scholarly journals Social and Material Status of Teachers from The Perspective of Teacher Education Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 257-270
Author(s):  
Filduza Prušević Sadović ◽  
Sefedin Šehović
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teacher Education Faculty ◽  
Developed World

The social status and position of teachers have changed throughout history and is conditioned by the development of human society. In the developed world, the teacher is a highly positioned member of society, part of the intellectual elite and a positive model of behavior. We are witnesses that the period of media development, the inflow of information, the collapse of previous value systems, led to a change in the evaluation and position of teachers in Serbia and the surrounding countries. Teachers are experiencing one of the most difficult periods. They are usually poorly paid, insufficiently valued, unmotivated. The paper describes positive examples of the attitude of social systems in the world towards teachers, where teachers are still part of the elite and where, thanks to a positive and encouraging attitude towards educators, societies experience prosperity in economic, cultural, material and other aspects of development. In this way, the assumption is confirmed that a society that invests in education and teaching staff, is profitable in the long run and has positive results in development. Also, the paper presents the results of research conducted by surveying students of the Teacher Education Faculty in Belgrade, in which we wanted to find out the attitudes, motives, and views of students about the position of teachers in society, and the projections of their future occupation. The results of the research show that students are motivated to work as teachers and that they like working with children and young people, but at the same time, they are aware of the unfavorable position of teachers in society and hope that this position can be improved by raising to make the public aware of the importance of teaching at the earliest age of students and stricter criteria when enrolling and selecting future teachers at faculties and schools.

scholarly journals Towards an Emotionally Conscious Social Theory

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benet Davetian
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
New Evidence

This article attempts to contribute to the on-going discussion regarding the ‘future of sociology and social theory’ by suggesting that classical and contemporary social theories have yet to provide satisfactory accounts of the emotional components of human society. Following a discussion of how emotions have been downplayed in classical and contemporary theory, evidence is presented in support of a sociology that would include the study of emotions as part of broader studies of the social. A central proposition of this article is that the harmonization of studies of ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ realities would facilitate the development of a systems theory that neither excludes diversity nor minimizes the immutable emotional needs of individuals and their social systems. In support of the above argument, the author presents some new evidence pointing to the primacy of the human emotions across cultural boundaries.

scholarly journals The Role of Translation in Citizen Science to Foster Social Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Heinisch
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations

Citizen science has become a world-wide phenomenon. Especially for citizen science projects that have a global reach, translation is crucial to overcome language and cultural barriers to reach members of the public. Translation, understood as the transfer of meaning (of a text) from one language into another language, is crucial for the transmission of information, knowledge and (social) innovations. Therefore, this paper examines the role of translation and terminology used in citizen science projects and how translation can foster (or impede) social innovation through citizen science activities. Based on a set of predefined criteria derived from the social innovation literature, this paper analyzes the factors that contribute to (social) innovation in citizen science by means of translation. A specific focus of the case study is on the aspects of agency, institutions, and social systems. The results demonstrate that translation in citizen science may support a change of social practices as ingredients of social innovations. Additional research is needed to further understand the implications of translation in citizen science and its effects on social innovation. Nevertheless, this work has been one of the first attempts to examine the relation between translation, citizen science and social innovation.

Social Media-Based Communities of Practice for Education in Citizenship and Sustainability

2013 ◽  
pp. 988-1008
Author(s):  
Dimitra Florou ◽  
Dimitris Gouscos
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Objective ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere

In this chapter we support the view that communities of practice (CoPs) with the support of social media can serve the education for citizenship and sustainability, with a clear benefit on citizens' culture towards future public reforms. This has led to the development and implementation of the policy for sustainability, which is a European and national strategic objective. The chapter begins with a small analysis of public sector reform towards sustainability and the presentation of the basic principles of education for sustainability and citizenship (ESDC) and the model of CoPs and the social media that facilitate their use. It focuses on the analysis of the three models of belonging -engagement, imagination, alignment- in the application of CoPs for ESDC. In combination with this analysis we demonstrate that CoPs can be supported by social media. Finally the chapter reinforces the view that the development of such communities in education offers on the long run the ability to remodel the public sphere, strengthen public consultation, promote proposals from the citizens, promote the policy of sustainability, and finally, the efficient use of new technologies, both in society and education.

