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Social Dimensions
This chapter explores the potential and accomplished social effects of UA in Sofia, focusing on social cohesion and inclusion through urban...
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Globalisation and the Future of Social Work Practice and Education
This chapter addresses the concept of globalisation as viewed in current social work contexts and its implications for the future of social work...
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Normative Reciprocity, Relational Sociology, and the Critique of Forms of Social Life
In the frame of sociological studies of the last thirty years, Relational Sociology (RS) represents not only an ontological, epistemological, and...
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Community Empowerment in Poverty-Alleviation Social Work
It seems so much easier to simply “give”. Mary E. Richmond, a pioneering social worker, has pointed out that many volunteers in charity, starting out...
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Collective Mindsets: How to Analyze Neoliberal Thinking
In analyzing societies, cultures or economies, collective mindsets play an important role. They tell us about the spiritual construction and the...
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Critical Theory in Social Research: A Theoretical and Methodological Outlook
Critical theory, a multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach, was put forward to reconstruct dominant ideology by the critical task of explaining...
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The Manifestations of Generosity: From Cooperation to Social Justice
Using findings from the Science of Generosity Initiative and other studies, this chapter details the various manifestations of generosity, such as...
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Social Philosophy of Technology
This chapter discusses theories of how we relate to machines in the first place. This is a necessary step toward human–machine friendship as we...
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Values, Activism and Changing Attitudes: Individual-Level Moral Development in Social Movement Contexts
Lately, several studies have added crucial knowledge to our understanding of social movement participation by demonstrating its processual nature and...
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“Just one person in the middle”: Ethics and political social work practice
Political social workers and other policy practitioners frequently lack explicit guidance from the NASW Code of Ethics as to how to navigate...
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Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities
Some diasporic communities are gaining in significance in the twenty-first century. Their persistent cohesion is explained by digitalization,...
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Epistemology Contextualized: Social Scientific Knowledge in a Post-Positivist Era
In the production of knowledge about social life, two social contexts come together: the context of investigation, consisting of the social world of...
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Librealism's Boundaries in Addressing the Climate Crisis: Insights from Domenico Losurdo and Posthumanism
This study critically examines the limitations of liberalism in effectively addressing the climate crisis, informed by Domenico Losurdo’s critique...
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Trustworthiness and Well-Being: The Ethical, Legal, and Social Challenge of Robotic Assistance
If a technology lacks social acceptance, it cannot realize dissemination into society. The chapter thus illuminates the ethical, legal, and social...
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Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: Žižekian/Deleuzian/Lao Zi’s Perspective on Hong Kong Law Reform on Sexual Offences
The ripple effect caused by the landmark case Leung Roy William v Secretary for Justice (2004) has been far-reaching and significant in its impact:...
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Promoting Reflective Learning Styles Among Social Work and Nursing Students: A Review
This chapter reviews various significant educational approaches developed in social and health care specifically designed to enhance individual and...
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The Impact of Terrorism Policies on Health and Social Care Practitioners in the UK
Like other countries, the UK has been wrestling with the issue of how to prevent and eradicate radicalization and terrorist attacks. In response to...
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Islamic Feminism. Thinking Gender Justice as a Religious Knowledge Practice
The contribution aims to deepen the understanding of religion as a resource of feminist demands, namely beyond the perceived socio-historical divide...
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Social Anthropology in India: Studying the Self in the Other
Anthropology established itself in India during the British colonisation, subsequently, in the early years of the twentieth century, it was...
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An Institutional Field as a Heterogeneous Innovation Context: The Example of Social Robotics
In robotics, a partial transition can be observed from service robotics, which regarded everyday human environments as a particularly complex and...