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In a rapidly changing world, the success of nations, communities and individuals may be linked, more than ever before, to how they adapt to change, learn and share knowledge. This report helps clarify the concepts of human and social capital and evaluates their impact on economic growth and well-being. Although the evidence on social capital is less developed, reflecting the novelty of the concept in economic and social science, the report draws on a number of empirical studies which suggest potentially important linkages between human and social capital. The evidence suggests that human and social capital can be of key importance in contributing to a wide range of positive outcomes, including higher income, life satisfaction and social cohesion.

Suggests that Laborism, as a category, refers to the experience common to Britain, New Zealand, and Australia, whereby the labor movement sought out specifically political representation of its interests. Reviews the development and evolution of Laborism in Australia up to the challenges posed by the current political climate.

Throughout the twentieth century the study of social memory has remained synonymous with the study of the unconscious and a supra-human memory (perhaps internalised, but in a self-forgetting way) whose mechanism is used, but not controlled, by subject-centred remembering. Both the stability and the potential disruption to individual identity deriving from the social aspect of remembering became central issues in the philosophical thought of Bergson, the psychoanalytical writing of Freud, and the autobiographical literature of Proust; their tension invoked by the classical pairings of mneme and memoria and recalled by Marcel Proust as memoire involontaire and memoire volontaire, by Walter Benjamin as Eingedenken und Andenken, by Aby Warburg as Sophrosyne and Mnemosyne, and most recently by Aleida Assmann as Gedachtnis and Erinnerung. Common to the literature on social memory of the twentieth century was the mediatory role assigned to objects, whose capacity to provoke shared associations and the mutual, inter-subjective anticipation of actions was seen to bind words to concepts. As interlocutors between personal recall and shared recognition of what was thus recalled, objects accrued a value whose measure remained, often in spite of all appearance, unstable, requiring continuing reactivation through acts of social commemoration. Far greater stability was assigned to immaterial streams of information that connect persons to one another via access to the relational nature of acts of remembering enshrined in performances and an increasing plethora of digital media. Adapted from the source document.

The "new" censorship of the arts, some cultural critics say, is just one more item on the "new" Right's agenda, and is part and parcel of attempts to regulate sexuality, curtail female reproductive rights, deny civil rights to gays and lesbians, and privatize public institutions. Although they do not contest this assessment, the writers gathered here expose crucial difficulties in using censorship, old and new, as a tool for cultural criticism. Focusing on historical moments ranging from early modern Europe to the postmodern United States, and covering a variety of media fr

Aspirations for Pursuing the Prominent Leadership Roles in the Academia: Perspectives of Kuwaiti Women -- Social Media in the GCC`s Countries – Facilitator or Curse for Generation "Z"? -- Where's the 'Bedouin' in 'Tribe'? Tribal Ruling in Urban Kuwaiti Society -- The Gender-Pay Gap and the Family in the Gulf: Root Causes, Implications and Policy Response -- Special Economic Zone Experience Overseas? Industrial Parks and Ports in the Gulf and China's Presence -- Youth as Barometer of Socio-cultural Change in Iran -- Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East -- COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf. .

This paper investigates the impact of Social Discount Rate (SDR) choice on intergenerational equity issues caused by Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) projects. Indeed, more PPPs mean more debt being accumulated for future generations leading to a fiscal deficit crisis. The paper draws on how the SDR level taken today distributes societies on the Social Welfare Function (SWF). This is done by answering two sub-questions: (i) What is the risk of PPPs' debts being off-balance sheet? (ii) How do public policies, based on the envisaged SDR, position society within different ethical perspectives? The answers are obtained from a discussion of the different SDRs (applied in the UK for examples) according to the merits of the pertinent ethical theories, namely libertarian, egalitarian, utilitarian and Rawlsian. We find that public policymakers can manipulate the SDR to make PPPs looking like a better option than the traditional financing form. However, this antagonises the Value for Money principle. We also point out that public policy is not harmonised with ethical theories. We find that at present (in the UK), the SDR is somewhere between weighted utilitarian and Rawlsian societies in the trade-off curve. Alas, our study finds no evidence that the (UK) government is using a sophisticated system to keep pace with the accumulated off-balance sheet debts. Thus, the exact prediction of the final state is hardly made because of the uncertainty factor. We conclude that our study hopefully provides a good analytical framework for policymakers in order to draw on the merits of ethical theories before initiating public policies like PPPs.

