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McLean, Jessica Emma, and Sara Fuller. "Action with(out) activism: understanding digital climate change action." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 36, no. 9/10 (September 12, 2016): 578–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-12-2015-0136.
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Purpose A recent mainstream intervention in Australia involved the creation of a climate change communication institution, the Climate Council, from crowdfunding and support in social media. Such digital action invites further examination of supporters’ motivations. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reported intentions and interests of the Climate Council’s supporters to gain a better understanding of mainstream climate change action in digital spaces. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on a survey that was undertaken by the Climate Council with their Founding Friends that sought to understand their motivations for supporting the institution. The survey received over 10,000 responses. From four selected questions, the paper considers all of the quantitative responses while a random sample of 100 responses was taken from the qualitative data. Findings The data show that most Climate Council supporters were motivated to maintain an institution that communicates the impacts of climate change while a minority desired more political engagement by the institution. The results capture an example of action with limited conscious activism. Originality/value Digital spaces fundamentally need the interconnections between people in order to function, in a similar way to physical spaces. Nonetheless, the power of online action, in all its contradictory forms, should not be overlooked in considering the range of possibilities available to those interested in effecting meaningful social change. Even mainstream interventions, as presented in this paper, that seem to disavow climate change activism on the whole, can nevertheless produce institutional changes that defy national governance shifts.
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Franklin-Lyons, Adam. "Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia." Continuity and Change 38, no. 1 (April 28, 2023): 31–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416023000085.
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AbstractIn the fourteenth century, the urban council of Valencia tried to balance maintaining the secrecy of their government with a perceived need to publicise their actions. The council knew from experience that information vacuums could be dangerous. Feuds between noble groups made the urban council wary of the secret actions of council members. Food shortages and the anti-Jewish riots in 1391 also pressured the council to project a public face of action to quell urban unrest. In response, the city enacted a performative publicity: a public show of information dissemination concerning the normal operations of government that still occluded the actual discussions of the council.
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Gonçalves, Andréa de Oliveira, João de Abreu Faria Bilhim, Ricardo Borges de Rezende, and Rodrigo de Souza Gonçalves. "Accountability and social control: how the process works." Revista de Contabilidade e Organizações 15 (February 10, 2021): e166382. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-6486.rco.2021.166382.
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Adopting an action research approach, this study presents the findings of an analysis of accountability and social control processes in place between the local government (Municipal Health Office) and the Anápolis-Brazil Municipal Health Council. The different stages of the action research process entailed: observation of plenary meetings, analysis of the composition of the council, a group interview with council members and the training of council members. The main results were the tabling and approval of a resolution defining a template for accountability reports and the drafting of a handbook with guidelines on how to read and analyze accountability reports. Members of the health council were seen to change their views concerning the process of analyzing the reports, the new emphasis being on their quality and on connecting them with the planning information. In the light of Habermas’s perspective, the authors question the role of training and the intention implicit in the guidelines: are they an opportunity for empowerment/liberation or, on the contrary, an instrument of domination and alienation?
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Herrero-Jiménez, Beatriz, and Adolfo Carratalá. "The proceedings of Spanish Audiovisual Councils on discriminatory discourse." Communication & Society 34, no. 4 (October 4, 2021): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.34.4.99-115.
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Mass media, and especially television, are powerful discursive instruments, responsible for the construction of social imagery through ideologically determined content. For this reason, the creation of a regulatory body with authority over the audiovisual sector in countries without one was urged by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2000. Spain is the only EU country without an audiovisual council with authority at the state level. Currently, only the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia (CAC), created in 2000, and the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia (CAA), which dates from 2004, operate in Spain. Within an environment increasingly marked by hate speech, this research analyzes the proceedings of the Andalusian and Catalan Audiovisual Councils between 2004 and 2019 as it pertains to discrimination against vulnerable groups. Every pronouncement made by both councils on potentially discriminatory discourses was retrieved (n=156). These were content analyzed by codifying, among others, the following variables: type of action, the source that motivated it, the disseminating media outlet, the evaluated content, the type of discrimination alleged, the decision taken, and the type of sanction imposed by the councils, as the case may be. The results indicate that most of the actions concerned involve discrimination against women, originate from third-party complaints and target content broadcast on public television.
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Arntzen, Annett, Tormod Bøe, Espen Dahl, Nina Drange, Terje A. Eikemo, Jon Ivar Elstad, Elisabeth Fosse, et al. "29 recommendations to combat social inequalities in health. The Norwegian Council on Social Inequalities in Health." Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 47, no. 6 (August 2019): 598–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494819851364.
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All political parties in Norway agree that social inequalities in health comprise a public health problem and should be reduced. Against this background, the Council on Social Inequalities in Health has taken action to provide specific advice to reduce social health differences. Our recommendations focus on the entire social gradient rather than just poverty and the socially disadvantaged. By proposing action on the social determinants of health such as affordable child-care, education, living environments and income structures, we aim to facilitate a possible re-orientation of policy away from redistribution to universalism. The striking challenges of the causes of health differences are complex, and the 29 recommendations to combat social inequality of health demand cross sectorial actions. The recommendations are listed thematically and have not been prioritized. Some are fundamental and require pronounced changes across sectors, whereas others are minor and sector-specific.
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Twiss, Tom. "Hate Speech In Libraries: How and How Not to Fight It." Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy 4, no. 3 (April 10, 2020): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v4i3.7098.
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This is a revised version of a talk delivered at the ALA 2019 Annual Conference on June 22, 2019, in the discussion group “Hate Speech and Libraries,” sponsored by the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) of ALA. Tom Twiss is co-chair of the International Responsibilities Task Force of SRRT and a member of the SRRT Action Council. Views expressed in this commentary reflect the general position articulated by SRRT Action Council in its August 2018 “Statement on Hate Speech and Libraries.” However, neither this commentary nor the talk on which it was based was endorsed by SRRT or its Action Council.
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GOODFELLOW, R. "KFL&A Council for Action on Tobacco." Tobacco Control 7, no. 3 (September 1, 1998): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.7.3.327.
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Aristama, Ferga, and Fredy Buhama Lumban Tobing. "Foreign policy and science: Switzerland actions to address the climate crisis effects in the arctic through the arctic council." Jurnal Inovasi Ilmu Sosial dan Politik (JISoP) 5, no. 1 (June 9, 2023): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.33474/jisop.v5i1.19746.
