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Science, technology, and social problems / Rustum Roy -- Materials research and the environmental challenge / Michael B. Emery -- Ceramics in social and cultural context / W. David Kingery -- Science, technology, and society : a look at today's world and India in particular / C.N.R. Rao -- Preparing for the next century / Emerson W. Pugh -- Future interaction of the law with technology and society / Roger W. Parkhurst.

In the leather industry, a production process that is the subject of many different disciplines is dominant. Many studies on these branches of science have examined the sector in detail in terms of production. On the other hand, studies dealing with the sector in terms of business administration department and sub-disciplines are not common.
In this study, academic publications examining the relationship between the leather industry and the business administration department are the subjects. 98 scientific studies obtained after the search in the Web of Science database were examined in terms of the form of publication, the year of publication, the country where the publication was made and the sub-disciplines of the business department.

CARIM-East: Creating an Observatory of Migration East of Europe ; The main goal of the study is to evaluate the present situation and to recommend improvements in the legal framework. Migration is a continuous process and is determined by political, social, economic and demographic factors. It is not a process that can be stopped by a simple decision; it can be redirected, developed and "used" for gaining benefits. At the same time, the updating of the legal framework in Moldova was directly connected to state policy, the decisions of the ruling party and the political life of the state in general. ; CARIM-East is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editorial Board -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Poverty and Deprivation -- 2 Globalisation and Gender Relations in Social Work -- 3 Affirmative Action: A Counter to Racial Discrimination? -- 4 Social Work and Independent Living -- 5 Facing our Futures: Discrimination in Later Life -- 6 Lesbians and Gay Men: Social Work and Discrimination -- 7 Intellectual Disability, Oppression and Difference -- 8 Strategies of Empowerment: Taking Account of Protests by People -- 9 Towards a Theory of Emancipatory Practice

This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Locating resilience in the relationships and interactions between individuals and their social ecologies (including family, community, non-governmental organisations and the natural environment), the book develops its own conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity. It applies the framework to its analysis of rich empirical data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda, and it tells a set of stories about resilience through the contextual, dynamic and storied connectivities between individuals and their social ecologies. Ultimately, it utilises the three elements of the framework - namely, broken and ruptured connectivities, supportive and sustaining connectivities and new connectivities - to argue the case for developing the field of transitional justice in new social-ecological directions, and to explore what this might conceptually and practically entail. The book will particularly appeal to anyone with an interest in, or curiosity about, resilience, and to scholars, researchers and policy makers working on CRSV and/or transitional justice. The fact that resilience has received surprisingly little attention within existing literature on either CRSV or transitional justice accentuates the significance of this research and the originality of its conceptual and empirical contributions. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Im Beitrag von Burkhard Schäffer werden "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen" der Einbindung aktueller Medientechniken in den Forschungsprozess beleuchtet, besonders allerdings die Erweiterung einer die Dokumentarische Interpretation unterstützenden Software durch Künstliche Intelligenz (KI). In den Mittelpunkt stellt er Analogien zwischen sogenannten "Deep Learning" Architekturen der KI und "Tiefer Interpretation", mit der er die heuristischen Verfahrenslogiken rekonstruktiver Verfahren (Przyborski/Wohlrab-Sahr 2021) bezeichnet. Beide Formen der Transformation von Daten sind, wie Schäffer uns vor Augen führt, Operationen, die sich dem Prinzip nach explizieren lassen, aber nicht (mehr) in der konkreten zeitlichen Abfolge von Einzelschritten. Sie lassen sich daher seines Erachtens nach nicht methodisieren. Zudem beklagt er das rasche Verschwinden der Auseinandersetzung mit der epistemischen Bedeutung von Medientechnologien, nachdem sie Eingang in Forschungsroutinen gefunden haben. Beide Argumentationslinien werden kritisch diskutiert, um dabei zu zeigen, wie unterschiedliche Medientechnologien, die nicht nur konstitutiv für den Wissenschaftsbetrieb, sondern auch für den Alltag der sogenannten westlichen Gesellschaften insgesamt sind, systematisch in einen intersubjektiv überprüfbaren Forschungsprozess eingebunden werden können. Dabei spielen epistemische Überlegungen eine zentrale Rolle.

With the notable exception of the application of the metonymy model to explain stereotyping (Kristiansen, 2001), sociolinguistic language attitudes research has typically focused exclusively on explicit attitudes toward foreign accents without providing a cognitive model to explain how such attitudes are formed. At the same time, researchers in other fields have proposed the use of specific cognitive processing models such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty & Cacioppo, 1986) to explain the cognitive processes underlying reactions to foreign-accented speakers, without isolating foreign.

