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  • 1
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    International handbook on gender and demographic processes (2018)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789402412901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 359 Seiten)
    Series Statement: International handbooks of population volume 8
    Series Statement: International handbooks of population
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences ; Demography ; Gender Studies ; Sociology, general
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1290-1
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1290-1
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  • 2
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    Children’s Understandings of Well-being : Towards a Child Standpoint (2017)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789402408294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 280 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 14
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Child development ; Social work ; Well-being ; Children ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; Kind ; Wohlbefinden
    Abstract: The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children’s views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it. The authors do this by placing the concept of children’s well-being within the existing discourses on the topic and by developing their unique theoretical approach to the concept. Then, and based on what children told them, the authors identify different domains and dimensions of children’s well-being and touch upon its multifaceted nature. The book concludes with drawing research and policy implications from an integrated summary of the study’s findings and lists indicator concepts that present an alternative framework and conceptualisation of well-being from a child standpoint
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Tracing Conceptualizations of Well-Being: Locating the Child in Well-Being Discourse -- Chapter 2. Researching Children’s Understandings of Well-Being -- Part II -- Chapter 3. Overviewing a Child Standpoint on Well-Being -- Chapter 4. Agency, Autonomy and Asymmetry in Child-Adult Relations -- Chapter 5. Safety and Ontological Insecurity: Contesting the Meaning of Child Protection -- Chapter 6. Self, Identity and Well-Being -- Part III -- Chapter 7. Activities as Autonomy and Competence: The Meaning and Experience of Leisure for Well-Being -- Chapter 8. Money, Markets and Moral Identity: Exploring Children’s Understandings and Experiences of Economic Well-Being -- Chapter 9. Children’s Health and Well-Being -- Part IV.-Chapter 10. Findings and Conclusions on Well-Being from the Unique Vantage Point of Children -- Appendix
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-0829-4
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    Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States : Four Decades of Policy, Program, and Professional Responses (2017)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401775830
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 169 p. 11 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Douglas, Emily M., 1973 - Child maltreatment fatalities in the United States
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Maternal and child health services ; Criminology ; Social work ; Child psychology ; School psychology ; Social Sciences ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention
    Abstract: This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and Justification for the Book -- Chapter 2: What is Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 3. Risk Factors for Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 4. The Intersection of the Child Welfare Profession and Maltreatment Fatalities -- Chapter 5. Child Death Review Teams -- Chapter 6. State Safe Haven Laws -- Chapter 7. Criminal Justice and Legal Reforms in Response to Fatal Maltreatment -- Chapter 8. Prevention of Fatal Child Maltreatment: What Are We Doing That Is Working? -- Chapter 9. Conclusions and Recommendations Moving Forward in the Arena of Fatal Child Maltreatment
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7583-0
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    Public Policy Making in the Western Balkans : Case Studies of Selected Economic and Social Policy Reforms (2015)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401793469
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 244 p. 25 illus, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Development Economics ; Social policy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: Developing and ‘transition’ economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens, and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments in the Western Balkans have striven to achieve all of the above, and this volume assesses the nature of their experiences as well as the level of their success in doing so. Featuring detailed case studies of public policy reforms in the region as well as comparative analysis on a range of indicators, the book analyzes the role of key players in setting the political agenda as well as implementing policy reforms. It also distils the lessons that can be learned from the Western Balkan experience, recommending strategies for enhancing the policy making process. In addition, it examines the developmental role played by the full spectrum of policy actors, including the private sector, NGOs, special interest groupings, international financial institutions, donor nations and the EU. Each case study has been prepared by academics with deep knowledge and experience of the western Balkans, and addresses a core set of questions: identifying the policy issue and its broader context, defining the roles of specific individuals in formulating policy and reform, and assessing the influence of networks and coalitions in the policy making process. With so little detailed literature on public policy making in a group of nations strategically positioned between Europe, Russia and the near East, the detailed insights provided by this volume will be widely welcomed. Our book provides case studies of specific public policy reform episodes in selected Western Balkan post-conflict and transition countries. The focus of these case studies extends beyond the technical aspects and entails substantive examination of the policy actors, constituencies, and politics that ultimately shape the policy that emerges from the policy making process. This analysis draws lessons for strengthening the quality of policies, the transparency, consistency, and governance of the policy making process, and ultimately for contributing to economic and social development of the region
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9346-9
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    Modelling Norms (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400770522
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 213 p. 33 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Elsenbroich, Corinna Modelling norms
    DDC: 306
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    MR 7300
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Modellierung ; Methode ; Online-Ressource ; Soziale Norm ; Kriminalitätstheorie ; Modellierung
    Abstract: The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based models of collective action extending existing models by providing an embedding into social networks, social influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models into existing theory.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionTheorising Norms -- Theorising Crime -- Agent-based Modelling -- The Environment and Social Norms -- Punishment and Social Norms -- Imitation and Social Norms -- Socially Situated Social Norms -- Internalisation and Social Norms -- Modelling Norms -- Delinquent Networks -- Social Construction of Knowledge -- Morality -- We-Intentionality -- Conclusion -- Index.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7052-2
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    Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401789592
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 261 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Ecology ; Environmental geology. ; Geoecology. ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Human Geography ; Physical geography.
    Abstract: In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples, and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2
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    The Web of Violence : Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400755963
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 108 p. 3 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Hamby, Sherry L. The web of violence
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Risikofaktor ; Korrelation
    Abstract: There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. The accumulated data on co-occurrence also provide strong evidence that prevention and intervention should be organized around the full context of individuals’ experiences, not narrowly defined subtypes of violence. Managing the flood of new research and practice innovations is a challenge, however. New means of communication and integration are needed to meet this challenge, and the Web of Violence is intended to contribute to this process by serving as a concise overview of the conceptual and empirical work that form a basis for understanding the interconnections across forms of violence throughout the lifespan. It also offers ideas and directions for prevention, intervention, and public policy.A number of initiatives are emerging to integrate the findings on co-occurrence into research and action. The American Psychological Association established a new journal, Psychology of Violence, which is a forum for research on all types of violence. Sherry Hamby is the founding editor and John Grych is associate editor and co-editor of a special issue on the co-occurrence of violence in 2012. Dr. Hamby also is a co-investigator of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), which has drawn attention to polyvictimization. Polyvictimization is a focus of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Defending Childhood Initiative and has recently been featured in calls for grant proposals by the Office of Victims of Crime and National Institutes for Justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈p〉Chapter 1: The Case for Studying Co-Occurrence -- Chapter 2:  Tracing the Threads of the Web: The Epidemiology of Interconnections among Forms of Violence & Victimization -- Chapter 3:  The Causes of Interconnection -- Chapter 4:  A Developmental Perspective on Interconnection -- Chapter 5:  Implications for Research: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of interpersonal violence -- Chapter 6 Implications for Prevention & Intervention: A More Person-Centered Approach -- Chapter 7   Conclusion: Toppling the Silos.〈/p〉.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5596-3
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    Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400754768 , 1283910845 , 9781283910842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 249 p. 13 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 106
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that resilience thinking can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that “resilience thinking” can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 2: “Resilience Thinking” for Planning: Ayda Eraydin -- Chapter 3: Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context: Tuna Taşan-Kok, Dominic Stead and Peiwen Lu -- Chapter 4: Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics: Sara Santos Cruz,  João Pedro Costa, Silvia Ávila de Sousa and Paulo Pinho -- Chaper 5: Analysing the Socio-spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam: Tuna Taşan-Kok and Dominic Stead -- Chapter 6: Systems, Cultures, Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands: Sofia Morgado and Luís Dias -- Chapter 7: Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks: Peter Schmitt -- Chapter 8: Evaluating Resilience in Planning: Paulo Pinho, Vítor Oliveira and Ana Martins -- Chapter 9: Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: the Case of Alcântara: Luís Dias, Sofia Morgado and João Pedro Costa -- Chapter 10: Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilient Perspective: The Case of Oporto: Vítor Oliveira, Ana Martins and Sara Santos Cruz -- Chapter 11: The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul: Ayda Eraydin, Ali Türel and Deniz Altay Kaya -- Chapter 12: Urban Resilience and Polycentricity - the Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration: Peter Schmitt, Lisbeth Greve Harbo, Asli Tepecik Diş and Anu Henriksson -- Chapter 13: Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam: Dominic  Stead and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 14: The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Index..
    Note: Includes index , Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning , "Resilience Thinking" for Planning , Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context , Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics , Analysing the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam , Systems, Cultures and Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands , Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks , Evaluating Resilience in Planning , Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Alcântara , Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilience Perspective: The Case of Oporto , The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul , Urban Resilience and Polycentricity: The Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration , Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam , The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5476-8
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    Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400746237
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 277 p. 51 illus., 10 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Understanding Population Trends and Processes 6
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Spatial microsimulation
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Spatial analysis (Statistics) ; Space ; Computer simulation ; Statistical matching ; Demography ; Demographie ; Räumliche Statistik ; Mikrosimulation
    Abstract: This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial microsimulation models have been used to analyse health and social disadvantage for small areas; and to look at the effect of policy change for small areas. This provides a powerful analysis tool for researchers and policy makers. This book covers preparing the data for spatial microsimulation; a number of methods for both static and dynamic spatial microsimulation models; validation of the models to ensure the outputs are reasonable; and the future of spatial microsimulation. The book will be an essential handbook for any researcher or policy maker looking to design and create a spatial microsimulation model. This book will also be useful to those policy makers who are commissioning a spatial microsimulation model, or looking to commission work using a spatial microsimulation model, as it provides information on the different methods in a non-technical way.
    Description / Table of Contents: Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users; Foreword; Contents; Part I: Background; Chapter 1: Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation: History, Methods and Applications; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 History of Spatial Microsimulation; 1.3 Applications of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.4 Validation of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.5 The Future; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Building a Static Spatial Microsimulation Model: Data Preparation; 2.1 Data Sources and Requirements; 2.2 Sample Scope; 2.3 Unit of Analysis; 2.3.1 Non-private Dwellings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.2 Non-classifiable Households2.4 Population Imputation; 2.4.1 Imputation of Child Records; 2.4.2 Imputation of a Non-private Dwelling Population; 2.5 Matching Variable Definitions in the Sample Survey and the Census; 2.6 Uprating and Deflating; 2.7 Balancing Data; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Part II: Static Spatial Microsimulation Models; Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata Simulation Methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.1 Background; 3.2 Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation Methodologies
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1 Synthetic Reconstruction3.2.2 Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.3 Innovations in Synthetic Reconstruction; 3.3.1 Modified Monte Carlo Sampling; 3.3.2 Statistical Justification of Reconstruction Order; 3.3.3 Modelled 100% Counts of 10% Data; 3.3.4 Improved Data Linkage; 3.3.5 Data Reconciliation; 3.4 Innovations in Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.4.1 Validated Random Number Generation; 3.4.2 Sequential Table Fitting; 3.4.3 Stratified Household Selection; 3.4.4 RSSZ*: A New Selection Criterion; 3.4.5 Stopping Rules; 3.5 Understanding Between-Area Variation; 3.5.1 Spatial Concentration
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.2 Multicollinearity3.6 A Framework for Validating Small-Area Microdata; 3.6.1 Identification of Appropriate Measures of Fit; 3.6.2 Innovations in Types of Fit Measured; 3.7 The Impact on Combinatorial Optimisation of Selected Improvements; 3.7.1 Substitution of TAE with RSSZ *; 3.7.2 Stratified Household Selection; 3.8 Synthetic Reconstruction vs. Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.8.1 ED-Level Mean Fit; 3.8.2 ED-Level Fit of the Mean; 3.8.3 Ward-Level Fit; 3.8.4 Fit of Unconstrained Counts; 3.9 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Estimating Small-Area Income Deprivation : An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach4.1 Background; 4.2 Small-Area Income Estimation Methods; 4.3 The Iterative Proportion Fitting Approach; 4.3.1 Definition of Income; 4.3.2 Choice of Constraint Variables; 4.3.3 Small-Area IPF Algorithm Implementation; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Validation; 4.6 Conclusions and Future Directions; References; Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (Deterministic) Model; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Why Use Spatial Microsimulation Modelling to Model Disease Data?; 5.2.1 Why Use a Deterministic Model?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 SimObesity Methodology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background: Chapter 1: Introduction to spatial microsimulation - History, Methods and Applications: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Chapter 2: Building a static spatial microsimulation model: data preparation: Rebecca Cassells, Riyana Miranti and Ann Harding -- Part 2: Static spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata simulation methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation methodologies: Paul Williamson -- Chapter 4: Estimating Small Area Income Deprivation: An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach: Ben Anderson -- Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (deterministic) model: Kimberley Edwards and Graham Clarke -- Chapter 6: Spatial Microsimulation using a generalised regression model: Robert Tanton, Ann Harding and Justine McNamara -- Chapter 7: Creating a Spatial Microsimulation model of the Irish Local Economy: Niall Farrell, Karyn Morrissey and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 8: Linking static spatial microsimulation modelling to meso-scale models: The Relationship between Access to GP services & Long Term Illness: Karyn Morrissey, Graham Clarke and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 9: Projections using a static Spatial Microsimulation model: Yogi Vidyattama and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 10: Limits of static Spatial Microsimulation models: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Part 3: Dynamic spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 11: Moses: A dynamic spatial microsimulation model for demographic planning: Belinda Wu and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 12: Design principles for micro models: Einar Holm and Kalle Mäkilä -- Chapter 13: SimEducation: a dynamic spatial microsimulation model for understanding educational inequalities: Dimitris Kavroudakis, Dimitris Ballas and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 14: Challenges for spatial dynamic microsimulation modelling: Mark Birkin -- Part 4: Validation of spatial microsimulation models and conclusion -- Chapter 15: Validation of spatial microsimulation models: Kimberley Edwards and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 16: Conclusions and the future of spatial microsimulation modelling: Graham Clarke and Ann Harding..
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4623-7
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    Demographic Change and Housing Wealth : Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400743847 , 1283612283 , 9781283612289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 161 p. 21 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Doling, John, 1946 - Demographic change and housing wealth
    DDC: 363.583094
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    Keywords: Grundeigentum ; Altersvorsorge ; Sparen ; Privater Haushalt ; Vergleich ; Ostasien ; Europa ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Home ownership ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Home ownership ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Pensions ; European Union countries ; Public welfare ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Grundeigentum ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; Hauseigentümer
    Abstract: Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan for their retirement and future care needs within this risky environment. At the same time, the proportion of people buying their own home in most countries has risen, so that some two-thirds of European households now own their homes.  Housing equity now considerably exceeds total European GDP. This book discusses questions like: to what extent might home ownership provide a potential cure for some of the consequences of ageing populations by realizing housing equity in order to meet the consumption needs of older people? What does this mean for patterns of inheritance and longer-term inequalities across Europe? And to what extent are governments banking on their citizens utilising their housing wealth now and in the future?
