Social Change

In 1990 world leaders assembled at the World Summit for Children made a commitment to "give every child a better future" and established 27 goals for improving children's health and well being by the year 2000. Progress toward those benchmarks will be the focus of the first special session of the United Nations General Assembly devoted to children, to be held 19-21 September 2001. In preparation for this meeting, the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival asked a number of experts to write briefing papers assessing efforts to achieve the goals of the 1990 summit. This document contains papers drafted by BASICS II staff summarizing what has been learned and accomplished during the past decade in eight important areas of child survival and makes recommendations for the future. The topics covered are: 1) maintaining a high level of immunization, 2) preventing neonatal tetanus, 3) reducing deaths from diarrhea, 4) reducing deaths from acute respiratory infections, 5) reducing deaths from measles, 6) reducing malnutrition, 7) promoting children's growth, and 8) improving newborn health.

In preparation for the National General Assembly devoted to children on September 19-21 2001 the US Coalition for Child Survival asked a number of experts to write briefing papers assessing efforts to achieve the goals of the 1990 World Summit for Children. Divided into nine sections this document contains papers drafted by Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival II staff summarizing what has been learned and accomplished during the past decade in eight important areas of child survival and makes recommendations for the future. The topics covered which are thoroughly discussed in the following sections include: maintaining a high level of immunization; preventing neonatal tetanus; reducing deaths from diarrhea; reducing deaths from acute respiratory infections; reducing deaths from measles; reducing malnutrition; promoting childrens growth; and improving newborn health.

volto a promuovere la competenza organizzativa nei CSM italiani. Il progetto si configura quale ricerca -intervento, entro una metodologia che caratterizza specificamente la psicologia clinica 2 . La ricerca prevede due fasi. In una prima fase viene rilevata la Cultura Locale dei CSM in Italia, tramite la metodologia ISO (Indicatori di Sviluppo Organizzativo), proposta dalla Cattedra di Psicologia Clinica. Questo scritto presenta i dati emersi nella prima fase della ricerca. In una seconda fase 15 CSM, scelti tra quelli che partecipano alla ricerca, vengono coinvolti in una serie di incontri con lo staff della ricerca per discutere dei dati emersi nella Cultura Locale e confrontare i risultati con la realtà organizzativa del singolo CSM, i suoi obiettivi locali, le relazioni tra le sue componenti e le eventuali problematiche nella realizzazione degli obiettivi stessi. L'ipotesi della ricerca, in estrema sintesi, è che questi incontri, fondati sulla sospensione dell'azione organizzativa del servizio e sull'analisi del funzionamento organizzativo possibile grazie a tale setting di sospensione dell'azione, possa implementare l'efficacia organizzativa del CSM stesso. La riflessione di cui stiamo parlando è possibile grazie alle categorie di analisi del funzionamento organizzativo e delle dinamiche simboliche che lo condizionano, quali sono emerse nell'analisi della Cultura Locale dei CSM italiani. L'intera ricerca, quindi è fondata sulla rilevanza del "conoscere per intervenire". La ricerca ha un committente: il Ministero trarrà, dalle indicazioni della ricerca, un supporto per le sue iniziative nei confronti dei CSM. La promozione di una competenza organizzativa ha, infatti, quale sua necessaria premessa la conoscenza delle culture che caratterizzano i CSM e ne costituiscono la risorsa. Culture che orientano i comportamenti organizzativi all'interno dei CSM; la conoscenza delle culture, inoltre, consente di individuare le criticità esistenti, per poterle superare. L'utilità di fare ricerca sulla cultura di un'organizzazione si fonda sull'ipotesi che progettare lo sviluppo di quell'organizzazione, senza un'attenta conoscenza delle risorse insite nella sua cultura, è un operazione destinata a fallire. La ricerca ha anche dei clienti, i CSM stessi. Senza una loro partecipazione motivata e attiva, fin dai primi passi della ricerca stessa; senza il loro coinvolgimento interessato, volto all'utilizzazione dei dati che dalla ricerca derivano e ad un uso dialettico e produttivo di nuove ipotesi sulla propria realtà organizzativa, la ricerca è inutile. Sarebbe, in altri termini, una ricerca priva di quei risvolti operativi che la conoscenza delle culture intende promuovere. Ciò comporta una specifica modalità di relazione tra staff di ricerca e soggetti implicati in essa. Fin dai primi passi della ricerca, infatti, ci siamo impegnati per organizzare una relazione che favorisse

