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Silberberg, Hattie Paige. "Lasting social impact : Community Development Venture Capital investing". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44337.
Testo completoIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 117-121).
Community Development Venture Capital Funds (CDVC) funds are an emerging group of Community Development Financial Institutions, that make equity investments in businesses in economically distressed areas. As equity investors, CDVC funds, like mainstream VC funds, exit investments to generate financial returns. Unlike mainstream VC investors, they also seek social returns. Social returns are continuous throughout the investment cycle, and in ideal CDVC investments continue after the CDVC exits from an investment. This thesis examines CDVC investments, focusing on the the point of investment exit. At the exit, this thesis asks the questions: What happens to social value? Is there lasting social impact for CDVC investments? What aspects of CDVC investments contribute to lasting social impacts? To answer these questions this thesis explores pre-exit and post-exit financial and social conditions of five companies financed by three CDVC funds. These companies are in different industries and geographies, but studied in aggregate they demonstrate that three factors can greatly influence lasting social impact. First, a CDVC fund's investment choice to invest in a business whose value is dependent upon employees, a specific location, or a unique management team. Second, CDVC fund assistance to expand employee benefits, including improved job training and profit sharing, can increase the wealth and earning capacity of low-income employees. Third, the structure and type of an exit.
(cont) This final factor is both influenced by how a CDVC fund markets a business, and how a new owner or new investor values a business, at the exit. In presenting these factors, this thesis concludes that CDVC funds are true double bottom line investors, and can motivate sustainable social impact alongside generating financial returns for investors.
by Hattie Paige Silberberg.
M.C.P.
Neild, Jill. "Drug users : community, social exclusion and gendered experiences". Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2006. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21914/.
Testo completoAnkersen, Imke Kristin. "Community healing in BonteLanga : a space for social healing and reconciliation". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19087.
Testo completoVerrill, Stephen W. "Social Structure and Social Learning in Delinquency: A Test of Akers’ Social Structure-Social Learning Model". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001305.
Testo completoHolden, Jennifer. "Social responsibility in higher education : conducting a social audit of a community college". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/NQ56560.pdf.
Testo completoChen, Rong M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Chinese gated community : degree of openness and the social impacts". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90196.
Testo completoCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 55).
Contemporary gated communities in China have only risen to prominence over the past two decades since the Housing Reform and market economy. Research on this field mainly criticize Chinese gated community on their negative social impacts by directly borrowing arguments from the studies of Western gated communities, especially from the US counterparts. However, the socioeconomic connotation attached to gated communities in the US is not necessarily applicable to gating in the Chinese cases. Conceptions of cities in the US as the leading parts of this Chinese urban trend thus have to be questioned and investigated. This paper aims at analyzing the formation of Chinese gated community based on its unique historical context and socioeconomic conditions, and constructing a study framework to measure the degree of openness with its social impact. The historical formation of this peculiar spatial layout derived from a centralized administration concern, which in turn blended into the traditional value as a symbol of social order and belonging. As people's preferences for residence follow the historical traditions and customs, the way residents perceive gatedness is different from the opinions of the Western liberals. Moreover, the current socioeconomic environment contributes to distinguishing the specificities of Chinese urbanization process. The common interests shared by local government, private developers and customers prompt the prevalence of gated communities around the country. Translating the spatial language into measurable quantitative index enables the dissection of the gating phenomenon for objective openness degree assessment. As Chinese gated communities account for a large proportion of the land development, a comprehensive understanding of the measurable openness degree based on local context will better facilitate the research on Chinese gated communities and the rapid urbanization process.
by Rong Chen.
M.C.P.
Forman, Benjamin. "Bridge building : afterschool activities, youth social networks, and community development". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17680.
Testo completo"June 2004."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).
In recent years, U.S. cities have dramatically increased funding for afterschool activities. These afterschool programs may contribute to community development by expanding social networks, providing new channels for the flow of information and resources to low income neighborhoods. Drawing on research and literature from the fields of sociology, political science and adolescent development, I develop an argument for this hypothesis. The theory is tested using both qualitative data collected from interviews at three case study sites, and quantitative data from surveys distributed to afterschool youth programs in the Boston area. I find that afterschool programs build both bridging and bonding social capital by increasing local and extra-local connections between adolescents and adults, peers, and parents. Policy recommendations designed to increase the social network impact of afterschool programming are provided.
by Benjamin Forman.
M.C.P.
Lawton, Paul, e University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Capital and stratification within virtual community : a case study of metafilter.com". Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, c2005, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/267.
Testo completovi, 129 leaves ; 29 cm.
Mirić, Siniša. "Social Stability and Promotion in the Communist Party of China". DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7117.
Testo completoCigagna, Karina Cabernite. "Community Service Through Architecture: Social Housing with Identity". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003182.
