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"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alternative modes of communication in South Africa and India. This volume elucidates his interactions with the colonial communication order and his contestations of the same through various methods that included setting up new journals and newspapers and taking on the role of writer, journalist, editor, and publisher. It unveils Gandhi's engagement with mass media and print journalism, particularly concerning issues of conflict and conflict resolution, as well as social transformation right from his days in London to the last days of his life. A significant contribution to scholarship on Mahatma Gandhi, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of politics, media and cultural studies, history, and South Asian studies"--

Innovation is a time-consuming process that involves invention as a beginning and a marketable service or product as an end. But innovation itself, once concluded, is not necessarily a constructive act as some innovations yield positive and some negative results. The way we recognize and develop innovation-so often a serendipitous and almost invisible act in its beginning-is thus a matter of primary importance in today's world where new thoughts and products play such a crucial role in economies across the globe. Nowhere is the general support structure required for success in innovation more.

El presente artículo analiza las posibilidades de uso de una Red Social Disciplinar desde la perspectiva de docentes de módulos propedéuticos, siendo estos el primer acercamiento práctico de los estudiantes de educación en línea de psicología a los diferentes campos de profundización. Se elaboró una entrevista de siete reactivos abiertos, participaron cuatro profesores de la carrera en Psicología en Línea de la UNAM. Para el marco teórico se revisaron los postulados de la Teoría de la Actividad Histórico-cultural (CHAT), la definición de Red Social Disciplinar y las redes sociales libres. Los ejes de la entrevista corresponden al medio de comunicación profesor-alumno, beneficios de la Red Social Disciplinar, características y su uso dentro de la programación de actividades curriculares. Como resultado de las entrevistas los profesores consideran que una Red Social Disciplinar puede tener beneficios para la mejora de la comunicación entre profesores y estudiantes, también entre estudiantes, sirviendo como medio de apoyo entre pares, sin embargo, requiere que sean los docentes quienes planteen el objetivo y propósito académico propio de cada asignatura en la que se emplearía.

"Informed by a pioneering set of cross-cultural data, Experimenting with Social Norms, advances our understanding of the evolution of human cooperation and the expansion of complex societies. Innovative and ambitious, the book synthesizes and unprecedent analysis of social behavior from an immense range of human societies."

Seit 1960 hat sich die organisierte Arbeit in den USA als soziale Bewegung zur Förderung der Interessen der Arbeiterschaft etabliert. Durch das Eintreten amerikanischer Gewerkschaften für soziale Gleichheit haben sie eine Verbindung zwischen organisierter und nicht-organisierter Arbeiterschaft aufbauen können. Auf dieser Basis konnten die Gerwerkschaftsführer ihren Einfluß auf den politischen Prozeß institutionalisieren. Darüberhinaus wird deutlich gemacht, daß der Staat eine wesentliche Rolle für den Prozeß der gesellschaftlichen Repräsentation amerikanischer Arbeiter spielt. Sein Ziel ist nicht der Schutz der Arbeiter, sondern ihre stabilitätsfördernde gesellschaftliche Integration. (SWP-Bmt)

"The definitive text on motivational interviewing (MI) written by and for social workers has now been updated and expanded with 60% new material, including a revised conceptual framework, cutting-edge applications, and enhanced pedagogical features. Melinda Hohman and her associates demonstrate what MI looks like in action, how it transforms conversations with clients, and how to integrate it into social work practice in a wide range of settings. Extensive new case examples and annotated sample dialogues bring the concepts to life, helping readers build their own repertoires of MI skills. The book also summarizes the research base for MI and shares expert recommendations for teaching, training, and professional development"--