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like to have limited social-economy material advantage, Switzerland's action to actively and continuously participate in the Arctic Council is an interesting topic to discuss. Existing literature has captured Switzerland's actions to fight against the climate crisis, yet missed to address why it carried to participate in the Council amidst likely-limited materialistic returns. Deploying Foreign Policy Analysis and Resources Based Theory of Soft Power as an analytical approach and qualitative approach, this study argues that Switzerland's Foreign Policy which specifically emphasizes action in climate protection and global environment is the reason behind its active participation in various global communities, including in the Arctic Council. Interestingly, Switzerland utilizes science as an instrument of diplomacy and constructs its identity as a global science policy advisor in the environmental sector. Thus, the global climate crisis issues have been an opportunity for Switzerland as a small power to enhance its bargaining position in international politics through science as a soft power.
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Cobb, Neil. "Patronising the mentally disordered? Social landlords and the control of ‘anti-social behaviour’ under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995." Legal Studies 26, no. 2 (June 2006): 238–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2006.00013.x.
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The 2004 decision of the Court of Appeal in Manchester City Council v Romano and Samari highlighted the unexpected impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) upon the control of anti-social behaviour by social landlords where that conduct is caused by a mental disorder. This paper positions the legislation against the backdrop of advanced liberal housing policy, and its concern with the management of risk and the fostering of individual responsibility among tenants. In particular, it explores the possible criticism that, by preventing landlords in certain circumstances from taking action against the mentally disordered on grounds of their anti-social conduct, the DDA patronises those individuals by denying them the opportunity to take responsibility for their actions.
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Lebedeva, Marina, and Marina Ustinova. "The Humanitarian and Social Agenda of the UN Security Council." International Organisations Research Journal 15, no. 1 (April 5, 2020): 135–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1996-7845-2020-01-06.
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By the end of XX–the beginning of XXI century the importance of humanitarian and social issues in the world has sharply increased. Humanitarian and social means began to be intensively included in military and economic actions and play a significant independent role. As a result, there was an increase in the importance of “soft security” aspects, and an expansion of this field. This has affected the UN Security Council, which began to pay more attention to humanitarian and social issues, which was demonstrated with the statistical method. The range of humanitarian issues discussed by the Security Council and the list of actors sponsoring resolutions on humanitarian issues has expanded. In the late 1990s–early 2000s the Council begins to consider large amount of humanitarian issues: security issues of individuals in armed conflicts (civilians, children, women, UN and humanitarian personnel); civilian aspects of conflict management and peacebuilding; and separate issues of “soft security” (humanitarian assistance and such “soft threats” to security as HIV/AIDS epidemics, food crises and climate change). In addition, the Council also addresses human rights violations. The promotion of humanitarian issues in the Council on separate occasions was facilitated by high-ranking officials who put a premium on humanitarian issues; various UN bodies and organizations, mainly with humanitarian mandates; some non-permanent members of the Security Council who wanted to leave their mark in the Council’s history; various NGOs. In turn, some countries opposed the adoption of measures that they consider to be within the internal competence of their states. At the same time, the expansion of humanitarian and social problems in the world poses a dilemma for the Security Council: whether to include the entire range of these issues on the agenda, or it is beyond the scope of the Council’s mandate. There is no definite answer here. On the one hand, the world is moving along the path of strengthening humanitarian problems and its ever-greater involvement in security issues. On the other hand, an expanded interpretation of security can impede the work of the Council.
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Parji and Agus Prasetya. "Communication Social Actions of Legislative Candidates in the Election of Representatives in the City of Madiun (Case Studi: Social Exchange of Legislative Candidates to Became DPRD)." International Journal of Criminology and Sociology 9 (April 5, 2022): 1928–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.225.
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Current social phenomena show that the local democratic process that should be running well and correctly in accordance with its purpose is to increase the participation of the people or community politics to elect their representatives in the Regional Representative Council (DPRD) which has not produced maximum election results legislative as a local political activity is carried out based on Law No. 2 of 2011 which was later revised with Law No. 07/2017 concerning elections which regulates the selection of candidates for DPRD which include selection, ratification, appointment, and in terminating board members of the research council this method uses a qualitative approach, where the focus of research uses a case study approach. The purpose of the study was to determine the social communication actions of a prospective legislative candidate in the legislative general election to elect people’s representatives in the DPRD city of Madiun. This research with a qualitative approach is one of the research procedures that produce descriptive data in the form of speech, behaviour, which can be observed from prospective board members. The data collection technique of this research is observation techniques, documentation through snowball sampling on each DPRD candidate who has become a permanent council candidate. To support the conduct of research, researchers used theoretical studies, among others, social exchange theory, Peter Blau and A Weber’s Social Action Theory. The results of this study highlight that; social, legislative communication actions concerning social behaviour, human social movements and social exchanges occur in the election of members of the City Council of Madiun; namely, there are activities for candidates to install campaign propprovide social assistance and transactional practices between voters and candidates at the end of the campaign.
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Muhsin, Fuad, Hani Hanifah, and Muhammad Hasan Al As Ari. "Islamic Defending Action And Fatwa Defenders Movement Indonesian Ulema Council." International Journal of Islamic Khazanah 10, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 11–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/ijik.v10i1.8412.
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TThe purpose of this study is to photograph the background of the birth of the National Movement for Defending Fatwa (GNPF) MUI and the methods used by the GNPF activist figures. By using social movement analysis and qualitative methods, this study successfully concluded that the GNPF-MUI and ABI are a consequence of the events and movements of group movements that occurred within the MUI, especially after the New Order. The existence of GNPF and ABI stems from the accommodating Islamist-puritan-conservative groups and tends to be revolutionary in the management of the 2015-2020 MUI. The strategy used by the GNPF actors was carried out by asking for support from revolutionary groups such as FPI to mobilize the period so that their actions receive sociological legitimacy from the Indonesian Muslim community
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Gehring, Thomas, and Thomas Dörfler. "Constitutive mechanisms of UN Security Council practices: Precedent pressure, ratchet effect, and council action regarding intrastate conflicts." Review of International Studies 45, no. 1 (October 8, 2018): 120–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210518000268.
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AbstractBased upon the current debate on international practices with its focus on taken-for-granted everyday practices, we examine how Security Council practices may affect member state action and collective decisions on intrastate conflicts. We outline a concept that integrates the structuring effect of practices and their emergence from interaction among reflective actors. It promises to overcome the unresolved tension between understanding practices as a social regularity and as a fluid entity. We analyse the constitutive mechanisms of two Council practices that affect collective decisions on intrastate conflicts and elucidate how even reflective Council members become enmeshed with the constraining implications of evolving practices and their normative implications. (1) Previous Council decisions create precedent pressure and give rise to a virtually uncontested permissive Council practice that defines the purview for intervention into such conflicts. (2) A ratcheting practice forces opponents to choose between accepting steadily reinforced Council action, as occurred regarding Sudan/Darfur, and outright blockade, as in the case of Syria. We conclude that practices constitute a source of influence that is not captured by the traditional perspectives on Council activities as the consequence of geopolitical interests or of externally evolving international norms like the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P).
