Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Gonzalez Hernando, Marcos / Mitchell, Gerry, Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality. 208 pp. 2023:5 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-262>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6751-2 hard ¥4,858.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

Media attention is often focused on the very richest, the 1%, and their capacity to influence politics and shape society. But they are not the only ones who drive politics, the public conversation and much of the private sector. The focus of this book is on the larger group between the 1% and the 10%. These are the managers and professionals of our media, business, the third sector, political parties and academia and are just as influential. However, many would not recognise themselves as high earners at all. In fact, earning around GBP60,000 a year in Britain places you in the top 10% of income earners. Maybe you're surprised you fall into this category, or are not as far off as you thought. But despite this group's relative advantage and comfort, these high earners don't feel politically empowered. They worry about their income and are anxious about the future. Most of them are more likely to move down the income ladder than up it. Drawing attention to this powerful section of society, this book explains why, even if you are relatively near the top, it is in your interest that inequality is reduced and you can help make that happen.

Bacchini, Simone C., An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions. 168 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-265>
ISBN 978-0-367-17529-0 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-367-17531-3 paper ¥8,505.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and to express identity. Grounded in the understanding of language as a multifunctional, interactional tool offered by sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis, the book:Provides readers with well-grounded tools that they can use to inform their daily work as well as to reflect upon their own communicative practices and - where necessary - to improve themFeatures 'discussion points' in the form of questions, suggestions for reflection, and small analysis tasks throughoutContains end-of-chapter summaries and suggestions for further readingAn Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions is ideal as a core or supplementary textbook for students on degrees in public health, social work, social care, nursing, and other allied health professions who are taking courses in communication. It is also an invaluable guide for qualified health and social care practitioners, to support both their professional practice and their continuing professional development.

M.ゼーライプ・カイザー他編　欧州社会政策とCOVID-19のパンデミック
Boerner, Stefanie / Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin (eds.), European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy. (International Policy Exchange Series) 384 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <697-266>
ISBN 978-0-19-767618-9 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Firmin, Carlene / Lloyd, Jenny (eds.), Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter. 208 pp. 2023:7 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-267>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6642-3 hard ¥19,448.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-4473-6643-0 paper ¥5,344.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

The Contextual Safeguarding approach has transformed how policy makers, social care leaders, practitioners and researchers understand harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond. Since 2015 it has been tested across the UK and internationally. This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt on this journey. For anyone interested in how we safeguard young people beyond their front doors, this book shows how much we have achieved and raises big questions about what more we need to do to ensure young people are safe - whatever the context.

多様性と福祉の提供－21世紀英国における緊張と差別
Gregory, Lee / Iafrati, Steve (eds.), Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain. 240 pp. 2024:1 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-269>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6515-0 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99

Recognising diverse groups within society is a vital part of policy research and analysis, yet few texts have drawn together the breadth of experiences of welfare provision from a diverse group of citizens. This book fills this gap, by exploring how diverse citizens' experience welfare provision. It aims to promote debate about the importance of social divisions in society and to address the gaps in research, in relation to race, ethnicity, disability, gender and LGBTQ. It comes at a crucial time as we emerge out of a decade of austerity, a global pandemic and Brexit, where issues of diversity have been at the forefront of debates and renews the call for analysis within social policy, particularly on issues of diversity in the 21st century context.

英国における無償ケア政策
Lloyd, Liz, Unpaid Care Policies in the UK: Rights, Resources and Relationships. 208 pp. 2023:6 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-270>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6129-9 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99

This book examines policies on unpaid care throughout the UK since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. It questions why, after decades of policies and strategies, unpaid care remains in a marginal position in the social care system and in society more broadly, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides critical analysis of key policies and professional practice over three decades and highlights the continuing challenges faced by people in caring relationships, as well as reflecting on developments in the position of unpaid carers in the system of social care. By questioning why this crucially important sphere of human life remains under-resourced, it sheds light on the ways in which care is understood and how policy makers and service providers perceive the need for support.

英国公共サービスへのCOVID-19の影響の管理－ヘルスケアとソーシャル・ケアに焦点を当てて
Malin, Nigel, Managing the Impact of COVID-19 on UK Public Services: Focus on Health and Social Care. 160 pp. 2023:5 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-271>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6499-3 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99

Public services have been at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 and, despite the extraordinary efforts of staff, most services have struggled. This book evaluates the impact of COVID-19 on the UK health and social care sector, paying particular attention to widening social inequalities. It explores the strengths and weaknesses of UK public services' response to the pandemic, outlining how eroded resilience and reduced trust in leadership have influenced the sectors' ability to deliver. The book outlines recommendations for policy reform in the aftermath of the pandemic, including suggestions for an increased focus on decentralised governance and leadership.