scholarly journals DIGITALIZATION AS A REVOLUTION IN MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
L. Ivanovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Standpoint

A new opportunities in managing large, complex and dynamic social systems of individual countries and regions as well as managing economic, political and information systems of the whole world has been investigated. In general, their historical emergence as a result of the «information revolution», digital economy and digitalization of social life has been considered. Such technologies serve as a foundation of ambitions of different classes and elites to monopolize the power, which is a danger to the human society. However, this opens other prospects like creating the social justice» society. These two tendencies have been analyzed briefly in the article. The problem of our society’s class structure also from a theoretical standpoint has been reviewed.

The unintended consequences of financialisation: Social democracy hamstrung? The pensions dilemma

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claes Belfrage
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Systems Of Innovation ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
The Social

At the end of the Third Way and no sense of its future, social democrats look to Sweden for inspiration. However, Swedish social democracy is in no better condition. Scholarship is starting to grasp the broad outlines of the movement’s difficulties. Providing greater depth, this article employs the Social Systems of Innovation and Production approach to analyse Swedish social democracy’s current condition by historicising its current policy dilemmas in relation to the public pension system, once the jewel in the crown of the Rehn–Meidner model and the push for economic and industrial democracy, now the constraining legacy of financialisation.

scholarly journals Exploring How Homophily and Accessibility Can Facilitate Polarization in Social Networks

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Taylor ◽  
Alexander Mantzaris ◽  
Ivan Garibay
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Insight Into

Polarization in online social networks has gathered a significant amount of attention in the research community and in the public sphere due to stark disagreements with millions of participants on topics surrounding politics, climate, the economy and other areas where an agreement is required. This work investigates into greater depth a type of model that can produce ideological segregation as a result of polarization depending on the strength of homophily and the ability of users to access similar minded individuals. Whether increased access can induce larger amounts of societal separation is important to investigate, and this work sheds further insight into the phenomenon. Center to the hypothesis of homophilic alignments in friendship generation is that of a discussion group or community. These are modeled and the investigation into their effect on the dynamics of polarization is presented. The social implications demonstrate that initial phases of an ideological exchange can result in increased polarization, although a consensus in the long run is expected and that the separation between groups is amplified when groups are constructed with ideological homophilic preferences.

scholarly journals Migrants’ Stories of Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Account

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-60
Author(s):  
Lal Bahadur Pun
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

This article discusses migrants’ stories of everyday life. The migrants inscribe their different stories in the new contexts and social systems. After mirroring migrants’ first-hand stories, those stories are retold by migrants themselves and also by readers or audiences. The retelling of those stories reveals the reflections of individuals, groups, or on any social events or ceremonies. Against this background, this article aims at explicating how migrants coin their stories in the social worlds, which they practise in their everyday life. As a narrative ethnographer, I have attempted to knit the stories of two migrants from Bharse in Gulmi District, Nepal, who have been currently living in Kathmandu. Based on informal conversations and interactions with the migrants and observations of their everyday life, I have garnered their stories. The findings reveal that the changing socio-cultural contexts, over time and space, lead to the germination of new stories of the everyday life of the migrants. Moreover, the migrants engage in diverse social rules, regulations and value systems, as these attributes are required for behavioural change and social adaptation. Above all, the migrants embody multiple stories in their everyday life because of their knowledge and experiences of the places of their origin and destination.

Pengoptimalan Sobat Mengajar sebagai Gerakan Sosial Pendidikan dalam Membangun Pendidikan di Daerah Tertinggal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Sihabussalam Sihabussalam
Keyword(s):  
Initial Study ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Social Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equitable Education ◽  
Life Education

