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Globalization and families : accelerated systemic social change.
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ISBN: 9780387882857 9780387882840 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Springer

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As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through economic integration, technology, communication, and political transformation, the sphere of the family is a fundamental arena where globalizing processes become realized. For most individuals, family in whatever configuration, still remains the primary arrangement that meets certain social, emotional, and economic needs. It is within families that decisions about work, care, movement, and identity are negotiated, contested, and resolved. Globalization has profound implications for how families assess the choices and challenges that accompany this process. Families are integrated into the global economy through formal and informal work, through production and consumption, and through their relationship with nation-states. Moreover, ever growing communication and information technologies allow families and individuals to have access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles, identities, and ideologies even among those who may never be able to access them. Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexities and social significance inherent in globalization, most analyses remain top-down, focused on the global economy, corporate strategies, and political streams. This limited perspective on globalization has had profound implications for understanding social life. The impact of globalization on gender ideologies, work-family relationships, conceptualizations of children, youth, and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream approaches, creating false impressions that dichotomize globalization as a separate process from the social order. Moreover, most approaches to globalization and social phenomena emphasize the Western experience. These inaccurate assumptions have profound implications for families, and for the globalization process itself. In order to create and implement programs and policies that can harness globalization for the good of mankind, and that could reverse some of the deleterious effects that have affected the world's most vulnerable populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and families a primary focus.


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Pubers van nu! : praktijkboek voor iedereen die met pubers werkt
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ISBN: 9789031374816 9789031374823 9031374814 9031374822 Year: 2009 Publisher: Houten Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum

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Hoe herken je de behoeftes van een puber? Hoe kom je hierover met hem of haar in gesprek? Hoe kun je je als volwassene werkelijk verbinden met pubers op een manier die hun helpt in hun groei naar volwassenheid? Hierover gaat Pubers van nu. Het boek biedt praktische handvatten, tips en wetenswaardigheden, ook voor contacten met pubers met een niet-westerse achtergrond. Iedereen kan met dit boek direct aan de slag.Pubergedrag leidt vaak tot vragen en soms ook tot problemen. Veel van dit gedrag is te verklaren uit de ontwikkelingen die puberhersenen doormaken: tijdens de puberteit is bijvoorbeeld het gebied in de hersenen dat emoties reguleert nog volop in ontwikkeling. Dit is een van de factoren die de puberteit tot een heftige periode in het leven kunnen maken.Voor een evenwichtige ontwikkeling van pubers is het belangrijk dat zij begeleid en ondersteund worden door volwassenen. Dit vraagt van volwassenen dat ze zich verdiepen in pubers: hoe denken zij? Hoe ervaren pubers de wereld om hen heen? Om deze vragen te kunnen beantwoorden, zullen veel volwassenen bovendien - in het besef dat puberhersenen anders werken - hun eigen denkkaders moeten loslaten.Dit boek is geschreven voor iedereen die met pubers werkt en omgaat: zowel professionals in de jeugdhulpverlening en het onderwijs, als ouders. Verder biedt dit boek ook vele handvatten voor politie, justitie, vervoersbedrijven, de middenstand en bedrijven waar pubers stagelopen of vakantiewerk doen.


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Disclosing Childhoods : Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies
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ISBN: 9781137479044 9781137479037 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is used to critique the ongoing fixation of childhood studies with the unitary child-agent and to re-introduce the question of ontology in knowledge production. The author provides a critical account of childhood studies’ trajectory, as well as exploring the key concepts of voice, agency and participation, illustrating the potential of a reflexive stance towards knowledge production. Drawing on poststructuralist and posthumanist thinking, each of these concepts is critiqued for its conceptual limits while productive avenues are offered to reconfigure their utility. Spyrou also addresses the ethics and politics of knowledge production and considers key emerging insights which can contribute towards the development of a more reflexive and critical childhood studies. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, anthropology, sociology and geography, will find this book of interest, as well as those interested in qualitative research methodology and social theory. .


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Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality
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ISBN: 9781402086922 1402086911 9781402086915 9048179548 140208692X Year: 2008 Volume: 25 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research. This topic is increasingly discussed in the political debate and is among the most urgent public health issues. However, it is still unknown if socioeconomic mortality differences increase or decrease with age. This book provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and mortality. In a well-written language, it synthesizes the sociological theory of social inequality and an empirical study of mortality differences that has been performed at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany). The best available datasets from Denmark and the USA, as two very different countries, are used to analyze the age pattern of social mortality differences, the Danish register data covering the whole Danish population between 1980 and 2002. This study is the most comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic mortality differences in the literature, in terms of data quantity, quality, and the statistical method of event-history modeling. It makes important new theoretical and empirical contributions. With a new method it also addresses the question whether the measurement of social mortality differences in old age so far has been biased by mortality selection due to unobserved heterogeneity. "This book signifies an important step forward in theory, empirical data analysis and methodology and an advancement for many disciplines involved in the subject of socioeconomic differences in old age mortality". Prof. Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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