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Journal articles on the topic "Socially disadvantaged people"
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Kiepal, Laura Christine, Peter J. Carrington, and Myrna Dawson. "Missing persons and social exclusion." Canadian Journal of Sociology 37, no. 2 (March 21, 2012): 137–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs10114.
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The concept of social exclusion is used to explore the relationship between people and groups who are socially and economically disadvantaged and the phenomenon of going missing. Police data about missing persons are compared to census data to determine whether groups who experience family dissolution, labour market exclusion, and other forms of disadvantage and social exclusion are overrepresented among missing persons compared to the general population. The analysis shows that disadvantaged youth, women, Aboriginal people, people who are not in the labour force, unemployed people, and homeless people are all overrepresented among missing persons. People occupying the intersections of multiple high risk categories are at particularly high risk of going missing. Linking missing persons with the concept of social exclusion shows that social and economic disadvantage lead directly and indirectly to peoples’ disappearances. (133 words)
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Balan, Aliona. "Social vouchers – tool for supporting disadvantaged people." EcoSoEn, no. 3-4 (December 2022): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.54481/ecosoen.2022.3-4.02.
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The social protection system of the population in a welfare state must be built in such a way that it quickly and efficiently adapts to changes in the standard of living of the socially vulnerable segments of the population and, at the same time, does not hinder the economic development of the country. Solving this problem requires the implementation of new social protection tools for the population, taking into account the experience of foreign countries and national characteristics. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of social vouchers in supporting disadvantaged people, identifying the characteristics and benefits of their implementation.
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Nau, Tracy, Genevieve Nolan, and Ben J. Smith. "Enhancing Engagement With Socially Disadvantaged Older People in Organized Physical Activity Programs." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 39, no. 4 (January 14, 2019): 257–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272684x18821301.
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Background and objectives Participation in physical activity (PA) is low among older adults in developed nations and even lower among several socially disadvantaged groups. This study aimed to identify the actions that can be taken in the promotion, design, and implementation of organized PA programs to improve engagement with socially disadvantaged and underrepresented older people. Research design and methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 community service providers and 5 focus groups with 42 older participants in existing PA programs. Data were analyzed thematically, and the PRECEDE-PROCEED model for program planning was used to broadly categorize themes. Results: Helpful strategies for addressing predisposing factors such as social anxiety and lack of confidence included user-centered program design and sensitive, informative messaging and promotion. Key enabling strategies were transport assistance and minimizing fees. Facilitating gentle entry to groups and fostering inclusion and safety were identified as valuable reinforcing strategies. Providers regarded organizational networks as beneficial for facilitating referral and addressing resource constraints. Discussion and implications: A multifactorial approach addressing a range of predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors is likely to be necessary to enhance engagement in organized PA by socially disadvantaged and underrepresented older people. Key factors relate to creating a positive sociocultural environment, identifying activities of interest, and enhancing ease of access.
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Hlebova, Bibiana. "Children's Roma Literary Protagonist with a Social Disadvantage in the Emotional Education." Asian Journal of Social Science Studies 2, no. 1 (November 15, 2016): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v2i1.114.
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Author of the paper deals with the current issue which is the co-existence of Romany students (Roma minority social group) coming from the socially disadvantage backgrounds and marginalized Roma communities together with the non-Roma students from the major society in Slovakia in school inclusion settings. In this process, the author attaches significant importance for the development not only of cognitive (intellectual quotient – IQ), but also of emotional intelligence (emotional quotient – EQ) of all the students through artistic pictures of the Roma people coming from socially disadvantaged backgrounds marked by poverty a compliance with internal rules of the Roma identity (romipen) in the Slovak literature for children and youth. In this regard, author roots in the artistic delineation of emotional world of the Romany child protagonist – boy Lajko in an auto-biographical novel from Romany writer L'udovít Didi Stories blessed by the wind with the subtitle On the Romany soul, where the author displayed fates of people in very unusual way. Child literary protagonist from socially disadvantaged backgrounds perceives the social differences very sensitively in the intentions of own, minority society as well as in the co-existence of Roma and non-Roma people. Observation and empathetic experiencing of the negative emotional world of Romany child protagonist, the author used within emotional education and development of emotional intelligence of Roma and non-Roma students in the school inclusion settings in Slovakia.
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Norton, Clare. "Helping disadvantaged young adults prepare for employment." Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling 22, no. 1 (October 1, 2009): 20–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.2206.
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The 800 homeless young people that live with Centrepoint each day are amongst the most socially excluded and disadvantaged in the UK. Many of the young people Centrepoint supports have left home early as a result of abuse, neglect, family breakdown, drugs or depression. Many have been in care or prison and have not had the benefit of family support and encouragement. At school most were regular truants who did not achieve well, left school early or were excluded and generally had bad experiences within formal education. Around one in ten has a known mental health need and an increasing number are refugees with language, cultural and isolation obstacles to overcome, and qualifications that are not recognised in the UK.
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Milcarz, Marek, Kinga Polanska, Leokadia Bak-Romaniszyn, and Dorota Kaleta. "Tobacco Health Risk Awareness among Socially Disadvantaged People—A Crucial Tool for Smoking Cessation." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 10 (October 13, 2018): 2244. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102244.
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The goal of this cross-sectional survey was to assess the level of knowledge on harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and active smoking among socially-disadvantaged people in Poland. The study was conducted among 1817 respondents aged 18–59 years, who used aid services from local social care institutions in Piotrkowski district. Majority of the participants were aware of the fact that smoking may cause serious diseases and lung cancer (92%). However, those percentages were lower for awareness of ETS and health risk (69.4%) and for awareness of smoking/ETS-associated risk of stroke and heart attack (57%, 68%). The male respondents and smokers had much higher odds of lacking knowledge that smoking causes serious diseases and lung cancer compared to the females (OR = 1.47 and OR = 1.86; p < 0.05) and non-smokers (OR = 2.35 and OR = 2.31; p < 0.001). In addition, those with temporary jobs and the unemployed had a higher risk of lack of knowledge on smoking and lung cancer risk (OR = 2.14 and OR = 1.66; p < 0.05) as well as ETS and the risk of stroke (OR = 1.52 and OR = 1.51; p < 0.05) as compared to those with permanent jobs. The smokers who were aware of four health consequences of smoking indicated an intention to quit smoking within the next month more frequently when compared to those who did not have the knowledge on all of the analyzed harmful effects of tobacco use (19.7% vs. 13.1%; p < 0.05). There is a need to improve knowledge on the dangers associated with active and passive smoking among socially disadvantaged populations.