Testo completoLensing, Willene (Willene Crowell). "A Case Study of Social Transformation in Medical Care at the Community Level". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277789/.
Testo completoSchirra, Steven M. (Steven Michael). "Playing for impact : the design of civic games for community engagement and social action". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81134.
Testo completo"June 2013." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-113).
In light of calls that civic participation is declining, efforts are underway to replace outdated, unproductive forms of citizenship. With the majority of Americans now connected to the Internet, community leaders see the digital realm as the new frontier for promoting engagement. Increasingly, digital games are being designed for the express purpose of promoting community engagement and social action. My thesis examines this emerging practice of civic game design. Within this thesis, I analyze several cases wherein games have served as successful tools for fostering civic learning and promoting further civic action. An analysis of Darfur is Dying (2006) reveals how casual serious games can deliver short, persuasive messages that compel players to take direct action outside of the game. Participatory Chinatown (2010) shows how a locally networked online game can transform a face-to-face community meeting through the use of digital role-play. I ground this analysis historically by looking to the 1960s and 70s for examples of non-digital civic games. Fair City (1970) helped local residents understand and navigate the complexities of a federal urban development program, and The Most Dangerous Game (1967) shows the sophistication of designers of this era with a serious game that reached thousands of players though the use of television and phone networks. Together, all of these games point to a growing field of design and research that will continue to influence how everyday citizens engage in civic life.
by Steven M. Schirra.
S.M.
Lightman, Deborah. "Community-based social marketing at the neighborhood scale : sustainable behavior or neighborhood sustainability?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67228.
Testo completoCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-119).
Social marketing has long been used in the field of public health, but its application in the environmental world is only a decade old. Although McKenzie-Mohr and Smith's (1999) guide to "community-based social marketing" (CBSM) has gained increasing support, there have been few attempts to delineate when CBSM can (and should) be used. In this thesis, I explore the use of CBSM at the neighborhood scale: first, to encourage the uptake of rain barrels and rain gardens; and second, to advance long-term sustainability as defined in the sustainable communities literature. My research focuses on the potential opportunities and limitations of CBSM in three very different neighborhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. Interviews with homeowners in the three neighborhoods revealed surprisingly high levels of rain barrel interest and ownership among people who do not self-identify as "environmentalists". I suggest that different CBSM strategies may be useful for promoting rain barrels among individuals who self-identify in different ways. In contrast, rain gardens received limited support from non-environmentalists and appeared challenging to promote. I suggest that CBSM programs to encourage rain gardens will be more effective if clearly tied to local issues. I outline strategies for increasing the local relevance of CBSM and highlight the benefits of including diverse residents at all stages of program design. Finally, I argue that practitioners should assess opportunities for CBSM to contribute to long-term neighborhood sustainability. In all three neighborhoods, CBSM holds little potential to directly address residents' sustainability priorities, since these issues require neighborhood-level efforts. However, modified versions of CBSM may be able to indirectly contribute to long-term sustainability by fostering social capital, attachment to place and awareness of links between environmental, economic and social issues.
by Deborah Lightman.
M.C.P.
Jones, Evelyn. "Transitional housing for minorities in the Inglewood community| A grant proposal". Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10024095.
Testo completoThe purpose of this project was to write a grant proposal to fund a transitional housing program for disenfranchised minority youth between the ages of 16-24 who are students at Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) in Inglewood, California. This program will provide underprivileged youth with an opportunity to have a basic life need met, while developing autonomous abilities that will serve as a core foundation to help youth who are identified as marginal at best to reach self-actualization, thus breaking the generational cycle of depravity and immobilization. The transitional housing program's foundational core is centered on the Ecological Perspective, which takes into account not only the individual, but also the environment from which the individual came as a basis to better understand how to best meet the needs of those from various walks of life. The submission and/or funding of this grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of this project.
Emery, Steven David. "Citizenship and the deaf community". Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2006. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21827/.
Testo completoMoon, Hyesoo. "Local Community Based Outdoor Activities through Integrating Subjects in Social Studies for Sustainability". Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-65862.
Testo completoLuck, Flora Todaro. "Psychological well-being in community studies : The role of anxiety and social support". Thesis, University of Ulster, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505828.
Testo completoGraves, Erin Michelle. "Constructing Community : class, privatization and social life in a Boston mixed income housing development". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42414.
Testo completoIncludes bibliographical references (p. 268-277).