Murphy, Mary P., Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future. 192 pp. 2023:5 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-272>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6355-2 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99
ISBN 978-1-4473-6356-9 paper ¥6,803.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99

A uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological sustainability and social transformation, this book explores transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland as a case study, it addresses the institutional adaptations needed to move towards a sustainable welfare state, and the policy of making such transformation happen. It takes a theoretical and practical approach to implementing an alternative paradigm for welfare in the context of globalisation, climate change, social cohesion, automation, economic and power inequalities, intersectionality and environmental sustainability, as well as perpetual crisis, including the pandemic.

Randall, Thomas, Justice, Care, and Value: A Values-Driven Theory of Care Ethics. (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) 200 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-118>
ISBN 978-1-03-243528-2 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall advances the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct (and preferable) theory of distributive justice.Advancing the care ethical literature this book defends a vision of society that can best enable such relations to flourish. Specifically, Randall uses breakthrough arguments to propose a values-driven theory of care ethics that identifies good caring relations through classifying the values of care. He argues that such a theory gives us unique and meaningful solutions to contemporary questions and encourages us to think about distributive justice across personal, political, global, and intergenerational domains. Through this the book makes significant strides to engage care ethics with the broader moral and political philosophy literature.Topical and interdisciplinary, Randall demonstrates that care ethics has the conceptual resources to ground distributive theories of socialism, territorial and natural resource rights, obligations to future generations, and historic redress. The book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and students in feminist philosophy, but also in liberalism, global and intergenerational theories of justice, and political economy.

Gardinier, Lori / Mann, Emily A. / Lee, Matthew et al., Introduction to Human Services and Social Change: History, Practice, and Policy. 400 pp. 2023:3 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-230>
ISBN 978-0-19-752441-1 paper ¥16,547.- (税込) US$ 84.99 *

Ciarini, Andrea (ed.), Social Investment and Institutional Change. (Social Welfare Around the World) 168 pp. 2023:4 (Routledge, UK) <695-554>
ISBN 978-1-03-243976-1 hard ¥11,908.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach, as the framework for the European social agenda. The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the promotion of the strategic actions of European institutions and the national governments aimed at making social investment a recovery priority in the Eurozone. The second aims to make the social investment approach compatible not only with a high road to growth, as it is in the Stock-Flow-Buffer scheme, but also with the right to balance market and non-market activities as a universal right linked to a different combination of working and living time. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy and European politics.

B.グリーヴ著　幸福
Greve, Bent, Happiness. (Key Ideas) 176 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-555>
ISBN 978-1-03-238446-7 hard ¥20,660.- (税込) GB￡ 84.99
ISBN 978-1-03-238444-3 paper ¥4,858.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.Countries around the globe want to ensure the best for their citizens. They want them to be happy, have a good life and improve their well-being. It follows that, whilst happiness is based upon individuals' subjective perception of their own situation, it is important to understand the concept of happiness in order to form policies that might help individuals to achieve what they believe will make them happier. Applying approaches from disciplines across the social sciences, this book explores varying notions of happiness and how these can be applied to create a theoretical understanding of happiness as a concept. The book then demonstrates how the concept of happiness can be used to analyse social policy in welfare states in areas including work, health and migration, as well as to evaluate everyday life and social relationships.This book will be essential reading for students and instructors in a range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the concept of happiness.

関水徹平著　ひきこもりの社会学－現代日本における孤立の経験、家族の依存、社会政策
Sekimizu, Teppei, A Sociology of Hikikomori: Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan. 186 pp. 2022:7 (Lexington Books, US) <695-556>
ISBN 978-1-66690-094-1 hard ¥19,470.- (税込) US$ 100.00

Hikikomori, which literally means "withdrawal," is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japanese society. This issue has been attracting worldwide attention for two decades and is now recognized as a problem for the youth as well as for middle-aged and older adults. Based on interviews with people who have experienced it, Teppei Sekimizu explores what the hikikomori experience is like from a sociological perspective. He also examines the characteristics of four decades of hikikomori discourse by governments, professionals, and mass media; the difficulties faced by parents with hikikomori children; and the social policy which has relegated most provision of welfare for citizens to the private sector. Through these examinations, the author illustrates how the exclusive labor market and familial social policies create masses of family-dependent and isolated individuals in contemporary Japan. The Sociology of the Hikikomori Experience leads the reader to understand the manifold hikikomori phenomenon in a wider social context and also to a deeper understanding of Japanese society itself, which has regarded not the government, but corporations, families, and communities responsible for individual well-being.

Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys L., The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States. (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future) 288 pp. 2023:5 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <694-288>
ISBN 978-0-231-20766-9 hard ¥25,311.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20767-6 paper ¥6,230.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Tutt, Rona / Williams, Paul, A Guide to Best Practice in Special Education, Health and Social Care: Making the System Work to Meet the Needs of Children, Young People and Their Families. 168 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-290>
ISBN 978-1-03-236676-0 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-03-236675-3 paper ¥5,588.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

A Guide to Best Practice in Special Education, Health and Social Care explores and explains the changes in governmental policies across the education, health and social care services, and what they mean for young individuals, parents and professionals.In a period of significant change, many practitioners need to understand the government's plans for bringing about a more efficient, effective and sustainable system to meet the needs of young people and their families. Without trawling through reviews, green papers, white papers and bills, this book not only explains the significance of recent events, but provides practical examples, in the form of conversations and case studies, about how parents and professionals are making change happen. With decades of experience, Rona Tutt and Paul Williams delve deep into the separate origins of the three strands - the SEND Review, the review of children's social care, and the Health and Care Act 2022. The book explores how pupils in different types of schools can have their needs met more effectively; how to make better use of available resources; and how to create a culture of mutual respect across all the three services.A Guide to Best Practice in Special Education, Health and Social Care not only fills in gaps in readers' knowledge about the working of all three services, but provides innovative examples of how change is happening at ground level. People of all age groups working in schools and seeking to enhance their knowledge will find it to be an essential read. It will also be of interest to parents and professionals from across health and social care.

Schwedes, Oliver, Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy. (Sociology) 234 S. 2022:11 (Transcript, GW) <694-271>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6451-5 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) EUR 35.00

Transport is the only sector that has not yet contributed to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development. He makes clear that technical innovations alone will not be enough; rather, transport policy must be practised as social policy.

Barron, Patrick / Cord, Louise / Cuesta, Jose et al., Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century. (New Frontiers of Social Policy) 110 pp. 2023:2 (World Bank, US) <694-192>
ISBN 978-1-4648-1946-9 paper ¥7,686.- (税込) US$ 43.95

The overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, and rising levels of conflict are exacerbating global inequalities. This book offers a definition and framework for social sustainability, as well as examples and concrete guidance on how development can foster progress towards it.

Tungohan, Ethel, Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care. (NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize) 256 pp. 2023:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-397>
ISBN 978-0-252-04526-4 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08740-0 paper ¥5,451.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society's legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work by reaffirming a belief that they, and what they do, are important and necessary.

C.Aspalter著　福祉資本主義の10の世界－グローバル・データ分析
Aspalter, Christian, Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis. 228 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-398>
ISBN 978-981-19-7862-3 hard ¥23,229.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the "Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory", as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter's Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, one explanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty."On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical research we now, for the first time, have a truly global analysis of welfare regimes." ---- Peter Abrahamson, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Greer, Scott L. / Beland, Daniel / Lecours, Andre et al., Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited. 252 pp. 2023:1 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <693-399>
ISBN 978-0-472-07554-6 hard ¥14,602.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05554-8 paper ¥5,831.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

ベーシック・インカム－福祉国家のビジョンから忍び寄る変容へ
Heinze, Rolf G. / Schupp, Juergen, Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State. 200 pp. 2023:5 (Springer VS, GW) <693-400>
ISBN 978-3-658-40268-6 paper ¥14,781.- (税込) EUR 69.99

The present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks. Although all visionary proposals for an unconditional basic income (BGE) have so far not been implemented politically, at least in democratically constituted welfare states, the question of implementation or the conditions for success and the identification of possible blockades have only been dealt with marginally. Recent publications on a BGE also show this political-institutional "blindness" and do not address enough the reasons for the failure so far. Without a transfer strategy, however, the idea will fail in Germany due to such implementation naivety. In this book, therefore, the state of the debate on basic income is developed further to the extent that it is integrated into welfare-state development processes and current challenges for the "safeguarding of social security". In addition, a social-scientific classification of hitherto visionary guarantee elements of a basic income model is undertaken, linking up with the "silent" change to a socially investing state.

Widerquist, Karl, The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously. (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) 131 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-233>
ISBN 978-3-031-21947-4 hard ¥21,117.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book is Karl Widerquist's first statement of the "indepentarian" theory of justice, or what he calls "Justice as the Pursuit of Accord" (JPA). It provides five arguments for UBI, one based on the JPA theory of freedom, another based on the JPA theory of property, and three that reply to common objections to UBI. Each of these three turns the argument around using the central concepts in a justification for UBI. Although the central argument is for one specific policy proposal, this book's perspective is much wider, including very basic criticism of social-contract-based and natural-rights-based theories of justice.

ベーシック・インカムのグローバル・ヒストリー
Jaeger, Anton / Zamora Vargas, Daniel, Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. (The Life of Ideas) 264 pp. 2023:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <692-167>
ISBN 978-0-226-82368-3 hard ¥6,327.- (税込) US$ 32.50

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty-now known as basic income-is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth century. Yet as one of today's most controversial proposals, it draws supporters from across the political spectrum. In this eye-opening work, Anton Jaeger and Daniel Zamora Vargas trace basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic tumult to its modern relationship with technopopulist figures in Silicon Valley. They chronicle how the idea first arose in the United States and Europe as a market-friendly alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis and COVID-19 crash. An incisive, comprehensive history, Welfare for Markets tells the story of how a fringe idea conceived in economics seminars went global, revealing the most significant shift in political culture since the end of the Cold War.

Wiesner, Heike / Kasprick, Lysann / Lucht, P. u. a. (Hrsg.), Die digitale Transformation im Gesundheits- und Pflegesektor. 240 S. 2023:4 (Campus, GW) <692-168>
ISBN 978-3-593-51719-3 paper ¥8,236.- (税込) EUR 39.00

Vaz, Eric (ed.), Geography of Happiness: A Spatial Analysis of Subjective Well-Being. (Contributions to Regional Science) 220 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <691-244>
ISBN 978-3-031-19870-0 hard ¥29,565.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers readers a spatial understanding of happiness and subjective well-being. By integrating spatial and geostatistical methods, it sheds new light on the spatial and geographical aspects of subjective well-being. Geographical analysis allows us to measure spatial and regional discrepancies in subjective well-being and to identify heterogeneous profiles in terms of social, economic and environmental patterns. Consequently, the papers gathered here address various topics concerning the spatial aspects of subjective well-being, including social injustice, age, new urban spaces, and tourism. The book proposes a multidisciplinary approach and is intended for scholars and students in the fields of geography, economics and the spatial sciences. By examining several critical dimensions of happiness and subjective well-being, it enriches the complexity of regional decision-making on the path toward happier and more liveable societies.

Meierotto, Lisa / Mares, Teresa / Holmes, Seth M. (eds.), The Well-being of Latinx Farmworkers in a Time of Change. 263 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <691-264>
ISBN 978-3-031-19046-9 hard ¥25,341.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores the well-being of Latinx farmworkers living and laboring in the United States. The contributions take a deeper look at the lived experiences of farmworkers. The chapters explore the various ways in which well-being is framed in diverse academic disciplines, and how the concept of well-being has been employed in previous research on Latinx farmworkers. This volume appeals to students, researchers and professionals. Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 37, issue 1, March 2020Chapters Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations? and Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Grotz, Jurgen / Leonard, Ruth, Volunteer Involvement: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 170 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <691-268>
ISBN 978-3-031-19220-3 hard ¥8,445.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement. It represents a milestone for knowledge of how and why volunteers become involved and will be essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and funders. Offering exercises and examples from practice, it introduces concepts for understanding volunteers' agency and for critically assessing ways in which those who seek to involve volunteers can respond to rapidly changing environments. The authors draw on a combination of theoretical perspectives and practical experiences to develop approaches based on individuals and community strengths and assets, underlining the need for conviviality, respect and enjoyment in volunteer involvement.

Kemp, Andrew H. / Edwards, Darren J. (eds.), Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing and Wellbeing. 168 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <691-269>
ISBN 978-3-031-18328-7 hard ¥8,445.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Its authors present new and innovative models for understanding, building and improving our understanding of the complex construct of wellbeing. The capacity for individual positive change is explored, as well as the scope for such change to impact on the communities and environments within which we live. Further, the book places individual wellbeing within a broader context that also addresses societal needs and challenges. In doing so, it provides a novel synthesis of individual, societal and environmental perspectives on wellbeing and human flourishing.In the face of an urgent need to build stronger, sustainable and more resilient communities, this book demonstrates how wellbeing science can link the individual with the community through appropriate health and wellbeing policies and offers a guide to a new way for individuals to connect with the world. It will appeal to researchers and professionals working across the fields of psychology, environmental science, public health and public policy.

Smith, Steven R., The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice. (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration 18) 267 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <691-271>
ISBN 978-3-031-18141-2 hard ¥23,229.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides important philosophical insights concerning the kind of creatures we are such that we can experience something we understand as well-being, with these insights then being applied to various areas of social policy and welfare practice. The author defends what he calls The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT), addressing ontological questions about the human condition, and how these questions are fundamental to issues concerning what we might know about human well-being and how we should promote it. Yet, surprisingly, these ontological questions are often side-lined in academic, political, and policy and practice based debates about well-being. Addressing these questions, head-on, six features of the human condition are identified via TOWT: human embodiment, finiteness, sociability, cognition, evaluation, and agency. The main argument of the thesis is that these features reveal the conflicting character of human experiences, which can, in turn, have a profound bearing on our experience of well-being. Notably, it is our conflicting experiences of time, emotion, and self-consciousness, which can potentially help us experience well-being in complex and multi-dimensional ways. The author then applies these insights to various social policies and welfare practices, concerning, for example, pensions, disability, bereavement counselling, social prescribing within health settings, the promotion of mental health, and co-production practices. This book is of importance to philosophers, social policy analysts, and welfare practitioners and is also relevant to the fields of psychology, sociology, politics, and the health sciences.