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Zelenev, Sergei. "Ideas in action: ICSW at the forefront of conceptual thinking, social practice and transnational advocacy." International Social Work 62, no. 2 (March 2019): 1025–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872819833239.
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Looking back over its past 90 years of history, the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) is keen to recognize the changing objectives and associated strategies in policies set up and consistently pursued. Improving the human condition and well-being on the basis of holistic policies and comprehensive social agenda stays paramount in all its transnational activities.
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Chick, Kay A. "Building Effective Citizens through 2009 National Council for the Social Studies Notable Picture Books." Social Studies Research and Practice 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2010): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-01-2010-b0009.
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Citizens in our democracy need a skill set that enables them to take action to help others, challenge bias and prejudice, and demonstrate patriotism. This article considers these skills and the role of children’s literature in the development of citizenship education in social studies classrooms. Citizenship education must incorporate powerful learning that is meaningful, value-based, challenging, and integrated within the arts, sciences, and humanities. The 2009 National Council for the Social Studies Notable picture books that are featured here bring powerful learning opportunities and prepare students to become effective, socially responsible citizens. The instructional strategies that accompany each book encourage social action, critical thinking, and conscientious decision-making, and are easily integrated within the language arts.
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Cotmore, Richard. "Organisational competence: the study of a school council in action." Children & Society 18, no. 1 (December 23, 2003): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chi.786.
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Oliveira, Liana Silvia de Viveiros, Aparecida Netto Teixeira, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lobão, and Camila Martins de Abreu Farias. "CONSELHOS EM “QUARENTENA”? Participação e controle social na política urbana na pandemia da Covid-19." Revista de Políticas Públicas 25, no. 1 (July 11, 2021): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2178-2865.v25n1p83-103.
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A pandemia da Covid-19 desnudou a face cruel da política urbana no Brasil, revelada na incapacidade histórica de enfrentar os graves problemas estruturais das cidades. Com uma robusta base jurídica e institucional, essa política pública incorporou instâncias de participação e controle social nos três níveisdo governo, atualmente em processo de desmonte na esfera federal. Num contexto de crise política e sanitária, este artigo, com base em pesquisa documental e bibliográfica, revisita o histórico de constituição e atuação do Conselho Estadual das Cidades da Bahia e do Conselho Municipal de Salvador e avalia a atenção dada à pandemia. Os resultados evidenciam as contradições e fragilidades na atuação e a ausência de compreensão, nos âmbitos dos conselhos e dos governos, do potencial dessas instâncias e do indispensável acionamento da política urbana no enfrentamento da pandemia.“QUARANTINED” COUNCILS? Participation and social control in urban politics during the Covid-19 pandemicAbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic uncovered a cruel face of urban politics in Brazil, revealed in the historical inability to face the serious structural problems of the cities. Within a sturdy legal and institutional basis, this public policy has incorporated instances of participation and social control at the three government spheres, currently in the process of dismantling at the federal sphere. In a context of political and health crisis, this article revisits the history of the constitution and action of the State Council for the Cities of Bahia and the Municipal Council of Salvador and assesses the support provided to the pandemic, based on documentary and bibliographic research. The results show contradiction and weaknesses in the performance of councils and government scopes, lack of understanding of the potentiality of these instances and the indispensable acting of urban policies when facing the pandemic.Keywords: Covid-19. Pandemic. Councils. Urban Politics. Salvador. Bahia
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Styres, Sandra. "Reconciliaction: Reconciling contestation in the academy." Power and Education 12, no. 2 (April 14, 2020): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757743820916845.
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This article emerges from an analysis of the data from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded research project that examined the ways two universities were taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its Calls to Action. This article focuses on reconcili action as critical social action. A multi-levelled analysis of the data revealed that colonialism and violence in the academy was a theme of critical importance to research participants. This article concludes by making recommendations for ways universities can unpack and address violence and contestation to move reconciliation forward in meaningful and respectful ways.
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Rebello Lima, Deborah. "O Conselho de Comunicação Social como símbolo da luta pela participação no debate regulatório em Comunicação." Revista Mídia e Cotidiano 17, no. 3 (September 28, 2023): 75–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/rmc.v17i3.58893.
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This article discusses the Social Communication Council, linked to the Federal Senate, as a symbol of the search for greater social participation in decision-making processes in the field of communication, as a collegiate body in clear dispute for space, definition and continuity since its creation. From the Political Economy of Communication and the Anthropology of State processes, the council is understood as a place of representative listening to civil society since the 1988 constituent. Through a documentary ethnography of the body's archives, we seek problematize the representation of civil society and follow the discursive web around the collegiate itself, aiming to problematize its representative structure, power asymmetries perceived and consider its capacity and scope of action.
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Peraro, Cinzia. "Right to collective action in cross-border employment contexts: a fundamental social right not yet covered by EU private international law." UNIO – EU Law Journal 2 (June 1, 2016): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/unio.2.3.
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The purpose of this article is to describe the right to collective action in crossborder employment contexts, recognised as a fundamental social right at the national and European levels. On the one hand, some national Constitutional Courts, such as the Portuguese and Italian ones, have dealt with social rights and the economic crisis, and have clearly stressed the prevalence of constitutional social rights over austerity measures. On the other hand, Council of Europe documents and European Union law recognise social rights, but they do not offer a proper means of protection. The European Court of Justice case-law shows a complex interrelation between social rights and economic freedoms. The main issue concerns the existing EU private international law on collective action, which has led to an inconsistent system. A new European collective action framework could be a possible solution to effectively guarantee fundamental social rights.
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Jedlecka, Wioletta. "Podstawowe formy prawne działania administracji publicznej na rzecz ochrony zwierząt." Przegląd Prawa i Administracji 108 (June 26, 2017): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1134.108.5.
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BASIC LEGAL FORMS OF ACTION OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALSIn the protection of animals an administrative act in the form of the administrative decision is adominating legal form of action of public administration. Acts of the local law play an important role. For example, catching homeless animals takes place only based on the resolution of the commune council. Rarely are used other legal forms of action of the public administration, like material-technical activity, social-organizational activity or civil law agreements.
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Li, Hui, Bo Wen, and Terry L. Cooper. "What Makes Neighborhood Associations Effective in Urban Governance? Evidence From Neighborhood Council Boards in Los Angeles." American Review of Public Administration 49, no. 8 (June 6, 2019): 931–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074019854160.