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Albus, Christian. "Health literacy: Do we have effective interventions to enhance it in socially disadvantaged people?" European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 26, no. 16 (June 29, 2019): 1760–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047487319861221.
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BAKER, STEVEN, JENI WARBURTON, SUZANNE HODGKIN, and JAN PASCAL. "The supportive network: rural disadvantaged older people and ICT." Ageing and Society 37, no. 6 (April 7, 2016): 1291–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x16000350.
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ABSTRACTThe rapid development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is profoundly transforming the social order, into what Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells calls the network society. Mobile technologies, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are perhaps the definitive tools of the network society; however, cultural and economic barriers exist that restrict access to these transformative tools and to the information networks in which they operate. One group that is particularly at risk is rural older people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This paper reports on one aspect of a larger action research project that involved working with a small group of rural, socially isolated older people with histories of homelessness and complex needs (N = 7) and their social workers. This paper focuses on the older participants who, having been provided tablet computers, were then supported to use the device in their homes over the course of eight months. Despite most participants having never used a computing device of any kind prior to the research project, findings suggested that participants gained confidence, independence and social engagement as a result of their ICT use. Results also highlighted that they experienced challenges in utilising ICT, specifically technical, economic and social barriers. Findings highlight the individual and structural issues that must be addressed to enable all citizens to participate fully in the network society.
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Horrill, Tara C., Annette J. Browne, and Kelli I. Stajduhar. "Equity-Oriented Healthcare: What It Is and Why We Need It in Oncology." Current Oncology 29, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 186–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29010018.
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Alarming differences exist in cancer outcomes for people most impacted by persistent and widening health and social inequities. People who are socially disadvantaged often have higher cancer-related mortality and are diagnosed with advanced cancers more often than other people. Such outcomes are linked to the compounding effects of stigma, discrimination, and other barriers, which create persistent inequities in access to care at all points in the cancer trajectory, preventing timely diagnosis and treatment, and further widening the health equity gap. In this commentary, we discuss how growing evidence suggests that people who are considered marginalized are not well-served by the cancer care sector and how the design and structure of services can often impose profound barriers to populations considered socially disadvantaged. We highlight equity-oriented healthcare as one strategy that can begin to address inequities in health outcomes and access to care by taking action to transform organizational cultures and approaches to the design and delivery of cancer services.
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Møller, Anne, and Camilla Hoffmann Merrild. "Exploring targeted preventive health checks in a socially disadvantaged neighborhood in Denmark." Health Promotion International 35, no. 5 (November 7, 2019): 1150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz110.
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Abstract Recently studies have focused on how health promotion interventions sometimes sideline issues of social context, framing health as a matter of individual choice and, by implication, a personal responsibility. Part of this criticism is that health promotion interventions often do not draw on situated understandings of the contextual aspects of health and illness practices. Theoretically, this study departs in practice theory and contemporary public heath discussions on targeted health promotion. Based on semi-structured interviews with 18 people living in a social housing association we explored the significance of participating in a preventive health check and how participation configured into everyday life. All participants in our study had been identified with a ‘risk’ health profile. Overall, we found that they were well aware of their health risks and challenges, and that they reflected a great deal on how their health status was intrinsically linked with their lifestyle and health practices, such as lack of exercise or smoking. The health checks were, however, not able to support or improve their general health, and did not seem to address the challenges the participants seemed to struggle with in life. By way of conclusion, we suggest that we implement a more practice-oriented form of public health that focus on the ‘lives’ that people live, and the problems that they face. Moreover, attention should be paid to how and to whom health promotion initiatives are offered, in order to ensure the relevance of targeted interventions.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Socially disadvantaged people"
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Schlabach, Kelly A. Schlabach. "Preying on Poverty: How Serial Rapists Exploit the Vulnerability of Socially Disadvantaged People." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461242905.
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Makati, Pamela. "A critical study of Charles Dickens' representation of the socially disadvantage." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/173.
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This research is an examination of Charles Dickens’ representation of the underprivileged in the Victorian society. The socially disadvantaged members that will be under discussion are the poor, women and children, who are of major concern in Dickens’ selected texts namely Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times and Oliver Twist. It is evident that Dickens noted the impact of industrialisation on the Victorian society as it created a massive urban development, leading to a higher class division. Initially, the English society consisted of the aristocracy, the landed gentry and the servants who belonged to the lower class. The influx of industrialisation created a further division of these classes in which there emerged the capitalists or bourgeoisie, who were the industrialists like Mr. Bounderby in Hard Times, and the working class, who were the industrial workers. Although the Industrial Revolution fostered urban growth, it is unfortunate that the number of the poor also increased. Many of them lived under squalid conditions with poor sanitation leading to fatal diseases and even death. Being a socially conscious writer, Dickens depicts the world in which he lives, as a strategy to raise awareness in his readers of what was really happening, and hopefully, to bring social reforms. Apart from the poor, Dickens also portrays the brutal treatment of children at the workhouses. This research will show that Dickens was an obstinate critique of the Poor Law and its administration. Furthermore, it will be proven that Dickens also abhorred child labour because of his own childhood experience. Moreover, his repugnance is also noted in the way he creates child characters like Oliver Twist who are mistreated and exploited as child workers. Dickens representation of women is largely influenced by the Victorian ideology surrounding the role of women in society. It is evident that the English society was very patriarchal and strongly confined women to domesticity. Women were also expected to uphold virtue and purity and if they lost both, they were despised and not tolerated at all by society. Although Dickens creates both the Victorian stereotypical woman who is the “angel in the house,” and the antitypical women who comprise of the prostitutes, those who bear children out of wedlock and the larger than life characters like Mrs. Joe Gargery and Molly in Great Expectations, he is revealing the different types of women one can find in society. Moreover, the juxtaposition of the stereotype and the antitype is also a suggestion of the latter’s struggle to fight against patriarchy by assuming the unexpected. Therefore, this research will prove that Dickens is not a patriarchal writer but he actually sympathizes with the plight of women. A realist and naturalist reading of Dickens’ selected texts will provide literary theory for this research. Writing during the time that both theories were grounded, it is evident that Dickens adopted both elemental forms of writing. A feminist approach to Dickens’ female characters will also foster the analysis. Being a realist and naturalist writer, Dickens is comparable to writers of his time such as Nikolai Gogol from Russia who also employs a similar mode of writing in his works. Dickens’ antitypical female characters are comparable to those of the later feminist writers who have placed much emphasis on the independent female characters. It is evident that Dickens’ creation of violent or impure female characters influenced the feminist writers to use them as representations of female independence.
