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At the heart of the model minority myth-often associated with Asian Americans-is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship. Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Japanese internment camps, the H

This book is the first publication to provide a comprehensive overview about the market, financial instruments and the associated impact assessment for interested practitioners and academics. Specifically, it will introduce the concept of impact investing within the broader field of social finance as well as the relevant actors, present current financing instruments and the various tools to assess the impact of the investing strategy. This useful reference tool will be of interest to academics and researchers in the field of impact investing. Impact investing is a dynamic field that has been recently been discussed as a supplemental funding source for addressing societal problems. The topic has generated significant interest and is presumed to achieve double-digit growth rates for the coming years.--

Este artículo deriva del Trabajo Fin de Grado en Trabajo Social que fue presentado en julio de 2017 por Rosa García-Mora y dirigido por María del Mar Del Rincón-Ruiz y Elisa Esteban-Carbonell en la Universidad de Zaragoza (España). ; Aunque la calidad lleva siendo un tema fundamental en el seno de las administraciones públicas en los últimos años, la realidad española es un tanto diferente. Por todo ello, esta investigación, a partir de técnicas de recogida de información cuantitativa y cualitativa, busca esclarecer el significado otorgado a la calidad en la intervención social a través del discurso de las y los profesionales de los Servicios Sociales municipales. Además del concepto de la calidad, el artículo recoge la opinión profesional respecto a la calidad desde el Trabajo Social, desde las personas atendidas y desde la organización. Por otra parte, se recoge la importancia conferida por las y los profesionales en relación con los recursos, la coordinación, el desempeño profesional, así como la persona usuaria como aspectos clave en la calidad de la intervención social. La investigación concluye que, a pesar, de la importancia manifiesta sobre la calidad, todavía se identifican aspectos que la dificultan, siendo la falta de recursos, la ausencia de coordinación y la participación escasa de la población destinataria algunas de los principales. ; Although quality has been a fundamental issue within the public administrations during the last years, the spanish reality is quite different. Consequently, this research, through quantitative and qualitative techniques, aims to clarify the meaning given to the quality of social intervention through the discourse of professionals in municipal social services. In addition to the concept of quality, this article includes the professional´s opinion on the quality of Social Work, the users and the organization. Furthermore, the article contains the importance that professionals attach to resources, coordination, professional performance and users as key aspects of the quality of social intervention. The research concludes that, despite the obvious importance of quality, the professionals still identify the lack of resources, the absence of coordination and the low participation of the users as the main problems ; Departamento de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales; Facultad de Trabajo Social

The four volumes of Game Equilibrium Models present applications of non-cooperative game theory. Problems of strategic interaction arising in biology, economics, political science and the social sciences in general are treated in 42 papers on a wide variety of subjects. Internationally known authors with backgrounds in various disciplines have contributed original research. The reader finds innovative modelling combined with advanced methods of analysis. The four volumes are the outcome of a research year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Bielefeld. The close interaction of an international interdisciplinary group of researchers has produced an unusual collection of remarkable results of great interest for everybody who wants to be informed on the scope, potential, and future direction of work in applied game theory. Volume IV Social and Political Interaction contains game equilibrium models focussing on social and political interaction within communities or states or between states, i.e. national and international social and political interaction. Specific aspects of those interactions are modelled as non-cooperative games and their equilibria are analysed

The author analyses the everyday life and lifestyles of social classes in Montenegro based on a survey conducted on a randomized, proportional, and stratified sample of 805 respondents. The survey covers the topics: consumption; family and professional life; citizens' attitudes towards society and the state; leisure time; cultural practices; value orientations; time management; and general satisfaction with various aspects of life. The theoretical approach accords with Pierre Bourdieu's. The everyday life of the Montenegrins emerges as having the following characteristics: restriction to necessities only in purchases; high deprivation; family conflicts brought about by poor financial circumstances; stereotypical leisuretime activities; a low opinion of governmental and social institutions fuelled by perceptions of nepotism and job allocation based on political party membership; differentiation of cultural practices from the dominant mass culture; value confusion; and a focus on everyday routines. The basic line of differentiation turns out to be social class, as all the listed characteristics are much more pronounced in the lower social strata.

