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  • Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?

    How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy

    Edited by Nadine Reibling, Mareike Ariaans ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this ... Read more

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  • The Global Lives of German Migrants

    Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course

    Edited by Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider, Nils Witte ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth

    Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

    Edited by Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, ... Read more

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  • Social Networks and Health Inequalities

    A New Perspective for Research

    Edited by Andreas Klärner, Markus Gamper, Sylvia Keim-Klärner, Irene Moor, Holger von der Lippe, Nico Vonneilich ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities. ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe

    Edited by Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes ... Read more

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  • Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America

    Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality

    Edited by Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

    Edited by Manfred Schmitt, Clara Sabbagh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice research.This volume substantiates this academic legacy and the research prospects of the ISJR in the field of justice theory and ... Read more

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  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • Migration and Discrimination

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Rosita Fibbi, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, Patrick Simon ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also presents ... Read more

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  • Space, Place and Educational Settings

    Edited by Tim Freytag, Douglas L. Lauen, Susan L. Robertson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book adopts ... Read more

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  • Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

    Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

    Edited by Sabine Weinert, Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld, Hans-Peter Blossfeld ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Open Access book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research program to utilize data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), which included over 100.000 participants in six nationally representative panel studies. Renowned researchers from the fields of sociology, psychology, educational science, economics, and survey methodology have used the ... Read more

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