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Drawing on ethnographic field work, 'A Village Goes Mobile' examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change in rural India. The text investigates how the use of mobile phones has influenced economic, political, and social relationships, including gender relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development

This article examines peculiarities of the development and implementation of environmental protection programmes,taking in account the hierarchy of the programmes as well as the impacts of state regulation in this area.The rationale of applying classic public administration and the new public administration models to the implementationof these programmes is analysed from the position of technical learning, conceptual learning and social learning.The case of Lithuania demonstrates that both at a central and local government levels traditional publicadministration methods are predominant. However central government usually operates at a technical and conceptuallearning levels, while local governments show conceptual and social learning aspects in environmental protection.The latter creates the necessary pre–conditions for the application of the new public administration methods.

En examinant l'impact des politiques sociales et l'évolution du marché du travail, les auteurs évaluent les pratiques professionnelles d'intervention ainsi que les enjeux suscités par les notions d'intégration et d'insertion des chômeurs, des assistés sociaux, des jeunes de la rue, des toxicomanes et des ex-détenus

Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the afterlife. The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider the rituals and responses to death in prehistoric societies across the world, from eastern Asia through Europe to the Americas, and from the very earliest times before developed religious beliefs offered scriptural answers to these questions. Compiled and written by leading prehistorians and archaeologists, this volume traces the emergence of death as a concept in early times, as well as a contributing factor to the formation of communities and social hierarchies, and sometimes the creation of divinities.

The Entrepreneurial Behaviour. Unveiling the cognitive and emotional aspect of entrepreneurship Chapter 1. The Entrepreneurial Behaviour. Unveiling the cognitive and emotional aspect of entrepreneurship; Andrea Caputo and Massimiliano M. Pellegrini Chapter 2. Evolving Differently from the Same Set of Pre-conditions: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Entrepreneurship Genius Loci; Massimiliano M. Pellegrini, Andrea Caputo, Cristiano Ciappei and Leo-Paul Dana Chapter 3. Entrepreneurship Education and Gamification: An Analysis of Students' Learning Outcomes; Afsnahe Bagheri, Amin Alinezhad and Seyed Mojtaba Sajadi Chapter 4. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, And Psychopathy: How do Displayed Entrepreneurs' Personality Dark Traits Influence Crowdfunding Success?; Simona Leonelli, Francesca Di Pietro and Francesca Masciarelli Chapter 5. Start-Ups, Innovation and Performance: an Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context Using SMAA-S; Melita Nicotra, Marco Romano, Ambra Castrogiovanni and Salvatore Corrente Chapter 6. The Target of Entrepreneurial Passion Under the Role of Passion Types and Culture: a Conceptual Framework; Ayca Kubra Hizarci-Payne and Ozge Ozgen; Chapter 7. The Role of Entrepreneurial Stereotypes for Commercial and Social Startup Intentions; Charlott Menke Chapter 8. Uncovering the role of commitment in the entrepreneurial process. A research agenda;Laëtitia Gabay-Mariani and Anne-Flore Adam Chapter 9. Developing Creative Virtuosities for Entrepreneurship: Perspectives from Four Arts-Based Metaphors; Fahri Karakas, Ismail Golgeci and Sally Dibby Chapter 10. The Role of Heuristics and Biases in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making when Creativity is a Necessity; Sid Hanna Saleh and Richard A. Hunt Chapter 11. Re-visiting Effectuation: the Relationships with Causation, Entrepreneurial Experience, and Innovativeness; Virginia Chaa, Yi Ruan and Michael Frese Chapter 12. Evaluation of decision making in family business mixing data based and socioemotional wealth considerations; Xileidys Parra, Xavier Tort-Martorell, Fernando Alvarez-Gomez and Carmen Ruiz-Viñals Chapter 13. Cognitive biases in the Venture Capitalist -- entrepreneur dyad: the role of entrepreneurs' experience in VCs' investment decisions; Anne Souakri Chapter 14. Why senior workers becoming entrepreneurs. Necessity or passion?; Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra Chapter 15. Gender and performance: preliminary evidences from Italian innovative SMEs; Michela Mari and Sara Poggesi Chapter 16. A micro-entrepreneur network as a community of practice boosting entrepreneurial activities; Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, Riitta Forsten-Astikainen, Kai Hänninen and Matti Muhos Chapter 17. The evaluative nature of entrepreneurial constraints; Anibal Lopez and Pedro Neves.