The growth of the informal economy worldwide has generated no informal workers' access to formal social security mechanisms. The purpose of this article is to review the social security public policies aimed at protecting informal workers in Colombia and analyze them in the light of the situation of other Latin American countries. A literature review was conducted with documental analysis in the context of the Social Security System, and it was analyzed in comparison with other Latin American countries. We conclude that although there are policies to protect informal workers, the social security affiliation continues to be low, and this situation does not differ substantially from that of other countries in Latin America. Alternative assurance mechanisms must be created for this population, with state responsibility which promote forms of association and organization of people employed in this sector.

The growth of the informal economy worldwide has generated no informal workers' access to formal social security mechanisms. The purpose of this article is to review the social security public policies aimed at protecting informal workers in Colombia and analyze them in the light of the situation of other Latin American countries. A literature review was conducted with documental analysis in the context of the Social Security System, and it was analyzed in comparison with other Latin American countries. We conclude that although there are policies to protect informal workers, the social security affiliation continues to be low, and this situation does not differ substantially from that of other countries in Latin America. Alternative assurance mechanisms must be created for this population, with state responsibility which promote forms of association and organization of people employed in this sector.

This article introduces the Appreciative Qualitative Interview, a qualitative research technique grounded in Appreciative Inquiry, Social Constructionism, and the narrative turn in psychology. The Appreciative Qualitative Interview emphasizes positive, strength-based questioning to elicit more empowering personal and collective narratives from participants in qualitative research studies. The aim is to uncover and amplify participants' successes, strengths, and aspirations, thereby facilitating a more generative, enabling, and transformative research process. This tutorial article provides a detailed interviewing blueprint for conducting Appreciative Qualitative Interviews, including opening, core, and closing questions. While acknowledging the challenges of overemphasizing positivity, the article highlights the value of this approach within an action research and social constructionist epistemology.

Africa is the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. The portfolio of available mobile phone applications that impact the populations of the continent is however limited in number and scope. Future African graduates will be the main vectors for the development of mobile applications. In this paper we present a model of teaching mobile application development for social changes emphasizing software engineering practices. The innovation is that students develop and deploy applications for people of their local communities. This model has been used successfully in Senegal. Applications for craft workers and young children have been developed. Findings, lessons learned and guidelines for instructors interested in similar initiatives are presented. Developing mobile applications is a challenging endeavor where technological and software engineering knowledge and creativity are crucial. Mobile applications are deployed on devices that all come with different specifications (e.g., size, memory, input systems, mobile connectivity options, and APIs). The difficulties are increased considering that fact that one standard replaces the next in the industry. These restrictions and constraints require developers to be imaginative and have deep knowledge in hardware and telecommunications on top of software development processes, design, programming, user interaction design, and quality assurance. Java ME is the leading programming language for development of mobile phones with 80% of Java-enabled phones. Applications can also be developed in Java FX, Python, C, C++, Objective C, Flash Lite, and JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Development environments for Java ME include the Sun Wireless Took Kit, NetBeans, and the EclipeME plugin within Eclipse. User interaction determines considerably the adoption of rejection of mobile applications. Based on the difficulties of creating similar and engaging user experience on various devices, user interface libraries have been created. Frameworks such as LWUIT (LightWeight UI Toolkit) () and KUIX (Kalmeo User Inter face eXtensions) () augment the standard low-level and high-level user interfaces APIs of Java ME. In this paper , we describe a model of teaching mobile application development for social changes that is influ-383

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The aim of this doctoral thesis is to examine the impact of eudaimonia wellbeing beliefs – people conception of the nature and experience of wellbeing – on their wellbeing at workplace, on the organizational performance focused on helping others and on specific prosocial behaviours. Three empirical studies were conducted to this end, using different research designs and samples. Study 1 analyses the moderating role of the two dimensions of eudaimonia wellbeing beliefs (contribution-to-others and self-development) in the relationship between surface acting and exhaustion. We use a cross-sectional self-reported design and a sample of 817 front line employees working in 118 health care organizations providing services to people with intellectual disability. Results confirmed the hypotheses, showing that contribution-to-others strengthens the link from surface acting to exhaustion, whereas self-development weakens this relationship. Study 2 propose the mediation of service climate betwe...

