Presidential Address

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The Individual

It is well known that human development is influenced by social change. In particular, as evidenced by research on German unification, the rapid change of social institutions can impact on various aspects of behaviour and development. Based on my own research experience in this field, I want to show the necessity for a better interdisciplinary collaboration, for more comparative research across divergent manifestations of social change, and for a strong orientation towards application. The address begins with a record of unwarranted assertions about the consequences of German unification. Following that, I discuss the role played by the change of social institutions in the timing of important psychosocial transitions during adolescence and young adulthood. Next, I present a conceptual model that informed our research on self-efficacy as a resource in mastering the new challenges. I conclude with suggestions concerning the development of interventions aimed at increasing people’s capabilities to capitalise on opportunities provided by profound change in social institutions. At each step, such research needs to be supported by comprehensive models of the interplay between context and the individual. I also underscore the role of ISSBD as a potential broker for new efforts in research and application in this regard.

Appreciating the Role of the “Individual Mind” in Diversity Science: Commonality, Harmony, and Social Change

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Dovidio ◽  
Tamar Saguy ◽  
Samuel L. Gaertner
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Individual

Sustainability in Community

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Whitney Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Nonviolent Communication ◽  
The Individual

This chapter explores the role of participatory democracy in sustainability-oriented intentional communities. These communities share goals of social equity and nonviolence and have created a variety of governance structures and practices to enfranchise all residents, ranging from consensus to sociocracy, incorporating nonviolent communication and restorative justice circles. Residents echo Gandhi’s assertion that inner change must precede social change, and communities such as the Possibility Alliance stress integral nonviolence, that nonviolence must permeate all aspects of life. Intentional communities demonstrate multiple patterns for interweaving lives, resolving tensions, and creating balance between their obligations to communities and maintaining integrity of the individual.

THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA IN THE XX CENTURE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laziza ALIMOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Joseon Dynasty ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Republic

The article is devoted to the study of social changes in South Korea in the twentieth century. It is noted that Confucian traditions have been preserved in modern Korean society since the Joseon Dynasty and continue to influence the political and social institutions of modern Korea. The article analyzes how various models of social change have influenced the position of Korean women. A number of issues are considered, including the position of women in traditional society, the role of women and their contribution to revolutionary changes in society.

Enhancing Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Teodora Manea
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIf moral enhancement is possible, the caring capacity of human beings should be considered one of the first and most important traits for augmentation. To assess the plausibility of enhancing care, I will explore how the concept and its associated human dispositions are socially constructed, and identify some of the critical points and complexities. Scientific advances regarding neuro-enhancing substances that allegedly make humans more caring will be considered and assessed against the main principles that govern the ethics of care approach. I argue that given the relational and contextual nature of care, its enhancement, if targeted at the individual level, can be more disadvantageous than helpful, by overlooking the “webs of care” people are situated in, and the role of social institutions in shaping behaviours, duties, attitudes, and principles.

scholarly journals TAREKAT QADIRIYAH WA NAQSABANDIYAH TERHADAP KESALEHAN SOSIAL MASYARAKAT DUSUN GEMUTRI SUKOHARJO SLEMAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Siswoyo Aris Munandar ◽  
Sigit Susanto ◽  
Wahyu Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Individual

This study was based on a case study on   the era challenges that began to erode  spiritual and social aspects of the society. Sufism through thariqah offers an increase in morality /ethics. Thariqah was  believed as one of  media for social change in boosting morality / ethics. The main reason that thariqah as one of media for social change was that thariqah taught the improvement and burdened of individual morals. The research questions were: (1)  what is the role of Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah thariqahs in people’s spiritual life? (2) what is the role of Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah thariqahs in maintaining the people’s social religiosity? The study used field research, namely by digging field data and observing directly. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah Thariqah on the people’s social religiosity of Gemutri villagers. The findings revealed that the role of thariqah was to promote  spirituality, and to teach  noble morals. Increasing spirituality and moral teaching made Gemutri residents as individuals who love each other, do good deeds, be fair, maintain brotherhood, uphold the truth, and help each other. The individual character, according to Abdul Azhim, was the realm of social religiosity.

