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Emergent technologies are pushing the boundaries of how both qualitative and quantitative researchers practice their craft, and it has become clear these changes are dramatically altering research design, from the questions researchers ask and the ways they collect data, to what they even consider data. Gathering a broad range of new developments in one place, The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research offers comprehensive, up-to-date thinking on technological innovations. In addition to addressing how to effectively apply new technologies-such as the internet, mobile technologie

In the modern world the reputation of the company is more and more influenced by its social position.As a result of a longstanding and sustained process of western government capitalist development, a complicated and balanced system of regulating mutual relations between private enterprise, au­thority, society in the sphere of socioeconomic development of countries and separate territories was formed.Nowadays in different countries business participation in solving social problems is either regu­lated hard by the commercial, taxation, labour, environmental legislation or independently under the influence of determined motivations and benefits. In Russia this process is under way in the conditions of dominating governmental positions, weak civil society institutions and oligarchic business development.Social changes in the society are successful only when most important powers are involved. The cooperation of political, social and economic subjects, based on the principles of social partnership, contributes to the steady development of the country. The increasing significance of non-financial development factors (social stability, environmental safety) actualize practical and theoretical aspects of social responsibility. ; In the modern world the reputation of the company is more and more influenced by its social position. As a result of a longstanding and sustained process of western government capitalist development, a complicated and balanced system of regulating mutual relations between private enterprise, au­thority, society in the sphere of socioeconomic development of countries and separate territories was formed.Nowadays in different countries business participation in solving social problems is either regu­lated hard by the commercial, taxation, labour, environmental legislation or independently under the influence of determined motivations and benefits. In Russia this process is under way in the conditions of dominating governmental positions, weak civil society institutions and oligarchic business development.Social changes in the society are successful only when most important powers are involved. The cooperation of political, social and economic subjects, based on the principles of social partnership, contributes to the steady development of the country. The increasing significance of non-financial development factors (social stability, environmental safety) actualize practical and theoretical aspects of social responsibility. ; Dans le monde moderne la réputation de l'entreprise est de plus en plus sous l'inflluencia de sa position sociale. Comme conséquence d'un processus de beaucoup d'années et soutenu d'un dévelo­ppement occidental capitaliste de gouvernement, un système compliqué et équilibré, de régler des relations mutuelles entre l'entreprise privée, l'autorité, la société dans la sphère de développement socio-économique de pays et de territoires séparés a été formée.De nos jours dans la participation de différente affaire de pays dans la solution de problèmes sociaux il est ou réglé tout près le commercial, des impôts, la législation de travail, environnemen­tale ou par séparé sous l'influence de motivations décidées et d'avantages. En Russie ce processus est dans une marche dans les conditions de dominer des positions gouvernementales, de faibles institutions civiles de société et le développement commercial oligarchique.Des changements sociaux de la société sont seulement atteints quand les pouvoirs les plus impor­tants sont impliqués. La coopération des hommes politiques, sociale et économique il fixe, basé sur les principes de société sociale, contribue au développement stable du pays. L'importance croissante de facteurs non financiers de développement (la stabilité sociale, la sécurité environnementale) actualise les aspects pratiques et théoriques de responsabilité sociale.

Talk of the death of social democracy in Europe is premature at the very least, sayMatt Browne, John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira, but a new, modern progressivism is now needed

This paper investigates how CSR firms influence a Cournot oligopoly with pollution. We define as CSR a firm that takes into account not only its profits but also internalises its own share of the externality and is sensitive to consumer surplus. The CSR firm obtains higher profits compared to profit-seeking firms. Also, the presence of at least one CSR firm improves social welfare and makes the first best Pigouvian taxation more lenient for Cournot firms. Finally, the CSR firm may induce the other firms to invest in green technology.

Gracias a Internet el término democracia trasciende el ámbito de la filosofía política para transformarse en un concepto comunicacional que permite a los usuarios participar de forma activa en la consecución de cambios y transformaciones sociales. Este nuevo orden bidireccional que imponen las redes sociales ha permitido que al calor del 15-M un grupo de jubilados, que se denominan yayoflautas, hayan encontrado en la Web 2.0 un foro para continuar luchando por derechos sociales consolidados y que al abrigo de la crisis se están perdiendo en España. En el presente artículo proponemos un estudio sobre cómo el activismo que permiten las nuevas tecnologías sirve para reforzar la participación social y política, así como para la creación de espacios de libertad que generen transformaciones democráticas, para ello nos centraremos en estudiar cómo el uso en positivo que ha realizado este colectivo de las redes sociales garantiza la supervivencia de derechos sociales básicos para la ciudadanía.

"This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice in Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in health care settings. The PiC is updated in this edition to attend to social determinants of health and structural conditions. The PiC framework is applied in over 31 case chapters to reflect varied health and social care settings with multiple populations. The ideal textbook for social work in health care and clinical social work classes, this thought-provoking volume thoroughly integrates social work theory and practice and provides an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions"--

1. Problematizing personhood differently -- 2. Means to meaning -- 3. The semiotic robot hypothesis -- 4. The relationship machine -- 5. Voices in the field : the pragmatic engineer, technocentric visionary and inquisitive scientist -- 6. Rhetoric and right action ahead of robot nannies -- 7. Subversions of subjectivity -- 8. Chronotope shifts in the uncanny valley -- 9. Narrativity of the act and the new ontology -- 10. Futures in the present tense.

This article will bring together the social glue concept of social reproduction and a feminist analysis of civil society to the study of nonprofit care work in order to cast analytic light on the dynamics of care work in the nonprofit sector and contribute to theorizing care work, to identify and theorize aspects of nonprofit care work which reproduce and sustain social glue, and to supplement theory on civil society. Drawing on qualitative interviews with nonprofit care workers in South Africa and Scotland, this article argues that care work, in general, and nonprofit care work, more specifically, are key components of civil society and central to the gendered social glue that holds societies together. We argue that nonprofit care workers are part a distinctive but porous set of social relations and have their own unique way of sustaining social bonds in the context of late neoliberalism. The article looks closely at three dynamics of social glue in nonprofit care work, namely, empowerment, emotional/personal costs, and unpaid work. We argue that nonprofit care workers find micro ways of resisting the erosion of social glue and reweaving the social fabric through care and relationship and further that these forms of resistance may sustain much needed social bonds until larger social transformation is possible.

Màster de Direcció d'Entitats Asseguradores i Financeres, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Curs: 2007-2008, Tutor: Joan de Palol i Agustí ; Este trabajo trata de analizar la viabilidad de la obra social en una Entidad Aseguradora e indagar dentro del marco legislativo actual las posibilidades más beneficiosas de su desarrollo, así como comprender la realidad actual para analizar el mejor modelo de empresa no lucrativo como una posibilidad empresarial ligada a una Entidad Aseguradora. Además de contar con las ventajas fiscales hay que reconocer el interés en el propio compromiso social que se desarrolla, así como la buena imagen a la que se asocia a las empresas relacionadas con estas entidades. Así mismo, veremos que este instrumento, la fundación, puede ofrecer algo más a una mutualidad de previsión social que quiere expandirse comercialmente, de manera que pueda abarcar un público más amplio manteniéndose fiel a sus objetivos y a sus Estatutos.