Sociale professionals leggen van oudsher relaties tussen individuele, sociale, maatschappelijke en politiek-ethische vraagstukken. Daarmee levert hun werk een bijdrage aan het sociaal kapitaal van de samenleving en bevorderen ze sociale inclusie.Kan ik daar wat aan doen? onderzoekt op kritische wijze de belangrijkste aspecten van de hulp- en zorgrelatie in verhouding tot de veranderende maatschappelijke instituties. Hoe kunnen sociale professionals in tijden van transitie en transformatie va...

This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice, equipping you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society.

Parenting: A Dynamic Process explores the interaction between parents and children as they shape each other over time. George Holden and Amanda Harrist present the latest interdisciplinary research on parenting in an engaging and accessible matter.

While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts. Now in its second edition, Migration remains the only text in more than a decade that emphasizes how geographical or spatial concepts can be used critically to understand migration.

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A step-by-step guide to social work practice; assessment, planning, intervention, and review

Comprehensive and engaging, this textbook introduces students not only to foundational sociological work, but also to insights from contemporary sociological theory and research. This combined approach ensures that students become familiar with the core of sociology: key concepts, theories, perspectives, methods, and findings. Students will acquire the ability to think like a sociologist, investigate and understand complex social phenomena.

This text presents a complete sociological toolkit, ...

Straightforward and insightful, this is the go-to book for any qualitative researcher who wants to use NVivo to conduct robust data analysis.

This book looks at the essential communication skills required to become an effective social worker.Â

This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports students in conducting their own research projects, whatever discipline they are from. Describing processes, tools and strategies in a simple, succinct way, it supports the reader carefully through the planning and design stages, to implementation...