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This study examines the perceived effectiveness of neighborhood councils (NCs) in Los Angeles, a government-sanctioned and financed institutional innovation in urban governance. The study considers NC boards as a dynamic and open social system that interacts with NCs’ internal and external environment. We propose that three factors—internal capacity, external networking, and attention-action congruence—are related to perceived NC effectiveness. The findings from a questionnaire survey of 80 NCs show that NC leaders perceive their organizations to be moderately effective. While internal capacity contributes to all three dimensions of effectiveness, external networking enhances NCs’ effectiveness in solving community issues and advising about city policies. Attention-action congruence, which examines the correspondence between NC board members’ issue orientation and actual actions, is positively related to NCs’ effectiveness in advising about city policies. The study concludes with considerations for enhancing the effectiveness of neighborhood associations.
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Fischer, Johann. "The underlying action-oriented and task-based approach of the CEFR and its implementation in language testing and assessment at university." Language Learning in Higher Education 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 301–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cercles-2020-2021.
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Abstract The underlying methodological approach of the CEFR is defined as being “action-oriented” and task-based (Council of Europe. 2001. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Cambridge University Press: 9), although it explicitly leaves room for a variety of approaches, since the CEFR is a framework document. The action-oriented approach is, however, not coherently developed throughout the publication as it does not explain its application in assessment (Chapter 9). Chapter 9 presents a general introduction to the principles of language assessment but does not explain how the assessment can be contextualised so that the test-taker acts as a “social agent”. Although related documents on testing and assessment such as the Manual for Relating Language Examinations to the CEFR (Council of Europe 2009) and the Manual for Language Test Development and Examining (Council of Europe 2011) provide tools on assessment practices, they do not explain how to conceptualise an action-oriented task-based assessment. The CEFR Companion Volume (Council of Europe 2020) also stresses the underlying action-oriented approach of the CEFR in teaching and learning, but as it focuses explicitly on teaching and learning, it too does not cover the area of testing and assessment. For university language teaching, learning and assessment, it is necessary to develop a coherent, holistic methodology that applies the action-oriented and task-based approach to language teaching, learning and assessment, and applies a constructive alignment, which has a particular focus on the learner as a social agent. Initially, this requires the development of course content and the related assessment tasks to be based on a thorough needs analysis for a specific language teaching programme. In this way, university language centres can rethink their approach to teaching and assessment and implement changes both in their teaching and in their assessment and testing in order to offer a more coherent programme to their learners, which makes better use of the CEFR Framework. This paper summarises the principles of task-based language testing and explains in which contexts this approach might be particularly fruitful. It also presents the author’s experience gained in implementing the approach at institutional and national levels, and the challenges involved in managing this change.
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Figueroa, Monica, and Kristan Shawgo. "“You can't read your way out of racism”: creating anti-racist action out of education in an academic library." Reference Services Review 50, no. 1 (December 7, 2021): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rsr-06-2021-0025.
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PurposeUnder the transformational leadership of the University Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries shifted from having an education- and programming-based “diversity committee” to a council of librarians advocating for action, anti-racism and social justice, both within our organization and across campus. As our University Librarian noted, “you cannot read your way out of racism.”Design/methodology/approachWith support from library leadership, the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Council has advanced anti-racism work in the libraries by serving as facilitators for a book discussion series, organizing a 21-day racial equity challenge, supporting staff in integrating anti-racism practices into their daily work through brown bag conversations, and facilitating the development of inclusion-focused performance management goals.FindingsWhat does an anti-racist library look like, and how does our organization envision this future? These questions anchor the IDEA Council's strategies. The libraries have witnessed a positive shift in staff participation: two-thirds of library staff participated in a Racial Equity Institute Groundwater presentation and in a library-wide book discussion series; approximately half the staff committed to our 21-day racial equity challenge. Participants were asked to reflect in conversation and through surveys.Originality/valueThe first wave of a newly established grant program funded eight staff-led projects to advance social justice in the libraries. Additional steps included caucusing by racial identity, staff-wide discussions about racial equity, and a second wave of funding for the grant program. The authors approach this work with cultural humility: seeking to learn from one another, our peers and fellow activists.
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Rostovskaya, Tamara. "Strategy for Action to Save Men and Support Responsible Fatherhood." DEMIS. Demographic Research 3, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 168–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/demis.2023.3.2.13.
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The current demographic agenda ofthe Russian Federation includes the promotion of traditional family values, where a special role is assigned to the formation and development of the institution of a prosperous (large) family with chldren, and support for responsible fatherhood. As part of these tasks, in March 2023, the members of the Scientific Council "Demographic and Migration Problems of Russia" under the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on their own initiative, developed the "Strategy for Action to Save Men and Support Responsible Fatherhood".
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Souza, Donaldo Bello de, and Alzira Batalha Alcântara. "O controle social no planejamento municipal da educação no Brasil." education policy analysis archives 25 (October 16, 2017): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.25.2989.
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Throughout the process of redemocratization of Brazil (1980s), social control was synonymous with civil control by the State, aimed at the construction new social projects from an emancipatory, democratic and participative perspective. Starting in the 1990s, the concept became depoliticized from a conservatory and neoliberal perspective, creating channels of instrumental and centralized participation, bureaucratization, and segmentation. This article deals with the problems concerning social control in the scope of the municipal planning of education, focusing on the Monitoring and Social Control Council (MSCC) and the Municipal Education Council (MEC). the study considered 20 (95%) of 21 Municipal Plans of Education (MPEs) of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro (MRRJ), aligned with the new National Plan of Education (NPE) to the decennial 2014-2024, and analyzed the role attributed to these collegiate bodies in the sphere of localized social control of education. It is concluded that the MPEs reflect the statements of the NPE regarding social control and the correlated bodies (MSCC and MEC), but in a fragmented and sparse way, due to the relatively small the systematic incorporation of these actions and of the Councils roles in the decisions. It is also possible to affirm that these results express a continuation of a prescriptive failure that has lasted since the previous decennial planning (2001-2011), since these plans did not attribute a highlighted place to the Councils, thus weakening the systematic social control of education at the municipal, intermunicipal, and metropolitan planning levels.
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Kozak, Terri. "An Action Research Study to Improve Facilitation Skills Using the Program ‘A Council of All Beings’." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 11 (1995): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600002950.
