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PHILLIPSON, CHRIS. "The ‘elected’ and the ‘excluded’: sociological perspectives on the experience of place and community in old age." Ageing and Society 27, no. 3 (March 27, 2007): 321–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x06005629.
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This article explores various issues concerned with belonging and identity in the context of community change and residential location. It examines the changing nature of community attachments in later life, and their impacts on the quality of old age lives. It also notes the increased importance of environmental perspectives within gerontology, not least because environments are being transformed through the diverse social, cultural and economic changes associated with globalisation. The argument is developed that globalisation offers a new approach to thinking about community and environmental relationships in later life, and that the impact of global change at a local level has become an important dimension of sociological aspects of community change. It is argued that it is especially important to apply these perspectives to older people, given that many have resided in the same locality for long periods. At the same time, globalisation also gives rise to new types of movement in old age, and is constructing an expanding mix of spaces, communities and lifestyle settings. A key argument of the article, however, is that global processes are generating new social divisions, as between those able to choose residential locations consistent with their biographies and life histories, and those who experience rejection or marginalisation from their locality.
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Tremlett, Paul-François. "Contemporary New Age transformation in Taiwan: A sociological study of a new religious movement." Culture and Religion 11, no. 3 (September 2010): 297–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2010.505730.
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Bandalović, Gorana, Zorana Šuljug-Vučica, and Marta Tanfara. "Aspects of Internet use among older people: Sociological research." International Review, no. 1-2 (2022): 78–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/intrev2202091b.
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Information and communication technologies have become an integral factor in the daily lives of people over the last decade. Although their usage allows significant advantages, there are still a lot of people in the world who do not use such technologies. In industrialized countries, the reason for this is not in economic factors, but age seems to be a significant determinant of the digital divide. Recently, however, the number of older adults taking advantages of the Internet has been growing. Numerous authors state that a key aspect of successful aging is to remain actively involved in life in old age. In this regard, it is pointed out that online communication and new media present many new opportunities and challenges for the social inclusion of older people. The aim of this paper is to examine the attitudes and opinions of older people towards the use of the Internet and the reasons for its use. The research was conducted using the 2019 survey method on a sample of 240 people over the age of 65 residing in the Šibenik-Knin County in the Republic of Croatia. The results of the survey show that, although more than half of the respondents have an Internet connection, only a fifth own a computer or a laptop. One third of the respondents uses the Internet every day, and most of them did not attend a course to help them use it. They point out that they easily mastered the rules of the network, in which their family members gave them a support and help. Respondents most often search the Internet for the purpose of informing, especially about daily events, then for the entertainment, cultural education and communication with others. More than half of them have a profile on social networks, mostly on Facebook. Despite all this, they do not emphasize the great impact of the Internet on their lives, and believe that the Internet often takes up a lot of free time. Also, more than half of the surveyed population does not use the Internet because they are not interested in it, do not have the financial means to buy a computer. The reason is that they are suspicion of endangering their own security and privacy. However, those not using the Internet state that their accessing to information is not limited because of that. They also point out that the only motivation for starting using the Internet would be the necessity of communicating with their families.
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Karpova, I. G., and О. Ye Melnyk. "Civil education: legal and gender aspects." ScientifiScientific Herald of Sivershchyna. Series: Law 2021, no. 2 (October 5, 2021): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32755/sjlaw.2021.02.007.
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The article examines the problems of modernization of education in Ukraine nd focuses on the importance of systematic implementation of civic and gender education in the public space for educational needs, formation and development of citizens who are aware of their rights and responsibilities who have an active citizenship position, patriotism, active outlook, cohesion and tolerance.The article reveals the components of civic and gender education, the main normative-legal and program base for their implementation in the formal and non-formal education system. The issue of strengthening is revealed considering the practical component in the training of specialists in the humanitarian sciences and the importance of using the most effective research tools, taking into account gender aspects. The importance of mastering the skills by higher education obtainers of conducting sociological research using modern information technologies, platforms and social networks is emphasized.One of them is determined to be the online service Google Forms, which allows easily creating a variety of tests, surveys, getting feedback, automatically process information and presenting it in graphical forms for easy analysis. The results of a sociological survey using the Google Forms survey showed significant differences in the responses of women and men, indicating mandatory gender and age differentiation in the research.The problems of fragmentation of civic and gender education, lack of a unified cross-cutting approach to the structure of civic competencies, insufficient practical orientation of education cause unsystematic approaches and activities, uncoordinated actions of stakeholders, especially in training humanities and civil servants.Thus, the educational, scientific and managerial community faces an important task to find new forms, adequate to the challenges of the information age, content and mechanisms of civic and gender education for all groups as a factor of democratization of Ukrainian society. Key words: modernization of education, civic education, gender education, democracy, equality, information technologies in education, sociological polls.
