Commentary

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
Allen I. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
Power Shift ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Change ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Fundamental Shift

No political, economic, or cultural segment of society has escaped the universal impact of recent cataclysmic change. Physicians were no exception. During the 20th century, all members of society, including physicians, have experienced change of enormous speed and magnitude. Futurist Alvin Toffler noted that global societal transformation has created a “future shock” of personal malaise that poses difficulty for both individual and group adaptation. Toffler further described current change as a fundamental shift and conflict in all aspects of civilization (how we live, work, and relate to each other). Toffler also noted major alterations in the basis for distribution of societal power (who controls what, why, and how). One manifestation of recent change directly affecting all members of society, including physicians, has been the social transformation of medicine that has been a power shift from the individual physicians to control by organizations and management.

Cosmopolitanism

2010 ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Robert A. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Relevant Group ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic

Cosmopolitanism is the view that the relevant ethical community is all of humanity. In this chapter, I will examine three somewhat different cosmopolitan theories: The pluralist theory of Thomas Pogge (2002), the social contract theory of Charles Beitz (1979 and 1999), and the utilitarian theory of Peter Singer (2004). All theories hold that humanity as a whole is the relevant ethical community for global ethics. All theories also hold that ethical principles are essentially principles for individuals. Taking the individual as ethically primary may be what makes cosmopolitanism plausible. Human reality for these theorists is just individual human beings endowed with moral principles. But it is not an accidental fact that human beings live in society. Like ants, termites, lions and chimpanzees, they have evolved so that living in groups is not optional for them. The many benefits produced by social institutions, whether formal or informal, depend on our human ability to forgo self-interest in the interest of the relevant group. The group principles—ethical, political, economic—allowing us to do this are not optional either, especially those having to do with nations. So to begin with it seems that cosmopolitan theories may have too limited a view of human reality. However, I will give these theories a chance. The main questions I will ask of each theory are: The rationale for basing ethics on individuals as members of the group all of humanity; and the plausibility of each theory as a basis for transnational ethics.

TASKS OF MODERN EDUCATION IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Olga Podoliakina
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Value Perception ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Product ◽  
Club Of Rome ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Personal Behavior

A successful example of the integration of modern science into the educational process is the activity of the Club of Rome, the materials of each report of which become an important component of the educational “product” of many higher educational institutions, and especially those which are providing adult education. The perception of the ideas of the Club depended largely on their inclusion in the agenda – political, economic, cultural etc. The quality of such perception depends on the level of competence of those who perceive and on whether they evaluate the forecasts of the Club only as information, or take them as a value. The value perception of predictions of social development enables them to form principles of personal behavior and methodology for the perception and transformation of the social and natural environment. The combination of information and value influence on the individual can be done in different ways, but one of the most effective is the educational means of influence. Indirectly the participants in the activities of the Roman Club have become more than one generation of globalized humanity – since 1968, one can count the life of the third generation.

scholarly journals KONSEP “BALDATUN THOYIBATUN WA ROBBUN GHOFUR” SEBAGAI TUJUAN AKHIR PROSES TRANFORMASI SOSIAL ISLAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Sabdo Sabdo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
Material Society ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

A term often heard, read or discourse is "Baldatun Thoyibatun warobbun Ghofur" in Indonesian terms defined as a good country God forgave, or in Javanese philosophy "gemah ripah loh jinawi". The above phrase is the term that has been built by the Qur'an as hudan (guidance) for those who are devoted. The concept of the State above is very often an interesting discourse but in the level of reality has not been able to answer various problems in this country In the process of social transformation, Baldatun Thoyibatun warobbun Ghofur is as the final destination, the birth of a society full of peace, prosperity and justice, a perfect spiritual or material society. Specifically, the process of Islamic social transformation is the existence of a da'wah movement that continues to strive for change, from the darkness of life (al-Dzulumat) to a radiant life (al Nur), from ignorance   to Islam. A question arises whether this desirable country has been seen? and whether the current da'wah has not been able to give birth to it? of the two questions arise several problems; If the country of desire has been born what it looks like? If the da'wah has not been able to realize the country of desires, what is the problem? The above questions should be examined, for "baldatun Thoyibatun warobbun Ghofur is a necessity. The method used in studying this problem is the library study (library research) which prioritizes the review of the sources, then analyzed the texts to produce conclusions. This study can be concluded that the Baldatun thoyibatun warabbun ghofur state is a prosperous country in every field, because it is based on the basis of monotheism. Both the social, cultural, political, economic, educational and human rights fields. In realizing the form of the State requires a stage which should be noticed by the actors of change, as the Prophet (s) made a change. These changes can be made by making internal and external changes.