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and Housing Wealth; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Issues and Approaches; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Demographic and Housing Developments: Policy Challenges; 1.2.1 Demographic Change; 1.2.2 An Increasing Number of Homeowners; 1.2.3 Housing Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.1 Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.2 Housing as Pension; 1.3 Saving Through Housing: A Theoretical Framework; 1.3.1 The Life Cycle Model; 1.3.2 The Welfare System; 1.3.3 The Family; 1.3.4 Other Mechanisms; 1.3.5 The Mixed Economy of Saving; 1.3.5.1 Financial Institutions; 1.3.6 The Role of Housing
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.6.1 Housing and the Life Cycle Model1.3.6.2 Income Derived from Homeownership; 1.3.7 Cross-Country Variations; 1.4 Methodologies for Researching the Three Questions; 1.4.1 Selection of Cases; 1.4.1.1 Economic and Financial Crisis; 1.5 Content and Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Homeownership Rates; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Homeownership Across Countries and Time; 2.3 Homeownership Rates and Welfare: A Trade-Off?; 2.3.1 Homeownership and Social Spending; 2.3.2 Homeownership and Welfare Regimes; 2.4 The Drivers of the Homeownership Decision; 2.4.1 Housing Finance
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1.1 Funding of Mortgage Loans2.4.1.2 The Innovation in Loan Products; 2.4.2 The Relative Attractions of Home Owning and Renting; 2.4.2.1 Tax Policy and Other Subsidies for Homeownership; 2.4.2.2 Declining Support for Social Housing; 2.4.2.3 Increase of Homeownership; 2.4.2.4 Changes in Rental Housing Sectors; 2.4.2.5 Household Decision Making; 2.4.3 Household Characteristics; 2.4.3.1 Income; 2.4.3.2 Age; 2.4.4 Combining the Factors; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3: Housing Wealth in the Household Portfolio; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Household Wealth; 3.2.1 How Much Wealth Do Households Have?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.2 How Much Wealth Is Held in Housing?3.2.3 What Influences the Size and Composition of Wealth?; 3.2.3.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.2.3.2 Qualitative studies; 3.2.3.3 Portfolio Analysis; 3.2.3.4 Regression Analysis; 3.3 Housing Debt; 3.3.1 What Influences the Size of Household Debt?; 3.3.1.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.3.1.2 Qualitative Studies; Why Do People Have a Mortgage?; Priority Placed on Paying Off Mortgage Compared to Other Priorities; 3.3.1.3 Explaining the Level of New Mortgage Debt; 3.4 Conclusions; Chapter 4: Housing Asset Strategies for Old Age; 4.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 Perceptions of the Adequacy of Pensions4.2.1 Variations in Pension Systems; 4.2.2 Concerns About Pension Adequacy; 4.3 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Principle; 4.4 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Practice; 4.4.1 Using Non-housing Assets; 4.4.2 Using Housing Equity; 4.4.3 Dissaving Housing Assets by Moving; 4.4.4 Dissaving Housing Assets but Not Moving; 4.4.4.1 Reverse Mortgages; 4.4.4.2 Interest-Only Loans; 4.4.4.3 Reverse Mortgage Strategies; 4.4.5 Not Dissaving; 4.4.5.1 Housing Equity as a Precaution; 4.4.5.2 Housing Equity as a Bequest
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.6 Changing Attitudes
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4384-7
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    C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400740846 , 1282056964 , 9781282056961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 269 p. 6 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. C. Henry Kempe
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984 ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984
    Abstract: The book series, 'Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy.' will consist of a state of the art handbook (to be revised every five years) and two to three volumes per year. The first volume in this series is a legacy to C. Henry Kempe. This is a timely publication because 2012 marks 50 years after the appearance of the foundational article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues, 'The Battered-Child Syndrome.' This volume capitalizes on this 50 year anniversary to stand back and assess the field from the perspective that Dr. Kempes early contributions and ideas are still being played out in practice and policy today. The volume will be released at the next ISPCAN meeting, also in 2012.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4084-6
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    Intelligent Data Mining in Law Enforcement Analytics : New Neural Networks Applied to Real Problems (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400749146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 516 p. 185 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: This book provides a thorough summary of the means currently available to the investigators of Artificial Intelligence for making criminal behavior (both individual and collective) foreseeable, and for assisting their investigative capacities. The volume provides chapters on the introduction of artificial intelligence and machine learning suitable for an upper level undergraduate with exposure to mathematics and some programming skill or a graduate course. It also brings the latest research in Artificial Intelligence to life with its chapters on fascinating applications in the area of law enforcement, though much is also being accomplished in the fields of medicine and bioengineering. Individuals with a background in Artificial Intelligence will find the opening chapters to be an excellent refresher but the greatest excitement will likely be the law enforcement examples, for little has been done in that area. The editors have chosen to shine a bright light on law enforcement analytics utilizing artificial neural network technology to encourage other researchers to become involved in this very important and timely field of study.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Artificial Networks and Law Enforcement Analytics; William J. Tastle -- Chapter 2. Law Enforcement and Artificial Intelligence; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 3. The General Philosophy of Artificial Adaptive Systems; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 4. A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms and the Genetic Doping Algorithm; M. Buscema, M. Capriotti -- Chapter 5. Artificial Adaptive Systems in Data Visualization: Pro-Active data; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 6. The Metropolitan Police Service Central Drug Trafficking Database: Evidence of Need; Geoffrey Monaghan and Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 7. Supervised Artificial neural Networks: Back Propagation Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 8. Pre-Processing Tools for Non-Linear Data Sets; Massimo Buscema, Alessandra Mancini and Marco Breda -- Chapter 9. Metaclassifiers; Massimo Buscema, Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 10. Auto Identification of a Drug Seller Utilizing a Specialized Supervised Neural Network; Massimo Buscema and Marco Intraligi -- Chapter 11. Visualization and Clustering of Self-Organizing Maps; Giulia Massini -- Chapter 12. Self-Organizing Maps: Identifying Non-Linear Relationships in Massive Drug Enforcement Databases; Guila Massini -- Chapter 13. Theory of Constraint Satisfaction Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 14. Application of the Constraint Satisfaction Network; Marco Intraligi and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 15. Auto-Contractive Maps, h Function and the Maximally regular Graph: A new methodology for data mining; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 16. Analysis of a Complex Dataset Using the Combined MST and Auto Contractive Map; Giovanni Pieri -- Chapter 17. Auto Contractive Mapsand Minimal Spanning tree: Organization of Complex datasets on criminal behavior to aid in the deduction of network connectivity; Giula Massini and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 18. Data Mining Using Non-linear Auto Associative Artificial Neural Networks: The Arrestee Dataset; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 19. Artificial Adaptive System for Parallel Querying of Multiple Databases; Massimo Buscema.-.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4914-6
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    Social Morphogenesis (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400761285
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 231 p. 17 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social morphogenesis
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process involved. This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data. Until we can convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Morphogenesis; Contents; 1 Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; 1.1…Part 1. Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; The Rapidity of Social Change and Empiricism's Shortcomings; Social Morphogenesis: From Toolkit to Theory; Three Levels of Social Morphogenesis; Transformations of the Third-Order; References; Part I Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; 2 Morphogenesis and Social Change; 2.1…The Morphogenetic Approach; 2.2…Social Change Understood Morphogenetically; 2.3…The Morphogenetic Approach Versus the Current Conflationisms
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4…Where Are We Now?References; 3 The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea of a Morphogenetic Society: The Role of Regularities; 3.1…The Topic: Morphogenesis from Meta-Theory to Forms of Social Order; 3.2…Morphogenesis and Regularity: Making Friends with Old Enemies?; 3.3…Duration, Pace, Trajectory, Turning Points, Transitions, and Cycles: New Bricks for the Morphogenetic Fabric; 3.4…Conclusion; References; 4 Emergence and Morphogenesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation?; 4.1…Emergence; Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; 4.2…Causal Reduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; Margaret S. Archer -- PART I. SOCIAL CHANGE AS MORPHOGENESIS.- Chapter 2. Morphogenesis and Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora -- Chapter 3. The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea  of Morphogenetic Society. The Role of Regularities; Andrea M. Maccarini -- Chapter 4. Emergence and Morphognesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 5 Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System; Colin Wight -- PART II. SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND THEIR RE-FORMATION -- Chapter 6. Self-Organization: What is it, What isn't it and What's it Got to Do with Morphogenesis; Kate Forbes-Pitt -- Chapter 7. Self-Organization as the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 8. Morphogenetic Society: Self-Government and Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors; Maragaret S. Archer.- PART III. SOCIAL NETWORKS: LINKAGES OR BONDS -- Chapter 9. Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 10. Authority's Hidden Networks: Obligations, Roles and the Morphogenesis of Authority; Ismael Al-Amoudi -- Chapter 11. Morphogenesis and Social Networks: Relational Steering not Mechanical Feedback; Pierpaolo Donati.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6128-5
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    Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe : Social Movement Analyses (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746534
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Economic and political change in Asia and Europe
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; East Asia ; Economic policy ; East Asia ; Economic conditions ; East Asia ; Social policy ; East Asia ; Social conditions ; Europe ; Economic policy ; Europe ; Economic conditions ; Europe ; Social policy ; Europe ; Social conditions
    Abstract: Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefittes prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising as some realize how far they have been left behind. This volume explores the applicability of European economic and social models to our analysis of East Asias and, in particular, Chinas situation. Though millions of Chinese and other Asian people have been lifted out of poverty, inequality is rising nonetheless, and contemporary Europe and Asia are both witnessing collective action against rampant economic neoliberalism in the former and the exclusion of minorities in the latter. It is difficult to overstate the relevance of this assessment, which seeks answers to some central questions: Can events in Europe serve as a model for those in East Asia? Are there similarities or differences between the two regions? To what extent do political, economic or social systems stimulate or inhibit collective action? How culturally equivalent are the collective actions of marginalized/ disadvantaged people in the two locations, or are events in Europe symptomatic of specific cultural attributes? Comparing and contrasting the research tools and dominant paradigms in the social and economic sciences in East Asia and Europe, as this volume does, throws out some revealing results.
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Appendices; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Social and Economic Backdrops; 1.3 Recession and Social Movements; 1.4 Common Traits: Asia and Europe; 1.5 Chapter Descriptions; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Part I: Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe; Chapter 2: Economic Change and Social Dynamics: Converging and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Growth, Structural Change, and Macro Socioeconomic Performance by Broad World Region2.3 Economic Growth, Development, and Poverty; 2.3.1 Broad Trends in Terms of Poverty and Inequality; 2.3.2 Impact of the Recent and Current Economic Shocks; 2.4 Convergence and Equality in the EU; 2.4.1 Between-Country Economic Convergence; 2.4.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in the EU; 2.5 The Case of Asia; 2.5.1 Convergence Across Asian Countries; 2.5.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in Asia; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.7 Appendices
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 2.1 List of Countries Included in the Major World Regions (See Table  2.1)Appendix 2.2 Indicators Developed (or Being Developed) by the Commission so as to Measure Social Cohesion (Sample); References; Chapter 3: European Integration, Social Cohesion, and Political Contentiousness; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The European Structure of Grievances: The Renaissance of "Old" Issues; 3.3 Social Cohesion in Europe: Spatial and Social Cleavages; 3.3.1 Social Cohesion: The Core and the Peripheries; 3.3.2 Social Cohesion and Class
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 Discussion and Conclusions: Social Cohesion and the Political Sociology of EuropeReferences; Chapter 4: Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China; 4.1 Assumptions from a Western Concept; 4.2 Reconstruction of a Chinese Traditional Heritage; 4.2.1 Interpersonal Relations, Intention, Ritual, and Mankind; 4.2.2 Traces of Collectivity in Chinese History; 4.3 The Affirmative Societal Role of Collective Action; 4.3.1 Statehood, Citizens, and Welfare; 4.3.2 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Collective Action; 4.4 Collective Action with Chinese Characteristics; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: European Governance and Democracy5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Immigration and Citizenship: Building the Fortress; 5.3 Organizing the Unemployed Within the Member States; 5.4 European Marches and Alter-Globalization Movements; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Agricultural Markets and Food Riots: The European Union and Asia Compared; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Main Drivers Affecting the Food System; 6.3 Prices Crisis or Food Crisis?; 6.4 Food Riots and Policy Responses; 6.5 Food Aid Policies; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Movements: How Does One Relate to the Other?
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4653-4
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    Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048189212
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 299 p. 18 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Public health ; Kriminologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen ; Kriminalität ; HIV ; USA ; Strafjustiz ; HIV ; Gesundheitsgefährdung
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a person's criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations. As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individual's history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a persons criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations.As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individuals history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines.
