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Free Download Studying for Your Master’s Degree in Social Work
by Patricia Cartney;Jane Bottomley;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1915080444 | 148 pages | True EPUB | 5.69 MB

Free Download Martin Endress, Lukas Clemens, Benjamin Rampp, "Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience: A Dialogue between Medieval Studies and Sociology"
English | 2020 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 3658290587 | PDF | 10,9 mb
The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as well, including heterogenic approaches on how to conceptually frame resilience. Common to these approaches is, that resilience becomes topical in the context of analysing phenomena and processes of the ‘resistibility’ of certain (socio-historical) units or actors which are perceived as being faced with various constellations of disruptive change. In this context, resilience is not only taken to mean the opposite of vulnerability, but at the same time, resilience and vulnerability are understood as complementary concepts. From this perspective, vulnerability is a necessary condition of resilience and vice versa. Against this background, the present volume provides a preliminary appraisal of socio-scientific and historical resilience research by assembling contributions of authors originating from different disciplines. Thus, it fosters an interdisciplinary discussion on the theoretical and analytical potentials as well as the empirical applicability of the concept of resilience.

Free Download Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions
by Joseph Matthews;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 141333153X | 497 pages | True PDF EPUB | 7.68 MB

Free Download Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, Stratification and Outcomes by Armando Barrientos
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 306 Pages | ISBN : 3031497945 | 9.6 MB
​This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the region: occupational insurance, individual retirement savings, and social assistance. The middle chapters study social protection’s main stratification effects, focussing on stratification effects on employment, protection, and worker incorporation. The later chapters then assess social protection outcomes and identify country groupings including their evolution over time. The book, and its approach and findings, contributes to the advancement of a theory of social protection amongst late industrialisers.

Free Download Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, "Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India: Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political"
English | ISBN: 303094039X | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during India’s liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a ‘New India’ – one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies.

Free Download Haris Malamidis, "Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece "
English | ISBN: 9463722432 | 2020 | 362 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant mobilizations that went hand-in-hand with the emergence of numerous solidarity structures, providing unofficial welfare services to the suffering population. Based on qualitative field research conducted in more than 50 social movement organizations in Greece’s two major cities, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the contentious mechanisms that led to the development of such solidarity initiatives. By analyzing the organizational structure, resources and identity of markets without middlemen, social and collective kitchens, organizations distributing food parcels, social clinics and self-managed cooperatives, this study explains the enlargement of boundaries of collective action in times of crisis.

Free Download Social Media für Introvertierte: Erfolgreich sichtbar als leiser Unternehmer
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3658434821 | 160 Seiten | PDF (True) | 2 MB
​Dieses Buch richtet sich an introvertierte Selbstständige, Solopreneure und Unternehmer und zeigt auf, wie sie Social Media auf die eigene, leise Art für Vertrieb und Marketing zu ihrem Vorteil nutzen können. Denn: Introvertierte Menschen haben zahlreiche verborgene Stärken, die ihnen besonders im Verkauf zugute kommen können. Diese gilt es zu entfalten!

Free Download Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, "Social Media and Political Communication"
English | ISBN: 0367772426 | 2022 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 20 MB
This book offers a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to social media and political communication, examining the political use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Free Download Tim Highfield, "Social Media and Everyday Politics"
English | ISBN: 0745691358 | 2016 | 220 pages | EPUB | 844 KB
From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage of politics reflects the social mediation of everyday life, where individual experiences and thoughts are documented and shared online.

Free Download Social Media: The Convergence of Public and Personal Communication
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367897806 | 176 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Social media have made possible new kinds of relationships, entertainment, and politics, and enabled billions of people to experience new forms of communication, community, and communion. But social media are also profit-driven, data-mining corporations, and their core business model is often built around targeted surveillance that enables the commercial exploitation of their users’ everyday lives. Graham Meikle explores the tensions between these different dimensions of social media, engaging with questions of communication, data, remix, news, visibility, citizenship, and regulation. This second edition has been substantially revised: more than half of the text is entirely new to this edition, and those sections that remain have been completely updated. This new edition includes analysis of the data-driven business models of major social media firms, and of how these firms are expanding into new areas such as AI. It also includes discussion of major developments in news, surveillance, and activism on social media, as well as a new chapter on regulation.