ベーシック・インカムを議論する
Wright, Robert E. / Przegalinska, Aleksandra, Debating Universal Basic Income: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives. (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) 141 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <691-273>
ISBN 978-3-031-17512-1 hard ¥8,445.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents the most compelling arguments for and against implementing a basic income guarantee today, in the voice of proponents and critics, in alternating chapters. Tables, figures, and pictures illustrate the key concepts and evidence, which include benefit cliffs and disincentive deserts, time series macroeconomic data, business, economic, and technological change (BETC), artificial intelligence and other general purpose technologies, along with advanced robotics, the environmental Kuznets Curve, income distributions, democracy, social justice, dependence, autonomy, and economic freedom. A neutral, non-partisan tone introduction defines UBI and covers the history of universal income plans, while the conclusion summarizes the main arguments for and against UBI before surveying alternative policies, including universal basic asset, credit, service, job, and training plans.

Achenbaum, W. Andrew, Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations: Leaving a Legacy in an Aging Society. (Aging and Society) 184 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <690-280>
ISBN 978-1-03-238635-5 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-238634-8 paper ¥8,019.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

--Shows how young and old can collaborate in leaving a legacy that safeguards what works for U.S. citizens in the midst of U.S. polarized politics with an inequitable economy. --Details way to mobilize transgenerational support to ensure that future stakeholders, including those not yet born, get benefits. --Designed for use in courses on gerontology, social work, and public-policy courses, this book offers measured hope for leaving a legacy that safeguards what works for the common good.

社会政策入門　第2版
Beland, Daniel / Mahon, Rianne, Advanced Introduction to Social Policy. 2nd ed. (Elgar Advanced Introductions series) 160 pp. 2023:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <690-281>
ISBN 978-1-80392-108-2 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-80392-110-5 paper ¥3,998.- (税込) GB￡ 16.45

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Extensively updated, this second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Social Policy provides a concise overview of the field that takes newer realities into account as well as taking insights from the traditional social policy canon. Daniel Beland and Rianne Mahon draw on both classic and contemporary theories to illuminate the broad processes that are putting pressure on existing social policy arrangements and raising new research questions.Key Features:Assesses the social policy implications of changing gender relations and the increasing salience of ethnic diversityFocuses on both the advanced industrial world and the growing significance of the Global South as a site of social policy innovationProvides a global perspective on social policy that features systematic attention to transnational actors, moving beyond the methodological nationalism that has traditionally marked the fieldPresenting a lucid and up-to-date overview of comparative and global social policy, this thoroughly revised second edition will prove vital to researchers, university students, and university instructors of social policy, political science, sociology, public policy, and social work.

効果的実践のための社会政策　第6版
Chapin, Rosemary Kennedy / Lewis, Melinda, Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach. 6th ed. (New Directions in Social Work) 592 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <690-282>
ISBN 978-1-03-222639-2 hard ¥43,758.- (税込) GB￡ 180.00
ISBN 978-1-03-222638-5 paper ¥19,444.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge foundations to both understand and thrive within a continually evolving policy landscape. Throughout the text, the authors tell the stories of social workers who impact policy, incorporate frameworks for policy analysis, center social work values and strengths principles, and integrate the series' interactive and downloadable cases to demonstrate policy's relevance and application to practice settings and situations in concrete ways. Students may use the text as an introduction to social policy, a tool for deeper examination of policy topics, and as a lifelong companion for their policy-relevant practice. Now in its sixth edition, the textbook is fully updated to reflect substantial changes in policy arenas such as health care, family economic support, immigration and asylum, criminal justice, housing, reproductive rights, substance use disorder, mental health treatment, and childcare, as well as the implications of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.With additional support and extensions available at www.routledgesw.com, Social Policy for Effective Practice makes policy relevant, accessible, and meaningful for social work students and is a perfect complement to undergraduate and graduate courses on social policy and practice.

Needham, Catherine / Hall, Patrick, Social Care in the UK's Four Nations: Between Two Paradigms. (Sustainable Care) 224 pp. 2023:4 (Policy Pr., UK) <690-284>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6464-1 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99
ISBN 978-1-4473-6465-8 paper ¥5,101.- (税込) GB￡ 20.99

Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK's four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of 'standardisation' and 'differentiation' in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes.

Lymer, Andy / May, Margaret / Sinfield, Adrian (eds.), Taxation and Social Policy. 368 pp. 2023:4 (Policy Pr., UK) <690-250>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6417-7 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99
ISBN 978-1-4473-6418-4 paper ¥7,289.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This collection fills a significant gap in both literatures, bringing together disparate debates in this emerging area of analysis. It explores the key interactions of tax and social policies and the central debates and challenges posed by their effect on each other. It examines how analyses might be combined and policy options developed for more effective delivery and impact in both areas.

