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In nowadays we frequently meet with the question about emigration.The causes of the emigration have been examined and the possible ways of solution these problems.There are a lot of such investigations done. On the ground of them there are created some theories that try to ascertain the essence of the social phenomenon, causes and other aspects. There must be significant reasons for person to leave his country, to break their connections with family, kinsfolk, friends, to lose the social status they have. The social connections play a really important role in the person's life. The purpose of the investigation is to analyse the interpersonal and institutionalised relations of emigrants'. The tasks of the work: 1. To disclose the theoretical assumptions of the migration in modern society; 2. To analyse the emigration in Lithuania and its situation, separating the challenges of emigration to Lithuania; 3. To analyse the theoretical assumptions of the social connections (the social capital). 4. To perform the sociological investigation that would let to examine to social connections of the emigrants' in the interpersonal and institutionalised discourses. The hypotheses of the investigation: 1. The main cause of the emigration from Lithuania in nowadays is indicated the insufficient government's attention to the person in social economical aspect (the most often there are emigrated reaching financial and material wellbeing). 2. The network of the interpersonal contacts of emigrants' in the foreign country is not expanded. Emigrants name family as the most important connections in their homeland (both parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, partner, children) but the fellow-men left in Lithuania are not the cause to come back. 3. Institutionalised intercourses of the emigrants' in the foreign country are little developed, usually it is restricted to job's or academic institutions. Despite of it the view of various institutions to emigrants is not unfavourable. Methods of the work: 1. The study of nonfiction. 2. The questionnaire interview: quantitative opinion's investigation (the VPU students') of the persons', living in Lithuania (the VPU students'). 3. An interview with emigrants. Findings of the work: 1. There was done the investigation and it emerged that emigrants are tended to reckon emigration as the natural phenomenon typical to all the countries. The informants of the investigation stated that they have emigrated because of insufficient attention of the government to the job direction, the bad economical situation in the country, seeking after their better material condition. Actually, students that took part in the quantitative investigation evaluate the situation of emigration similarly. So we can state that the first hypothesis - The main cause of the emigration from Lithuania in nowadays is indicated the insufficient government's attention to the person in social economical aspect (the most often there are emigrated reaching financial and material wellbeing) – was proved. Informants indicate the economical factors as the main cause of their emigration – the possibility to earn in the other country, seeking for the material wellbeing. They had no luck with jobs in Lithuania, so they were compelled to perfect their material life in the overseas. 2. After the statistic data analysis it was emerged that the second hypothesis – The network of the interpersonal contacts of emigrants' in the foreign country is not expanded. Emigrants name family as the most important connections in their homeland (both parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, partner, children) but the fellow-men left in Lithuania are not the cause to come back – was proved. It is possible to state that on the one part it is important to emigrants to keep terms with family left in the homeland, on the other part in heir recent life exists a very important factor that influences their decision to come or not to come back to Lithuania - It is their economical status, which in often cases is ameliorated in the foreign country. Talking about the interpersonal relations in the foreign country we must say that according to their statement their relationships with local citizenry are usually supported it the context of their work. The closest relations in the foreign country they support with their countrymen. 3. The investigation's data analysis showed that institutionalised relations in emigrants' life don't take the most place. There are only work, trade and academic dealings administered in the foreign institutions. There is no communication with Lithuanian institutions currently. It is possible to state that the third hypothesis - Institutionalised intercourses of the emigrants' in the foreign country are little developed, usually it is restricted to job's or academic institutions. Despite of it the view of various institutions to emigrants is not unfavourable – was proved.

