The tide that failed to rise: young people's politics and social values in and after the Arab uprisings
In: Mediterranean politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-25
ISSN: 1354-2982, 1362-9395
In: Mediterranean politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-25
ISSN: 1354-2982, 1362-9395
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In: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
In: Springer eBooks
In: Social Sciences
In: Social and critical theory, v. 10
The closely interrelated essays in this volume address the question of the internal dynamism of the high culture of modernity in its paradoxical constitution as the complementary unity of strict opposites: the sciences (philosophy included) and the arts. Special attention is paid to the internal strains of these two great fields in our contemporaneity. It discusses on the one hand the role of experts and, on the other, that of the market in both of these areas . It also deals with the hermeneutical relationship between author - work - recipient and its historical transformations. Although essays deal with the complex philosophical issues, these are discussed in a clear way, approcheable for a person with a broad philosophical interest. They are, however, addressed primarily to philosophers, social scientists, culturologists and aestheticians.
AbstractThis interview to Eduardo Restrepo navigates through Stuart Hall's main contributions to the social sciences, dwelling primarily on the most provocative aspects of his thinking. It begins by posing the radical contextualism of cultural studies, the issue of reasoning without guarantees and how it allows us to review the notions of essentialism and antiessentialism. Finally, it discusses the academy and its relationship with the popular, social theory and politics. In this exploration, Restrepo seeks to annoy and incite the public to rethink and update Hall's legacy. ; Esta entrevista con Eduardo Restrepo navega por las contribuciones principales de Stuart Hall para las ciencias sociales, deteniéndose fundamentalmente en los aspectos más provocadores de su pensamiento. La misma comienza planteando el contextualismo radical propio de los estudios culturales, la cuestión de la falta de garantías para razonar y cómo ésta permite revisar las nociones de esencialismo y antiesencialismo. Finalmente, discute sobre la academia y sus relaciones con lo popular, la teoría social y la política. En ese recorrido, Restrepo se ocupa de incomodar e incitar al público a repensar y actualizar el legado de Hall.AbstractThis interview to Eduardo Restrepo navigates through Stuart Hall's main contributions to the social sciences, dwelling primarily on the most provocative aspects of his thinking. It begins by posing the radical contextualism of cultural studies, the issue of reasoning without guarantees and how it allows us to review the notions of essentialism and antiessentialism. Finally, it discusses the academy and its relationship with the popular, social theory and politics. In this exploration, Restrepo seeks to annoy and incite the public to rethink and update Hall's legacy.
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Anders Johan W Andersen,1,2 Tommy Svensson31Department of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Norway; 2Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden; 3Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenBackground: The Internet has enlarged the possibilities of human communication and opened new ways of exploring perceptions of mental health. This study is part of a research project aiming to explore, describe, and analyze different discourses of mental health in Norway and Sweden, using material from Internet-based services.Aim: To examine messages posed by users of publicly available question-and-answer services and to describe their content.Methods: A Web search was used to identify Norwegian and Swedish Websites offering mental health services by email or posted messages. A total of 601 messages from 20 services, 10 Norwegian and 10 Swedish, were analyzed by means of qualitative content analysis and further interpreted in light of the social theory of recognition by Honneth.Results: Eight categories emerged from the analysis: family life, couples, others, violence, the ungovernable, self-image, negotiating normality, and life struggles. These categories were then grouped into three themes: (1) relationship to significant others, (2) relationship to self, and (3) relationship to the social community. The themes promoted an understanding of mental health as closely connected to political and social factors.Conclusions: The results showed a variety of concerns from various parts of life and empowered the view that mental health should be understood broadly, at a conceptual level. Mental health emerged as a deeply relational concept that emphasized the equal distribution of chances in life. It strengthened the moral grammar of social inclusion and the acceptance of plurality in social life.Keywords: Internet-based services, mental health, public health, social theory
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In: Critical studies of men and masculinities
Young Working Class Men in Transition uses a unique blend of concepts from the sociologies of youth and masculinity combined with Bourdieusian social theory to investigate British young working-class men's transition to adulthood. Indeed, utilising data from biographical interviews as well as an ethnographic observation of social media activity, this volume provides novel insights by following young men across a seven-year time period. Against the grain of prominent popular discourses that position young working-class men as in 'crisis' or as adhering to negative forms of traditional masculinity, this book consequently documents subtle yet positive shifts in the performance of masculinity among this generation.
