49 Ebooks tarafından Jason L Powell
Jason L Powell: Rethinking Aging
This authentic book explores the concept of aging and its relationship to victimization and death in contemporary culture. Healthcare and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and …
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€137.36
Jason L Powell: Social Welfare, Personal Budgets and Care
Personalisation in British social care is linked to both the principle and process that every adult who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by them, will have choice …
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€73.69
Jason L Powell: Aging and Social Policy
This new book focuses on five themes that link to a compelling argument in the study of aging and social policy. Firstly, there is a policy context of neo-liberal social policy and implications for …
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€117.85
Jason L Powell: Foundations of Social Inquiry
The book provides students with an overview of the main developments in the foundations in sociological research. It will focus upon the methodological and philosophical underpinnings of sociological …
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€87.48
Jason L Powell: Exploring Policing, Crime and Society
This short textbook seeks to provide an conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the ‘police’, one of the key social and legal institutions of the modern state. Police are an …
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€87.26
Jason L Powell: Foucault
This edited book pays homage to the conceptual gifts left by Michel Foucault and it assesses different aspects of social sciences such as sociology, economics, arts, volunteering, crime, sexuality. …
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€143.49
Jason L Powell: Aging, Gender and Crime
This book explores the issue of crime and its relationship to gender and aging. This is a forgotten area of analysis in disciplines of criminology, gerontology and even in Feminist theorizing. This …
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€87.41
Jason L Powell: Understanding the Voluntary Sector
One of the key issues in recent times in England is the inter-relationship between voluntary organizations and sustainability. It is very tempting to view voluntary agencies rather like very fragile …
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€86.85
Jason L Powell: Sociology of Care
This book explores the contested concept and theorization of care and its relationship to aging. The book analyses the different and complex ways care has been colonised by bio-medical sciences, …
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€87.41
Sheying Chen & Jason L Powell: Global Dynamics of Aging
This book explores the issue of global aging and its impact on different nation states across the world. It is in three parts: the first part sets the scene about the challenges of global aging; part …
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€275.55
Jason L Powell: Short Introduction to Social theory
This brief textbook provides a broad critical introduction to social theory in terms of its engagement with modernity and to a lesser extent, with post-modernity. It focuses on the major trends in …
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€87.41
Jason L Powell: Habermas
This book explores the work of German philosopher and social theorist Jurgen Habermas. It provides a context for the emergence of his critical theory and key influences. The text explores Habermas’s …
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€111.19
Jason L Powell: Baudrillard and Postmodernism
This innovative book locates the historical emergence of postmodernism and what it is a reaction against. One of the key theorists of postmodernism, is Jean Baudrillard. He has had an enormous impact …
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€111.41
Jason L Powell: Feminism
This book explores the history and contemporary rise and consolidation of Feminism. Mainstream social theory is said to represent a partial and incomplete view of society and social relations. Such …
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€87.47
Jason L Powell: Understanding Aging
This book explores specific theories on aging grounded through examination of several issues in social welfare. The book will review different understandings of becoming and being old and how these …
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€118.75
Jason L Powell: Understanding Foucault
This book is an introduction to the key concepts of the social philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault. The text is written with clear examples to illustrate the relevance of Foucault’s …
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€118.62
Jason L Powell: Understanding Power and Emotion
This book explores the concept of power and emotion. The book begins by examining the conceptual problems and issues associated with theorizing power drawing from classical, modern and contemporary …
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€118.26
Jason L Powell: From Historical Social Theory to Foucault
This book explores the historical developments in social theory and critical theorizing about history by Michel Foucault. The book begins by explicating the major conceptual developments in American …
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€117.87
Jason L Powell: Globalization and Global Aging
This book explores the relationship between globalization and global changes in populational structures across the world. The book begins by surveying the issue of inequality across the world and …
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€118.66
Jason L Powell: Social Gerontology
This book explores the concept of aging and presents it in the disciplinary field entitled ‘Social Gerontology’. The book examines key theories that have emerged and the problems and possibilities of …
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€118.92
Jason L Powell: Later Life
This book explores the theoretical issues inherent in exploring later life in modern society. To deal effectively with the challenges created by population aging, it is vital to first understand …
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€118.52
Jason L Powell: Global Challenge
This book explores the global challenge: understanding aging as a medical concept, social concept and population term. The focus is on China and global aging. The book further assesses the rapid rise …
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€98.66
Jason L Powell: Symbolic Interactionism
This book explores the rise and consolidation of Symbolic Interactionism. This is one of the most important and significant theories of social action in all the disciplines of social science and …
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€98.64
Jason L Powell: Contemporary Issues in Modern Society
This book explores the major contemporary social issues in modern society with a clear focus on major facets of social life. The book examines the relevance of crime, employment, social care and …
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€98.57
Jason L Powell: Issues in Sociology