scholarly journals Fundamentals of training of police officers for action in extreme situations.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Valeriy Bilichenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic

The article presents the concept of extreme situation and the factors that characterize it. The content and principles of preparation of police officers for solving operational and service tasks in conditions related to extreme situations are considered. The need to improve the social behavior of police officers in the context of mass events of citizens in recent years has been growing steadily. This is due to the processes of transformation in the political, economic, social and spiritual life of people, which have a significant impact on the formation of civil society, ensuring the rights and freedoms of the population. As part of these processes, there are changes in the police, not least related to increasing the level of socio-psychological competence of police units, the formation of a positive image of the police officer in the eyes of the population. Not every personal problem, intrapersonal or interpersonal conflict, feelings of crisis inevitably lead to stress. Stress resistance is determined by a set of personality qualities that allow you to tolerate significant intellectual, volitional and emotional loads (mental stability); perform their professional tasks with good psychosomatic health; to have a stable worldview and to be a believer; perform a certain social role and have an appropriate level of culture of their society (psychological stability of the individual). Analysis of materials on the practice of law enforcement shows that in order to respond calmly and reasonably to the aggressive actions and abuse of the crowd and soberly take into account the situation, a police officer needs not only mental and physical effort, but also knowledge of human behavior in crowd, the mechanism of its formation and mode of action, the role of each type of participants in the riots, stereotypes of their actions in extreme conditions. Depends on ensuring their personal safety and the safety of citizens, as well as the success of a specific job. The essence of the psyche is reflection. The psyche is a subjective image of the objective world, an ideal (immaterial) reflection of reality. Psychological stability of employees of special divisions influences comprehensive and effective disclosure of crimes.

Social capital drives SME growth: A study of family firms in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Marjański ◽  
Łukasz Sułkowski ◽  
Justyna Marjańska-Potakowska ◽  
Katarzyna Staniszewska
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Polish Economy ◽  
Political Economic

Poland’s successful political, economic, and social transformation since the 1990s has seen the dynamic development of family enterprises. Most of them are in the small- and medium-sized enterprises sector and have become an important part of the Polish economy. What drives these family firms is not necessarily physical or even financial capital, but continuous human or social capital. We analyze how family businesses are based on the interdependence of family ownership and business with the social capital of the family. This article reflects on how the government, in encouraging small- and medium-sized enterprise development in an economy with traditionally low social capital, can benefit from the example of high social capital found in family firms. The article contains the interpretation of the results of research conducted in 2009–2010 and 2014–2016.

scholarly journals The problem of personal identity of man in the social and cultural world

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 16037
Author(s):  
Tatyana Torubarova ◽  
Olga Dyachenko
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Transformation Processes

The article is devoted to understanding the problem of human self-determination in the modern social and cultural space, in which the question of personal identity becomes a search for one's own individualization, a question of survival and preservation of man as such. The relevance of the study is determined by the process of dehumanization of modern society, a crisis of spirituality leading to the prevalence of destructive origins, to depersonalization and the destruction of the individual personal dimension of human existence. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the method of the ascent from the abstract to the concrete, which makes it possible to comprehend the being of man and the phenomena of his existence associated with it. In this study, we used the dialectical method and the hermeneutical analysis of texts by modern scholars who consider the problems of the philosophical foundations of personal identity in the modern social and cultural world. The connection between the constitution of the essential definitiveness of the human personality and the existential source of the human origin itself is shown. The influence of the social transformation processes on the methods and possibilities of self-identification of man, on his self-identity is revealed. The conducted analysis shows that the key problem of modern society is man himself as a subject of a technotronic-oriented civilization, in which his personal identity is not only a key factor in his existence, but also a fundamental link in the reconstruction of the wholeness of being.

scholarly journals Ᾱthār Wa Tadā’iyyāt Al-Ghazw Al-‘Iraqi li Dawlat Al-Kuwait 1990 wa Daur Al-Munadhdhamāt Al-Dawliyyah fi Mu’ālajatiha

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Salama Ali Husein Almesaabi
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The People ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Arab States ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic

The invasion of Kuwait in 1990 resulted in many disastrous effects and negative repercussions on the people and State. It reflected on the Iraqi regime and its people as those effects have been extended to all Arab States and the world at large, where those effects and repercussions have taken on many aspects of political, economic and social. The invasion not only had been effected Kuwait but also broadly in the gulf region. This study aims: firstly to study and analyse the political, economic and social implications as the consequences of the Iraqi invasion over Kuwait; secondly, to elucidate and analyse the effects of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Arab relations; thirdly, to explore on the role of international organizations in addressing the effects of the invasion. The result shows that the invasion has brought to a disastrous schism in the unity of the Arab states and put them left behind in the international stage, and the opening of the area to the Western military presence in the Gulf. The economic loss suffered by the Arab Group reached approximately $1 trillion. The social and psychological effects on society and the individual in Kuwait required long years to be addressed. The international organizations have played a prominent role particularly on recording the file of the prisoners and missing persons, and the compensation is also given to them.DOI: 10.15408/insaniyat.v2i2.7607

PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE FORMATION OF THE LEGAL CULTURE OF STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Л. В. Туркаева
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Legal Socialization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Higher Institutions

На сегодняшний день в условиях низкого показателя правовой культуры российского общества проблема правовой социализации молодежи становится настолько актуальной, что затрагивает интересы многих специалистов в различных областях деятельности. Прежде всего такое повышенное внимание объясняется такими факторами, как социальная трансформация личности и модификация образовательной системы, которые в первую очередь способствуют определенным трудностям в процессе правовой адаптации подрастающего поколения к новым реалиям окружающего мира. В данной работе анализируются новейшие тенденции в развитии методики преподавания правовых дисциплин в высших учреждениях профессиональной системы образования. Кроме того, представлено влияние правовой культуры на поведение человека при реализации творческого потенциала в процессе правовой деятельности и социального взаимодействия. Today, in the conditions of a low indicator of the legal culture of Russian society, the problem of legal socialization of young people is becoming so urgent that it affects the interests of many specialists in various fields of activity. First, such increased attention is explained by certain factors such as the social transformation of the individual and the modification of the educational system, which, first of all, contribute to certain difficulties in the process of legal adaptation of the younger generation to the new realities of the surrounding world. This paper analyzes the latest trends in the development of methods of teaching legal disciplines in higher institutions of the professional education system. In addition, the influence of legal culture on human behavior in the implementation of creative potential in the process of legal activity and social interaction is presented.

scholarly journals Functions of Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-295
Author(s):  
Sikiru Adeyemi Ogundokun
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Political Economic

Literature is an open concept and a creative art which expresses human history, experiences, imagination, observations, predictions and suggestions at a particular time in a given society. Either as fiction or non-fiction, literature can be rendered in both spoken and written words. It is often argued whether literature is for itself or the development of the society that produces it. This study, therefore, interrogates how the selected Francophone African novels, namely Sembène Ousmane’s Les bouts de bois de Dieu, Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre, Ferdinand Oyono’s Le vieux nègre et la médaille, Aminata Sow Fall’s La grève des bàttu, Patrick Ilboudo’s Les vertiges du trône and Fatou Keïta’s Rebelle, depict the function of literature. The novelists are selected because of their inclination towards the social transformation paradigm. The purpose of this paper is to raise people’s awareness and mobilize them towards positive change. Based on close reading, the paper is built around Marxist theory which is interested in the class struggle as demonstrated in a literary text, with a view to deconstructing the existing capitalist tendencies in a given society. The findings reveal that the selected novels are focused on the poor conditions socio-politically, economically, culturally and psychologically that exist both during and after the colonial era. The paper concludes that literature helps readers to cope with the socio-cultural, political, economic, religious and other challenges of their immediate as well as remote environments through the process of self-discovery. As such, positive social change is possible through literature.

scholarly journals Social and Political Theory of Social Movements for the Social State

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Stefanos Koffas
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Political Process ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Social State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Radical Transformation

Abstract Social movements, as collective entities, develop to stand up against the existing institutional status quo with a view to its reformation or radical transformation, while the degree to which they are political depends on wider socio-political factors. The diverse action that evolved through their organized mobilization marked the radical transformation of political response, but also the type of state intervention. Social movements exactly because they constitute wider socio-political undertakings that aim to bring about changes in the social, political, economic but also cultural processes, which seek to annul or sideline established standardizations, are considered one of the most readily available ways to express political and social claims; here they are understood to be dynamic interventions in institutionally and structurally complete social systems as in the case of the social state. Within the context of political mobilization and collective social action, social movements functioned at two interrelated levels: the level of expansion, but also of redefinition of social intervention processes in order to achieve the goals of the social state, and the cultural level, a symbolic promotion, in order to establish a greater degree of social justice. Mobilization of resources, collective behaviour for making claims, even contentious action and transaction with institutions and authorities, constitute views of social transformation and political process in the context of the creation and development of the social state.

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