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Da, Silva Pita Anita. "Normative indicators for an isiXhosa-speaking population with disadvantaged education for tests of hand motor function and verbal fluency." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002468.
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The aim of the study was to obtain preliminary normative data for two tests of hand motor function (Successive Finger Tapping and Purdue Pegboard tests) and two tests of verbal fluency ("S"-Words-In-One-Minute and Words-In-One-Minute), administered in English, on a non-clinical sample of black, isiXhosa-speaking unskilled workers with a background of relatively disadvantaged former DET education (N = 33). The sample was equally distributed for gender; educational level was restricted to 11 - 12 years; age range was 18 - 40 years divided further into two age categories (18 - 29 and 30 - 40 years). Results of t-test comparative analyses revealed significant age effects on both trials of the Successive Finger Tapping test in the direction of the younger age group outperforming the older age group, and a marginal but consistent tendency towards poorer performance at an earlier age stage than proposed by the available literature, for the Purdue Pegboard, "S"Words- In-One-Minute and Words-In-One-Minute. Gender effects were only in evidence on the Purdue Pegboard in the direction of females outperforming males. A descriptive comparison of the norms acquired for the present study with available normative data for English first language speaking populations with higher levels and/ or relatively advantaged quality of education revealed consistently poorer performance for the present study. The findings highlight the effect of relatively low levels and/ or poor quality of education on both verbal and non-verbal neuropsychological test performance and confirm the need for demographically specific normative data.
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Ogunsola, Elizabeth Stephens Hines Edward R. Brickell John L. "Perceptions of the relationship between intervention strategies and student persistence in special services for disadvantaged students programs." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1987. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8806862.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1987.Title from title page screen, viewed August 26, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Edward R. Hines, John L. Brickell (co-chairs), Mary Ann Lynn, Franklin G. Matsler, Oliver J. Williams. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-164) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Maduro, Edwina. "The implications of cultural resources for educational attainment and socioeconomic progression among Caribbeans in Britain." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-implications-of-cultural-resources-for-educational-attainment-and-socioeconomic-progression-among-caribbeans-in-britain(974dd942-0c0f-415d-99c3-ed5865cb4f93).html.
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This thesis explores the implications of cultural resources for educational attainment and socioeconomic progression among Caribbeans in Britain - one of Britain's most disadvantaged [social] ethnic groups - since the 1940s. More specifically, it offers, first, a review of Caribbeans’ experiences in education and socioeconomic domains in Britain, as have been researched throughout the decades since the World Wars, and explores, second, how cultural resources through which Caribbeans understand their social world and mediate their experiences therein impact upon their educational attainment and socioeconomic progression. Cultural resources, as implied in studies undertaken by DeGraaf (1986; 1989; 2000) in the Netherlands, are acquired in settings such as the family and schools in which individuals are socialised, i.e., learn their culture and how to live in their social world. These settings are held to be influenced by cultural and societal factors that are interrelated and are, in effect, sociocultural (Wertsch, 1994; 1995). Such settings are posited in this thesis as vital to understanding Caribbeans’ educational and socioeconomic outcomes. This is demonstrated through adopting a sociocultural approach from which analyses was undertaken into the experiences of ten families of three generations and ten individuals - all of Caribbean descent - who participated in a quasi-ethnographic inquiry that formed the empirical part of the study. The participants had a range of educational, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, which characterised a purposive sample that they formed. Their accounts of their experiences, which were the source from which inferences about their educational attainment, socioeconomic progression, and cultural resources are made, were elicited through ethnographic interviews, participant observations, and researcher’s diaries, and are presented in this thesis as family case study analyses and sociocultural settings analyses. The inquiry revealed that the participants across the whole sample were socialised in a key set of sociocultural settings that were identified in their accounts of their experiences as family, community, religion, education, and occupation. In-depth interrogation of patterns in their lived experiences in these settings revealed that their socialisation processes were diverse and, consequently, reflected in diversity in their acquisition and usage of a common set of cultural resources that were discovered and, through analyses, reified as familial influence, community orientation, religiosity, familiarity with formal education processes, and occupational aspiration. Diversity in their acquisition and usage of these resources in the various settings reflected in diverse patterns of educational and socioeconomic outcomes across the three generations. However, two distinct patterns are herein defined and discussed as a ‘trajectory of advancement’ and a ‘trajectory of urgency’. The former characterises the outcomes of participants who had attained educationally and progressed in socioeconomic terms across generations in their family, and the latter characterises the outcomes of participants who had not attained educationally and remained disadvantaged in socioeconomic terms across generations in their family. These findings are tentative, but they suggest, nonetheless, that cultural resources are salient in shaping Caribbeans’ educational and socioeconomic outcomes. Such findings are significant in that they interrupt the ways that Caribbeans’ experiences and outcomes in education and socioeconomic domains have been understood historically and, at the same time, offer the sociocultural approach as another way from which to understand these experiences and outcomes. In addition, the sociocultural approach from which these finding are derived and the concept of cultural resources are introduced, in this thesis, in an understanding of patterns of educational and socioeconomic outcomes that persist across generations. This understanding, it is herein suggested, is crucial to any debate surrounding persistently low achievement in education and socioeconomic domains among social groups - particularly among groups such as Caribbeans that are disadvantaged in education and socioeconomic domains.
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Richardson, Lindsey A. "When work is more than a job : employment among people who inject drugs." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4aadb1b8-4ba3-48d1-a7ee-fd2ee0416b55.
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This thesis explores employment among people who inject drugs (IDU). It seeks identify what differentiates IDU who work from those who do not, barriers to labour market participation, and how employment is perceived and experienced by IDU. Using longitudinal data from the Vancouver Injection Drug User Study (VIDUS), it conducts this research through a detailed examination of the implications of missing data, quantitative analyses of transitions into employment and qualitative, in-depth interviews. Missing data analyses identified differences between those that those that do and do not have missing data, as well as predictors of observation gaps and how individuals end their study participation (either right-hand censorship, attrition, or death). Differences were observed along individual, behavioural and contextual dimensions. Analytical approaches to the relationship between data structure and content gleaned useful information for longitudinal studies with marginalized populations. Discrete time event history analyses of work transitions revealed complex relationships between drug use, drug-related activities, situational risk factors, and transitions into employment. While most IDU did not make transitions into employment, some did, and while some statistical relationships were expected, others were surprising. Novel findings included mode-specific addiction treatment impacts on employment (methadone vs. non-methadone) and the importance of the broader risk environment over and above even high-intensity substance use. Finally, qualitative interviews identified heterogeneity in individual motivations toward and experiences of work. Those who maintained concurrent drug use and formal labour market involvement utilized strategies to spatially and temporally separate the two activities. Individual capacities to employ these strategies were facilitated by material, vocational and temporal motivations, and interfered with by health conditions, catastrophic events and institutional relationships that operated as barriers to employment. This study provides insight into what is a known social determinant of health in the general population among injection drug users.
