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The social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America : deca…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to …
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- 9783319615363
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- xix, 289p. : ill.
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- 305.8 SOC s
Ageing, diversity and equality: social justice perspectives
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagemen…
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- 9780415786690
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- xvi, 376 pages ; 25 cm.
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- Routledge advances in sociology
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- 305.26 WES a
Pragmatic philanthropy : Asian charity explained
This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditions and examines the key traits and trends that make social investment in Asia unique. Based on 30 case studies of excellent social delivery organizations (SDOs) and social enterprises as well as interviews with ultra-high net-worth individuals throughout Asia, this bo…
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- 9789811071195
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- xvi, 173p. : ill.
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- 361.3 SHA p
Equality and diversity: value incommensurability and the politics of recognition
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.
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- 9781847426086
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- xii, 192 p. ; 25 cm.
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- 320.011 SMI e
Social question in the twenty-first century: a global view
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies …
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- 9780520302402
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- xii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- 306.3 BRE s
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