As a social entity society includes different groups and cultural components. What are the place, importance and limitations of those different perceptions and cultures in the society in the context of social change, development, integration and disintegration? To what extend are the differences in the society is a richness and what kind of relations are there between differences and differentiations? How does society go its way by integrating or differentiating? This study theoretically focuses on different groups and cultural components of the society in terms of social development, integration M.TÜRKKAHRAMAN-H.TUTAR/Sosyal değişme,bütünleşme ve çözülme... and disintegration. The aim of this article is to revise the issue of places of different groups and cultural elements within the society and to put a new and meaningful dimension to this matter.

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The Future Proofing Schools Research Team has been delighted with the response to the Design Ideas Competition. We congratulate the winners but also thank the many entrants who, while not named for an award, have contributed the inspiring ideas that you will and within this publication. The Australian Research Council has made this Design Ideas Competition possible by providing ARC Linkage funding for the years 2010 until 2012. While no ARC funding has gone into prize money, the funding has been crucial for the research phases preceding and following the competition stage.

This is a historical study of political satire in comedy variety shows on American television in the year 1968. It analyzes the dialogic content of episodes of non-narrative television shows that aired that year, with a primary focus on The Carol Burnett Show,

The centrality of psychology in the field of instructional technology has never been comprehensively questioned; most instructional technologists have assumed that (behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist, or another) psychology is the -natural‖ foundation for education and thus for instructional technology. The driving question of this article is: What are the problems of psychologism as found in the theories and practices of instructional technology? We present a brief genealogy of American instructional technology in relation to the influence of psychology; review critical psychology and discuss some problems of psychologism focusing on positivism, metaphysics, ecology and culture, and power; and provide a hermeneutical framework for the theory and practice of instructional technology.

Probation reentry programs are integral to the successful reintegration of probationers
into society. This study examines the impact of probation reentry programs on
probationers' community reintegration in District Bahawalpur Punjab, Pakistan. The
study highlights the main obstacles that probationers encounter, looks at how current
probation programs have helped or impeded successful reintegration, and assesses the
efficacy of previous treatments by employing a quantitative research methodology.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate how well probation programs work to lower
recidivism and enhance the successful social and economic reintegration of
probationers. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect data from the
probationers who are receiving the reentry programs from last 6 months to one year.
Descriptive statistical analyses are used in the study to quantify the connections
between reintegration results and involvement in probation programs. The results
show a strong relationship between effective reintegration, mental health support,
vocational training, and program accessibility. Nonetheless, issues like societal stigma
and a lack of job prospects continue to exist. The study contributes to better
reintegration tactics and lower recidivism rates in Bahawalpur by offering insights
based on data and policy recommendations to strengthen probation reentry programs.
Keywords: Probation, reentry programs, community reintegration, social learning
theory, probationers, recidivism, social support

Self-regulated learning is recognized as a core competence for academic success and life-long formation. The social context in which self-regulated learning develops and takes place is attracting growing interest. Using cross-sectional data from secondary education students (n = 561), we aimed to formulate explanatory arguments regarding the effect of social support on metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive and cognitive learning strategies, and academic achievement, considering the potential mediating role of goal orientation self-management. Structural Equation Modelling yielded a conceptually consistent and statistically satisfactory empirical model, explaining a moderate-high percentage of the variance in self-regulated learning and academic achievement. The results showed that perceived support from teachers and family positively predicted metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive and cognitive learning strategies, and mastery self-talk and negatively predicted work-avoidance self...