    Description / Table of Contents: Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns; Introduction; References; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Crime and Public Health in the United States; 1.1 Substance Use and Violence; 1.2 Vulnerable Populations, Negative Health Outcomes, and Incarceration; 1.3 Exploring Common Ground: Criminal Justice and Public Health; 1.3.1 Incarceration; 1.3.2 Health Risk Behaviors Among High-Risk Youth; 1.3.3 Crime, Health, and Space; 1.3.4 Public Health Interventions and Criminal Justice Populations; References; Part I: The Health of Incarcerated Populations
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: A Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence, Development, and Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors in Delinquent Youth: Implications for Health Care in the Community2.1 Methods; 2.1.1 Sampling Procedures; 2.1.2 Procedures to Obtain Assent and Consent; 2.1.3 Participants; 2.1.4 Procedures for Data Collection; 2.1.5 Measures; 2.1.6 Missing Data; 2.1.6.1 Missing Cases; 2.1.6.2 Missing Data from Interviews Conducted by Telephone; 2.1.7 Independent Variables; 2.1.8 Statistical Analysis; 2.2 Results; 2.2.1 Prevalence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.1.1 Comparing the Baseline and Follow-up InterviewsMales; Females; 2.2.1.2 Prevalence at Follow-up; Males; Females; 2.2.1.3 Gender Differences; 2.2.1.4 Age Differences (Data Not Shown); 2.2.2 Development of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.2.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.2.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.2.3 Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.3.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.3.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.3 Discussion; 2.4 Limitations; 2.5 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Risky Sexual Behavior and Negative Health Consequences Among Incarcerated Female Adolescents: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice3.1 Pathways into Delinquency for Female Adolescents; 3.2 Health Service Needs and Service Gaps among Incarcerated Female Adolescents; 3.3 STD Screening and Treatment in Juvenile Detention Settings in California; 3.3.1 Profiles of Project Participants and Qualitative Findings; 3.3.2 Qualitative Findings: Condom Use; 3.3.3 Qualitative Findings: Family Life; 3.3.4 Overlap of Family Conflict, Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 DiscussionReferences; Chapter 4: Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Among African Americans: Implications for the Correctional Systems; 4.1 Disparities in Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatment; 4.1.1 Anxiety; 4.1.2 Depression; 4.1.3 Bipolar Disorder; 4.1.4 Schizophrenia; 4.1.5 Treatment Disparities; 4.2 Implications for Correctional Settings; References; Part II: Health Consequences of Crime and Risk Behaviors; Chapter 5: Methamphetamine Use, Personality Traits, and High-Risk Behaviors; 5.1 Research Methods; 5.1.1 Sample Recruitment; 5.1.2 Measures; 5.2 Study Results
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.1 Sample
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    Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture : Theory and Applications (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400761070
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 382 p. 29 illus., 4 illus. in color, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Fischerei ; Governance
    Abstract: Following in the footsteps of the book Fish for Life - Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), and the interdisciplinary approach it presents, this volume illustrates the contribution of interactive governance theory to understanding core fisheries and aquaculture challenges. These challenges are invariably linked to broader concerns such as ecosystem health, social justice, sustainable livelihoods and food security. The central concept in this perspective is governability - the varied capacity to govern fisheries and aquaculture systems sustainably. Many of these systems are characterized by problems that are inherently 'wicked' and therefore difficult to address. The authors of this edited volume argue that responses to such problems must consider context; specifically the character of the fisheries and aquaculture systems themselves, their institutional conditions, and the internal and external interactions that affect them. Drawing on a diverse set of international experiences, the volume offers a new lens and systematic approach to analysing the nature of governance problems and opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture, exploring pressing challenges and identifying potential solutions. ”It now seems clear that the crisis in the world’s fisheries [is] a much larger and more complex problem than many had imagined. Yet, examining it through the lens of governability may offer the best hope for alleviating it--as well as alleviating similar crises in other social systems.” James R. McGoodwin (Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0
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    Sustainable livelihood approach : a critique of theory and practice (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781299702011 , 9789400762688
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract: We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6268-8
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    Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400742765
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 636 p. 29 illus, digital)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2013
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Handbook of the sociology of mental health
    Parallel Title: Print version Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Psychiatry ; Psychology, clinical ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Social psychiatry ; Mental illness ; Social aspects ; Psychische Störung ; Psychische Gesundheit ; Medizinsoziologie
    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a mental illnessThe award-winning Handbook is distinctive in its focus on how the organization and functioning of society influences the occurrence of mental disorder and its consequences. A core issue that runs throughout the text concerns the differential distribution of mental illness across various social strata, defined by status characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age. The contributions to this volume shed light on the social, cultural, and economic factors that explain why some social groups have an elevated risk of disorder. They also address the social repercussions of mental disorder for individuals, including stigmatization within the larger society, and for their families and social networks.The second edition of this seminal volume includes substantial updates to previous chapters, as well as seven new chapters on: -The Individuals Experience of Mental Illness.--The Medicalization of Mental Illness.---Age, Aging, and Mental Health.- -Religion and Mental Health.- -Neighborhoods and Mental Health.- -Mental Health and the Lawand Public Beliefs about Mental Illness.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5
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    The Melanin Millennium : Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400746084 , 1283633876 , 9781283633871
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 348 p. 32 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Hautfarbe ; Bleichen ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassendiskriminierung
    Abstract: In the aftermath of the 60s "Black is Beautiful movement and publication of The Color Complex almost thirty years later the issue of skin color has mushroomed onto the world stage of social science. Such visibility has inspired publication of the Melanin Millennium for insuring that the discourse on skin color meet the highest standards of accuracy and objective investigation. This volume addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context. A virtual visit to countries that have witnessed a huge rise in the use of skin whitening products and facial feature surgeries aiming for a more Caucasian-like appearance will be taken into account. The book also addresses the question of whether using the laws has helped to redress injustices of skin color discrimination, or only further promoted recognition of its divisiveness among people of color and Whites. The Melanin Millennium has to do with now and the future. In the 20th century science including eugenics was given to and dominated by discussions of race category. Heretofore there remain social scientists and other relative to the issue of skin color loyal to race discourse. However in their interpretation and analysis of social phenomena the world has moved on. Thus while race dominated the 20th century the 21st century will emerge as a global community dominated by skin color and making it the melanin millennium.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Melanin Millennium; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Bleaching Syndrome: Western Civilization vis-à-vis Inferiorized People of Color; References; Chapter 2: The Historical and Cultural Influences of Skin Bleaching in Tanzania; Historical and Cultural Influences: Institutions That Placed Tanzanians in a Color-Conscious Society; Enslaved by the Arabs; Controlled by the British, Colonized by the Germans; The Cycle Continues: Postcolonization; Westernization and Neocolonialism
    Description / Table of Contents: How Color-Conscious Societies Fuel Potent Skin-Color Ideals That Result in Efforts to Assimilate into Dominant GroupsIntrapsychic Conflict and Motivation to Assimilate; The Psychological Consequences of Living in Color-Conscious Societies; Inferiority and Low Self-Esteem; Identity Development; Where to Go from Here; Research Implications; Policy and Practice Implications; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Pathophysiology and Psychopathology of Skin Bleaching and Implications of Skin Colour in Africa; Introduction; Skin Colour: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology
    Description / Table of Contents: Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)What Are the Causes of Somatoform Disorders?; The Light Skin Fad; Pathophysiology of Skin Bleaching; Mechanisms of Skin Bleaching; Trigger Factors: Psychosocial Disturbances; Exposure to Bleaching Agents; Alteration of the Skin Biochemical and Anatomical Composition; In Contemporary Africa; References; Chapter 4: An Introduction to Japanese Society's Attitudes Toward Race and Skin Color; Introduction; Historical Japanese Treatments of Foreigners, Based Upon Skin Color; Roots of the Coloring of the World: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theories of "Civilization"
    Description / Table of Contents: The Otaru Onsens Case and Japan's Judicial Valuation of Skin ColorContemporary Japanese Media Expressions of Valuation of Skin Color; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Mapping Color and Caste Discrimination in Indian Society; Foregrounding Racism in India; Revisiting the Mythical "Aryan Supremacy"; What Scriptures Say; Aryans, Varna, and Jāti; Revisiting the Aryan Supremacy; Questioning the Aryan Supremacy Myth: Non-Brahmanical Contestations; Notion of Beauty and Contemporary Forms of Preserving White Superiority; Notions of Femininity and Beauty in India; Whitening Cream Culture; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 6: Indigeneity on Guahan: Skin Color as a Measure of Decolonization; Introduction; Traditional Concepts of Skin Color; The Impact of Colonization and Western Values; Indigeneity and Decolonization; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cultures; References; Chapter 8: Where Are You From?; Introduction: The "Where Are You From?" Question; How to Answer the "Where Are You From?" Question; The Founding Migration; The Founding Origin; Melanin: An Insuperable Sign of Otherness?; Promise and Delusion of a Project?; Assimilation and Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnic Statistics in France: Wishes and Fears
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    Religion and Place : Landscape, Politics and Piety (2013)
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    Language: English
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Religion and place
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion (General) ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Ort ; Politik
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4685-5
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    Transactional Perspectives on Occupation (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744295 , 1283532646 , 9781283532648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 266 p. 1 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Transactional Analysis ; Occupational Therapy methods ; Occupations ; Philosophy ; Beschäftigungstherapie
    Abstract: An occupation is, most simply put, any activity we participate in that engages (occupies) our attention, interests, and/or expectations, at any point throughout the life course. This book offers an emerging and innovative perspective on occupation, based in the work of American philosopher John Dewey and other pragmatists, that challenges accepted ideas. Each chapter presents a lively and multifaceted dialogue on transactional perspectives on occupation. Scholars from Europe, North America, and Australasia have written a diverse set of arguments and case studies about occupation, covering theoretical, methodological and applied issues relevant to the topic. In addition, contributors make connections with significant authors from various disciplines that make clearer the roles of occupation and occupational science across many cultures and contexts. The transactional perspectives articulated in this book both implicitly and explicitly suggest that occupations are forms of activity that create and re-create a multitude of our relationships with the world. Often taken for granted by some academic disciplines, occupation is a core element of human life. This book is a provocative and critical analysis of the focal concept for occupational therapy and science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; Contents; Chapter 1: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation: An Introduction and Rationale; 1.1 Introduction and Invitation; 1.2 Development of Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; 1.3 A Pluralistic Approach; 1.4 Structure and Content of the Book; 1.5 Our Hopes; References; Part I: Theoretical Extensions; Chapter 2: Dewey's Concepts of Embodiment, Growth, and Occupation: Extended Bases for a Transactional Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Embodiment; 2.2.1 Live Creatures; 2.2.2 Embodying the Social; 2.3 Growth; 2.4 Occupation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1 Dewey on Occupation2.4.2 Occupation, Embodiment, and Growth; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Being Occupied in the Everyday; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Habitual; 3.3 The Relational; 3.3.1 Continuity of Time: Past-Present-Future; 3.3.2 Continuity of Relating: Being-with-Others; 3.4 The Precarious; 3.5 Occupational Practice as Listening; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Resituating the Meaning of Occupation: A Transactional Perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Meaning Explored; 4.2.1 Social Science Perspectives on Meaning; 4.2.2 Occupational Perspectives on Meaning
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.3 Philosophical Perspectives on Meaning: Heidegger and Dewey4.3 Perspectives on Meaning Uncovered by Research; 4.4 Implications for Occupational Therapy and Science; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Conceptual Insights for Expanding Thinking Regarding the Situated Nature of Occupation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Governmentality Studies: Shaping Occupational Possibilities; 5.2.1 Discourses; 5.2.2 Differential Shaping of Occupational Possibilities; 5.3 Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Voicing the Unspoken; 5.3.1 Makane: A Case in Point; 5.4 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Exploring the Transactional Quality of Everyday Occupations Through Narrative-in-Action: Meaning-Making Among Women Living with Chronic Conditions6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Everyday Occupations as Transactions Within Local Cultures; 6.3 "Narrative-in-Action": Meaning Making Endeavors; 6.4 Everyday Transactions, Meaning Making in Everyday Occupations; 6.5 Everyday Transactions in Local Cultures; 6.6 Everyday Occupational Transactions Enacted and Embedded in Local Culture; References; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 7: Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Transactional Perspective on Immigration
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Introduction7.2 Current Perspectives on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3 A Transactional Perspective on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3.1 Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Case Study; 7.4 Implications for Science and Society; 7.4.1 Occupational Science Research; 7.4.2 Societal Practice; 7.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: The Situated Nature of Disability; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Conceptualizing Disability: An Overview of Recent Controversies; 8.2.1 The International Classi fi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.3 Research Projects: Support for the Transactional Perspective on Disability
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    Handbook of Neurosociology (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400744738
    ISSN: 1389-6903
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 406 p. 32 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausg. Franks, David D., 1931 - Handbook of neurosociology
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Neurosciences ; Social aspects ; Neurowissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Neurobiologie ; Neurologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the coeditors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Meads voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience.
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of Neurosociology; Preface; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Summaries and Comments; David Franks: A Short History; Brain Activity Measures and Limitations; Jonathan H. Turner: Coming on Board as an Editor; What Does Neurosociology Have to Offer?; References; Part I: Large Issues; Chapter 2: Neural Social Science; Reason Is Neural; Back to the Future; How Brain Circuits Become Meaningful; Reason and Social Science; Reason Itself: Enlightenment Fallacies; The Enlightenment Fallacies; The First Fallacy: Reason Is Conscious
    Description / Table of Contents: The Second Fallacy: One Can Reason Directly About the WorldThe Third Fallacy: Thought Is Disembodied; The Fourth Fallacy: Words Are Defined Directly in Terms of Features of the External World; The Fifth Fallacy: Reason Is Unemotional; The Sixth Fallacy: Reason Is Literal and Logical; The Seventh Fallacy: Categories Are Defined by Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; The Eighth Fallacy: Reason Exists Primarily to Serve Self-interest; The Ninth Fallacy: Conceptual Systems Are Monolithic; The Tenth Fallacy: Words Have Fixed Meanings, and Concepts Have Fixed Logics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Eleventh Fallacy: The Truth Will Set You Free If Enough People Know the Truth About Social Issues, They Will Change Their Attitudes, to Society's Bene fi t; Some Brain Basics; Color; Perception and Action; That's Why There Are Basic-Level Concepts; That's Why Verb Roots Are the Same for First- and Third-Person Experiences; Imagining and Doing Use the Same Brain Circuitry; Neural Computation and Simulation; The Centrality of Metaphor in Social Life; Neural Metaphor; The Narayanan-Johnson-Grady Neural Theory of Metaphor; How Are Neural Circuits Learned?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Feldman Functional Circuitry HypothesisPrimary Metaphors; Narayanan on Spike-Time-Dependent Plasticity; Neuromodulators and "Rewards"; Integrating Multiple Neural Systems; Embodiment Evidence in Social Psychology; Real Social and Political Life; The Conservative Advantage; What Can Progressives and Democrats Do?; Systems Thinking; The Point; CODA; Solving a Social Science Puzzle; References; Chapter 3: Why We Need Neurosociology as Well as Social Neuroscience: Or-Why Role-Taking and Theory of Mind Are Different Concepts; History of the Terms Neurosociology and Social Neuroscience
    Description / Table of Contents: Distinguishing Between the Two Fields Using Role-Taking and ToMSome Ways Role-Taking and Power Can be Explored Experimentally; What Social Neuroscience Can Offer Sociological Research on Role-Taking and Power; Empirically Testing the Role-Taking and Power Hypothesis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Social Cognition and the Problem of Other Minds; Where in the World Are Minds?; The Psychology of Individual Minds; Social Psychology and Social Cognition; What Do Minds Learn to Mind?; Brains and Minds Grow Together; Socialized Brains Remain Social Minds; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Genetic, Hormonal, and Neural Underpinnings of Human Aggressive Behavior
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    Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe (2013)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 201 p, digital)
    Series Statement: International Perspectives on Migration 4
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Paradoxes of integration: female migrants in Europe
    DDC: 305.906912082
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Migration ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Migration ; Developmental psychology ; Women immigrants ; Employment ; European Union countries ; Women immigrants ; European Union countries ; Women immigrants ; European Union countries ; Social conditions ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Einwanderin ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Integration
    Abstract: This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular. It provides a comparative analysis embracing eleven European countries from Northern (UK, Germany, Sweden, France), Southern (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovenia), i.e. old and new immigration countries as well as old and new market economies. It maps labour market trends, welfare policies, migration laws, patterns of employment, and the working and social conditions of female migrants in different sectors of the labour market, formal and informal. It is particularly concerned with the strategies women use to counter the disadvantages they face. It analyses the ways in which gender hierarchies are intertwined with other social relations of power, providing a gendered and intersectional perspective, drawing on the biographies of migrant women. The book highlights policy relevant issues and tries to uncover some of the contradictory assumptions relating to integration which it treats as a highly normative and problematic concept. It reframes integration in terms of greater equalisation and democratisation (entailed in the parameters of access, participation and belonging), pointing to its transnational and intersectional dimensions.
