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Au cours des cinquantes dernières années, l'Histoire a revendiqué des secteurs de l'activité humaine dont on considérait jadis qu'ils n'étaient pas soumis au changement. On a soutenu par exemple que l'enfance, le climat et la folie avaient tous trois une histoire. Jusqu'où ce mouvement de colonisation peut-il s'étendre ? L'exploration est la seule façon de le découvrir. Cet essai est conçu comme la reconnaissance préliminaire d'une frontière, celle des rêves. Les données considérées proviendront dans leur quasi-totalité, du monde anglophone du XVIIesiècle, mais le propos général est de prouver que les rêves ont une histoire, qu'il sera un jour possible d'écrire une histoire sociale des rêves.

This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world. Relevant virtues include open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual courage, diligence in inquiry, and the like. Relevant vices include dogmatism, need for immediate certainty, and gullibility and the like. The chapters are divided into four key sections: Foundational Issues; Individual Virtues; Collective Virtues; and Methods and Measurements. And the chapters explore the most salient questions in this areas of research, including: How are individual intellectual virtues and vices affected by their social contexts? Does being in touch with other open-minded people make us more open-minded? Conversely, does connection to other dogmatic people make us more dogmatic? Can groups possess virtues and vices distinct from those of their members? For instance, could a group of dogmatic individuals operate in an open-minded way despite the vices of its members? Each chapter receives commentary from two other authors in the volume, and each original author then replies to these commentaries. Together, the authors form part of a collective conversation about how we can know about what we know. In so doing, they not only theorize but enact social virtue epistemology.

Das Nigeria Social Forum (NSF) versteht sich als "Marktplatz" für Ideen jenseits neoliberaler Globalisierung und tritt für Demokratie und Menschenrechte ein. Die erste Veranstaltung fand 2004 in Makurdi (Benue State) statt und führte zahlreiche zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen zusammen, die Politikalternativen diskutierten und die "Makurdi Declaration" verabschiedeten. Der Band dokumentiert die Berichte der verschiedenen Workshops und fünf auf Plenarsitzungen gehaltene Referate. Die Themen zentrieren sich um Armutsbekämpfung, soziale Entwicklung, Frauenbewegung, die externe Verschuldung des Landes und das Erfordernis, im Vielvölkerstaat Nigeria eine multikulturelle nationale Identität zu entwickeln. (DÜI-Sbd)

"Transnational Social Movements" published on by Oxford University Press.

Der Verfasser würdigt die Bedeutung des Buchs "The Social Construction of Reality" von Berger und Luckmann anlässlich des 25. Jahrestags seines Erscheinens. Er betont vor allem die Bedeutung, die das Buch als Wegbereiter des symbolischen Interaktionismus, der Soziolinguistik, der Ethnomethodologie und des "interpretativen Paradigmas" generell hatte. Alfred Schütz' phänomenologische Analyse der Lebenswelt aufgreifend thematisierten Berger und Luckmann die Tatsache, dass Realität sozial konstruiert ist, und wiesen der Soziologie die Aufgabe zu zu untersuchen, wie dies geschieht. (ICE)

Pre-service teachers may leave their graduate programs with strong social justice leanings, yet most begin teaching struggling to integrate their visions into a context constrained by accountability demands. Pressures and constraints, such as high-stakes testing and mandated curriculum, may require teachers committed to social justice to negotiate what they want to teach and what they are able to teach. This piece highlights the daunting journey of one beginning teacher and her struggle to uphold her commitment to teach for social justice while still meeting administrative expectations. The study's findings point to the myriad complexities surrounding teaching social studies for social justice, especially regarding integrating social justice content into the general curriculum. As a result of these findings, several questions have been formulated for further research surrounding the education of teachers for social justice.

This article examines approaches towards studying generations. Millenials are highlighted as a specific object of research. Given their considerable inner diversity and non-uniformity, Russian millenials can be considered to be a holistic generation, which differs from elder generations in terms of social orientations and behavioral characteristics. The social self-identification of Russian millenials is examined, while identity criteria for various youth groups are defined. It is revealed that their self-assessment of status is considerably elevated when compared to elder generations, the former being based on somewhat different criteria. Despite the fact that material well-being, as is the case with elder generations, plays a key role in self-evaluation of status, millenials' self-identification is also based on education level and professional status, which might indicate their willingness to accept the values of a meritocratic society. Millenials' social capital is developed using sources provided by the new information-communication environment, with said sources being more diverse and attainable than ever before. Thanks to these new opportunities for developing social capital, the latter can be used much more efficiently in various environments. Millenials declare their high degree of solidarity with elder generations, while accepting a considerable amount of monetary and non-monetary assistance from the latter. Meanwhile they are extremely sympathetic to various forms of charity and volunteerism, while often participating in such activity themselves. In general, you can say that millenials are rather tightly linked to the system of social exchanges, while being prepared to assume the role of independent subjects of social activity. This article is based on data from a study titled "Differentiation of youth groups: economic activity, demographic behavior, social practices", conducted by the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting (Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) in 2019. The sample, which represents Russia's population from age 18 to 35, consisted of 3.5 thousand respondents.

Discusses the Scottish Attitudes Surveys, annual surveys running in parallel to the British Social Attitudes Surveys. The methodology is described, before focusing on the kinds of analysis that have been conducted using the surveys on the basis of some of the key findings. At issue is the utility of the surveys for comparative & time-series purposes. References. J. Zendejas

This book looks at petitions from all over the globe over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. The grievances of ordinary people, stored by the authorities to which they were submitted, are now rich and valuable sources for social historians.

The article will examine the latest development of China's urban social assistance reform. Under the impact of the dual processes of globalisation and the deepening market transition, China's social security reform is increasingly taking a new safety net approach to assist the urban poor, instead of relying mainly on social insurance provision. The minimum living security project for urban residents is one of the approaches supplementing social insurance in social protection. In 2002, about one-third of social security beneficiaries were supported by the newly developed social assistance project. The changing approach does not mean that the government is withdrawing from its responsibility for social insurance to the urban workers, but reflects the changing goals and means of social policies. This indicates that China's social welfare system is shifting towards a new residual welfare model.

AbstractThis article examines social deprivation at a regional scale using the case of Guangdong province, China. Counties, county‐level cities, and districts of prefecture cities are selected as the units of analysis. At the provincial level, a significant variation is found in terms of the social deprivation index, showing a pattern of increasing deprivation from the core of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) to the peripheral areas of Guangdong province. In the PRD, social development conditions are significantly different among these units, whereas the level of economic development is less differentiated. Social deprivation in urban areas is considerably lower than in rural areas. The differences between cities are significant, showing a bifurcation trend, whereas rural areas seem to be similar. Social disparities in Guangdong province are derived from unequal economic growth as well as social and regional policies.