Social interaction among friends and neighbors is generally considered an informal process. Consequently, we often think of the structure of personal social networks as an expression of people's individual preferences. The observed homogeneity within social networks is often treated as a near socio-biological fact: people, like "birds of a feather," flock together. This dissertation examines unexpected influences on cross-class interaction in a privatized mixed income housing development in Boston, Massachusetts. The research site Maverick Landing was constructed as an alternative to low-income public housing as part of the HOPE VI program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Through research methods including fourteen months of residency and participant observation at Maverick Landing, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, this study shows how formal processes interacted with informal ones at the interpersonal level and impacted cross-class interaction. Management enforced a formal structure -- including rules and control of physical space, as well as more subtle measures such as information control and resource distribution - that substantially negatively influenced interpersonal relations. Larger structural realities too shaped the actions of the management company. Relative to their lower income neighbors, higher income residents had considerable leverage in the housing market, making them much harder to recruit and retain. Due to this structural disparity, management sought to satisfy the market rate residents over the subsidized ones, resulting in cross-class resentment. Additionally, the social structure evident at Maverick Landing was in part the outcome of a chain of processes that began at the Federal level where the potential for privatization and income mixing was promoted through policy.
(cont.) Following the "implementation chain" from the federal level, to the local level, to the site of implementation, Maverick Landing and finally to residents' actions and reactions, this research shows how social interaction is structured by public and private actors outside of the implementation site, Maverick Landing. Privatized mixed income developments, many hoped, would reduce inequality between lower and higher income people. But in important ways, the intervention reproduced inequality. And it shows us how class is protected, not just by its members but also by institutions.
by Erin Michelle Graves.
Ph.D.
Gallagher, Caitlin. "Already in my back yard : community opposition to social service agencies in gentrifying neighborhoods". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37860.
Testo completoIncludes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
Communities often object to the siting of controversial social service agencies in their neighborhoods. Traditional NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) literature outlines not only the forces at work in NIMBY dynamics, but also proven strategies that social service agencies have used in order to overcome such opposition. There is little research, however, on the "flip side" of this scenario - what happens when an established social service agency begins to see gentrification, and as a result, community opposition, in its back yard? This thesis looks at two such cases in Boston's South End and examines their responses to gentrification in the context of traditional NIMBY literature. What it uncovers is that the dynamics involved in the "flip side" of NIMBY have an additional dimension not explored in traditional NIMBY literature - namely, the force of neighborhood change itself. When social service agencies are "there first," and gentrification follows, community opposition to the facility varies based on the speed and scale of neighborhood change, and how the real estate market alters the community landscape.
by Caitlin Gallagher.
M.C.P.
Meza, Jessica. "A community outreach program for Latino immigrant families| Increasing service utilization". Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1522587.
Testo completoThe purpose of this project was to locate a potential funding source and write a grant that will provide peer led education to immigrant Latino families regarding mental health services. This project goal is to increase the utilization of services within their community. A search was conducted to locate an appropriate funder for the proposed program. Various areas needed to be addressed to identify an appropriate funder which included correlation of goals and visions between the purposed program and the funding source. In funding this program, The California Endowment was chosen as the outcomes align with the goals of the program which include but are not limited to "health-home," decreasing youth violence and improving youth development. The goals for this program are to provide education to immigrant Latino families about mental health in an environment that is comfortable and non-threatening. This program will also provide various resources that will facilitate the services that are needed within this population.
Michaels, Meredith. "The Therapeutic Benefits of Community Gardening| An Exploration of the Impact of Community Gardens Through the Lens of Community Psychology". Thesis, Alliant International University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3567663.
Testo completoCommunity psychology is a unique field of psychology that perceives individuals as linked to their context. The role of psychologist within this branch of psychology is viewed as one who is responsible for addressing the individual, as well as the social patterns and structures that adversely affect well-being. The use of community gardens as a therapeutic tool may serve as a two-fold intervention that can be used at both the individual and community levels. This doctoral project explores the therapeutic benefits of community gardening through the lens of the community psychology perspective. Framed within a community psychology perspective in which clients are inextricably linked to their social and physical context, engaging with nature through community gardening may lead to healthier client outcomes. A literature review was conducted to inform the author of current data related to the study of community gardens and their impact on mental health. The reviewed data pointed to the impact of community gardens on individual physical and mental health, and the social and physical community contexts that additionally affect mental health. Additional consultations with experts in the field were used to corroborate and extend research findings in the literature. The information collected from the current body of literature and consultations were presented as a professional presentation to mental health workers to increase their knowledge of the therapeutic benefits of community gardening. The limitations of the current body of literature, considerations for application in clinical practice, and recommendations for future areas of study were also considered.
Kendall, Helen Jane. "The link between mental health, social and emotional vulnerability and life chances : school based early identification of socially and emotionally vulnerable adolescents in a deprived urban community". Thesis, University of Hull, 2004. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5604.
Testo completoAguero, Cecile. "Hospice-veteran partnership program for community based hospice agencies| A grant proposal". Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527867.