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Environmental education seeks to involve people in solving environmental problems. Hence, some environmental educators facilitate programs that focus on the development of skills through direct involvement in action programs, such as Waterwatch. However, many people do not feel confident and/or skilled to initiate, plan or undertake action projects. Therefore, environmental educators also facilitate programs that focus on helping people develop the motivation, skills and confidence to engage in action programs, such as A Council of All Beings. Facilitation of these two different forms of programs needs to build on the strengths and capabilities of the people involved so that their skills and perception of themselves as agents of change are enhanced (Kieffer 1984). Effective facilitation skills are essential for environmental educators because they often deal with contested issues, want to foster critical thinking among people and often mediate between community, government and individuals. The purpose of this paper is to: (a) demonstrate the relationship between empowerment, facilitation and social change; and (b) report on an action research process in which I sought to improve my skills in facilitation by using the program A Council of All Beings.
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Shiratuddin, Norshuhada, Shahizan Hassan, Zainatul Shuhaida Abdul Rahman, Mohd Khairie Ahmad, Kartini Aboo Talib, Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, and Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad. "Enhancing the Marginalized Youth Media Participation Through Formation of a Nation Building Action Plan with Intervention Study Design." Asia Pacific Media Educator 31, no. 1 (May 12, 2021): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1326365x211009645.
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Malaysian marginalized youth participation in nation building through various media platforms is low. Therefore, an action plan was developed to enhance the social, political and economic participation of youth in marginalized communities through media utilization. The action plan consists of target items and approaches to conduct activities. Eight media-participation-related modules were also tested in an intervention study. The modules were targeted at increasing the level of youth media, social and political participation. Various agencies such as the Malaysian Youth Council, were involved to help realize the plan aims. Results from the stakeholders’ reviews indicated that more efforts have to be carried out to expose these youth to good practices in the use of social media for participation purposes. The findings also concluded that this action plan is well-formed, can serve as a guide, allows integration of cultural harmony and offers empowerment to the youth.
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Semya, G. V. "National Strategy on Action for Children in Russia and Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the Child." Психологическая наука и образование 21, no. 1 (2016): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/pse.2016210109.
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Development of the National Strategy for Action on Children for 2012–2017 implemented in two phases (2012–2014 and 2015–2017) coincided with the Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the Child for 2012–2015, and the new Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the Child for 2016–2022 takes effect in 2016. Author provides description of a new European instrument: the main current challenges in the field of children safeguarding; top areas and measures to respond to these challenges; methods to implement the strategy including based on the recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to the Member States. The article gives examples of Russia’s accession to the international legal community through the ratification of various conventions that allowed to take domestic measures to ensure international standards to secure children from such crimes as trafficking in children, underage prostitution and por- nography, sexual abuse. The present paper examines opportunity to take into ac- count the new European guidelines and standards in Russian childhood policy and describes action taken in Russia to protect children’s rights as a response to the integrated European challenges, taking into account social and cultural differences.
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Acconci, Pia. "The Reaction to the Ebola Epidemic within the United Nations Framework: What Next for the World Health Organization?" Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online 18, no. 1 (2014): 405–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757413-00180014.
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The World Health Organization (who) was established in 1946 as a specialized agency of the United Nations (un). Since its establishment, the who has managed outbreaks of infectious diseases from a regulatory, as well as an operational perspective. The adoption of the International Health Regulations (ihrs) has been an important achievement from the former perspective. When the Ebola epidemic intensified in 2014, the who Director General issued temporary recommendations under the ihrs in order to reduce the spread of the disease and minimize cross-border barriers to international trade. The un Secretary General and then the Security Council and the General Assembly have also taken action against the Ebola epidemic. In particular, the Security Council adopted a resolution under Chapter vii of the un Charter, and thus connected the maintenance of the international peace and security to the health and social emergency. After dealing with the role of the who as a guide and coordinator of the reaction to epidemics, this article shows how the action by the Security Council against the Ebola epidemic impacts on the who ‘authority’ for the protection of health.
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Burman, Bonnie, and Martha Williman. "From Awareness to Social Action: The Role of Dementia Friends in Sustaining Dementia Inclusiveness." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1981.
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Abstract According to the World Dementia Council, three components are important to effectively engage a community to become dementia inclusive, 1) raising awareness and consequently decreasing stigma, 2) enabling participation, and 3) providing support—including in health and care settings. Too many times these components are separate initiatives thus limiting their effectiveness and sustainability. By applying the collective impact model and utilizing the Dementia Friends program as the link between the three, all dementia inclusive efforts can be enhanced and sustained regardless of the range of activities and approaches a community chooses to adopt. This symposium provides both evidence and examples of how to personalize and employ the Dementia Friends program to optimize the process, outcome, and impact of dementia inclusive initiatives. By engaging the entire community, awareness is raised, the structure is in place to enable action, and cross-sector collaboration will ensure continuation and sustainability of these important efforts.
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Blinov, Yevhen. "SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN WARTIME (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE ODESA CITY COUNCIL)." Dialog: media studios, no. 29 (March 15, 2024): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2308-3255.2023.29.300632.
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The relevance of the study lies in the fact that during a full-scale war, the social communications of the authorities acquire special importance. Communication between authorities and citizens takes place at different levels, and various tools are used. When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, these communications links underwent a significant transformation, some were destroyed. Defending itself against aggression, the Ukrainian state has taken a number of steps in the information sphere. In particular, access to certain resources (state registers, etc.) was closed, as well as access to other open sources was restricted. Such actions caused concern among the active part of the society, because the legal grounds of state authorities and local self-government in this area are not clearly defined. Experts have also drawn attention to this problem. They defined the closure of access to some data posted on the website of the Odesa City Council as unfounded. The purpose of the author of the article was to investigate the methods of communication between representatives of the Odesa territorial community and the city council, its officials and officials during martial law, as well as to determine the level of effectiveness of such communication. The study made it possible to conclude that the remarks made by experts and public activists regarding the unfoundedness of restricting Internet users’ access to the resources of the Odesa City Council have generally been corrected. Most of the pages of the council’s web portal are available, in addition, employees of the relevant divisions of the local self-government body actively maintain social networks of the city council. Among the shortcomings should be attributed the non-working state of hyperlinks to individual resources of the authority, work with interruptions of some sources, as well as duplication of certain information on the Internet resources of the Odesa City Council and the Mayor of Odesa. The achieved results are planned to be developed through a more detailed study of social communications of the Odesa City Council in further scientific articles.
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Pogosyan, M. A., D. Yu Strelets, and V. G. Vladimirova. "Territorial connectivity of Russian Federation: from statement of complex tasks to complex scientific and engineering projects formation." Вестник Российской академии наук 89, no. 5 (May 6, 2019): 489–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0869-5873895489-495.
