; 6. Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820–1950; 7. Transportation developments and economic growth; 8. Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization, and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States; 9. Institutional change in the service industries; 9. The labor force: organization and education; Part III. Conclusions: 11. The changing public-private mix; 12. History and the analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future.
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Cambridge University Press Sociocultural Psychology
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Cambridge University Press Making English Morals
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Cambridge University Press Europe and the Politics of Capabilities
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Cambridge University Press On the Corruption of Morals in Russia
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Cambridge University Press Dual Classification Reconsidered Nyamwezi Sacred Kingship and Other Examples Atelier dAnthropologie Sociale
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Cambridge University Press The European Unions Fight Against Corruption The Evolving Policy Towards Member States and Candidate Countries Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
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Cambridge University Press Scientific Productivity
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Cambridge University Press Rational Choice Collective Decisions and Social
Book SynopsisLeft freely to themselves, a group of rational individuals often fail to cooperate even when the product of social cooperation is beneficial to all. Hence, the author argues, a rule of collective decision making is clearly needed that specifies how social cooperation should be organised among contributing individuals. Suzumura gives a systematic presentation of the Arrovian impossibility theorems of social choice theory, so as to describe and enumerate the various factors that are responsible for the stability of the voluntary association of free and rational individuals. Among other topics covered are an axiomatic characterisation of the concept of a rational choice, the simple majority decision rule and its extensions, the social choice implications of the concept of equity as nonenvy, the constrained majoritarian collective choice rules and the conflict between the Paretian ethics and the libertarian claims of individual rights.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Prologue; 2. Rational choice and revealed preference; 3. Arrovian impossibility theorems; 4. Simple majority rule and extensions; 5. The fairness-as-no-envy approach in social choice theory; 6. Impartiality and extended sympathy; 7. Individual rights and liberatarian claims; 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Displacement by Development
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Cambridge University Press Welfare States and Working Mothers
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Cambridge University Press Social Conflict and Educational Change in England and France 1789 1848
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Cambridge University Press Social Interaction in Individual Development 3 European Studies in Social Psychology Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production
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Cambridge University Press The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation
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Cambridge University Press Displacement by Development
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Cambridge University Press Solidarity The Analysis of a Social Movement Poland 19801981 Msh
Book SynopsisThis 1983 book records a fascinating analysis of the Solidarity movement in Poland. Alain Touraine here proposes an understanding of the place of social movements in contemporary society, and a fresh means of analysing them through 'sociological intervention'. In 1981 he and a team of researchers applied these research methods to the Solidarity movements. Groups of Solidarity activists were involved in a discourse over the nature and aims of their political and economic struggle. What emerges is a record of exceptional value in understanding the movement which transformed Polish society, placed firmly in the terms of the Solidarity activists' own understanding of their role, but equally relating this role to a broad analysis of the social structures of eastern Europe. This reflection on forty years of Communist regimes in Europe will appeal to a wide readership interested in Solidarity and Poland.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Vocabulary and abbreviations; Glossary of names; Introduction; Part I. The Movement: 1. 1856–1968–1980. Resistance to Communist rule in Central Europe; 2. Class, nation, democracy; 3. A self-limiting movement; Part II. The Liberation of society: 4. The movement evolves; 5. The militants analyse their own action; 6. The problem of political power; 7. Radicalism and compromise; 8. Resistance; Conclusion: the end of Communist society; Chronology of events; Biliography.
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Cambridge University Press Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Social Basis of Scientific Discoveries
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Cambridge University Press Political Analysis and American Medical Care Essays
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Cambridge University Press Social Class and the Division of Labour
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Cambridge University Press Ruling Class Ruling Culture
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Cambridge University Press Juvenile Delinquency and Its Origins
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Cambridge University Press Child Survival
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Cambridge University Press Social Security
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Cambridge University Press Race and Empire in British Politics
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Cambridge University Press The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States
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Cambridge University Press Poverty Deviance Early Mod Europe 4 New Approaches to European History Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Social Solidarity
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Cambridge University Press The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State
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Cambridge University Press The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State
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Cambridge University Press Baby Markets
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Cambridge University Press Global Crises Global Solutions
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Cambridge University Press The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States
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Cambridge University Press Trauma and the Memory of Politics
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Cambridge University Press Recog Struggles Social Movements
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