The Civic Side of Diversity: Ambivalence and Belonging at the Neighborhood Level

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Hoekstra ◽  
Joseph Gerteis
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Neighborhood Association ◽  
Civic Discourse ◽  
Neighborhood Boundaries ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Although diversity has become a cherished ideal for Americans, a growing literature suggests that many are also ambivalent about lived experiences of diversity. Focusing on three historically homogeneous neighborhoods in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles, this paper explores the “civic talk” used to express this ambivalence through interrelated frames of social order and civic engagement. In all three neighborhoods, long–term residents and neighborhood association members speak fluently about race, class, and other forms of diversity in their neighborhoods. Yet when they assess who “belongs” in the neighborhoods, the discussion is coded in civic terms. This framing enables neighborhood association members to act as gatekeepers, wielding civic discourse in ways that reinforce traditional neighborhood boundaries and social hierarchies, while maintaining structural inequalities.

The Puzzle of Prison Order

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Skarbek
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
County Jail ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Violent Men ◽  
Prison Systems

The Puzzle of Prison Order presents a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. While many people think prisons are all the same—rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners’ needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? This book shows that how prisons are governed—sometimes by the state and sometimes by the prisoners—is tremendously important. It investigates life in a wide array of facilities—prisons in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, England and Wales, a prisoner of war camp, women’s prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail—to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on theories from political economy and a vast empirical literature on prison systems, the book offers a framework for understanding how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.

The Conceptual Framework: Growth, Institutions, and Social Orders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Social Orders

This chapter lays out one part of the theoretical framework of the book, drawn from institutional economics. This literature maintains that institutions are the main determinant of long-term growth, and that to remain ‘appropriate’ institutions must evolve in synchrony with an economy’s progress through the stages of its development. Their evolution depends on a society’s openness to political creative destruction. Limited-access social orders tend to constrain it, to safeguard elites’ rents, and typically undermine progressive institutional reforms, breaking that synchrony. The transition from that social order to the open-access one is an endogenous and reversible process, in which inefficient institutions, which allow elites to extract rents, coexist with appropriate ones, which constrain their power and make it contestable. The hypothesis is advanced that Italy has not yet completed this transition, and that the tension between its efficient and inefficient institutions can endogenously generate shocks, which open opportunities for equilibrium shifts.

Making a Difference: Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Costume ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Alm
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Primary Means

This article focuses on the seventy-three essays that were submitted to the Swedish Royal Patriotic Society in 1773, in response to a competition for the best essay on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress. When presenting their thoughts on the design and realization of a national dress, the authors came to reflect on deeper issues of social order and sartorial culture, describing their views on society and its constituent parts, as well as the trappings of visual appearances. Clothes were an intricate part of the visual culture surrounding early modern social hierarchies; differentiation between groups and individuals were readily visualized through dress. Focusing on the three primary means for visual differentiation identified in the essays — colour, fabrics and forms — this article explores the governing notions of hierarchies in regards to sartorial appearance, and the sartorial practices for making the social order legible in late eighteenth-century Sweden.

Contradictions of the upcoming period: points for developing the agenda for medium- and long-term perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
D.M. Belousov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Object Of Control ◽  
Trade Wars ◽  
New Social Order ◽  
Different Levels

Analysis of the economic and social situation allows for the conclusion that the world is entering an era of global instability and contradictions. There is clearly a crisis of compensatory and basic institutions. Humans cease to be the subjects of the historical process and instead are becoming the object of control. Contradictions are sharply increasing at different levels. We are witnessing the conflict between labor and capital related to the national nature of labor and the global nature of capital. Production, security and regional applied science are changing, but financial and institutional systems remain global. Information and trade wars are intensifying. During a multi-level crisis, it is difficult to predict what a new social order will be like, but the transition to it will be difficult and highly possibly rife with (macro-) regional conflicts.

A Prospective 12-Month Study of Prescriptions in Long-Term Care Nursing Facility Residents

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-214
Author(s):  
Edward L. Schneider ◽  
Jung Ki Kim ◽  
Diana Hyun ◽  
Anjali Lobana ◽  
Rick Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Nursing Facilities ◽  
Geriatric Population ◽  
Nursing Facility ◽  
Term Care