    Description / Table of Contents: Paradoxes of Integration:Female Migrants in Europe; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Paradoxes of Integration; 1.1 The Concept of Integration; 1.2 Integration as Assimilation; 1.3 Who Does the Integrating?; 1.4 Culture, Belonging and Biography; 1.5 Integration: The Need for a Transnational Lens; 1.6 An Intersectional Framing : Issues of Solidarity and Social Justice; 1.7 The Book: Migration and Gender; References; Chapter 2: Profiling Female Migrants in Europe: Categories of Difference; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Foreign Population Stock and Migration Flows
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3 Labour Force Participation2.4 Migrant Employment: Sectors, Industries and Occupations; 2.5 Migrant Incomes, Wages and Salaries; 2.6 Irregular Migration; 2.7 Trafficking; 2.8 Women in Informal Labour Markets: Prostitution and Domestic Services; 2.9 Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Welfare Regimes, Markets and Policies: The Experiences of Migrant Women; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Welfare Through Work? The European Policy Context; 3.3 Employment Leading to Social Integration? Employment Experiences of Female Migrants; 3.3.1 Experiences of Casual and Informal Work
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.2 The Ethnicisation of Labour Market Sectors3.4 Labour Market Demands and Migration Policies; 3.5 Routes to Employment: Labour Agencies, Training, Voluntary Work and Self-Employment; 3.6 Coping with Deskilling and Trying to Improve One's Labour Market Position; 3.7 Concluding Remarks: The Issue of Policy; References; Chapter 4: Informalisation and Flexibilisation at Work: The Migrant Woman Precariat Speaks; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Informality, Irregularity and Global Precariatisation: Focusing on Migrant Women in the EU; 4.3 The Demand for Informal and Irregular Work
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Migrant Women Precariat Speak4.5 Integration Policies: Excluding Irregular Migrant Women; 4.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Coping with Deskilling: Strategies of Migrant Women Across European Societies; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Language Skills; 5.2.1 Language Skills and Residence Status Stabilisation; 5.2.2 Access of Migrant Women to Policies for Language Learning and Formal Education; 5.3 Qualifications and Professional Skills; 5.3.1 Recognition of Academic Titles and Accreditation of Professional Qualifications and Prior Experience
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3.2 Reskilling Policies and Measures and Policy Gaps5.4 Coping with Deskilling Processes: Reskilling and the Social Integration Strategies of Migrant Women; 5.4.1 Contextualising Migrant Women's Reskilling Strategies; 5.5 Main Types of Reskilling and Social Integration Strategies; 5.5.1 Overcoming Language Barriers; 5.5.2 Acquiring New Skills and Upgrading One's Professional Pro fi le; 5.5.3 Social Mobility Through Voluntary Work; 5.5.4 Self-Employment as Reskilling Process; 5.5.5 Formal and Informal Professionalisation of Care and Domestic Work; 5.6 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Civic Participation of Migrant Women: Employing Strategies of Active Citizenship
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paradoxes of Integration: Floya Anthias, Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller and Maria Kontos -- 1. Profiling Female Migrants in Europe: categories of difference: Ron Ayres, Tamsin Barber, Floya Anthias and Maja Cederberg -- 2. Welfare Regimes, Labour Markets, Policies: the Experiences of  Migrant Women: Floya Anthias, Maja Cederberg, Tamsin Barber and Ron Ayres -- 3. Informalization and Flexibilization at work: The Migrant Women Precariat speak: Nicos Trimikliniotis and Mihaela Fulias-Souroulla -- 4. Coping with Deskilling: Strategies of Migrant Women across European Societies: Anna Vouyioukas and Maria Liapi -- 5. Civic Participation of Migrant Women: Employing Strategies of Active Citizenship: Mojca Pajnik, and Veronika Bajt -- 6. Female Migrants and the Issue of Residence Rights: Karolina Krzystek -- 7.   Family Matters: Migrant Domestic and Care Work and the Issue of Recognition: Christine Catarino, Maria Kontos and Kyoko Shinozaki -- 8. Blurred Lines: Policies and Experience of Migrant Women in Prostitution and Entertainment: Christine Catarino and Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller -- 9. Trafficking and Women’s Migration in a Global Context: Giovanna Campani and Tiziana Chiappelli -- Notes on the Contributor.  .
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    The Quality of Life in Asia : A Comparison of Quality of Life in Asia (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789048190720 , 1283633604 , 9781283633604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 247 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Inoguchi, Takashi, 1944 - The quality of life in Asia
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    Keywords: Lebensqualität ; Zufriedenheit ; Lebensstil ; Vergleich ; Asien ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Quality of life ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Asien ; Lebensqualität ; Asien ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: This book studies and compares quality of life in 29 countries/societies in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea(South), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. We utilize the AsiaBarometer Surveys conducted annually from 2003 through 2008. We focus on the notion of subjective quality of life and conceptualize it as two levels, global and domain. After we explain about the AsiaBarometer Survey Project, we explore current country profile, demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, specific life domain assessment and overall quality of life. We then estimate the independent effects of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, life domain assessment on the overall quality of life within each society. As well as comparing the results between nations, we look for key generalized characteristics of life quality for the entire and sub-regions of Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Quality of Life in Asia; Synoptic Outline; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Asia: Enormous Diversity; 1.2 Asia: Why Is Quality of Life in Asia Important to Examine?; 1.3 The Notion of Quality of Life and Research Design; 1.4 Organization; References; Chapter 2: The AsiaBarometer Survey Project; 2.1 Its Aim and Trust; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Rationale and Promises of the AsiaBarometer; 2.1.2.1 Knowledge Begets Prosperity; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge Engenders Stability; 2.1.2.3 Contribution to Scholarship; 2.1.3 Principles of Questionnaire Formulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3.1 Minimum Unobtrusiveness2.1.3.2 Minimum Oddness; 2.1.3.3 Most Similar and Most Dissimilar Systems Comparisons; 2.1.4 Four Distinctive Clusters of Questions; 2.1.4.1 Daily Lives of Ordinary People; 2.1.4.2 Perceptions and Assessments of Their Lives; 2.1.4.3 From Relationships of Their Lives to Larger Social Entities; 2.1.4.4 Norms, Beliefs, Value Preferences, and Actions; 2.1.5 Harvesting the AsiaBarometer Survey; 2.1.6 Gauging Developmental, Democratic, and Regionalizing Potentials; 2.2 Methodology; 2.2.1 Countries/Societies; 2.2.2 Sampling Methods of the AsiaBarometer Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 3: Overall Quality of Life in Asia; 3.1 Levels of Happiness; 3.2 Levels of Enjoyment; 3.3 Levels of Achievement; Reference; Chapter 4: Satisfaction Levels with Specific Life Domains; 4.1 Materialist Life Sphere; 4.1.1 Housing; 4.1.2 Standard of Living; 4.1.3 Household Income; 4.1.4 Health; 4.1.5 Education; 4.1.6 Job; 4.2 Post-materialist Life Sphere; 4.2.1 Friendships; 4.2.2 Marriage; 4.2.3 Neighbors; 4.2.4 Family Life; 4.2.5 Leisure; 4.2.6 Spiritual Life; 4.3 Public Sphere of Life; 4.3.1 Public Safety; 4.3.2 The Condition of the Environment; 4.3.3 Social Welfare System
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.4 The Democratic System4.4 Patterns of Life Domain Satisfactions by Society; 4.5 Distinguishing Life Sphere of Domain Satisfactions in Each Country and Society; 4.5.1 East Asia; 4.5.1.1 China; 4.5.1.2 Hong Kong; 4.5.1.3 Japan; 4.5.1.4 South Korea; 4.5.1.5 Taiwan; 4.5.2 Southeast Asia; 4.5.2.1 Brunei; 4.5.2.2 Cambodia; 4.5.2.3 Indonesia; 4.5.2.4 Laos; 4.5.2.5 Malaysia; 4.5.2.6 Myanmar; 4.5.2.7 The Philippines; 4.5.2.8 Singapore; 4.5.2.9 Thailand; 4.5.2.10 Vietnam; 4.5.3 South Asia; 4.5.3.1 Bangladesh; 4.5.3.2 Bhutan; 4.5.3.3 India; 4.5.3.4 The Maldives; 4.5.3.5 Nepal; 4.5.3.6 Pakistan
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5.3.7 Sri Lanka4.5.4 Central Asia; 4.5.4.1 Afghanistan; 4.5.4.2 Kazakhstan; 4.5.4.3 Kyrgyzstan; 4.5.4.4 Mongolia; 4.5.4.5 Tajikistan; 4.5.4.6 Uzbekistan; 4.5.5 Types of Countries (Societies) Based on Factor Analyses; References; Chapter 5: Lifestyles; 5.1 Modern Life; 5.2 Digital Life; 5.3 Religious Life; 5.4 Global Life; 5.5 Political Life; 5.6 Family Life; 5.7 Self-Assessments of Relative Standard of Living; References; Chapter 6: Value Priorities; Chapter 7: Determinants of Overall Quality of Life; 7.1 Dependent Variables; 7.1.1 Happiness; 7.1.2 Enjoyment; 7.1.3 Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 Independent Variables
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    Democratic Culture and Moral Character : A Study in Culture and Personality (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400767546
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 264 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Politische Psychologie ; Kritische Theorie
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6754-6
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    The Demography of Health and Healthcare : Third Edition (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789048189038
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 300 p. 92 illus, digital)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2013
    Series Statement: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 13
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Pol, Louis G. The demography of health and healthcare
    Keywords: Demographie ; Gesundheitswesen ; USA ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8903-8
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    Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400766778
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 223 p. 105 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 11
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.: Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer vision ; Cartography ; Social sciences Methodology ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Anthropogeografie ; Daten ; Netzwerk
    Abstract: This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize, and share, the syncretic, multinational mapping techniques already developed by geographers and computer scientists. SPANGEO sought new and responsive ways of visualising urban geographical and social data that reflected the fine-grained detail of the inputs. It allowed for visual representation of the large and complex networks and flows which are such an integral feature of the dynamism of urban geography. SPANGEO developed through the ‘visual analytics loop’ in which geographers collaborated with computer scientists by feeding data into the design of visualisations that in turn spawned the urge to incorporate more varied data into the visualisation. This volume covers all the relevant aspects, from conceptual principles to the tools of network analysis and the actual results flowing from their deployment. Detailed case studies set out in this volume include spatial multi-level analyses of flows in airports and sea ports, as well as the fascinating scientific networks in European cities. The volume shows how the primary concern of geography-the interaction of society with physical space-has been revivified by the complexities of new cartographical and statistical methodologies, which allow for highly detailed mapping and far more powerful computer analysis of spatial relationships
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    The Sociology of Medical Regulation : An Introduction (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400748965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 184 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence ; Ethics, Medical ; Sociology, Medical
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highl
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surrounding medical regulation. It gives a historically situated analysis of the contemporary relationship between medicine, the state and the public, and an overview of relevant social scientific research. Case studies highlight the practical or applied circumstances in which issues can occur. Readers will gain insight into possible future directions for medical governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Sociology of Medical Regulation; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Medical Governance in the Risky Age of the Surveillance Society; Introduction; From Modernity to High Modernity; The Rise of the Risk Society; The Risk Society as the Surveillance Society; The Dispersal of Discipline; Resisting the Surveillance Assemblage; Medical Regulation in the Age of Risk; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 2: Biomedicine, Medicalisation and Risk; Introduction; The Enlightenment Promise; A Realist Endeavour; The Greco-Roman Humoral Tradition; The Birth of Biomedicine
    Description / Table of Contents: From the Laboratory to the Clinic and the Medical GazeThe Biomedical Model and the Postmodern Turn; Medicalisation; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 3: Doctors, Patients, Managers and the State; Introduction; From Bedside Medicine to Hospital Medicine; The 1858 Medical Act and the Golden Age of Medical Power; Challenging Medicine; The Shipman Case; The Donaldson Report; The 2008 Health and Social Care Act and Beyond; Medical Regulation and the Nature of Medical Expertise; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Sociological Deconstructions I: Critiquing Medical Autonomy and AltruismIntroduction; Functionalism: Professionalism as Altruism; Critiquing Professional Power: The Neo-Weberian Viewpoint; Freidson and Social Closure; Larson and Medical Knowledge; The Dominance of the Social Closure Model; The Feminist Critique; The Neo-Marxist Critique; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 5: Sociological Deconstructions II: Governmentality and Restratification; Introduction; Governmentality and the Revival of Liberalism; The Natural Order of Liberal Governance
    Description / Table of Contents: The Enterprise Self and Neo-liberal GovernmentalityExpert Enclosures and Technologies of Performance and Agency; Critical Reflections on the Governmentality Perspective; The Proletarianisation and Deprofessionalisation Theses; The Restratification Thesis; Medicine and Managerial Corporate Rationalisers Revisited; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 6: Restratification and Revalidation: United Kingdom and International Perspectives; Introduction; Medical Professionalism Revisited: Maintaining Competence to Practise; Revalidation in the United Kingdom: A Developmental Process
    Description / Table of Contents: Restratification, Revalidation and the Health Select CommitteeAustralia; Canada; Finland; Netherlands; United States; Critical Reflections on the Restratification Thesis; Conclusion; Self-Study Activity; References; Chapter 7: Restratification and the Hearing of Fitness to Practice Cases; Introduction; The Medical Register and the Changing Medical Profession; Handling Complaints; From Triage to Investigation and Adjudication; Trends in Complaints by Source and Practitioner Characteristics; Trends in Fitness to Practice Hearing Activity
    Description / Table of Contents: Fitness to Practice Activity and the Transformation of Medical Autonomy
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4896-5
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    Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789400723092
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 297p. 18 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Human Geography ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; Lebensbedingungen ; Nachbarschaft ; Sozialstruktur ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Wohngebiet ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wohngebiet ; Sozialstruktur ; Nachbarschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Lebensbedingungen ; Empirische Sozialforschung
    Abstract: Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still no closer to answering the question of how important neighbourhood effects actually are. There is little doubt that these effects exist, but we do not know enough about the causal mechanisms which produce them, their relativ
    Description / Table of Contents: Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives; Introduction; Identifying Causal Neighbourhood Effects; Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads?; Book Structure and Contents; References; Chapter 2: The Mechanism(s) of Neighbourhood Effects: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications; Introduction; How Might Neighbourhood Effects Transpire?; Social-Interactive Mechanisms; Environmental Mechanisms; Geographical Mechanisms; Institutional Mechanisms
    Description / Table of Contents: Conceptual Issues in Uncovering and Measuring Mechanism(s) of Neighbourhood EffectsThe Composition of the Neighbourhood Dosage; The Administration of the Neighbourhood Dosage; The Neighbourhood Dosage-Response Relationship; Past Investigative Responses and Their Limitations; Evidence on Social-Interactive Mechanisms of Neighbourhood Effects; Social Contagion and Collective Socialization; Social Networks; Social Cohesion and Control; Competition and Relative Deprivation; Parental Mediation; Evidence on Environmental Mechanisms of Neighbourhood Effects
    Description / Table of Contents: Evidence on Geographical Mechanisms of Neighbourhood EffectsEvidence on Institutional Mechanisms of Neighbourhood Effects; A Provisional Synthesis Regarding Evidence on Neighbourhood Effect Mechanisms; Implications for Scholarship and Policy; Advancing Scholarship on Neighbourhood Effect Mechanisms; Implications for Public Policy; References; Chapter 3: Ethnographic Evidence, Heterogeneity, and Neighbourhood Effects After Moving to Opportunity; Introduction; The First Twenty Years of Neighbourhood Effects Research; Selection Bias; Effects on Average; Mechanisms
    Description / Table of Contents: A Turning Point: The Moving to Opportunity StudiesMoving Forward: From Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Individual Level; Neighbourhood Level; City Level; Moving Forward: Better Integrating Ethnographic Research; Two Roles for Ethnographic Research; Ethnographic Data and Heterogeneity; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility; Introduction; An Empirical Illustration of Selective Mobility Patterns; Selective Mobility and the Selection Problem; Factors Affecting Neighbourhood Choice
    Description / Table of Contents: Methods for Dealing with Neighbourhood Sorting and Selection BiasConcluding Remarks; References; Chapter 5: Social Mix, Reputation and Stigma: Exploring Residents' Perspectives of Neighbourhood Effects; Introduction; The Case Study Neighbourhoods; Survey Findings; Stigma and the Neighbourhood; The Condition of Housing; Attractiveness of the Neighbourhood; Safety of the Neighbourhood; Tenure and Neighbourhood Density; Summary and Discussion of Survey Results; Interview Findings; Attractiveness of the Neighbourhood and Condition of the Housing; Safety; Density; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Theorising and Measuring Place in Neighbourhood Effects Research: The Example of Teenage Parenthood in England
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2309-2
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    Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning : Cities, Policies, and Politics (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789048189243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 217p. 15 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 102
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Geography ; Regional planning ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Regional planning ; Human Geography
    Abstract: The premise of this volume is that the concepts of 'neoliberalism' and 'neoliberalisation' have largely been overlooked in planning theory as well as in the analysis of planning practice, despite the common deployment of these terms in the social sciences. Combining a number of specially commissioned chapters with insights from papers presented to a recent conference session of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, the book is dedicated to filling this significant lacuna in the study of planning. What the case studies explored in these chapters--from Africa, Asia, North America an
    Abstract: The premise of this volume is that the concepts of 'neoliberalism' and 'neoliberalisation' have largely been overlooked in planning theory as well as in the analysis of planning practice, despite the common deployment of these terms in the social sciences. Combining a number of specially commissioned chapters with insights from papers presented to a recent conference session of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, the book is dedicated to filling this significant lacuna in the study of planning. What the case studies explored in these chapters--from Africa, Asia, North America an
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Authors; 1 Introduction: Contradictions of Neoliberal Urban Planning; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Varieties of Capitalism, Path-Dependency, and Diverse Reactions of Planning Institutions; 1.1.2 Ambivalent Position of Planning Institutions; 1.1.3 Increasing Opportunity-Led Approach of Planning Institutions; 1.2 Contradictions of Neoliberalisation for Urban Planning; 1.3 About This Book; References; 2 Normalising Neoliberal Planning: The Case of Malmö, Sweden; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Neoliberal Planning: New Urbanity, Urban Continuity2.2.1 The Plan; 2.2.2 The People: Reworking Malm''s Demographic Fabric Against the Odds; 2.3 The Production of the Örespectacle: New Scales and Landscapes of Prosperity and Poverty; 2.4 The Same and the New: Continuity and Change in an Age of Neoliberal Planning; 2.4.1 The Same; 2.4.2 The New; 2.5 Conclusion; References; 3 Neoliberal Urban Policy, Aspirational Citizenship and the Uses of Cultural Distinction; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Neoliberal Discourses, Urban Policy, and the Naturalising of Class Distinctions
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 British Urban Policy and the Creation of Aspirational Citizens3.2.1 The Changing Form and Character of Urban Policy Interventions; 3.2.2 The Field of Culture-Led Urban Policy and the Evolution of Neoliberal Rationalities; 3.3 Conclusions; References; 4 Contradictions in the Neoliberal Policy Instruments: What Is the Stance of the State?; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Changing Role and Policies of the State in the Neoliberal Era; 4.2.1 Re-territorialisation: Complex and Inconsistent Strategies; 4.2.2 Re-distribution of Power and Responsibilities: For What and to Whom?
