scholarly journals From Awareness to Social Action: The Role of Dementia Friends in Sustaining Dementia Inclusiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 513-514
Author(s):  
Martha Williman ◽  
Bonnie Burman
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Impact Model ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
Three Components

Abstract According to the World Dementia Council, three components are important to effectively engage a community to become dementia inclusive, 1) raising awareness and consequently decreasing stigma, 2) enabling participation, and 3) providing support—including in health and care settings. Too many times these components are separate initiatives thus limiting their effectiveness and sustainability. By applying the collective impact model and utilizing the Dementia Friends program as the link between the three, all dementia inclusive efforts can be enhanced and sustained regardless of the range of activities and approaches a community chooses to adopt. This symposium provides both evidence and examples of how to personalize and employ the Dementia Friends program to optimize the process, outcome, and impact of dementia inclusive initiatives. By engaging the entire community, awareness is raised, the structure is in place to enable action, and cross-sector collaboration will ensure continuation and sustainability of these important efforts.

Fighting illiberalism: The role of awareness raising projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Mihai Radu ◽  
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Daniela Angi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political System ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Education Campaigns

Illiberalism recently became a favorite catchphrase of several political actors around the world. Although not necessarily precise, the term conjures alternative understandings of democracy, by contesting the inherent need of a democratic political system to be intimately tied to liberal values. This lack of precision is often instrumentalized to boost popular support for taking measures leading to discrimination and resisting or even fighting pluralism. This text aims to familiarize the reader with the existing conceptual debates surrounding the concept of illiberalism, while also offering a glimpse into the causes responsible for its popularity. Theoretical knowledge is then juxtaposed with information regarding an awareness raising project aiming to fight illiberalism in countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The conclusion stresses the need for communication and education campaigns regarding the perils of illiberalism, especially in the more fragile democratic contexts of post-communist Europe. Citizens need to be aware of how illiberalism endangers democracy and have at their disposal mechanisms for raising awareness regarding illiberal measures taken by various governments.

Disenchantment of the world: Weber, Judaism, and Maimonides

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan J Zisook
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
Intellectual Legacy

One of the central comparative-historical features of Max Weber’s sociology of religion is his theory of disenchantment, whereby magical forms of social action come to be eclipsed by religious forms. This article explicates Weber’s theory of disenchantment, underscoring his original distinction between magic and religion, while emphasizing the unique and often underappreciated position Judaism occupies in Weber’s theory. I accord special significance to the philosopher Maimonides as a medieval expositor of an ideal typically disenchanted form of Judaism. I apply Weber’s theory of disenchantment as a framework for understanding two central features of Maimonides’ intellectual legacy: (1) Maimonides’ codification of Jewish law; and (2) Maimonides’ philosophical and sociohistorical rationalizations of Biblical commandments. In so doing, I situate Maimonides within the broader discourse of sociology of religion and extend a Weberian analysis of Judaism into the medieval period, demonstrating that the role of Judaism in the historical development of “Western” rationality is not alone a product of antiquity as Weber contended.

Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

2020 ◽  
pp. 146960532096909
Author(s):  
Alexander A Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

Recent calls across the world for removing monuments to White supremacy have brought widespread attention to the power of images and the role of heritage in society. A more careful examination of heritage’s itineraries and pragmatics—its practical effects—is thus warranted. This paper interrogates the pragmatics of heritage in two ways. First, what are the discourses and rhetorics of heritage—how is heritage invoked and talked about, like a sign of history, in making statements about the world? Second, what does heritage do, as a sign in history, when it is invoked, encountered, and circulated? What does heritage activate, and what are the practical effects of its itineraries? Drawing on the examples of the return of the Euphronios krater to Italy and the removal of Confederate and racist monuments in the US and elsewhere, I argue that while operating in these two modes—as signs of and in history—heritage’s greatest potential for transformational change is when it ceases acting as a rhetorical device and instead becomes itself the center of experiential social action.

