Promoting equality : challenging discrimination and oppression / Neil Thompson ; foreword by Audrey Mullender.
By: Thompson, Neil
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Contributor(s): Campling, Jo.
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BookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 261 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0333993535 (pbk.); 9780333993538.Subject(s): Social service -- Great Britain | Social service -- Methodology | Discrimination -- Great Britain | Human services -- Great Britain | Equality -- Great Britain | Society | Social discrimination & equal treatment | Social work | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-DDC classification: 361.3 THO Summary: In this revised and updated edition, Neil Thompson presents a clear and accessible analysis of the complexities of discrimination and oppression and the challenges of making equality in practice a reality.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this revised and updated edition, Neil Thompson presents a clear and accessible analysis of the complexities of discrimination and oppression and the challenges of making equality practice a reality. Critical of the orthodoxies and oversimplifications of "political correctness," Promoting Equality combines analysis and understanding of the latest theory with practice examples and insights. This important book will be of value to students, practitioners, managers and educators in a variety of professions and settings concerned with people and their problems, and will play a major part in promoting equality and valuing diversity.
Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this revised and updated edition, Neil Thompson presents a clear and accessible analysis of the complexities of discrimination and oppression and the challenges of making equality in practice a reality.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Theoretical Foundations
- Power
- Discrimination and Oppression
- Health
- Learning from the Past
- The Organizational Context
- Conclusion: Strategies for Promoting Equality
- Guide to Further Study
- References
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Neil Thompson received his B.A. in natural sciences and MA from Cambridge University.He is director of Thompson Information Systems Consulting Limited, Surrey, England.
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