Edwards, Rosalind / Ugwudike, Pamela, Governing Families: Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 136 pp. 2023:1 (Routledge, UK) <689-123>
ISBN 978-0-367-53072-3 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) GB￡ 44.99 *

This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a range of social problems including crime.The book critically reviews family governance in contemporary neo-liberal society, notably through technologies of self-responsibilisation, biologisation, and artificial intelligence. The book draws attention to the poor working class and racialised families that often are marked out and evaluated as culpable, dysfunctional, and a threat to economic and social order, obscuring the structural inequalities that underpin family lives and discriminations that are built into the tools that identify and govern families.Filling a gap where disciplinary perspectives cross-cut, this book brings together sociological and criminological perspectives to provide a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the topic. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and lecturers studying sociology and criminology, as well as policy-makers and professionals working in the fields of early years and family intervention programmes, including in social work, health, education, and the criminologically-relevant professions such as police and probation.

Maturo, Antonio / Setiffi, Francesca, Wellness, Social Policy and Public Health: Bridging Human Flourishing with Equity. (Emerald Points) 96 pp. 2022:11 (Emerald, UK) <689-124>
ISBN 978-1-80455-026-7 hard ¥11,682.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

A self-help buzzword, a sociological concept, and a target for political institutions; 'wellness' can be interpreted in different ways. It is viewed as a heterogeneous set of activities aimed at increasing both physical and mental individual well-being, including maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle, being physically active and taking care of mental health. From a sociological perspective, 'wellness' can raise problematic issues; the pursuit of wellness activities is inherently affected by social and economic factors and social determinants, and the individual nature of the pursuit of wellness means it is not strongly related to community empowerment, the production of social capital and social cohesion. Wellness, Social Policy and Public Health: Bridging Human Flourishing with Equity considers wellness as an ecosystem instead of an activity to be carried out by an individual. Case studies explore current welfare policy and its relationship with wellness activities, demonstrating that individual flourishing related to wellness is activated only in a context of solid welfare infrastructures.

Russell, Graham, Understanding Vulnerability and Resilience: A Guide for Professional Staff who Work with Vulnerable Others. 232 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-125>
ISBN 978-1-138-49030-7 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-138-49031-4 paper ¥6,074.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

This book offers an accessible and evidence-based approach for professional staff to improve their interactions with vulnerable people. Drawing upon contemporary research from a broad array of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, biology and the neurosciences, it demonstrates how vulnerability and resilience are not fixed personality traits, as is commonly assumed, but rather fluid and dynamic states that result from inhibitory and developmental factors that reside within individuals and their external environments.Each chapter focuses on factors that create vulnerability and those that promote resilience with reference to important subjects, such as child development, epigenetics, trauma, shame, addiction, poverty, emotional intelligence, personality, empathy, compassion, and behaviour-change. Attention is given to the role of positive, early life experiences in creating an internal working model of the world that is based on trust, intimacy and hope and how the root causes of vulnerability often lie in the cyclical relationship that exists between child maltreatment, trauma and socially deprived environments that cumulatively act to keep people locked in states of inter-generational poverty. The author explores pressing and important workplace issues, such as occupational stress and burnout, and highlights the urgent need for compassionate systems of management that are functionally equipped to address human error, stress and trauma in complex professional arenas where staff are continually exposure to other peoples' suffering. The book also demonstrates how strategies and processes which coerce individuals and groups into changing their behaviour are generally counterproductive and it explains how resilient change is invariably supported by strategies that enhance trust, cooperation, personal control and self-efficacy.This book will benefit professional staff, including health, emergency and social services, humanitarian workers, counsellors and therapists, as well as students who want to learn more about the conceptual frameworks that explain vulnerability and resilience.

東アジアの社会政策のための研究アジェンダ
Izuhara, Misa (ed.), A Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy. (Elgar Research Agendas) 224 pp. 2023:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <688-328>
ISBN 978-1-80037-610-6 hard ¥23,094.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Since the turn of the millennium, significant social, economic, political and technological transformations have brought policy issues to prominence in East Asian societies. This topical Research Agenda finds East Asian social policy at a critical juncture. It analyses the driving forces that are shifting contemporary research and diverse policy responses in the region.Providing a comprehensive overview of the critical socio-economic changes and events over the last two decades, the volume identifies both converging and diverging social policy developments and reforms across East Asian societies. Chapters explore the influences of globalisation, post-industrialisation, labour market transformations, demographic changes, and cultural shifts on social policy in East Asia. Taking regional, international and comparative approaches to social policy analysis, the volume also questions the sustainability, vulnerability and equity of current East Asian social policy and welfare systems.Contributing new empirical knowledge to the theorisation of social policy and practice in East Asia in the post-crisis landscape, this volume will be invaluable to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, and politics. Highlighting areas for urgent policy initiatives, it will also prove vital to policymakers and practitioners in the field.

