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Transforming Society: Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World - Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series 1st edition
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Transforming Society: Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World - Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole ? encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the conceptual as well as operational aspects of social transformation and social development. It examines societal transformation at the individual, group, community, national and international levels using a range of case studies from Singapore, Asia and around the world.
The four parts of this book highlight the challenges of social development; issues concerning workforce and migration; welfare, women and social care; as well as, community development and capacity building. Social development and social transformation are presented as intertwined concepts that affect citizens in profound ways from social care to social well-being, construction of social relationship as well as community life, capacity building and nation building.
256 pages, 15 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Tables, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black an
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 7, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138636774 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 282 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Tan, Ngoh Tiong (SIM University, Singapore) |
