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The paper presents an active model of a social program and discusses its strategic advantage. The analyses made are based on a study of the experience of the Republic of Bulgaria in the transition period and afterward. Active social policies are considered and a methodology of development of an active social program is concerned examining characteristics of an active social program of human development and the components of the mechanism of social program activation.

This paper explores the growing concerns with computer science research, and in particular, computer security research and its relationship with the committees that review human subjects research. It offers cases that review boards are likely to confront, and provides a context for appropriate consideration of such research, as issues of bots, clouds, and worms enter the discourse of human subjects review.

AbstractOnline science communities can serve as powerful platforms for advancing scientific knowledge, capacity, and outreach by increasing collaboration and information sharing among geographically distant peers, practitioners, and the public. Here, we examine the value and role of the Early Career Climate Forum (ECCF), a climate-focused online science community that is based in the United States and is dedicated to training and providing support to the next generation of climate scientists. In a survey of community users and contributors, we find that the ECCF played a unique role in providing users access to career resources as well as climate-related research and insights. Respondents also indicated that the ECCF provides them with a strong sense of community and a sense of hope for the future of climate science research. These findings highlight the importance of online science communities in shaping and supporting the next generation of scientists and practitioners working at the science–management interface on climate change issues.

There has been a lack of theorisation and conceptualisation of vandalism and anti-social behaviour in criminology in the decades following Cohen's seminal typology of vandalism in the 1970s. This important book forwards a new typology of vandalism, one that addresses the various challenges of the late modern world, rather than the older industrial world Cohen addressed. Matt Long and Roger Hopkins Burke analyse the various types of vandalism and anti-social behaviour conducted by individuals. However, they highlight that individuals are not always the locus of blame - the state also has the capacity to act in a profoundly anti-social way. Crucially, Long and Hopkins Burke argue that in order to fully understand vandalism and anti-social behaviour, a culturally criminological perspective should be fostered. This is a perspective which accounts for both the emotional and experiential aspects of crime as well as its broader social and political contexts.

RÉSUMÉ Le changement social en Chine depuis trente ans bouleverse profondément le pays et engendre de nouveaux défis. La double transition, conjuguant postcommunisme et modernisation, fait émerger des enjeux sans précédent, complexes et entrecroisés. Dans ce contexte, l'apparition de nouveaux acteurs et mouvements sociaux offre un champ d'observation pour l'avenir de cette transition, qui est une nouvelle étape de la construction de la modernité en Chine.

At a time of growing economic and social inequality in China, there is a tendency to invoke education as a great leveller but that rose-tinted view fails to take cognisance of the role of entrenched vested interests which are in fact nurturing educational disparities precisely because education helps to perpetuate them. Current arrangements in education in China can thus hardly help achieve or promote a harmonious society.(China Perspect/GIGA)

Géographie sociale : la dénomination est née, après maintes vicissitudes, de la volonté de penser et d'appréhender les relations entre phénomènes spatiaux et phénomènes sociaux. La réflexion sur la nature de ces relations, leur dynamique, la recherche méthodologique à appliquer, a bénéficié du double effet de révolution de la société et de la reconnaissance scientifique d'une nécessaire interdisciplinarité. Mais le mouvement ainsi crée est loin d'être achevé.

L'intégration économique suppose l'ouverture. L'ouverture induit la volatilité. La volatilité nourrit l'insécurité. L'insécurité appelle la protection. La question qui se trouve au coeur de la mondialisation, aujourd'hui comme hier, est celle de savoir comment répondre à la demande de protection des citoyens confrontés à l'insécurité économique et sociale née de l'intégration économique. La mission première d'un Etat-nation est, de fait, de protéger sa population (.).

L'intégration économique suppose l'ouverture. L'ouverture induit la volatilité. La volatilité nourrit l'insécurité. L'insécurité appelle la protection. La question qui se trouve au coeur de la mondialisation, aujourd'hui comme hier, est celle de savoir comment répondre à la demande de protection des citoyens confrontés à l'insécurité économique et sociale née de l'intégration économique. La mission première d'un Etat-nation est, de fait, de protéger sa population (.).