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Titova, Ol'ga. "AGE ASPECTS OF TREATMENT OF TEETH DISCOLORITIS." Actual problems in dentistry 15, no. 4 (February 12, 2020): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.18481/2077-7566-2019-15-4-61-65.
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Subject. The results of a number of modern psychological and sociological studies indicate that a person’s appearance can have a very strong and direct influence on the perception of a person by other people, as well as his self-perception and self-esteem. Currently, one of the generally accepted criteria for beauty, health and success of a person is a white-toothed smile. Therefore, it is completely natural that tooth whitening is currently acquiring significant significance not only in terms of aesthetics, but also social success.
The goal is to study the need for treatment of dental discoloritis in people of different ages.
Methodology. The data of the annual reports of Reaviz Medical University (Samara) for the period from 2017 to 2019 were studied. The results were subjected to statistical processing.
Results. The need for the treatment of dental discoloritis is very high in the group of people from 21 to 26 years old, both men and women. The turnover of this contingent for the purpose of teeth whitening is constantly increasing. This is quite natural, since it is precisely at a young age that the value of the aesthetics of a smile is especially great.
Conclusions. There is a need to search and develop new methods, tools and methods for treating dental discolorites, combining high efficiency and safety in order to use them in young patients and increase satisfaction with the quality of dental care. In addition, the results obtained should be taken into account when developing marketing activities for dental services, as well as for teeth whitening.
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Smith, Maureen M. "I Am Woman, See Me (Sweat)!: Older Women and Sport." Kinesiology Review 5, no. 1 (February 2016): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/kr.2015-0055.
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As women age, society assigns stereotypes that suggest that older women are no longer capable of being competent athletes. In considering the experiences of older women in sport from a sociological perspective, this article provides a short summary of works examining older women in masters sport settings, as well as three brief case studies of older women engaged in sport and movement. As American women age, more of them will have experienced organized high school sport (after the passage of Title IX), suggesting that the experiences of older women in sport will take on new dimensions and meanings worthy of exploration.
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Vodovnik, Ziga, and Andrej Grubacic. "“Yes, we camp!”: Democracy in the Age Occupy." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 13, no. 3 (July 31, 2015): 537–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/13.3.537-557(2015).
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This article explores the global mass assembly movement, focusing on its redefinitions of democracy and political membership, where one of the most interesting and promising aspects is reaffirmation of spatiality. In a way, the so-called Occupy Movement imagined new concepts of democracy and political membership worked out on a more manageable scale, that is to say, within local communities. We build on the recent scholarly attention given to the notion of nonstate spaces, which we chose to call exilic spaces because they are populated by communities that voluntarily or involuntarily attempt escape from both state regulation and capitalist accumulation.
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Sagat, Syrlybayev, Baitassov Yesset, Iskakov Taiyrzhan, Sabyrbekova Laura, and Yessimgaliyeva Tlekshi. "Socio-pedagogical aspects of management in the field of physical culture and sports." Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences 17, no. 5 (May 30, 2022): 1696–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/cjes.v17i5.7339.
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Radical changes in the economic, social, political, and cultural spheres of a country, directly and indirectly, affect the development and functioning of the socio-economic system of physical culture and sports. The present work aims to study the organizational and pedagogical aspects of training specialists in national sports and sports management. The research collected data with the help of a sociological survey of managers and specialists of sports organizations of various forms of ownership. The research identified and classified the factors that affect the effectiveness of the personnel management system, with Henry Fayol’s principles as the framework. The stages of creation, formation, and distribution of physical culture and sports student organizations in Kazakhstan are defined. In addition, the article describes the socio-pedagogical aspects of management in physical culture and sports organizations, taking into account the new socio-economic conditions of the development of the physical culture movement. Keywords: Health; management; organization; pedagogy; physical culture; sports.
