Social Learning and Macroeconomic Policy in Britain

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN GREENER
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
The 1960S

This paper examines the social learning models of policy of Hall and May attempting to create a synthesis of the best elements of each. We then apply the revised model to three specific instances of macroeconomic policy in Britain; the introduction of ‘Keynesian-plus’ policy in the 1960s, the movement from Keynesianism to monetarism, and the experiment with monetarism in the 1980s. In each case study, the degree of policy change is assessed, and possible reasons for that level of change explored. We conclude that a more social constructionist approach is required to understand the link between policy instruments, indicators, and paradigms, and, alongside this, a greater need to understand the implications of the assumptions underlying policy.

Dialogic representations of Britishness and Irishness

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Ajtony
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Careful Choice ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructionist Approach

Speakers construct their identities by careful choice of the appropriate linguistic features that will convey the specific social information that identifies them as part of a particular speech community (cf. Riley 2007, Joseph 2004). The social constructionist approach focuses on how social actors use linguistic and other cultural resources in the ongoing construction and re-construction of personal and group identity in interaction. Under such a view, identity (and hence ethnicity) is necessarily dynamic (Schilling-Estes 2004). Recent research on fictional characters and scripted discourse has proved the legitimacy of this scholarly area among language studies (Kozloff 2000, Culpeper 2001, Walshe 2009, Eder et al. 2010, Dynel 2011, Furkó 2013). This paper investigates several possibilities for the dialogic construction of the British and Irish ethnic stereotype. Drawing the distinction between real and fictional characters (Culpeper 2010), the micro-sociolinguistic, pragmalinguistic analysis of my corpora, taken from contemporary cinematographic representations of Britishness and Irishness, aims to compare some of the strategies that interactional partners employ, and which reveal several facets of their identities.

scholarly journals Peran Model Social Learning Dalam Meningkatkan Kompetensi Petani Garam di Kabupaten Pamekasan

Simulacra ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Umi Hanik ◽  
Mutmainah Mutmainah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Depth Interviews

<em>This study aims to determine the role of social learning models in improving the competency of salt farmers in Pamekasan Regency. The research approach used is qualitative research with grounded theory. Data collection techniques using depth interviews, observation and documentation studies. The results of the study showed that increasing the competency of salt farmers through social learning models was carried out by presenting examples of behavior from aspects: 1) knowledge (knowledge); 2) skills (skills); 3) self concept; 4) personal characteristics (traits); and 5) motives (motives). The role of the social learning model for increasing salt farmers in Pamekasan Regency is: 1) to increase knowledge so that farmers have several alternative ways to make salt to produce quality; 2) developing the competency of salt farmers through the delivery of information; 3) foster an attitude of helping others; and 4) fostering a cooperative attitude towards outside parties who wish to establish cooperation.</em>

scholarly journals Double “Class”. On the Popularization of Dr. Martens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Crucq
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Design Objects ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Liberal Market Economy

In this paper processes of appropriation and commodification are discussed from the perspective of subcultures and their relation to class. Dr. Martens boots are discussed as a specific case-study. They were appropriated in the 1960s by British Skinheads to signify their working-classness. Besides being functional, design objects are apparently endowed with meaning and these can vary depending on different modes of appearance, on different styles. Today Dr. Martens, is primarily a fashion-item. This calls into question to what extent commercialization undermines the potential of design objects to be endowed with meaning. By critically discussing recent scholarly literature on subcultures and style I will explain how in recent decades the dynamics of the neo-liberal market economy with its emphasis on consumption, facilitated a further commodification of style-objects as desirable value-objects. What will be argued successively is that appropriation and commodification in late capitalist society might obscure but not obliterate the social realities of class that lie hidden beneath the flux of images in which we are engulfed today.

scholarly journals An education approach for the Anthropocene epoch

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e448101119780
Author(s):  
Cristiane Mansur de Moraes Souza
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social

It is now well established in the literature that there is a need to incorporate the concept of sustainability into education at all study levels. However, there is considerable uncertainty expressed concerning how it could best be achieved and how the resilience concept would enhance this idea. This article aims to address this gap. The objective is to explore aspects of socio-ecological resilience, that underlies a university case study. The methodology is exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory. Results demonstrate that civil engagement university activities are an education approach that provides students with experiences that build skills necessary for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch. The conclusion of the article emphasizes that the education for the Anthropocene epoch should consider the enhancement of ecosystem services by demonstrating that humans are part of the social-ecological systems; considering interdisciplinarity as a methodological approach; demonstrating the variety of potentials on participation of stakeholders by civil engagement as developing autonomy both on students and stakeholders and developing the ability for proactive attitudes. Is also enhance learning and social learning by civil engagement and participation.