Michael Burawoy's Presidential Address to the ASA is an impressive example of the public sociology he advocates in action. Here, the public he is urging to involve itself in public sociology is the US sociological academy. As Burawoy notes in his Thesis IX, the international sociological enterprise is highly diverse and varies in its involvement with public, as well as the other three forms of professional, policy and critical, sociology. What then are the relevance and the implications of his speech for sociologists elsewhere? What implications follow from this for US sociology and sociologists? Any consideration of this issue involves addressing the issue of the power, whether intended or unintended, of American sociology to set the international sociological agenda. Two key dimensions relate to US professional sociology: its prominence in influencing international career structures and, intertwined with this, its role in setting the methodological and conceptual agendas of sociology internationally. The attractions of the USA as the land of opportunity for migrants is even more significant for sociologists seeking well remunerated career and research opportunities and the intellectual stimulus derived from working with senior colleagues with international reputations. The realization of such ambitions are assisted by the availability of scholarships and financial assistance for graduate students, often among the brightest talents in their own countries. This in itself is not bad. We are increasingly aware that 'brain circulation' is a more appropriate way than simple 'brain drain' of viewing the exchange of knowledge and skills which are occurring in this period of escalating globalization. More significant, however, is the way career success often involves the adoption of the methodological and conceptual frameworks and topics dominating US sociology. While for the insider US sociology may seem extremely diverse, from the perspective of the outside this is less evident, perhaps in part because international links are dominated

Hverdagslig gjenstand eller kroppsrelatert symbol? En komparativ analyse av gravfelt i Østfold fylke brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by NORA -Norwegian Open Research Archives Forord Nå var det gjort! "Mastern" er i boks, og det er takket vaere en hel haug personer. Først og fremst en stor takk til Siv Kristoffersen for en fantastisk veiledning gjennom skriveprosessen, personlig, per mail og per telefon, og for det gode humøret. I tillegg vil jeg takke Per Ditlef Fredriksen for gode råd og litteratur til teoridelen og Julie Lund for mye gode tipps i startfasen av hele prosjektet. En stor takk og en enda større klem fortjener Marianne Hem Eriksen for en last-minute korrekturlesing. Også Silje Lillevik, Merethe Kjølberg, Kristin Eriksen, KristineAndreassen og alle de andre på Blindernveien 11 takkes for mange lunsj-quiz, pub-turer, feltkursopplevelser og storslagne arkeologifester ved siden av gode diskusjoner og ikke minst motivasjon å få dette gjort. Til slutt, en stor takk til min mor, Renate Töpfer, som aldri har tvilt på meg og som var den største støtten gjennom hele studiet mitt, og Vidar Andreassen for å ha holdt meg gående og ignorert de verste humørsvingninger i de siste ukene. TAKK! Oslo, 17.05.2010 Innholdsfortegnelse INNHOLDSFORTEGNELSE .

This paper addresses the transformation of the human rights discourse in post-communist Albania from the early 1990s, during the transition period, to the recent years, which reflect a professionalization of the civil society organizations and a different set of human rights issues. In order do understand the changes in the human rights discourse in Albania, it is useful to scrutinize the late socialist period of the dictatorship and contrast this peculiar Stalinist regime with other countries in the Eastern Europe, which were more innovative in terms of socialist legality, conceptualizations of socialist human rights as well as challenged the assumed socialist framework of human rights through public dissent. This paper uses a qualitative methodology and relies on the analysis of textual evidence to underline the differences and similarities across time regarding the human rights discourse in post-communist Albania. On the other hand, the paper highlights the role of political parties, their programmatic ideas on human rights, and the role of civil society organizations and associations that address and defend human rights in the Albanian society. One of the key findings of the research is that the basis of the human rights discourse in post-communist Albania, particularly after regime change, was created by political parties and not so much by civil society organizations. The second key finding of the paper is that the shift in human rights discourse and its set of issues happens as a consequence of external institutions' influence and the so-called professionalization of civil society, which is not simply focusing on the advocacy of human rights.