AIM: The most frequent use of medications in the geriatric population occurs in skilled nursing facilities. This quality assurance study prospectively examines the high number of prescriptions ordered for long-term nursing facility residents throughout their first year after admission. METHODS: The investigators prospectively followed 101 consecutive long-term-stay older adult residents at the Joyce Eisenberg Keefer Medical Center, a nursing facility of Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging (LAJH) over a 12-month period. Preadmission prescriptions were obtained for 91 residents, as well as prescriptions at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year after admission. The number of prescriptions by staff physicians and outside physicians was examined. RESULTS: Over the 12 months following admission, the mean number of scheduled prescriptions increased significantly from 11.1 prior to admission to 13.0 by 6 months and to 13.3 by 12 months (P-value < 0.05). The residents who were hospitalized during the 12 months of observation received significantly more scheduled, as needed, and total prescriptions than those not hospitalized. Physicians employed full time by LAJH ordered significantly fewer additional prescriptions than physicians with outside practices. The patients of the staff physicians also had fewer hospitalizations than those of the outside physicians. CONCLUSION: This quality assurance study reveals a statistically significant increase in the number of prescriptions made in a long-term care setting over a 12-month prospective study. Patients of staff physicians received fewer prescriptions and were hospitalized less frequently than patients of physicians who practiced outside LAJH.

scholarly journals Theorizing media, communication and social change: towards a processual approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj ◽  
James Stanyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Conceptual Language ◽  
Processual Approach

Debates about the role of media and communication in social change are central to our discipline, yet advances in this field are hampered by disciplinary fragmentation, a lack of shared conceptual language and limited understanding of long-term shifts in the field. To address this, we first develop a typology that distinguishes between approaches that foreground the role of media and communication as an agent of change, and approaches that treat media and communication as an environment for change. We then use this typology to identify key trends in the field since 1951, including the sharp downturn in work focusing on economic aspects of change after 1985, the decline of grand narratives of social change since 2000 and the parallel return to media effects. We conclude by outlining the key traits of a processual approach to social change, which has the capacity to offer the basis for shared language in the field. This language can enable us to think of media, communication and social change across its varied temporal and social planes, and link together the processes involved in the reproduction of status quo with fundamental changes to social order.

scholarly journals Théâtre et sociétés dans la France de la révolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Philippe Bourdin
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Economic Issue ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
The French Revolution

The theatre, a very often-frequented place from the 1770s, is at the junction of several socie-ties: that of the shareholders who own the auditorium and privileges; that of the artists; that of the spectators; that of amateurs who are formed in bourgeois circles and then in patriotic dramatic so-cieties. Commercial freedom, activist investment, the wars born of the French Revolution, emigra-tion, indeed, upset theatrical structures. Halls and troops then multiply, and dramatic practices gain previously unfamiliar spaces for entertainment. Theatre becomes not only an economic issue, but also a political one, posing and addressing long term issues of profitability, social order, and public order. Theatre enables social reconversions, but professional troops are also sometimes divided by the artists’ political choices. They are challenged by amateurs whose commitments are more in line with the wishes of the successive regimes.

No Place for the Mom-and-Pops

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-172
Author(s):  
Luis Daniel Gascón ◽  
Aaron Roussell
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Primary Unit

This chapter extends from the previous, further examining police service delivery with respect to Lakeside’s business community. The authors open with a discussion of the Lakeside Boosters, a police charity where corporations can sponsor CPAB-led events and programs or provide general use funds. The Business Car is the primary unit responsible for all business relations, however SLOs regularly patrol these establishments in the course of their patrol routines. The chapter follows SLO Phil Hackett as he regulates the racial and moral boundaries of local liquor store patrons and sees SLO Marge Sierra advocate for the deservingness of a new 7-Eleven convenience store in the neighborhood, despite public resistance, because its corporate ties ensure elevated security and regulation. She contrasts this store with the area’s Black-owned businesses, whose continuing closures signal a positive shift for the maintenance of social order. The Lakeside Division’s relationship with local businesses, as the authors found, was not unusual. Rather, this is a normative institutional alignment. Coupling community policing with LA’s post-1992 urban redevelopment scheme, Rebuild Los Angeles, ensures that divisions can support local enforcement strategies in a time of declining city budgets, while also maintaining a hospitable environment for business growth.

Chapter 13: Two narratives of professional identity in eikaiwa

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Patrick Kiernan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
Teacher Narratives

In this chapter, Patrick Kiernan presents two very different but equally complex narratives illustrating the professional identity development of long-term eikaiwa teachers. The lived experiences of these two professionals reveals a great deal about the ways in which teachers negotiate multiple desired and undesired identities over the course of their careers. The complexity found in these teacher narratives provides a convincing counter perspective to the overly simplistic and often derogatory way that the professional lives of eikaiwa teachers are framed in both the ELT field and Japanese society at large.

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