Integrar, it comes from Latin, to renew, complete and in its first sense in agreement with the Royal Spanish Academy 'Complete a whole with the missing parts.' This would be called the integrated balance sheet which supplements the so-called financial economic balance with this 'missing information', corresponding to the socio-economic performance of the entity. Based on this definition, the objective is to locate and analyse the socio-environmental information included in the financial or traditional accounting statements and vice versa, through empirical research into the entities that are part of the Merval Index as of November 2016 and issue Social Balances under GRI G4 regulations for the period 2015. If that is the case, it must be established that they correspond and how they are presented. Specifically, we look for the relationship between the items in the statement of results of the economic and financial balance sheets and three indicators in the GRI G4 guide in the field of staff capitalisation. From the critical analysis of the results achieved, we conclude that although there is information that could be provided in an integrated and non-repetitive form, such integration has not yet taken place. Faculty of Economics ; To integrate, it comes from the Latin to renew, to complete and in its first meaning according to the Real Academia Española implies "To complete a whole with the parts that were missing." Therefore, we speak of integrated reports when we complete the denominated financial economic balance with that "mising information", that correspond to the socio-environmental performance of the entity. Based on this definition, the objective of this article is to determinate and analyze the socio-environmental information included in the financial or traditional financial statements and vice versa, through an empirical investigation of entities that are part of the Merval Index as to November 2016 and have issued Social balances under the GRI G4 for the 2015 period. Therefore, the information will ...
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Social psychological theory hypothesizes that one's identity, self-definitions, and meanings used for a particular social role fosters individual purpose in life and affects behavior in specific social situations. As such, it can be protective against the onset of psychological disorders. We examined this hypothesis with data collected from 1,730 military veterans recruited to study the health effects of warzone deployments. The sample was primarily male, older, and White. Our key independent variable was a Likert scale rating the prominence of a respondent's veteran identity: how important it is to the person. Outcome variables included posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicide ideation, depression, alcohol misuse, and use of VA services. Bivariate analysis suggested that veterans with a prominent veteran identity are older, noncollege graduates, have less income, and had their first deployment to Vietnam. In multivariate analyses, study participants with a prominent veteran identity were less likely to exhibit suicide ideation, but more likely to misuse alcohol and use VA services. We found no differences for PTSD, self-rated health, or depression by veteran identity. Veterans who scored higher on the veteran identity scale appeared to be protected from suicidal thoughts, although they had an elevated risk for alcohol misuse.
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SUMMARY Background: Number of foreign children arriving to Ireland unaccompanied or separated from their parents or guardians have been growing during the last decade. Separated children are in state care and their care is organised through social services. Ireland has renewed its social care services within the past years and has set standards for the quality on child care and residential child care. Through 2000's separated children have been highlighted in the media, they have been on cover page news especially underpinning their living conditions and access to services Purpose of this research was to find out whether the Irish social service system responds adequately to the needs of separated children entitled to state care services. The Key research question was: Do separated children