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With a unique cultural background and fast economic development, China's adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become the center of discussion worldwide, and its successful implementation will have great significance for global sustainability. This paper aims to explore how CSR has given way to economic growth in China since the start of economic transition and its cultural, historical and political background, and how this has affected or been affected by the economic performance of firms. Thus, the recent calls for China to adopt CSR in its industries follow a period where the country arguably had one of the strongest implementations of CSR approaches in the world. This transition is considered in the context of a case study of a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) and a group of small private firms in the same industrial sector in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province over a time span of eight years. While the CSR of the SOE has been steadily decreasing along with the change of ownership structure, its economic performance did not improve as expected. On the other hand, with a steady improvement in economic performance, the small private firms are showing a great reluctance to engage in CSR. The results indicate that implementation of CSR in China needs both the manager's ethical awareness and the change of institutional framework. The results also raise the question as to whether CSR is a universal concept with a desired means of implementation across the developed and developing world.

How to incorporate critical and societally relevant thinking and acting into Higher Education teaching formats? The article proposes social design workshops, which teach ethics through design by explicitly addressing and building on the functional diversity of participating stakeholders, and by fostering ongoing mutual reflection. These workshops are inspired by participatory design, political theory, disability studies and psychological practice research. By drawing on empirical material from a design workshop with Bachelor students and external collaborators including psychologically vulnerable stakeholders, we argue for an adaptive framework of analytical-pedagogical inquiry that can be continuously co-designed. In particular, ethical design requires a broad and emergent definition of participation. Ethical design is participatory-democratic co-design, which acknowledges and bridges across the various stakeholders' functional diversity.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Prologue: A New Society -- Religion, Sociology, Education -- Interaction: Structure, Discourse, and Being -- Mysticism: Analysis and Utopia -- 2 Society: Informationalism, Mysticism, Revitalization -- Informational Society -- Religion and Mysticism -- Revitalization -- Examples -- 3 Self: Reselfing -- Immortal Self -- Eliade and Hasidism -- Reselfing -- Classical Sociology: Religion, Power, and Self -- Postmodern Self in Society: Melucci and Foucault -- A Typology of Reselfing -- Self and Structure -- 4 Criticism: From Culture to Being -- Lasch: Social Criticism and the Sacred -- Gnosticism and the New Age -- Social Ethic of Being -- Frankfurt School -- Embodied Criticism -- Phantasms and Energy -- 5 Social Theory: From Society to Cosmos -- The Social -- Social Energy -- Beyond Dualism -- Reintegration -- Education As Embodied Mediation -- From the Social to the Cosmic -- 6 Education: From Postmodernism to Ethnography of Being -- Educational Research -- Context of Educational Research -- Mystical Education -- School Ethnography of Being -- Prophetic Education -- 7 Social Interaction: From Alienation to Mysticism -- Destruction -- Creation -- American Religion: Drugs, Nature, Immanence -- William James: Over the Threshold to Mystical Revitalization -- Hindu Tantrism: New/Old Dynamics of Embodied Mystical Mediation -- Hasidism: Individual Redemption and Collective Messianism -- Secular Mysticism -- 8 Epilogue: Mystical Sociology and Beyond -- Mystical Sociology -- Self -- Social Interaction -- Society -- Pedagogy of Revitalization -- Forgotten Things -- References -- Index

We consider two aspects of the human enterprise that profoundly affect the global environment: population and consumption. We show that fertility and consumption behavior harbor a class of externalities that have not been much noted in the literature. Both are driven in part by attitudes and preferences that are not egoistic but socially embedded; that is, each household's decisions are influenced by the decisions made by others. In a famous paper, Garrett Hardin [G. Hardin, Science 162, 1243-1248 (1968)] drew attention to overpopulation and concluded that the solution lay in people "abandoning the freedom to breed." That human attitudes and practices are socially embedded suggests that it is possible for people to reduce their fertility rates and consumption demands without experiencing a loss in wellbeing. We focus on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa and consumption in the rich world and argue that bottom-up social mechanisms rather than top-down government interventions are better placed to bring about those ecologically desirable changes.