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Complex scientific and engineering projects and full innovation cycle programs, ruled to be selected and formed by science and technology priorities’ councils, are to become key tools for Strategy in scientific and technological development implementation. In this paper, we present an approach to such programs and projects, developed by the “Territorial connectivity” S&T priority council, formation. We give the “territorial connectivity” term, separate it by categories and subcategories, characterized by specific social, economic, and administrative-and-managerial problems. We propose the set of steps, that is a goal-oriented movement from determination of main program implementation directions to specification of essential complex social and economic objectives within each direction, and then discuss the development of stated problems-solving research plans, scientific and engineering projects, and national policy action frameworks. We use a stage-gate approach in program formation, which allows us to make necessary corrections at every stage of its implementation, as well as organize efficient communication with potential customers and participants.
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Mortimer, Michael J., Marc J. Stern, Robert W. Malmsheimer, Dale J. Blahna, Lee K. Cerveny, and David N. Seesholtz. "Environmental and Social Risks: Defensive National Environmental Policy Act in the US Forest Service." Journal of Forestry 109, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/109.1.27.
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Abstract The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its accompanying regulations provide a spectrum of alternative analytical pathways for federal agencies proposing major actions that might significantly impact the human environment. Although guidance from the President's Council on Environmental Quality suggests the decision to develop an environmental impact statement (EIS), which requires the most rigorous level of analysis, should be based on the likelihood of significant environmental impacts, findings from an Internet survey with US Forest Service project leaders suggest that the decision may more commonly be based on process-related risks, including the threat of litigation, perceived defensibility in court, and the level of public and political interest in the agency's proposed action. An analysis of judicial decisions in NEPA-related litigation reveals that EISs do not appear to be more defensible than environmental assessments in the courts, suggesting that current decisionmaking about NEPA documentation may be misguided, leading to unnecessary project expenditures and delays.
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Oliveira, Clarice de, Camila Bellaver Alberti, Laura Boeck Silva, and Gabriela Rosa Nodari. "THE PEOPLE’S BOUROUGH PLAN OF ACTION: A COUNTER-PROJECT OF INSURGENT CITIZENSHIP1." REAd. Revista Eletrônica de Administração (Porto Alegre) 25, no. 3 (December 2019): 247–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-2311.274.97304.
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ABSTRACT Porto Alegre is divided in eight Boroughs of Planning. Each Borough has a representative in the Urban Planning City Council (UPCC). In 2018 social movements organized to conquer this. From this, some of the Boroughs’ councilors felt the need to better inform themselves on the terms and subjects discussed in the UPCC, and to ensure that their local issues would be discussed. For that manner, the People’s Borough Plan of Action (PBPA) project was created by a coalition of social movements, the architect’s association (IAB-RS) and the university to perform counter-hegemonic actions. The project is based on the insurgent planning theory, which understands urban development from the standpoint of the global south as being essentially performed by communities, activists and grassroots strategies. Thus, the project moves across both invited and invented spaces of action in a non-binary relationship, with the aim of providing the grassroots movements of insurgent citizenship with technical assistance to support their claims and desires over the city they live. Regarding the City’s Master Plan revision, the PBAP represents a counter-plan related to the creation of differential spaces. Therefore, they create a moment of realization of the right to the city.
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Zhuravel, Valery. "Тhe Russian Federation's Chairmanship at the Arctic Council." Contemporary Europe 105, no. 5 (October 31, 2021): 90–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.15211/soveurope520219099.
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The article focuses on status, structure and organization of the Arctic Council (AC, Council). It is noted that the AC is an international, regional structure, which is designed to promote cooperation in the Arctic in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development of the circumpolar regions. In the activities of the countries chaired by the Arctic Council, special attention is paid to the continuity of the Arctic agenda. The importance of the Strategic Plan of the Arctic Council for 2021‒2030 adopted in 2021 for the further improvement of AC activities is highlighted. The central part of the study is devoted to Russia's approaches to international cooperation in the AC and an analysis of the content of the Programme of the Russian Federation's 2021 to 2023 Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The aforementioned includes such priorities as the population of the Arctic and the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North; environmental protection and climate change; social and economic development in the region; strengthening the Arctic Council. The study also deals with the Main Action Plan, which covers all the countries of the AC and areas of its activities. The article draws attention to the risks and threats that may arise during the period of the Russian Chairmanship. It is concluded that the urgent problems of this region can be solved only through balanced and mutually beneficial international cooperation in the economic and social fields, in the field of ecology, development of indigenous peoples, cooperation in scientific research, Arctic tourism, emergencies in the region.
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Doran, Tim, and Margaret Whitehead. "Do Social Policies and Political Context Matter for Health in the United Kingdom?" International Journal of Health Services 33, no. 3 (July 2003): 495–522. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/578t-juwb-18v6-a59e.
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This U.K. case study combines lessons from historical assessments with new empirical analyses of trends over the last decade to inform an appraisal of the impact of social actions on health. The empirical analyses examine life expectancy in the 354 local government councils in England by first identifying those that have better or worse health than expected from their socioeconomic profile, and then selecting paired sets of “overachievers” and “underachievers” for more in-depth analysis. The findings taken as a whole provide evidence that social policies and political context do indeed matter for health. The historical material from the first industrial revolution, in particular, provides some of the most compelling evidence for this proposition. The empirical analyses over the last decade found a very powerful inverse association: the more deprived the local council, the lower the life expectancy of the population within that locality. However, even for the same level of deprivation and socioeconomic characteristics, some councils were doing much better than others in terms of health: for example, more than three years difference in life expectancy for carefully matched “urban fringe” councils. The article then examines the councils' political makeup and hence their likely policy perspective.
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Mustafa, Balsam. "From personal narrative to global call for action." Narrative Inquiry 28, no. 1 (September 27, 2018): 161–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.16058.mus.
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Abstract This paper examines personal narratives and how they change according to the context in which they are narrated. In particular, it argues that personal narratives change as they are mediated by various discourses, genres and modes, as well as by the peculiarities that emerge when speaking and writing in different languages and when undertaking translation. It uses a case-study approach to analyse the different narratives told by Islamic State’s Yezidi female survivor, and United Nations Goodwill ambassador, Nadia Murad, in different contexts in 2014 and in 2015. In 2014, when two Western mass media outlets interviewed Murad, her narrative was compacted and less detailed. This shifted in December 2015 when Murad testified about her ordeal before the Security Council. Mediated by the discourse of the latter and by the genre of testimony, Murad’s narrative became more detailed, and transformed from a description of a personal suffering into a call for action.
