Sociology and Social Policy

Public Pensions and Immigration

Tim Krieger

The rapid ageing of societies in many industrialized countries threatens the stability of unfunded public pension systems. An immigration policy that accepts young workers would appear to be a simple solution to the challenge, by increas...

Hardback (January 2006)

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The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital

Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen

This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...

Paperback (2005)

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Hardback (2004)

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New Developments in Economic Sociology

Edited by Richard Swedberg

Economic sociology has gone through an explosive development, both in the United States and in Europe, in recent years. These new developments are well represented in this work. Articles by key economic sociologists, such as Mark Granove...

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Hardback (September 2005)

Working Mothers in Europe

Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert

Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...

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Innovation and Knowledge Management

J. D. Johnson

Modern organizations must constantly adapt to survive in today’s rapidly changing environment. A stagnant organization that cannot innovate to meet evolving conditions will eventually find itself no longer competitive in an increasingly ...

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Pension Systems

Edited by Elsa Fornero, Paolo Sestito

Pension Systems enters into the current lively debate on European pensions. The focus of the book is the analysis of public intervention in individuals’ retirement choice, its rationale and the desirability of legislation introducing a s...

Hardback (August 2005)

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New Developments in Environmental Sociology

Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate

This outstanding collection, which is a fully up to date companion to the title The Sociology of the Environment, published in 1995, represents a landmark in a field of academic research that is increasingly important for wider policy qu...

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The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater

Duncan A. Thomas, Roger R. Ford

This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water sector, which institutions and industries are frighteningly ill-equipped to tackle or even accept. It sugges...

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The Economics of Social Policy

Peter G. Rosner

This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies.

Paperback (2005)

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Hardback (2003)

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Sustainable Consumption

Edited by Dale Southerton, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet

Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning ...

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Work, Family and Childcare

Joris Ghysels

Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...

Hardback (2004)

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