Testo completoThe purpose of this thesis and the overall goal of this grant is to offer support to a community-based hospice agency by creating a position for a veterans' health consultant. The consultant will train staff to the unique care needs of veterans at the end of life by using the National Hospice-Veteran Partnership model from wehonorveterans.org. Upon the completion of an extensive literature review, this writer wrote a grant proposal for Wisteria Hospice, a local community-based hospice agency located in the City of Long Beach. After conducting a thorough funding search, the Archstone Foundation was chosen as the most compatible funding source. This funding source was selected as this foundation provides funds for professional education and training, focusing on end of life care. The actual submission of this grant for funding was not required for successful completion of this project.
Ditzenberger, Kay S. "Servant Leadership, Community, and Inclusion| A Case Study of the Ike Special". Thesis, Gonzaga University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840645.
Testo completoThere are currently an estimated 93 million children with disabilities in the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report each year that 1 in every 700 babies is born with Down syndrome. Yet in spite of the enormity of numbers, they remain one of the most marginalized groups in society. Discrimination, negative attitudes, inadequate healthcare, and segregated education systems effectively bar differently abled children from realizing their full potential. This study uses a single-subject case study of one spectacular sport event involving one child with Down syndrome. It is framed by Vygotsky’s "zone of proximal development" (ZPD) theory, which suggests that social interaction, adult guidance, and peer collaboration, can support development that exceeds what can be attained alone. A thematic analysis was used to measure differences in recurring themes among three separate sources of data including (1) online YouTube video comments, (2) written correspondence, and (3) focus group interviews. Four emerging themes including servant leadership (31%), happiness (27%) inclusion (20%), and community (17%), were most frequently identified. However, significant differences in frequencies of thematic responses were noted between the three sources of data. Findings support past research that has found comparative differences between participants and observers in how one relates to people and scenarios. Observers are likely to remove themselves from “understanding” an experience, and may be less likely to feel the full spectrum of human emotion and character. This unintentional yet impactful event points to the power and mystery of how a person’s influence can extend much further than their immediate community, but to external observers from the wider world. Findings also confirm the role of Servant Leadership, Community, and Inclusion as critical for reshaping attitudes and assuring equity across policies and programs so that children who are differently abled can reach their full potential.
Bagnall, Karen. "The utilisation of community work within a military context : the role of the social worker". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53184.
Testo completoENGLISH ABSTRACT: Community work fulfils definite functions within the social work milieu and develops according to a process. The SANDF does not possess any definite guidelines regarding community work. The resultant consequence is that community work is not utilised to its full potential in that the client system does not always receive a quality service. The purpose of this study was to compose a framework for the Directorate of Social Work within the SANDF, which can serve as a guideline for the possible formulation of a policy document on community work within social work practice. The objectives of the study are firstly to provide theoretical and practical guidelines which social workers in a military setting can follow when utilising community work as a social work method of intervention. Secondly, to explore the knowledge and skills of social workers in the military within the SANDF regarding community work. Thirdly, the need for guidelines with regard to community work within the SANDF, was explored. This study was confined geographically to the social workers in the military of the Western Province. An exploratory study was executed in order to achieve the stated goal and objectives. The research methodology was a quantitative design being a data collection instrument in the form of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was used to probe skills, knowledge perceptions and attitudes relating to community work and to determine the impact of existing community programmes. The empirical study enabled the researcher to draw certain conclusions. Although certain misconceptions were evident, the respondents understood the term developmental social work, community and community work, as well as the systems involved in the community work process and the practice models. The most utilised social work method was casework. The respondents who utilised community work made use of a community work process. Most of the respondents utilised the social community education model in the military. Most of the respondents indicated that guidelines for community work within the SANDF would be helpful. Approximately thirty percent of the respondents experienced problems while making use of community work as a social work method of intervention. A number of recommendations stem from the findings and conclusions. The social workers knowledge with regard to community work needs to be updated. Practical opportunities need to be provided to afford the social worker the opportunity to implement the newly acquired knowledge. Community work guidelines need to be determined within the SANDF, and need to be formulated into a policy document. Specific community work posts, which include all disciplines, need to be created within the SANDF. Post-graduates studies should be undertaken by social workers before being promoted into managerial positions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gemeenskapswerk is een van die drie primere metodes van maatskaplike werk. Gemeenskapswerk is 'n proses wat mense help om hulle probleme en behoeftes duidelik te identifiseer en wat die gemeenskap verder help om potensialiteite en vermoëns te ontwikkel om probleme en behoeftes self te kan hanteer, op te los en te voorkom. Gemeenskapswerk het 'n bepaalde funksie binne die maatskaplike werk milieu en verloop volgens 'n proses. Die SANW beskik nie oor geskrewe riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk nie. Dit kan die kwaliteit van dienslewering aan die kliëntsisteem beinvloed. Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n raamwerk vir die Direktoraat Maatskaplikewerk Dienste in die Suid Afrikaanse Nationale Weermag(SANW) op te stel wat as riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die maatskaplike-praktyk benut kan word, en aangewend kan word om 'n beleidsdokument saam te stel. Die doelwitte van die studie is eerstens om 'n teoretiese uiteensetting van verskeie praktyk modelle van gemeenskapswerk en die proses van gemeenskapswerk in die maatskaplike-praktyk aan te bied. Tweedens is beoog om deur middel van 'n ondersoek te bepaal oor watter kennis van en vaardigheid in gemeenskapwerk , maatskaplike werkers in die SANW beskik. In die derde plek is die behoefte aan riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die SANW ondersoek. Die studie is begrens tot maatskaplike wekers in die militêr verbonde aan die Westelike Provinsie. 'n Verkennende studie is onderneem om die gestelde doelstelling en doelwitte te bereik. 'n Vraelys is benut as instrument ter insameling van die data. Die empiriese ondersoek is gedoen deur die benutting van kwantitatiewe navorsing om die voorkoms van die werklikhede te bespreek. Na aanleiding van die empiriese ondersoek is bepaalde gevolgtrekkings gemaak. Alhoewel die respondente die terme gemeenskapswerk, gemeenskappe en gemeenskapwerk modelle en die vier sisteme binne gemeenskapswerk verstaan, het verwarring wel voorgekom. Daar is bevind dat die gevallewerkmetode deur die oorgrote meederheid van die respondente gebruik word. Daar is ook bevind dat gemeenskapswerk verloop volgens 'n proses. Die gemeenskaps-opvoedkundige model word deur die meerderheid van die respondente benut. Daar is bevind dat riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die SANW bruikbaar sal wees, omdat ongeveer dertig persent van die respondente probleme ondervind tydens die benutting van die gemeenskapswerk proses. Aanbevelings na aanleiding van die bevindinge en gevolgtrekkings sluit in dat maatskaplike werkers in die militêr se teoretiese kennis oor gemeenskapswerk uitgebrei moet word, waarna opleiding benodig word om hierdie kennis toe te pas. Riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die SANW moet opgestel word en in 'n beleidsdokument saamgevat word. Die SANW moet spesifieke gemeenskapswerkposte skep wat alle dissiplines sal insluit. Voorts moet nagraadse studie ook 'n vereiste wees vir maatskaplikewerk-personeel om tot 'n bestuursposisie bevorder te kan word.
Jettner, Jennifer F. "Community gardens: Exploring race, racial diversity and social capital in urban food deserts". VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4784.
Testo completoLarge, David. "Complexity and communities : the application of complexity to community studies". Thesis, Northumbria University, 2015. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/25244/.
Testo completoRuvolo, Maddy. "Sick Of Being Excluded: Chronically Ill Young Adults, Social Isolation, and the Need for a More Inclusive Disability Community". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/464.
Testo completoMurphy, Kathleen. "Critical Consciousness, Community Resistance & Resilience| Narratives of Irish Republican Women Political Prisoners". Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3683725.
Testo completoColonial legacies affect neocolonial experiences of conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries. A critical and comprehensive appreciation of the global "war on terror" reveals terrorism "from above'" (state-sponsored terrorism) as a growing issue in the international community. Further, women's varied experiences within communities of resistance are often undermined, ignored, or maligned within formal research on conflict and peace. Liberation psychologists are called to align with oppressed, marginalized, and suffering communities. To this end, this work explores the experience of women political prisoners of the Irish conflict for independence from Great Britain. A qualitative critical psychosocial analysis was used to understand the phenomenology of women's political imprisonment through the firsthand narratives of Republican women imprisoned during the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland. The intention of this study was to 1) provide an analysis of power and its connection to social conditions, 2) to provide a psychological analysis of how oppression may breed resistance in communities struggling for liberation, and 3) to explore the gendered experience of Irish women political prisoners. The results indicated that political imprisonment may be understood as a microcosm of oppression and liberation, and the subjective experience of political prisoners may glean insights into how communities develop critical consciousness, organize politically, resist oppression, and meaningfully participate in recognizing their human rights. Additionally, this research challenged the exclusion of women's voices as members of resistance movements and active agents in both conflict and peace building and challenged the failure to investigate state-sponsored terrorism, or terrorism from above.
Lighari, Joyce Ann Johannesen. "The affects of Internet-Mediated Social Networking on Christian community". Thesis, Trevecca Nazarene University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3565665.