<p><em>Abstrak</em><em> </em><em>-</em><em> </em><strong>Pendidikan adalah sebuah proses manusia baik individu atau masyarakat untuk menuju kehidupan yang ideal dan lebih baik. Pendidikan yang akan mengubah menuju ke arah yang lebih baik adalah pendidikan yang kualitasnya baik pula. Tetapi melihat realitas sekarang, kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia masih rendah apalagi dalam hal pemerataan pendidikan, di antaranya: fasilitas, akses, dan tenaga pengajar yang akan berimplikasi pada proses belajar dan hasil belajar, keadaan tersebut salah satunya gambaran pendidikan yang ada di daerah terpencil. Dengan demikian, penelitian ini akan berfokus pada masalah pemerataan pendidikan di daerah terpencil dengan cara mengoptimalkan komunitas sobat mengajar sebagai gerakan sosial pendidikan. Komunitas ini bergerak di daerah-daerah terpencil khususnya di Kabupaten Lebak, Provinsi Banten, kajian awal mencari data keadaan pendidikan di daerah tersebut dengan cara membaca literature dan wawancara langsung kepada relawan sobat mengajar kemudian hasilnya dideskripsikan, dengan demikian penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Untuk mengatasi tidak meratanya pendidikan di Indonesia ada beberapa langkah yang harus dilakukan: pertama, mengoptimalkan gerakan sosial pendidikan. Kedua, melakukan program yang mengedukasi masyarakat. Ketiga, harus melibatkan masyarakat dalam semua program.</strong></p><p><em>Abstract</em><em> </em><em>-</em><em> </em><strong>Education is a human process, either an individual or a society towards an ideal and better life. Education that will change for the better is education that is of good quality too. But look at the current reality, the quality of education in Indonesia is still low especially in terms of equitable education for example lack of facilities, access, and teaching staff that will have implications for the learning process and learning outcomes, they are one picture of the conditions that exist in remote areas. Therefore, this research will focus on the problem of equitable education in remote areas by optimizing the community of sobat mengajar as a social education movement. This community is moving in remote areas especially in lebak regency, the province of banten, early studies looking into educational conditions in the region, the initial study looked for data on the state of education in the area by reading literature and direct interviews with volunteers of sobat mengajar then the results were described, thus this study using a descriptive qualitative methods. To overcome the unequal education in Indonesia, several steps must be taken: the first, optimize the social education movement. The second</strong><strong> </strong><strong>is</strong><strong> to</strong><strong> </strong><strong>carry out programs that educate the public. The third is must involve the society in all programs.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>- <em>Sobat mengajar, </em><em>E</em><em>ducational social movements, </em><em>B</em><em>uilding education, </em><em>D</em><em>isadvantaged areas.</em></p>

Social work, problem definition and policy change in the US: the case of sex-trafficked youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Lisa Werkmeister Rozas ◽  
Megan Feely ◽  
Jason Ostrander
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Critical theoretical frameworks are essential in helping social workers develop a comprehensive understanding of the manner in which political and social systems oppress marginalised populations. The central concern of critical theories is power and connecting the personal and the political, which can be accomplished by encouraging social workers and clients to use their life experiences to advocate for and change ineffective and outdated policies. This chapter presents two critical theoretical frameworks, structural social work and critical consciousness theory, to analyse the social problem of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) and illustrate policy changes that were created to challenge this form of structural violence. Through a case example this chapter will demonstrate how social workers redefined a social problem and by doing so, facilitated the public participation in shaping social policies and institutions in the state of Connecticut to provide better outcomes for the victims of DMST.

scholarly journals The Economic Valuation of Flood Damage to Support the Proactive Policies in Sicily

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Trovato ◽  
Salvatore Giuffrida
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Flood Damage ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
Geographical Scale

Although floods, as well as other natural disasters, can be considered relevant causes of intra-generational inequalities, the frequent catastrophes and the resulting damages to territory reflect the generalized indifference about inter-generational justice. Societal concerns, such as land protection, typically involve the administrative system performing proactive policies in the perspective of inter-generational solidarity, but subsidiarity has made more and more independent the local communities. As a consequence, the attention toward the long run effects &ndash; typically concerning the territorial system, as a whole, at the geographical scale &ndash; has been dispersed, and the proactive policies coming from the central government has became more ineffective. Regarding the case of the flood happened in 2009 in the Fiumedinisi-Capo Peloro hydraulic basin, in the northeastern part of Sicily, Italy, we propose an economic valuation &ndash; carried out by performing the method of the imputed preferences &ndash; in order to compare the expenses incurred by the public authorities responsible for protecting the territory to the costs of the rehabilitation of the damaged areas. Some considerations about the economic significance of the proactive policies for the arrangement of territory are addressed according to the role played by the social discount rate in the inter-temporal economic calculation.

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