It has been estimated that globally, 1.2 billion people live with acute shortage of water. Water scarcity, particularly in south and south-east Asian countries, is well known. However, the social dilemmas and insecurities related to water issues are often less discussed. In the case of south and south-east Asia, the distribution of available water amongst various casts and creeds has been determined through several social hierarchies. Hence, water forms a critical socio-political issue, with a multi-faced dimension. This book critically analyses the associated social issues of increasing water scarcity in countries such as India. It documents the social impacts and predicament of water scarcity. The book will be of prime interest to researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the fields of development and environment, as well as water planners, and it will be a useful reference guide for future research in the field of water scarcity and risk management. Topics analyzed include arsenic contamination, the impact of salinity on livelihood and mitigation, and drought resilience, adaptation and policy. The book concludes by providing lessons, challenges and future perspectives of water insecurity.

In der Dissertation "Soziale Marktwirtschaft und Ordoliberalismus: Ausgewählte ordnungspolitische Aspekte und ihre Anwendung auf die Transitionsländer" geht es um grundlegende Ordnungsstrukturen aus der Sicht von Theoretiker der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft und Ordoliberalen. Diese institutionelle Aspekte legen in einem längeren Zeitraum wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung fest und deren Relevanz ist deswegen auch heutzutage anwesend. Dadurch knüpft die Doktorarbeit an die Debatte um die Wichtigkeit der Institutionen für den langfristigen wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Fortschritt. Ausgehend von der zentraller Bedeutung der stabilen Währung innerhalb der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft und des Ordoliberalismus werden in erstem Teil der Dissertation zunächst die Wichtigkeit einer stabilien Währung für das Organisieren von effizienten Tauschvorgängen und daraus folgenden Wirtschaftsbeziehungen dargestellt. Es werden wirtschaftliche und soziale Vorteile des freien Preissystems als grundlegender Koordinierungsmechanismus aufgezeigt. Einheitliches Element der Analyse bezieht sich auf allokative Fehlleitungen, die in den inflationistichen Umständen entstehen. Dabei wird auf die untrennbare Beziehung zwischen Staat, Inflation und Freiheit hingedeutet. Die gravierende Rolle in das Erreichung und Aufrechterhaltung des Preisstabilität gehört zu unabhängiger Zentralbank, die notwendige, jedoch nicht hinnreichende, Voraussetzung dafür ist. Die Aufrechterhaltung stabiler Preise und die Macht der Zentralbank diesbezüglich hängen von Koordination mit anderen staatlichen Instanzen, insbesondere von der Fiskalpolitik, und den wichtigen wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten, insbesondere Lohntendenzen und Umlaufsgeschwindigkeit des Geldes ab. In dem zweiten Teil wird dem Thema der Wettbewerbordnung und dazu nötiger institutionellen Struktur nachgegangen. Eine Wettbewerbsordnung trägt entscheidend zu Ermöglichung und Bewährung der Freiheit, sozialer Beweglichkeit, Minimisieren der Transaktionskosten, Steigerung der Austauschvorgängen und Vertiefung der ...

Language policy is one of the fundamental aspects of the language situation, which is determined as the system of measures of conscious influence on the development of linguistic processes, distribution of languages in the spheres of social interaction, and representing a part of the political control over the language situation, linguistic conflicts. Nowadays its importance as a part of a national policy, especially in the multinational Republic of Kazakhstan, is growing more, and consequently, it is becoming more regulating. The main motive power of the language policy in Kazakhstan is its socio-political and legislative activity. Today the State educational standard is the basis of common conceptual language education in Kazakhstan, and it is designed to provide the legal framework for the state cultural project "Trinity of languages". The process of multilingual education in the Humanities universities of Kazakhstan is considered. Special attention is given to the methodological assumption of the educational process of teaching university students Kazakh, Russian, English Languages.

In this article, we present a case study investigating the socio-psychological aspects of grassroots participation in a Transition Town Movement (TTM) community initiative. We analyzed the first Italian Transition initiative: Monteveglio (Bologna), the central hub of the Italian TTM and a key link with the global Transition Network. A qualitative methodology was used to collect and analyze the data consisting of interviews with key informants and ethnographic notes. The results provide further evidence supporting the role of social representations, shared social identities, and collective efficacy beliefs in promoting, sustaining, and shaping activists' commitment. The movement seems to have great potential to inspire and engage citizens to tackle climate change at a community level. Grassroots engagement of local communities working together provides the vision and the material starting point for a viable pathway for the changes required. Attempting to ensure their future political relevance, the TTM adherents are striving to disseminate and materially consolidate inherently political and prefigurative movement frames – primarily community resilience and re-localization – within community socio-economic and political frameworks. However, cooperation with politics is perceived by most adherents as a frustrating and dissatisfying experience, and an attempted co-optation of the Transition initiative by institutions. It highlights a tension between the open and non-confrontational approach of the movement towards institutions and their practical experience. Corresponding to this tension, activists have to cope with conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalence of social representations about community action for sustainability, which threaten the sense of collective purpose, group cohesion and ultimately its survival. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion