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This collection provides new insights about current welfare professions in a number of European countries. Focusing on research representing different types of European welfare states, including the Scandinavian and the Continental, the book offers in-depth understandings of professionals’ everyday work within different contextual conditions, explored from empirical and theoretical perspectives. Subjects covered include knowledge and identity, education and professional development, regulation, accountability, collaboration, assessment and decision making. This is a valuable contribution to the discussion of professionalism and welfare professions, offering lessons learned and ways forward.
This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.
The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical specialties characterized by relatively low earnings or prestige. The segregation of medical work has become increasingly recognized as a sign of inequality between female and male members of the medical profession.Medicine as a social organization is not a universal structure: Health care systems vary in the extent to which physicians work in the private or public sector and in the extent to which ...
Exploring various aspects of social work from an anthropological perspective, this original book uses an ‘outsider’ position to develop a reflexive dialogue with social workers from England and elsewhere in Europe. Bell, an anthropologist, worked alongside social work educators and social workers for many years. She widens our insights into social work by offering thought-provoking examples suggesting how social work practitioners view their occupation and their practice, and how wider society views them. Blending research and personal reflection to critically examine social workers’ preoccupations and contributions to society, the author explores identities and definitions in social work, making this book refreshing reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners.
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In vorliegendem Band werden Karrieren von Frauen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer privaten Lebenssituation untersucht. Die ideale Führungskraft muss in vielen Bereichen im Prinzip allzeit verfügbar, mobil und flexibel sein. Dies war männlichen Führungskräften gut möglich, da ihre Partnerinnen oft bereit waren, Haus und Kinder zu versorgen. Doch Frauen wollen auch selbst berufliche Chancen wahrnehmen. Was, wenn ihre Karrieren hohen und flexiblen Arbeitseinsatz und das Arbeiten an wechselnden Orten verlangen? Ist das Leben in einer Partnerschaft für Frauen dann ein Karrierehindernis? Sind Frauen als Single flexibler, mobiler und beruflich erfolgreicher? Wie und unter welchen Bedingungen gelingt Frauen in Partnerschaften eine eigene Karriere?...