This paper questions the language of “sacrifice” often used to describe mothers who care fortheir own children. Drawing on German sociological debates, particularly the work of Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, and Helmut Schelsky, it reframes maternal care as social love rather
than loss. Far from being regression into traditional roles, it represents a conscious biographical
decision that sustains the reproduction of society.
Maternal care is typically invisible in economic measures such as GDP, yet it forms the  foundation of child development and social continuity. Beck and Beck-Gernsheim (2002) emphasize that modern individuals must shape their biographies independently. Harmony’s decision to devote
herself to her child exemplifies this freedom, not as sacrifice but as agency rooted in love.

Ownership of agricultural land is very fragmented in Turkey, as is the case in countries within central Europe. This prevents agricultural efficiency from reaching desired levels. Land consolidation involves redistributing land ownership so that individual farmers own fewer, larger, more compact and more contiguous land parcels. In Turkey, generally voluntary land consolidation projects are performed, while some financial limitations and political conditions prevent land consolidation reach to its desired level. For this reason, only 2.2% of the agricultural areas have been consolidated so far. Ideally, farmers adopt consolidation and are pleased by its results; this helps maintain the sustainability of the land structure formed by consolidation and accelerate acceptance of consolidation in other areas. In this study, the factors that are effective on farmers' adopting land consolidation and their contentment were investigated. For this purpose, the results of the survey carried out in the selected villages within the Bursa-Karacabey plain were assessed using a logit model. According to the results obtained from this consolidation study, the criteria farmers value are the utilization of the irrigation system, reduction of inter-farmer conflicts, shaping parcels into a form proper for mechanized agriculture, and forming parcels of large dimensions by consolidating parcels. A higher level of contentment was observed among the farmers who were provided with above mentioned factors.

In this article, the authors present the "insight approach" to conflict as an analytical and methodological framework that addresses the dynamic interactions between conflicting parties. According to the insight approach, conflict is relational, dynamic, and adaptive, generated from the responsive interpretive frameworks that parties use to construct meaning. Conflict arises as a result of parties' experience of what insight theorists call "threats-to-cares", which generates defend-attack patterns of interaction between them. The authors suggest that rethinking the nature of conflict so that it is seen as an interaction embedded in meaning-making enables conflict interveners to help parties gain insight into, and articulate, the values that are being generated, advanced, threatened, and realigned within the complex interactions that define us as social beings. In doing so, parties develop abilities to generate new patterns, and solutions that can limit and even eliminate the experiences of threat that generate conflict between them.

Este balance bibliográfico presenta cómo la investigación del hecho religioso en Colombia ha estado orientada por dos posiciones epistemológicas, surgidas de la propia dinámica contextual. Una, abordada particularmente por la disciplina histórica, observa al catolicismo -religión más estudiada-preferentemente como elemento conservador del statu quo, de intransigencia y propiciador de intolerancia, violencia y guerra. Otra, más reciente y de naturaleza interdisciplinar, da luz sobre la relación de la religión con el cambio social, la búsqueda de la paz y la resistencia al conflicto armado, que a su vez responden a cambios generados en la actitud de las iglesias cristianas frente a dicho fenómeno. Así mismo, se anima al estudio interdisciplinar del hecho religioso, para propiciar un diálogo entre ciencias sociales, filosofía y teología, en consideración de los sistemas religiosos en sus contextos.

In seeking to understand and promote long-term and inclusive models of local economic development the notion of social capital appears potentially important. In the development of the social economy, an aspect of the local economy which has attracted an increased theoretical and policy focus in recent years, the relationship with social capital appears particularly significant.Yet despite the apparent salience of notions of social capital, there remains a lack of understanding of the nature and extent of existing social capital resources and the precise manner in which these are drawn upon in the development of the social economy to generate further social capital within the local development process. In part this is a result of the conceptual confusion surrounding the notion of social capital, but it also reflects a lack of empirical research. This article explores the notion of social capital and the manner in which it is produced, reproduced and used locally within the social eco...