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Hrbková, Jana. "Sociální podnikání." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-191549.
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The diploma thesis analyses and compares the current situation of social entrepreneurship in Prague and Plzen region. On the basis of an empirical analysis it evaluates the differences in public awareness and public opinion on the concept of social entrepreneurship and analyses benefits of an individual social enterprise for its employees. The main asset of the thesis is the list of individual recommendations which might help to develop social entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic.
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Brann-Barrett, Mary-Tanya. "The way we see it: an analysis of economically disadvantaged young people's experiences and perceptions of social and economic health in their semi-rural community." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/270.
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This study investigates how socially and economically disadvantaged young people, living in a semi-rural, post-industrial Atlantic Canadian community, experience and perceive social and economic health -- defined as participants' sense of comfort and security that their social and economic needs are, and will continue to be, met in their community. I argue that social and educational policies and practices must reflect the realities of local citizens if they aim to interrupt regional health disparities.
A key objective of this research is to expose and challenge gender, class, and regional inequalities through an analysis of young adults' social and economic health experiences and perceptions. Drawing primarily upon Pierre Bourdieu's (1990b; 2001)concepts -- habitus, field, and symbolic domination -- relations between gender, class,and historical circumstances theoretically inform this research.
Employing a critical ethnographic methodological framework (Madison, 2005),experiences and perceptions of ten economically disadvantaged youth -- five women and five men, ages 19-30 -- were gathered through focus groups, individual interviews, participant observation, critical dialogue (using media to stimulate dialogue among participants), and an adaptation of photovoice (a technique combining photography and narrative).
Results suggest that the social and economic health needs of economically disadvantaged young adults are not being met. They confirm Bourdieu's (1999a)assertion of an interrelationship between physical place and the positioning of agents in social fields. Participants navigate economic, cultural, and social fields, aware of their social positioning as they 'work' the fields in order to secure enough capital to 'get by'. Their struggles are examples of symbolic domination and suggest a significant psycho-social cost to young adults seeking social and economic health through various fields. Analyses of their experiences suggest a disjuncture between gendered identities ascribed to participants through historically-rooted habitus and contemporary social fields.
Recommendations call for gender, class, and regional inequalities to be addressed through structural interventions and investment in long term community-based education that is integrated with local economic development initiatives. Furthermore, this research calls attention to how research agendas and procedures can actually reinforce marginalization, making it difficult for the voices of disadvantaged communities to enter into dominant public discourse.
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Naidoo, Anthony. "The development of a management career development model to empower and advance previously disadvantaged managers in the automotive sector." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05242005-082644.
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Laguardia, Armando Reinaldo. "A Study of the Success of School College Partnerships Created to Improve Minority and Disadvantaged Student Enrollment and Success in Postsecondary Education." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1309.
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This study focused on "comprehensive" partnerships between K-12 schools and postsecondary institutions created to improve the pre-college academic preparation, college enrollment and postsecondary success of minority and disadvantaged students. The study identified such partnerships in existence in the United States for more than five years, surveyed the partnerships to describe their characteristics, and selected two of the most successful to analyze their success characteristics. Sixteen such partnerships were identified and surveyed with a 12-item questionnaire designed to inquire about their: (a) structural characteristics, (b) funding, (c) success in achieving their goals and objectives, and (d) collection of data to measure success. Three key informants from each partnership were surveyed. Forty of 48 surveys were returned, for a return rate of 82%. Responses were tabulated to ascertain the degree to which these partnerships had been successful in achieving their goals and identify the areas in which they experienced success. Two of the most successful partnerships were selected for case studies and visited to collect information about the factors that affected their success and to interview five key participants who represented schools and postsecondary institutions in each of the partnerships. An interview protocol was used to probe the degree to which the characteristics of partnerships success identified in the literature (Van de Water, 1989) were present and effected the case study partnerships. Analysis of the surveys, partnership materials, and the interviews provided a comprehensive portrait of each of the study partnerships. Results of the surveys indicate that a majority of these partnerships; consider themselves at least somewhat successful in achieving their goals, and have improved high school preparation and college enrollments. They are, however, less informed about their success in increasing college retention and graduation. The case studies and interviews revealed that the partnerships valued the success characteristics identified in the literature. The most salient characteristics required for success were the existence of leadership capable of negotiating change within several institutions with different organizational cultures, and the need to recognize that partnerships are unique organizations with some of the same peculiarities, structures and needs as other organizations.
Books on the topic "Socially disadvantaged people"
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Kahabuka, Febronia Kokulengya. Oral heatlh care for socially disadvantaged communities. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science, 2011.
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Arkansas. Dept. of Workforce Education. Adult Education Section. Adult Education State Plan, transitional year 1999-2000. Little Rock, AR (#3 Capitol Mall, Little Rock 72201): The Section, 1999.
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Culbert, Maria. Second chance education and the promotion of equality of outcome for disadvantaged young people: A case study of Community Training Workshops. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1998.
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A framework for understanding poverty. 4th ed. Highlands, Tex: Aha! Process, 2005.
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Payne, Ruby K. A framework for understanding poverty [workbook]. Baytown, Tex: RFT Pub., 1998.
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Payne, Ruby K. A framework for understanding poverty. Baytown, Tex: RFT Pub., 1998.
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A framework for understanding poverty. Highlands, Tex: Aha! Process, 2001.
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Edwards, John R. Language and disadvantage. 2nd ed. London: Cole and Whurr, 1989.
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Avner, De-Shalit, ed. Disadvantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Rose, Mike. Lives on the boundary: A moving account of the struggles and achievements of America's educationally unprepared. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin Books, 1990.
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Durst, Judit, and Ábel Bereményi. "“I Felt I Arrived Home”: The Minority Trajectory of Mobility for First-in-Family Hungarian Roma Graduates." In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, 229–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_14.
