Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: research as contentious -- Introduction -- Research-mindedness -- Evidence-based practice -- The qualitative-quantitative divide -- The paradigm debate -- Conclusion: the contentious nature of social research -- Structure of the book -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 2 Ethical research and social justice -- Introduction -- Research ethics for social work -- Codes of ethics -- The concept of social justice -- Reflexivity in research -- Putting it all together -- Conclusion: appropriate ethics for social work research -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 3 Experimental ways of knowing -- Introduction -- Origins of experimental approaches -- Principles of experimental methods -- Examples of experiments in social work and social care -- Drawbacks of experimental research -- Conclusion: experimental methods and social justice -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 4 Participatory research -- Introduction -- Origins of PR -- Principles of PR -- Examples of PR in social work and social care -- Other models of PR -- Drawbacks of PR -- Conclusion: PR and social justice -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 5 Action research -- Introduction -- Origins of action research -- Principles of action research -- Varieties of action research -- Examples of action research in social work and social care -- Drawbacks of action research -- Conclusion: action research and social justice -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 6 Case study research -- Introduction -- Origins of case studies -- Principles of case study research -- Examples of case study research in social work and social care -- Drawbacks of case study research.

Interpreting and advancing women's rights to social security and social protection /Beth Goldblatt and Lucie Lamarche --Engendering social welfare rights /Sandra Fredman --Participatory inclusion and women's rights to social security /Hester Lessard --Unpacking the ILO's social protection floor recommendation from a women's rights perspective /Lucie Lamarche --Social protection in China : is there a gender equity problem? /Mankui Li --Evaluating reforms for Bolivian women's rights to social security and social protection /Lorena Ossio Bustillos --Recent coverage developments in social security protection for Chilean women /Pablo Arellano Ortiz --Rethinking social protection beyond waged work : a United States perspective /Lucy A Williams --Human capital and the post-scripting of women's poverty /Janet E Mosher --What would an engendered human rights approach to social security mean for sole parents in Australia? /Belinda Smith --Gendering the right to social security in the era of crisis governance : the need for transformative strategies /Dianne Otto --A gendered right to social security and decent work? : the debate in the context of Irish austerity /Mary P Murphy and Camille Loftus --Testing women's right to social security in Australia : a poor score /Beth Goldblatt --Mainstreaming gender in Spanish labour and pension reforms and in European social policies /úria Pumar Beltrán.

What is Social Exclusion? -- Social Work Values, Poverty and Exclusion -- Tackling Exclusion in Practice -- Working with Socially Excluded Children and Families -- Tackling Exclusion of Young People -- Social Care and Excluded Adults -- Working with Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods -- Social Work and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas -- Racism and Social Exclusion -- Racism and Social Exclusion.