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How does climate change affect social work and social development? What actions are needed to integrate the three pillars of economic development, environmental development and social protection? Thi …

Housing has enjoyed a high place on the agendas of most socialist countries. However this place has not been undisputed and this book examines the internal and external forces which have influenced h …

The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical program …

Thirty-three of the top scholars in this fast moving domain present a picture of work at the cusp in social psychology — work that deals with cognition and affect in close relationships. The present …

Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststruct …

Harlem is flourishing. Many say a second Renaissance is happening above 120th Street. Magic Johnson opened a major theater, Bill Clinton has centered his post-presidential offices there, countless ho …

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XI of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This study initially finished in 1943, is in response to an increasing interest in education generally …

Appropriate as a supplemental text to courses in Sociology. Providing an overview grounded in research. Developments in Sociology focuses on the major areas of theoretical, methodological and substan …

Although a growing number of researchers emphasize the social and psychocultural aspects of motivation and motivation theory, few books have provided much coverage beyond well-tread studies of physio …

The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseein …