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Germany imposes integration-oriented regulations before and after entry on third-country family migrants. However, little attention has been paid to how integration actually unfolds for the subjects of these regulations, usually women, who are situated in the private sphere of the family. This article examines how the concept of integration, a state-anticipated and state-stipulated goal, is connected to the early adaptation of skilled female family migrants who are married to German husbands. Based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 21 Chinese-speaking women across Germany, I focus on how these women mobilize resources to overcome 'hurdles' of entry requirements, how they define and interpret their tasks and obligation of integration upon arrival, and how the dynamics of their intercultural marriage affect their integration. Viewing these female spousal migrants as subjects in an integration-oriented family migration regime that legitimates intensive integration also in the private sphere, this article highlights these women's 'wife' and 'migrant' roles in the family. Specifically, through interactions with their significant others and extended family members, role-related expectations are transferred. The results show that female spouses are consequently exposed to an alternative ideal of integration that is tied to their domestic role. This homebound notion of integration differs from the social integration envisioned and coveted by the German government. This research broadly unveils how these skilled female family migrants' early acculturation can be seen as a rivalry between pre-established self-conceptions and new circumstances in the host society.

Background:Harmful traditional practices (HTPs) are deeply entrenched behaviours or actions that violate the human rights of affected individuals. They have negative consequences on the physical and psychological health, social rights and political equality of affected individuals and their communities. Despite legislation making HTPs illegal in many countries, these practices continue today, causing considerable health risks to women and girls. Whilst studies have sought to understand factors perpetuating different HTPs, a paucity of reviews synthesises these findings. Aims: The aim of this review is to consider son preference, female genital mutilation, and child marriage in relation to their persistence, including the underlying and other factors that facilitate resistance and control mechanisms. Method: Using PRISMA guidelines, a systematic literature review of 21 research studies. Results: Women of practising communities identified educational status of women, residential location, economic status, and a family history of practising HTPs as socio-economic factors perpetuating HTPs. Negative physical health consequences and women's autonomy were identified as facilitating resistance to HTPs, whilst religion and patriarchy were identified as mechanisms that prevented resistance to HTPs. Policy implications are considered.

Organizations characterized by knowledge work will experience pressures from a variety of sources to provide increasing levels of autonomy to employees. Furthermore, as the nature of work has changed, the manifestations of employee autonomy have become more complex and varied. Although a great deal of literature exists on the effects of various types and facets of autonomy, these literatures focus almost exclusively on individual-level effects. On the organizational side however, we suggest that the increasing trend toward various forms of employee autonomy presents a tension for organizations as they struggle to reconcile this relinquishing of control with organizational leaders' inherent desire for more control. We explore how managers and supervisors of knowledge work manage the inherent conflict between employee demands for autonomy and organizational needs for control, especially as it relates to the management of complexity and fairness issues. Furthermore, we discuss how this tension has important implications for research and practice.

Inter-agency collaboration plays a central role in contemporary Swedish welfare provision and access to social security for citizens that are long-term unemployed and suffer from ill health. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's theorisation on the 'politics of needs interpretation', this article examines how needs and rights are interpreted and contested in inter-agency meetings involving local representatives from national, regional and municipal Swedish welfare agencies. Contextualised against social security reforms that put emphasis on the limitation of access and a 'work-first' approach, the article suggests that localised inter-agency meetings of this nature are arenas where perceived injustices are symbolically elaborated and challenged 'from within' welfare organisations. Although discourses emphasising self-sufficiency and the importance of work tend to act as depoliticising and normalising, the way they are implemented in practice is not passively accepted by front-line professionals, who question interpretive justifications, as well as harmful consequences for individuals.

Nakamura reviews 'Anticompetitive Practices in Japan: Their Impact on the Performance of Foreign Firms' by Masaaki Kotabe and Kent W. Wheiler.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the effective mechanisms and positive experience of the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi State University of Education in the formation of social competences and the development of soft skills, which demonstrates the productivity of educational, scientific and cultural support of social processes in regional contexts, which affect the integration of participants in the educational process, teachers and students in the development of public movement to solve the difficulties and main problems of ethnic communities in the conditions of temporary occupation and war. The participation of the university in the implementation of such international projects of the Council of Europe "Intercultural cities" with the involvement of journalists, representatives of national and cultural communities "Implementation and involvement of cultural diversity at the international level" (2020, Melitopol, Ballarat, Australia), "Fighting rumors" (2021 year) in order to prevent fears, discrimination, as well as foster a sense of respect, mutual understanding, responsibility for one's own actions, contribute to the successful management of cultural diversity and expand the circle of international relations. It is asserted that within the framework of the implementation of the current Council of Europe Project "Strengthening the protection of national minorities, including Roma and minority languages in Ukraine" under the leadership of Zemfira Kondur, the scientific and pedagogical community of the universi ty is making maximum efforts to expand effective channels of mutual assistance for representatives of ethnic communities, internally displaced persons or forced migrants by implementing a number of initiatives regarding social, informational, legal, psychological, and humanitarian support aimed at strengthening dialogue, increasing the level of cohesion and intercultural interaction in the conditions of Russian aggression and temporary occupation.

The article discusses the difference between victimization tension in a multicultural and multicultural society. The authors determine a characteristic of the current state of development of society and indicate the consequences of transition, globalization and geopolitical changes. The problems of education arising in a multicultural environment are highlighted. The analysis of the effectiveness of using the restorative approach of school mediation services in Russia and abroad is presented. The article provides an analysis of victimization of Russian society, which determines the main zones of victimization arising as a result of geopolitical and migration processes. Six main territories that are vulnerable from the point of view of the emergence of a multicultural environment were identified. Communities with victim motivational and fundamental characteristics aimed at preserving identity without the exchange of cultural patterns are described. It is indicated that for educational purposes in territories with multicultural tendencies, the educational type of mediation is the most interesting

AbstractIn the present study, we discuss how social network analysis approach can be fruitful exploited to study social support within family studies. An ego-centred network approach is adopted within a case study about social support networks of low income single mothers living in a city of southern Italy. We address three main issues. First, we aim to describe and explore the structure of social relationships that single mothers activate in order to obtain different kind of supports. Second, we investigate the main factors that affect the amount and variety of resources embedded in the single mothers' support networks. Third, we analyse the relationship between the received social support embedded in the ego network and the support perceived by mothers. Beyond the description of composition and structure of ego-centred networks through network measures and factorial methods, a series of regression models was estimated to assess factors explaining received and perceived support of single mothers.

"Que sentido os textos informativos têm para os neoleitores egressos do AlfaSol?" é um projeto de pesquisa-ação que tem por objetivo exercitar a leitura dos adultos recém-alfabetizados em situações concretas da vida cotidiana. O projeto se apóia em consultas bibliográficas e realização de oficinas de leitura na Comunidade do Dendê, utilizando material informativo sobre integração social, exercício da cidadania, cuidados com a saúde, conservação do meio ambiente e melhoria da qualidade de vida das pessoas. Atende a necessidades específicas da população, segundo a Lei de Responsabilidade Social que levou as empresas privadas a atuarem em parceria com o Estado. Foram realizadas visitas à Comunidade do Dendê e feitos contatos com os líderes locais. Essas visitas tinham por objetivo apresentar e discutir com os líderes a viabilidade do projeto e selecionar o local mais adequado para funcionamento das oficinas de leitura. As pessoas da Comunidade do Dendê vêm recebendo uma grande contribuição no sentido de aperfeiçoar as técnicas de leitura, interpretar textos com informações úteis, criar o hábito de ler entre os adultos egressos dos programas de alfabetização, ler conjuntamente com os familiares, amigos e vizinhos, exercitando-se todos para uma convivência harmônica e solidária, em busca de soluções aos problemas atuais que afetam toda a coletividade ; "What kind of meaning do the informative texts bring to the AlfaSol neo-readers?" It's an action-research project which aims to practice the new literates' reading skills through real daily life situations. The project is based on bibliographic research and the development of workshops in reading in the Community of Dendê using texts on social integration, citizenry practice, health care, environment protection and improvement of people's life quality. The project focuses on the community's needs, according to the Law of Social Responsibility which led partnerships between private enterprises and the state government. Visits to the Community of the Dendê had been carried and contacts made with the local leaders. These visits had for objective to present and to argue with the leaders about the viability of the project and to select the place most adequate for the functioning the reading workshops. The people of the Community of Dendê is receiving a great contribution in the direction to perfect the reading techniques, to interpret texts with useful information, to create the habit to read with adult egresses of the literacy programs, to read jointly with familiar, the friends and neighbors, being exercised themselves all for a harmonic and solidarity life, in brainstorming to the current problems that affect all the collective ; «Que senti les textes informatifs ont pour neolécteurs sorties de l'AlfaSol?» c'est un projet de recherche-action qui a l'objectif d'exercer la lecture des adultes récent-alphabétisés dans des situations concrètes de la vie quotidienne. Le projet si basé à des consultations bibliographiques et à réalisation d'ateliers de lecture dans la Communauté du Dendê, en utilisant matériel informatif sur l'intégration sociale, l'exercice de la citoyenneté, des soins avec la santé, la conservation de l'environnement et l'amélioration de la qualité de vie des personnes. Il fait attention à des nécessités spécifiques de la population, selon la Loi de Responsabilité Sociale qui a amené les sociétés privées à agir dans partenariat avec l'État. Des visites à la Communauté du Dendê ont été réalisées et des contacts avec les chefs locaux ont été faits. Ces visites avaient l'objectif de présenter et discuter avec les chefs la viabilité du projet et sélectionner le lieu le plus approprié pour le fonctionnement des ateliers de lecture. Les personnes de la Communauté du Dendê viennent en recevant une grande contribution dans le but de perfectionner les techniques de lecture, interpréter des textes avec des informations utiles, créer l'habitude de lire avec les adultes sorties des programmes d'alphabétisation, lire communément avec les parents, amis et voisins, en s'exerçant tous pour une convive harmonique et solidaire, à la recherche de solutions aux problèmes actuels qui touchent toute la collectivité

AbstractIn this paper we review the sociological literature on peer aggression among adolescents and demonstrate how it can form the basis of a new subfield in sociology on the subject of bullying. Although sociologists have mostly avoided the term bullying in classic works on adolescent aggression, these studies suggest that institutional social control, status hierarchies and social inequalities provide important social context for youth aggression. While historically they have not been in dialog with each other, when taken together sociological research on youth status relations and social networks, systemic bias, school culture and social ecology can lay the foundation of a sociology of bullying. We suggest that if sociologists see this work as shedding light on issues of bullying, they can begin to play a larger role in the shaping of the national conversation on bullying and influence anti‐bullying programs in schools to take better account of the social dimensions of bullying.

In this article, we develop and test a new approach to explain the link between social factors and individual offending. We argue that seemingly disparate family, peer, and community conditions lead to crime because the lessons communicated by these events are similar and promote social schemas involving a hostile view of people and relationships, a preference for immediate rewards, and a cynical view of conventional norms. Furthermore, we posit that these three schemas are interconnected and combine to form a criminogenic knowledge structure that results in situational interpretations legitimating criminal behavior. Structural equation modeling with a sample of roughly 700 African American teens provided strong support for the model. The findings indicated that persistent exposure to adverse conditions such as community crime, discrimination, harsh parenting, deviant peers, and low neighborhood collective efficacy increased commitment to the three social schemas. The three schemas were highly intercorrelated and combined to form a latent construct that strongly predicted increases in crime. Furthermore, in large measure, the effect of the various adverse conditions on increases in crime was indirect through their impact on this latent construct. We discuss the extent to which the social‐schematic model presented in this article might be used to integrate concepts and findings from several major theories of criminal behavior.

The theme of social inclusion can not be address in sociology without initially considering the definition of the concept of citizenship as formulated by Alfred Marshall. Given this introduction, duly argued philologically, Ralph Dahrendorf's contribution is considered. The latter makes Marshall's definition operational in terms of «subjective rights». Four categories of request for inclusion are thereby identified. Two are endogenous: a) through loss of inclusion; b) through risk of exclusion. Two are exogenous: c) through migration dynamics; d) through cultural change. These four types are considered in light of the work of Amartya Sen and Lawrence Friedman, with particular consequentialist attention (in the sense of Weber's «ethics of responsibility») to the repercussions that inclusion programs determine within institutional and noninstitutional areas of reference. The article's layout is also inspired by the principle of Weber's «technical critique of values». The question is: which sociocultural «costs» involve specific and different social policies of «inclusion»?