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AbstractThis chapter explores the upward social mobility trajectories, and the corollary prices of them for those 45, first-in-family college educated Roma in Hungary who come from socially disadvantaged and marginalised family and community background. We argue that among the academically high-achieving participants of our study the most common upward mobility trajectory, contrary to the common belief of assimilation, is their distinctive minority mobility path which leads to their selective acculturation into the majority society. This distinctive incorporation into the mainstream is close to what the related academic scholarship calls the ‘minority culture of mobility’. The three main elements of this distinct mobility trajectory among the Roma are (1) The construction of a Roma middle class identity that takes belonging to the Roma community as a source of pride, in contrast of the widespread racial stereotypes in Hungary (and all over Europe) that are closely tied to the perception of Roma as a member of the underclass, (2) The creation of grass-roots ethnic (Roma) organizations and (3) The practice of giving back to their people of origin that relegate many Roma professionals to a particular segment of the labour market, in jobs to help communities in need. However, we argue that in the case of the Hungarian Roma, these elements of the minority culture of mobility did not serve the purpose of their economic mobility as the original concepts (Neckerman et al. Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(6):945–965, 1999) posits, but to mitigate the price of changing social class and to make sense of the hardship of their social ascension.
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Hirschfeld, Heidi, and Bianca Lenz. "Young People’s Use and Construction of Institutional Support in Transitions from School to Work." In Life Course Research and Social Policies, 55–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13512-5_4.
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AbstractIn the transition from school to work, young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds have been identified and addressed as a risk group for many decades. Many policies have been designed to support them during their transitions. Aimed at increasing employability through counselling and pre-vocational education or training, these programs are based on politically defined ascriptions of individual deficits regarding skills, knowledge and professional orientation. Young people are addressed as passive recipients of support by the policies but are simultaneously made accountable if support fails. Based on the biographies of young people in lower secondary school and of young adult clients of the “Jobcenter”, this chapter analyzes how these young people are actively involved in shaping their transitions. It reveals that the ways they use institutional programs of professional orientation and job counselling differ considerably, and that differences in their use of these programs are closely related to subjective meaning-making in the context of biographical construction.
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Attila Papp, Z., and Eszter Neumann. "Education of Roma and Educational Resilience in Hungary." In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, 79–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_6.
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AbstractOriginally, the concept of resilience refers to one’s capacity to cope with unexpected shocks and unpredictable situations. Originating from ecological theories, the approach has gained ground in social sciences. In the context of education, the concept has been applied to explain how disadvantaged students can overcome structural constraints and become educationally successful and socially mobile (Werner, E. E., Vulnerable but invincible: a longitudinal study of resilient children and youth. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1982; Masten A. S., American Psychologist 56: 227–238, 2001; Reid, R., Botterrill L. C., Australian Journal of Public Administration 72:31–40, 2013; Máté, D., Erdélyi Társadalom 13:43–55, 2015).This paper is based on the analysis of the Hungarian National Assessment of Basic Competences (NABC) database which has been conducted annually since 2001. We created a typology of school resilience based on the schools’ social and ethnic profile as well as their performance indicators. We defined those schools resilient which over perform others with similar social intake, and we also identified irresilient schools which underperform others with similar social intake. The school types were created by correlating the socio-economic status index (SES) and school performance.Since the NABC database provides us with data on the estimated rate of Roma students in each school, it is possible to take into account the schools’ ethnic intake in the analysis of resilience. We conducted statistical analyses to compare the performance of resilient and irresilient schools in the light of the ratio of Roma students. Finally, we seek answers to the question whether ethnic segregation correlates with school achievement in Hungary. We could identify some crucial institutional factors contributing to resilience (or school success) in the case of schools with relatively high proportion of Roma students.
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Rogers, Carol. "Inclusion or Exclusion: UK Education Policy and Roma Pupils." In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, 3–17. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_1.
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AbstractEducation is widely recognised as a key factor in improving social mobility and improving life chances. Therefore, this is fundamental to UK education policy which aims to improve outcomes for all children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. As a result of expansion of the European Union over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of Central and Eastern European Roma families settling the United Kingdom. Together with indigenous Gypsies and Travellers, Roma families remain some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged families in the UK, with Gypsy and Roma children having the poorest educational outcomes of all pupil groups. An inclusive educational philosophy underpins the UK educational system, however, there is a tension between current austerity measures and outcome driven education policy and the principles of inclusive practice. Whilst there are examples of good practice and inclusive educational experiences for Roma children, some barriers and exclusions are also evident.
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Timmer, Andria D., and Máté Erős. "Duality of Humans: The Wish to Learn and Not to Learn." In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, 167–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_11.
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AbstractThe segregated nature of education for the Hungarian Roma has been well-documented. Solutions to overcoming this segregation are often focusing on adding education interventions tailored to Roma youth. We argue that although education can be empowering, it can also be used as a tool to maintain the status quo. Education is dualistic and paradoxical in that it can both empower and enslave. In this chapter we use a philosophical lens to examine how the dualistic nature of education and humans can cause impediments to equal access to quality education for the Hungarian Roma. We identify some of the real obstacles to providing education to Hungarian Roma and disadvantaged youth, outline the philosophical underpinnings of these obstacles, and propose potential solutions. We use a school that has had success in providing educational tools for Roma and disadvantaged youth, MÁV School in Budapest, as a model to explain both the paradoxes and the solutions to overcome these paradoxes. Our goal is to provide insight into the educational situation for the Hungarian Roma and to make space for the reader to implement different attitudes and strategies to succeed in creating a sustainable model of education for Roma and other marginalized youth.
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Bühlmann, Felix, Katy Morris, Nicolas Sommet, and Leen Vandecasteele. "Vulnerabilities in Local Contexts." In Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life, 139–52. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4567-0_9.
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AbstractMeso-level contexts (e.g., neighbourhood or community contexts) have a profound influence on vulnerability trajectories. They may mediate, mitigate, or reinforce the impact of variables such as gender, age or social class. This chapter studies how meso-level economic factors cushion or worsen the negative effects of adverse circumstances on people’s socio-economic trajectories, health outcomes, or political attitudes. This chapter showcases four case studies, which show: (1) that meso-level labour market contexts can alter the size of the penalties associated with low levels of educational attainment or a more disadvantaged background for young people seeking employment for the first time; (2) that meso-level social networks act as multipliers of inequality; close social ties in the neighbourhood increase the probability of exiting unemployment in resourceful neighbourhoods, whereas they decrease the probability of unemployment exits in deprived neighbourhoods; (3) that people residing in locations with higher levels of income inequality perceive others as being more competitive, which produces paradoxical effects on their self-rated health and undermines the psychological health of the most economically vulnerable; (4) how the confrontation with meso-level inequality and diversity shapes people’s beliefs in meritocracy and examine how everyday experiences of local inequality reinforces or weakens people’s belief in meritocratic value.