In nowadays we frequently meet with the question about emigration.The causes of the emigration have been examined and the possible ways of solution these problems.There are a lot of such investigations done. On the ground of them there are created some theories that try to ascertain the essence of the social phenomenon, causes and other aspects. There must be significant reasons for person to leave his country, to break their connections with family, kinsfolk, friends, to lose the social status they have. The social connections play a really important role in the person's life. The purpose of the investigation is to analyse the interpersonal and institutionalised relations of emigrants'. The tasks of the work: 1. To disclose the theoretical assumptions of the migration in modern society; 2. To analyse the emigration in Lithuania and its situation, separating the challenges of emigration to Lithuania; 3. To analyse the theoretical assumptions of the social connections (the social capital). 4. To perform the sociological investigation that would let to examine to social connections of the emigrants' in the interpersonal and institutionalised discourses. The hypotheses of the investigation: 1. The main cause of the emigration from Lithuania in nowadays is indicated the insufficient government's attention to the person in social economical aspect (the most often there are emigrated reaching financial and material wellbeing). 2. The network of the interpersonal contacts of emigrants' in the foreign country is not expanded. Emigrants name family as the most important connections in their homeland (both parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, partner, children) but the fellow-men left in Lithuania are not the cause to come back. 3. Institutionalised intercourses of the emigrants' in the foreign country are little developed, usually it is restricted to job's or academic institutions. Despite of it the view of various institutions to emigrants is not unfavourable. Methods of the work: 1. The study of nonfiction. 2. The questionnaire interview: quantitative opinion's investigation (the VPU students') of the persons', living in Lithuania (the VPU students'). 3. An interview with emigrants. Findings of the work: 1. There was done the investigation and it emerged that emigrants are tended to reckon emigration as the natural phenomenon typical to all the countries. The informants of the investigation stated that they have emigrated because of insufficient attention of the government to the job direction, the bad economical situation in the country, seeking after their better material condition. Actually, students that took part in the quantitative investigation evaluate the situation of emigration similarly. So we can state that the first hypothesis - The main cause of the emigration from Lithuania in nowadays is indicated the insufficient government's attention to the person in social economical aspect (the most often there are emigrated reaching financial and material wellbeing) – was proved. Informants indicate the economical factors as the main cause of their emigration – the possibility to earn in the other country, seeking for the material wellbeing. They had no luck with jobs in Lithuania, so they were compelled to perfect their material life in the overseas. 2. After the statistic data analysis it was emerged that the second hypothesis – The network of the interpersonal contacts of emigrants' in the foreign country is not expanded. Emigrants name family as the most important connections in their homeland (both parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, partner, children) but the fellow-men left in Lithuania are not the cause to come back – was proved. It is possible to state that on the one part it is important to emigrants to keep terms with family left in the homeland, on the other part in heir recent life exists a very important factor that influences their decision to come or not to come back to Lithuania - It is their economical status, which in often cases is ameliorated in the foreign country. Talking about the interpersonal relations in the foreign country we must say that according to their statement their relationships with local citizenry are usually supported it the context of their work. The closest relations in the foreign country they support with their countrymen. 3. The investigation's data analysis showed that institutionalised relations in emigrants' life don't take the most place. There are only work, trade and academic dealings administered in the foreign institutions. There is no communication with Lithuanian institutions currently. It is possible to state that the third hypothesis - Institutionalised intercourses of the emigrants' in the foreign country are little developed, usually it is restricted to job's or academic institutions. Despite of it the view of various institutions to emigrants is not unfavourable – was proved.

"This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation. It presents a comprehensive framework synthesizing extant theories, a palette of real-world cases in the aerospace, automotive, life science, biotechnology and health care industries, and fundamental agent-based computer models elucidating the relation between regional development and network dynamics. The book is primarily intended for researchers in the fields of innovation economics and evolutionary economic geography, and particularly those interested in using agent-based models and empirical case studies. However, it also targets (regional) innovation policy makers who are not only interested in policy recommendations, but also want to understand the state-of-the-art agent-based modeling methods used to experimentally arrive at said recommendations."--Provided by publisher

"Even if we don't realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of 'emotional labour'; that 'service with a smile' which everyone from cabin crew to restaurant or call centre staff is expected to give, irrespective of what they actually feel or think. This book considers the complex ways in which this need to show (or hide) particular emotions translates into job roles - specifically those of leaders or managers - where the relationships are lasting rather than transient, two-way rather than uni-directional and have complex, ongoing goals rather than straight-forward, one-off ones. The book contends that these differences contribute unique characteristics to the nature of the emotional labour required and expounds and explores this new genus within the 'emotional labour' species. The main theme of this book is the explication and exploration of emotional labour in the context of leadership and management. As such, it focuses both on how our understanding of emotional labour in this context enriches the original construct and where it deviates from it. By exploring these issues at the level of situated practices and the real world, real time experiences of leaders, the book seeks to make an innovative and nuanced contribution to our understanding of the emotional element within 'leadership work'."--Publisher's website

Sixty office workers at a temporary employment agency were surveyed for their Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and Sensitivity to Paralanguage (SP) scores. The SP measure contains 12 questions and requires participants to guess the nature of the social relationship between two people based on a 30-second acoustic sample of their dialogue. Paralanguage was selected for investigation in this study rather than nonverbal aspects of communication because people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) tendencies — who tend to avoid looking at the face of the interlocutor — still use paralanguage effectively. Social communication skills (SCS) were defined as the sum of scores from the AQ subscales "Social skills" and "Communication", and participants were categorized into either high or low SCS groups. Five participants had AQ scores of 26 or more, including one participant with an AQ score of 36. The five high AQ scorers were all male and all in the low SCS group. The low SCS group had a mean SP score that was 0.47 points higher than the high SCS group. The results indicate that people with poor SCS were more effective in guessing the social relationship between the two parties based on paralanguage than those with high SCS. There are two possible explanations for this finding. The first is that the SP test favors people with ASD tendencies in the low SCS group. The second is that the high SCS group may typically rely on senses other than hearing when making social judgments. In future, the reasons for our finding may be clarified by creating a "sensitivity to nonverbal cues" measurement that uses only visual information.

