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Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic autonomy and the aesthetic categories bequeathed by Weimar classicism were persistently challenged by alternative models of music's social role. The book investigates these competing models and the social projects that gave rise to them. It interrogates nineteenth-century musical discourse, discussing a wide range of manifestos championing musical democratization or seeking to make music an engine for the transformation of society. In addition, it explores institutions and movements that attempted to realize these goals, and compositions - by Mendelssohn, Lortzing and Liszt as well as Wagner - in which the relation between aesthetic and social claims is programmatic

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Life Courses and Trigger Events: Theoretical Considerations -- 2.1 Institutional influences on the life course -- 2.2 Family influences on the life course -- 2.3 Unemployment dynamics over the life course -- 2.4 Embedding the trigger events approach in the life course -- 2.5 Expectations about differences in economic insecurity due to job loss -- 3. Welfare State Institutions and Labor Market Trends -- 3.1 Social policy -- 3.2 Family policy and tax policy -- 3.3 Labor market regulation and labor market structure

El estudio social de las ciencias y tecnologías es un campo de reflexión teórico y pedagógico para comprender el cambio de racionalidad del pensamiento científico y los aspectos sociales de su desenvolvimiento histórico. Mientras los problemas epistemológicos de esta racionalidad presuponen un continuo movimiento del conocimiento en las comunidades de investigación entre el error o la validez transitoria, los éxitos o fracasos, los avances y retrocesos, los descubrimientos o justificaciones, los aspectos sociales tienen en cuenta las implicaciones políticas y económicas de este desenvolvimiento en el Estado, la empresa privada, la universidad y, en general, las relaciones culturales que han transformado el escenario mundial. Estas líneas se proponen establecer la importancia del estudio de la historia social de las ciencias y tecnologías modernas y contemporáneas en el currículo y sugiere nuevos sentidos y orientaciones para su enseñanza y comunicación. ABSTRACTThe social study of science and technologies is a field of pedagogical and theoretical reflection that strives to understand the change of rationality in scientific thought and the social aspects of its historical development. While the epistemological problems of this rationality assume the continuous movement of knowledge in the investigative communities (with errant or transitory validity)—its successes or failures, advances and backward movements, discoveries or justifications—the social aspects keep in mind the economic and political implications of this development in the State, private enterprises, the university and, in general, the cultural relations that have transformed the world setting. These lines are proposed to establish the importance of a study of the social history of the sciences and modern technologies, contemporaneous with the curriculum, and suggest new senses and orientations for its teaching and communication.

This article elaborates a neo-institutional approach to evaluation and utilizes this approach for an empirical examination of the institutionalization of evaluation in Finland's national government. The results indicate ambiguity in the basic institutionalization of the evaluation examined and imprecision in the agency of the actors carrying out or commissioning evaluations. With tighter or looser coupling to decision-making, institutional practices of evaluation enhance performance or support legitimation, or do both in various combinations. Future studies will be needed to ascertain to what extent intense agent-driven change has only introduced formal procedures enacted in the name of evaluation, and to what extent this type of change has influenced actual evaluation practices. The article finishes with a consideration of the contributions it claims to make. ; This article draws on neo-institutional theoretical ideas to empirically examine the institutionalization of evaluation in the national government of Finland. The results indicate ambiguity in the basic institutionalization of Finnish evaluation, and imprecision in the agency of the actors that carry out or commission evaluations or utilize the evaluation results. Some Finnish institutional practices of evaluation enhance formal rationality such as efficiency and effectiveness, some support legitimation, and others do both in combination. The strength of coupling of evaluation to decision-making varies greatly. For future research, the article suggests studies on the institutionalization of evaluation in other countries. For evaluation practice, the results highlight the position of evaluation along the rationality-legitimation axis, and the variable linkages of evaluation to decision-making. ; Peer reviewed

