Títulos em Ciências Sociais

This book equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work – from human growth and development to social work research – and explores how a practitioner's own values, principles and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this.

Todos los días somos testigos de la parte más terrible del comportamiento humano: el sufrimiento que provoca por voluntad un individuo a los demás. “¿Qué lleva a una persona a cometer crímenes?” es la pregunta constante que nos alienta a llegar a las soluciones. Para ello, la criminología ha avanzado en un terreno multidisciplinar para estudiar el fenómeno criminal, considerando el crimen, el criminal, la víctima y el control social frente a la transgresión social.

On a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles held his hands up for radio silence in the CBS studio in New York City while millions of people ran out into the night screaming, grabbed shotguns, drove off in cars, and hid in basements, attics, or anywhere they could find to get away from Martians intent on exterminating the human race.

In Ambitious Mother, Dr. Anne Welsh--a licensed psychologist and mom of four--offers a refreshing perspective for overwhelmed moms. Welsh asks, "What are you truly ambitious for?" and invites readers to shed societal expectations, name what they really want, and pursue their own version of success. Motherhood will change your ambition. As Welsh shares, you may discover that you are more ambitious than ever before, or ambitious in new and different ways. Ambitious Mother gives you permission to be as ambitious as you want to be.

Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people different from themselves, yet disparities and dangerous prejudices still run rampant. Why is that? And is there anything we can do about it? Building on the transformational lessons of the bestselling Everyday Bias, Howard J. Ross and Jake Ross reveal how bias is built into our increasingly digital lives and how we must fight against the epidemic of isolation and loneliness tearing apart our sense of connection and belonging.

Queercore officially got its name in the mid-1980s when G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce named it in their revolutionary zine J.D.s, but the movement began years earlier with bands like Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, Nervous Gender, and Fifth Column. The scene exploded into the next decade with the popularity of bands that often crossed over into the riot grrrl scene, including Tribe 8, Team Dresch, Sister George, and Huggy Bear. Their revolution took the form of zine and cassette creation, which they distributed far and wide.

From the oral tradition of campfire tales to today's immersive, serialized audio dramas, the horror genre has found a natural home in the podcasting form. With its ability to tap into the listener's imagination and provoke visceral responses, podcasting has reinvigorated horror storytelling. This book traces the lineage of sound-based horror, examining the rise of hit shows like Welcome to Night Vale, The Black Tapes Podcast, A Scottish Podcast, and One by One, which adopt the serialized format popularized by true crime podcasting post-2014.

Poverty is not inevitable. In fact, we have already made historic progress in reducing it—both globally and in the United States. In Poverty Abolitionists, economist, pastor, and activist David Beckmann shows that with collective will, effective strategy, and renewed moral vision, we can virtually eliminate poverty in our generation. Drawing on decades of leadership at the World Bank and as president of Bread for the World, Beckmann distills five essential insights and ten strategies to reinvigorate the fight against hunger and deprivation.

In 1975, the school board members of a small Long Island town did what they thought was a no-brainer: they ordered the removal of nine books from a high school library. The books included some classics – Richard Wright's Black Boy; Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape; Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five – but that didn't matter to board chair Richard Ahrens, who called the collection "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy." Maybe he thought the town was with him.

One of the greatest fashion designers of all time, Halston defined and dominated the 1970s. He was America's first fashion superstar, a groundbreaking craftsman and a pioneering businessman who also exuded glamour, wit and charm. More important than the million-dollar success and the movie-star status though was the powerhouse of incredible women that he surrounded himself with. This is the untold story of those women.

Yeah Yeah Yeah is a landmark and addictive work that audaciously charts the entire story of pop music. Unlike other books, it comprehensively covers the genre's history, spanning from the advent of the music charts in the 1950s to the digital transition of the year 2000. It covers an astonishing range of artists, from Billy Fury and Roxy Music to TLC and Britney, including giants like Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer. This book will remind you exactly why you first fell in love with pop.

Frauen im Internet stehen unter ständiger Beobachtung. Sophie Passmann ist selbst Teil der widersprüchlichen Welt weiblicher Selbstdarstellung in den sozialen Medien. Radikal selbstkritisch seziert sie die Phänomene, die eine ganze Generation prägen: von der asketischen Disziplin einer Hailey Bieber über die kalkulierte Görenhaftigkeit von Charli XCX bis zur neurotischen Perfektion von Taylor Swift. Warum sind wir alle so fasziniert von Frauen, die uns etwas vormachen – und gleichzeitig hassen wir sie genau dafür?

There are very few modern hobbies that can honestly claim they have lived three distinct lives. Most begin as a craze, settle into a niche, and then either fade or become quietly institutional. The Pokémon Trading Card Game did something stranger and more enduring. It began as a children’s pastime, became a cultural flashpoint that adults argued about in staff rooms and school assemblies, then returned decades later as a booming adult obsession with its own economy, celebrities, and mythology. That alone would make it worth studying.

Mildred Muhammad shares her story about rising up from the domestic abuse she endured from her ex-husband, John Allen Muhammad, the convicted D.C. Sniper. Mildred witnessed firsthand John’s bizarre behavior after he returned from the Gulf War, but no one—including her family, friends, and local police—took her warnings seriously.

Unlike generic anger management books, Anger Management for Women addresses the unique challenges women face—from hormonal triggers and workplace discrimination to cultural expectations and trauma-related anger.

Pendant neuf mois, Pierre Gault a infiltré les principaux réseaux masculinistes en France. Sous une fausse identité, il a suivi et imité les centaines d'hommes qui épousent la cause masculiniste : formations sur Internet, stages en forêt, sessions de coaching, forums privés, séances de drague de rue. Très vite, au-delà du sexisme ordinaire surgit la partie immergée de l'iceberg : business florissant de marchands de misère, apologie du viol, complotisme, liens avec l'idéologie d'extrême droite.

The world has witnessed almost everything: cannibalism born of famine, slavery normalized by law, genocide industrialized and justified, the Holocaust carried out in the name of order and purity. We comforted ourselves with the belief that these horrors belonged to the past, that humanity had learned its final lessons. Yet there was one thing history had not fully rehearsed: the systematic persecution of migrants as a global norm. This book argues that we are now living through precisely that moment.

New mothers returning to work may experience deep-rooted gender roles at home, too. Despite gains in gender equality, women continue to spend more time on unpaid and often invisible labor, such as taking care of the children and managing the household, than men. Inequities at home left unaddressed and unchanged risk unsustainable and competing demands for mothers’ time between work and home, impacting their well-being, relationships, job performance, and ambition. The purpose of this research was twofold.

In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference.

Soziale Medien bergen Gefahren für Kinder und Jugendliche, die weit über Mediensucht hinausgehen. Sie wirken vielmehr tief hinein in das soziale Verhalten und die politische Identität Heranwachsender – und beeinflussen, wie sie diese Beziehungen pflegen und ihre Persönlichkeit entwickeln. Nina Kolleck bringt die sozialen und politischen Abgründe von Social Media auf den Punkt.