Urban Social Change in Transitional China: A Perspective of Social Exclusion and Vulnerability

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingqin Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Transitional China

Is Law Unbounded? Property Rights and Control of Social Groupings

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (02) ◽  
pp. 517-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amnon Lehavi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Suggested Model ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
And Control ◽  
Practical Feasibility

This review essay follows up on a suggested model for resolving problems of neighborhood externalities and exclusionary associational patterns in metropolitan areas. The model is based on a property rights regime of “alienable entitlements,” as articulated by Lee Anne Fennell in The Unbounded Home (2009). The essay frames this model as promoting a groundbreaking approach to the fundamental quandary over the role of law as a tool for broad‐based social change and asks if legal rules can fully absorb the multiple types of societal effects that influence the nature of contemporary homeownership. It assesses the normative desirability and practical feasibility of controlling social exclusion through property rights.

scholarly journals Gamechanger: harnessing football for social change

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Linda Irvine Fitzpatrick ◽  
Donald Maciver ◽  
Leeann Dempster ◽  
Kirsty Forsyth
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a case study of an intersectoral partnership that has taken place in Scotland (United Kingdom) entitled Gamechanger. The main idea of Gamechanger was for statutory, commercial and voluntary organisations to work in partnership to harness the power of football (soccer), to tackle health inequalities and social exclusion. The paper will detail how Gamechanger has been developed, with reference to the newly developed “Incite” model for effective intersectoral partnership working.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on the authors’ experiences of leading and evaluating intersectoral partnerships from 2015 to 2019. The report draws on the work which took place during that period, and the achievements in relation to Gamechanger.FindingsGamechanger has led to significant innovations. It has encouraged sectors to work together, and develop new ways of responding to difficult societal problems.Originality/valueGamechanger is believed to be the first initiative of its kind developed with a football club in Scotland.ConclusionsThis work has been developed through robust community-informed efforts. The scope and scale of the projects to deliver community benefits is significant. Gamechanger has provided a means for football to take a different approach to how it works to benefit communities.

The Wisdom of the Novel in Richard Rorty’s philosophy as an example of postmodern humanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 153-161
Author(s):  
Patryk Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
The Novel

The article presents the reconstruction of the edifying subjectivity derived from Richard Rorty’s neopragmatism. The functions of Master Novels that fit the trend of liberal education and postmodern humanism have also been described. I argue in favor of a thesis that the recognition of the Wisdom of the Novel widely spread in culture can contribute to social change. The effect of this change may consist in a decrease in the amount of social exclusion of various groups and the existence of ideological radicalisms, which may contribute to the progression of solidarity among people.

scholarly journals Rethinking social change: The promises of Web 2.0 for the marginalized

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nemer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Problem Space

This paper focuses on the uses of Web 2.0 platforms by residents of favelas, urban slums in Brazil, in order to expand our understanding of what Web 2.0 can and cannot do in terms of social change. To explore this problem space, I draw on a 10-month ethnography in the favelas of Vitória, Brazil to study slum residents’ Web 2.0 practices and engagements. I show how Web 2.0 afforded favela residents the ability to protest and cross social boundaries, but when that happened they faced something much stronger: social exclusion, police brutality against the blacks and poor, and limited civic engagement.

A Relational View of Organizational Restructuring: The Case of Transitional China

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dali Ma
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
Organizational Unit ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Authority Relations ◽  
Transitional China

This article addresses three questions concerning authority relations (personal relations with superiors) in transitional China. First, can superiors retain an organizational unit in order to save a protege's job? Second, has instrumental usage of particularistic relations, orguanxi,lost its importance? Third, has ‘principled particularism’, an integration of political loyalty and authority relations, continued to impact careers? Based on first-hand survey data, I find that state-owned enterprises in which managers had closer authority relations were less likely to be sold or discontinued, and close authority relations also reduced the likelihood of career blockage (demotion/lay off). The significant interactive effect of party membership and authority relations revealed the continuation of ‘principled particularism’. The study underlines institutional continuity during rapid social change, renders insights into the processes of organizational restructuring, and depicts the relational base of formal organizations.

Community work in Germany and Sweden in context of changing welfare models

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Sjöberg ◽  
Monika Többe-Schukalla ◽  
Sanaya Singh ◽  
Karl-Heinz Martinss
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Collective Empowerment ◽  
Transformation Processes

The aim of this comparative study was to explore how community work is being undertaken in marginalized urban settings in Germany and Sweden, in relation to changing contexts of respective welfare models. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in neighborhoods in Gävle, Sweden, and Paderborn, Germany, and were analyzed by abductive thematic discourse analysis, using Atlas.ti and MaxQData. The results showed that community work in the respective settings is affected by lack of sufficient resources to meet increasing levels of social exclusion, related to ongoing transformation processes of the welfare regimes, and there is a lack of collective empowerment perspectives for social change.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Business on the Development of Communities’ Social Capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 66-85
Author(s):  
Laura Ramaškienė ◽  
Eglė Šumskienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Potential Approach ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
The Impact

There have been a lot of interest in social economics development in Europe, and social business has stood out for its social impact, having a potential approach to such societal problems as social exclusion, poverty, unemployment. The creation of social capital and social entrepreneurship are related by positive social change and economic benefits, which are achieved through personal and community bonding, innovation, and social initiatives. Social business has stood out for its social impact, having a potential approach to such societal problems as social exclusion, poverty, unemployment. The aim of the present article is to reveal social entrepreneurship impact on building social capital in Lithuanian communities. For this reason, a qualitative study was conducted based on social business activities related to community change, as well as identifying the interrelations between social business and social capital. This article introduces the theoretical approach of concepts social capital and community, followed by discussion of social business benefits and impact on the growth of community’s social capital. The results of the analysis of the research data were analytically coded based on grounded theory methodology and reveals the potential and perspective of social business in creating social change in the community following by building new relationships, trust and values, and new norms for community development. The positive changes initiated by social business are relevant to the goals of social work and reveal the need of further research in this field.

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