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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.

Older People in Modern Society is an established classic text in its field and through subsequent editions its reputation and that of its author has grown. In this fourth and renamed edition, Anthea Tinker synthesises and discusses a wide range of literature about older people, drawing from fields such as medicine, sociology and social policy and using primary source material to illustrate the text. She also introduces a number of topics that have attained greater importance since publication of the third edition in 1992, for example, continuing care and the abuse of older people

During the few years prior to publication there had been a growing interest not only in the organisation and efficiency of the British Army, but also in its role in modern British society and the place of soldiering as a significant career. The time was therefore ripe for a book such as this, which looks objectively at the position of our Army whilst at the same time showing the actual experience of a Regular soldier. Originally published in 1972, Colonel Baynes's book was largely written during a year's Defence Fellowship at Edinburgh University in 1968-9, where he worked under Professor John Erickson in the Higher Defence Studies sections of the Department of Politics. He begins by examining the ways in which armies can be used, and then turns to more specific issues connected with the employment of the British Army in the modern world. He summarises what the British Army has accomplished since 1945 and how its strength has varied, and follows with a chapter on the cost of maintaining it. The core of the book revolves around three basic questions. First, what, in the 1970s, does British society really think about its Army, and what sort of army does it want? Second, how can soldiers be kept keen and efficient in a period of prolonged peace? And third, who will join the Army in the coming years, what will their conditions of service be like and what are their career opportunities? Some of Colonel Baynes's solutions to these problems are likely to be unpopular with traditionalists, although he is by no means an iconoclast and has a deep affection for, and belief in, his own profession. At the time this book was strongly recommended to all with an interest in the security of this country and the future of its armed forces: both those serving in them and civilians.

This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community membership. Hegel's goal of a society of free individuals whose social activity is expressive of who they are seems an even more distant goal now, and Taylor's discussion has renewed relevance for our increasingly globalised and industrialised society. This classic work is presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century with a specially commissioned new preface written by Frederick Neuhouser

The aim of the article is to analyze the transformations of gender culture in modern society. Based on the method of comparative analysis of alternative interpretations of these transformations, the thesis about the cri-sis of gender culture in modern Western society is substantiated. The main factors that contribute to the defor-mation of gender identity, in particular urbanization, the spread of non-traditional religious movements, mass media and mass culture, are outlined. Five key manifestations of gender crisis are identified and analyzed: 1) destructive feminism; 2) gender neutrality; 3) transgenderism and transsexualism; 4) LGBT; 5) virtualization of gender roles. It is argued that Western ideology and practice of gender transformation is a destructive attempt to solve the demographic problem. The authors ascertain that it is necessary to take measures to confront the gender crisis and preserve the humanistic principles of traditional gender identity.

Abstract: Impatience is a defining aspect of the modern world and its identity, as is starkly exemplified in the emphasis on technology. Itis the central mode along which individual and social life areorganized. In contrast, for Mahatma Gandhi patience is the crucial category for healthy individual and social existence.