Everyone knows what intoxication and drunkenness are, what they look like, how to define and measure them and what their consequences are. At least...

This book captures the history, lifestyles and beliefs of Caribbean people relating them without impunity to the psychology of their emotion, thoug...

If relationships are the foundation on which social capital is built, then individuals are the stars at the centre of the construct. From there, th...

Social change is omnipresent, rapid, and influential, as it entails people's responsive adaptation. Both social change and psychosocial responses t...

Social development can be summarily described as the process of organising human energies and activities at higher levels to achieve greater result...

Social identity theory is a diffuse but interrelated group of social psychological theories concerned with when and why individuals identify with, ...

Many adolescents and young adults engage in drinking behaviour, which result in acute and chronic negative consequences (eg: unintentional injuries...

Social justice is not just a matter of applying well-known ‘first principles’ shared by all Christian traditions. As these papers by representative...

This book is the first volume of a qualitative study of social mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family histories and work...

This book is the second volume of a qualitative study of social mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family histories and wor...

This publication documents the role of social networking sites in all types of libraries such as school, college, university, public, special, and ...

Today's society is marked by a fundamental ambiguity: On the one hand we find the loss in old values and systems, in particular what is called secu...

This is a qualitative study into the experiences of parents of disabled children in Iceland in the period 1974-2007. Hardly any formal support was ...

This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of post-socialist countries across Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europ...

Since its enactment in 1935, the Social Security Act has been amended numerous times. This book briefly summarises discussions on individual major ...

Social security's dedicated revenue stream sets it apart from most other federal programs in that the dedicated revenues are credited to trust fund...

The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The ...

From a customer service perspective, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has set a standard for superior customer service among governmental a...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a social insurance program that provides benefits to insured workers under the full retirement age w...

Although Social Security remains a crucial benefit for millions of seniors, the program was designed to serve an American society of 75 year ago. M...

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the issues, challenges and perspectives of Social Security...

Socialisation is known to be a process through which an individual forms a relationship to other individuals, commonly of the same species. The pro...