International audience ; The usage of discursive formula in the institutional discourse norms and legitimates the conceptualization of social representations in the service of the current government's interests. The discourse analysis of the corpus compiled with normative and academic texts evidence that the social representation of the formulae "Sumak Kawsay" follow this principle of normalization and legitimization. Within a contextualism linguistic theoretical framework, the tools of the corpus linguistics can calculate the frequencies of the studied syntagma collocations informing about the discursive contexts of its frequent usages and about the representativeness of the institutional representations established the discourse. Even though the academic publications create a debate on the semantic recuperation of an ancestral communitarian concept, they are, in the majority of cases, in concordance with the social representations suggested by the institutional normative discourse in which "Sumak Kawsay" is literally translate into a "good Living" concept at the service of a new socialism or a sustainable turism. ; La utilización de fórmulas discursivas en los discursos institucionales normaliza y legitima la conceptualización de las representaciones sociales al servicio de los intereses del poder político de turno. El análisis discursivo de un corpus de textos normativos y académicos demuestra que la representación social de la formula "Sumak Kawsay" se inscribe en este principio de normalización y legitimación. Dentro del cuadro teórico de una lingüística contextualista, las herramientas de la lingüística de corpus permiten calcular las frecuencias de los co-ocurrentes del sintagma estudiadoinformando sobre el contexto discursivo de su uso recurrente y representativo de las conceptualizaciones institucionales impuestas por el discurso. A pesar de establecer un debate sobre la recuperación semántica de un concepto comunitario ancestral, las publicaciones de los académicos son, en su mayoría, en adecuación con ...

International audience ; The usage of discursive formula in the institutional discourse norms and legitimates the conceptualization of social representations in the service of the current government's interests. The discourse analysis of the corpus compiled with normative and academic texts evidence that the social representation of the formulae "Sumak Kawsay" follow this principle of normalization and legitimization. Within a contextualism linguistic theoretical framework, the tools of the corpus linguistics can calculate the frequencies of the studied syntagma collocations informing about the discursive contexts of its frequent usages and about the representativeness of the institutional representations established the discourse. Even though the academic publications create a debate on the semantic recuperation of an ancestral communitarian concept, they are, in the majority of cases, in concordance with the social representations suggested by the institutional normative discourse in which "Sumak Kawsay" is literally translate into a "good Living" concept at the service of a new socialism or a sustainable turism. ; La utilización de fórmulas discursivas en los discursos institucionales normaliza y legitima la conceptualización de las representaciones sociales al servicio de los intereses del poder político de turno. El análisis discursivo de un corpus de textos normativos y académicos demuestra que la representación social de la formula "Sumak Kawsay" se inscribe en este principio de normalización y legitimación. Dentro del cuadro teórico de una lingüística contextualista, las herramientas de la lingüística de corpus permiten calcular las frecuencias de los co-ocurrentes del sintagma estudiadoinformando sobre el contexto discursivo de su uso recurrente y representativo de las conceptualizaciones institucionales impuestas por el discurso. A pesar de establecer un debate sobre la recuperación semántica de un concepto comunitario ancestral, las publicaciones de los académicos son, en su mayoría, en adecuación con ...

Weiterbildung und Praxiserfahrung sind Möglichkeiten, das Arbeitsmarktrisiko zu mildern. Es wird untersucht, wie viele Studierende studienbegleitende Praktika absolvieren, welche Bedeutung diese für sie haben, welchen Einfluß die Praktika auf künftige Berufsentscheidungen haben und ob sie mehr Chancen oder zusätzliche Belastung bedeuten. Dazu wurden 1997 am Institut für Politische Wissenschaft der Universität Hamburg 621 Studierende schriftlich befragt. Untersucht werden Praktikumsverhalten, -erfahrungen und -wünsche, die Studienmotivation, Berufswünsche sowie die soziale Situation der Studierenden. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines Pflichtpraktikums werden aufgezeigt. Daraus werden Konsequenzen für den Studiengang abgeleitet. Sie betreffen u.a. die Qualität des Praktikums und die Schaffung geeigneter Voraussetzungen bei den Studierenden. (prf)

Shared value not only offers a new concept to face the current business environmental dynamics but it also responds to macro-economic challenges. The creation of more value than mere profits can lead to a sustainable competitive advantage. Thus, it offers huge economic potential and presents a new challenge to corporate optimisation endeavours. Julia Schmitt draws on current sustainability and innovation research approaches in order to provide a deeper understanding of the shared value concept as a differentiation strategy for small and medium sized enterprises. Her empirical study on the German fair trade and organic fashion industry provides insights into possible configurations of a shared value business strategy. The awareness of these findings is essential to make a shared value strategy lead to business success. Contents Diffusion of Social Innovation Understanding Shared Value Success Factors and Obstacles Discussion of the Findings on Social Innovation Targets Teachers and students of Economic Sciences with focus on Development Studies and Sustainability Management Management in the field of Strategy, Operations and Marketing; Consultants and Politicians The Author Julia Schmitt, M. Sc. in International Business Studies at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, works now in Sustainability Management for a German medium sized enterprise.