Author: Jason L. Powell

This book explores the rise and consolidation of Symbolic Interactionism. This is one of the most important and significant theories of social acti...

One of the key issues in recent times in England is the inter-relationship between voluntary organisations and sustainability. It is very tempting ...

This book explores the global challenge: understanding ageing as a medical concept, social concept and population term. The focus is on China and g...

This book examines the concept of power. It begins by pointing to its multi-dimensional definition and points to different sociological interpretat...

This original book explores the nature and extent of global aging in contemporary society. It examines the impact of populational aging on differen...

This book explores the development of helping professions with older people. It provides a theoretical excursion drawing from French philosophy to ...

This book attempts to unravel the fundamental assumptions of social philosophy and how its different concepts and theories make sense of human agin...

This book explores the concept of key concepts, theories and practices related to life course issues associated with social work, power and trust i...

This book explores the historical developments in social theory and critical theorising about history by Michel Foucault. The book begins by explic...

This book examines the rise and consolidation of feminist insights into contemporary social theory. The book begins by providing an historical back...

This book assesses the historical and modern significance and emergence of global forces and its impact on nation states. In particular, the power ...

As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and ...

In this book, the authors discuss crime issues from an international perspective, with a focus on socio-economic factors and psychological implicat...

Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimise and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modern...

This book explores the relevance of key thinkers in social science from historical traditions to contemporary philosophers and the nature of modern...

This book focuses on five themes that link to a compelling argument in the study of ageing and social policy. Firstly, there is a policy context of...

This book is a demographical overview of the key issues associated with globalisation and global aging in the 21st century. The book explores how p...

This book explores the contested concept and theorisation of care and its relationship to ageing. The book analyses the different and complex ways ...

Personalisation in British social care is linked to both the principle and process that every adult who receives support, whether provided by statu...