The historiography of educational reform in 19th century Egypt is
driven largely by modernization approaches in which reformers are cast as
‘liberals’ and ‘westernizers;’ figures outside these paradigms tend to be
overlooked. ‘Abdallah Nadim (1845-1896), a nineteenth century social reformer,
experimented throughout his life with ‘educating the nation.’ He founded the first
Islamic Benevolent Society school in Egypt and authored some of the most widely
circulated articles on education and society of his day. In this paper we will review
Nadim’s life history, examine the educational terrain of 1890’s Egypt with
particular emphasis on girls’ education, and discuss a specific set of articles
authored by Nadim on Muslim youth and European education. With his
combination of anticolonial, proto-nationalist, conservative Islamic, yet ‘modern’
approach to educational reform, Nadim represents a populist – if neglected figure
in Egypt’s educational history.

Today, media has become one of the most effective, most active institutions in the societies. We can say that the channels of communication have a very important impact in the realization of social integrity and socialization process. The movement in consumer culture plays a central role in today's society in order to better understand the specific ideology in the world and to create a favorable environment for the emergence of popular culture tools. In this case, the social structure reveals a situation ATLAS INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNAL ON SOCIAL SCIENCES YEAR: 2019 VOL:5 ISSUE: 17 157 that cannot be sustained according to a culture. As a matter of fact, in this continuum, individuals become a part of the culture that is served to them. No doubt the media; by managing the situation and behaviors of consumers, they show the tastes that are needed to be needed and show how these needs and needs should be eliminated. Movements in the culture of consumption play a central role i...

is a senior studying psychology and sociology at Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW). He has concentrated on community engagement and service learning as areas of focus for the past year. He plans to pursue a career in applied sociology and he has been involved with applied research among vulnerable populations. Christopher has worked with homeless veterans in Fort Wayne and has studied health conditions in a rural county that ranks low in health outcomes. In this article, he describes his experience with servicelearning partnerships between community organizations and an institution of higher education.

is a senior studying psychology and sociology at Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW). He has concentrated on community engagement and service learning as areas of focus for the past year. He plans to pursue a career in applied sociology and he has been involved with applied research among vulnerable populations. Christopher has worked with homeless veterans in Fort Wayne and has studied health conditions in a rural county that ranks low in health outcomes. In this article, he describes his experience with servicelearning partnerships between community organizations and an institution of higher education.

Con el objetivo de mirar críticamente la labor que hacemos las y los comunicadores, sea desde la formación, la investigación o la práctica profesional, en las siguientes líneas compartimos una reflexión sobre la disciplina de la comunicación enfatizando por un lado en los retos que implica el abandono del binomio objetividad-neutralidad, el cual ha llevado a que la disciplina pretenda un distanciamiento de la realidad, de los fenómenos que se estudian, analizan e informan asumiéndose como apolítica. Por otro lado deliberamos sobre la necesaria ruptura con la clásica y tradicional comprensión funcionalista de la comunicación, donde un proceso tan complejo se reduce simplemente a la creación y recepción de mensajes, en la que claramente existe un emisor privilegiado. La ruptura con estas dos posturas clásicas y su episteme, nos dirige a la comunicación para el cambio social que defendemos y promovemos en estas líneas, la cual critica férreamente la comunicación funcionalista, sus post...

Gegenstand ist die Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der privaten, staatlich geförderten Altersvorsorge (Riester-Rente) auf die Alterseinkommen und die Konsummöglichkeiten im Alter nach Wohnkosten. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Simulationsmodell entwickelt, dass die Steuer- und Abgabenbelastung von Beispielhaushalten über ihren gesamten Lebenszyklus umfassend abbildet. Berücksichtigt werden sowohl alle bereits heute gesetzlich verankerten Maßnahmen zum Übergang zur nachgelagerten Besteuerung der gesetzlichen Renten als auch alle gesetzlich verankerten Maßnahmen zur Dämpfung des Beitragssatzanstiegs in der Rentenversicherung. Besondere Berücksichtigung finden die aktuellen Überlegungen zur Integration der Wohneigentumsförderung in die staatliche Förderung der privaten Altersvorsorge. --