[EN] Nowadays multi-criteria methods enable non-monetary aspects to be incorporated into the assessment of infrastructure sustainability. Yet evaluation of the social aspects is still neglected and the multi-criteria assessment of these social aspects is still an emerging topic. Therefore, the aim of this article is to review the current state of multi-criteria infrastructure assessment studies that include social aspects. The review includes an analysis of the social criteria, participation and assessment methods. The results identify mobility and access, safety and local development among the most frequent criteria. The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Simple Additive Weighting methods are the most frequently used. Treatments of equity, uncertainty, learning and consideration of the context, however, are not properly analyzed yet. Anyway, the methods for implementing the evaluation must guarantee the social effect on the result, improvement of the representation of the social context and techniques to facilitate the evaluation in the absence of information. ; This research was funded by the Government of Chile under the Doctoral Fellowship Program Abroad (grant CONICYT-2015/72160059), the project DIUFRO DI14-0096 and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness along with FEDER funding (Projects BIA2014-56574-R and BIA2017-85098-R). ; Sierra-Varela, LA.; Yepes, V.; Pellicer, E. (2018). A Review of Multi-Criteria Assessment of the Social Sustainability of Infrastructures. Journal of Cleaner Production. 187:496-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.022 ; S ; 496 ; 513 ; 187

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people's physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise inclusion, democracy and equity. Drawing on observations and teacher interviews across Sweden, Norway and New Zealand, the book explores successful school teaching practices that promote social justice and equitable health outcomes. In particular, it draws attention to the importance of building relationships, teaching for social cohesion and explicitly teaching about and acting on social inequities as pedagogies for social justice. The book also argues that context matters and that pedagogies for social justice need to recognise how both approaches to, and focus on, social justice vary in different contexts. This is essential reading for academics and students interested in social justice and working in the fields of education, HPE and teacher education.

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities and substantiate the prospects for the development of the social sphere of the rural areas of the Western Polissia of Ukraine in the conditions of decentralization of management.
Results. The peculiarities of the development of the social sphere of the rural areas of the studied region in the conditions of the decentralization reform in the country with the aim of forming effective local self-government and territorial organization of power in order to create and maintain a full-fledged living environment for villagers and provide high-quality and accessible public services are revealed. It was established that the priority tasks of social policy in the countryside in the conditions of decentralization should be: ensuring the solution of the basic problems of reproduction of people's life activities (food, housing, health); infrastructure development (roads, transport, communications, public services); creation of conditions for development (education, science, culture, sports).
Scientific novelty. It has been proven that in the conditions of decentralization transformations, in order to ensure the development of the social sphere, it is important to achieve balanced inter-budgetary relations, to combine the allocation of financial resources from the state budget and funds from local budgets, which will provide all the needs for the development of social infrastructure in the village. This will create ample opportunities to meet people's needs in modern education, medicine, social, communal, administrative and other services.
Practical value. The practical significance of the obtained results lies in the fact that the conclusions and well-founded proposals will ensure the development of such a level of social infrastructure in the village, which would ensure the satisfaction of the needs of local residents in basic household needs, administrative services and become a motivational incentive for the economically active population to live in rural areas.

The field of crime and delinquency attracts a great deal of heated and partial opinion, prejudice and other forms of mal-thinking. When there is a scientific approach there tends to be a psychological explanation. This book, first published in 1971, is a corrective to both trends. It is a discussion of criminal behaviour in relation to a wide range of behaviours which could be called deviance and regards the whole field from the sociological point of view. The whole discussion is related to social policy, and is vital reading for students of sociology and criminology.