Perceiving progress toward social equality: A model of signals and sense-making

Fairness in income distribution is a factor that both motivates employees and contributes to maintaining social stability. In Vietnam, fair income distribution has been studied from various perspectives. In this article, through the analysis and synthesis of related documents and evidence, and from the perspective of economic philosophy, the author applies John Rawls’s Theory of Justice as Fairness to analyze some issues arising from the implementation of the state’s role in ensuring fair income distribution from 1986 to present. These are unifying the perception of fairness in income distribution; solving the relationship between economic efficiency and social equality; ensuring benefits for the least-privileged people in society; and controlling income. On that basis, the author makes some recommendations to enhance the state’s role in ensuring fair income distribution in Vietnam. Received 11thNovember 2019; Revised 10thApril 2020; Accepted 20th April 2020

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Standardized Education With Free Textbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Mexican History ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190699192.013.30 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Eugenia Roldán Vera ◽

Susana Quintanilla

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

Previous History ◽

State Intervention ◽

Teaching Quality ◽

The State ◽

Educational Reforms ◽

Social Equality ◽

Production And Distribution ◽

History Of

The Mexican policy of state provision of standardized textbooks for all was instituted in 1959 and still ongoing. This is an overview of the previous history of state intervention in the production and distribution of school textbooks, an examination of the particular circumstances in which the 1959 policy was figured and implemented, and a description of the characteristics of the different generations of textbooks that have since been published, corresponding with several educational reforms. The arguments for and against standardized textbooks mobilized by different sectors of society throughout sixty years are discussed in their historical context. Far from this being a debate about the authoritarian intervention of the state in education, issues of social equality and teaching quality have been central.

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Politics and Social Equality: A Comparative Analysis.Robert W. Jackman

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/226331 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 82 (2) ◽

pp. 465-467

Author(s):

Kaare Svalastoga

Keyword(s):

Social Equality

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Temporal typifications as an organizational resource: Experiential knowledge and patient processing at the emergency department

Time & Society ◽

10.1177/0961463x211031881 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0961463X2110318

Author(s):

Marius Wamsiedel

Keyword(s):

Emergency Department ◽

Temporal Distribution ◽

Experiential Knowledge ◽

Moral Evaluation ◽

Sense Making ◽

Healthcare Settings ◽

Organizational Resource ◽

Sociological Literature ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Admission Interviews

The connection between time and power has been studied extensively. A common strategy through which street-level bureaucrats exert power and dominance over their clients consists of imposing protracted waiting and maintaining uncertainty regarding the outcomes of waiting. In this study, I argue that another facet of power in organizations is related to the temporal typification of cases. By exploring the triage work in two emergency departments (EDs), I show that nurses and clerks identify patterns in the temporal distribution of visits and attach clinical and moral meanings to them. The temporal typifications are sense-making devices through which triage workers orient to patients. They form a stock of tacit experiential knowledge that delineates specific expectations about the legitimacy of cases and the worth of patients. These expectations impact the unfolding and structure of triage admission interviews and contribute to the prioritization of cases. The study brings into conversation the sociological literature on time and power with the study of the moral evaluation of patients to examine temporal typifications as an organizational resource in healthcare settings. It contributes to a better understanding of triage workers’ experiential knowledge and the practical accomplishment of moral evaluation in EDs.

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