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Psychiatry in Society provides an overview of the recent socio-economic and cultural changes affecting mental health and mental health care. These changes include: * The increasing complexity of the economic contexts within which mental health services are funded and delivered * The demand for cost-effectiveness evidence * The rationing of access to new pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies * The emergence of quality of life as an essential criterion in the assessment of health care interventions * The growing awareness of the influence of stigma on shaping the long-term course of severe mental disorders * The enhanced role of advocacy groups in providing information, advice and support to sufferers This book will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, mental health workers, managers and policy makers

India is a land of pluralities. India is a country with world's second largest population, India represents endless variety of physical features, linguistic groups, cultural patterns, caste and religious divisions. Pluralism is a political philosophy holding that people of different backgrounds, beliefs, and life style can co-exist in the same society and equally participate in political process. Framework of Indian Constitution shows that it is possible to respect cultural diversity without damaging the nation. This paper discusses how people belongs to different categories exist together. This paper also shows that country like India where multicultural, plural societies, multi-ethnic exist so how social justice, political democracy and economic progress can be achieved through accommodation of diverse identities and interests.

In this article I introduce and summarize Alexander's theory of social events as performance and ask what it offers performance studies. I critique the theory as being grounded in a theatre dramaturgy of actors, characters and scripts and suggest that while it appears to open new theoretical ground to deal with performances, it omits crucial features, namely embodiment, creativity and imagination. I distinguish between the cultural category performance, the theoretical category performance, and actual performance events, and I differentiate these from the theoretical notion of performativity. I go on to enquire into the relations between performance, performances, performativity and society.

How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology. Some believe that the economic aspects of the new collaboration have the potential to make society more equitable; others see collaborative communities based on sharing as a cover for social injustice and user exploitation. The book covers the "sharing economy," and the hijacking of the term by corporations; different models of peer production, and motivations to participate; collaborative media production and consumption, the definitions of "amateur" and "professional," and the power of memes; hactivism and social movements, including Anonymous and anti-ACTA protest; collaborative knowledge creation, including citizen science; collaborative self-tracking; and internet-mediated social relations, as seen in the use of Instagram, Snapchat, and Tinder. Finally, the book considers the future of these collaborative tendencies and the disruptions caused by fake news, bots, and other challenges.

Contents -- Contributors -- Trust in Society / Karen S. Cook -- Part I. Conceptions of Trust -- Chapter 1. Conceptions and Explanations of Trust / Russell Hardin -- Chapter 2. Solving the Problem of Trust / Carol A. Heimer -- Chapter 3. Trust as a Form of Shallow Morality / David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer -- Part II. Trust: Social Bases and Social Consequences -- Chapter 4. Trust as a Form of Social Intelligence / Toshio Yamagishi -- Chapter 5. Trust in Signs / Michael Bacharach and Diego Gambetta -- Chapter 6. Reputations, Trust, and the Principal Agent Problem / Jean Ensminger

In pre-WWII Japanese Ru society the landowner-tenant relationship was the dominating feature, & class diff's existed between owner-peasants, owner-tenants, & tenants. In the 2nd land reform program (1946), the peasants were freed from 'the yoke of feudalism,' (owner-peasants' land holdings increased from 32.8% to 69.5%, & owner-tenants' holdings decreased from 38.4% to 26.4%). Improved agri'al techniques have raised the peasant's standard of living, but the situation is still unstable because the small size of individual plots of land (70% of total/sum farmers have less than 1 hectare of arable land) is unable to produce sufficient income for fam maintenance. However, democratization is taking place to a limited extent among the peasants. Att's are toward 'enjoying life itself,' & the landowner class has virtually disappeared. Many of the old burakus (agrarian communities) have merged into larger villages & towns, fostering the growth of pol'al democracy. Econ independence of agrarian fam's should increase with the combining of farms into larger units & with the introduction of 'collective manag.' P. D. Montagna.

Neither a sharing nor economy -- Peer production -- Collaborative media production and consumption -- Collaborative social activism and hacktivism -- Collaborative knowledge creation -- Collaborative gadgets -- Being together online -- Controversies and the future of collaborative society.

Chapter 1. What is Society 5.0? -- Chapter 2. Habitat Innovation -- Chapter 3. From Smart City to Society 5.0 -- Chapter 4. Integrating Urban Data with Urban Services -- Chapter 5. Solving Social Issues through Industry-Academia Collaboration -- Chapter 6. From Monetary to Non-monetary Society -- Chapter 7. Interview - Creating Knowledge Collaboratively to Forge a Richer Society Tomorrow: An Innovation Ecosystem to Spearhead Social Transformation -- Chapter 8. Issues and Outlook.

Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues that it does. He goes beyond the study of individual states and specific regions of Europe to examine the changing contours of the continent as a whole, at a time when Europe is beginning to look and act more like a single entity. In what we have come to call Europe there developed distinctive forms of political, economic, and more broadly social organisation - many of course building on elements drawn from more advanced civilisations elsewhere in the world. During the centuries of European dominance these forms were often exported to other world regions, where the export versions often surpassed the original ones. In the present century many features of European life remain distinctive: the European welfare or social model, a substantially secularised culture, and particular forms of democratic politics and of the relations between politics and the economy. This book provides a concise overview and analysis of these features which continue to make Europe a relatively distinctive region of global modernity. The book will become a key text for students taking courses on contemporary Europe, whether these are in departments of politics, sociology, literature or European Studies. It will also be of great interest to anyone living in, or concerned with, Europe today.

As the membership of the International System Safety Society began to include those living outside of the Greater Los Angeles area, it became evident that there was a need for chapters in order to provide a more direct interaction of individuals attempting to understand and implement the nebulous field of system safety. As previously noted, nearly all the charter and earliest subsequent members of the Society were associated with the Southern California Aerospace/Air Force complex. During the first few years, there was little thought given to the need for chapters, since most members lived in the L.A. area and could attend the annual Society dinner meetings. As time went on, the need to find qualified individuals to respond to the contractual requirements of MILS- 38130 and other system safety requirements challenged contractors elsewhere. At the same time, the surge by governmental agencies to initiate system safety practices accelerated. This need led to the recruitment of many of the early system safety practitioners for key positions in other locations, especially in the DC and other Northeast locations. This altered the demographics of Society membership, and enthused the desire for local chapters.

This article is an ethnography portraying the processual and performative dimensions of the 2009 state assembly election in Andhra Pradesh. It shows how upper castes have persisted in power in a multicaste and increasingly democratic society through the distribution of welfare and patronage benefits to more marginalized segments of society. Conceptually, it argues for the importance of "political society" over "civil society," when examining state-society relations in neoliberal, democratic India.