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In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?

Jugendliche mit Hauptschulhintergrund haben große Schwierigkeiten beim Übergang von der Schule in die Arbeitswelt. Während verschiedene Studien diese objektive Betroffenheit immer wieder bestätigen, weiß man nur sehr wenig darüber, was sie selbst über Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit denken oder wissen und wie sie hierzu fühlen. Mit welchen Vorstellungen versuchen diese formal gering gebildeten Jugendlichen in die Arbeitswelt einzutreten? Carolin Kölzers qualitative Studie nimmt Bezug zur fachdidaktischen Vorstellungsforschung in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Domäne und berücksichtigt insbesondere die emotionalen Aspekte und die subjektive Betroffenheit der Jugendlichen. What do lower secondary school students think about work and unemployment - and how do they try to enter the working world? Rezension Besprochen in: www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 9 (2014), Dieter Bach Reihe Gesellschaft der Unterschiede - Band 21.

This article reviews rehabilitation programs in Barcelona, focusing on aspects such as the intervention model, actual public investment, and results. Programs of this type are not exclusive to Barcelona; however, similar examples can be found in other European cities, especially where European Union (EU) funding is present. After analyzing these models, we reached a series of general conclusions that may be of interest. Thus, an eminently practical and reflective analysis is presented, aimed at technicians and those responsible for the design of intervention policies in urban regeneration. Rehabilitation programs are increasingly focused on vulnerable settings, and in this context, the participation and service function of public administrations are particularly relevant. The general model for rehabilitation subsidies rarely takes into account the specific characteristics of disadvantaged urban settings, as the article will show. After analyzing the different policies presented in this research, we identified two essential requirements: detailed knowledge of the affected neighborhood, and ongoing evaluation of the development of programs—beyond simple management indicators—so negative effects can be corrected in time such as gentrification, real estate speculation, and other by-products that the intervention itself can promote. This study confirms that not all public investments have the expected results. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)

Research for indigenous, peasant, and urban poor activism : capital, dispossession, and exploitation in the Americas and Asia / Dip Kapoor and Steven Jordan -- The MST and research with and for landless peasant-worker struggles in Brazil / Alessandro Mariano and Rebecca Tarlau -- Critical oral histories and the pedagogies of dispossession and resistance in Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement / David Meek -- Participatory research for social change in mining and agribusiness settings in Colombia / Irene Vélez-Torres -- Anticolonial Participatory Action Research (APAR) in Adivasi-Dalit forest dweller and small peasant contexts of dispossession and struggle in India / Dip Kapoor -- Conservation and palm oil dispossession in Sumatra and Sulawesi : Third-Worldist Participatory Action Research, indigenous and small peasant resistance, and organized activisms / Hasriadi Masalam -- Participatory Action Research (PAR), local knowledge, and peasant assertions in Southwestern Bangladesh : taking back the river in contexts of NGO-led development dispossession / Bijoy P. Barua -- Grassroots-oriented research as political engagement for social justice : exposing corporate mining in indigenous contexts in the Philippines / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern -- Countering dispossession through cooperativization? Waste-picker ethnography, activism, and the state in Buenos Aires and Montevideo / Patrick O'Hare and Santiago Sorroche -- Historians, guerrilla history, and class struggle in Argentina / Pablo Pozzi -- Public sociology and scholar-activism in the US-Filipino labor diaspora / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez -- The Bhopal struggle and neoliberal restructuring : research, political engagement, and the urban poor / Eurig Scandrett and Shalini Sharma -- Praxis-oriented research for the building of grounded transnational marriage migrant movements in Asia / Hsiao-Chuan Hsia.

This research was conducted to describe the Implementation Policy for Issuance of Building Construction Permits in Donggala District whether it was in accordance with the expectations to be achieved based on the facts and facts in the field. By using a qualitative descriptive research method and based on the theory of Van Meter and Van Horn, the results obtained from the standard aspects and policy objectives already have Regional Regulations and Regents Regulations and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) as guidelines for implementation. From the aspect of resources not yet optimal where there is still a lack of competent human resources and facilities and infrastructure in its operations. From the aspect of implementation activities carried out socialization by both the Investment and One-Stop Services and the PUPR Office by coordinating with other relevant agencies. From the characteristic aspects of implementing agents, they have a commitment and responsibility for their respective functions. From the social, economic and political aspects in general it has not fully supported the implementation of the policy. And from the disposition aspect where the trend of the implementor is not optimal where the response and understanding of the agent of the implementor is not maximal. In general, the implementation of the issuance policy has not been maximized because several aspects studied have not been optimal in its implementation. The six aspects studied are related to each other and cannot be separated so that to maximize the implementation of a policy all aspects must be in line. It is expected that theoretically this research can contribute to development. Where the results of this study are expected to provide feedback to the Donggala District Government along with related elements, so that the Donggala District Government and various parties, both researchers from universities, DPRDs, community leaders, NGOs, and Entrepreneurs are looking for the policy format needed to become a reference government activities in the service of issuing building permits that are more efficient, responsive and accountable.

