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Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice
Historically, feminism provides a critical frame for examining gender disparities in everyday life. These gender disparities are relevant to almost...
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Aristotelian Flourishing and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Wellbeing
Several philosophical theories of wellbeing claim Aristotelian ancestry and employ an Aristotelian construct of flourishing. Yet it is not clear how...
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Conspiracy Theories
Current thinking about conspiracy theories is dominated by epistemological and psychological approaches. The former see the study of conspiracy...
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Towards a Practice-orientated Digital Sociology
Examining how digital maps feature in people’s everyday lives and its relation to wider set of social consequences requires an appropriate framework....
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Scientific-Technical Theories of Risk
Opening with a brief history of risk theory, the chapter then examines scientific-technical risk theories. Three key theories are covered: Normal...
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Computing grounded theory: a quantitative method to develop theories
The inductive logic of grounded theory and the principle of avoiding theoretical preconceptions are significantly different from the deductive logic...
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Cultural and Social Theories of Risk
This chapter addresses the counterforces of cultural and social risk theories to the technocratic and apolitical perspectives characterising earlier...
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Typology of urban theories in expressing the concept of urbanization
Urbanization has been vastly studied in the theoretical literature related to the fields of urban studies. Different approaches to urban...
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Embodied spirituality: Shaolin martial arts as a Chan Buddhist practice
This paper explores the intersection of spirituality and martial arts through an in-depth examination of Shaolin Kung Fu as practiced within the...
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Social Policies and Theories on Quality of Life under COVID-19: In Search of the Missing Links
COVID-19 has generated many negative impacts on the family, including impaired psychological well-being of family members (parents and children) and...
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Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice
Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our...
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An overview of mindfulness theories applied to tourism: systematic review update and bibliometric analysis
This paper presents a systematic review update regarding mindfulness theories applied to tourism, complemented with a bibliometric analysis....
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What Are We Fighting For? Lay Theories About the Goals and Motivations of Anti-Racism Activism
Social psychology has primarily focused on activism as action toward social change; little is known about how laypeople think about activism. The...
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Applying Practice-orientated Digital Sociology
The previous chapter developed a practice-orientated digital sociological framework, but it did not explain how the framework might be applied...
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Are fertility theories still relevant in explaining fertility behaviour in traditional and contemporary societies in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review
This paper assesses whether fertility theories are still relevant in explaining fertility behaviour in the era of modernization of societies in...
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On structural change: practice organizations and institutional logics
This essay explores structural changes in practices through a convergence between a particular version of the institutional logics approach in...
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A Genealogy of Self-Active Governance in Policy Theories
In Part II, we present genealogical “history of the present” of policy theories, and trace the increasing realization of the contingency of the...
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Evidence-Based Policy Practice: Arguments, Counter-Arguments, Benefits, and Examples
Despite decades of “acceptance of the need for evidence-based macro practice” the field has progressed remarkedly little. This commentary describes...
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Concepts and Theories Employed in Supervision
This chapter discusses concepts or theories used by supervisors in professional supervision. The terms, concepts, or theories were used in a loose...
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Human Sciences and Theories of Religion
There are two ways of studying religion: religion by religion and comparatively. To study religions one by one is invariably to stress the...