enjoy services and protection they are entitled as children or are they excluded from the collective services, i.e. are they considered as members of the Irish society with all rights of the Irish children? Theoretical approach of the study was to view the question from the aspect of poverty and social exclusion and inclusion, adopting the club theory. Research materials include 37 articles from 5 leading Irish newspapers between years 2000 and 2008, and a set of legislative documents as well as official statistical data in Ireland. For the analysis of the data I used qualitative methods: thematic qualitative content analysis alongside with methodological triangulation. The results of the research showed that based on the newspaper texts analysed and compared with the official standards and guidelines separated children seem not to receive equal services with the Irish children. This indicates that the Irish state is operating a two-tier child care services as they are offering services to separated children that are not in line with the national legislation and standards and international standards and agreements ratified by the Irish government. Conclusions: To develop the services for separated children there is a serious need to improve procedures to follow the current legislation and standards. Key words: Separated children, unaccompanied minors, child care, poverty, migration, asylum seeking, social exclusion, thematic qualitative content analysis, methodological triangulation. TIIVISTELMÄ: Tutkimuksen taustaa: Viime vuosikymmenellä ilman huoltajaa maahan tulleiden turvapaikkaa vailla olevien maahanmuuttajalasten määrä Irlannissa on kasvanut voimakkaasti. Alaikäiset yksin maahan tulleet ovat sosiaaliviranomaisten hoidossa ja vastuulla. Irlannin lastensuojelu- ja sosiaalipalvelut ovat uudistuneet viime vuosina. Oman kodin ulkopuolelle sijoitettujen lasten hoidosta, huolenpidosta ja niiden laadusta on otettu käyttöön kansainväliset ja valtakunnalliset ohjeet. 2000-luvulla turvapaikkaa vailla olevat maahanmuuttajalapset ovat olleet näkyvästi mediassa, missä heidän elinoloihinsa ja palvelujen saatavuuteen on kiinnitetty huomiota. Tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli selvittää vastaako irlantilainen lastensuojelu- ja sosiaalipalvelujärjestelmä turvapaikkaa vailla olevien maahanmuuttajalasten tarpeisiin. Avainkysymys tutkimuksessa oli: Kohdellaanko turvapaikkaa vailla olevia ja ilman huoltajaa maahan tulleita lapsia samanarvoisesti kuin irlantilaisia lapsia lastensuojelu- ja sosiaalipalveluissa? Ovatko he yhteiskunnassa samanarvoisessa asemassa irlantilaisten lasten kanssa ja onko heillä yhtäläiset oikeudet ja mahdollisuuudet irlantilaisessa yhteiskunnassa? Teoreettinen lähestyminen sovelsi näkökulmaa, jossa club-teorian kautta tarkasteltiin tutkittavana olevan lapsiryhmän köyhyyttä ja erityisesti sosiaalisesta yhteisöstä eristämistä tai siihen liittämistä. Tutkimusaineistona oli 37 lehtiartikkelia viidestä johtavasta irlantilaisesta sanomalehdestä vuosilta 2000-2008, kansainvälisiä ja valtakunnallisia sopimuksia, ohjeita ja tilastoja lastensuojelusta sekä lastensuojelulainsäädäntöä. Analysoin aineistoa kvalitatiivisella otteella käyttämällä analyysimetodina temaattista sisällönanalyysia sekä soveltamalla metodologista triangulaatiota. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittivat, että perustuen lehtiartikkeleista saatuun tietoon, turvapaikkaa vailla olevat alaikäiset ilman huoltajaa maahan tulleet lapset eivät näytä saavan valtakunnallisten sekä kansainvälisten sopimusten ja ohjeistusten tai lainsäädännön mukaista hoivaa ja huolenpitoa. Tämä viittaa siihen, että lastensuojelun näkökulmasta irlantilainen lastensuojelu- ja sosiaalipalvelujärjestelmä kohtelee turvapaikkaa vailla olevia alaikäisiä maahanmuuttajia eriarvoisesti verrattuna irlantilaisiin lapsiin. Ratkaisuna tutkimuksessa ilmenneeseen epäkohtaan tulisi turvapaikkaa vailla olevien maahanmuuttajalasten hoidon ja huolenpidon taso nostaa vastaamaan vallitsevan lainsäädännön, sopimusten ja ohjeistusten tarkoittamaa tasoa. Avainsanat: Ilman huoltajaa maahan tulleet lapset, turvapaikkaa vailla oleva maahanmuuttajalapsi, lastensuojelu, maahanmuutto, yhteiskunnallinen jäsenyys, temaattinen ja kvalitatiivinen sisällönanalyysi, metodologinen triangulaatio.
