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This workshop is based on a three-year research project investigating the relative equality and equity in educational systems across the UK, Norway and Denmark. There is a common acceptance that everyone should have equal access and opportunity to education. Indeed this has been the basis of legislation and development work for the past century. Despite this commitment education remains unequally worldwide (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2010). A less understood but equally important concept is that people will need different approaches to education to give them an equitable chance of success (Chapman and West-Burnham, 2010). As a result of narrow and restrictive 'equal' systems, many young people become 'Early School Leavers', 'Drop Outs', or 'Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)'. Some commentators state the education system has pushed young people out of schools, rather than young people quitting school (Fine, 2018). We propose an 'equalities literacy' framework reveals such tensions and can inform an alternative approach to education in its broadest sense. This workshop will provide an opportunity to walk through the equalities literacy framework in order to both map your personal experiences of education and in order to use the tool for future practice and research. The Erasmus+ funded team are about to collect the narratives of 250 young people in a participatory action research project. Our challenge will be to achieve an impact with these narratives rather than merely curating them – we will facilitate a conversation on how to move from micro scale research to macro impact to conclude the workshop.

One of the many divisions of security exposed in the literature dealing with it is the ambivalent division into positive and negative security, which sometimes, somehow combined and mutually limiting, manifest themselves in normal and real security. Starting from this distinction, I develop their descriptions based on Erich Fromm's explanations of a healthy, sick, and normal society. Simultaneously, I argue that sick societies pursue negative security by preferring war and destruction, while healthy societies pursue positive security by preferring love, peace, and creative activity. It is a preference based on striving, in the case of a healthy society and positive security, "to be", as Fromm states, and in the case of a sick society and negative security, "to have", and finally, in the case of normal security, to mutually limiting "to have" and "to be". I deepen this description by referring to the thought of Bertrand Russell, in which positive and good security is defined "as one that should be by itself", and negative and bad "as one that should not be by itself". On the other hand, by bolding and broadening this description, I associate positive security (based on "to be") with the concept of "civilisation of love", "civilization of life", and "civilization of brotherhood", while negative security (embedded in "to have") with "civilisation of killing", "civilisation of overkilling", and "civilisation of death", and finally, normal security (embedded on mutually limiting "to be" and "to have") with the liberal civilisation of security and control.

Although there is a large literature on social capital, empirical estimates of the effect of social capital may be biased because of social homophily, the tendency of similar people to become friends with each other. Despite the methodological difficulties, a recent literature has emerged across several different disciplines that tries to estimate the causal effect of social capital. This paper reviews this recent empirical literature on social capital, paying close attention to the statistical and theoretical assumptions involved. Overall, there is evidence that genuine progress has been made in estimating the effect of social capital. The reviewed articles should provide useful examples for future research.

AbstractThis article examines the role the public sector has played in introducing operations research/ management science (OR/MS) in developing countries. To this end, some of the difficulties in applying OR/MS within the environment of a developing country in general, and within their public sector in particular, are briefly discussed, and the first applications of OR/MS in some such countries are reviewed. In spite of the fact that the application of OR/MS in the public sector is generally more difficult than that in the private sector, it is shown that OR/MS has, in most cases, entered countries through the public sector. Possible reasons for this phenomenon are discussed and an assessment of the contribution of OR/MS to public sector decision‐making is made.

The complexity of social problems addressed by the social work profession makes mixed methods research an essential tool. This literature review examined common quantitative and qualitative techniques used by social work researchers and what mixed methods research may add to social work research. Surveys and in-depth interviews were the most common quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, respectively. The t-test was the most frequently used quantitative data analysis method. Although thematic analysis was the most common qualitative data analysis method, 12% of the qualitative data analysis techniques were not specified. Mixed methods research adds three important elements to social work research: voices of participants, comprehensive analyses of phenomena, and enhanced validity of findings. For these reasons, the teaching and use of mixed methods research remain integral to social work.

Durkheim, in contributions published from 1886 to 1909, and then each y car from 1898 to 1913 in the bibliographie section of L'Année sociologique, sets up and implements a systematic classification of the social sciences. Other Durkheimians (and particularly Marcel Mauss) were to modify this classification during the interwar period. In this undertaking neither Durkheim nor the Durkheimians give any place to political sociology, which is denied the status of a social science, unlike religious sociology, moral and legal sociology or economie sociology. This exclusion of politics as an object of sociological study contributed to delaying for a half-century the development of political sociology in France.

Our political malaise is due to the same cause as our social malaise: that is, to the lack of secondary cadres to interpose between the individual and the State. We have seen that these secondary groups are essential if the State is not to oppress the individual: they are also necessary if the State is to be sufficiently free of the individual.–Émile Durkheim, Professional Ethics and Civic MoralsHuman progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability–Martin Luther King, Jr., A Knock at Midnight

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided that the Swedish National Bank Prize for Excellence in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel be awarded jointly to William D. Nordhaus for his contribution to "integrating climate change into long-term macroeconomic analysis" and to Paul M. Romer for his contribution to "integrating technological innovation into long-run macroeconomic analysis".

A practical guide for political science students presents basic and special requirements for writing and presentation of various types of research papers: essay, term paper, bachelor and master theses. The first part describes the most important general requirements and advices. The second part discusses specific requirements and issues related to every type of research paper. The book recommends how to structure the text, what elements should be included into the introductory part, how to prepare the references and bibliography. At the end of the book students may find various appendixes of the elements discussed in the book.