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Chomczyk, Anna. "Redefinicja „indiańskości” przez ruch Nowej Ery." Sprawy Narodowościowe, no. 38 (February 18, 2022): 175–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/sn.2011.013.
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Redefinition of Indianness by the New Age MovementThe term New Age movement defines a heterogeneous, non-religious Western spiritual movement that emerged in the second part of the 20th century. It combines Euro-American spiritual heritage, widely understood Eastern philosophy, numerous native traditions, infusing this hybrid with elements of psychology, healthy lifestyle, as well as quantum physics. Because New Age spirituality is practiced occasionally at commercially held workshops, those kinds of seminars have soon become a lucrative business for educators and coordinators involved.The objective of the article is to follow the general history of New Age in the context of Native Americans, provide its characteristics, and investigate the “Native American” threads within the New Age movement both in the United States and in Poland. The author focuses on the ethical aspects of commercial exploitation of Native American heritage, examines Native Americans’ stand on misappropriation of their spiritual legacy for commercial purposes, as well as actions they take in order to restrict this practice.
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PICKARD, SUSAN. "Age War as the New Class War? Contemporary Representations of Intergenerational Inequity." Journal of Social Policy 48, no. 2 (August 1, 2018): 369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279418000521.
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AbstractThis paper examines intergenerational justice discourses that feature prominently in both the contemporary UK media and beyond, arguing that these constitute both a continuation of previous debates about the economic and social burden of the dependent ‘fourth age’ and a newer and more prominent denigration of the ‘third age’, both of which possess deep cultural and psychological roots. Both themes are subsumed in the trope of the old as in some ways stealing the future of the nation, represented by youth. Analysing media depictions of intergenerational injustice across several themes, the paper suggests that, whilst justifying welfare retrenchment and other aspects of neoliberalism, the portrayal of social problems in terms of generational war emerges from age ideology and an age system that, among other things, intersects with and naturalises other forms of stratification. This partly accounts for the fact that the attack on the ‘third age’ is particularly prevalent in left of centre, or progressive, media on both sides of the Atlantic. That the age system has been overlooked and underplayed in sociological terms is an important oversight since the former materially and ideologically facilitates the ever-growing socio-economic inequality that is a feature of our times.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "New Age movement – Sociological aspects"
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Ellery, Margaret. "Making the frontier manifest : the representation of American politics in new age literature." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0043.
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This thesis explores the history of the New Age movement through a political analysis of influential New Age books. By drawing upon cultural, religious and American studies, and concepts from literary criticism and political science, a new understanding of the movement becomes possible. This thesis analyses the ideological representations and rhetorical strategies employed in both New Age literature and American presidential discourse. It is argued that their shared imagery and discursive features indicate that New Age writings derive their ideological underpinnings and textual devices from dominant beliefs of American nationalism. This historical examination begins with the Cold War in the late 1940s and ends with the 1990s. Each chapter traces parallels between a particular presidential discourse and New Age texts published in the same decade commencing with Dwight D. Eisenhower and The Doors of Perception and finishing with William J. Clinton and The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure. It argues that the appropriation of particular spiritualities in New Age texts is closely related to contemporary American geo-political interests and understandings. Major New Age spiritual trends are derived from regions, most often in the third world, which are considered to be under threat from forces such as Communism. New Age writings construct an imaginary possession of these worlds, reconfiguring these sites into frontiers of American influence. In particular, this study examines the influence of the jeremiads and the ensuing Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny ideologies upon post-war national beliefs and the extent to which these understandings of nationalism inform New Age discourse. Representations of time and space, destiny and landscape, and self and other in these literary and political contexts are analysed. From this perspective, the eclecticism that marks the New Age can be historically understood as a shifting cultural expression of Cold War and post-Cold War political responses. Consequently, New Age literature is one of the means by which dominant American identity is reproduced and disseminated in what seems to be an alternative spiritual context.
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KOENIG, Thomas. "The new age movement : genesis of a high volume, low impact identity." Doctoral thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5305.
