Social Welfare & Social Services

Disaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains how political science enriches t...

This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe. It highlights...

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This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as ...

This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies largely in the UK, but some also in Europe researched by a team of social scienti...

Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and co...

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. I...

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. I...

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book presents a carefully-designed ...

This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates...

Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how...

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globali...

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qual...

War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict addresses the issues of rebuilding social assistance and pension programs in the wake of war....

This is the first book to examine the processes of territorial federalization and decentralization of health systems in Europe drawing from an inte...

This book examines EU discourses on Turkey in the European Commission, European Parliament and three EU member states (France, Germany and Britain)...

This book is about the mundane, local, every day practices that constitutes democracy. Focusing on France and Finland, the book defines politicizat...

This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat...

Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situa...

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under wh...