"In this book, Mark Fedyk offers a novel analysis of the relationship between moral psychology and allied fields in the social sciences. Fedyk shows how the social sciences can be integrated with moral philosophy, argues for the benefits of such an integration, and offers a new ethical theory that can be used to bridge research between the two. Fedyk argues that moral psychology should take a social turn, investigating the psychological processes that motivate patterns of social behavior defined as ethical using normative information extracted from the social sciences. He points out methodological problems in conventional moral psychology, particularly the increasing methodological and conceptual inconsilience with both philosophical ethics and evolutionary biology. Fedyk's "causal theory of ethics" is designed to provide moral psychology with an ethical theory that can be used without creating tension between its scientific practice and the conceptual vocabulary of philosophical ethics. His account aims both to redirect moral psychology toward more socially realistic questions about human life and to introduce philosophers to a new form of ethical naturalism--a way of thinking about how to use different fields of scientific research to answer some of the traditional questions that are at the heart of ethics"--Publisher website.
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Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) can be a valuable tourism resource for both government and local communities. However, the complex definition and the massive and fragmented nature of ICH data make it hard to review and conclude research trends and future directions of ICH tourism. In this study, 85 keywords extracted from ICH definitions are input in the Web of Science database before collecting papers indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and the Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities. Later, a systematic literature review of 418 ICH tourism studies from 76 countries published between 2000 and 2021 were conducted based on three groups of questions. The findings mainly illustrated that: (1) Currently research in ICH tourism is mainly composed of three themes: resource planning and sustainability, the impact of tourism development, and tourist behavior and destination marketing; (2) topics related to food tourism, sacred knowledge, traditional management systems, traditional management systems, legends, and myths can achieve high impact; (3) in the last five years, scholars have reduced using the official full name of ICH in tourism studies, while the category of "social practices, rituals and festive events" has become a hot topic since 2010; (4) ecotourism, culinary tourism, festival tourism, and religious tourism are the most discussed in ICH tourism research, and they will still be intensive topics in near future; (5) future directions in ICH tourism research are resultant of three vectors: place making, technology, and environment. The results present a comprehensive picture of current popular ICH topics and predict future directions in the field of ICH tourism. The systematic review of literature can help contribute to both theoretical construction, heritage preservation, and tourism practices.
Constructing Europe: citizenship, learning, and accountability -- Environment, heritage, and the ecological subject -- The subject and the educational in educational research -- Between part one and part two -- 1933, or rebirth -- America, or leaving home -- Plato, or return to the cave
The process of implementing blended learning, by using e-learning tools as a support for traditional classroom teaching, started at the University of Rijeka at the beginning of 2008, following general strategic principles adapted to local environment. The process has been constantly supported and assessed for quality, but up to now only from the institutional, teachers' and support services' perspective. Assuming that continuous and careful monitoring of learner's satisfaction is important for the success, feasibility and viability of e-learning, we conducted the research on students' perspective. As the student's perception regarding e-learning is one of the most important steps in developing and implementing a successful e-learning environment, we conducted the study of student's perception and e-learning acceptance, with three specific items addressed in the study: 1) student's perception of quality of already delivered e-courses, 2) level of importance for the specific elements of e-learning encountered, and 3) student's general attitude towards elearning and their needs with respect to quality of course materials, communication and support of the learning process. Participants in the study assessed the current state of e-learning elements implementation quite good; they agreed the educational materials were in most cases complete, organized and well designed, and they considered the ability of teachers to manage the e-courses well, communication regular as well as the provision of the feedback. The lower level of agreement was obtained on the use of multimedia, offering of the self-assessment tests, accessibility of digital literature and collaborative activities. This suggests teachers should be encouraged and trained to put more effort in designing and offering suitable multimedia elements to enrich their materials, selfassessment test to make students feel more comfortable in terms of examination expectations, and to design online activities for the students to enhance collaborative aspects in ...
Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy?s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science. This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2007 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Coral Cables, Florida.
