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The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Second Edition addresses the persistence of poverty across the globe while updating and expanding the landmark work, Encyclopedia of World Poverty, originally published in 2006 prior to the economic calamities of 2008. For instance, while continued high rates of income inequality might be unsurprising in developing countries such as Mexico, the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported in May 2013 even countries with historically low levels of income inequality have experienced significant increases over the past decade, including Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. The U.N. and the World Bank also emphasize the persistent nature ...
Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens through class structures when economies perform poorly. Our society only has to witness the booms and busts of the past decade to see how economics profoundly affects the cores of societies around the world. From a household budget to international trade, economics ranges from the micro- to the macro-level. It relates to a breadth of social science disciplines that help describe the content of the proposed encyclopedia, which will explicitly approach economics through varied disciplinary lenses. Although there are encyclopedias of coverin...
Kültürden kültüre, toplumdan topluma kimi zaman da insandan insana değişen ahlâk anlayışında hemfikir olunan belli değerler her insanın ortak yaşam kültüründe var olmasını sağlamaktadır. Mesleki yaşamda evrensel niteliğe işaret eden etik kavramı, kapsamı gereği dünyada insan hakları savunuculuğunun direği olarak görev yapmaktadır. Bu nedenledir ki, konuya “etik nedir?” diye sorarak başlamak yerine özünde “etik davranmak neden önemlidir?” sorusuyla bir giriş yapmanın daha işlevsel olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Bu soruyu yanıtlarken birlikte yaşam, canlıların yaşam hakkı, savunuculuk, sosyal adalet gibi ana kavramlara atıfta bulunmak ge...
As the outcome of the seventh international congress, the papers in this volume related to basically focus on media studies. In this book, which is an integrated of writings about digital technologies and new media, media contents and cinema in the axis of different disciplines is intended to provide a contribution to the literature on media studies, both theoretically and practically. Media studies consist of analyzed in an interdisciplinary approach covering a wide range of fields such as politics, society, economics, philosophy, psychology and economics. We believe that these studies would contribute to the development of debates in social sciences and encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
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