The social aspects of life are considered: housing legislation and the degree of provision of the USSR population with living space. By the example of citizens' letters to the central authorities and newspapers, the problem of public relations to the process of bourgeoisie of the nomenclature elite is insufficiently covered in historical science. The conclusion is formulated that the statement of private ownership psychology among officials contributed to the weakening of proper control over capital construction.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The aims of this book -- The biopsychosocial approach -- 'Clients', 'patients' and case examples -- 1 Approaches I: biology and sociobiology -- Biological processes in sexuality -- Medical aspects of sex and sexuality - not just amedical matter -- Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology -- Conclusion -- 2 Approaches II: anthropology and sociology -- Anthropology -- Sociology -- 3 Approaches III: psychological approaches to sexuality -- Psychoanalysis -- Freudian perspectives -- Jung and Jungians -- French analysts -- English developments -- American analysts -- Psychoanalysis and biology: recent developments -- Conclusion: psychoanalysis, lovemaps and the erotic imagination -- 4 Politics -- Introduction: why politics? -- Freudiomarxists -- Feminism -- Feminism, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -- Feminism, psychoanalysis and biology -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Psychoanalysis and postructuralism -- Queer theory -- Sexual politics and therapeutic practice -- 5 Male and female heterosexuality -- The female sexual life cycle -- The male sexual lifecycle -- 6 Lesbians and gay men -- Sexuality and identity -- Why are some people homosexual? -- General principles of therapy with gay men and lesbians -- Gay men -- Lesbians -- 7 Transgressive and coercive sex -- Transgressive sex and perversion -- Causes of transgressive sex: psychoanalytic views -- Causes of transgressive sex: non-analytic perspectives -- Transgressive sexual acts and psychiatric disorders -- Women and transgressive sex -- Specific forms of transgressive sex -- Coercive sex -- Treating sexual aggression -- Child sexual abuse -- Perversion, transgression and normality -- 8 Transgendered people: the plasticity of gender -- Introduction -- Definitions.

Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see what Shaquille O'Neal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper asks why we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about communication overload. Harper describes the mistaken assumptions of developers that "more" is always better and argues that users prefer simpler technologies that allow them to create social bonds. Communication is not just the exchange of information. There is a texture to our communicative practices, manifest in the different means we choose to communicate (quick or slow, permanent or ephemeral).

Quantum Jump was written for individuals trying to make sense of the rapid social and political changes overtaking their lives. Clement explains how our civilization is undergoing a translation similar to the European Renaissance, the development of managed agriculture or the invention of writing. Each of these eras brought about new world-views and broadened the intellectual scope through which we perceive our world. The Renaissance was triggered by the discovery of perspective - the means to manipulate three dimensions - and implemented by the bill of exchange and new mathematics. Our newest

In deze bundel behandelt de Amsterdamse socioloog J. Goudsblom sociale 'regimes' waar mensen individueel en in groepsverband onder leven. Hiertoe behoren bijvoorbeeld de schaamte en de tijdrekening, maar ook het streven naar luxe en comfort. Hoewel al deze regimes door mensen aan elkaar worden opgelegd, kan het in onze beleving lijken alsof we er aan toegeven uit een spontane innerlijke drang. Uitgaande van de wisselwerking tussen sociale dwang en individuele ontplooiing richt Goudsblom in dit fascinerende boek zijn scherpzinnige blik op schijnbaar ver uiteen liggende onderwerpen, zoals vuurbe