In this text we address some of the main challenges of modern society in relation to the development of inclusive education and that refer to fundamental spheres of the human being: the material, the relational and the evaluative or moral. Respectively denominated as: the technological challenge, the relational challenge: with the Earth and the people, and the ethical challenge. In the social context described, the school has to take a stand. From its understanding as inclusive education, it opts to place the values of democracy and equity on the horizon, and bets on the development of a transformative social project, developing the inclusive project in schools. Thus, it joins the social movement that recognizes the equal dignity of all people. We then focus our analysis on aspects that concern the conceptualization of inclusive education and its implementation: the way in which human diversity has been understood. We focus on two main perspectives from which the diversity of students has been and is being addressed from the educational system: the medical or essentialist perspective and the social or inclusive perspective, and we answer several questions. ; En este texto abordamos algunos de los principales desafíos de la sociedad moderna en relación con el desarrollo de la educación inclusiva y que remiten a esferas fundamentales del ser humano: a lo material, a lo relacional y a lo valorativo o moral. Respectivamente los denominamos: el desafío tecnológico, el desafío relacional: con las personas y con la Tierra, y el desafío ético. En el contexto social descrito, la escuela ha de tomar posición. Desde su comprensión como educación inclusiva opta por situar en el horizonte valores propios de la democracia y la equidad, y apuesta por el desarrollo de un proyecto social transformador, desarrollando el proyecto inclusivo en los centros escolares. Se suma así al movimiento social que reconoce la igual dignidad de todas las personas. Seguidamente centramos el análisis en aspectos que atañen a la conceptualización de la educación inclusiva y su puesta en acción: el modo en que se ha comprendido la diversidad humana. Nos centramos en dos grandes perspectivas desde las que se ha abordado y se aborda desde el sistema educativo la diversidad del alumnado: la perspectiva médica o esencialista y la perspectiva social o inclusiva y respondemos a varios interrogantes.
This article grapples with the ethical dilemmas of youth research, and more specifically 'edgework', via an experiential account of fieldwork with 'boy racers' in Aberdeen, Scotland. 'Edgework' is ethically problematic for those who wish to conduct fieldwork with youths. By engaging in 'edgework', researchers can find themselves unwittingly drawn into the deviant activities of youths, as deviance slowly becomes the norm through prolonged immersion in their social world. 'Edgework' also blurs the line between insider and outsider status, threatening the researcher's ability to step back from the field and critically reflect on their experiences. Furthermore, the experiential aspect of the 'edgework' method is called to the fore since the researcher's experiences of risky behaviours (in terms of discomfort) differed from those of the researched (in terms of pleasure).
This paper is part of a bigger research path and, in its actual form, it presents the concept of value co-creation in the places as a result of a concerted action between enterprises and places themselves. This action doesn't have an "activating" element, although it is the outcome of the proper application of skills and knowledge of each actor in interpreting the changes occurred in the environment and in the activation of their value-creating initiatives. The methodology used involves the analysis of a single case study (Yin, 1994; Dubois e Gadde, 2002), suitable technique to develop theories about phenomena still little known in the context in which they take place. The use of cases also has the advantage of allowing the study of issues related to the "how" and "why" of recent and contemporary events over which the researcher has little control (Sturman, 1998; Cecconi, 2002; Yin, 2003). The analysis was conducted collecting data about the positive performance of the company (analysis of financial statements, reading specialized journals, website) and the proactive role of place and local government bodies (website of the town, visiting the places, analysis of urban renewal, key performance indicators of QSV). The entrepreneurial experience and the dynamics active on place allow to highlight how the process of value co-creation in those enterprise-territory relationships is the result of a contextual conditions system, stimulated by important and stable project-related osmosis processes, organizing the accrual of a strategic path shared by enterprise and place over time, increasing the territorial social capital, designing a rooted model of local skills able to compete globally. The originality of the paper lies in the development potential of value co-creation through the enhancement of knowledge and sensitivity towards the environmental and contextual dynamics. Innovation and knowledge are not unique prerogatives of the enterprises; they should also arise in and from places to generate a mutual exchange of traditional values, while co-producing knowledge and continuous innovation.
The relative simplicity of early systems was such that hardware components and the accompanying human requirements (skills) were easily interchanged within and between systems. Current complex systems are accompanied by an increased need for closer consideration of the human component. The volumes of information generated and the compressed developmental schedules have led to: (1) decreased effectiveness of data on system design and development, (2) increased reliance on expertise when existing data are not known to exist or are inaccessible, (3) generation of inadvertant duplication of research effort, and (4) scattering of costly information. In 1963, the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, initiated a joint research effort to explore and, where possible, develop techniques for efficient handling and processing of human factors task data generated in support of the Personnel Subsystem program. These techniques are being developed within the context of an overall data handling system concept which would operate in an Air Force/NASA/contractor environment.
