Making Knowledge Count: Advocacy and Social Science

by Peter Harries-Jones

The essays in this collection use case studies to address four vital issues of modern social advocacy. The first is the new social framework which has legitimized advocacy and recognized the immense importance of human rights legislation. The second issue explored is the adoption of various strategies by advocates in empowering social groups to achieve better self-management. A third issue is the link between the process of advocacy and social movements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508198
• ISBN13: 9780773508194
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 272 Pages