Testo completoThis study examined the relationship of Internet-Mediated Social Network, the formation of adult Christian community, and its affect on adult Christian growth. The researcher compared and analyzed three types of adult Christian learning communities: traditional, hybrid, and virtual. Each week over the course of six weeks, the three types of learning communities met weekly. Participants were pretested and posttested, utilizing instruments that evaluated spiritual maturity. Analysis of interactions on Internet-Mediated Social Networking was conducted. Findings were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Results indicated the usage of Internet-Mediated Social Network offers potential for adult Christian education and should be further explored.
Adjuik, David A. "Weak Ties at Play: Social Networks and Ghanaian Entrepreneurs in Columbus, Ohio". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1343172982.
Testo completoCamicia, Steven Paul. "Teaching the Japanese American internment : a case study of social studies curriculum contention /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7839.
Testo completoLeonard, D'Asha. "Crack cocaine, the impact of racialization of imagery and the effects on the African American community from the perceptions of social workers". Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1526923.
Testo completoThis qualitative study explored substance abuse providers' attitudes, perceptions and beliefs about the impact of crack cocaine in the African American community.
Fifteen participants were surveyed utilizing a semi-structured interview guide about (a) their experiences working with African American clients; (b) biases, stereotypes and stigmas that have impacted African Americans in relation to the use of crack cocaine; and (c) attitudes, perceptions and beliefs about the media's role in the racialization of imagery and its impact on the African American community.
Participants reported multiple significant indicators regarding a client's success in treatment as well as the competence of providers who work with African American clients. Furthermore, participants indicated that a thorough knowledge base of the historical experience of African Americans and its implication for the use of crack cocaine is necessary. Mental health professionals need to have a better understanding of the historical impact of crack cocaine on African American individuals, families and the community as a whole.
朱昌熙 e Cheong-hay Chu. "The community service in urban China: a case study of a street office in Guangzhou". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977303.
Testo completoCamper, Brett Bennett. "Homebrew and the social construction of gaming : community, creativity, and legal context of amateur Game Boy Advance development". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42227.
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This thesis challenges the common social construction of game development, which perceives the activity only within its commercial, corporate realm. As an exemplar of the many thriving amateur development communities, the self-identified "homebrew" Nintendo Game Boy Advance (GBA) development community is analyzed in-depth. This unique community is brought to the attention of scholars as an important intersection of game studies and amateur media studies, challenging the focus of game studies on commercial production. The GBA homebrew community is studied from the personal motivational level to the social dynamics of the group. The analysis considers the blend of technological and cultural motivations brought to bear on the production and the content of the amateur games, and how amateur development facilitates skill acquisition outside of canonical academic structure, and opens access to professional mobility. The case study advances both historical and contemporary comparisons to other independent media communities. The thesis also examines discussions in the community around peer-judged competitions as a form of vernacular theory. The content of homebrew GBA games released into the community are further analyzed, with the construction of useful categories spanning genre, fan games, remakes, remixes, and tech demos. Nostalgia and parody in relation to game history are especially considered, as are demonstrations of technical skill ("tech demos") as a uniquely amateur practice. The legal context of amateur GBA development is also examined. Nintendo maintains the GBA as a closed, proprietary system, and thus for homebrew developers access to information and legitimacy is blocked.
(cont.) Comparisons are advanced to historical examples of intellectual property enforcement in the emergence of corporate media in the 20th century. Amateur practice is found to be tangential to corporate interests, ignored both by the disinterest of corporations, and in blanket policies targeting piracy. Historical cases that legitimate reverse engineering of software are discussed for context. Thesis concludes that one cannot cleanly construct categories of amateur and professional as separate practices, and remarks upon the constant renewal and shifts in amateur development communities as new game platforms are released in the commercial market.
by Brett Bennett Camper.
S.M.
Muganyizi, c. "Rape against Women in Tanzania : Studies of Social Reactions and Barriers to Disclosure". Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-122250.
Testo completoGao, Ying M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The local knowledge bank : uncovering the processes and networks of social innovation at Brazil's first community bank". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90097.
Testo completoCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-148).
In this thesis, I apply a case study method to examine the processes of knowledge management both within the neighborhood, and in institutional partnerships, by Banco Palmas, Brazil's first community development bank, as a way of uncovering a key component to understanding community-driven social innovations. Founded in 1998, in an urban peripheral neighborhood in Fortaleza, Brazil, the bank is best known for an unusual combination of microfinance integrated with local social currency. An increasing emphasis on community-driven approaches has become part of the practice of development in sectors ranging from economic development, disaster relief, to refugee assistance, yet what to make of the self-organized practices originating from the poor, as a concept, model or theory, is far from clear. First, I outline a "follow the knowledge" research design combining a working conceptual framework of knowledge, multi-source data collection, including semistructured interviews and extensive participant observation, and other fieldwork activities. The resulting 22 formal interviews from 13 institutions and additional case study data were interpreted with mutual corroboration and thick contextualization relying on relevant literature. The findings from within the neighborhood showed that the most effective function related to knowledge had to do with maintaining a community of practice of local social entrepreneurs, which the bank expertly did by combining what I identify as three practices and two processes of local knowledge management. Moreover, the bank's local knowledge directly built on the community's long history of mobilization, and the accumulation of experience-based knowledge was such that the organization could be seen as serving in the role of local knowledge bank for the neighborhood. In institutional partnerships, Banco Palmas provided local knowledge to key partners and allies in academic, civil society and government branches, while responding to a number of institutional constraints in contemporary Brazil, charting a unique path from the grassroots to influencing national policies. In conclusion, I draw lessons on replicating local knowledge bank, suggest strategic and tactical recommendations for Banco Palmas, and reflect on my personal learning experience.