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Defence date: 29 May 2000Examining board: Prof. Klaus Eder (supervisor), Humboldt Universität Berlin ; Prof. Mario Diani, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom ; Prof. Christian Joppke, EUI ; Prof. Akos Róna-Tas, (co-supervisor) UCSD
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Chen, Chia-luen, and 陳家倫. "The Development of the New Age Movement in Taiwan: A Sociological Analysis." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60034706441131029176.
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The Development of the New Age Movement in Taiwan A Sociological Analysis The New Age Movement emerged in Western society in the late 1960s, and it is a movement that brings together religion, spirituality, psychology, health practices, environmental concerns, etc. The ideas and contents of the New Age Movement entered Taiwan in the 1980s, when a few Taiwanese intellectuals, who encountered the New Age Movement in the United States, returned to Taiwan. They introduced the New Age Movement by translating various New Age texts into Chinese. It has become a significant new spiritual movement in Taiwan. This research depicts the historical roots, the different branches, and the unique characteristics of this movement. I also review the observations and analyses of sociologists who have studied the religious changes in the United States since the 1960s. New Age spirituality signifies an enhancement of individualism in the realm of religion. This accompanies the growth of individualism in certain social and cultural situations where the demise of influence from institutional religions is felt. Looking at the development of the New Age Movement in Taiwan, I first outline the historical process and the main contexts of the New Age Movement in Taiwan. Although many different kinds of activity groups flourish in Taiwan’s New Age Movement, the study group is the basic and most popular format. The methods that I use in this research include interviewing, participation observation, exploring related publications as well as information about the movement on the Internet. I analyze the social traits of the participants, the main channels of diffusion, the relation between New Age groups and religious groups, and the uniqueness of New Age spirituality and its holistic health ideas in Taiwan’s religious and medical culture. Finally, I argue that the development of the New Age Movement in Taiwan shows, on the one hand, the social dynamic of Taiwan society, while on the other hand, it also reflects the effects of globalization. I discuss the affecting factors from two perspectives. Globalization is the exterior factor that brings new elements to Taiwan’s religious culture and stimulates the disputes in Taiwan’s religious field. Moreover, the growth of New Age spirituality, which is highly individualistic, eclectic, and anti-institutional (in respect to religion), demonstrates the development of Taiwan’s social culture has reached the stage of post modernity and/or second modernity. On the other hand, the interior factors affecting the development of New Age Movement in Taiwan relate to the process of democratization there. I use the “rational choice theory” as my analytical framework to show the significance of democratization on the religious development in Taiwan. My analysis proves that the democratization of the whole society produced among others one specific social group (highly educated professionals between the ages of 30 to 50) eager to absorb new ideas and open to different worldviews. It is this group that involved in the New Age spirituality and practice.
Books on the topic "New Age movement – Sociological aspects"
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The Possessed individual: Technology and postmodernity. London: Macmillan, 1992.
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Kroker, Arthur. The possessed individual: Technology and the French postmodern. Montréal: New World Perspectives, 1992.
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Fino. New Age spiritualism, New Age sexuality. Tucson, Ariz: Silver Circle Press, 1994.
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Chen, Shuquan. Contemporary New Age transformation in Taiwan: A sociological study of a new religious movement. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
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Contemporary New Age transformation in Taiwan: A sociological study of a new religious movement. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
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Mikael, Rothstein, ed. New age religion and globalization. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2001.
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Mutschler, Hans-Dieter. Physik, Religion, New Age. Würzburg: Echter, 1990.
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Terrin, Aldo N. New Age: La religiosità del postmoderno. Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 1992.
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Le New-Age: Ritualités et mythologies contemporaines. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.
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Ribner, Melinda. New age Judaism. Secaucus, N.J: Carol, 1999.
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Bonnell, Andrew G. "Intellectuals, Masses, and Leaders." In Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity, 186–205. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871848.003.0007.