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Campbell, Alice, and Francisco Perales. "Intergenerational Processes of Disadvantage in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Australians: From Relationships with Parents to Parenting Expectations." In Family Dynamics over the Life Course, 251–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_12.
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AbstractAustralia remains a heteronormative society, with many of our social, legal, and moral structures still assuming and reinforcing heterosexuality as the default norm. The impacts of heteronormativity on the family lives of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) Australians can be profound. In this chapter, we draw from the lifecourse principles of linked lives, trajectories and turning points to examine how family dynamics produce disadvantage in the lives of LGB Australians. We begin by documenting trajectories of satisfaction, closeness, and support in relationships between LGB children and their parents. We then test associations between the quality of the parent-child relationship and LGB people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing across the life course. Next, we turn our attention to LGB people’s desires and expectations to have children of their own, and test whether relationships with parents play a role in shaping these. Overall, we find evidence that family dynamics continue to be a source of disadvantage in the lives of some LGB Australians. On average, LGB people are less likely to report a positive relationship with their parents than heterosexual people, and negative relationships with parents appear to suppress desires for having children of one’s own. Further, gay men who desire to have children are significantly less likely to expect to fulfill those desires the more dissatisfied they are with their relationships with their parents. Our findings demonstrate how social structures have the power to shape our most important, personal relationships and, through these, our mental health and wellbeing.
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Osman, Robert. "Geografie znevýhodnění." In Geografie bariér, 75–121. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.m210-9910-2021-3.
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This third chapter offers a Czech introduction to a subdiscipline of social geography – disability geography, its development and main research topics. It also grounds the whole book and our project in a broader thinking about the relationship between space and the body. In between the general beginning towards a concrete ending of this book, it turns our attention from the study of disability to space and shows how space participates on social disadvantage and this disadvantage is inscribed in space. The chapter focuses on the interactions of diverse bodies with diverse space and notices, what these interactions enable and what they disable, and how certain spaces participate in dis/abling and enabling of certain bodies. The question resonating through the whole book is “how space participates on disadvantaging of our bodies”, or “how diversity of our bodies translates into the form of space”? The chapter is divided into two parts; the first one discusses geography of disability and tries to show how discussions within disability studies are transferred with some delay into disability geography, where they interact with the research on space. The second part is devoted to three selected examples of space experience: the experience of people with physical impairment, the experience of people with sight impairment and the experience of „d/Deaf“ people. Each of the examples discusses two or three broader topics that have represented or might represent key research streams of the respective spatial experience. Thus, first example introduces research on space accessibility and everyday experience of wheelchair users, the example of people with sight impairment mentions imagining space, and the influence of assistive technologies and weather on experience with space, and the example of “d/Deaf” people comments on identity research, DeafSpace, and virtual space. The end of the chapter connects the two parts and concludes by presenting the phases of disability geography that study the mentioned topics.
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Saito, Toshinori. "Advocating for Educational Support to Develop Socially Disadvantaged Young People’s Digital Skills and Competencies: Can Support Encourage Their Human Development as Digital Citizens?" In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 54–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97986-7_5.
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Dale, Meredith, Josefine Heusinger, and Birgit Wolter. "Age and gentrification in Berlin: urban ageing policy and the experiences of disadvantaged older people." In Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447331315.003.0005.
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Chapter 5 examines the impact of gentrification processes in Berlin, Germany, on the distribution of older people across the city as well as the everyday experiences of ageing in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The chapter concludes with an overview of developments in the context of political processes, where urban transformation driven by economic interests generates growing conflict and contradiction with the needs of an ageing and increasingly less affluent population.
Conference papers on the topic "Socially disadvantaged people"
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Liba, Jozef. "Education To Health Designed For Romany Pupils From a Socially Disadvantaged Environment." In International Conference on Inclusion of People with Special Needs 2021, edited by Pavel Zikl, Zuzana Truhlářová, and Gabriela Daňková. University of Hradec Kralove, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36689/uhk/icipsen/2021-01-028.
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Runcan, Remus. "TURNING FARMERS INTO SOCIAL FARMER ENTREPRENEURS FOR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE." In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/31.
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According to Romania’s National Rural Development Programme, the socio-economic situation of the rural environment has a large number of weaknesses – among which low access to financial resources for small entrepreneurs and new business initiatives in rural areas and poorly developed entrepreneurial culture, characterized by a lack of basic managerial knowledge – but also a large number of opportunities – among which access of the rural population to lifelong learning and entrepreneurial skills development programmes and entrepreneurs’ access to financial instruments. The population in rural areas depends mainly on agricultural activities which give them subsistence living conditions. The gap between rural and urban areas is due to low income levels and employment rates, hence the need to obtain additional income for the population employed in subsistence and semi-subsistence farming, especially in the context of the depopulation trend. At the same time, the need to stimulate entrepreneurship in rural areas is high and is at a resonance with the need to increase the potential of rural communities from the perspective of landscape, culture, traditional activities and local resources. A solution could be to turn vegetal and / or animal farms into social farms – farms on which people with disabilities (but also adolescents and young people with anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide, and alexithymia issues) might find a “foster” family, bed and meals in a natural, healthy environment, and share the farm’s activities with the farmer and the farmer’s family: “committing to a regular day / days and times for a mutually agreed period involves complying with any required health and safety practices (including use of protective clothing and equipment), engaging socially with the farm family members and other people working on and around the farm, and taking on tasks which would include working on the land, taking care of animals, or helping out with maintenance and other physical work”
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Jarábková, Jana, and Marcela Chreneková. "Pracovná integrácia v slovenskom poľnohospodárstve." In XXV. mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0068-2022-52.