Baró, su mensaje y testimonio siguen vigentes. El presente artículo es una construcción que parte de sus postulados y se articulan a la realidad de una Colombia, que, aunque distante en tiempo, es muy cercana en su dinámica social a El Salvador de Martín Baró. Se presenta un recorrido que analiza la relación entre la salud mental y el conflicto, y de modo particular en el contexto social colombiano, marcado durante las últimas décadas por la presencia de las guerrillas, el narcotráfico y el paramilitarismo, en el marco de un Estado deslegitimado por la corrupción, el clientelismo, la lucha de poderes y de una sociedad dividida, a veces indiferente, a veces profundamente conmovida. Seguidamente, se analiza la relevancia de la salud mental en el marco normativo colombiano, dándose una semblanza general del lugar ganado en la legislación de cara a la garantía de los derechos de los nacionales. A continuación, se analiza la mencionada realidad desde las voces de sus más vulnerables protagonistas: los niños. En otro momento, se plantea la resignificación del dolor y el sufrimiento, como una forma de reivindicar el potencial humano de reinventarse y dotar de sentido las situaciones adversas a partir del reconocimiento de las personas como sujetos de derechos y agentes transformadores. Por último, se hace un cuestionamiento a la psicología y a los psicólogos, sobre el papel que juegan en esta realidad y se hace un llamado a ser respuesta ante un momento histórico que no permite posiciones intermedias y que demanda de profesionales que marquen la diferencia y opten por ser facilitadores de profundas transformaciones sociales, desde la convicción ética y epistemológica.

In recent years, higher education researchers and practitioners began to call on higher education institutions (HEIs) to contribute more to the common good by helping to resolve global challenges revolving around sustainable development. For HEIs to fulfill this public mission, I suggest that they critically reflect on ontological assumptions regarding the common good that have been entrenched in the modern civilization; specifically, "mononaturalism" and "dualism" that posit that the singular and common world exists objectively and independently of subjective experiences by humans. Without this critical reflection, HEIs might risk invoking "the scientific truth" to prematurely unify multiple worlds and goods by subjugating nonmodern others à la imperialism and colonialism. At the same time, the modern ontological assumptions have been recently challenged by the decolonial movement that advocates the "pluriverse" or the convivial coexistence of many worlds as well as by the contemplative movement that embraces the co-arising of objective and subjective worlds. Together the two movements show the potential to articulate "multinaturalism" and "nondualism" as new ways of imagining a common world and a common good. To illustrate how this potential might be mobilized to effectively respond to the global challenges created by the modern civilization, I offer a brief case study of the "Co-Innovation University Project" in rural Japan, which aims to establish a new university to facilitate the creation of the pluriverse, a common world that enables the inhabitants of different worlds to co-flourish and enjoy diverse forms of common good. Keywords Co-flourishing • Co-innovation • Decolonial • Mindfulness • Pluriverse • Sustainable development Over the last decade, higher education researchers and practitioners began to call on higher education institutions (HEIs) to contribute more to the common good, as the movement to address global challenges revolving around sustainable development emerged worldwide

This paper addresses the merits of public health activism that advocates for social change in which health is the outcome of interest. We acknowledge that while efforts at the individual level are important, social network models consider the underlying mechanisms that lie outside the public health sector. This paper considers the inequitable health of Indigenous people who bear a disproportionate share of the negative health consequences due to economic development programs that follow an assimilation model. This paper discusses a combination of theoretical constructs to understand and solve the problems at hand. It concludes that while the attention paid to technological and behavioral solutions at the individual level yields important health outcomes, attention should also be paid to structural causes that address social, political and economic barriers to prevent disease, disability and premature death.

In mid-2004 the population of the Pacific region was estimated at 8.6 million (SPC, 2004). Pacific Island populations are small by world standards and population and development issues such as poverty and nutrition are of immense concern in these countries. Many ...

RESUMEN En este trabajo, abordaremos las consecuencias que han supuesto el cambio de un modelo de ciudad compacta y vertical a un modelo de ciudad difusa y horizontal. Estos procesos tienen una base económica: el turismo y, concretamente, el sector inmobiliario, que ha impulsado cambios en el modelo de urbanización, primero en la Costa Occidental, luego en Málaga, y, más

This article promotes a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. Multilevel analyses that control for variations in individual- and household-level correlates show an important role for cross-border influences only in those districts that share a common language across the border. The districts that are positive outliers in contraception hug the Bangladesh—West Bengal border. A map of outliers shows that the positive outliers form a contiguous band in a manner suggestive of a role for contagion.