Family science is at the forefront of understanding the multiple and interconnected risk and protective factors (e.g., poverty vs. wealth, racism and discrimination, privilege) that affect families and the contexts in which they live. In this article, we use the metaphor of spider and web to suggest that family science theorizing is missing an integral piece of the puzzle—the designer of the contexts that have become the field's object of study and intervention (Krieger, 1994). Who or what is this designer? Recognizing that the answer is necessarily complex, we propose a metaphorical spider of insidious influence: White supremacy. Pairing understandings garnered from decades of critical theorizing with a review of the family science literature, we hypothesize about the web of causation and interrogate this culprit. Finally, we offer implications for the consciousness and intentional addition of White supremacy to family science theorizing and methods.

In this article, I suggest that narratives' importance for social change may be understood by examining specific elements of narrative syntax — key rhetorical tropes within stories, and story genres. I argue that these stylistic elements generate social connections that themselves support and stimulate social change. I use Young's (2006) theorisation of responsibility and global justice in terms of connection, to suggest how narratives may support or generate progressive social change. I then examine narrative tropes and genres of similarisation and familiarisation at work in narratives produced around the HIV pandemic, and the limits of those tropes and genres for supporting and catalysing social change.

This paper launches a class-based critique of social capital, and goes on to develop an alternative approach to it. In particular, it unpacks the nature of 'working-class social capital'. There cannot be a social-capital theory of society. Within a class theory of society, social capital can play some role—perhaps a minor role, given the enormously constraining effects of class on its production. How minor that role will be depends on the issue at hand, and is geographically contingent. A class critique of social capital is necessary in order to counter its growing popularity and its potential to serve neoliberal ends.

Social work and social care managers often find themselves in management positions without having had any formal management training, yet skills and knowledge specific to social care settings are essential for effective practice. This book offers a researched and practical guide to the fundamental skills and knowledge that a manager needs, underpinned by the values and ethics that are inherent to social work and social care. Core skills covered include time management, recruitment, managing meetings, working in partnership with service users, negotiation and conflict management, and mentoring

Introduction. The rapid changes taking place in the age of globalization are modifying the attitudes toward time and disrupting its linear vision. Nowadays the absolute uncertainty looms over the image of the future. Mentioned above necessarily brings us to the problem of identity, which primarily concerns memory. After all, it is memory (individual, collective) that makes us who we are, shaping our identity and determining our belonging to a certain community. The aim and tasks of the research is to theoretically reconstruct speculative searches of the foundations of the phenomenon of collective memory. Research methods are to analyze the modern literature devoted to studying of phenomenon of a collective memory; to compare traditional and postmodern paradigms in understanding the essence of the phenomenon of a collective memory; to identify further prospects for the transformation of collective memory in a situation of postmodern disintegration. Research results. Theinterdisciplinary method was used to consider the phenomenon of collective memory in cultural anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, philosophy; method of historiographical analysis – for the systematization of primary sources and scientific literature, devoted to studying the phenomenon of collective memory; hermeneutic method – for explanation and interpretation of works of contemporary authors who are specialists in this field of scientific knowledge today; comparative analysis – to compare traditional and postmodern understanding of the essence of collective memory. No less fruitful there was the method of categorical-conceptual analysis, which made it possible to specify and clarify the terminological chaos that prevails today in the scientific works of native and foreign scientists. Along with the above, such general scientific methods as comparison, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, abstraction and concretization, etc., have played an important role. Discussion At all times, at the individual memory level ...

THE PARTICIPATION OF MINORITIES IN PUBLIC LIFE -- Contents -- Introductory address -- Constitutional non-recognition of minorities in the context of unitary states: an insurmountable obstacle? -- Territorial solutions for managing diversity and their changing role -- Making minorities more influential in public life: opportunities provided by existing constitutional arrangements and their limitations -- Special measures to promote minority representation in elected bodies: the experience of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities -- Can international monoriting mechanisms and EU integration prospects help improve national minority participation at the domestic level? -- The development of a corpus of international standards and its influence at the domestic level to ensure minority participation -- The revival of cultural autonomy in certain countries of eastern Europe: were lessons drawn from the inter-war period? -- Contemporary forms of cultural autonomy in eastern Europe: recurrent problems and prospects for improving the functioning of elected bodies of cultural autonomy -- Personal autonomy through the "communities" system: does the example of Belgium suggest that forms of non-territorial autonomy can make a difference in terms of minority participation? -- The reappearance of an old model: cultural autonomy.