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Abstract Two new sociological concepts came into circulation at the end of the nineteenth century: ‘intellectuals’ and ‘the masses’. These concepts gathered increasing weight in social and political discourse in the early twentieth century. Arguably, the clash between a new organized mass politics of the left, in the form of the socialist labour movement, and attempts by old and new right-wing elites to create a counter-mobilization of other social groups outside the elites themselves, was one of the main factors shaping Europe’s twentieth-century ‘age of extremes’. Michels often reflected on, and saw himself as personally exemplifying, the role of the intellectual in a mass working-class party. One of the aspects of the Italian Socialist Party which Michels found attractive was the prominent role of intellectuals in the party, including many university professors, which would have been impossible in imperial Germany. Michels believed that the involvement of bourgeois intellectuals such as himself in the German Social Democratic Party was proof of their intellectual superiority, whereas workers were motivated more by material gain. Michels increasingly espoused the view that ‘the masses’ were politically incompetent and in need of leaders to whom they could look up, a view that converged with the contemporary ideas of writers such as Gustave Le Bon, Gaetano Mosca, and Vilfredo Pareto.
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Cerasi, Laura. "Tra nostalgia preindustriale, ghildismo e rinascita nazionale Il pensiero sociale di Ruskin nel dibattito culturale italiano." In John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/021.
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Ruskin’s social criticism, which in Unto This Last (1862) harshly condemned the effects of industrialism by mythologizing medieval age and craftmanship, had a wide influence on social reformers of various political orientations: William Morris, J.A. Hobson, the Art and Crafts Movement, the guildism of Arthur Penty and GHD Cole and the New Age circle, with an impact that went as far as the early decades of the 20th century. While his work as an art critic was promptly received in the Italian cultural debate, his social criticism found little audience, at least until the turn of the centuries, and anyway not in the sphere of economic and sociological culture. In this contribution I intend to examine how the circulation of Ruskin’s social thought in the Italian cultural debate between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was inscribed in the renewed interest in the social function of art, advocated in the Florentine literary journal Il Marzocco with particular reference to the work of Lev Tolstoy by young intellectuals such as Ugo Ojetti, Angelo Orvieto, and Enrico Corradini, as well as established critics as Angelo Conti. The debate became a watershed moment in Italian culture, involving crucial issues as identity and tradition, artistic heritage and national rebirth. By including in this cultural framework the reception of Ruskin’s social criticism, I intend to highlight its connection with the emergence of the movement for the conservation of the artistic heritage, in which Il Mazocco had a leading role, and to suggest it having mixed political implications. Ruskinian references were channeled in a perspective of national rebirth and regeneration; for a paradoxical but interesting twist, aspects of Ruskin's anti-industrialist and medievalist imagery converged within the new nationalist and nationalist dimension that crossed the Italian (and European) culture of the first decade of the century.
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Volkov, Yury G. "New Social Elevators in the Regional Space." In Russia in Reform: Year-Book [collection of scientific articles], 131–59. Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/ezheg.2020.6.
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The problem of new social elevators in Russian society has entered the public space and has become abdiscussion space not only for the expert community, but also for practical managers. It is obvious that the social class and socio-territorial (spatial) barriers to upward social mobility generate abmultiplicative effect of social stagnation. According to the author of the article, new social elevators in the regional space are mechanisms of upward social mobility of subjects of the regional space (volunteer movements, social networks, subcultural practices), focused on changes in social status positions according to the criteria of social utility, social creativity, and social self-determination. Applying the principles of the resource approach (volume of capital, diversity capital, resource potential regional space, resursoemkost regional elite and non-elite actors of the regional space) on the basis of the results of all-Russian and regional sociological researches devoted to different aspects of the problem, it is concluded that the formation of abnew social mobility is the result of ab“social contract” with regional elites focus on social “capitalization” and the regional space, forming new social elevators within the framework of converting social and cultural-symbolic capital not for inclusion in regional elites, but for acquiring abresource of influence on making vital decisions for regional development.
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"Educators, Technologies, and Neuroscience." In Assessment Methods and Success Factors for Digital Education and New Media, 349–80. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8721-8.ch012.
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In the chapter, the evolution and involution of some pedagogical, sociological, technological, and neuroscientific aspects related to the role of pre-university teachers, in nursery schools, schools, institutes, and high schools, are investigated. The purpose is to establish the existing limits in school performance and analyze some of the causes of school failure at an early age. Simultaneously, some of the main human factors are presented, which increase the existing divergences between the university and pre-university context, resorting to visual synthesis, with the use of keywords. Several true examples are also analyzed that reflect the lack of merits and human talent to carry out the work of a teacher and that constitute educational anti-models. Finally, it is emphasized that the reality examined, described, and verified in the work is mainly focused on European borders, with extension to some countries of the American continent.