Objetivou-se com este estudo avaliar o efeito de um probiótico e de um prebiótico sobre o desempenho zootécnico e a morfometria do intestino de tilápia-do-Nilo (Oreochromis niloticus). O experimento teve duração de 70 dias e foram utilizados 144 alevinos com peso médio inicial de 1,1 ± 0,2g e 4,0 ± 0,2cm de comprimento total da linhagem Chitralada, adquiridos de uma piscicultura comercial. Os peixes foram alojados em nove caixas de fibrocimento com volume útil de 200L, distribuídos em delineamento inteiramente casualizado, e alimentados com ração comercial pura ou suplementada com probiótico (Bacillus subtilis) ou prebiótico (mananoligossacarídeo). Foram utilizados os seguintes tratamentos: ração comercial; ração comercial com adição de probiótico e ração comercial com adição de prebiótico. Não houve diferença entre os valores de biomassa final, ganho de peso médio, ganho de peso diário, ganho em comprimento total, sobrevivência, conversão alimentar aparente e índice hepatossomático. Da mesma forma, não houve diferença entre tratamentos para número de vilosidades intestinais, mas os peixes submetidos aos tratamentos com a adição de probiótico ou de prebiótico apresentaram maior altura das vilosidades, e aqueles que receberam o tratamento com o probiótico apresentaram ainda maior espessura do epitélio das vilosidades, quando comparados com os animais alimentados com a ração sem os aditivos.

This study examines how gender is embedded in existing structure and daily interaction, creating gender inequality in household labor. Based on a qualitative study of married men and women from China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, I illustrate how various relational interactions create such gender inequality. Relational interaction between sons and mothers or sons-in-law and mothers-in-law conforms to the traditional gendered division of labor, freeing men from responsibility for household labor. Interaction between daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law is regulated by hierarchal kinship and Confucian gender ideology. A daughter-in-law is generally expected to be the major provider of household labor while her mother-in-law assumes the role of housework helper. The roles of major household labor provider and helper are flexible, however, and can be interchanged between a mother and her daughter. Although mothers and mothers-in-law can ease the burden of housework for both men and wo...

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Serdecznie zapraszamy do lektury artykułów skoncentrowanych wokół charakterystycznego pojęcia, które ujęłyśmy w tytule tomu¹. Zgromadzone teksty pokazują kilka ważnych wątków w polskich badaniach nad wulnerabilnością. Rozmaitość tłumaczeń z angielskiego nazwy tej koncepcji, a nawet tworzenie neologizmów, odzwierciedla fakt, że dla każdego badacza oznacza ona trochę co innego. Angielski termin vulnerability tłumaczony jest bezpośrednio jako wulnerabilność (Tomczok 2017), podatność na zagrożenie (Nowakowski 2017) lub -w sposób bardziej metaforyczny -jako ranliwość / podatność na zranienie (np. Świerkosz 2018). W niniejszym tomie posługujemy się głównie terminem "wulnerabilność" jako literalnie odzwierciedlającym oryginalny termin, wywodzący się z łaciny (vulnus -rana, vulnerabilis -podatny na zranienie, uszkodzenie). Niewątpliwie termin łaciński po przejściu do języka angielskiego został semantycznie zmodyfikowany i poszerzony: nabrał nowych znaczeń, a nad dosłownym znaczeniem fizycznej rany przeważać zaczęło metaforyczne znaczenie zranienia. Używając spolszczonego słowa "wulnerabilność", podkreślamy specyfikę tego terminu w naukach społecznych i humanistycznych pierwszych dekad XXI wieku. Wulnerabilność bywa definiowana jako cecha jednostek (np. Satici 2016), ale też całych grup, narodów i państw (np. Brooks, Adger, Kelly ¹ Tom powstał we współpracy z Sekcją Socjologii Migracji PTS.