Engaging and promoting young women’s entrepreneurship: A challenge to social work

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveen Varghese Thomas ◽  
Sonny Jose
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Political Economic

Development is complete only with genuine acknowledgment of the roles of women as well as their active engagement in all forums – political, economic, and social forums – in life. Providing a conducive environment for women has been a developmental debate in India for many decades now. Yet India’s progress and performance on women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming leave much to be desired by global standards. Women who venture into business or entrepreneurial activities seek active support – spousal and familial – right from the beginning stage of the venture. However, experience seems to suggest that such perceived support systems turn around and in themselves present social impediments to the healthy development of women-lead enterprises. This article is a case study that attempts to portray the travails of a group of young women who attempted to launch an enterprise in a rurban setting. This article describes the social challenges posed to the Unarvu Self-Help Group, in the Trivandrum district of Kerala, and their resilience in overcoming these impediments. This article is a reflection of the experience undergone by many women, and also showcases the resilience generated by self-motivated women venturing as entrepreneurs in the wake of resistance and impediments. The article is a qualitative portrayal of experiences of a social worker trainee in dealing with the issues hindering women entrepreneurship. This also opens up new avenues for professional social work engagement.

Mind Cure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Keyword(s):  
White Male ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Americans ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Political Economic

Mindfulness is widely claimed to improve health and performance, and historians typically say that efforts to promote meditation and yoga therapeutically began in the 1970s. In fact, they began much earlier, and that early history offers important lessons for the present and future. This book traces the history of mind-body medicine from eighteenth-century Mesmerism to the current Mindfulness boom and reveals how religion, race, and gender have shaped events. Many of the first Americans to advocate meditation for healing were women leaders of the Mind Cure movement, which emerged in the late nineteenth century. They believed that by transforming their consciousness, they could also transform oppressive circumstances in which they lived, and some were activists for social reform. Trained by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, these women promoted meditation through personal networks, religious communities, and publications. Some influenced important African American religious movements, as well. For women and black men, Mind Cure meant not just happiness but liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. The Mind Cure movement exerted enormous pressure on mainstream American religion and medicine, and in response, white, male doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials appropriated some of its methods and channeled them into scientific psychology and medicine. As mental therapeutics became medicalized, individualized, and then commodified, the religious roots of meditation, like the social justice agendas of early Mind Curers, fell away. After tracing how we got from Mind Cure to Mindfulness, this book reveals what got lost in the process.

What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1496-1516
Author(s):  
Tisha Joseph Holmes ◽  
John Mathias ◽  
Tyler McCreary ◽  
James Brian Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Disaster Anthropology ◽  
Political Economic

On March 3, 2019, an EF4 tornado devastated the rural Alabama communities of Beauregard and Smith Station, killing 23 people and causing direct injuries to another 97. This storm was unusually devastating, with twice the predicted casualty rate based on the tornado’s power, the impacted population, and impacted housing stock. In this paper, we apply qualitative methods from anthropology, geography, and planning to better understand the social context of this unusually devastating tornado. Recognizing that there are multiple formulations of the problem of disasters, we aim to highlight how interdisciplinary qualitative research can deepen our understanding of tornado disasters. Combining policy analysis, political economic critique, and ethnographic description, we seek to showcase how qualitative research enables us to interrogate and reimagine the problem of disasters. Rather than simply juxtaposing qualitative and quantitative methods, we emphasize how the heterogeneity of qualitative research methods can strengthen interdisciplinary research projects by generating dialogue about the multiple contexts relevant to understanding a social problem. While problem definition remains a central challenge to establishing a dialogue between anthropology and social work, here, we intend to extend this discussion to larger interdisciplinary collaborations. Situating the issue of problem formation within a broader ecology of qualitative inquiry, we highlight how dialogue about problem definition can, itself, produce meaningful insights into how we understand disasters.

scholarly journals Data Control Wars: Collaborative Fiction, Transition Design and Technological Sovereignty

2020 ◽  
pp. 208-239
Author(s):  
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves ◽  
Grace Polifroni Turtle ◽  
Antonio Calleja ◽  
Raul Nieves Pardo ◽  
Bani Brusadin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Effects ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Sociology Of Expectations ◽  
Data Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transition Strategies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Research Action ◽  
Political Economic

Data Control Wars seeks to explore the development of different futures regarding the extraction, management and exploitation of data and its political, economic and cultural consequences. It has been designed as a research-action device through play, generative conflict, collaborative fiction and performance with three specific objectives: to observe social expectations regarding the relationship between industry, democracy, citizenship and data; to stimulate social imagination through the simulation of sociotechnical scenarios, thus decolonising imaginaries captured by techno-capitalist logic; and to rehearsal transition strategies towards technological sovereignty. This article presents the Data Control Wars case study and explains its functioning. Moreover, it sets out the theoretical scaffolding – which goes from post-human philosophy to critical design passing through the sociology of expectations – that supports it and presents some of the results. After three activations in three different contexts, Data Control Wars has proven useful as an educational tool to address the potential positive and negative effects of using data, as a space for testing strategies on transition design, as a method to identify some of the myths articulated by the social perception of the technological industry and the power of agency that we hold over it and, finally, as a device to question techno-capitalist cultural hegemony through the construction of other stories about what the technosocial body can be.