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Alahmed, Anas. "Political Information, Political Power, and People Power." In Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology, 1–25. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6066-3.ch001.
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This chapter explores the concept of new media in the Arab world and how politics in the information age has changed Arab politics and moved citizens to the streets. However, the evolution of new media social networks and the cause of political information in particular during the revolution is not studied alone. In fact, the evolution of the Arab Spring and the effects of new media social networks are taken into account by exploring how politics in the information age has influenced Arab citizens and allowed them to use information for the greater good and established such a new social movement. This chapter takes the Arab Spring as a case study and an empirical example to understand the transnational protests and global movements, the concept of global media and global politics in the case of the Arab Spring, new media and new politics regarding the Arab Spring, and city and street and public sphere as people power in the information age. Finally, the chapter distinguishes between the new social movements through social networks and the roles of ICTs to aim revolution and whether such a revolution will erupt without new media social networks.
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Gontier, Nathalie. "The evolution of the symbolic sciences." In The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, C43.S1—C43.S16. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.43.
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Abstract Aspects of human symbolic evolution are studied by scholars active in a variety of fields and disciplines in the life and the behavioral sciences as well as the scientific-philosophical, sociological, anthropological, and linguistic sciences. These fields and disciplines all take on an evolutionary approach to the study of human symbolism, but scholars disagree in their theoretical and methodological attitudes. Theoretically, symbolism is defined differentially as knowledge, behavior, cognition, culture, language, or social group living. Methodologically, the diverse symbolic evolution sciences establish their teachings upon diverging evolutionary biological schools and paradigms. This chapter reviews past and current research fields in human symbolic evolution for how they differentially implement tenets of the major evolution schools that were discussed in the previous chapter. Traditional evolutionary epistemology and biosemiotics bring in a mesoevolutionary outlook by drawing on early Darwinism and evolutionary developmental biology movements that emphasize the role of the organism in evolution. Communication studies instead originally take on a microevolutionary perspective by investigating how units of information are transmitted across generations through time. Only later do they integrate studies on meaning-making at the organismal level. Sociobiology complements a microevolutionary with a macroevolutionary outlook by implementing population genetic approaches, typical of the Modern Synthesis, into studies on individual and group behavior. The new symbolic evolutionary sciences build upon these traditions and include disciplines such as evolutionary psychology, evolutionary linguistics, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary archaeology, evolutionary sociology, and evolutionary economics. Originally centered on implementing Darwinian selection theory, these fields are now including ecological and evolutionary developmental biology as well as reticulate evolutionary paradigms. As diverse in outlook and scope as they are, no discipline holds a privileged position over the other and all have made valuable contributions to our understanding of human symbolic evolution.
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Iarulin, Ildus Faizrakhmanovich, and Soloveva Soloveva iuliia nikolaevna Nikolaevna. "Kak zashchitit' sotsial'nye prava samozaniatykh? Mnenie rossiian." In Strategies of Sustainable Development: External-economic, Law and Social Aspects, 81–93. Publishing house Sreda, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-103472.
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The article is devoted to the study of the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, which had the greatest impact on the economic field, and, in particular, on the labor market. An analysis of the dynamics of the mode of operation in the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods is presented. The disadvantages of the remote format of work are indicated. The results of a survey of Russians on the further preferred mode of carrying out their labor duties are given. A comparative characteristic by age groups of choosing a place of labor activity is shown. It was revealed that the representatives of the «extreme» age categories – young people aged 18 to 24 years and people 60 years and older – were the most difficult to endure the pandemic and post-pandemic periods. The negative changes noted by the Russians themselves, including the loss of a job, and in connection with this a sharp drop in income levels, forced young people and people of retirement age to adapt to new labor market conditions through employment in the informal sector of the economy, in particular, by acquiring the status of self-employed, until recently illegal. However, despite the attempts of the state to give self-employment an official character, many citizens are in no hurry to register their activities, since the shortcomings in the «law on the self-employed» cause mistrust and, as a result, unwillingness to «come out of the shadows». One of these shortcomings, according to the authors, is the lack of a clear definition of the term «self-employed» enshrined in the legislative act, as well as the conditions for providing minimum social guarantees. As a result, even the self-employed do not have an accurate idea of this form of labor activity, not to mention ordinary Russians. The authors believe that the solution to the above problems can be various educational programs related to self-employment, both in the business environment and among ordinary citizens, fixing an exhaustive definition of the concept of «self-employed» at the legislative level, considering the conditions for providing self-employed citizens with social guarantees from the state. The conclusions made by the authors are based on the results of sociological surveys of Russians.
