Preliminary Seminar of Social Welfare …

Preliminary Seminar of Social Welfare Studies
Tsukasa Yonamine, Yuichi Watanabe and Saki Nagano (eds.)

210 mm x 148 mm
184 pages
JPY 1,800
ISBN 9784790717874 
Pub date: November 2023

What is a society where everyone can live happily? How can we achieve it? What should I do?　This book will help you explore how people facing difficulties can connect with society. This is a hands-on introductory book that allows you to think by yourself, with your classmate, and learn from the author’s reflections!

Points of Appeal
1) Insights into the relationship between individual difficulties and the structure of society
2) Learning how to support people with difficulties

Table of Contents
Preface

Introduction  What is “difficulty in living”?:
　The study of practice in facing the difficulty in living 

Part I  Approaching the realities of difficulty in living
Chapter 1 Why do some children lose weight during summer vacation?:
　Children’s rights, disparity, and child poverty
Chapter 2  Why is it so difficult to continue to live in a village?:
　Compact cities, marginalized communities, and empowerment of local residents
Chapter 3  Does dementia make us unable to understand anything?:
　Dementia, decision-making support, and rights protection
Chapter 4  Why are people sold like objects?:
　Human trafficking, child labor, exploitation of foreign workers

Part II  Questioning a society with “exclusion” 
Chapter 5  Why do some people live on the street?:
　Habitation, poverty, and social exclusion 
Chapter 6  Why do people with disabilities live in institutions?:
　Eugenic thought, prenatal diagnosis, deinstitutionalization
Chapter 7  Is the opposite sex the only sex to fall in love with?:
　Sexual minorities, heterosexism, and the partnership system
Chapter 8 What happens to abused children?:
　Social care, child abuse, and life chances

Part III  Considering the activity of support
Chapter 9  Can a guilty person be happy?:
　Community life settlement promotion project, social skills training, right to pursue happiness
Chapter 10  How do we support the lives and livelihoods of survivors?:
　Support for disaster victims, crisis intervention, resilience
Chapter 11  Who supports the lives of refugees?:
　Resident status, human security, and global issues
Chapter 12  How should we face a multicultural society?:
　Minorities, assimilation policy, decolonization thinking

End Chapter  How social welfare studies will change in the future?:
　Toward people living happily in a changing society

Worksheets / Appendix / References / Index