Social development theory & practice /: theory & practice. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Midgley.
• Authors: Midgley, James
• Contents: PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; 1. Defining Social Development; Approaches to Definition; Towards a Definition; 2. The History of Social Development; The Idea of Development; The Critique of the Standard Model; The Origins of Social Development Practice; The Role of the International Agencies; Reactions against Statism and the Renewal of Social Development; Reinvigorating and Redefining Social Development; PART TWO: THE THEORY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; 3. Theoretical Debates and the Social Development Process; The Original Condition; The Goals of Social Development; Change, Progress and Intervention; Normative Perspectives; 4. Theoretical Principles of Social Development Practice; Social Development Practice; Features of Social Development Practice; The Practice Strategies; Agents, Levels and Organisations; Assesing Practice Outcomes; PART THREE: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE; 5. Investments in Skills and Knowledge: The Role of Human Capital; Human Capital in Historical Context; Types of Human Capital; Childcare and Early Childhood Interventions; Formal Education: Schools and Universities; Popular Education, Health and Nutrition; Issues of Human Capital and Social Development; 6. Social Capital, Communities and Social Development; Historical Dimensions; Social Capital and Community Development; Activism and Community Action; Community Building and Community Development; Community Economic Development; Community Development and Social Development; 7. Promoting Decent Work and Employment: Policies and Investments; The History of Employment and Employment Policy; Key Programmes and Policies; The Macroeconomic Policy Framework; Employment Projects and Programmes; Employment Policy and Decent Work; Challenges and Opportunities; 8. Microenterprise, Microfinance and Social Development; The Evolution of Microenterprise and Microfinance; Features of Microenterprise and Microfinance; Types of Microenterprise; Grameen Bank II and the Commercialisation of Microfinance; Microenterprise, Poverty and Social Development; 9. Assets and Social Development; Asset Building in Historical Context; The Nature of Assets and Asset Building; Financial Assets for Individuals and Households; Community Development and Community-Owned Assets; National Assets, Trusts and the State; The Role of Assets in Social Development; 10. Social Protection as a Social Development Strategy; The History of Social Protection; The Features of Social Protection; Varieties of Social Protection; Poverty Alleviation Innnovations; Social Protection and Development: Challenges and Opportunities; 11. Social Planning, Rights and Social Development; Social Planning's Historical Evolution; The Nature of Social Planning; Types of Social Planning; Planning, Targets and Rights; Problems and Prospects of Social Planning; PART FOUR: CONCLUSION; 12. The Agenda: Achieving Social Development; Social Development: Towards Institutional Structuralism; Theoretical Roots; Implementing Managed Pluralism; Barrier and Challenges; Opportunity, Power and Struggle;
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages)
• Subjects: 307.1/4; Community development; Economic development; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1446295982; 9781446295984; 9781446293287; 1446293289
• Related ISBNs: 1412947782; 1412947774; 1446293289; 9781412947770; 9781412947787
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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