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 State Interests and Concerns About Urban Areas: A New Dilemma4.3.1 Amendments to Previous Planning Legislation: The Reluctance of the Central Government to Transfer Planning Rights to Local Governments; 4.3.2 The Outcomes of the New Approach: Increasing Government Intervention; 4.4 The State as a New Actor in the Distribution of Benefits of Urban Development; 4.4.1 Urban Plans and Urban Policy Instruments as a Means of Redistribution: Changing from Indirect to Direct Transfer; 4.5 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Transnational Neoliberalisation and the Role of Supranational Trade Agreements in Local Urban Policy Implementation: The Case of the European Union5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Globalisation and the Role of International Agreements in Local Urban Policy: The Case of the European Union; 5.3 Dutch Neoliberalisation? Changing Urban Policy Context Towards an Ambiguous 'Way'; 5.4 Constraints for PPP Structures Due to the EU Competitiveness Policy: State Aid and Public Procurement Practices in the Netherlands; 5.4.1 Amersfoort Case (Vathorst): Public Procurement and Consequences for New Town Development
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4.2 Haaksbergen Case: State Aid and Consequences for Urban Renewal
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8924-3
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    Consumer Demographics and Behaviour : Markets are People (2012)
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    ISBN: 9789400718555
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 213p. 42 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Population ; Marketing ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Population ; Marketing ; Demography ; Consumer behavior ; Social aspects ; Demography ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Demographie ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Demographie
    Abstract: This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products. It is also a book for teachers and students of consumer behaviour to grasp the importance of the life cycle as a framework that shapes the demand for goods and services determined by changes in social, economic and physical functioning. It gives insights into gendered consumer behaviour and cohort effects. It presents a range of views on consumer behaviour and how demographic persp
    Abstract: This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products. It is also a book for teachers and students of consumer behaviour to grasp the importance of the life cycle as a framework that shapes the demand for goods and services determined by changes in social, economic and physical functioning. It gives insights into gendered consumer behaviour and cohort effects. It presents a range of views on consumer behaviour and how demographic persp
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Purpose; Organization; Part I -- Basic Issues: Market Size and Composition; Part II -- Demographic Change, Markets and Consumption; Part III -- Consumption, Income, Age, Cohort and Gender; Use; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Basic Issues: Market Size and Composition; 1 The Making of Markets; 1.1 Markets are People; 1.2 Choices People Make: Tendency to Consume or Save and Credit; 1.3 Market Size, Value and Measurement Issues; 1.4 Market Size: Income and Population; 1.5 Income and the Life Cycle; 1.6 Market Segmentation and Peoples Characteristics
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.7 Strategy Development: Dimensions and AssessmentReferences; 2 Perspectives on Consumer Behaviour; 2.1 Consumer Behaviour: Assumptions and Deductions; 2.2 Economic Perspectives; Box 2.1 Economics of Consumer Choice and Rational Maximisation of Preferences: A Simple Microeconomic Model; 2.3 Psychological Perspectives; Box 2.2 Multi-attribute Attitude Model; 2.4 Sociological Perspectives; Box 2.3 A Typology of Social Trends and Consumer Behaviour; 2.5 Anthropological Perspectives; 2.6 Psychographic Perspectives; 2.7 Evolving Perspectives and Concepts; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Towards Consumer Demographic Perspectives3.1 Demography is About People: Characteristics and Change; Box 3.1 Balancing Equation of Population Change: A Basic Demographic Model; 3.2 Population Age and Changing Market Characteristics; 3.2.1 Life Cycle Events; 3.2.2 Fertility, Mortality and Population Age; Box 3.2 Synthetic Demographic Concepts of Fertility and Life Expectancy; 3.3 Demographic Events: Market Triggers; 3.4 Demographic Dynamics and Market Changes; 3.5 Gendered Effects; 3.6 Ageing and Substitution Effects; 3.7 Cohort Effects; 3.8 Demographic Factors and Consumer Behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix: Consumer Market Demographics in the United States1 Development and Evolution; 2 Development and Evolution of Consumer Market Statistics; 3 Data and Methods; 4 The Current State of the Art and the Future; References; Part II Demographic Change, Markets and Consumption; 4 Population Growth in Global Markets; 4.1 Population Growth Over Time; 4.2 Growing Population in Regional Markets; Box 4.1 Population Growth Rates; 4.3 Population and Stage of Development; 4.4 Recent Population Growth; Box 4.2 The Demographic Transition: Population Growth, Mortality and Fertility
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5 Demographic Transition and Differences in Age Distribution4.6 Age Distribution and Stages of Development; 4.7 Future of the Worlds Population; 4.7.1 Four Hypotheses; 4.7.2 The Medium Projection; 4.7.3 Demographic Transition and Ageing of Global Markets; 4.7.4 Stage of Economic Development and Ageing; 4.8 Some Implications of World Ageing to Consumer Behaviour; 4.8.1 More Developed Countries; 4.8.2 Least Developed Countries; 4.8.3 Other Less Developed Countries; Appendix: Population Growth Rates Estimation -- Example; References; 5 Growth of Global Markets
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Population Growth and Food Consumption: The Malthusian Perspective
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    The Sciences’ Media Connection –Public Communication and its Repercussions (2012)
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    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 379 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] eblib Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 28
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Science History ; Social Sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftspublizistik
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    Children for Families or Families for Children : The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S (2011)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 218p. 5 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 29
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    DDC: 362.7340973
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography
    Abstract: Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and internationally? How do the types of adoptions-domestic adoptions, private and public through the foster care system, and intercountry adoptions-differ? Domestic trends include a shift to open adoptions and a notable increase in 'hard to place', foster care adoptions-typically older, siblings, minorities, with physical, educational, or emotional challeng
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Overview -- pt. 2. A demographic analysis of adoptions in the United States -- pt. 3. Intercountry adoptions.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8972-4
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    Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048196159
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXX, 457p, digital)
    Series Statement: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society 2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethics ; Quality of Life ; Quality of Life Research ; Nanotechnology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Ethics ; Quality of Life ; Quality of Life Research ; Nanotechnology
    Abstract: Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies is likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in the nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, but policymakers and participatory processes can invent newly invented institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Introduction; Contents; About the Authors; Part I Dimensions of Nano Fairness; 1 Contexts of Equity: Thinking About Organizational and Technoscience Contexts for Gender Equity in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology; 2 Women and Patenting in Nanotechnology: Scale, Scope and Equity; 3 Potential Implications for Equity in the Nanotechnology Workforce in the U.S.; 4 Exploring Societal Impact of Nanomedicine Using Public Value Mapping; 5 Ableism and Favoritism for Abilities Governance, Ethics and Studies: New Tools for Nanoscale and Nanoscale-enabled Science and Technology Governance
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 i Will Go FurtherPart II Uneven Structures; 7 Nanotechnology and the Extension and Transformation of Inequity; 8 Nanotechnology and the Sixth Technological Revolution; 9 Innovation, Growth, and Inequality: Plausible Scenarios of Wage Disparities in a World with Nanotechnologies; 10 Metropolitan Development of Nanotechnology: Concentration or Dispersion?; 11 The Role of Organized Workers in the Regulation of Nanotechnologies; 12 ETUC Resolution on Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials; Part III Equalizing Processes; 13 Materializing Nano Equity: Lessons from Design
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Public Perceptions of Fairness in NBIC Technologies15 Equity and Participation in Decisions: What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology in Kenya?; 16 Nanotechnology: How Prepared Is Uganda?; Part IV Nanotechnology and the World System; 17 Nanotechnology and the Poor: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries; 18 Science Policy and Social Inclusion: Advances and Limits of Brazilian Nanotechnology Policy; 19 The Potential of Nanotechnology for Equitable Economic Development: The Case of Brazil
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 Open Access Nanotechnology for Developing Countries: Lessons from Open Source Software21 Southern Roles in Global Nanotechnology Innovation: Perspectives from Thailand and Australia; 22 How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill the Needs of Developing Countries?; 23 Technical Education and Indian Society: The Role of Values; Part V Lessons for Action; 24 Keeping the Dream Alive: What ELSI-Research Might Learn from Parliamentary Technology Assessment; 25 Nanotech Ethics and the Policymaking Process: Lessons Learned for Advancing Equity and Equality in Emerging Nanotechnologies
    Description / Table of Contents: 26 Building Equity and Equality into NanotechnologyIndex
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9615-9
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    Understanding Family Change and Variation : Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789400719453
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 179 p. 5 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Understanding Population Trends and Processes 5
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Demography
    Abstract: Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our sister disciplines - from cultural anthropology to social psychology to cognitive science and beyond - have made dramatic strides in understanding how social action works, and how bodies, brains, cultural contexts, and structural conditions are coordinated in that process. "Understanding Famil
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements and Note on Authorship; Introduction; Contents; 1 The Theory of Conjunctural Action; Schemas; A Typology of Schemas; Deep Versus Shallow Schemas; Categorical, Procedural, and Evaluative Schemas; More and Less Visceral Schemas; Where Do Schemas Come from and How Do They Change?; Materials; A Typology of Materials; Complexity; Replicability; Ownership and Alienability; Limitation; On the Distribution of Materials; Schema-Material Interdependency and the Emergence of Structure; Identity as the Embodiment of Structure; Conjunctures and Construal
    Description / Table of Contents: Events and the Remaking of StructureHow Structures Change; Structure, Power, and Inequality; Conclusion; 2 Consilience; Two Foundational Concepts; Path-Dependency; Multi-level Interaction; Key Elements of TCA; Schemas; The Evolved Brain; Schemas Evolve; The Social Life of Schemas; Materials: Actualized in the World; Materials Enable and Influence Behavior; Materials Instantiate Meanings or Values; Value is Relational; Structure; Structure Versus Culture; Structure Versus Agency; Identity; Identity Organizes Diverse Schemas About the Self
    Description / Table of Contents: Identity is Formed by Early Adulthood But Evolves Throughout LifeIdentity Shapes and Enables Action; Conjuncture; Large Scale Contexts; Conjuncture, Situation, and Setting; Construal; From Rational Choice to Conjunctural Action; Final Remarks; 3 Fertility Change and Variation; TCA and Fertility Change and Variation; TCA and the Fertility Transition; Role of Schemas in the Fertility Transition; Materials and Fertility Transition; The Interaction of Materials and Schemas; TCA and Contemporary Low Fertility; Schemas in Low Fertility Settings; Materials in Low Fertility Settings
    Description / Table of Contents: Low Fertility Arising from Schema Material Interactions: Three ExamplesLow Fertility Variation: Contrasts Between the U.S. and Germany; Persistent Differences in U.S. Fertility by Race and Religion; Black/White Fertility Differences; Contemporary Religious Differences; Persistent Fertility Difference in East and West Germany; Conclusion; 4 Social Class and the Timing and Context of Childbearing; Social Class Variation in the Timing of Family Formation; Structure, Social Location, and Family Formation; Structures and the Ecology of Social Space; The Incorporation of Structure
    Description / Table of Contents: Setting the Stage for Action: Conjunctures on the Path to Family FormationMaterial Elements of Conjunctures; Schematic Elements of Conjunctures; Resolving Conjunctures; Class Differences in Outcomes; Discussion; 5 A Conjunctural History of Assisted Reproduction and Adoption; The Schematic Framework of Parenthood in America; The First Schema: Parenthood Rests on Biological Relatedness Through Descent; The Second Schema: Children's Identities Inhere in Their Genetic Heritage; The Third Schema: Hard Work is Honorable, Including in Relation to Reproduction
    Description / Table of Contents: The Birth of Louise Joy Brown: A Transformative Event
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1945-3
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    New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities : A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789400713031
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 321p. 98 illus., 19 illus. in color, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Physics ; Engineering ; Humanities ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Physics ; Engineering ; Humanities ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: Ton Jörg
    Abstract: The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all. The main focus of this book is on new thinking in complexity, with complexity to be taken as derived from the Latin word complexus: 'that which is interwoven.' The trans-disciplinary approach advocated here will be trans-disciplinary in two ways: firstly, by going beyond the separate disciplines within the fields of both nat
    Description / Table of Contents: New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities; Contents; Chapter 1: Mission of the Book; Chapter 2: Introduction; Chapter 3: The Crisis in the Social Sciences; Chapter 4: Giving Birth to a New Science - Setting the Agenda; Chapter 5: A New Agenda for the Social Sciences; Chapter 6: On Becoming Reflective About Our Viewing and Doing Science; Chapter 7: The Reality of Reality; Chapter 8: New Ways of Knowing About the Complexity of Reality: The Epistemological Problem; Chapter 9: An Introduction to the Chaps. 10-12; Chapter 10: Rethinking Interaction
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 11: Rethinking CausalityChapter 12: Rethinking the Unit of Study; Chapter 13: The Complexity of Complexity; Chapter 14: The Complexity of Human Interaction; Chapter 15: Summary and Conclusions; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1303-1
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    The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa : The Unique Case of Ethiopia (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048189182
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIX, 359p, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Population ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Population ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography
    Abstract: "This book compares Ethiopia with other African nations to discuss Ethiopia's demographic transition and development, which is unique because of its mix of poverty-related negative factors with positive education, health, and age-of-marriage trends. ""The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age structures in the face of drought, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, instability and the global economic crisis. However, while facile generalizations about the lack of demographic change and lack of progress in meeting the MDGs in sub-Saharan Africa are commonplace, they are often misleading and belie the socio-cultural change that is occurring among a vanguard of more educated youth. Even within Ethiopia, the second largest country at the Crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, different narratives emerge from analysis of longitudinal, micro-level analysis as to how demographic change and responses are occurring, some more rapidly than others. The book compares Ethiopia with other Africa countries, and demonstrates the uniqueness of an African-type demographic transition: a combination of poverty-related negative factors (unemployment, disease, food insecurity) along with positive education, health and higher age-of-marriage trends that are pushing this ruggedly rural and land-locked population to accelerate the demographic transition and stay on track to meet most of the MDGs. This book takes great care with the challenges of inadequate data and weak analytical capacity to research this incipient transition, trying to unravel some of the complexities in this vulnerable Horn of Africa country: A slowly declining population growth rates with rapidly declining child mortality, very high chronic under-nutrition, already low urban fertility but still very high rural fertility, and high population-resource pressure along with rapidly growing small urban places."