Why do citizens demand certain kinds of citizenship rights rather than another in a given context? This article extends the idea of political and cultural opportunities to Mexico's authoritarian context to explore why Mexicans, who had prioritized social rights over other rights, came to emphasize political rights in a context of neoliberalism. In particular, I ask how this transformation from social protests to political protests happened when neither political nor cultural opportunities appeared to be conducive to it? I gathered 1174 episodes of popular protests between 1964 and 2000 from Mexican newspapers and employed a quantitative event analysis to examine discursive aspects of claims making. In the neoliberal period, demands for social rights and material issues were made increasingly in conjunction with demands for political rights. Mexicans came to realize that their everyday needs and redistributive demands would not be satisfied without dealing with undemocratic political system. It is this change in people's recognition that pushed political claims making to the forefront of popular contention in Mexico.

COVID-19 resulted in massive disruption and changes in every aspect of our lives. To curb the spread of the virus, many governments limited the movement of people or imposed full 'lockdowns'. This created significant challenges for social workers practising with people often reliant on interpersonal support such as those at risk of domestic abuse; with mental health problems or learning disabilities. Measures to reduce viral spread affected the education sector at all levels from pre-school to higher education, disrupted traditional classroom pedagogy and shifted to technologically-supported e-learning to minimise disruption to the students' education. In lockdown, online teaching has become the new norm. E-learning has its limitations for professional curricula such as social work. Like most countries, field practice represents a compulsory component of the social work curriculum in Malaysia which measures the capabilities or competency of students to enable them become qualified social workers. When COVID-19 forced universities and agencies to halt field placements in Malaysia, the immediate challenge was to find alternative ways of assessing students. This paper aims to provide an overview of field education assessment in Malaysia during the pandemic and to pose questions for future assessment as Malaysian social work drives towards increased professional regulation.

This investigation of reform of Western Australian community services problematises assumptions about the enabling state. The investigation is distinctive by virtue of its attention to the departure points as well as the destinations in pathways of policy change and its unpacking of three modes of public provision into their three constituent policy elements (funder‐provider mix; the nature of agreements between policy actors; and the type of funding relationships). We find first that government had long adopted some aspects of the model of governance associated with the enabling state. Second, we find some path dependency in policy change towards marketisation. Third, we find highly nuanced policy outcomes combining government exploitation of its authority, market innovations and the maintenance of basic network features of the programs.

This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the processes of construction of new social identities therein are studied. This book delineates both the hope and despair, as produced with the arrival of the knowledge society, and identifies the scope and conditions of alternative choice and liberation for the people within the emerging socio-economic order of this society. Rich in empirical data, this monograph will interest students, researchers, teachers, policy planners and social activists

This book charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeeth century to the present day. It extends work done on the language of the media to include an historical perspective, adding to wider contemporary debates about the social impact of the media. It draws upon the field of historical pragmatics, while retaining a concentration on the development of a particular form of media language, the newspaper, and its role in refracting and contributing to social developments. Dialogue is created between sociolinguistics and journalism studies. It is ideally suited to advanced students in these areas and in linguistics and media studies in general.

"Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtual worlds connected with popular science fiction--specifically, with Star Wars and Star Trek--that have been inhabited for over a decade by computer gamers. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, both of which have shaped the dominant science fiction mythologies of the last half-century, offer profound conceptions of the tension between freedom and control in human economic, political, and social interactions. William Sims Bainbridge investigates the human and technological dynamics of four online virtual worlds based on these two very different traditions: the massively multiplayer online games Star Wars Galaxies; Star Wars: The Old Republic; Star Trek Online; and the Star Trek community in the non-game, user-created virtual environment, Second Life. The four "star worlds" explored in this book illustrate the dilemmas concerning the role of technology as liberator or oppressor in our postindustrial society, and represent computer simulations of future possibilities of human experience. Bainbridge considers the relationship between a real person and the role that person plays, the relationship of an individual to society, and the relationship of human beings to computing technology. In addition to collecting ethnographic and quantitative data about the social behavior of other players, he has immersed himself in each of these worlds, role-playing 14 avatars with different skills and goals to gain new insights into the variety of player experience from a personal perspective"--

"Why is it that the trust in leadership and the success of leaders seems to erode as we develop and refine more sophisticated models for leading, such as emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, adaptive leadership, etc.? Mila Baker believes that most of today's leadership theories are old wines in new skins, and still rely on the leader-follower hierarchy. Yet the idea of hierarchy is breaking down everywhere in society, from politics, to religion, to social relationships--and most particularly in computers and networking. Why should leadership be any different? Baker's inspiration is the peer-to-peer model of computing, which is also mirrored in social networking and crowdsource technologies. Baker shows that a network with "equipotent" nodes of power--think peer leaders--are infinitely more powerful than "client-server" (i.e. leader-follower) networks. Yet the typical organizational design still harkens back to the days of punch-card computers. By creating organizations with leaders at all levels, architects of peer-to-peer organizations can build flexibility, resiliency and accountability. Baker still advocates the need for top level executives and senior leaders, but advises them to give up traditional notions of power and become focused on the health of the network rather than achieving personal leadership goals. Companies such as Gore and Herman Miller practice these principles and have achieved long-term success--Baker provides a structure to this approach that any organization can adapt"--