by Ying Gao.
M.C.P.
Binet, Andrew (Andrew David Richmond). "The practice and politics of care : social service organizations, community resilience and the redevelopment of Regent Park". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98925.
Testo completoThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-141).
In 2005, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation began the ambitious mixed-income redevelopment of Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing estate. The community has long been subject to race- and class-based stigmatization, and today is one of the last areas of concentrated poverty in Toronto's rapidly gentrifying downtown core. A dense and remarkably active hub of non-profit organizations has developed in Regent Park since the 1970s. This thesis investigates the role that social service providers play in enabling community members to navigate and adapt to the drastic social, economic and political changes brought about by redevelopment in a context of welfare state retrenchment and strong government support for gentrification. Academic literature tends to dismiss social service organizations as dupes of neoliberalism, robbed of any agency of their own and complicit in the punitive oversight of the poor. I show that the reality on the ground is far more complex, and that social service providers have exercised a powerful place-based agency by virtue of their position at the intersection of state, market and community forces. At the heart of this agency sits a praxis of care that is attentive to the complexity of ordinary life and responsible and competent in providing practical and emotional support. I argue that together, the social service providers in Regent Park form a "landscape of care" that over the course of redevelopment has afforded the community orientation, stability, space, capacity and the means to negotiate social and institutional power structures, thereby enabling not only survival but adaptive resilience in the face of erasure. Care enables creative reformulations of the conditions and possibilities of everyday life on the margins of the post-welfare city, and can thereby be seen as a form of oppositional politics that, though nascent, has powerful counter-hegemonic potential. I conclude by considering how care can serve as an analytical and strategic framework for community-level actors contending with the disruptions wrought by the messy and contingent neoliberal urban political economy.
by Andrew Binet.
M.C.P.
Ferguson, Maura A. "Where's the Mother? A Phenomenological Study of Gay and Queer Fathers and Community". Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10682278.
Testo completoIn recent decades, there has been a significant rise in the prominence and visibility of gay-identified men choosing to become fathers. The rise in planned gay fatherhood may be partially due to young gay men’s radically evolving views of fatherhood (Berkowitz, 2011a). The current research is a phenomenological investigation in to the lived experience of gay fathers and community. Research questions include: How do gay men re-orient to evolving sources of social support over the transition to parenthood? How does the experience and quality of social support affect the process of becoming a father for gay men? Do gay fathers experience a sense of inclusion or exclusion in various social settings? How do gay fathers experience social milieus differently than before having children? Data collection consisted of interviews with 12 gay identified cisgender men who became fathers in the context of a previously established gay or queer identities. Interviews were in-depth and semistructured. While some fathers have described the process of becoming a parent as a second coming out process that allows a casting off of internalized oppression, others have described feeling alienated from previous social networks. Participants did not describe a distancing from a gay community, nor did a majority appear to feel embedded in a gay community describing diverse group of friends before and after having children. Participants experienced varying levels of family support in which future parenting identity became paramount to maintaining connections and approval from family members. Several fathers described interactions, particularly in public, that fall under the category of microaggression laden with stereotype threat. Such intrusions were disorienting and threatened to undermine an emerging sense of competence at critical stages of establishing a new fatherhood identity. Suggestions for further research and implications for therapeutic interactions are considered.
Speicher, Stephanie L. "Building Community Using Experiential Education with Elementary Preservice Teachers in a Social Studies Methodology Course". DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6642.
Testo completoFink, Susan Oltman. "Politics and prayer in West Perrine, Florida : civic social capital and the black church". FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3324.
Testo completoFreeman, Tyrone McKinley. "Youth input and participation in Reach for Youth's strategic planning for community-based youth and family social services". Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217402.
Testo completoDepartment of Urban Planning
Salazar, Nicole A. (Nicole Antonia). "The Micro-implications of a disintegrating social contract : public pension funds and community investing in New York City". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81152.
Testo completoCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-97).
