ISBN:
9783030681272
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(C, 1900 p. 350 illus.)
Keywords:
Social sciences.
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Social work.
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Social structure.
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Social inequality.
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Globalization.
Abstract:
Defining and Redefining Social Problems – theory and concepts -- Globalization and Social Problems -- The state, Policy, Society and Social Problems -- Child Right and Child Protection -- Family, Child and Youth Welfare -- Ageing, Elderly and Social Problems -- Health and Mental Health Problems -- Loneliness, Loss and Suicide -- Gender and sexuality in Changing Society -- Disability and Social Exclusion in diverse contexts -- Poverty, inequality and social injustice -- Addiction -a growing Social Problem -- Environment, Ecology, Climate Change and Natural disaster -- Globalization, Migration and Labor -- Culture, Identity and International conflict -- Neoliberalism and Changing Education -- Family -- Unemployment as a global social problem -- Criminality, Corruption and Violence -- Changing Social Order and Social Problems -- Radicalization, Terrorism and Racism -- Religion and Faith in Contemporary Society -- Social Problems in the Age of COVID: Global and localized perspectives .
Abstract:
Globalization in the 21st century has contributed towards tremendous changes in world society. Countries across the world are facing issues such as poverty, climate change, population ageing, issues related to immigration, migration, COVID-19 and intergenerational historic trauma, mental illness and rising income inequality. In addition, the established world order and global dominance of the Western-centric development agenda and modernity and the unequal distribution of world’s resources have created tremendous problems for many people living in global as well as local communities, both in developed and developing countries. This major reference work handbook discusses global social problems across social, political, economic and geographical boundaries. By bringing together contributions that approach social problems at different levels of society (local, regional, national, transnational, or at the macro, meso and micro levels), it considers them as globally interconnected and mediated by new geopolitical and market logics. This volume showcases new approaches to social problems, it is multidisciplinary in its approach and thematically organised. .
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2
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