Social work as a moral and political practice

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C.K. Chu ◽  
Ming-sum Tsui ◽  
Miu-chung Yan
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The West ◽  
Justice Sociale ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
The Social ◽  
Travail Social ◽  
Trabajo Social ◽  
And Training

English In their efforts to promote the Global Standards for the Education and Training of the Social Work Profession, the authors discovered the withering of the moral and political bases of social work practice in the West. The revitalization of the roots of social work is important to the promotion of social justice. French Dans leurs efforts pour promouvoir les Standards Mondiaux pour l’Enseignement et la Formation aux Professions Sociales, les auteurs découvrent le déclin des bases morales et politiques de la pratique du travail social en occident. La revitalisation des racines du travail social est importante pour la promotion de la justice sociale. Spanish En su esfuerzo para promover los Estándares Globales para la Educación y el Entrenamiento en la Profesión del Trabajo Social, los autores descubrieron el marchitar de las bases políticas y morales de la práctica del trabajo social en occidente. La revitalización de las raíces del trabajo social es importante para la promoción de la justicia social.

scholarly journals What is the Role of Social Work in China? A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieru Bai
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Development Perspective

This article analyzes the role of social work in the context of the special political, economic, cultural, and historical background in China. A historical perspective is used to understand the evolution of the Chinese welfare system and explain the timing of reintroducing the social work profession. A pluralistic perspective is adopted to define social work relating to different stakeholders in social welfare and services. The government starts to diminish its role as a direct service provider. The traditional family and community have less capacity to take care of people. Yet, the social work profession is not ready to take over. Finally, a social development perspective is used to illustrate why economic growth is prioritized by the Chinese government and social work as profession is supposed to work to promote social stability and prosperity. Implications for social work research and practice are discussed.

Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity

1991 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham B. McBeath ◽  
Stephen A. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Central Value ◽  
Connected Set ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
And Performance

In this article we argue that current reform proposals coming from Robert Pinker and others are challenging the universalist premises of generic social work. Pinker et al. argue that social work should, for the sake of efficiency and performance, be a connected set of specialist activities. This ‘determinate dispersal’ which we recognise as falling within the remit of postmodern strategies, we contrast with the far more libertarian ideas of the noted post-modern theorist J.F. Lyotard. Thus we site the political and cultural meanings of Pinker's ideas between generic social work which upholds ideas of universal ethical values and universal provision, and those of Lyotard whose anti-foundationalism proposes a radically heterogeneous society with no central value-structure. We express our concern that the ‘new specialist’ remit may allow too much power to the social worker. Thus we have considerable sympathy for Lyotard's call for a radical anonistics – a field wherein the inequalities of power between say, a worker and her client, to some extent can be redressed.

scholarly journals Tourism and Gender Research in Brazil and Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-289
Author(s):  
Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión ◽  
Paola Vizcaino-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Selection Of

Tourism and gender research emerged during the 1990s in the Anglophone academies. Despite the sociocultural improvement in gender studies, tourism and gender research remains a marginal and disarticulated subfield of studies three decades later, with limited impact on the broader tourism scholarship and on practical transformations at the destination level. In Latin America, tourism gender research was introduced towards the beginning of the 21st century and, apart from the limitations identified in the Anglophone academies, the lack of engagement with gender and feminist debates has contributed to marginalize this subfield of research. The gender dimensions of tourism have been examined mainly through social science frameworks. Even though tourism has been considered an interdisciplinary field of study, gender mainstreaming has been neglected as a relevant approach to research. Despite its limitations, tourism gender research in Latin America has made power relations visible in a wide array of tourism practices. The introduction of gender perspectives has facilitated the analysis of other hierarchical categories such as race, ethnicity, class, or sexual orientation. Drawing insights from a recent bibliometric analysis of the tourism and gender scholarship in Latin America for the period 2001–2015, this article continues a previous work and focuses on the production of the two leading countries in the region: Brazil and Mexico. Content analysis was conducted on a selection of 107 articles (64 from Brazil and 43 from Mexico). The purpose of the analysis was twofold: first, to identify the main research topics, and second, to examine the links with feminist or gender frameworks. Findings show these links are weak, and opportunities were detected to strengthen the association of tourism research with the social sciences through analysis that incorporate cultural and gender dimensions at the macro- or microlevels. Finally, we discuss areas for interdisciplinary collaboration with feminist traditions, such as intersectionality and transnationalism that may contribute to advance tourism gender research in the region.

scholarly journals Social and mental health of older women in the context of the strategy of people’s conservation: new objectives of social work

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
Olga Anikeeva ◽  
Svetlana Fomina ◽  
Yanina Shimanovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
And Gender

The National Saving Strategy in the Russian Federation is one of the main state social policy documents. It can be implemented in various ways, in particular, by increasing the life expectancy of the older generation. Ageing Concepts and gender characteristics of the ageing process, analyzed in this article, a discourse analysis of social practices in the formation of older women social and mental health made it possible to highlight the typology of the main social problems of this socio-age group. The social work experience with older women and new approaches in this work summarized in the article. The discourse analysis made it possible to conduct a frontal study of various aspects of the older women problems, the conditions for ensuring their social and mental health, to show new tasks of social work practice in solving the demographic problems of modern Russia.

Feminism and Gender Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlene Juschka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralism ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Theoretical Developments

This chapter examines gender as a category and concept and its deployment in the study of systems of belief and practice in the last decades of the twentieth century. It charts four theoretical developments that have extended the study of gender in significant ways: that is, intersectionality (analysis of interrelations between race, class, and gender), feminist poststructuralism, gender studies and performance (performance as a central aspect of the social construction of gender, e.g. in rites of passage), and sexuality and queer studies (e.g. recognizing that there is no single normative or universal sexuality). It then examines the application of these theoretical developments in the study of religion.

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