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The concept of social agriculture is based on the use of the benefits of productive and non-productive functions of agriculture to support the quality of life of socially or medically disadvantaged people. In connection with the benefits, emphasis is placed on work integration, social services, rehabilitation, therapy and educational activities, which are provided on the farm premises. The aim of the paper is to examine the possibilities of job integration of disadvantaged job seekers in the agricultural sector in the regions of Slovakia. Specifically, it aims to identify the potential of disadvantaged groups of jobseekers, analyze the capacity of farms in terms of jobs and the importance of agriculture for the regional economy and assess the readiness of farms to employ different groups of disadvantaged jobseekers. Secondary data and a questionnaire survey designed for agricultural enterprises were used in the study.The results of the survey showed that disadvantaged jobseekers account for a significant share of the total number of jobseekers. In the structure of disadvantaged jobseekers, long-term unemployed job seekers and job seekers over the age of 50 predominate in all regions. The questionnaire survey confirmed that these groups of disadvantaged job seekers are also the largest group that farms employ or plan to employ in the future. The absorption capacity of agricultural holdings can be limiting. Job capacity and the concentration of the agricultural sector indicate the spatial potential for the application of the concept of social agriculture. The paper also focuses in more detail on selected disadvantaged groups in the labour market, whose integration in the market may require a greater degree of adaptation of conditions by the employer.
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"Assessing the Graphic Questionnaire Used in Digital Literacy Training." In InSITE 2019: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Jerusalem. Informing Science Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4302.
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[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16] Aim/Purpose: To capture digital training experiences, the paper introduces a novel data collection method – a graphic questionnaire. It aims to demonstrate the opportunities and limitations of this tool for collecting feedback from socially disadvantaged participants of digital literacy training about their progress. Background: In training of digital skills for disadvantaged audiences through informal educational interventions, it is important to get sufficient knowledge on factors that lead to their progress in the course of training. There are many tools to measure the achievements of formal education participants, but assessing the effectiveness of informal digital skills training is researched less. The paper introduces a small-scale case study of the training programme aimed at the developing of reading and digital skills among the participants from three socially disadvantaged groups – people with hearing impairments, children from low income families, and elderly persons. The impact of the training on participants was evaluated using different tools, including a short graphic questionnaire to capture the perceptions of the participants after each training. Methodology: We performed a thematic analysis of graphic questionnaires collected after each training session to determine how the students perceived their progress in developing literacy and digital skills. Contribution The findings of the paper can assist in designing assessment of digital literacy programmes that focus not only on final results, but also on the process of gaining digital skills and important factors that facilitate progress. Findings: The graphic questionnaire allowed the researchers to get insights into the perception of acquired skills and progressive achievements of the participants through rich self-reports of attitudes, knowledge gained, and activities during training sessions. However, the graphic questionnaire format did not allow the collection of data about social interaction and cooperation that could be important in learning. Recommendations for Practitioners: Graphic questionnaires are useful and easy-to-use tools for getting rich contextual information about the attitudes, behaviour, and acquisition of knowledge in digital literacy training. They can be used in applied assessments of digital literacy training in various settings. Their simplicity can appeal to respondents; however, in the long-run interest of respondents in continuing self-reports should be sustained by additional measures. Recommendations for Researchers: Researcher may explore the variety of simple and attractive research instruments, such as “honeycomb” questionnaires and similar, to facilitate data collection and saturate feedback with significant perception of personal experiences in gaining digital literacy skills. Impact on Society: Designing effective digital literacy programmes, including engaging self-assessment methods and tools, aimed at socially disadvantaged people will contribute to their digital inclusion and to solving the issues of digital divide. Future Research: Exploration of diverse research methods and expanding the research toolset in assessing digital literacy training could advance our understanding of important processes and factors in gaining digital skills.
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Koga, Takahiro, Takeo Kondo, Kazukiyo Yamamoto, and Wataru Miyazaki. "An Analytical Research on the Auditory Disabled Person’s Behavior Limitation and Solution at Sandy Beach." In ASME 2008 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2008-57348.
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In Japan, many facilities have been modified for ease of use by socially disadvantaged people because of construction and barrier-free access laws. Currently, however, these modifications are largely limited to public facilities within Tokyo. This research examines the problems for people with hearing disabilities visiting bathing beaches, which attract the maximum number of visitors and which have numerous barriers for people with disabilities, and also proposes measures for resolving some of these problems. People with hearing disabilities do not evoke caution because there is no way to tell them apart based on external appearances. This therefore creates problems such as being unable to recognize warnings regarding dangers and cautions, and being slow to take action to avoid dangers. It has thus become clear that systems for communicating information suitable for people with hearing disabilities have yet to be established. As one of the authors has a hearing disability, methods for resolving these problems are proposed by addressing the problems from the viewpoint of a hearing disabled person.
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DI CIOMMO, FLORIDEA. "New variables for detecting transport disadvantages. The role of social capital." In CIT2016. Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/cit2016.2016.2158.
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This paper explores the potential role of social capital variables on the transport mode choice. Traditionally travel behavior model included social capital as empowerment factor (i.e. social capital as substitute of financial capital) or as social network influence on travel choice. Only recently constraints of social capital are considered as factors influencing travel behavior (Swanen et al, 2015, Di Ciommo & Martens, 2015).This article will show both aspects of empowerments and constraints of social capital in a dynamic way stressing two dynamic aspects of social capital: the building up social capital and use of social capital. Both aspects are related with the value of time: when you are doing something for others ( i.e. Voluntary actions, pick up all family members, etc) you are loosing your time, and your mode choice will be oriented to saving time, therefore a private mode will be chosen, while when you are using your social capital benefit (somebody else is helping you), you will easily choose the less flexible and more time consuming public transport. After defining social capital notion in both aspects of empowerments and constraints, a set of social capital variables is defined. Then two of these variables are tested through a smartphone short panel survey, where 100 individuals living or working in one surrounding southern area of Madrid have participated in entering their travel data for an entire working week. The estimated mixed-logit model that incorporated two “social capital variables: participation in voluntary activities and receiving help for various tasks (i.e. child care) show how people who have less social capital, but that are trying to build it up choose more private than public modes: building social capital stock has a cost in term of time that push people to use more flexible transport mode (i.e. private car), while people who have already a stock of social capital and can use it (i.e. helped people) receive time from others and are more relaxed in choosing a less flexible mode of transport such as public transport. Results confirm that when a new metro station is opened, the shift towards metro is higher in the case of people ”helped” and lower for those participating in some voluntary activities. From a policy point of view, it will be relevant to know if people leaving a specific area are more voluntary or helped oriented, for forecasting the future policies.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.2158
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Ford, JA, AP Jones, G. Wong, A. Clark, T. Porter, and N. Steel. "P31 Access to primary care for socio-economically disadvantaged older people in rural areas." In Society for Social Medicine, 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, University of Manchester, 5–8 September 2017. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-ssmabstracts.133.
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Ko, Nikka, Youji Kohda, and Naoshi Uchihira. "Applying Nudges to Nemawashi: Consensus-building Without Losing Diversity." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002547.
