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Intro -- VOLUNTEERING, AGING AND BUSINESS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter One CONCEPTIONS OF VOLUNTEERING -- 'VOLUNTEERING TRENDS', 'SUSTAINABILITY', 'INFRASTRUCTURE' AND 'CAPACITY BUILDING' - MAPPING THE CONCEPTS -- (i) Volunteering: Trends -- (ii) Sustainability -- (iii) Infrastructure -- (iv) Capacity Building -- GOVERNANCE -- PERFORMANCE -- FINANCE -- WORKFORCE -- PARTNERSHIPS -- FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter Two VOLUNTEERING AND AGING -- INTRODUCTION -- A NEW LAW, NEW HOPE? -- Chapter Three BUSINESS AND VOLUNTEERING -- A NEW WAY? -- Chapter Four CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ONLINE RESOURCES -- INDEX.

This book explores the rise and consolidation of Symbolic Interactionism. This is one of the most important and significant theories of social action in all the disciplines of social science and sociology. The book begins by charting its historiography, conceptual developments, key authors, links to emerging methodologies, and methods. The book ends with a reflective critique pointing to building on the key work that has been developed by a power social theory

Intro -- CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MODERN SOCIETY -- CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MODERN SOCIETY -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CRIME, AGING AND VICTIMS -- MAPPING OUT TERRAIN: THEORY, RESEARCH AND POLICY -- THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT -- REFLECTION -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 SOCIAL CARE -- INTRODUCTION -- 'TAKING AIM' AT PERSONALIZATION -- PUBLIC POLICY, COMMUNITY AND PERSONALIZATION -- PERSONALIZATION AND RESEARCH THEMES -- (i) Costs and Cost Effectiveness -- (ii) Eligibility, Assessment and Resource Allocation -- (iii) Planning Support Arrangements with the IB -- (iv) Integrating Funding Streams -- FUTURE RESEARCH THEMES -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 FAMILY AND AGING -- INTRODUCTION -- NEO-LIBERALISM, AGING, AND THE FAMILY -- SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, AGING, AND THE FAMILY -- "GRANDPARENTING" POLICY -- TOWARDS DIVERSE NARRATIVE STREAMS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4 EMPLOYMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- (i) The American Equal Pay Act (EPA) -- (ii) Affirmative Action -- FUTURE IMPLICATIONS OF EMPLOYMENT POLICY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL INQUIRY: A BRIEF EXCURSION -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: OBJECTIVITY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH -- Chapter 3: INDUCTION AND SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- INDUCTIVE RESEARCH -- AN EVALUATION OF INDUCTION -- SEMINAR QUESTIONS -- Chapter 4: DEDUCTION AND SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- PROBLEMS OF DEDUCTION -- Chapter 5: CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIAL INQUIRY -- FROM MARX TO CRITICAL THEORY: SITUATING KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- FROM CRITICAL THEORY TO FEMINISM: COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES -- Chapter 6: ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESEARCH -- ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN SOCIAL RESEARCH -- ETHICAL DILEMMAS -- Chapter 7: ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN RESEARCH -- 1. WHAT IS EPISTEMOLOGY? -- 2. WHAT IS ONTOLOGY? -- 3. EXAMPLE OF ONTOLOGY WITHIN PARTICULAR THEORIES -- Chapter 8: POSTMODERNISM AND SOCIAL INQUIRY -- WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- AGING, GENDER AND CRIME -- AGING, GENDER AND CRIME -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Problematizing Old Age, Victimization and Crime -- Background -- Mapping out Terrain: Theory, Research and Policy -- Thinking Critically About (missing text?) -- Reflection -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Aging, Crime and Prisons -- Introduction -- Aging and Imprisonment: Comparative Trends - America, UK, Germany and Japan -- The Greying of the American Prison Population -- An Empirical Example of Older Offenders and Imprisonment: The Case of the UK and US -- 'Out of Sight - Out of Mind': The Invisible Minority -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Gender, Aging and the Power of Special Hospitals -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Treatments in Special Hospitals -- Admission to a Special Hospital -- Questioning Current Structures -- Confinement -- General Literature Review of Women in Prisons -- Literature Review of Women in Special Hospitals -- Special Women in Special Hospitals: Experiences -- Discussion and Implications of the Review -- Dangerousness: Implications -- Masculinity and Special Hospitals -- Conclusion: Masculinities and Special Hospitals -- Chapter 4 Re-thinking Aging, Gender and Crime -- Theorizing Aging Studies - Age, Gender, Identity and Surveillance -- Critical Gerontology -- Gender and Aging -- Aging in Postmodernity -- Aging and Surveillance State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- References -- Index.

Intro -- BAUDRILLARD AND POSTMODERNISM -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- USING THE 'SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION' IN POSTMODERN ANALYSIS: SOCIAL THEORY AT MANY LEVELS -- MODERNITY: 'THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE' - THEORY AND SOCIETY -- MODERNITY AND SOME IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 2 IS THE TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION? -- i) Baudrillard -- ii) Lyotard and the Death of Modern Social Theory -- DEFENDERS OF PROJECT OF MODERNITY -- i) Habermas -- ii) Alex Callinicos - 'Rome Burns' -- Chapter 3 THE EMERGENCE AND ANALYSIS OF THE POSTMODERN -- Chapter 4 BAUDRILLARD AND WORKS ON SOCIAL THEORY -- EVALUATION OF POSTMODERNISM -- Chapter 5 AN ASSESSMENT OF POSTMODERNISM AND BAUDRILLARD -- Chapter 6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- HABERMAS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Biography of Habermas -- Chapter 2 Critical Theory -- Critical Theory: Historical Influences -- Critical Theory and Frankfurt School -- The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Reconstructing the Humanist Project -- Chapter 3 The Work of Jurgen Habermas -- 'Building Block' of Modernism: Communicative Action -- 'In the Blue and Red Corners': Lyotard vs. Habermas -- Putting Habermas under the Theoretical Microscope -- The Domain of Communicative Reason -- Thinking with and beyond Marx, Weber and the Frankfurt School -- The Theory of Communicative Action -- The Origins and Constitution of the Lifeworld -- The Uncoupling of System from Life World -- Summary -- Chapter 4 An Assessment of the Impact of Habermas -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.