Racial reality and unreality1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Murji
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the debates on what race is. For some time, the dominant social constructionist approach in the social sciences has insisted that the only proper way to regard race is by refuting any connection with biology. Attention to the many ways in which race is socially constructed has been important; but, while a construction is not ‘unreal’, there is a common further step in which race is thereby deemed to be not valid. The rejection of race tends to treat race as something that would be ‘real’ if it were located in science and biology. The chapter then shows how recent developments in the natural sciences and changing views on the relationship between the natural and social sciences problematise that view. Yet in opposition to post-race views, critical scholars can then be seen to draw on conventional categories of race to show that racialised inequality still matters.

scholarly journals Tradition and Innovation in an Ultra-Orthodox Community: The Hasidim Of Outremont

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randal F. Schnoor
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Residential Neighbourhood

Like other insular religious movements such as Hutterites and Amish, Hasidic communities are faced with the challenge of preserving their distinctive ideals in a technologically advanced, capitalist world. Studies done in the 1960s and 1970s documented the success of Hasidim in safeguarding their convictions and creating well-functioning communities in contemporary North America. Recent evidence has demonstrated, however, that unprecedented growth rates are presenting significant challenges to Hasidim trying to sustain their way of life. Focusing on a case-study of the Hasidic community of Outremont, a residential neighbourhood in central Montreal, this paper outlines the social and economic challenges facing the community and argues that, while some important changes have been implemented, there is a need to modify survival strategies further in order to maintain community viability.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructionist Approach

The Introduction critiques the methodological frameworks available to the historian of medieval emotions, arguing for the enduring value of the social constructionist approach and the need to simultaneously respond to the theoretical principles associated with the linguistic turn. Relevant crusades scholarship is then surveyed, including the long historiographical tradition of seeking to reconstruct participants’ beliefs and ideologies from historical narratives, before outlining the book’s structure and arguments. An overview of the core sources which form the backbone of this study follows, with the intention of introducing uninitiated readers to the breadth and diversity of sources available to historians of the crusades.

A Matter of Skill: The Revival of Apprenticeship in Early Twentieth-Century NSW

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shields
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Bilateral Negotiation ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Craft Unions

The survival of apprenticeship in modern Australian industry represents a marked contrast to the institution's virtual disappearance in many other industrial capi talist countries. This article considers one specific historical conjuncture that appears to have figured decisively in the institution's survival in New South Wales, namely, the formative period of state industrial regulation and award making between 1902 and 1914. At the close of the nineteenth century, the custom of formal or indentured apprenticeship had virtually ceased to exist in New South Wales, yet by 1914 it had become compulsory for male juniors in virtually every recognized trade in the state. Drawing on evidence from three key male-dominated trades (carpentry andjoinery, type-composing and engineering), this article pro vides a multifaceted explanation for this dramatic revival. It argues the explana tory inadequacy of each of three main hypotheses on the survival of apprenticeship posited in the existing literature, namely the technicist/onskilling, the deskilling and the social constructionist/reskilling theses. In particular, it challenges the feminist-social constructionist contention that apprenticeship survived as a form of ritual servitude, as an exclusionary device imposed unilaterally on unwilling employers by craft unions and 'captive' industrial tribunals. The case study evidence indicates that the revival owed far less to arbitral imposition than to bilateral negotiation and agreement between unions and organized employers. In this sense, the institution's survival is attributable, in large part, to employers' ongoing need for genuine skill. The main focus of employer resistance was not to the compulsory apprenticeship, but to union attempts to limit apprentice employ ment in those areas of craft production where deskilling had occurred or was occurring. It is only there that compulsory apprenticeship can be said to have amounted to either a union-imposed form of ritual servitude or an employer device for junior labour exploitation.

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