9 pages, 7 figures ; Supporting Antarctic scientific investigation is the job of the national Antarctic programmes, the government entities charged with delivering their countries' Antarctic research strategies. This requires sustained investment in people, innovative technologies, Antarctic infrastructures, and vessels with icebreaking capabilities. The recent endorsement of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Polar Code (2015) means that countries must address challenges related to an ageing icebreaking vessel fleet. Many countries have recently invested in and begun, or completed, builds on new icebreaking Polar research vessels. These vessels incorporate innovative technologies to increase fuel efficiency, to reduce noise output, and to address ways to protect the Antarctic environment in their design. This paper is a result of a Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) project on new vessel builds which began in 2018. It considers the recent vessel builds of Australia's RSV Nuyina, China's MV Xue Long 2, France's L'Astrolabe, Norway's RV Kronprins Haakon, Peru's BAP Carrasco, and the United Kingdom's RRS Sir David Attenborough. The paper provides examples of purposeful consideration of science support requirements and environmental sustainability in vessel designs and operations ; Peer reviewed
Knowledge and learning are seen as key success factors for international competitiveness and economic growth in contemporary societies and have been placed at the top of the policy agenda in many countries. But actual developments in former socialist countries of Europe and Asia have totally run counter to such aims in the last decade. Science and technology (S&T) in the transformation countries have undergone major changes on all planes, as simultaneously institutional corrections within the S&T system have taken place and the systemic changeover in the political and economic fields has also effected major changes to the size, structure and content of the domestic demand for scientific results and services, and in addition to that, the international opening-up to high-tech imports and other forms of technology transfer has further minimised the need for domestic R&D. Despite big shifts in the spectrum of scientific activities, only partial devaluation of knowledge and skills has taken place, and experience in research has actually proved invaluable in coping with new tasks inside and outside of scientific institutes. But, the inherited institutional preconditions in science and research, along with individual knowledge and levels of educational attainment are not assets and advantages in and of themselves. They must constantly be seen in relation to the overall societal framework. Indeed, the problem seems to be one of how to employ, change and utilise the personnel and other capacities inherited from the socialist era, with the abilities, skills, experiences etc. that it has, in such a way that it is able to meet the new demands, to cope with the challenges and to act as an asset under conditions of globalisation. ; Wissen und Lernen werden als Erfolgsfaktoren für internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Wirtschaftswachstum in modernen Gesellschaften angesehen und nehmen einen Spitzenplatz in der Politik vieler Länder ein. Die tatsächliche Entwicklung in den früher sozialistischen Ländern Europas und Asiens ist jedoch im letzten Jahrzehnt völlig entgegengesetzt verlaufen. Wissenschaft und Technik (W&T) der Transformationsländer haben vielfältige Veränderungen erfahren, da neben institutionellen Korrekturen in W&T der Systemwandel in Politik und Wirtschaft auch Umfang, Struktur und Inhalt der Nachfrage nach wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen und Leistungen wesentlich verändert hat. Zusätzlich hat die internationale Öffnung für high-tech Importe und Technologietransfer den Bedarf an einheimischer FuE weiter schrumpfen lassen. Trotz der erheblichen Verschiebungen im Spektrum wissenschaftlicher Aktivitäten sind Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten nur teilweise entwertet worden; Forschungserfahrungen waren vielmehr vorteilhaft für die Bewältigung neuer Aufgaben innerhalb und außerhalb der Wissenschaft. Jedoch sind vorhandene Institutionen in Wissenschaft und Forschung sowie individuelles Können und Qualifikationen nicht an und für sich günstige Voraussetzungen und von Vorteil. Sie müssen immer in das jeweilige gesellschaftliche Umfeld eingeordnet werden. In Wirklichkeit besteht das Problem also darin, die aus der sozialistischen Ära übernommenen Kapazitäten und insbesondere das Personal mit seinen Fähigkeiten, Fertigkeiten und Erfahrungen so einzusetzen, anzupassen und zu nutzen, dass es den neuen Anforderungen entspricht, sich den Herausforderungen stellt und so tatsächlich als ein Aktivposten unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung wirksam wird.
IN ANSWERING CRITICISMS (KENNETH S. HEMPEL, "COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON EASTERN EUROPE: A CRITIQUE OF HUGHES AND VOLGY'S 'DISTANCE IN FOREIGN POLICY BEHAVIOR'," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1973, 17, 367-393) OF AN EARLIER ESSAY (B. HUGHES & T. VOLGY, "DISTANCE IN FOREIGN POLICY BEHAVIOR: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EASTERN EUROPE," MIDWEST JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1970, 14, 459-492), IT IS POINTED OUT THAT THE CONCEPT OF DISTANCE USED WAS DIFFERENTIATED INTO SEVERAL SUBCONCEPTS; INDICATORS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE SUBCONCEPTS ARE PERHAPS OF LIMITED UTILITY. ALL SOCIAL INDICATORS ARE SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY, & THOSE USED ARE RELATIVELY FREE OF ELEMENTS BASED ON THE INVESTIGATOR'S ARBITRARY DISCRETION. WHILE THE DATA BASE IS OFTEN LIMITED, THERE ARE INTRINSIC DIFFICULTIES IN STUDYING ANY AREA WITH POOR DATA; ONE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS TO TEST THE APPLICABILITY OF QUANTITATIVE METHODS TO SUCH LIMITED DATA. W. H. STODDARD.