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In Ringi system, which is a decision-making process followed by organizations in Japan, Nemawashi is often used in order to form a consensus. The term Nemawashi generally used in the sense of explaining the situation to the parties concerned in advance during an informal setting for obtaining their approval to a certain extent so that negotiations can go well. Nemawashi can create a consensus with a bias in advance, which may lead to a loss of diversity of ideas in decision-making. Therefore, we thought that if we could successfully apply Nudge to Nemawashi, we could reduce the loss of diversity, which can be a disadvantage of Nemawashi. In this paper, we conducted a questionnaire survey of people in organizations where Nemawashi practiced in order to find out whether the application of Nudge, which can be an important tool for documentation and facilitation, to Nemawashi has a positive, negative, or no effect on the advantages and disadvantages of Nemawashi. Therefore, Nudges can be used to support strengthening Nemawashi and reduce the loss of diversity that can be a weakness of Nemawashi in the following ways: (1) provide information at the appropriate time, (2) increase the appeal of Nemawashi by creating attention-grabbing devices, (3) ensure that people behave in accordance with social norms, (4) make sure that people react in some way to what they do or don't do, and (5) ensure people are satisfied with the results. (3) to make sure that people behave in accordance with social norms, (4) to check what kind of situation is expected to occur if a certain choice is taken or not taken, and whether the result is likely to be satisfactory, (5) to create a system that will immediately respond in some way to the doers of the words or actions, and (6) to prepare time to carefully review what has happened. We proposed a model for applying Nudge to Nemawashi in order to achieve consensus-building between decision-makers and Nemawashi practitioners without losing diversity in the process of decision-making.
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Turley, RT, JF Ford, TP Porter, TS Shakespeare, GW Wong, AJ Jones, and NS Steel. "P66 Barriers to accessing primary care for socio-economically disadvantaged older people living in rural areas: a qualitative study." In Society for Social Medicine, 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, University of Manchester, 5–8 September 2017. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-ssmabstracts.167.
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Erdei, Renáta J., and Anita R. Fedor R. Fedor. "The Phenomenon and the Characteristics of Precariate in Hungary: Labormarket situation, Precariate, Subjective health." In CARPE Conference 2019: Horizon Europe and beyond. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/carpe2019.2019.10284.
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Anita R. Fedor- Renáta J. Erdei Abstract The focus of our research is labor market integration and the related issues like learning motivation, value choices, health status, family formation and work attitudes. The research took place in the North Great Plain Region – Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Nyíregyháza, Nyíregyháza region, Debrecen, Cigánd district (exception), we used the Debrecen and the national database of the Graduate Tracking System. Target groups: 18-70 year-old age group, women and women raising young children, 15-29 year-old young age group, high school students (graduate ones) fresh university graduates. The theorethical frameworks of the precariate research is characterized by a multi-disciplinar approach, as this topic has sociological, economic, psychological, pedagogical, legal and health aspects. Our aim is to show whether There is relevance between the phenomenon of precariate and labor market disadvantage and how individual insecurity factors affect a person’s presence in the labor market. How the uncertainties in the workplace appear in different regions and social groups by expanding the theoretical framework.According to Standing precariate is typical to low gualified people. But I would like to see if it also typical to highly qualifiled young graduates with favourable conditions.It is possible or worth looking for a way out of the precarious lifestyle (often caused by objective reasons) by combining and using management and education.Are there definite features in the subjective state of health of groups with classic precariate characteristics? Results The research results demonstrate that the precarious characteristics can be extended, they are multi-dimensional.The personal and regional risk factors of labor market exclusion can develop both in different regions and social groups. Precarized groups cannot be connected exclusively to disadvantaged social groups, my research has shown that precarious characteristics may also appear, and the process of precarization may also start among highly qualified people. Precariate is a kind of subjective and collective crisis. Its depth largely depends on the economic environment, the economic and social policy, and the strategy and cultural conditions of the region. The results show, that the subjective health of classical precar groups is worse than the others.
Reports on the topic "Socially disadvantaged people"
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Anderson, Kristy A., Anne M. Roux, Hillary Steinberg, Tamara Garfield, Jessica E. Rast, Paul T. Shattuck, and Lindsay L. Shea. The Intersection of National Autism Indicators Report: Autism, Health, Poverty and Racial Inequity. A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17918/nairintersection2022.
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This report examines the following two questions: 1) do income-based differences in health and health care outcomes look the same for children with and without autism? and 2) do income-based differences in health and health care outcomes look the same for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) children with autism and white children with autism? Examining the health and healthcare outcomes of children with autism in combination with other social characteristics offers several advantages. First, we can illuminate how demographics alone, and in combination with other social characteristics of children, are associated with differences in the rates of health and healthcare outcomes they experience. Second, it increases our understanding of the health-related experiences of social groups who are often neglected in research. Third, it provides current and comprehensive evidence on how children with autism experience relative disadvantages related to social determinants of health, which are aspects of the environment that affect health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
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Lu, Tianjun, Jian-yu Ke, Fynnwin Prager, and Jose N. Martinez. “TELE-commuting” During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Unveiling State-wide Patterns and Trends of Telecommuting in Relation to Transportation, Employment, Land Use, and Emissions in Calif. Mineta Transportation Institute, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2022.2147.
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Telecommuting, the practice of working remotely at home, increased significantly (25% to 35%) early in the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift represented a major societal change that reshaped the family, work, and social lives of many Californians. These changes also raise important questions about what factors influenced telecommuting before, during, and after COVID-19, and to what extent changes in telecommuting have influenced transportation patterns across commute modes, employment, land use, and environment. The research team conducted state-level telecommuting surveys using a crowd-sourced platform (i.e., Amazon Mechanical Turk) to obtain valid samples across California (n=1,985) and conducted state-level interviews among stakeholders (n=28) across ten major industries in California. The study leveraged secondary datasets and developed regression and time-series models. Our surveys found that, compared to pre-pandemic levels, more people had a dedicated workspace at home and had received adequate training and support for telecommuting, became more flexible to choose their own schedules, and had improved their working performance—but felt isolated and found it difficult to separate home and work life. Our interviews suggested that telecommuting policies were not commonly designed and implemented until COVID-19. Additionally, regression analyses showed that telecommuting practices have been influenced by COVID-19 related policies, public risk perception, home prices, broadband rates, and government employment. This study reveals advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting and unveils the complex relationships among the COVID-19 outbreak, transportation systems, employment, land use, and emissions as well as public risk perception and economic factors. The study informs statewide and regional policies to adapt to the new patterns of telecommuting.