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In: Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture
"Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways mental illness can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for mental health and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality. Exploring the rise of ambient-that is to say, ubiquitous, surrounding, and environmental-technologies and their impact on our understanding of health, sanity, and therapy, this book critically examines the work of influential contemporary social theorists such as Hartmut Rosa, and investigates case studies that reveal new modes of digitally mediated intimacy and attention, such as ASMR and QAnon. It also poses the question of what "mental health" and "mental illness" mean for subjects increasingly faced with a maddening sense of interconnectedness. This book offers new perspectives for cultural studies academics and postgraduates interested in critical discussions of alienation, digital technology, and contemporary social theory"--
The Act Concerning Support and Services to Persons with Certain Functional Impairments, in which the provision of personal assistance (PA) is included, came into force in 1994. It paved the way for strengthened rights for people with disabilities, in which the overall intention was to give disabled people equal opportunities and enable full participation in society. This thesis explores adolescents' and social workers' perspectives on and experiences of personal assistance. The overall aim of this research was to gain empirical knowledge and a deeper understanding of young assistance users' experiences of living with PA and the social workers' experience of assessing children's right to PA and other LSS interventions. In paper I, a grounded theory (GT) analysis showed that the adolescents' main concern was to achieve normality, which was about doing rather than being normal. The findings underline and discuss the interconnectedness between the different enabling strategies adopted by the adolescents, and to a lesser extent discuss disabling barriers for which PA cannot compensate. In paper II the adolescents describe their experiences of the assessment process which precedes possible access to PA. The content analysis reveals that the adolescents' participation was determined by the structure of the meetings, in which the assessments tools played a decisive part. The adolescents adapted their behaviour in response. Paper III is based on a phenomenological approach to social workers' responses to children and young peoples' ability to participate in meetings and decision making concerning their own support interventions. It reveals difficulties in grasping what participation should be and result in. In paper IV, a GT study, the emerging theory explains how case workers tried to maintain their professional integrity by adopting various strategies. The synthesis of the four studies has resulted in a clarification of how the individual, organizational and societal levels interact through legislation and policy documents, meetings and norms to create certain processes and interactions between the different stakeholders. However, further research is necessary to explore the long-term effects of the current changes to Swedish LSS-legislation regarding both the professional conduct of the case workers responsible for assessing LSS interventions and the consequences of such decisions for assistance users and their families.
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The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.
This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new comprehensive approaches to human security as preventative and empowering to individuals, and it provides conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for enhancing the processes of communicating peace.
In: Praxis international: a philosophical journal, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 34-51
ISSN: 0260-8448
Jurgen Habermas's Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns ([Theory of Communicative Action] 2 vols, Frankfurt: 1981 [for abstract of English translations, see IRPS No. 41/88c00922 & 88c00923]), is critically examined, challenging especially the claim that it is a self-contained & internally consistent unified whole. Specifically, the idea that the theory of communicative action automatically leads to the dualism between life-world & system is called into question. Habermas's stress on rationalization processes is said to originate in the same pressures as fundamentalism's attention to the same. In Collective Action vs. Functionalism?: Some Remarks concerning Hans Joas's Critique, Thomas Saretzki defends Habermas's work as an attempt to clarify the foundations of social theory rather than the metatheoretical work criticized by Joas. An alternative reading of Habermas's two-level concept of society is contrasted with Joas's interpretation. A. Waters
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 153-175
ISSN: 1467-9221
In three surveys of adults in five nations, we investigated how shared beliefs about the political system motivate individuals' political engagement. Specifically, we tested whether individuals' beliefs that the political context is fair, noncorrupt, and their belief that they could influence politics motivates political engagement to a higher extent for higher‐ compared to lower‐status group members. In a novel use of social dominance theory, we theoretically conceived of these political beliefs as legitimizing ideologies, so that we predicted that people with higher social dominance orientation endorse these beliefs, which in turn enhance the motivation to engage in politics to support current social hierarchical systems. Moreover, we expected that these relationships would be stronger for higher‐ compared to lower‐status groups. These hypotheses were tested considering different levels of group status: wealth status within a country (Study 1), political‐regional differences within a country (Study 2), and international status (i.e., between countries; Study 3), and they were largely supported.