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YOTSUI, MIHOKO, CATHERINE CAMPBELL, and TERUO HONMA. "Collective action by older people in natural disasters: the Great East Japan Earthquake." Ageing and Society 36, no. 5 (May 11, 2015): 1052–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15000136.
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ABSTRACTHow can social participation by older people support their wellbeing? We explore the elder-focused community support system developed in Minamisanriku town after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. Many elderly people lost all their material possessions and were moved from their devastated home communities to temporary housing. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 participants including 14 community workers and three members in the Minamisanriku Council of Social Welfare (MCSW) in a programme framed by the MCSW's disaster-response model. Thematic analysis highlighted how older people's involvement in the visiting programme of their temporary community, and conducting twice-daily visits to other vulnerable elders, enabled them to provide valued social support to isolated and homebound peers. It also helped reconstruct their own social identities shattered by the dissolution of former communities, the shock of displacement and loss of possessions. This positive social participation was heavily influenced by strong bridges between their temporary community and MCSW support staff and infrastructure that promoted and supported their visits. Our study highlights how strong and empowering relationships amongst older people can be facilitated by an active government-funded support agency that is immediately responsive to the needs and deeply respectful of the world-views of vulnerable groups.
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Laczkowska, Marzena. "THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN YEAR FOR COMBATING POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION." sj-economics scientific journal 8 (June 30, 2011): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.58246/sjeconomics.v8i.492.
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The problem of deepen poverty and social exception among European citizens needs to take action by EU and Polish government to eliminate the process. The European commission has announced the 2010 the European year of fight with poverty and social exception what attracted the EU inhabitants’ attention on the problem of poor and expected people. The avoidance of the subject of poverty and social exception will not cause the elimination of the process. Undoubtedly, the chance of life situation improvement of poor and excepted people is the idea of social economy. The activity of social economy subjects produces benefits not only for people directly connected with them but also for all society. In the strategy of Europe 2020 accepted on 3rd March 2010 the aims has been pointed out for next 10 years, which enable to reduce the problem of poverty and social exception among society. In the preliminary programme starting on 1st July 2011 Polish presidency in the EU council the activity of professional activation and social integration has been foreseen.
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Moss, Pamela A. "Toward “Epistemic Reflexivity” in Educational Research: A Response to Scientific Research in Education." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 107, no. 1 (January 2005): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810510700104.
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In this response to Scientific Research in Education (National Research Council, 2002), I argue that the report has provided us with a carefully considered but partial vision of social science that limits the capacity of our field to engage in critical self-reflection. As one counterexample to the vision of social science portrayed in the report, I draw on the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu's work not only offers an alternative vision of social science, but it also treats academic fields, including social sciences, as objects of study, illuminating the social forces that shape categories of thought and action. As such, it invites a rigorous form of self-reflection that is not promoted within SRE's vision of social science.
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Martin, Deborah G., and Steven R. Holloway. "Organizing Diversity: Scales of Demographic Change and Neighborhood Organizing in St Paul, MN." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 37, no. 6 (June 2005): 1091–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a36142.
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Neighborhood involvement in urban governance remains a pressing goal in an era of globalization. Cities have instituted a variety of structures to facilitate this involvement, including quasi-formal neighborhood or district councils. At the same time, urban populations are changing rapidly because of multiple dynamics operating at multiple scales. Immigration, for example, continues to transform inner-city neighborhoods despite the emergence of suburban immigrant enclaves. Existing research inadequately addresses the interaction between efforts to organize neighborhood political involvement and the dynamic nature of urban populations. We examine St Paul, Minnesota—a locale with a well-established neighborhood district-council system and a vibrant and rapidly growing immigrant community. Indeed, immigrants from Southeast Asia and East Africa are moving into neighborhoods that up until the early 1990s were predominantly white. Using a multimethod empirical analysis, we argue that the district-council system, while recognizing and empowering local-level organization, fails to provide adequate resources for neighborhoods to address social dynamics that operate at much broader scales. An index of ethnic and racial diversity computed with census data shows that St Paul experienced a significant overall increase in diversity during the 1990s. Although inner-city neighborhoods remained the most diverse, residential areas developed after World War 2 also diversified considerably. Interviews with neighborhood organizers based in part on tabular and cartographic displays revealed a wide variety of strategies and responses to changing ethnic and racial diversity. Predominant, however, was a mismatch between the scale at which demographic change occurs, and the scale of ‘neighborhood’ action embedded within the district-council system.
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Uncular, Selen. "The right to collective action under European law and Turkish law." European Labour Law Journal 9, no. 2 (June 2018): 144–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2031952518772588.
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Apart from many other important and urgent problems in labour law, the right to collective action is increasingly the most violated and ignored labour right in this continuing period of economic, political and social crises around the world due to the very fact that it constitutes the most effective and progressive power of workers. Therefore, it is essential and urgent that fundamental hindrances are identified and substantial solutions are put in place to ensure efficient protection and exercise of the right. In this respect, I aim to evaluate the right to collective action of private sector workers under the instruments of the Council of Europe, the European Union and Turkey, and to examine selected fundamental impediments to its effective protection and enforcement under European law and Turkish law, which essentially arise from sovereignty and exceptionalist concerns as well as the subordination of social rights to economic interests. Lastly, I will propose some solutions for a more progressive protection and implementation of the right to collective action whose evolution requires a lot of effort, dedication and struggle during a long yet hopeful process.
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Ngozwana, Nomazulu, Lindiwe Ngcobo, and David Jele. "Action Learning for Crime Prevention: Implications for Community Safety." International Journal of Education (IJE) 8, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ije.2020.8401.
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Crime prevention is everyone’s responsibility – law enforcement officers, community members, social groups, businesses and governments who all need to be sensitized about prevention strategies for ensuring community safety. Interpretive paradigm was used within a qualitative research approach. We adopted a descriptive research design. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data from all the participants that were purposively chosen. Six crime prevention officers, that were selected using snowball sampling, were individually interviewed. Data were further collected from twenty-eight members of community policing forums in three focus group discussions and six members of the inner council in the fourth focus group discussion. Qualitative thematic analysis was used. The findings revealed that some community policing forum members abused their skills and knowledge to commit crime than fight it. The findings demonstrated that community policing is effective in reducing crime. However, it transpired that the forums faced several challenges such as: lack of airtime to make calls, lack of incentives to motivate members, female members experiencing difficulty at night because they were afraid while others were not released by their partners to go to work. Although the community policing forums enhanced social change towards crime in various communities, there are negative implications for women serving as members of the forums.
