Social Issues & Processes

To most Americans, Texas has been that love-it-or-hate it slice of the country that has sparked controversy, bred presidents, and fomented turmoil ...

This book will address the need for gender issues and the discourses of power to be explored within resilience frameworks to achieve successful out...

Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family live...

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw ...

This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start ...

Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natur...

Developed by progressive social scientists in the early 20th century, the juvenile justice system in the U.S. consisted of courts and correction...

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement...

This publication documents the role of social networking sites in all types of libraries such as school, college, university, public, special, and ...

This book is devoted to a theme of public health reaching out to communities of practice/engaging communities in new public health endeavours/commu...

Today''''s society is marked by a fundamental ambiguity: On the one hand we find the loss in old values and systems, in particular what is called s...

The ways we think about the world, about ourselves and our personal relations are largely determined by our cognitive schemes, cognitive styles. Th...

This book provides research on the influences, disparities and current issues of socioeconomic status (SES). Chapter One discusses socio-economic s...

This book presents and discusses important political and economic changes in North America. Topics discussed herein include security and prosperity...

The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The ...

Family abduction is the most prevalent form of child abduction in the United States. Regardless of the abductor''''s motive, it is an illegal act t...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

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