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The social universe of adolescence in the context of physical disability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 12
Applied Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Applied Social Sciences

This volume, Applied Social Sciences: Sociology, offers the reader a wide collection of quantitative and qualitative studies from different research areas such as medical sociology, political sociology, sociology of communication, sociology of culture, sociology of education, sociology of migration, sociology of population, and urban sociology. Theoretical and empirical papers attempt to explain complex social phenomena, including attitudes and values concerning economic recession, culture, electronic communication, employment and professional training, exclusion/inclusion of vulnerable groups, individual and group identity, migration, representations, school, stereotypes, and transition. The current volume offers theoretical and empirical material to a wide diversity of professionals from the socio-humanistic field. The information is structured in order to help the reader construct a specific image on the studied social phenomena. At the same time, the volume is not restrictive: it is also helpful and accessible to the general public, interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.

Child and Family Welfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Child and Family Welfare

Welfare is a multidimensional concept characterizing the state of the individual or a group. It includes a subjective component (self-assessment) and an objective component (external assessment) of material, physical, emotional and social dimensions. Given the current changes of the socio-economical environment, this concept is assuming a prominent role in the agenda of the social sciences. Social work focuses on studying welfare in developing programs and delivering interventions with the highest potential of improving the social functionality of individuals, groups or communities. Moreover, a rights-based approach is the only guarantee we have today for the respect of human dignity and the...

Education and Continuous Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Education and Continuous Education

Education and lifelong learning are priorities of any educational system. Moreover, the European Union has adopted a set of policies and promoted a series of programmes meant to improve the educational systems of the Member-States and enhance cooperation. Education and continuous education are a matter of personal fulfilment and achievement of economic and social goals. Education and Continuous Education contains 20 papers grouped into four chapters covering the social factors affecting educational systems and the specific issues of adolescence, youth, and adulthood. Five essays belong to the realm of social theology whose practical impact on educational systems in Romania and abroad cannot be denied. The book is meant to be a valuable tool for both a wider audience and professionals in the field of education (including educators, teachers, professors, psychologists, doctors, social workers, and researchers in social sciences) involved in continuous education. The book will also appeal to all those interested in interdisciplinary approaches.

European Social Work After 1989
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

European Social Work After 1989

This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the profession’s relationship with politics. The exchanges between western schools of social work and the emergent academic partner institutions in former Communist countries formed a valuable testing ground for the essential principles and competences of social work in terms of their universal scientific basis o...

Social Issues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Social Issues

Social Issues presents some of the social problems with which Romanian society has been confronted after the fall of Communism. National and international forms of migration are analysed in five essays dealing with the unseen face of migration, urban depopulation in Romania, the socio-economic aspects of migration, demographic trends in Romania, and with human trafficking. The construction of identity in both physical and virtual spaces is analysed in eight essays with a focus on social integration, on the redefinition of identity, on the reintegration on the labour market, on the right to self-determination, on identity in the network society, and on stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. The health state of vulnerable populations is illustrated by four essays on the institutionalised elderly, on residents of lignite quarry areas, and on patients with liver disease. The book will appeal to professionals in the field of social sciences and to decision-makers at all economic, political, and social levels. It will also appeal to all those interested in interdisciplinary approaches.

Applied Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Applied Social Sciences

This volume, Applied Social Sciences: Philosophy and Theology, provides the reader with an important set of essays related to the two aforementioned fields of study. Aesthetics plays a key role in contemporary philosophy and several authors examine its various aspects, such as the question of identification of works of art; the concept of “social aesthetics”; the social therapeutic function that art can have; and the relationships among hermeneutics, aesthetics and communication sciences. Other papers deal with ethical issues, such as the role of human values in applied ethics and moral determinations in public life. The meaning and role of postmodernism in philosophy and society is exam...

Applied Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Applied Social Sciences

This book, Applied Social Sciences: Administration and Management, is a compelling collection of quantitative and qualitative studies in the fields of administration, right, management, and international studies related to the social sphere. Through theoretical studies and empirical research, the authors attempt to explain complex legal, administrative, management and international relations concepts. The essays focus on several themes including local and global public administration, team management, human resources, social and medical services, management of intangibles, female managers, ethnic minorities in central Europe, corporative social responsibility, the digital era, the right to development, responsibility, and crime victims of child pornography, etc. The book is an educational and empirical support for a broad variety of professionals in the socio-administrative and legal fields. Scientific knowledge is structured in order to provide an actual image of the studied concepts. However, the book is not restrictive: it is also accessible to a broader audience interested in an interdisciplinary approach to administrative, legal and management studies.

Applied Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Applied Social Sciences

This book, Applied Social Sciences: Economics and Politics, is a collection of quantitative and qualitative studies carried out in the field of economic and political sciences useful in the social sphere. Theoretical essays and empiric research attempt to explain some difficult economic and political phenomena such as need scale and true productivity, audit of financial statements, evaluation of students’ action on the labour market, the financing and quality of public higher education, resistance to change in the banking sector, power of redistribution systems, and intellectual investment through the prism of medical services efficiency. The book also contains studies that touch on themes...

Applied Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Applied Social Sciences

Applied Social Sciences: Psychology, Physical Education and Social Medicine is focused on an interdisciplinary area of research, coagulating quantitative and qualitative studies related to developmental psychology, methodology of applied psychology, educational psychology, physical education and social medicine. Some of these topics, such as deviant behaviours of adolescents, validation of specific psychological scales, cross-cultural approaches in education, behaviour optimization at the individual and group level in the sport environment, medical services for elderly persons, using illicit drugs and suicidal manifestation, the impact of economic crisis on population health state, and community health assistance, are extremely relevant for the dynamics of contemporary social identities. This volume offers both theoretical and empirical support for a wide range of professionals in the area of social and behavioural sciences, providing both accurate and profound diagnoses of post-communist Romanian realities.