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Boehm, Ryan. "Civic Cults between Continuity and Change." In City and Empire in the Age of the Successors. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520296923.003.0004.
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This chapter considers the important role of the polis as a religious community. Reconstructing cultic continuities and changes reveals aspects of social response to the rupture and discontinuity posed by population movement, settlement shift, and political change. The epigraphic, literary, and archaeological evidence allows us to piece together important indications of how traditional cultic and religious identities intersected with innovation. The chapter first maps the changing religious landscape of regions before and after urban mergers and considers how and why particular cults survived or died out and what this meant for the community that resulted. It then shows the ways in which central sanctuaries and civic cults served as focal points for integrating the discrete citizen groups into the polis, and the ways in which the traditional sacred landscape was simultaneously respected and replicated in the center of the new city. Finally, it examines the ways in which these synoikized communities—and, at times, their original constitutive parts—participated in religious and theoric networks such as koina and Panhellenic festivals.
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von Greyerz, Kaspar. "Introduction." In European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) in Context, 1–29. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864369.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 mainly addresses the following three aspects. First, that physico-theology during the period 1650–c.1760 in salient respects represented a new phenomenon. Although part of the tradition of natural theology, it displayed important novel features. It is misleading to view early modern physico-theology simply as a continuation of older natural theology. Observe its new image of a benevolent and wise Creator-God that is fundamentally different from the conception of an incalculable God of the preceding age and the very widespread recourse of physico-theologians to a mechanistic conception of nature unknown to the pre-Cartesian age. Second, this chapter proposes that physico-theology during the decades under consideration must be seen as an intellectual movement with initial roots in Britain and a widespread dissemination on the continent from about the last couple of decades of the seventeenth century. This movement eventually coalesced with the early Enlightenment without, however, ever becoming an integral part of it. Third, this chapter argues that only a transnational and transcultural perspective can save physico-theology from one-sided misconceptions.
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Aghacy, Samira. "Yarns of Later Life: Transgressive Strategies." In Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel, 133–66. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466752.003.0006.
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This chapter presents works by Nazek Yared, Randa Khalidy and Abbas Baydun that, rather than focusing exclusively on public achievement, they present semi-autobiographical accounts. They are related by older individuals who focus on their personal idiosyncratic experiences of senescence, and aspects of their lives that have hitherto been overlooked. Their aim is to challenge erasure, re-evaluate their lives, make new decisions, concentrate on their daily quotidian lives and reveal their capacity for growth, even at a late age. Despite the inevitable movement towards a future in close proximity with death, the works are concerned with a revaluation of the past in its interaction with the present.
Conference papers on the topic "New Age movement – Sociological aspects"
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Vinyes, Rosina, Sergio Porcel, Fernando Anton, Mariona Figueras, and Laia Molist. "Urban form and social cohesion: the socio-morphological definition of the residential fabrics of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6019.
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Social inequality has become of great importance nowadays, and it is in metropolitan areas where it appears to be more intense. Thus, inequality becomes unavoidable when rethinking the contemporary cities. To get a grasp of this phenomenon, for the first time in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, a common look between urban morphology and social cohesion is made. The goal is to describe the socio-morphologic structure of the metropolitan territory, which is the result of combining both categorizations and maps of the existing sociological and morphological aspects. For such purpose, a two-stage methodology has been used. The first stage develops the quantitative and qualitative criteria to overlap the two existing maps, and stablishes the areas that will be considered the new socio-morphologic fabrics. The second one applies the areal interpolation method to assign this socioeconomic and/or demographic information to these new fabrics. The result of this combination is a categorization of twenty-one types of fabrics that describes the socio-morphological metropolitan reality. This new categorization sheds light on a tight relationship between urban shape and social cohesion, both conditioning each other. Moreover, the new map shows socio-morphological similarities between distant areas and announces common urban strategies to achieve a larger urban equity. The interest of having this new approach increases when thinking in the new investigation lines that will be derived from there. One of them would be the evolutionary reconstruction, which will allow visualizing processes and ease the understanding of certain phenomena to foresee urban blight.
