The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change

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This major reference work handbook explores the nexus between globalization and social change, neoliberalism and social change, and societal response to social change. The chapters will primarily focus on these three broad themes and discuss their impact in different societies across the globe at a variety of levels, from the macro to the local. The principal aim is to examine social change in a constantly changing world with new economic, political and social order. Bringing together a group of experts and researchers at all career stages who are interested in examining the impact of social change in modern society on people's lives and development, the editors appeal to experts to think beyond accepting change as an inevitable force and reflect on our power in influencing, redirecting and contemplating social change.

It will therefore be an invaluable resource for researchers, students and faculty in social work, Social Welfare, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Social Policy Study, Public policy, International Relations, Gender Studies, Women's studies, Rural Development, Management, Psychology and other social science disciplines.

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Table of contents (246 entries)

Social Change as Revolutionary Zeal

Social Challenges and Actions for Thinking and Reasoning in the Digital Age

The Transformative Capacities of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Comparison Between the Global Critical Literature and Key Development Actors’ Perceptions in Bangladesh

Right-wing Populism in a Global Perspective: The Necessity for an Integrative Theory

The Present and Future of Sustainable Development Goals amid the Transforming Global Order and Social Change. A Decade of Action

Education: A Tool for Transformation in Status of Women

Neoliberal Modes of Governance and Social Policy

Climate Change, Depletion of Lake Chad, and Its Impacts on Agricultural Output, Food Security, and Social Order in the Sahel

Changing the World in the Time of Coronavirus

Potential for Positive Social Change in the Valuing of Immigration in Scotland

Gender, Environmental Conflict, and Direct Action

Social Media and Social Change in Africa

Capitalism and Morality

Future Mobile Network Operator Business Scenarios

Connective Versus Populist Logic

The New Strategies of Social Influence Masked in the Media that Slow Down Social Change

Democracy as a Catalyst of Human Identities’ Evolution: A Reductionist Approach to an Infinity of Political Identities

Understanding the European Union: On the Spotlights and Blind Spots of Political Scientific Research

Trends in RV Leisure Travel amid COVID-19

Brazilian Community Health Agents’ Educative Work to Promote Social Transformation and Community Resilience

Editors and Affiliations

School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa

Centre for Family Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Inst of Social Welfare & Res, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Department of Social Work, Shandong University, Jinan, China

About the editors

Rajendra Baikady is a Social Work educator and researcher. He is the winner of Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2019-2020) and Confucius Studies Understanding China Fellowship (Post-Doctoral Research) at Shandong University Peoples Republic of China (2018-2019).

Sajid S.M is Professor and former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Department of Social Work, Jamia Milia Islamia New, Delhi India

Varoshini Nadesan is resident: Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions and a lecturer at the Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa.

Jaroslaw Przeperski is Director Centre for Family Research and adjunct professor in the Social Work Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun Poland. He is also an expert on family matters in the Polish Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

M. Rezaul Islam is Professor in Social Work, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Academic Adviser at the Department of Social Administration & Justice, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Gao Jianguo is a Professor and former Head in the Department of Social Work, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, Peoples Republic of China.

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