Major Works: Social Policy

New and Published Books

1. Television News and the Elderly

   Broadcast Managers' Attitudes Toward Older Adults

   By Michael L. Hilt

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Television

   This concise survey investigates the television general managers’ and news directors’ attitudes towards the elderly in the United States. Originally published in 1997, it raises important issues of ageing in relation to the media with specific focus on the older viewer’s status as a viewing...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Population Studies

   Edited by Edith Gray, Zhongwei Zhao

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Retail and Commercial Planning (RLE Retailing and Distribution)

   By Ross Davies

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Changes in the philosophy of planning and the political influences behind it have led to an increasingly ambivalent approach to retail and commercial matters and a lack of clear goals and objectives as to what both central government and the local authorities should be concerned with. At the same...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Multiculturalism

   Edited by Gerd Baumann, Steven Vertovec

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research. Serious work on multiculturalism flourishes as never before, and this ‘mini library’ meets the need for...

   Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
5. Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel

   Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities

   Edited by Allan G. Hill

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
6. Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World

   Edited by Richard Anker, Marya Buvinic, Nadia H. Youssef

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women’s roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
7. Population and Development

   High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries

   Edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Family Planning in the Third World

   Edited by T. E. Smith

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1973, this book is an attempt to examine the political determinants (as opposed to the more usual emphasis upon consequences) of contemporary population policy formation and action in developing countries, with particular reference to policy relating to family limitation....

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. International Indebtedness and the Developing Countries

   By George Abbott

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1979, this study focuses upon two of the major economic problems faced by developing countries: massive foreign debts and the shortage of foreign funds offered on concessional terms for development purposes. The relationship between the two is highlighted in the effect that debt...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. Circulation in Third World Countries

    Edited by R Mansell Prothero, Murray Chapman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and they present empirical evidence based on field work from holistic,...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge