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This volume presents two seminal works and three religious speeches by Henry George, in their original forms, with rich annotations to help readers grasp their historical significance. Scholars will find this volume a convenient starting point for research on wealth inequality and poverty, the history of George, and his political movement.

This paper aims to contribute to the indigenisation discourse by illustrating how dominant discourses and cultural practices explain and perpetuate social problems. We argue that focussing on the fundamental issue of a cultural conceptualisation of social problems will contribute positively to the development of the indigenous social work practice framework. As social work education forms an important foundation for how future social work practices will be performed, we interviewed 15 social work practicum students in Ghana about the cultural underpinnings of social problems. Themes developed from the interview data suggest that culture plays a key role in conceptualising social problems in Ghana. Although not often, culture tends to underpin and perpetuate social problems, such as streetism, child marriage and child neglect. Social work practice within the indigenous framework should aim at addressing the negative impacts of the cultural undertones of social problems. Social work practitioners should increase advocacy and knowledge sharing on the cultural explanations of social problems and collaborate with community leaders to change cultural values and norms that have negative ripple effects on children, young people and women.

While the precise nature of socio-cultural conflict in the United States remains contested, there is growing scholarly agreement that elite (media/governmental) framings may be significantly aggravating public animosities. In order to better understand how actual citizens frame meaningful issues in such an atmosphere, we collaborated as socially liberal and conservative-leaning researchers in a joint study of twenty citizens across the political spectrum, from a conservative pastor and a traditional family advocate to a socialist activist and a leader of a feminist organization. This paper reports our analysis of citizen comments on fundamental problems facing society and their proposed solutions. Themes are organized within three general categories: 1) Talking about citizen exchange: What is the essence of "good" public discourse? 2) Defining social problems: What is the nature of fundamental challenges facing society? and 3) Delimiting solutions: What is the scope of needed social change? Within each category, patterns across citizen comments are identified and explored in light of prevailing stereotypes about "liberals" and "conservatives." Based on this examination, possible shifts in the framing of liberal-conservative exchange are proposed as a potential contribution to a more nuanced and productive public deliberation across the partisan divide.

Social problems such as poverty, inequality, income distribution, lack of prosperity, social conflict, and others are problems that often appear in developing countries including Indonesia. As a pluralistic state, settlement of these problems cannot be resolved through a single approach, but through the use of various approaches of science, culture, and religion. There has been a lot of effort and solutions made by the government, organizations, and institutions concerned with solving problems that appear in Indonesia. However, there has been no significant impact on social problems. An appropriate approach that is perfect for creating Islamic solutions is to build integration and interconnection as an approach towards the Islamic economic system. In the approach of integration and interconnection, there are three principal characteristics. They are the semipermeable, intersubjective testability, and creative imagination. The third characteristic is some attempt to create an Islamic solution, applicable and revolutionary.===============================================Membangun Integrasi dan Interkoneksi Dalam Sistem Ekonomi Islam untuk Menciptakan Solusi Islam dalam Memecahkan Masalah Sosial - Masalah sosial seperti kemiskinan, ketidaksetaraan, distribusi pendapatan, kurangnya kemakmuran, konflik sosial, dan lain-lain adalah masalah yang sering muncul di negara berkembang termasuk Indonesia. Sebagai negara majemuk, penyelesaian masalah-masalah ini tidak dapat diselesaikan melalui pendekatan tunggal, tetapi melalui penggunaan berbagai pendekatan ilmu pengetahuan, budaya dan agama. Telah ada banyak upaya dan solusi yang dibuat oleh pemerintah, organisasi dan institusi yang peduli dengan penyelesaian masalah yang muncul di Indonesia. Namun, belum ada dampak yang signifikan terhadap masalah sosial. Pendekatan yang tepat yang sempurna untuk menciptakan solusi Islam adalah membangun integrasi dan interkoneksi sebagai pendekatan terhadap sistem ekonomi Islam. Dalam pendekatan integrasi dan interkoneksi, ada tiga ...

Solution-oriented social science makes solving problems the object of social science, and working on other people's problems becomes the key driver of the problems to be solved. These solutions may be of relevance for everyday citizens or actors working in government, non-profits, or for-profits. Mark Western argues that approaching research in this way would influence how we choose problems, how we build teams and collaborate, and what methods, tools and techniques we employ.

За последние 2-3 года китайская кинофантастика совершила мощный рывок и стала успешно конкурировать с голливудскими фантастическими кинолентами. В Поднебесной кинофантастика в течение длительного времени считалась подростковым жанром, поэтому кинопроизводители, ориентируясь преимущественно на детскую аудиторию, снимали многочисленные телесериалы о космических рейнджерах, которые борются с космическими монстрами. Другим традиционно популярным жанром стала фэнтези - сказочная фантастика о великих воинах, которые противостоят злым колдунам и темным силам. Сегодня отношение к фантастике в корне изменилось, и прежде всего - к самой сложной разновидности жанра, к научной фантастике. Появились киноленты, в которых, сохраняя присущую жанру НФ зрелищность, добавляют к контенту такого кино проблемность и порой острую социальную направленность и актуальность. Китайский кинематограф повзрослел, отточил мастерство и получил великолепную литературную базу - романы и повести писателя Лю Цысиня, которые показали, что китайская фантастика вполне сформировалась и научилась искать ответы на общечеловеческие вопросы.
Over the past 2-3 years, Chinese fiction movie industry has made a powerful leap forward and began to compete quite successfully with Hollywood fiction films. For decades science fiction movies were seen as a teen genre In China, so filmmakers were targeting children's audience and produced numerous TV series about space rangers fighting monsters. Fantasy also became a traditionally popular genre, with fairytales about great warriors who oppose evil sorcerers and dark forces. Today, the attitude towards fiction movies has radically changed, which is particularly evident in science fiction, that constitutes the most complex type in the genre. New movies are visually spectacular as in earlier Sci-Fi, but often address serious social issues, raise complex social problems. Chinese cinema has become more mature and has an excellent literary base now. The novels and stories of Liu Сixin, a prominent Chinese science fiction writer, show that this genre is fully formed and able to seek answers to universal philosophical questions.

The paper deals with sociological findings and statistical figures concerning the young country-men of an important Russian region - Republic of Bashkortostan. Authors offer new methods of practical analysis and theoretical investigation of social and psychological problems of rural youth.