Is Social Impact the Goal?

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-67
Author(s):  
Michelle Shumate ◽  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Cause Analysis ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
Focus On Results

This chapter suggests several reasons that networks fall short of social impact. First, it defines social impact as distinct from outcomes. Further, it indicates that networks may intentionally focus on results other than social impact. The chapter introduces a typology of social impact. Second, the chapter explores how the complexity of various social issues such as climate change or education typically involves diverse stakeholders who approach the problem differently. Social problems that are simple, obvious, or chaotic usually do not require a network response. In contrast, wicked problems that are complicated or complex benefit from network solutions. Throughout the chapter, various cases illustrate how networks might engage a social challenge and what outcomes may result. It includes a description and templates for root cause analysis.

scholarly journals Exploring the Ingredients of Success: Studying Trajectories of the Vulnerable Unemployed Who Have Entered Work or Education in Denmark

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Danneris ◽  
Dorte Caswell
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cash Benefits ◽  
Individual Perspective

When looking at clients with a long history of unemployment and substantial health and/or social problems, stories of success (in terms of moving from being on cash benefits to getting a job) are limited. Thus, when a client does manage to gain employment or enter education, it represents an unusual1story of success seen from a political, organisational and individual perspective. In this article, we investigate empirically what can be learnt about current active labour market policies from these client cases. Methodologically this is explored through interviews with former clients who have managed to find a job despite dealing with complex health or social issues, and interviews with their former caseworkers. Thus, the article aims to provide insights into the crucial elements in making the move from vulnerable unemployed to being ready for a job, as well as finding it and keeping it.

Problem Definition and the Policy Process: Wicked Problems

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian W. Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Inclusive Processes ◽  
Policy And Planning

In the early 1970s, Rittel and Webber asserted that conventional approaches to scientific analysis and rational planning were inadequate for guiding practitioners and researchers who were tackling complex and contested social problems—which they termed “wicked” problems. The full implications of this challenging critique of rational policy planning were not elaborated at that time, but the underlying issues have attracted increasing attention and debate in later decades. Policy analysts, academic researchers, and planning practitioners have continued to grapple with the claim that conventional scientific-technical approaches might be insufficient and even misleading as a basis for understanding and responding to complex social issues. This is paradoxical in the modern era, which has been attracted to notions of evidence-based policymaking, policy evaluation, and performance-based public management. Scholarly discussion has continued to evolve concerning methods for addressing highly contested arenas of policy and planning. One key proposition is that citizens and key stakeholders tend to have conflicting perceptions about the nature of particular social “problems” and will thus have different views about appropriate responses or “solutions.” A related proposition is that these disputes are anchored in differing values and perceptions, which are not able to be adjudicated and settled by empirical science, but require inclusive processes of argumentation and conflict resolution among stakeholders. Hence, several kinds of knowledge—lay and expert, civic and professional—need to be brought together in order to develop transdisciplinary “usable knowledge.” As the research literature produces a richer array of comparative case analyses, it may become feasible to construct a more nuanced understanding of the conditions underlying various kinds of wicked problems in social policy and planning. In the meantime, generalized and indiscriminate use of the term wicked problems is not helpful for delineating the nature of the challenges faced and appropriate remedial actions.

scholarly journals Social impact analysis of cultural tourism in rural areas of Tlaxcala, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 320-329
Author(s):  
Luceli Méndez Serrano ◽  
José Pedro Juárez-Sánchez ◽  
Benito Ramírez-Valverde ◽  
Laura Caso Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
The Social

Alternative tourism, specifically cultural tourism, has gained worldwide importance. This is reflected in the growing number of people preferring this type of leisure activity. However, and even though archaeological and religious contexts represent hubs of attraction for pilgrims and tourists, their development seems to generate social issues. The objective of this research is to analyse the social impact of cultural tourism, from the perspective of tradesmen living in the rural municipality of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Information was collected by surveys. Sample size was calculated using the non-probabilistic method (snowball), and 54 tradesmen owning establishments near tourist attractions, were interviewed. Results evidenced that tradesmen do perceive social problems including traffic congestion, increasing living costs, pollution, street vendors, and augmented competition between businesses. However, they appreciate the benefits of providing tourists with low-cost catering services, considering tourism to be positive or very positive. The conclusion is that economic benefits outweigh the social impacts generated by tourism. Highlights: The influx of pilgrims and tourists is generating some social problems in the receiving rural spaces. Tourism service providers derive little benefit due to the low-cost services in accommodation and meal offer to tourists. Social problems are increasing (road traffic, higher cost of living, pollution, street vendors) and greater competition between businesses. Tourist activity is considered good or very good since it contributes to local development.

scholarly journals Silver linings: how mental health activists can help us navigate wicked problems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Neil Armstrong ◽  
Keira Pratt-Boyden
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Treatment As Usual ◽  
Climate Crisis

Summary This article explores how ‘wicked problems’ such as climate change might force psychiatry to rethink some of its fundamental ideas and ways of working, including clinical boundaries, understandings of psychopathology and ways of organising. We use ethnographic evidence to explore how mental health service ‘survivor’ activists are already rethinking some of these issues by therapeutically orienting themselves towards social problems and collective understandings of well-being, rejecting ‘treatment as usual’ approaches to distress. In this way we provide an example of the potential of activists to help psychiatry negotiate the climate crisis.

scholarly journals Social impact of epilepsy on life of people with epilepsy: An ethnographic evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
Neha Wasal
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Case Material ◽  
Epilepsy Patient ◽  
Northwest India ◽  
Level Hospital

Epilepsy is considered as a stigma in our society, and PWE’s have to face many social issues. This becomes more prominent among those who are in marriageable age. In this paper21 PWE were interviewed who attended an outpatient epilepsy clinic at a secondary-level hospital in Northwest India between 01.01.2015 and 31.03.2015 formed the case material for this study. Some cases were deeply interrogated and it was found that all of them faced certain kind of social problems while suffering from epilepsy. Half of respondentssaid that main social problem faced by them was related to marriage. Many of the epilepsy patient denied the fact of having epilepsy with their future partner . They also denied of revealing them about taking ADE’S. it was found that PWE’s face many social and psychological problems while marriage negotiations and even after marriage.

Root Cause analysis of SG tube ODSCC indications within the tube sheets of NPP biblis unit A

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
R. Kilian ◽  
J. Beck ◽  
H. Lang ◽  
V. Schneider ◽  
T. Schönherr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Root Cause Analysis ◽  
Cause Analysis ◽  
Root Cause

“Land fever” and “Bankruptcy”: Social Problems in Hanoi’s Urbanizing Peri-urban Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 550-562
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Credit Market ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
The Impact

Drawn upon field research in two peri-urban villages of Hanoi in 2014 and short re-visits recently, the research examines the widespread of gambling and other social issues in Hanoi’s urbanizing peri-urban communities which happened concurrently with the phenomenon of “land fever,” and at the time local villagers received compensation from land appropriation. The article aims to understand the impact of urbanization on these communities and the interface between urbanization and the increase of social problems. It argues that gambling, drug use, and other social problems have been existing in Vietnamese rural communities long before; however, when urbanization came, some people have higher chances to engage in these activities. Those are villagers who want to transform quickly into entrepreneurs or bosses by joining the “black credit” market and gambling. Together with middle-aged and old farmers who greatly relied on agricultural production and face difficulties in transforming their occupation, they formed the group of losers in the urbanization process. Received 6th January 2019; Revised 26th April 2019; Accepted 15th May 2019

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