Sociology is the systematic study of the taken-for-granted assumptions that people make about everyday life. This book explores a triumvirate of important concepts in sociology: power, trust and …
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€98.64
Jason L Powell: Rethinking Social Welfare
This book is one of the first to explore contemporary welfare developments in the western world through a conceptual lens that is utilised by Michel Foucault and Foucault-inspired scholars. In the …
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€98.73
Jason L Powell: Education, Employment and Pensions
This book explores the relationship between education, employment and pensions in contemporary western society. The book is in two parts. The first part focuses on theoretical interpretations of …
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€98.75
Jason L Powell: Social Philosophy, Age and Aging
This book attempts to unravel the fundamental assumptions of social philosophy and how its different concepts and theories make sense of human aging. The book explores how biomedical aging dominated …
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€98.33
Jason L Powell: Helping Professions and Aging
This book explores the development of helping professions with older people. It provides a theoretical excursion drawing from French philosophy to examine how social work as a helping profession has …
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€98.64
Jason L Powell: Aging Body
This book explores the main issues in new social science approaches to understanding the human body and aging. In particular, the development of postmodernism and its relationship to culture and the …
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€98.64
Jason L Powell: Key Thinkers in Social Science
This book explores the relevance of key thinkers in social science from historical traditions to contemporary philosophers and the nature of modern society and how theories and concepts can be used …
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€98.75
Jason L Powell: Global Aging, China and Urbanization
This original book explores the nature and extent of global aging in contemporary society. It examines the impact of populational aging on different continents in the world. The book then moves its …
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€98.01
Jason L Powell: Issues in Crime, Criminal Justice and Aging
This book explores the issues of crime, aging and criminal justice and their relationship to pensions, prisons, offenders, and victimization. The book is original in that it explores such key issues …
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€98.57
Jason L Powell: Social Work, Performativity and Personalization
This book, which draws from fieldwork research and evidence, is provided to suggest a sense of emotional anxiety among social workers and case managers working on the ‘front-line’ within local …
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€98.33
Jason L Powell: Aging, Risk and Globalization
This book examines the concept of aging. It interrogates how it has been co-opted and absorbed by bio-medical approaches to gerontology. The book explores how the concept of risk is a major feature …
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€98.72
Jason L Powell: Aging, Culture and Society
This book examines aging and old age from a range of social and cultural approaches. The book begins by examining the emergence of mainstream sociological theories of aging that attempt to go beyond …
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€98.69
Jason L Powell: Social Analysis of Emotion and Trust
This book examines the social analysis of emotion as well as its multifaceted interpretation by social theories emanating from the critical social science field. An overview of positivist, …
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€98.75
Jason L Powell: Neo-Liberalism and the Power of Globalization
This book assesses the historical and modern significance and emergence of global forces and its impact on nation states. In particular, the power of globalization comprises two inter-locking …
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€98.91
Jason L Powell: Feminist Social Theory
This book examines the rise and consolidation of feminist insights into contemporary social theory. The book begins by providing an historical backdrop that led to the emergence of women’s …
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€98.95
Jason L Powell: Power and Aging
This book examines the concept of power. It begins by pointing to its multi-dimensional definition and points to different sociological interpretations of its conception and social practice. The book …
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€98.63
Jason L Powell: "Management of Aging" and the Dark Side of Modernity
Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies …
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€851.69
Jason L Powell: Theorizing Community Care
As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimize an …
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€98.71
Jason L Powell: Aging and Western Society: A Critical Approach
This book is an unashamedly sociological excursion relating to the ageing process in Western society. It fundamentally questions assumptions and ideas around ageing, and where these ideas …
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€136.48
Jason L Powell: The Power of Global Aging
This book is a demographical overview of the key issues associated with globalisation and global aging in the 21st century. The book explores how populational aging has increased the implications for …
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€137.81
Jason L Powell: Life Course and Society
This book explores the concept of key concepts, theories and practices related to life course issues associated with social work, power and trust in contemporary society. The book begins by narrating …
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€137.36
Jason L Powell: China, Aging and Theory
This book provides a theoretical critique and analysis of the development and consolidation of power in China as it applies to aging. In seeking to deal with this increased proportion of elderly …
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€87.43
Jason L Powell: Foucault
This book explores the biography, issues and legacy of French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault. Arguably, Foucault was the greatest scholar of the 20th century and has left a huge …
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€87.74
Jason L Powell: Understanding Risk and Trust
This book explores the concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘trust’ that are theoretical tools and arguably major facets of late modernity A New conceptions of trust and risk are rapidly changing theoretical …
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€118.66
Jason L Powell: Volunteering, Aging and Business
This book analyses the key issues inherent for the voluntary sector as it relates to the experiences of older people. The book reviews the major issues for older people’s needs and rights. The book …
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€98.81
