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This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either increase or impede voluntary contributions. Moreover, although efficiency concerns generally provide a rationale for government intervention, surprisingly, little light is shed in the literature on the potential effectiveness of such intervention in a segregated society. This paper first develops an index based on social interactions, which, roughly speaking, measures the welfare impact of income redistribution in an arbitrary society. It then shows that the proposed index vanishes when applied to large segregated societies, which suggests an asymptotic neutrality of redistributive policies.

Résumé La performance peut être définie comme le constat de réussite d'une action. Dans le champ du travail social, la construction des objectifs ne s'effectue pas de la même façon que dans une activité de production ; il s'agit ici d'une activité de coproduction du service avec les bénéficiaires du service. La dimension clinique de cette activité impose la prise en compte du sujet individuel et/ou collectif, dans un processus qui s'inscrit dans le temps. La recherche en travail social peut éclairer ces questions en étudiant les activités « réelles » de travailleurs sociaux, dans leur environnement. L'intelligibilité de ces pratiques dans toute leur complexité peut constituer une base utile, voire nécessaire à la construction de modes d'évaluation pertinents.

Resumen.Las políticas adoptadas frente a la crisis financiera mundial que estalló en 2008 promueven casi exclusivamente los intereses nacionales. El proteccionismo y los planes nacionales de salvamento de bancos y de reactivación económica están distorsionando la competencia en detrimento de los países en desarrollo, de la protección social y de la meta de una recuperación rápida. Y tal vez haya una destrucción de empleos excepcional. El autor aboga por que se adopte un plan mundial de reactivación económica. Defiende también una reconsideración de las ideas y reglamentaciones económicas y de la asistencia al mundo en desarrollo, una actitud menos exigente del Fondo Monetario Internacional y el apoyo a la protección social para que actúe como estabilizador.

This paper examines the social learning models of policy of Hall and May attempting to create a synthesis of the best elements of each. We then apply the revised model to three specific instances of macroeconomic policy in Britain; the introduction of 'Keynesian-plus' policy in the 1960s, the movement from Keynesianism to monetarism, and the experiment with monetarism in the 1980s. In each case study, the degree of policy change is assessed, and possible reasons for that level of change explored. We conclude that a more social constructionist approach is required to understand the link between policy instruments, indicators, and paradigms, and, alongside this, a greater need to understand the implications of the assumptions underlying policy.

This paper examines the social learning models of policy of Hall & May, attempting to create a synthesis of the best elements of each. We then apply the revised model to three specific instances of macroeconomic policy in GB; the introduction of "Keynesian-plus" policy in the 1960s, the movement from Keynesianism to monetarism, & the experiment with monetarism in the 1980s. In each case study, the degree of policy change is assessed, & possible reasons for that level of change explored. We conclude that a more social constructionist approach is required to understand the link between policy instruments, indicators, & paradigms, &, alongside this, a greater need to understand the implications of the assumptions underlying policy. 2 Tables, 78 References. Adapted from the source document.

A paper on corporate social responsibility within the Zimbabwean business sector as an aspect of the human factor. ; Formal organizations are such a predominant feature of contemporary societies, both developed and underdeveloped, that it is sometimes difficult to conceive of any good thing happening to humanity except through the organizations. (Hart and Scott, 1975). Political, economic and social development and progress have taken place within the context of formal organizations. The converse is also true. The greatest evils against humanity have been committed by or through organizations. Wars, environmental degradation, exploitation and discrimination have had the most profound and lasting effects where they have taken place within the context of formal organizations ; International Institute of Human Factor Development.

Advances in 21st century genetic technologies offer new directions for addressing public health and environmental challenges, yet raise important social and ethical questions. Though the need for inclusive deliberation is widely recognized, institutionalized risk definitions, regulation standards, and imaginations of publics pose obstacles to democratic participation and engagement. This paper traces how the problematic precedents set by the 1975 Asilomar Conference emerge in contemporary discussions on CRISPR, and draws from a recent controversy surrounding field trial releases of genetically modified mosquitoes to explicate the ways in which these precedents undermine efforts to engage publics in decisions at the science-policy interface.

Social workers are among the most important people in the lives of vulnerable children, so a number of initiatives are aimed at re-energising a profession dogged by high caseloads and recruitment difficulties

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay focuses on the role of performance art in challenging established social norms and the work of the Austrian artist Michael René Sell.

La crisis paradigmática en la que se desenvuelven actualmente las Ciencias Sociales es producto de unaincomprensión de la condición humana como complejidad del cuerpo vivencial, donde los principios -opostulados- teóricos y metodológicos se redujeron a principios simples de medición causal de los fenómenos de la realidad, en este sentido, la interdisciplinariedad vendría a ser condición de posibilidadpara construir nuevas interacciones e interdefiniciones en la investigación social.

Abstract.  A social dilemma is, in essence, a prisoners' dilemma in a continuous strategy space. I discuss a number of social dilemmas that have caught my attention, offer an elementary, diagrammatic synthesis of them, and discuss some of the economic insights that the diagrams capture, including incentives for pre‐commitment. Finally, I model pre‐commitment via delegation and link results to the literature on the evolution of preferences.

The author of this article relies on the premise that strategic management is the highest function of any government, with it being implemented by government bodies through a system of government strategic planning, as well as a specific type of administrative activity – developing and executing strategies, as well as national projects and programs. In essence strategies are normatively burdened formalized priorities, goals and tasks associated with the development of Russia and its regions in the long term. These strategies are meant to be an effective means of implementing relevant government policy, to serve as a source of compromise for society and to ensure purposeful action when it comes to a multitude of social subjects cooperating with each other in order to attain the results in mind. You can tell that there is a problem in organizing government strategic management by the fact that we are dealing with a constant increase in territorial disproportions in the socio-economic, socio-cultural development of Russia's cities and regions, as well as the population's indifference towards strategies, federal and regional projects. Among the factors which limit government bodies' capacity to execute plans for social development is a multitude of various systems of social management in place on a regional and municipal level which do not allow for implementing linear correlations when it comes to administration. Furthermore, internal determination is a factor in developing territorially localized communities, which is when the behavior of any given social group is defined not so much by external factors or administrative pressure, but rather by the actual nature of internal relationships, by recollection of past situations, rules of cooperation for social subjects, life plans and life strategies of individuals and social groups. Solving the problem of organizing government strategic planning systems and ensuring control over the course of Russian society's development is linked, in the author's opinion, to revealing those social factors and phenomena which define how appropriate certain innovations are for any given local community, figure out whether the planned results are achievable on a regional level, and to choosing such methods of administrative pressure that the social group in question will be susceptible to. Based on the empirical data, the author of this article argues that there is a connection between the population's attitude towards the system of government strategic management and a region's level of development (according to Nikolai Lapin's classification), while insisting that the differentiation of regions based on their level of modernization is vital information when it comes to differentiating structures and functions of government bodies in regards to strategic planning and choosing regulative mechanisms (from management and handling resources to normative-value and institutional management).

The article reveals specific features of contemporary European social theory within its turn to the nature of creative practices. Different socio-philosophical methods of their cognition are demonstrated. The explication of the character of European social theory as a whole outlines the increasing interest in the formation of a theory of creative society which critically grounds the set of political programmes «Creative Europe». The author defines the concept of the creative turn within a comparative analysis of those theories of contemporary society which explore the peculiarity of social reality constituting on the basis of creative economy. Its practices become a special subject matter of social theory revealing societal limitations of their fulfillment.