Besides offering more evidence of the unsuitability of Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards to hold that position, or any other elective officer above that of dogcatcher, recent comments by him against legislation to protect children, parents, and teachers reflect changing political circumstances that have accelerated the erosion of his rapidly-waning power, to the state's benefit.
His remarks referred in part to HB 648 by Republican state Rep. Gabe Firment, which would prohibit surgery or chemicals to alter the sex of a minor; HB 466 by GOP state Rep. Dodie Horton that would ban classroom or extracurricular expressions extraneous to educating students that focus on sexual activity and gives parents control over the names and pronouns that refer to their children; and HB 81 by Republican state Rep. Raymond Crews that basically duplicates the regulation of naming conventions in Horton's bill. All have passed the House.
That's in marked contrast to last year, when Firment offered a similar bill that never received a committee hearing and Horton had the same minus the naming regime that had to be forced out of committee in a parliamentary move rarely seen, although it advanced no further. The naming controversy in the past year has become increasingly visible over revelations that some schools intentionally keep parents in the dark about their efforts to encourage children to identify differently than their biological sex (no Louisiana schools have been reported to do this).
This year, these bills have had much more success, which in part stems from the pursuit of increasingly extremist policy on this issue by the political left in Washington and elsewhere, yet also pressured towards success from upcoming fall elections in Louisiana. Majorities across almost all demographic groups (excepting white Democrats) nationally are against surgery or drugs to alter a child's sex hormonally or physically, so unless politicians are sure about their constituencies' views and whether they can submerge this issue if need be, they must tread carefully if opposing bills like these.
Not so the term-limited Edwards, who as his political shelf life moves ever closer to expiration has felt freer than ever to express his true inner social liberalism. Recently, he condemned bills like these as harmful to the tiny, but apparently growing, proportion of youth questioning whether they identify with their physical sex, without acknowledging that the preponderance of physical and social science research revealing that practices such as medical interventions on children have harmful health outcomes for most, and repeating assertions from a small number of methodologically-questionable studies that appear to affirm his opinions.
His statements imply he would veto such measures if they cross his desk, even though he didn't do that to a similar bill last year that prevents biological males, even if taking drugs to change their sex, from competing in all-female athletic events. He chickened out there because votes to pass the bills demonstrated veto-proof majorities, meaning at least some House Democrats crossed party lines to support those bills.
That he did to preserve political capital, but that runs out within a month, so he might go for broke on these. And while on HB 466 while Republican state Reps. Mary DuBuisson, Barbara Freiberg, Stephanie Hilferty, Richard Nelson, and Joe Stagni voted against it, more than enough Democrats did to make it veto-proof. That represented a gain from the day before in terms of Democrats supporting with HB 81, with the latter a fallback for part of the former in any event. As for HB 648, only Stagni voted against it.
At least in the House, these numbers indicate particularly white Democrats running for an office this year won't dare get on the wrong side of this issue (of them, only new Democrat state Rep. Roy Daryl Adams defected on HB 81 but the next day voted for HB 466). So, even if Edwards finally feels free to reveal his true self to the world with vetoes, the House will vote to override.
The Senate at this point seems harder to predict. It has only two white Democrats, one of whom will retire from politics with his term-limitation, and one vote to spare among Republicans for a supermajority. However, on the law that secured fairness for female athletes, all GOP members voted for it and for a previous version the year before Edwards vetoed successfully when the House failed to override.
Still, that Edwards has failed to influence enough members of his own party in the House to vote against these bills demonstrates his growing political impotence, already in an advanced state following veto sessions triggered the past two years with a successful override and his punting on the fairness bill. (And, the House rejected main portions of his budget). Considering his views increasingly inimical to a positive policy agenda for Louisiana, it's a welcome development and likely harbinger of that agenda's advancement, on steroids, next year.
AbstractThe central randomization scheme employed in the NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program is described including consequences of the scheme and the mid‐study changes in scheme that proved necessary because of imbalance at sites for important patient characteristics.