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Introduction : context and frameworkpt. 2. Demographic transitions and human development -- pt. 3. Health and nutrition -- pt. 4. Population distribution, migration, urbanization and labor force -- pt. 5. Vulnerability and adaptation : case studies in population-resource pressure and food insecurity -- pt. 6. Development policy and program evaluation -- pt. 7. Conclusions and policy implications.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8918-2
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    Detect and Deter: Can Countries Verify the Nuclear Test Ban? (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789400716766
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 271p. 97 illus., 83 illus. in color, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Science (General) ; Physical geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Science (General) ; Physical geography ; Kernwaffentest ; Erkennung ; Traité d'interdiction complète des essais nucléaires : 1996 ; Überwachung
    Abstract: Setting the political stage -- Monitoring underground nuclear explosions -- Monitoring atmospheric nuclear explosions -- Monitoring nuclear explosions in the ocean -- On-site inspections -- Synergy with science -- Verifying the CTBT [Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty] : a state perspective
    Abstract: How can countries verify compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and detect and deter violations? It is in their interest to increase their verification readiness because the assessment of compliance with the treaty rests with states parties to the CTBT. The treaty provides countries with two verification elements: an international system of monitoring stations, and an on-site inspection regime. The monitoring system can detect nuclear explosions underground, in the atmosphere and under water. This book provides incentives to nations around the world on how they can or
    Description / Table of Contents: Detect and Deter: Can Countries Verify the Nuclear Test Ban?; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: SETTING THE POLITICAL STAGE; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Provisions of the CTBT; 1.2.1 Preparatory Commission Phase; 1.2.2 Entry into Force; China; Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK); Egypt; India; Indonesia; Iran; Israel; Pakistan; United States; Precedents; 1.2.3 Scope - Zero Yield; 1.3 Testing as Part of Nuclear Weapon Development; 1.4 Political Development; 1.5 CTBT in the Context of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 2: MONITORING UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS2.1 Underground Nuclear Explosions and Weapon-Related Experiments; 2.1.1 Characteristics of an Underground Nuclear Explosion; 2.1.2 Nuclear Weapon-Related Experiments; 2.2 Seismological Monitoring; 2.2.1 Measurements; 2.2.2 Detection; Signals and Noise; Detection Processes; Individual Station Capabilities; Network Capabilities; Threshold Monitoring; 2.2.3 Event Location; Case Studies; Global Capabilities; Depth Estimation; 2.2.4 Event Characterization; Case Studies; Event Screening; 2.2.5 New Methods to Analyze and Exploit Data
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.6 New Paradigm for Seismic Analysis2.3 Radionuclide Xenon Monitoring; 2.3.1 Release of Xenon from an Underground Explosion; 2.3.2 Measurements; 2.3.3 Background Radiation; 2.3.4 Detection; 2.3.5 Localization; 2.3.6 Discrimination; 2.4 Satellite-Based Monitoring; 2.5 The North Korean Nuclear Explosions; 2.6 States and "Precision Monitoring"; CHAPTER 3: MONITORING ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; 3.1 Thirty Years since Last Nuclear Explosion in the Atmosphere; 3.2 Many Detectable Features; 3.3 Infrasound Monitoring; 3.3.1 Infrasound Observations; 3.3.2 Infrasound Sources; 3.3.3 Detection
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.4 Localization and Characterization3.4 Seismological Monitoring; 3.5 Radionuclide Monitoring; 3.5.1 Monitoring Radionuclide Particles; 3.5.2 Particulate Detection and Tracking; 3.5.3 Monitoring Noble Gases; 3.6 National Technical Means; 3.6.1 U.S. Satellite-Based Systems to Monitor Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions; CHAPTER 4: MONITORING NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS IN THE OCEANS; 4.1 Few Explosions Under Water; 4.2 Oceans Are Vast and Vastly Transparent; 4.3 Hydroacoustic Monitoring; 4.3.1 Eleven Stations Monitor the Oceans; 4.3.2 Detection; 4.3.3 Location; 4.3.4 Multitude of Sources
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Seismic Monitoring of Oceanic Explosions4.5 Radionuclide Observations of Underwater Explosions; 4.6 Satellite Observations; CHAPTER 5: ON-SITE INSPECTIONS; 5.1 The Political Frame; 5.2 Reflections on the Frame; 5.3 Conduct of an OSI; 5.3.1 Operational Manual; 5.3.2 Systemic Approach; 5.3.3 Inspection Team; 5.3.4 Logistics; 5.4 OSI Technologies; 5.4.1 Visual Observations; 5.4.2 Radionuclide Techniques; 5.4.3 Seismological Aftershock Monitoring; 5.4.4 Geophysical Exploration Techniques; 5.5 OSI: A Key Tool for States to Verify and Deter; CHAPTER 6: SYNERGY WITH SCIENCE
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.1 Science and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty- A Long-Standing Relationship
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1676-6
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    Children and the Good Life : New Challenges for Research on Children (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048192199
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    Series Statement: Children¿s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 4
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Children and the good life
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kind ; Lebensqualität ; Children ; Research ; Quality of life ; Research ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kind ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: "In April 2009, an inspiring international conference was held at Bielefeld on the topic ""Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children."" The focus was on how we can define and measure a ""good life"" for children growing up in the modern world. This tied in with discussions on how convincing universalistic theories are, what research on children can contribute, and how children themselves can be integrated into the research process and debates on the ""good life."" Discourses and the production of knowledge on the ""good life"" or ""well-being"" require a guiding idea or a theoretical frame. This frame can come from the feminist ethic of care or from the Human and Children's Rights Convention, from the idea of welfare, or from the Capability Approach."
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Contributors; Introduction; References; Part I Children and the Good Life: Theoretical Challenges; 1 Introduction; References; Modern Children and Their Well-Being: Dismantling an Ideal; Children, the Feminist Ethic of Care and Childhood Studies: Is This the Way to the Good Life?; Childhood Welfare and the Rights of Children; Children and Their Needs; Part II The Capability Approach and Research on Children; 2 The Concept of the Child Within NSCS: Problems from a Capabilities Perspective; 3 Action Research with Children: Problems from a Capabilities Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 A Productive Combination of Childhood Research and a Capabilities PerspectiveReferences; The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children's Issues; Subjective Well-Being and Capabilities: Views on the Well-Being of Young Persons; Language Education-For the "Good Life"?; Part III Children's Perspectives: Methodological Critiques and Empirical Studies; 1 Introduction; References; Biographical Research in Childhood Studies: Exploring Children's Voices from a Pedagogical Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Researching Identities, Difference, Subjectivities and Social Relations in Childhood Within Multi-ethnic Infant and Primary School SettingsChildhood Studies in Turkey; Part IV Structural Conditions and Children in Different National Contexts; 1 Introduction; References; Child Poverty-Social and Economic Policy for Children; Well-Being of Children in Turkey; Roma Children and Social Exclusion in Lithuania: Sociological Approach to Human Development; Index
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    Methodological Choice and Design : Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048189335
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    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 9
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    Keywords: Studienfinanzierung ; Lernen ; Forschung ; Motivation ; Bildungsforschung ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Sozialer Dienst ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Theorie ; Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social work ; Psychological tests and testing ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social work ; Psychological tests and testing ; Social sciences ; Research ; Methodology ; Education ; Research ; Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; Sozialpolitik ; Methodologie
    Abstract: Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and policy. This volume engages educational and social researchers in a scholarly debate offering some crucial re-interpretations of established research methodologies in light of contemporary conditions and critical introduction to some contemporary research approaches yet to gain general recognition. This book is a contemporary vademecum for researchers, practitioners and graduate students on research methodologies and designs for educational and social change in today's world. The chapters chart and analyse the conceptual and practical complexities of a variety research designs for contemporary educational and social work research. This anthology, taken overall, provides readers with the knowledge and understanding needed not only to design technically sound and coherent research studies, but also to develop methodologically innovative research projects that cross the boundaries between different methodological traditions to the benefit of scholarship, policy, and practice. The chapters cover nine research approaches: - Design-based research - Action research - Ethnomethodological research - Negotiated ethnography - Arts-informed research - Historical analysis and postcolonial scholarship - Policy analysis - Comparative research - Quantitative modelling of correlational and multi-level data The book provides a critical discussion of epistemological questions and methodological frontiers: - Knowledge and epistemology in scholarship, practice and policy - Digital knowledge and digital research - Emerging methodological challenges for educational research - Challenges and futures for social work and social policy research methods - Methodology and the knowledge industry
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Introduction and foundations -- pt. 2. Research approaches for innovation and change -- pt. 3. Classical research approaches in new social and political contexts -- pt. 4. Methodological frontiers, challenges and future directions.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8933-5
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    The Classical Foundations of Population Thought : From Plato to Quesnay (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048192984
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Philosophy, classical ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy, classical ; Demography
    Abstract: Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy paradox: strictly speaking, the great intellectual figures of the past dealt with in this book have not produced demographic theories or doctrines as such, but they have certainly given some thought to population at both levels. First, the central epistemological and methodological orientation of the book is presented. Ideas on population, far from being part of the harmonious advancement of knowledge are the product of their context, that is evidently demographic, but also economic, political and above all intellectual. Then the ideas on population of Plato, Bodin, the French mercantilists, Quesnay and the physiocrats are examined under this light. The last chapter addresses the implicit philosophical, economic and political issues of population thought.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9298-4
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    Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age (2011)
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    ISBN: 9789048189632 , 1282995553 , 9781282995550
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 268p, digital)
    Series Statement: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 6
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Grover, Sonja C. Young people's human rights and the politics of voting age
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Law ; Political science ; Sociology ; Developmental psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Law ; Political science ; Sociology ; Developmental psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Heranwachsender ; Menschenrecht ; Wahlrecht ; Altersgrenze ; Stimmrecht
    Abstract: Young People's Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age explores the broader societal implications of voting age eligibility requirements and the legislative bar against youth voting in North America and in Commonwealth countries (where 'youth' is defined as persons 16 and over but under age 18). The issue is raised as to whether the denial of the youth vote undermines democratic principles and values and ultimately the human dignity of youth. This is the first book to address the topic of the youth vote in-depth as a fundamental human rights concern relating to the entitlement in a democracy to societal participation and inclusion in influencing policy and law which profoundly affects one's life. Also examined are international perspectives on the issue of voting age eligibility. The book would be extremely valuable for instructional purposes as one of the primary texts in undergraduate or graduate courses on children's human rights, political psychology, political science , sociology of law or society and as a supplementary text for courses on human rights or constitutional law and would be of interest also to members of the general public concerned with children's human rights issues.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Part I The Philosophical Context of the Minimum Voting Age Question; 1 Alternative Philosophical Perspectives on the Origin and Nature of Human Rights; Part II Socio-Cultural Factors and the Minimum Voting Age; 2 Examples of Contextual Factors in the Youth Struggle for the Vote; Part III Voting Age Eligibility: Human Rights Issue or Social Policy Matter?; 3 The Human Rights Imperative and Minimum Voting Age; Part IV A Victory for the Vote at 16 in Austria Goes Largely Ignored in Other States; 4 Austria and the Vote at 16
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V Rationalizing of the Violation of U.K. Youths Inherent Right to Suffrage5 The U.K. Example of Resistance to the Vote at 16: The U.K. Electoral Commission and Select U.K. Social Scientists; Part VI The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Eligible Voting Age; 6 The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Does it Really Make Age Discrimination in the Vote Against Under 18s Constitutional? The Broader Lessons; Part VII Barriers Coming From Unlikely Sources to Youth's Struggle to Access the Basic Human Right to Suffrage
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 The Youth Vote as a Human Right and Resistance from High Profile International and National Human Rights GatekeepersPart VIII Re-Examining Alleged Rationales for the Bar Against the Vote for Under 18s; 8 Unconstitutional Age-Based Discrimination in the Vote Applied on Account of Young Age; Part IX Voting Age Eligibility and the Societal Marginalization of Under 18s; 9 Minors' Perspectives on Their Citizenship Status; Part X Unequal Treatment in Accessing the Inherent Right to Suffrage
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Two Different Standards for Enfranchisement: A 'Rights Standard' for Adults and a Supposed 'Competency Qualification Standard' for MinorsPart XI Recognizing the Vote at 16 Movement as a Fundamental Human Rights Struggle; 11 Concluding Comments; References