"Many media users feel as if they are engaging in an interaction or have a personal relationship with people they see in the media. These psychological experiences, that are collectively referred to as parasocial experiences (PSEs). This Handbook offers a thorough synthesis of the fast-growing, international, and multi-disciplinary research of PSEs, celebrating the field's accomplishments to date but also outlining a blueprint for future growth. The book is organized in six sections covering: (1) theoretical, conceptual, and operational definitions of PSEs; (2) theoretical models and state-of-the-art review of research on PSEs across the lifespan; (3) the effects of PSEs on media users' self and their social life (e.g., intergroup relationships, marginalized sexual groups); (3) the effects of PSEs in various contexts such as health, politics, and marketing; and (4) identifying understudied areas of research that call for further investigation (comparative cross-cultural research, marginalized racial/ethnic identities, non-amicable PSRs). In addition to a thorough synthesis of the literature, the handbook identifies several critical theoretical questions that the PSEs research faces today. Across the thematic chapters, the authors debate several overarching critical theoretical issues in PSEs research, such as the boundaries between parasocial and social phenomena and the distinctions between PSEs and other forms of involvement with media. The book also includes a hands-on methodological chapter that provides detailed information about measurement and manipulation of PSEs"--

Intro -- CoverImage -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Quote -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Social Turbulence -- The Economy -- How Money Works -- Why Is The Empire Destroying The Financial System? -- Depopulation & Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth" -- Trilateral Commission -- The End of the Line -- Mergers & Acquisitions – The World Company Inc. -- 2009 Bank Bailout -- Credit System vs. Monetary System -- The End -- Genetically Modified Conspiracy -- World Trade Organization -- Food as Weapon -- Monsanto, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) became Household Names -- How it Works -- Trilateral Commission -- Post WWII -- Green Revolution -- Genetically Modified Organisms -- Henry Kissinger -- Genetically Modified Food -- A Common Denominator -- De-Regulation and Speculation -- Rockefeller Global Medical Cartel -- Cradle-to-Grave Mentality -- Africa -- Order out of Chaos -- Codex Alimentarius – Depopulation by Stealth -- Artificial Life, Self-Replicating Synthetic DNA -- From Eugenics to Genetics -- The Future is Now -- Programming the Masses -- Mass Psychology Model -- Television -- Polling by Numbers -- Social Media – The Mighty Wurlitzer -- One Happy Family -- Total Surveillance Network -- Twitter – Blue Bird of Happiness -- Group Think -- The Scary World of Google -- Murky Relationships -- Global Media Monopoly -- The Fascist Concept of Man -- Space Exploration -- Phase 1: Helium-3 Mining -- Technology and Space -- Super Soldier -- Moth Cyborg -- Nanotechnology -- Metamaterials -- Nanointelligence and Nanoweapons -- Nanotech Weaponry – Modus Operandi -- Total Information Awareness -- PROMIS -- Augmented Reality -- Futuristic Technology -- Human Cattle -- Transhumanism -- The Age of Transitions -- 2045: A New Era for Humanity -- Prometheus the Movie – Future Plans of the Elite -- The Future is We

"Book department": p. 179-220. ; An interpretation of China / L.Y. Ho -- The Chinese revolution / Tai-Chi Quo -- Certain aspects of Chinese reconstruction / A.H. Smith -- Republican government in China / C.L. Jones -- The one solution of the Manchurian problem / P. Weale -- The open door / F. McCormick -- The life of a girl in china / Miss Li Yi Yieni Tsao -- A wedding in south China / Miss Ying-Mei Chan -- Causes of Chinese emigration / Pyau Ling -- China's method of revising her educational system / F.L.H. Pott -- Extraterritoriality in China / F.E. Hinckley -- The Chinese Young men's Christian association / D.W. Edwards -- Medicine as practiced by the Chinese / W.W. Cadbury -- China : Geography and resources / G.B. Roorbach -- American commercial interests in Manchuria / D.G. Munro -- Notes on the mammals of economic value in China / M.P. Anderson. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and evolutionary governance theory. Mine closures present a major challenge to the mining industry and governments, with this being particularly noticeable in the Global South. This book argues that the dependencies created by the mining industry and mine housing policies while a mine is operational causes serious societal problems when it closes. To demonstrate this, the book applies the concepts of place attachment, asset-based development and social disruption. Conceptually, the book challenges the view that place attachment and asset-based development are the most appropriate and often the only policy responses in mining areas. In South Africa, the mining industry and the government have created comprehensive housing programmes linked to home-ownership to promote place attachment, stability and wealth among mine workers. These programmes do not consider the disruption that mine closure might bring. The book challenges the blind application, during boom periods, of policies which create long-term dependencies that are difficult to manage when a mine closes. This book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the social impacts of mining and the extractive industries, social geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers and practitioners working with mine closure or social impact assessments"--

Currently, one of the leading orientations for determining the quality of life in many young minds is achieving success. The focus on success is the basis of achievement motivation, which activity is a psychological factor for economic growth, and this fact determines its high social significance. Psychologically competent provision of conditions for the productive implementation of pursuit for success implies understanding of its axiological aspect. A study of structural and typological features of the axiological aspect of modern students' representation about success has been conducted. Respondents are 591 students of Krasnoyarsk universities. Methodology by S.A. Pakulina "Students' Motivation to Achieve Success in University" has been applied. Data processing included descriptive statistics, correlation, factor and cluster analysis, as well as identification of significant differences. According to the study results, students' representation of success is based on a wide range of values. At the same time, the values of interiorized (internally represented) success are of great importance for both humanitarian and technical students. The significance levels of various value aspects of success are interconnected in a positive way. The overall level of success values' significance is determined by the cumulative effect of subjective and personal values, as well as values of social importance. In accordance with this, the strategy of developing psychological tools to help students in the productive implementation of the pursuit for success, should include formation of social interest, development of individual strategies for the implementation of social utility and skills for obtaining positive feedback in the process of achieving goals

The functional requalification of a modern landfill over the aftercare phase represents a landscape challenge since, in addition to technical and legal problems (also common to other waste management plants), long-term emissions must be taken into account. In fact, if for plants such as incinerators or composting after the operational phase an environmental recovery can be considered full, safe and healthy usable for the society in a relatively short period of time (1-5 years), for landfills the achievement of a sustainable and stable state of waste may require, a time much longer than that of the post-closure phase even for modern landfills (30 years). This state known as "final storage" refers to the quality reached by emissions and waste in chemical, biological and geological terms when all active control measures can be safely removed and it represents the necessary condition to guarantee the landfill requalification and its return back to the community with a new planned use as natural, recreational, didactic and social ones. Also, principles of landscape planning such as the specific legislation, the costs analysis and the territory analysis must be considered.

"Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges. Set within the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia, 'Going Nowhere Fast' sets out to answer a question of global importance: how does inequality persist in our increasingly mobile world? 0Inequality is often referred to as the greatest threat to democracy, society, and economy, and yet opportunity has apparently never been more accessible. Long and short distance transport - from motorbikes to aeroplanes - are available to more people than ever before and telecommunications have transformed our lives, ushering in an era of translocality in which the behaviour of people and communities is influenced from hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Yet amidst these complex flows of people, ideas, and capital, persistent inequality cuts a jarringly static figure. Going Nowhere Fast brings together a decade of research to examine this uneven development in Cambodia, making a case for inequality as a 'total social fact' rather than an economic phenomenon, in which stories, stigma, obligation and assets combine to lock social structures in place.0'Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality' speaks from an in-depth perspective to an issue of global relevance: how inequality persists in our hypermobile world. Focusing on pressing issues in Cambodia that resonate beyond, it investigates how human movement within and across the nation's borders are intertwined with societal threats and challenges, including of precarious labour and agricultural livelihoods; climate and environmental change; the phenomenon of land grabbing; and the rise of popular nationalism."