For most people living in rural India having access and control over land is crucial for their livelihood, more so in the case of tribals. This article analyses the nature of the customary land-tenure system in some districts of Jharkhand and Meghalaya and their impact on livelihood patterns, food security and poverty. Based on both secondary and primary data, the article seeks to examine the nature of the customary land-tenure systems in selected scheduled areas; specifically identifying the status of locals versus non-locals in managing land resources and analysing the extent to which women have been able to secure land rights under customary laws. The article concludes that though there are both positive and negative aspects to community and individual ownership of agricultural land, but on the whole the prevailing system does not helping in bettering the conditions of disadvantaged communities.

Gendered segregation of lifestyle issues is of central importance in identifying gender-linked priorities of health education being followed in various schools with different economic-cultural settings. Therefore, this study has examined gender differences in multiple aspects of an adolescent's lifestyle, including dietary habits, food consumption, sleep, sports, games, physical activity, sedentary and leisure patterns through an anonymous lifestyle survey. The survey questioned 1,500 Indian school-going adolescents from 18 schools located in various rural, urban and metro areas of the country. The results indicated that female adolescents in rural schools had the least positive dietary habits, and had a limited engagement in sports or games while male school-going adolescents fared less favourably in cultural activities. Urban and metro-urban female school going adolescents reported a greater engagement in sedentary activities than their rural counterparts. Such trends would suggest a crucial need to design and implement gender-sensitive health education.

AbstractThis study examined the role of attitudes against bullying and perceived peer pressure for intervention in explaining defending the victim and passive bystanding behavior in bullying. Participants were 1031 school‐age children from two culturally diverse settings, namely Italy and Singapore, which are similar on several dimensions (e.g., quality of life, child welfare) but dramatically differ on other aspects, such as individualism—collectivism orientation. Multilevel analyses showed that country and participants' gender moderated the relations between individual predictors and behavior during bullying episodes. In particular, although individual attitudes were a stronger predictor of Italian students'—especially girls'—behavior, perceived peer expectations were more strongly associated with behavior of Singaporean participants. This study contributes to the literature by being the first to provide data analyzing the association between defending and passive bystanding behavior and different correlates using a cross‐cultural approach.

Development projects that involve displacement are currently a cause of growing concern everywhere. The worrisome aspect is that it is the poor who are hurt most in the process, becoming poorer than before. This paper, based on the author's experiences with people-displacing projects in Orissa, provides a vivid first hand account of sufferings of those who lose their lands and are forced to relocate. The consequences of displacement are particularly dire for tribal people, as they are deeply attached to their ancestral lands and find it virtually impossible to readjust in resettlement colonies thoughtlessly planned with no regard to their socio-cultural needs. As displacement, stimulated by the new industrial policy, is henceforth going to occur on an even bigger scale than before, it is important that resettlement and rehabilitation packages are so designed that they improve the lives, not impoverish the already poor people.

AbstractThe unique contributions of peer acceptance, friendship, and victimization to adjustment were examined. How these relational systems moderate the influence of one another to influence adjustment was also investigated. Friendship quality, a unique aspect of friendship, was expected to be especially important for adjustment when other relational systems were poor. A total of 238 fifth to eighth graders (boys = 109) participated in the survey‐style paradigm. Youth participants completed measures assessing their friendships and peer relationships. Teachers provided assessments of adjustment. Adolescents who had lower levels of peer acceptance, number of friends, and friendship quality had greater teacher‐reported maladjustment. Friendship quality was also an important buffer against adjustment problems when peer acceptance and number of friends were low. The outcomes of this article suggest that an approach that includes examining the quality of adolescents' friendships, peer interactions, and interactive models of relationship dimensions are informative for understanding adolescents' general adjustment.

Not since the 1960s have U.S. politicians, Republican or Democrat, campaigned on platforms defending big government, much less the use of regulation to help solve social ills. And since the late 1970s, "deregulation" has become perhaps the most ubiquitous political catchword of all. This book takes on the critics of government regulation. Providing the first major alternative to conventional arguments grounded in public choice theory, it demonstrates that regulatory government can, and on important occasions does, advance general interests. Unlike previous accounts, Regulation and Public Inter