Public pension funds are increasingly investing in cities. On the one hand, this appears as a positive development, as an organization traditionally based on exclusionary membership shares its benefits with the larger society. On the other hand, that this is occurring in the context of a disintegrating social contract could be a troubling feature, where private citizens are subsidizing their communities in the absence of state support. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "social contract" as "an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society.. .that defines and limits the rights and duties of each." The past thirty years in U.S. history have seen a drastic deterioration in the tacit social contract binding the State, Capital and Labor. Transformations affecting these three actors have re-shaped their interactions and bargaining power. Through a discussion of the Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Change literatures, the first objective of this paper is to make the case that community investing by pension funds is an institution (broadly defined) that has emerged in part because of the historic-economic forces driving the disintegration of the social contract: financialization, neoliberalism, and the decline of the labor movement. The second objective of this paper is to address the following research questions at the city level: What is the relationship between community investing by pension funds and the changing roles of Capital, Labor, and the State? How, in turn, does the design and organization of these institutions impact their ability to influence this relationship? This research finds that pension fund capitalism in New York City may both blunt and obscure the impacts of the weakened social contract. The pension funds could possibly strengthen the position of labor and increase benefits to communities if they incorporated opportunities for learning and capacity building into their programs.
by Nicole A. Salazar.
M.C.P.
Keevers, Lynne Maree. "Practising social justice: Community organisations, what matters and what counts". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5822.
Testo completoKeevers, Lynne Maree. "Practising social justice: Community organisations, what matters and what counts". Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5822.
Testo completoThis thesis investigates the situated knowing-in-practice of locally-based community organisations, and studies how this practice knowledge is translated and contested in inter-organisational relations in the community services field of practices. Despite participation in government-led consultation processes, community organisations express frustration that the resulting policies and plans inadequately take account of the contributions from their practice knowledge. The funding of locally-based community organisations is gradually diminishing in real terms and in the competitive tendering environment, large nationally-based organisations often attract the new funding sources. The concern of locally-based community organisations is that the apparent lack of understanding of their distinctive practice knowing is threatening their capacity to improve the well-being of local people and their communities. In this study, I work with practitioners, service participants and management committee members to present an account of their knowing-in-practice, its character and conditions of efficacy; and then investigate what happens when this local practice knowledge is translated into results-based accountability (RBA) planning with diverse organisations and institutions. This thesis analyses three points of observation: knowing in a community of practitioners; knowing in a community organisation and knowing in the community services field of practices. In choosing these points of observation, the inquiry explores some of the relations and intra-actions from the single organisation to the institutional at a time when state government bureaucracy has mandated that community organisations implement RBA to articulate outcomes that can be measured by performance indicators. A feminist, performative, relational practice-based approach employs participatory action research to achieve an enabling research experience for the participants. It aims to intervene strategically to enhance recognition of the distinctive contributions of community organisations’ practice knowledge. This thesis reconfigures understandings of the roles, contributions and accountabilities of locally-based community organisations. Observations of situated practices together with the accounts of workers and service participants demonstrate how community organisations facilitate service participants’ struggles over social justice. A new topology for rethinking social justice as processual and practice-based is developed. It demonstrates how these struggles are a dynamic complex of iteratively-enfolded practices of respect and recognition, redistribution and distributive justice, representation and participation, belonging and inclusion. The focus on the practising of social justice in this thesis offers an alternative to the neo-liberal discourse that positions community organisations as sub-contractors accountable to government for delivering measurable outputs, outcomes and efficiencies in specified service provision contracts. The study shows how knowing-in-practice in locally-based community organisations contests the representational conception of knowledge inextricably entangled with accountability and performance measurement apparatus such as RBA. Further, it suggests that practitioner and service participant contributions are marginalised and diminished in RBA through the privileging of knowledge that takes an ‘expert’, quantifiable and calculative form. Thus crucially, harnessing local practice knowing requires re-imagining and enacting knowledge spaces that assemble and take seriously all relevant stakeholder perspectives, diverse knowledges and methods.
Ostrogorsky, Tanya Leigh. "An Exploratory Inquiry into Community Policing Using Focus Groups: Perspectives from Social Service Providers". PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5151.
Testo completoBluck, Emily C. "Mapping Community Mindscapes: Visualizing Social Autobiography as Political Transformation and Mobilization". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/56.
Testo completoReed, DesJardins Robin. "Social Design, Field Studies, Sustainable Development: How Design Research Methods have been Applied to Fieldwork Study and Enable Sustainable Community Development in Three Case Studies". The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1356646012.
Testo completoFriedman, Nicole Lisa. "Impactful Care: Addressing Social Determinants of Health Across Health Systems". PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5073.
Testo completoNeidenbach, Elizabeth Clark. "The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans". W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624013.
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