Автор: Harsh Mander, Anirban Bhattacharya, Vivek Mishra, Astha Singla, Usman Jawed Siddiqi Название: Unequal Life Chances: Equity and the Demographic Transition in India ISBN: 9353288029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353288020 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: India is passing through a phase where a major share of its population is in its prime and of working age. Many have spoken of the ‘dividend’ that we could reap from what is being called the ‘youth bulge’. With the gaping inequalities in our society, the youth in this country encounter gross disparities in their life chances and in their opportunities to realise their potential. In this volume, we have attempted to look closely at India’s demographic transition, specifically from the perspective of social and economic equity.
Other than covering the important elements of the debate on India’s demographic transition, the book attempts to makes a signal contribution in bringing together issues of social justice and economic inequality to bear on the mostly technocratic framing of the subject. Thus, it is an attempt to highlight that all decisions about economic ‘development’ or growth are politically infused and should be addressed as such.
Название: Improving The Life Chances Of Children At Risk ISBN: 0367165325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367165321 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 42870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book discusses how to identify those children who are at hazard of becoming less than they might be as adults. It explores critical policy issues in broadening access to health care services and reassessing results of major intervention efforts for improving life chances of vulnerable children.
Автор: Tepperman, Lorne Название: Choices And Chances ISBN: 0367159155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367159153 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 42870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Choices and Chances is an ideal supplement to introductory textbooks. By showing how theories can apply to everyday life, it demonstrates the ways sociology-a living, growing discipline-can shed light on issues of immense personal and social importance.
Автор: Harsh Mander, Anirban Bhattacharya, Vivek Mishra, Astha Singla, Usman Jawed Siddiqi Название: Unequal Life Chances: Equity and the Demographic Transition in India ISBN: 9353288053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353288051 Издательство: Sage Publications Цена: 42240.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: India is passing through a phase where a major share of its population is in its prime and of working age. Many have spoken of the ‘dividend’ that we could reap from what is being called the ‘youth bulge’. With the gaping inequalities in our society, the youth in this country encounter gross disparities in their life chances and in their opportunities to realise their potential. In this volume, we have attempted to look closely at India’s demographic transition, specifically from the perspective of social and economic equity. Other than covering the important elements of the debate on India’s demographic transition, the book attempts to makes a signal contribution in bringing together issues of social justice and economic inequality to bear on the mostly technocratic framing of the subject. Thus, it is an attempt to highlight that all decisions about economic ‘development’ or growth are politically infused and should be addressed as such.
Автор: Harriet B. Newburger, Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter Название: Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America ISBN: 0812222652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812222654 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 35470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in understanding individual and household outcomes. Place matters in education, physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental health, and discrimination—issues that determine the quality of life, especially among low-income residents of urban areas. Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to present the findings of studies in the fields of education, health, and housing. The results are intriguing and surprising, particularly the debate over Moving to Opportunity, an experiment conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, designed to test directly the effects of relocating individuals away from areas of concentrated poverty. Its results, while strong in some respects, showed very different outcomes for boys and girls, with girls more likely than boys to experience positive outcomes. Reviews of the literature in education and health, supplemented by new research, demonstrate that the problems associated with residing in a negative environment are indisputable, but also suggest the directions in which solutions may lie. The essays collected in this volume give readers a clear sense of the magnitude of contemporary challenges in metropolitan America and of the role that place plays in reinforcing them. Although the contributors suggest many practical immediate interventions, they also recognize the vital importance of continued long-term efforts to rectify place-based limitations on lifetime opportunities.
Автор: Jackson Название: Gendered Choices ISBN: 9400706464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400706460 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 139750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Gendered Choices addresses issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century. The text highlights how gendered choices are central to participation in and experiences of lifelong learning.
Автор: Roda Allison Название: Inequality in Gifted and Talented Programs: Parental Choices about Status, School Opportunity, and Second-Generation Segregation ISBN: 1349563447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349563449 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Inequality in Gifted and Talented Programs examines the relationship between gifted and talented (G&T) education, school choice, and racialized tracking within New York City elementary schools. Roda examines parental attitudes around placing their children in a racially diverse elementary school with segregated G&T and General Education programs.
Автор: Zhu, Jianfei Название: Choices and constraints ISBN: 3034308647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034308649 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 59710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of ‘choice and constraint’, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices towards employment expectations; however, their choices of employment expectations are limited by a number of constraints. Empirical studies find that there are gender differences in employment expectations. This study further reveals the influence of gendered economic roles, experienced or perceived sex discrimination in China’s graduate labour market job preferences and parents’ expectations on those gender differences in employment expectations.
Автор: Munro Lyle Название: Life Chances, Education and Social Movements ISBN: 1783089946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783089949 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 114950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
'Life Chances, Education and Social Movements' explains the sociology of life chances, the opportunities and experiences of different generations in Australia, the United States and the UK, and how the differential distribution of life-enhancing opportunities affects our well-being. It is now four decades since the publication of Ralf Dahrendorf's 'Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory' (1979), a surprisingly neglected work that has much to offer by way of explaining some of the social and political challenges of the present era. Dahrendorf's life-chances theory is an expanded and innovative analysis of Max Weber's original notion of 'Lebenschancen' and is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in Lyle Munro's book. Dahrendorf defines life chances as a function of options (provisions and entitlements) and ligatures (networks that provide a sense of solidarity and belonging). For Dahrendorf, education is arguably the most important option individuals can utilise for improving their well-being and for overcoming social and economic disadvantages. While there are countless sociological accounts of inequality, Munro's study takes a different and novel approach based on Dahrendorf's model according to which education and social movements and their networks function to enhance the life chances of individuals and social groups respectively.
Munro emphasises the necessity of formal education and its transformative power in the lives of individuals; he stresses the importance of an individual's life chances of achieving satisfactory levels of literacy, numeracy and oracy during a decade or more of formal schooling. While this might seem self-evident, the evidence in Australia indicates there is a disturbingly large number of students who leave school without these basic skills, the consequences of which are often dire.
At a broader level, 'Life Chances, Education and Social Movements' stresses the importance of education movements in improving the lives of disadvantaged social groups. This is a topic that rarely features in the social movement literature, as a content search of the leading journals in the field reveals. Education movements, including the controversial widening participation movement and the lifelong learning movement and its several subsidiaries, such as VET and adult education, are advocated as alternatives to university, which for many students has proven to be either out of reach, beyond their means or a costly mistake. Munro is critical of the widening participation movement whenever it privileges university learning at the expense of technical and vocational education.
The last part of the book focuses on five social movements that seek to sustain the lives of human and nonhuman animals. The first movement to be analysed is the social justice movement that campaigns against racism, sexism and classism, the much-studied trinity in the discipline of sociology. Followers of Peter Singer's 'Animal Liberation' regard speciesism as the missing relative in race, gender and class relations and nonhuman animals as arguably the most vulnerable members of society. For an increasing number of movement theorists, speciesism - the prejudice and practice that posits the interests of members of one's own species against the interests of members of other species - is seen as animal abuse, a social problem on a par with elder abuse, child abuse and the like.
The second movement against risks to our collective life chances seeks to protect human and nonhuman animals from some of the most dangerous developments confronting the planet such as climate change, environmental degradation, terrorism and nuclear war. Two of the most challenging risks to both people and animals - pandemics and climate change - and the link between them are discussed in some detail, since the link between human and nonhuman animals tends to be ignored by most commentators
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