Autore	Orelus Pierre W.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (129 pages)
Disciplina	303.372
Soggetto topico	Social justice Minorities Discrimination
ISBN	1-4758-0449-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Re-envisioning social justice and democracy : Noam Chomsky speaks -- Questioning the essentializing convenience of generalizations : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak speaks -- Institutional racism and white hegemony : Adolfo Acuna speaks -- Interrogating class, racism, and inequality : Antonia Darder speaks -- Re-envisioning the life of youth in the age of western neo-liberalism : Henry Giroux speaks -- Rethinking literacy and schooling in a capitalist society : James Gee speaks -- Rethinking schooling in a neoliberal economy : Kevin Kumashiro speaks -- Re-defining blackness in the 21ist century : Molefi K. Asante speaks -- Taking a stance for equity and fairness : Maxine Greene speaks -- Anti-colonial thought and indigenous ways of knowing and doing : George Sefa Dei speaks -- The politics of representation : a social justice issue : Stuart Hall speaks.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910792616903321

Autore	Sautter Hermann
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (196 pages)
Disciplina	303.372
Collana	Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.
Soggetto topico	Social policy - Economic aspects Social justice - Economic aspects
Soggetto non controllato	Economy Justice Market Sautter Social
ISBN	3-631-75369-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Hermann Sautter, Rolf Schinke: Foreword -- Hermann Sautter: „Social Justice" - its Meaning and its Implementation in a Market Economy -- Rolf Schinke: Indicators of Social Justice in Latin America: A Matter of Concern? -- Hans Jürgen Rösner: The Institutional Framework of a Social Market Economy -- Knut Gerlach: Harmonizing Equity with Growth: The Role of Educational Policy -- J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg: Harmonizing Equity with Growth: The Role of Health Policy -- Klaus Liebig: Ongoing Reforms of Latin American Health Systems: Can Market-Oriented Reforms Help to Solve the Problem? -- Peter Rühmann: The German Labor Market Institutions - Will They Meet the Demand of Globalization and Europeanization? -- Winfried Schmähl: Old-Age Security: Design and Effects of Pension Schemes: Some Basic Aspects -- Hermann Sautter: „Social Justice" in a Market Economy - Some Results of the Discussion -- The Authors.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910297038503321

Autore	Watts Lynelle
Edizione	[1st ed. 2019.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XXI, 211 p. 4 illus.)
Disciplina	303.372
Soggetto topico	Social work Social justice Human rights Political philosophy Social policy Social Work Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights Political Philosophy Children, Youth and Family Policy Justícia social Drets humans Treball social
Soggetto genere / forma	Llibres electrònics
ISBN	981-13-3621-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Chapter 1. Injustice and its many forms -- Chapter 2. Social justice as an ethic of social work -- Chapter 3. A critical history of the social work response to social justice -- Chapter 4. Capitalism and neoliberalism -- Chapter 5. Power and knowledge -- Chapter 6. Critical social science and critical theory -- Chapter 7. Distributive theories of justice -- Chapter 8. Democracy and participation -- Chapter 9. Human rights and autonomy -- Chapter 10. Social justice and social work practice -- Chapter 11. Social justice and social work education.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910350279403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, Pa. : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (177 pages)
Disciplina	303.372
Altri autori (Persone)	Jackson JrJohn L
Soggetto topico	Social justice Social policy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-5128-2147-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: It's Not Just Social Policy, It's Social Justice -- Chapter 1. Ending Homelessness Now -- Chapter 2. Mass Incarceration: What's at Stake and What to Do -- Chapter 3. Social Workers or the Social Work Bureaucracy? -- Chapter 4. Substance Use, Incarceration, and Homelessness: Mapping and Navigating Intersecting Risk Environments -- Chapter 5. Foster Care, Then Where? Why Independent Living Is Getting It All Wrong -- Chapter 6. The Reality of Urban Food Deserts and What Low-Income Food Shoppers Need -- Chapter 7. What Do You Do? Ideas About Transforming "Work" in the United States -- Chapter 8. Forced Mental Health Treatment Will Not Prevent Violent Tragedies -- Chapter 9. Beyond the Good Guy Versus Bad Guy Worldview: Improving the Gun Policy Debate -- Chapter 10. Child Welfare and Poverty: The American Paradox -- Chapter 11. Transforming Education: Toward Thinking Comprehensively About Education -- Chapter 12. From Poverty to Well-Being: New Tools for Addressing Concentrated Disadvantage -- List of Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910493695503321

Autore	O'Brien Jodi
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, c1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina	303.372 306
Soggetto topico	Social action Social role Social values
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4522-3404-3 1-4522-6762-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1. The Paradox of Réduction: Some Observations on Sociology as Science; Knowledge Systems; Science as a Dominant System of Knowledge; Using Scientific Thinking for Social Questions; Science Discovers Nature: Something to Be Catalogued, Predicted and Controlled; Scientism: The Misapplication of Scientific Methods to Social Life; Empirical Observation Versus Interpretation in Social Research; Reduction and Reification; Conclusions Chapter 2. The Case of the Designer Genes: Reconsidering the Nature/Nurture BinaryNature/Nurture: A Problematic Dichotomy; Biological Versus Social Patterns of Difference: An Example of Gender; Gender as a Social Institution; The Social Construction of Gender Classification; Social (Il)literacy; The Search for the Gay Gene and Other Misapplications of ""Bio Rhetoric""; ""There Are Three Kinds of People in the World""; Chapter 3. To Belong or Not to Belong? Paradoxes of Community; What Is Community?; Normative Routines Versus Habits of the Heart; Group Propositions and Paradoxes The Paradox of Individual and Community: Who Would I Be Without This Group?Forging Self Through Choice; Two Paradoxes of Group Boundaries; Society as a Web of Group Interests; The Possibility of Pluralism? Intergroup Conflicts; Conclusions: Some Afterthoughts on Pluralism and Conflict; Chapter 4. Which Box Do I Check? Paradoxes of Social Difference; Making Distinctions; The Necessity of Difference; Marking Differences; Differences as Markers of Inequality; The Paradox of Social Differences; ""Getting It""; Chapter 5. How Do We Cut the American Pie? The Myth of Meritocracy Is Equality the American Ideal?Structures of Scarcity; Education and Equal Opportunity; Strategies for Maintaining the Myth of Meritocracy; Suburban Life as an Illustration of the Illusion That Affluence = Social Character = Merit; Class Consciousness; Conclusions; Chapter 6. Family Equations: Whose Family? Whose Values?; The Rhetoric of ""Family Values""; Values of the Family: Definitional Equations; How Television Created the Ideal Family; Family Harmony and Family Appearances: Economic Factors; The Relationship Between Family and Community Networks; Is the Family in Crisis? What Is a Family? Who Is It For?Conclusion; Chapter 7. The Paradox of Value in the Age of Certainty: Reflections on Max Weber and Georg Simmel; Modernity as the Age of Certainty; Standardization and Its Costs: The Erosion of Passion and Subjective Value; Certain Measures of Worth: Time and Money; Money as the Ultimate Form of Standardization; Standardized Measures as the Ultimate Authority of Worth; The Paradox of Transcendence; Epilogue: Paradoxes of Subjectivity; The Contemporary Problem of Subjectivity; The Will to Expression; Self-Multiplicity Multivocality : Freedom of Expression and the Authority of Subjectivity
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480409903321