Moxley, David P., Releasing Knowledge for Practice in Human and Social Service Organizations. 129 pp. 2022:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-329>
ISBN 978-3-031-16097-4 hard ¥8,445.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book will advance readers' understanding of the knowledge development, building and/or management process within human service organizations, informed by the author's experience in human service organizations, as consultant, and practitioner. Readers can come to understand the knowledge building process, and gain a conceptual framework in building organizational knowledge for the advancement of human services practice. The importance of knowledge management in social welfare and human service is twofold. Knowledge management is about an organization managing what it knows in order to achieve more competent and more effective performance. It also is about how domains and fields of practice may transform themselves over time through the purposeful creation and destruction of knowledge. Knowledge management can be a cornerstone of today's human service and social welfare organizations and may be a principal strategy for effecting innovation and evolution in the ways societies address and meet human needs.

Mumtaz, Zahid, Informal Social Protection and Poverty. 295 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <688-330>
ISBN 978-981-19-6473-2 hard ¥27,453.- (税込) EUR 129.99

?This book analyzes the importance of informal social protection provided by religious institutions such as madrassas in a low-income country such as Pakistan. This book explains that Madrassas are religious schools that have existed in many Muslim countries for centuries and contributed significantly to preserving, forming, and extending human knowledge in medieval times. Further, madrassas are now more commonly viewed as the providers of a narrow education, supporting religious fundamentalism, that may lead to terrorism. However, this book asserts that education is not the only function performed by madrassas. They are a significant source of welfare support for the vulnerable and marginalized households in many low-income countries. This book helps the readers to understand the concept of informal social protection not conceptualized previously. In addition, its various attributes and institutions providing such a form of welfare worldwide are explained in detail; analyzing the usefulness of such a form of social protection would benefit readers of social policy, national governments, and international donor/aid agencies. This book also provides a prescriptive framework for integrating formal and informal social protection. This book provides a new "Multiple Regime Framework", for identifying various regimes in one country at one point in time by applying a novel data collection and analysis methodology. The application of this framework would be of particular interest to social policy scholars, national governments, and donor/aid agencies because it will result in better targeting of social protection policies in the wake of fiscal constraints. Lastly, this book provides a novel data collection and analysis strategy that will benefit the reader of research methodology, development consultants, donor agencies, and policy practitioners interested in using artificial intelligence to make informed and targeted policy decisions.

Farmer, Jane / McCosker, Anthony / Albury, Kath et al., Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects. 131 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-239>
ISBN 978-981-19-5553-2 hard ¥6,333.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodology. For researchers, the work offers a playbook for partnering with community organisations in data projects for public good and gives worked examples of projects of various sizes and complexity.

Green, Cheryl, Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches. (Emerald Points) 184 pp. 2023:2 (Emerald, UK) <687-184>
ISBN 978-1-80455-747-1 hard ¥11,682.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches provides individuals interested in social justice the ability to discuss and engage in interdisciplinary and non-traditional interdisciplinary team processes. Using case studies that address a range of social justice issues, Dr. Cheryl Green explores the roles of interdisciplinary team members and how they can positively or negatively impact clients' outcomes. Chapters discuss approaches to management of complex client cases, as well as ethical dilemmas, facilitation of family meetings, discharge planning, cultural consideration, and burnout prevention. Dr. Green considers case studies involving intimate partner violence between a same-sex couple, a college student's experience of Espiritismo, counselling and support for women facing unplanned pregnancies, support for a transgender client undergoing familial conflict, and the recognition of "fright" in a male of Caribbean descent experiencing depression and anxiety. Important, timely, and topical, Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches is an accessible read for those interested in challenging the issues that impact social justice across a variety of settings.

Sanders, Michael / Breckon, Jonathan (eds.), The What Works Centres: Lessons and Insights from an Evidence Movement. 208 pp. 2023:2 (Policy Pr., UK) <687-185>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6509-9 paper ¥6,074.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

Leaders, researchers, and practitioners from the UK What Works Centres share their insights on what has worked so far in the Centres, and what could be done better in future. This book offers guidance to policy makers and funders looking to establish new centres, and for academics looking to create similar institutions that can have a practical impact on the improvement of the world around us.

Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara Sbirakos / Piggott, John (eds.), Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia: Policy and Country Experiences. (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies) 152 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <687-186>
ISBN 978-0-367-67458-8 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) GB￡ 44.99 *

Countries are facing increasing life expectancy and a shrinking family size and in effect, this may escalate demands for medical and supportive services. The role of families in providing informal care will remain important. However, the simultaneous decline in the supply of informal caregiving caused by changes in family structure and higher female labour-market participation necessitate the expansion of the public role in care provision. This book analyses the challenges of long-term care (LTC) policy development and implications from advanced LTC systems and a current trajectory in emerging economies in Asia.The book approaches the subject through comparative analysis on what works and what does not to provide insight into public policy options for sustainable LTC provision and financing mechanisms. How the countries adopt different approaches to health and social systems towards LTC development could provide important insight and perspectives into policy options in the region.This book aims at academics, policymakers and practitioners in health, social, and aged care services and could also be used as a teaching resource for undergraduate students in health and social sciences and postgraduate programs in public health, epidemiology, social demography, gerontology, and nursing. The book will be of interest to a wider audience not only on social and health consequences of population ageing but also health and social policy relating to older persons.

社会政策のためのガバナンスと公共経営ハンドブック
Baehler, Karen J. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy. 930 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-361>
ISBN 978-0-19-091632-9 hard ¥36,993.- (税込) US$ 190.00

Public administration plays an integral role at every stage of social policy creation and execution. Program operators' management decisions shape policymakers' perceptions of what can and should be accomplished through social programs, while public administrators wield considerable power to mobilize tangible and intangible resources and fill gaps in policy designs. Furthermore, the cumulative effects of public administrators' daily activities directly influence outcomes for program participants, and may shift policy itself. Location also matters to social policy, as those same administrators are expected to innovate continuously in response to shifting local and national conditions, including changes in budgetary allocations, client needs and capacities, and public attitudes. This Handbook will aim to capture what is being learned across six geographical regions: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. and Canada. Specifically, each regional section will contain 6-10 chapters canvassing a particular set of promising practices or emerging challenges at the regional or sub-regional level, in addition to a brief overview written by the section editor. The regional sections will be flanked by integrative chapters. As a whole, the volume contains 65 chapters.

Dalingwater, Louise / Boullet, Vanessa et al. (eds.), The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe. (Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making) 195 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-362>
ISBN 978-3-031-14424-0 hard ¥16,049.- (税込) EUR 75.99

This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter. In particular, it considers to what extent Covid-19 and measures taken to cope with the crisis have weakened economic and social structures across Europe and what effect this has had on people's lives. While many countries in Europe have reallocated public funding to health care, provided support to SMEs, vulnerable populations and regions hit by the crisis, the wellbeing or welfare costs, considered broadly, are still significant. The authors' assessment thus goes beyond the subjective wellbeing discourse and evaluates to what extent structural weaknesses within economic, social and regional frameworks have deepened. The chapters discuss what policies are needed to address these weaknesses. the volume thus recognises that structural inequalities are a key driver of wellbeing. While there have been a number of publications on wellbeing during the pandemic, the original perspective in each chapter on inequalities and the European focus of this publication provide novel information and insights on the topic.

ケアと日常生活におけるロボット
Engel, Uwe (ed.), Robots in Care and Everyday Life: Future, Ethics, Social Acceptance. (SpringerBriefs in Sociology) 133 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-363>
ISBN 978-3-031-11446-5 paper ¥6,333.- (税込) EUR 29.99 *

This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians and a related population survey. The focus is on trust in robotic assistance, human willingness to use this assistance, and the expected personal well-being in human-robot interaction. Using recent data from Eurostat, the European Social Survey, and the Eurobarometer survey, the analysis is extended to Germany and the EU. The acceptance of robots in care and everyday life is viewed against their acceptance in other contexts of life and the scientific research. The book reports on how the probability of five complex future scenarios is evaluated by experts and politicians. These scenarios cover a broad range of topics, including the worst-case scenario of cutthroat competition for jobs, the wealth promise of AI, communication in human-robot interaction, robotic assistance, and ethical and legal conflicts. International economic competition alone will ensure that countries invest sustainably in the future technologies of AI and robots. But will these technologies also be accepted by the population? The book raises the core issue of how governments can gain the needed social, ethical, and user acceptance of AI and robots in everyday life. This highly topical book is of interest to researchers, professionals and policy makers working on various aspects of human-robot interaction. This is an open access book.

トランスナショナルなソーシャル・プロテクション
Levitt, Peggy / Sun, Ken Chih-Yan / Paul, R. et al., Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare across National Borders. 224 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-365>
ISBN 978-0-19-766682-1 hard ¥19,275.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-766683-8 paper ¥5,831.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Stauber, Barbara / Walther, Andreas et al. (eds.), Doing Transitions in the Life Course: Processes and Practices. (Life Course Research and Social Policies 16) 252 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-367>
ISBN 978-3-031-13511-8 hard ¥10,557.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-13514-9 paper ¥8,445.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent "practice turn" in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are "done." This book introduces the concept of "doing transitions" and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on "doing transitions" in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.