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Ancette, Camille de Almeida, Fernanda da Rosa Cardoso, Juliana Silveira Colomé, Natalia Brugalli Ribeiro, Adriane Cervi Blumke, and Ana Lúcia de Freitas Saccol. "Social control in the Brazilian school environment: strengthening is necessary." Research, Society and Development 11, no. 9 (July 3, 2022): e6611931492. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i9.31492.
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The School Food Council (CAE) is a deliberative, supervisory, and advisory body of the Brazilian National School Feeding Program (PNAE). This study was aimed at proposing a model to strengthen CAE performance. The research was carried out with CAE members of a municipality in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul State, south Brazil. The study consisted of the following phases: diagnosis to make a profile of the Council members; participation in the meetings and reading of the minutes; interventions (training, interview with school principals, elaboration of the assessment instrument, school visits, and development and validation of software); and evaluation of the interventions. Despite the low participation of the counsellors, strengthening of CAE in this municipality was achieved; all actions carried out along the work were useful to help and guide the members to have a good, correct and effective performance within the Council and during school visits and assessments. Based on the current study, further work addressing this issue in municipalities of different sizes is suggested so that more specific comparison and analysis of CAE performance in Brazil are possible.
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Fox-Grage, Wendy. "Activities Under the RAISE Family Caregiving Act: Developing a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.244.
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Abstract This presentation describes the unique collaboration between The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Administration or Community Living (ACL), and the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) in supporting the RAISE Act Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center, and the goals and activities of the RAISE Act Family Caregiving Advisory Council. Most importantly, she will present the the development of recommendations for a national strategy to support family caregivers involving all levels of government as well as private-sector actors. These recommendations fall into five primary areas, which Fox-Grage will discuss in detail. She will also discuss the Center’s development of family caregiving resources for state and federal policymakers and other stakeholders as well as next steps in turning the Council’s recommendations into concrete action.
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AlAfnan, Mohammad Awad, and Tamara Oshchepkova. "A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations Secretary-General's Opening Remarks to the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine." Studies in Media and Communication 10, no. 2 (July 28, 2022): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v10i2.5662.
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This study examines language use as social action. Using Austin’s (1962), Bach’s (2003), and Searle’s (1969) speech act theory and categorizations of constative utterances, performative utterances, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts, this study examines the speech acts used by the UN’s Secretary-General in his opening remarks in the Emergency Special Session on Ukraine. The study likewise examines the intended social actions and the social effects they have on the audience. This study reveals that the UN’s Secretary-General made use of a balance between the usage of utterances that express a belief, intention, and desire (constative utterances) and utterances that carry social actions (performative utterances). This study furthermore reveals that reporting, informing, and announcing are the most popular constative utterances in the speech to provide Security Council members a comprehensive idea about the situation in Ukraine and the possible consequences. The study also affirms that directive and assertive illocutionary acts are the most popular performative utterances used in the speech to achieve the perlocutionary effects of asserting, stating, claiming, concluding, requesting, urging, advising, requiring, and ordering. Speech analysis reveals that the UN’s Security General did not use any declarative illocutionary act as he intended to avoid jumping to conclusions, on the one hand and avoid taking sides, on the other hand.
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Cetolin, S. F., K. N. Michna, L. P. Trissoldi, A. T. Zimmermann, V. Beltrame, and J. A. Steffani. "Possibilities and limits of participation in the municipal health council in a small municipality." Scientific Electronic Archives 13, no. 12 (November 30, 2020): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36560/131220201173.
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This article presents results of a research carried out with the objective of analyzing the participation of Social Control in the sphere of Public Health Policy of a small municipality, located in the Extreme West of Santa Catarina. This is a qualitative study, carried out with the participation of twelve directors, six representatives of non-governmental entities and six of governmental entities. Data were collected between August and December 2019, through interviews with open and closed questions. The research was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee. All requirements contained in the Resolution of the National Health Council - CNS 466/2012 were observed and respected. The limits for the participation of members in the Council, time and lack of knowledge in the health area were found as limits, and with regard to the possibilities, a broader view of the health services offered, and within this, the prioritization of actions and actions. It is observed that Social Control is very important and necessarily needs to be maintained and strengthened. The Federal Constitution of 1988 consolidated and predicted in its devices the participation of citizens in the formulation and implementation of Social Control, public health policies. It is hoped that the result of the research can boost proposals that are configured as responses to the strengthening of participation in Social Control, recognizing the Health Councils are deliberative and permanent collegiate organs of the SUS, existing in each sphere of government and members of the basic structure of the health system.
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GARBEN, Sacha. "The European Pillar of Social Rights: An Assessment of its Meaning and Significance." Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 21 (May 21, 2019): 101–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cel.2019.3.
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AbstractThe European Pillar of Social Rights is a high-profile political reaffirmation of twenty social rights and principles. Its implementation deploys the full EU governance arsenal: regulations, directives, recommendations, communications, new institutions, funding actions, and country-specific recommendations. As such, the static imagery evoked by a ‘pillar’ does not capture the true nature of the initiative, which is dynamic and fluid, wide-ranging, and permeating. An equation of the Pillar with the set of twenty rights and principles it proclaims similarly fails to capture its true significance, which lies in its programmatic nature. Several important measures have already been proposed as part of this new social action plan for Europe, some of which are close to adoption. This Article analyses the meaning of the Pillar and its potential significance, by considering its content sensu largo, and its broader context. It argues that even if the Pillar cannot address all the EU's social failings, it has put a surprising social spin on the Better Regulation Agenda that was threatening to erode the social acquis, it has rekindled the EU's relationship with the International Labour Organization and Council of Europe, and it helps rebalance the EU's output by reviving the use of the Treaty's Social Title.
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Sirri, Lana. "From Theory to Action: A Saudi Arabian Case Study of Feminist Academic Activism against State Oppression." Societies 14, no. 3 (February 20, 2024): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc14030031.
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This article explores the intricate landscape of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, an authoritarian state within the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), where the pursuit of modernization strategically utilizes women’s issues as symbols of national identity and markers of progress. The article focuses on the transformative potential of academic activism, exemplified by the work of Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi, in countering oppression against women. It demonstrates how women navigate the realms of academia and activism to reshape gender dynamics and shape their nation’s modernization trajectory. By emphasizing the critical intersection between academic inquiry and activism, this article dispels the misconception that academia and activism are mutually exclusive. In contexts such as Saudi Arabia, where women’s rights face suppression, this intersection emerges as imperative for informed research and frontline advocacy, effectively addressing state-sponsored violence. Furthermore, this article critically evaluates the persistent challenge of feminist neo-Orientalist scholarship, which often distorts the depiction of Saudi women’s experiences. It offers a contribution to a nuanced understanding of women’s theorization that includes the ethico-political context within which women operate.