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Social Justice and Social Work Practice
The previous chapters have outlined the theoretical ideas pertinent to understanding social justice. This chapter synthesises these ideas into a...
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Educational Situation of Portuguese Ciganos: Social Changes versus Social Continuities
The purpose of this chapter is to present and discuss the main impacts of Portuguese public policies in the area of education in Portugal, since 25...
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Exploring the ideational explanation for pro-immigrant sentiment: evidence from a South Korean survey
A consistent finding in the public opinion literature shows that individuals who attain higher levels of education are more likely to express...
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Andrea Dworkin and the Social Construction of Sex
Andrea Dworkin is a highly ambivalent figure within feminist historiography, and particularly so within genealogies of trans feminism. She is one of...
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Orientations
This introductory chapter explains how a broad perspective on reproduction as the regeneration of society helps achieve an understanding of same-sex...
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At the confluence of ethics, laws and society: global working theory merging bio-ethics
The pressing global challenges facing humanity highlight the urgency of reconciling medicine, society and ecology. By shedding light on the role of...
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Social Justice and Social Work Education
Social work is a discipline and a profession, and learning about social work typically commences with a course of study in a university or tertiary...
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The Third Gender in a Third World Country: Major Concerns and the “AIIMS Initiative”
With a population dividend of around 1.3 billion, India is the largest democracy in the world that encompasses “unity in diversity”. The kaleidoscope...
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Employment Situation of Trans People in the Context of the Southern European Welfare Regime: The Case of Turkey
This study aims to investigate the employment situation of trans people in the context of the Southern European welfare regime in Turkey. We observe...
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Essential but Excluded: Using Critical Race Theory to Examine COVID-19 Economic Relief Policies for Undocumented US Workers
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, undocumented immigrants in the United States were vulnerable both to unemployment and to COVID-19...
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White Christian Nationalism and Youth Development in the USA
White Christian nationalism is a political ideology and cultural framework that views the USA as an explicitly and exceptionally Christian nation. It...
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Urban Space and Everyday Life: A Personal Theoretical Trajectory Within Nordic Social and Cultural Geography
As an example of socio-spatial theorization within the Nordic context, this chapter is written as an autobiographic narrative of my intellectual...
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Internalized Code Orientations
We have defined internalized code orientations as an internalized codification of moral imperatives, in line with Weber’s ‘value postulates’...
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Scandals and Morals
Scandals update the morality of social systems through the public negotiation of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. This article discusses the...
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Clientelistic Social Structures and Cultural Orientations
This chapter examines the historical forces that have turned clientelism into a definite feature of Greek social networks of power. It explores the...
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Desiring Justice, Acting Anātman: Transforming the Legal Transsexual Fantasy from the Perspectives of Žižekian and Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophies
OnTranssexual/Marriage 13 May 2013, aBuddhismMahāyāna ground-breaking judgementFantasy was delivered by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal....
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For Us, with Us: Creative Expressions as Means to Collectively Elevate Minoritized Experiences, Knowledge, and Wisdom
The dismantling of structural oppression can be aided by culturally and ethically responsible co-creation between marginalized communities and...
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Social Responsibility in the Economy
In recent decades affluent capitalist democracies have faced far reaching economic, political, and social changes and grand challenges. These...
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An Ontological Account of Social Pathology
This chapter outlines an ontological approach to understanding social pathology. I begin by outlining what a critical social ontology consists of...
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White Supremacy’s Horcrux and Why the Black Power Movement Almost Destroyed It
Written to recapture the original purpose of Africana Studies, this analytic essay starts with an observation of US social movements of the 1950s...