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Grella, Catrina, and Prof dr christoph Meinel. "MOOCS AS A PROMOTER OF GENDER DIVERSITY IN STEM?" In eLSE 2016. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-16-164.
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A very high number of learners take part in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) anywhere and at any time. Some researchers give a broad overview about typical learners in MOOCs, but many questions about social, cultural and ethical dimensions of eLearning are not answered yet. Notwithstanding the above, there are a lot of worldwide initiatives for supporting girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Nevertheless in some countries, especially in Western Europe, we are still far away from gender parity in STEM. In line with these two aspects this paper focuses on 100.000 learners from more than 190 countries (data collected since 2012 and enhanced with survey data) who take part in MOOCs on computer sciences offered by the online learning platform "openHPI". Our primary interest concerns to the following research questions from a sociological point of view: Who takes part in STEM-MOOCs (selectivity)? Which factors influence the successful participation of men and women in STEM-MOOCs and under which conditions are MOOCs able to promote gender diversity in STEM (e. g. second-chance education and re-entry into the labour market)? The aim of this paper is to raise the potential of MOOCs to educate underrepresented groups in specific fields like women in STEM by analyzing the learning behavior of different kinds of people and giving recommendations for further MOOC offers. Therefore we analyze eLearning in MOOCs in regard of the following social, cultural and ethical dimensions: o age, gender, socio-demographic background, subject field, working experience, social interaction among students (in the forum and in learning groups) and between students and teachers/tutors; o country of residence, values, gender roles; o fairness (e. g. in behalf of peer assessment) and conformity with regulations (e.g. concerning the communication via the forum). We report new results of our multivariate statistics and give recommendations for attracting more women to take part in STEM-MOOCs, e. g. with regard to the role of teachers, course design, learning materials, examples and speech geared to a diverse target group and a suitable learning environment for a very heterogeneous group of learners.
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Akbar, Poeti Nazura Gulfira, and Jurian Edelembos. "Place-making in Indonesian Kampung: A Case Study of Bustaman, Semarang. Creating Urban Spaces that Enhance Local Empowerment." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/ljth4799.
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For almost a decade, there has been a grassroots movement in the country that adopts placemaking in kampungs (Indonesian urban informal settlements) through cultural and contemporary art festivals. The common issues that have been faced by almost every kampung are to maintain their existence in the city where they tend to be excluded, marginalized, and demolished. Placemaking has been held with the hopes of improving the aesthetic appeal of the kampungs, creating new opportunities for the residents to develop creative output relevant to their neighborhood and communities’ specialties, and strengthening the local identity to protect kampungs from the demolishment threat (Kustiawan et al. 2015; Lieshout 2014; Prasetyo and Iverson 2013). Although many pieces of research from a different part of the world have shown that "temporal" place-making through cultural and art festivals provides many social benefits to the individual and their communities, it seems to be unclear from the global South context. Consequently, uncertainties exist whether place-making brings positive impacts on social aspects of residents in the context of developing countries, particularly those who live in problematic areas such as urban informal settlement dwellers. It is indeed an area that has been little explored in the place-making literature (Lew 2017). Therefore, this study will contribute to understanding the implications of place-making towards the public life of informal settlers, particularly in Indonesia. The main purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of place-making on the local capacity in Indonesian kampung. The research was carried out using a sequential mixedmethods in Bustaman, Semarang. Results from multiple regression analysis showed that placemaking through regular "everyday life" and temporal "festivals" have significantly influenced local empowerment. While the qualitative findings further explained that place-making can promote local empowerment by encouraging youth's participation, increasing the organizational and mobilizational capacity of the local community, providing knowledge exchange, and broadening local community’s perspectives about their place and community. This study also demonstrated that different types of place-making bring a different kind of impact towards particular socio-economic groups. Therefore, to achieve a better quality of place-making, the enhancement of relational resources between different age group is necessary. Finally, these findings raise important questions and suggestions for incorporating place-making into neighborhood planning efforts.
Reports on the topic "New Age movement – Sociological aspects"
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age. Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v Landscapes and regions: Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change? Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial. Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth. Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs. Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully. Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people. The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world