Get Up, Stand Up: Teaching Civil Disobedience in the Literature Classroom

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 864-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Miles
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Literature Classroom ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Landmark Study

In his presidential address at the 1970 MLA convention, Maynard Mack sounded a warning bell concerning activism and the future of literary studies. Faced with a seemingly endless conflict in Vietnam and a national student body growing polarized in its response to this war, higher education, including language-based pedagogy, was in crisis. Of particular concern to Mack was a growing generational disconnect over the role of activism in the literature classroom. He cited a landmark study in which nearly two-thirds of all professors over the age of thirty maintained that any foray into politics should be avoided, if not altogether prohibited, in formal course work. The younger generation disagreed: two-thirds of them, in fact, felt a moral and pedagogical obligation to use colleges and universities as loci for social change. This ideological divide, Mack predicted, would soon create “a crisis of authority in the offing beside which all current manifestations would look pale” (365).

scholarly journals Методика работы социального педагога с неблагополучной семьей

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 135-135
Author(s):  
С.Д. Курова
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
Vital Functions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Individual

The family acts as the first educational institution that helps the child to socialize in society. In the family, the foundations of human morality are laid, norms of behavior are formed, the inner world and individual qualities of the individual are revealed. The family promotes self-affirmation of a person, stimulates his social and creative activity. The role of the family in society can not be compared with any other social institutions, because it is in it that the foundations of the child's personality are laid. However, the family does not always perform vital functions for the development and social development of the child. Such families are United by the concept of "dysfunctional family". Communicating with these families in the process of work, we can conclude that whatever factors may be caused by family problems, it in one way or another negatively affects the development of the child. As experience shows, the vast majority of problems that arise in children in the process of socialization, has its roots in the family's problems. The purpose of this article, first of all, is to analyze the methods of work of a social teacher with a dysfunctional family. The method of writing this article is the analysis of scientific literature and additional electronic sources. The result of scientific work was the consolidation and assimilation of our main positions as specialists in the field of social activity. The conclusion of the written article can be considered all previously written goals. We have identified and studied the basics of social work, as well as analyzed important and interesting issues.

scholarly journals Sustainable development and the role of instrumentalism concepts for social institutions and educational system

2021 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 06004
Author(s):  
Tatiana Bilan ◽  
Nataliia Lakusha ◽  
Oksana Petriv ◽  
Svitlana Sylkina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Model Management ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Personal Consciousness ◽  
The Individual

The conception of pragmatism and the educational theory deriving from it are quite popular in management systems and social sciences in the context of the need of implementing sustainable development strategies. This is facilitated, firstly, by the combination in the renewed conceptions of this trend of its bottom-up positions with the ideas of other worldview trends – neo-positivism, existentialism, neoFreudism – which enabled enriching the categorical apparatus and general theoretical content of the educational model, management and social education of pragmatism, while preserving the spirit of the conception. Secondly, the changes undergone by the conception of pragmatism in education have allowed it to successfully integrate into the currently intensified general trend of understanding educational management as a process of socialization of the individual, his/her adaptation to the existing values of Western society. In this context, it is a matter of assessing human behavior not in terms of whether it is consistent with fixed, „eternal‟ moral principles, but rather in terms of the practical results that human actions contribute to the achievement of a given aim. This aim was understood in different ways: some identified it with the development of personal consciousness, while others linked it to self-improvement or integrity, still others linked it to the ultimate development of all human faculties, etc. Obviously, the very desire for such a shift in the assessment of human behavior reflected the fact that the absolute principles and norms of classical ethics were no longer „working‟ under the new social conditions; a more sophisticated criterion was needed to evaluate behavior in the context of constantly changing factors in social and individual life.

The Role of the Individual in Promoting Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Francisca Farache ◽  
Georgiana Grigore ◽  
David McQueen ◽  
Alin Stancu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Individual
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