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    The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies : Late Fertility and its Consequences (2011)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 208p, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Westliche Welt ; Mutterschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fertility, Human ; Western countries ; Infertility, Female ; Western countries ; Middle-aged mothers ; Western countries ; Western countries ; Population ; Westliche Welt ; Mutterschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various other heavy decisions on shaping the life course (like on union formation, labour market career, housing accommodation, etc.). People realise that having children will fundamentally change their life and in order to fit this unknown and irreversible adventure perfectly into their life course postponement of the first birth is an easy way out as long as doubts continue and partners try to make up their mind. Modern methods of birth control are of course a very effective help in that period. What is the best moment to have the first child? And to what moment is postponement justified? There are no easy answers to these questions. Best solutions vary per person as they depend on personal circumstances and considerations (the partner may have conflicting ideas, housing accommodation, job, income, free time activities). Existing parental leave and child care arrangements are weighted as well. Unfortunately the biological clock ticks further. And, also unfortunately, assisted reproductive technology (IVF etc.) is unable to guarantee a successful outcome. Several couples end up without children involuntarily and that may lead to sorrow and grief. This interdisciplinary book overviews the process of postponement and its backgrounds in modern Western societies holistically, both at the personal and the societal level. Contributions come from reproductive, evolutionary biological and neurological sciences, as well as from demography, economy, sociology and psychology. It holds not only at women but also at men becoming first time fathers. The discussion boils down to a new policy approach for motherhood and emancipation on how to shape work and family life? It is argued that a public window where one can compose a 'cafeteria'-like set of supportive arrangements according to personal preferences could lead to a break in the rising age at first motherhood.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Is Womens Emancipation Still Compatible with Motherhood in Western Societies; 3 Males and Females: The Big Little Difference; 4 Sexual Differentiation of the Human Brain and Male/Female Behaviour; 5 On the Societal Impact of Modern Contraception; 6 The Demography of the Age at First Birth: The Close Relationship between Having Children and Postponement; 7 The Economic Rationality of Late Parenthood; 8 The Complexity of Parenthood in Modern Societies; 9 The Importance of Children and Families in Welfare States
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The Post-career Mom: Reproductive Technology and the Promise of Reproductive Choice11 On Delayed Fatherhood: The Social and Subjective "Logics" at Work in Men's Lives (a UK Study); 12 Womens Lifestyle Preferences in the 21st Century: Implications for Family Policy; 13 The Future of Motherhood: Conclusions and Discussion; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4
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    Malaria in South Asia : Eradication and Resurgence During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (2010)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048133581
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (online resource)
    Series Statement: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Physical geography ; Environmental Medicine ; Human Geography ; Public health ; Physical geography ; Environmental Medicine ; Human Geography ; Social sciences ; Malaria epidemiology ; Malaria history ; Malaria prevention & control ; Disease Vectors ; History, 20th Century ; Risk Factors ; Malaria ; South Asia ; History ; 20th century ; Malaria ; South Asia ; Prevention ; Malaria ; Control ; South Asia ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südasien ; Malaria
    Abstract: The History and Progression of Malaria: A Global and Regional View -- Resurgence of Malaria in Sri Lanka in the 1970s -- Malaria in Sri Lanka: A Geomedical Analysis1 -- Malaria Resurgence in Nepal: An Overview -- Resurgence and Post-resurgence Periods of Malaria in Bangladesh -- Resurgence of Malaria in Bangladesh -- The Resurgence of Malaria in Pakistan: A Geographical Evaluation -- Malaria Resurgence in Urban India: Lessons from Health Planning Strategies1,2 -- The Dynamics of Urban Malaria in India: An Update -- Lessons from the Past, View to the Future: Summary and Concluding Remarks
    Abstract: This highly topical book provides an in-depth account of the South Asian experience with the deadly disease that has held this region hostage for millennia. The book touches specifically on the resurgence of malaria experienced in the second half of the twentieth century, which occurred just a few years after malaria was thought to have been virtually eradicated from the region. The causes and consequences of this reappearance across space and time are discussed. The book also covers past, present and future ways to curb, control and ultimately, conquer malaria. As malaria continues to ravage the developing world, even in today’s ‘age of science’, this is a particularly relevant book, especially as most studies analyze the problem in Africa, the continent that bears the brunt of this disease. Here, the authors call attention to challenges in South Asia, home to an immense at-risk population. The chapters use a range of conceptual frameworks, quantitative analyses and descriptive approaches, finding that malaria is not just a complex disease driven by highly adaptive agents and vectors thriving in particular ecologies, but also a social concern deeply related to the region’s cultural traditions, financial and developmental shortfalls, and inexorably related to political will. The book comprehensively deals with all aspects of the malaria situation in South Asia, and is invaluable to upper level students as well as emerging and established scholars in the fields of medical geography and epidemiology, Asian studies and development studies. Key themes: malaria, South Asia, resurgence, eradication, medical geography Rais Akhtar is CSIR Emeritus Scientist at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has numerous publications on medical geography, and over 12 books. He is the recipient of multiple international fellowships, and was nominated to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which co-won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. Dr. Ashok K. Dutt is Professor Emeritus of Geography, Planning, and Urban Studies at The University of Akron. He has published in major journals of the world and has written and edited over 20 books. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, received the R.N. Dubey Foundation award for Lifetime Achievement in Geography, and Bhugool Bachaspati (Most Learned Geographer) award from the National Association of Indian Geographers. Dr. Vandana Wadh ...
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Preface 1; Preface 2; Preface 3; Acknowledgments; Contents; Annotated Glossary and Abbreviations; Contributors; About the Authors; 1 The History and Progression of Malaria: A Global and Regional View; 2 Resurgence of Malaria in Sri Lanka in the 1970s; 3 Malaria in Sri Lanka: A Geomedical Analysis; 4 Malaria Resurgence in Nepal: An Overview; 5 Resurgence and Post-resurgence Periods of Malariain Bangladesh; 6 Resurgence of Malaria in Bangladesh; 7 The Resurgence of Malaria in Pakistan: A GeographicalEvaluation.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3358-1
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    A Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-being in Childhood (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789048190669
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 404 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Children¿s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 3
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Desai, Murli, 1951 - A rights-based preventative approach for psychological well-being in childhood
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Quality of Life ; Educational psychology ; Social work ; Developmental psychology ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Educational psychology ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology
    Abstract: to a Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood -- Theories of Child Development and Vulnerability in Childhood -- The Child Rights Perspective -- A Conceptual Framework for Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood -- Primary Prevention for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood -- Methodology of Psycho-educational Group Work -- Enrichment of Self-Awareness -- Enrichment of Proactive Thinking Skills -- Enrichment of Emotional Intelligence -- Enrichment of Interpersonal Relationship Skills -- Enrichment of Interpersonal Communication Skills -- Family Life Education -- Parenting Education -- Secondary and Tertiary Prevention for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood -- Process of Casework with Children and Their Families -- Case Management with Children and Their Families -- Children at Risk of Neglect and Secondary Prevention -- Children in Emergency Situations and Secondary Prevention -- Systems for Tertiary Prevention for Children -- Abuse in Childhood and Tertiary Prevention -- Commercial Exploitation in Childhood and Tertiary Prevention -- Conflict with Law in Childhood and Tertiary Prevention
    Abstract: Childhood is the most important stage of human development, a fact that makes children the central target group for social work intervention. In turn, most schools of human development and social work around the world have an elective course on children, with some offering a concentration in this area. Yet while there are plenty of textbooks on intervention with children that contain useful theories and skills, many focus on remedial rather than preventative strategies, and do not adopt a child rights perspective. In turn, books on child rights fail to link the latter either with theoretical background or the preventative approach. This book, aimed at faculty members and students in social work and related programs, breaks new ground by being the first to apply the child rights perspective and the preventative approach to intervention for children's psychosocial well-being. It covers crucial ground in child psychology, even providing an ecological perspective to potential developmental problems. Relevant to situations across the world, and integrating theory, practice and teaching, its three sections introduce the rights-based perspective to preventative intervention, then move on to examine primary, secondary and tertiary prevention for children’s psychosocial well-being
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Contents; List of Charts; Part I Introduction to a Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood; 1 Theories of Child Development and Vulnerability in Childhood; 2 The Child Rights Perspective; 3 A Conceptual Framework for Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood; Part II Primary Prevention for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood; 4 Methodology of Psycho-educational Group Work; 5 Enrichment of Self-Awareness; 6 Enrichment of Proactive Thinking Skills; 7 Enrichment of Emotional Intelligence
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Enrichment of Interpersonal Relationship Skills9 Enrichment of Interpersonal Communication Skills; 10 Family Life Education; 11 Parenting Education; Part III Secondary and Tertiary Prevention for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood; 12 Process of Casework with Children and Their Families; 13 Case Management with Children and Their Families; 14 Children at Risk of Neglect and Secondary Prevention; 15 Children in Emergency Situations and Secondary Prevention; 16 Systems for Tertiary Prevention for Children; 17 Abuse in Childhood and Tertiary Prevention
    Description / Table of Contents: 18 Commercial Exploitation in Childhood and Tertiary Prevention19 Conflict with Law in Childhood and Tertiary Prevention; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9066-9
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    Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts : Mathematics and Society (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789048185818
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 617 p. 327 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Mathematics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Mathematics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research
    Abstract: The book shows a very original organization addressing in a non traditional way, but with a systematic approach, to who has an interest in using mathematics in the social sciences. The book is divided in four parts: (a) a historical part, written by Vittorio Capecchi which helps us understand the changes in the relationship between mathematics and sociology by analyzing the mathematical models of Paul F. Lazarsfeld, the model of simulation and artificial societies, models of artificial neural network and considering all the changes in scientific paradigms considered, (b) a part coordinated by Pier Luigi Contucci on mathematical models that consider the relationship between the mathematical models that come from physics and linguistics to arrive at the study of society and those which are born within sociology and economics, (c) a part coordinated by Massimo Buscema analyzing models of artificial neural networks, (d) a part coordinated by Bruno D`Amore which considers the relationship between mathematics and art. The title of the book "Mathematics and Society" was chosen because the mathematical applications exposed in the book allow you to address two major issues: (a) the general theme of technological innovation and quality of life (among the essays are on display mathematical applications to the problems of combating pollution and crime, applications to mathematical problems of immigration, mathematical applications to the problems of medical diagnosis, etc.) (b) the general theme of technical innovation and creativity, for example the art and mathematics section which connects to the theme of creative cities. The book is very original because it is not addressed only to those who are passionate about mathematical applications in social science but also to those who, in different societies, are: (a) involved in technological innovation to improve the quality of life, (b) involved in the wider distribution of technological innovation in different areas of creativity (as in the project "Creative Cities Network" of UNESCO). TOC: Mathematics and Society Preface Vittorio Capecchi, Massimo Buscema, Pierluigi Contucci, Bruno D`Amore 1- Vittorio Capecchi: Historical Introduction Section I (mathematics and models) 2- Pierluigi Contucci, Ignacio Gallo, Stefano Ghirlanda: "Equilibria of culture contact derived from ingroup and outgroup attitudes" 3- Oscar Bolina: "Society from the Statistical Mechanics Perspective" 4- Anna M. Borghi, Daniele Caligiore, Claudia Scorolli: "Objects, words, and actions. Some reasons why embodied models are badly needed in cognitive psychology." 5- Luca Desanctis, Stefano Ghirlanda: "Shared culture needs large social networks" 6- C. Gallo: "Mathematical models of financial markets" 7- F. Gallo, Pierluigi Contucci, A. Coutts, Ignacio Gallo: "Tackling climate change through energy efficiency: mathematical models to offer evidence-based recommendations for public policy" 8- Simone Sarti, Marco Terraneo: "An application of the multilevel regression technique to validate a social stratification scale" 9- Robert B. Smith: "The Academic Mind Revisited: Contextual Analysis via Multilevel Modeling" Section III (mathematics and neural networks) 10 - Massimo Buscema: "The General Philosophy of the Artificial Adaptive Systems" 11 - Massimo Buscema, Pier Luigi Sacco: "Auto-Contractive Maps, the H Function and the Maximally Regular Graph (MRG): a new methodology for data mining" 12- Massimo Buscema, Pier Luigi Sacco: "An Artificial Intelligent Systems Approach to - Unscrambling Power Networks in Italy`s Business Environment" 13- Giulia Massini: "Multi - Meta SOM" 14- Massimo Buscema: "How to make data mining: The Persons Arrested Dataset" 15- Enzo Grossi: "Medicine and Mathematics of Complex Systems" 16- Massimo Buscema, Enzo Grossi: "J-Net System: a new paradigm for Artificial Neural Networks applied to diagnostic imaging" 17 - S. Tangaro, R. Bellotti, F. De Carlo, G. Gargano: "Digital Image Processing in Medical Applications" Section III (mathematics and art) 18 - Giorgio T. Bagni: "Mathematics, Art, and Interpretation: an Hermeneutic Perspective" 19- Giorgio Bolondi: "Point, line and surface, following Hilbert and Kandinsky" 20- Bruno D`Amore: Figurative arts and mathematics: pipes, horses, triangles and meanings A contribution to a problematic theory of conceptual meaning, from Frege and Magritte up to the present time" 21- Michele Emmer: The idea of space in art, technology and mathematics" 22- Raffaele Mascella, Franco Eugeni,e Ezio Sciarpa: "Mathematical structures and sense of beauty" 23- Monica Idà: "Visual impact and mathematical learning" 24- Marco Pierini: "Art by Numbers.Mel Bochner, Roman Opalka and other Philarhythmics" 25-Aldo Spizzichino: "My way of playing with the computer. Suggestions for a personal experience in vector graphics" 26- Gian Marco Todesco: "Four dimensional ideas" 27- Igino Aschieri, Paola Vighi: "From Art to Mathematics in the paintings of Theo van Doesburg" Editors`s biographies
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Mathematics and models -- pt. 2. Mathematics and neural networks -- pt. 3. Mathematics and art.