The rapid spread of the liberal market order across the globe poses a host of new and complex questions for religious believers-indeed, for anyone concerned with the intersection of ethics and economics. Is the market economy, particularly as it affects the poor, fundamentally compatible with Christian moral and social teaching? Or is it in substantial tension with that tradition? In Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny, editors Doug Bandow and David L. Schindler bring together some of today's leading economists, theologians, and social critics to consider whether the triumph of capitalism is a cause for celebration or concern. Michael Novak, Richard John Neuhaus, Max Stackhouse, and other defenders of democratic capitalism marshal a number of arguments in an attempt to show that, among other things, capitalism is more Christian in its foundation and consequences than is conceded by its critics-that, as Stackhouse and Lawrence Stratton write, "the roots of the modern corporation lie in the religious institutions of the West," and that, as Novak contends, "globalization is the natural ecology" of Christianity. The critics of liberal economics argue, on the other hand, that it is historically and theologically shortsighted to consider the global capitalist order and the liberalism that sustains it as the only available option. Any system which has as its implicit logic that "stable and preserving relationships among people, places, and things do not matter and are of no worth," in the words of Wendell Berry, should be regarded with grave suspicion by religious believers and all men and women of goodwill. Bandow and Schindler take up these arguments and many others in their responses, which carefully consider the claims of the essayists and thus pave the way for a renewed dialogue on the moral status of capitalism, a dialogue only now re-emerging from

"This volume examines communicative justice from the perspective of the pluriverse and explores how it is employed to work towards key pluriverse goals of environmental, cognitive, socio-cultural, socio-political, and political economy justice. The book identifies and explains the unequal power relations in place that limit the possibilities of communication justice, the challenges and difficulties faced by activists and communities, the ways in which communities and movements have confronted power structures through discourse and material action, and their successes and limitations in creating new structures that promote the right to, and facilitate a future for, communicative justice. The volume features contributions based on experiences of resistance and transformation in the Global South - Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Malawi, and collaborations between the continents of Latin America and Africa - as well as notable studies from the Global North - Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom - that defy hegemonic models. This book is essential for students and scholars interested in media and communication activism, media practice for development and social change, and communication for development and social change, as well as those actively engaged with activism and social justice"--

1. Introduction : the evolution of Russian society since 1991 : actors, attitudes and practices / Piotr Dutkiewicz -- 2. A people in the absence of the people, or a view of post-communism from below / Boris Kapustin -- 3. A time of transition : changes in reality and perceptions / Vladimir Popov and Piotr Dutkiewicz -- 4. Transformation : for the people or for the elite? / Leonid Grigoryev -- 5. Puzzles of public opinion : popular support for the transition to capitalism / Vladimir Popov -- 6. Twenty years that shook Russia : public opinion on the reforms / Mikhail Gorshkov -- 7. The Russian roller coaster : changes in social structure in the post-communist period / Natalya Tikhonova -- 8. New Russia : the evolution of Russian public opinion, 1989-2014. Valery Fyodorov -- 9. Images of authority in a time of change : the psychological transformation of society in post-Soviet Russia / Elena Shestopal -- 10. Ethnic and religious relations in Russia since the 1980s / Galina Gribanova -- 11. Post-Soviet society and elites in the Russian regions / Natalya Zubarevich -- 12. Social investment : lessons learnt over the past two decades / Andrei Margolin -- 13. The Russian elite's strategy of self-isolation / Boris Mezhuev -- 14. Conclusion : bringing the people back in / Richard Sakwa -- 15. Afterword to the Russian edition / Vladimir Yakunin.

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of