The Role of Education in Breaking the Nexus between e-Marketing and Online Fraud

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Sofo ◽  
Michelle Sofo
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Online Fraud ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Online Marketplace ◽  
Internet Fraud ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World

The world of marketing has changed through the incorporation of electronic means through which new customers and new markets can be reached. As a result, the world of trade and commerce has been revolutionized, revealing new and sometimes less scrupulous ways of dealing in an online marketplace. The article provides three Australian examples (each featuring a nexus between e-marketing and fraudulent online transactions) in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the darker side that exists to e-marketing. It also explores education and adult learning as means of raising awareness and skills in dealing with harmful e-marketing practices found in occurrences such as Internet fraud.

Creating the Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 177-184
Author(s):  
Mark Robert Rank ◽  
Lawrence M. Eppard ◽  
Heather E. Bullock
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Risk Calculator ◽  
Poverty Risk ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Poverty And Inequality

Chapter 21 draws a conclusion to the book by discussing the ways in which groups and individuals can create positive change toward alleviating poverty. The creation of the website, “Confronting Poverty: Tools for Understanding Economic Hardship and Risk,” is discussed, along with the poverty risk calculator. The role of social media is also discussed as a vehicle for raising awareness around the issues of poverty and inequality. The authors put forward that diagnosing the scope and cause of a problem is a first step toward creating change. A second step is using that diagnosis to shift the prevailing status quo mentality to one of social action. A third step is building the momentum to leverage a change in how the problem is addressed. The chapter offers several examples of how social and policy change have occurred over relatively short periods of time.

scholarly journals The Role of Artistic Processes in Peace-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Community Arts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Project ◽  
World Community ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The World

Throughout the world, community arts-based processes have become an essential component of peacebuilding work in societies experiencing severe conflicts. Both during a conflict and in post-conflict peacebuilding efforts, community based arts processes can be an especially effective tool to bring together identity groups through sharing common cultural experiences, raising awareness about past suffering, and engaging communities in creative projects. In this research project, the author spent fourteen months in Bosnia-Herzegovina researching the use of community arts-based peacebuilding efforts both during the war and in the post-conflict stage. This paper provides an overview of the research and offers several conclusions on the role of arts in peacebuilding within Bosnia-Herzegovina with the hope that these findings have relevance for other regions and the field in general.

Command tones: Digitization and sounded time

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sterne ◽  
Emily Raine
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Short History ◽  
Collective Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Zones ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Time

Keeping time is a crucial aspect of governance. Timekeeping orchestrates individual and collective activity and shapes relations between individuals and institutions, between institutions, and within networks of individuals. Though some aspects of time, such as time zones, are nationally and internationally regulated, the regulation of time is often a case where governance extends far beyond government. This “experiment in theory” provides an account of the role of sound in orchestrating social action, and then uses a long history of sounded time to situate a short history of sounded digital time. Though the project is deliberately speculative, it suggests an important hypothesis: Rather than splitting the world into “real” and “virtual” domains of perceived experience, digital technologies might better be considered in terms of the disconnect between the perceived and imperceptible modalities through which they organize social practice.

The essence and causes of the spiritual and moral decline of mankind in the XX century

1998 ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
V. Tolkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Social Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Religion

One of the most important reasons for such a clearly distressed state of society was the decline of religion as a social force, the external manifestation of which is the weakening of religious institutions. "Religion," Baha'u'llah writes, "is the greatest of all means of establishing order in the world to the universal satisfaction of those who live in it." The weakening of the foundations of religion strengthened the ranks of ignoramuses, gave them impudence and arrogance. "I truly say that everything that belittles the supreme role of religion opens way for the revelry of maliciousness, inevitably leading to anarchy. " In another Tablet, He says: "Religion is a radiant light and an impregnable fortress that ensures the safety and well-being of the peoples of the world, for God-fearing induces man to adhere to the good and to reject all evil." Blink the light of religion, and chaos and distemper will set in, the radiance of justice, justice, tranquility and peace. "

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

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