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    Decentralized Development in Latin America : Experiences in Local Governance and Local Development (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789048137398 , 1282927264 , 9781282927261
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 217p, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Architecture ; Political science ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Architecture ; Political science ; Human Geography ; Lateinamerika ; Dezentralisation ; Regionalentwicklung ; Gemeindeverwaltung
    Abstract: The Latin American subcontinent appears to have reinvented itself in the 21st century. Its economy has been transformed under liberalization and globalisation. Decentralization and the democratic transition have modified the political environment, while local development approaches are replacing the (grand) national-regional development schemes. The current local governance and local development debates refer to very different levels of scale: from small, rural communities to fairly extensive (even international) spaces. It is clear that the development process shows substantial differences be
    Description / Table of Contents: Experiences in Local Governance and Local Development; Paul van LindertUtrecht UniversityFaculty of GeosciencesInternational Development StudiesPO Box 80.1153508 TC Utr; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Chapter 1; Local Governance and Local Development in Latin America: Views from Above and Below; From State-led to Market-led Development; Decentralisation and the Role of Local Government; Local Governance; Box 1.1  The role of local government under the new vision of local governance (Shah and Shah 2006, p. 43); Planning for Regional Development in Latin America
    Description / Table of Contents: Planning for Local DevelopmentBox 1.2  Local and regional development: old vs. new approaches (Pike et al. 2007, p. 17.); The Contributions to This Book; Chapter 2; From Polarization to Fragmentation. Recent Changes in Latin American Urbanization; Changing Economic and Social Conditions in Latin America; Additional Causes for Socio-spatial Segregation and the Rise of Gated Communities in Latin America; Types of Gated Communities; The Distribution of Gated Communities; Modelling the Fragmented City; Consequences for the Social Contract in Latin America; Chapter 3
    Description / Table of Contents: Territory, Local Governance, and Urban Transformation: The Processes of Residential Enclave Building in Lima, PeruThe Concept of 'Condominisation'; Residential Enclaves in Latin America; Residential Enclave Building in Lima; Subsequently Enclosed Neighbourhoods; Regulation of Security Measures; Informalisation of the Security Landscape; The Framework for 'Condominisation' in Lima Metropolitana; Local Crime and Security Discourses; Weakness and Inefficiency of Public Authorities; Residential Enclave Las Flores; Residential Enclave Sta. Patricia; Conclusion; Chapter 4
    Description / Table of Contents: Global Cities and the Governance of Commodity Chains: A Case Study From Latin America1Global City Formation and the Deepened Integration of Mexico and Chile in the World Economy; Globalisation and the Role of Financial Service Intermediaries in Mexico and Chile; The Financial Service Sector in Mexico and Chile; Empirical Basis and Method; Empirical Findings; Ranking of Asset Managers in Mexico and Chile3; Empirical Assessment: Comparing Bloomberg and GaWC data; Interpretation of the Empirical Findings; Conclusion: Towards a Geography of Governance in Global Commodity Chains; Chapter 5
    Description / Table of Contents: The Impact of Decentralisation on Local Development: The Case of BoliviaThe Concept of Local Development Revisited; Bolivia's Decentralisation Programme; Introducing the Research Area: Six Rural Municipalities in Chuquisaca; Impact on Local Development; Generating Funds; Main Characteristics of Local Investments; The Impact of Decentralization on Local Employment; Conclusion; Chapter 6; Political Reforms and Local Development in the Bolivian Amazon; Political Reforms in Bolivia - Hollow Words or Drastic Change?; Historical Context; The Reforms; Conditions for Successful Implementation
    Description / Table of Contents: The Amazon Region of Bolivia: Effects of Institutional Reforms in a Peripheral Region
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    Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge (2010)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Environmental management ; Waste disposal ; Technology ; Political science ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Environmental management ; Waste disposal ; Technology ; Political science ; Trinkwasserversorgung ; Abwassertechnologie ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Internationale Kooperation ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sanitation ; Sanitation ; Political aspects ; Sanitation ; Technological innovations ; Sanitation ; International cooperation ; Sanitation ; Government policy ; Sanitation ; Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Abwasserreinigung ; Technologie ; Abwasserreinigung ; Technologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3721-3
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    Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789048188420
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 200p, digital)
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    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Sozialreform ; Sozialstaat ; Systemvergleich ; Mittelmeerraum ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Applied psychology ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Applied psychology ; Developmental psychology ; Mittelmeerraum ; Familienpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mittelmeerraum ; Familienpolitik
    Abstract: The study of welfare states and social policy has enjoyed growing popularity in the last three decades. This field has been characterized by a growing level of theorization, richer case study analyses, inclusion of additional sources of welfare provision (non-profit, market-based, informal, family) and fields of study (globalization, gender, ethnicity, immigration, children), and increasingly complex, accurate and up-to-date cross-national comparative analyses. One of the subjects that have been the focus of much interest has been that of families, women and children - their social well being and their legal and economic status in the welfare state. The common assumption is that there is a clear relationship and interaction between the structuring of the welfare state and the well-being and social status of these subs groups. Cross-national comparative analyses have shown that this interaction differs significantly from country to country, depending on the culture, religion as well as on its welfare regime. Scholars are engaged in diverse efforts to understand the differences between these policies in diverse welfare states, the reasons for these differences and their results. This volume deals with these issues from a unique welfare regime perspective. While over the last two decades research on welfare states has generally tended to assume that these nations can be divided into welfare regimes with common characteristics, there has been much ambivalence towards, and much less study of, the welfare states in the Mediterranean region. This volume focuses on these welfare states and makes the case for regarding the nations in this region as belonging to a common family of nations. It then seeks to compare policies towards children, families and gender in these nations. The volume will seek to further this research agenda by including an initial section that offers an overview of the Mediterranean welfare states, and then discusses issues of children, families and gender in general. The second part of the book will offer detailed country studies of these issues, all authored by leading experts in the various countries. TOC: Tentative Table of Contents 1. Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal: Introduction Part I: Setting the Scene 2. John Gal: Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States 3. Hadas Mandel: Gender and the Welfare State 4. Tomas Olk: Children, Childhood and the Welfare State 5. Jim McDonell: Children, Communities and Well-Being Part II: Country Studies 5. Valeria Fargion: Children, Gender and Families in the Italian Welfare State 6. Celia Valiente: Children, Gender and Families in the Spanish Welfare State 7. Azer Kilic: Children, Gender and Families in the Turkish Welfare State 8. Theano Kallinkaki: Children, Gender and Families in the Greek Welfare State 9. Mimi Ajzenstadt: Children, Gender and Families in the Israeli Welfare State 10. Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Contributors; Children, Gender, and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States: An Introduction; References; Part I Key Concepts; Investing in Children? Changes in Policies Concerning Children and Families in European Countries; Understanding Gender Economic Inequality Across Welfare Regimes; Neighborhoods and Families; Part II Setting the Scene; Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States, or: Did Beveridge and Bismarck Take a Mediterranean Cruise Together?; Part III Country Studies; Children, Gender and Families in the Italian Welfare State
    Description / Table of Contents: The Erosion of Familism in the Spanish Welfare State: Childcare Policy Since 1975References; Children, Families and Women in the Israeli State: 1880s--2008; Gender, Family and Children at the Crossroads of Social Policy Reform in Turkey: Alternating Between Familialism and Individualism; Gender, Children and Families in the Greek Welfare State; Part IV A Cross-National Comparison; Is There a Mediterranean Welfare State? A Country-Level Analysis; Name Index
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    SIKU: Knowing Our Ice : Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use (2010)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048185870
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXI, 501p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. SIKU
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Geography ; Anthropological linguistics ; Climatic changes ; Anthropology ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Anthropological linguistics ; Climatic changes ; Anthropology ; Human Geography ; Ethnoscience ; Arctic regions ; Research ; Arctic regions ; International Polar Year, 2007-2008 ; Human ecology ; Arctic regions ; Ethnobiology ; Arctic regions ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Arctic regions ; Human beings ; Effect of environment on ; Arctic regions ; Arctic regions ; Research ; Arctic regions ; Environmental conditions
    Abstract: By exploring indigenous people`s knowledge and use of sea ice, the SIKU project has demonstrated the power of multiple perspectives and introduced a new field of interdisciplinary research, the study of social (socio-cultural) aspects of the natural world, or what we call the social life of sea ice. It incorporates local terminologies and classifications, place names, personal stories, teachings, safety rules, historic narratives, and explanations of the empirical and spiritual connections that people create with the natural world. In opening the social life of sea ice and the value of indigenous perspectives we make a novel contribution to IPY, to science, and to the public TOC:Preface .- Foreword .- Volume Contributors.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Overview.- Part 1 - RECORDING THE KNOWLEDGE:.- Part 2 - USING THE ICE: .- Part 3 - LEARNING, KNOWING, AND PRESERVING THE KNOWLEDGE.- Part 4 - SIKU and Siku: OPENING NEW PERSPECTIVES .-EPILOGUE: The Humanism of Sea Ice.- Appendix 1. Nunavimmiut Sea Ice Terminology.- Appendix 2. List of the SIKU-generated publications and science presentations, 2006-2010.- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Recording the knowledge : Inuit observations of ice, climate and change -- pt. 2. Using the ice : indigenous knowledge and modern technologies -- pt. 3. Learning, knowing and preserving the knowledge -- pt. 4. SIKU and Siku : opening new perspectives.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0
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    New Contributions to the Philosophy of History (2010)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048194100
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 240 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 6
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ontology ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Ontology ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past. Likewise, intimate engagement with the writings of historians can deepen philosophers` understanding of the task of knowing the past. This volume brings these perspectives together and considers fundamental questions, such as: What is historical causation? What is a large historical structure? How can we best conceptualize "mentalities" and "identities"? What is involved in understanding the subjectivity of historical actors? What is involved in arriving at an economic history of a large region? How are actions and outcomes related? The arguments touch upon a wide range of historical topics -- the Chinese and French Revolutions, the extension of railroads in the nineteenth century, and the development of agriculture in medieval China. TOC:Introduction History`s Pathways.- Chapter One History and narrative.- Chapter Two Historical concepts and social ontology.- Chapter Three Large structures .- Chapter Four Causal mechanisms.- Chapter Five History of Technology.- Chapter Six Economic history.- Chapter Seven The involution debate.- Chapter Eight Mentalités.- Conclusion.- References
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; 1 Introduction: Historys Pathways; 2 History and Narrative; 3 Historical Concepts and Social Ontology; 4 Large Structures; 5 Causal Mechanisms; 6 History of Technology; 7 Economic History; 8 The Involution Debate; 9 Mentalits; Conclusion; References; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9410-0
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    Spatial and Social Disparities : Understanding Population Trends and Processes: volume 2 (2010)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048187508
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 300p, digital)
    Series Statement: Understanding Population Trends and Processes 2
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Spatial and social disparities
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Räumliche Verteilung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Soziale Schicht ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Migranten ; Großbritannien ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Population ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Population ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Großbritannien ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Population. ; Equality. ; Income distribution. ; Population--Statistics. ; Equality--Statistics. ; Income distribution--Statistics. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
    Abstract: Inequality is one of the major problems of the contemporary world. Significant geographical disparities exist within nations of the developed world, as well as between these countries and those referred to as the 'South' in the Bruntland Report. Issues of equity and deprivation must be addressed in view of sustainable development. However, before policymakers can remove the obstacles to a fairer world, it is essential to understand the nature of inequality, both in terms of its spatial and socio-demographic characteristics. This second volume in the series contains population studies that examine the disparities evident across geographical space in the UK and between different individuals or groups. Topics include demographic and social change, deprivation, happiness, cultural consumption, ethnicity, gender, employment, health, religion, education and social values. These topics and the relationships between them are explored using secondary data from censuses, surveys or administrative records. In volume 1 the findings of research on fertility, living arrangements, care and mobility are examined. Volume 3 will focus on ethnicity and integration.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; 1 Spatial and Social Disparities; Introduction; Disparities in the UK; Structure and Content of the Book; Spatial Disparities: Demographic Change, Deprivation, Social Patterns, Happiness and Cultural Consumption; Social Disparities: Ethnicity, Gender, Employment and Health; Social Disparities: Religion, Education and Social Values; Conclusions; References; 2 Demographic and Deprivation Change in the UK; Introduction; Methodology; Harmonising Geographical Information; Re-estimating 1991 Mid-year Populations
    Description / Table of Contents: Calculating Deprivation ScoresPopulation Change in Small Areas; Deprivation Change in the UKs Small Areas; Case Study: Deprivation Change in Leeds; Conclusions; References; 3 Englands Changing Social Geology; Introduction; Classifying Areas; Data Selection; Methodology; Results; Conclusions; References; 4 Geographical Modelling of Happiness and Well-Being; Introduction; Data; Building Multilevel Models of Happiness; Building Spatial Microsimulation Models of Happiness; Conclusions; References; 5 Geographic Analysis of Cultural Consumption; Introduction; The Data
    Description / Table of Contents: Accessibility and Commuting IndicesModelling Arts Attendance; Regression Modelling; Comparing Models for Specific Artforms; Comparing Models for Specific Venues; Manchester; Comparing Our Model to Existing Geodemographic Classifications; Conclusions; References; 6 Struggling onto the Ladder, Climbing the Rungs: Employment and Class Position of Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain; Introduction; Data and Methods; Analysis; Discussion and Conclusion; References; 7 Occupational Segregation and Concentration: An Analysis by Sex, Employment Status and Ethnic Group in England and Wales; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: The Theil Index for Measuring Multigroup SegregationData; Demography and Patterns of Work Participation by Ethnic Group, 19912001; Segregation Indices and Patterns of Occupational Concentration; Conclusions; References; 8 Effects of Employment on Cardiovascular Risk; Introduction; Methodology; Findings; Shift Work and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease; Night-Work, Long Working Hours, Job Control and Cortisol Secretion in Mid-life; Conclusions; References; 9 Employment and Health Trajectories; Introduction; Data
    Description / Table of Contents: Do Past Patterns Influence Current Status of Labour Force Participation and of Health?Employment and Health Trajectories: Do They Cluster?; Are Employment and Health Trajectories Similar?; Employment and Objective Health Measures; Conclusions; References; 10 The Circumstances and Attitudes of Different Muslim Groups in England and Europe; Introduction; Methods; Data Sources; Sample Weights; Measures; Socioeconomic and Migration Status; Racial Harassment and Discrimination; Religiosity and Ethnic/National Identity; Research Findings; Discussion and Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Investigating Inequalities in Educational Attainment
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8750-8
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    Dynamic Population Models (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052309
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: The Springer Series On Demographic Methods And Population Analysis 17
    Keywords: Social sciences Methodology ; Genetics Mathematics ; Statistics ; Social Sciences ; Demography ; Populationsdynamik ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Comprehensively discusses and synthesizes the emerging field of dynamic modeling. This book includes discussions of population growth and momentum under gradual fertility declines, the impact of changes in the timing of events on fertility measures, and the complex relationship between period and cohort measures
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Population Models With Constant Rates; Convergence to Stability; Population Momentum; Demographic Change at the Margin; Longevity and Dynamic Mortality; Timing Effects on Fertility, Marriage, and Divorce; Dynamic Birth-Death (Multi-Age) Models; Dynamic Multistate Models; Dynamic Models With Multiple Ages and~States; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5230-8
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