French female youth and sports inspectors and the challenge of neoliberalism during the Trente Glorieuses

2021 ◽  
pp. 175774382110372
Author(s):  
Clémence Lebossé ◽  
Carine Érard ◽  
Christian Vivier
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trente Glorieuses ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

In a society where the politics of life is geared toward maximizing the physical and psychological dimensions of human capital to ensure economic growth, France’s Inspectorate for Youth and Sports played a key role in disseminating a new mode of governance of bodies and youth—a form of self-governance based on the rising neoliberal values that emerged during the period of the Trente Glorieuses. Representing a tiny minority in an essentially male bastion, a small number of women, cherry-picked for their expertise and effectiveness as inspectors, came to play a vital role in a new mode of youth governance aimed, against a backdrop of social control, at encouraging young people to assume greater self-responsibility and to take ownership of their physical education and activities. Guided by research in the human and social sciences as a basis for rethinking how physical education is taught in schools, women may be seen as key contributors to the emergence of a new ethos designed to develop the ability of French youth to adapt to the social and economic transformation of capitalist society by appealing to the psyche (superego) and self-regulation. Despite promoting a “differentialist feminism”.

Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change, and Leadership

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert O. Hirschman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cumulative Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Intellectual Leadership

This chapter challenges the defeatism of Hirschman's friends and colleagues during the 1950s–1960s, when numerous political and social upheavals were happening worldwide. In this chapter, Hirschman explains that many of the so-called “structural causes”—a term advanced by his Latin American colleagues in the social sciences which refers to entrenched obstacles that make all efforts to change self-defeating—are ideological constructs. The chapter discusses two obstacles to the perception of change: the persistence of traits which are related to the “little traditions,” as well as the bias in the perception of cumulative change. It argues that the real, “stealthy” change that was actually occurring is being obscured in the process and the vital role of political and intellectual leadership is thus ignored.

scholarly journals Nanotechnologies, Risks and Societal Concerns

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Gaymard ◽  
Wilson Engelmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Exact Science ◽  
Psychology And Law ◽  
Inherent Risk ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Ethical Issues ◽  
New Challenges

The question of nanotechnologies and societal concerns is a subject which has been developing for several years and constitutes an indicator of an evolution in the awareness of nanotechnologies as an inherent risk with social and ethical issues. Two disciplines in human and social sciences, social psychology and law, associate their fields of competence and their view of this new societal phenomenon. First an exploratory study of the social representation of nanotechnologies is conducted with Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) students vs Exact Science (ES) students. Results highlight differences between these two groups. Then Law and the challenges to appropriate the innovations brought about by nanotechnology is discussed. In the light of these two disciplines the question of knowing if the human and social science are ready to deal with these new challenges is debated.

scholarly journals The relationship between the social responsibility and the job performance among physical education professors

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Kenioua Mouloud ◽  
Krine Nawal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Main Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

Background and Study Aim. The study aimed to know the level of social responsibility and job performance among the physical education professors and examine the relationship between the social responsibility and the job performance. Material and Methods. The participants were 29 physical educations professors (male) from Institute of Physical Education and Sport University of Ouargla. The social responsibility and the job performance scales were used as search tools. Data analyses were carried out by means of statistical packet for social sciences (SPSS) 26.00 software program. The Mean, Std. Deviation and Pearson Correlation were used in the main study. In addition, alpha-Cronbach was used in the exploratory study Results. The level of social responsibility and job performance is high among physical education professors, and there is a positive correlation between social responsibility and job performance. Conclusions. Given the importance of the role of social responsibility and job performance and the lack of enough studies in this specialization, it is necessary to conduct more additional studies that would serve knowledge in this specialization.

scholarly journals Communicating for Systemic Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Jonathan Oosterman
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Shed Light

The climate crisis significantly magnifies the urgency of implementing systemic change. Globally, we have little time remaining in which to bring about the social, political, and economic transformation needed to avoid triggering amplifying feedbacks and runaway climate chaos. In this context, a core challenge is how to mobilise people and inspire widespread action to create this transformation. Understanding current approaches to climate communication is crucial for ensuring that our communication practices play the vital role they will need to in the coming decades. In this article, I do not aim to provide a comprehensive set of guidelines that define effective climate communication. My primary aim is to understand current communication practices. To achieve this, I take a movement-centred activist-scholarship approach to research on climate communication decision-making via in-depth semi-structured interviews with 14 members of the New Zealand climate movement. My intent is to synthesise the perspectives and experiences of New Zealand climate movement participants. Through this, I hope to offer a useful analysis of significant dynamics in climate communication and shed light on dynamics in systemic change communication more broadly.  

scholarly journals Catastrophe models and the expansion method: A review of issues and an application to the econometric modeling of economic growth

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Casetti
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Catastrophe Theory ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Cusp Catastrophe ◽  
Econometric Modeling ◽  
Catastrophe Model ◽  
Cusp Catastrophe Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catastrophe Models

Many negative reactions to Catastrophe Theory have been triggered by overly simplistic applications unintended and unsuited for statistical-econometric estimation, inference, and testing. In this paper it is argued that stochastic catastrophe models constructed using the Expansion Method hold the most promise to widen the acceptance of Catastrophe Theory by analytically oriented scholars in the social sciences and elsewhere. The paper presents a typology of catastrophe models, and demonstrates the construction and estimation of an econometric expanded cusp catastrophe model of economic growth.

EVERYDAY RACISM IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Dounia Bourabain ◽  
Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Scientific Rigor ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Symbiotic Relation ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Breaking Work

Abstract Since the 1980s, everyday racism has gained ground within the social sciences. However, the theory of everyday racism has not been properly adopted and, consequently, varies across different research fields. The main goal of this study is to improve the scientific rigor within research on everyday racism in the human and social sciences. Following a review of the ground-breaking work of Philomena Essed, three main components in everyday racism literature are theoretically distilled and conceptualized: (1) repetitiveness and familiarity, (2) racism and (3) the interdependent link between micro-interactions and macro-structures. This is followed by a critical assessment of what everyday racism means and how it is assessed in research today, by performing a systematic electronic review of qualitative-methods papers. We make three suggestions towards a more complete and sophisticated understanding of everyday racism. Firstly, the concepts of everyday racism and microaggressions need to be disconnected from each other. Secondly, research should focus more on the symbiotic relation between micro-interactions and macro-structures and should also identify relevant situational features at the spatial meso-level. Lastly, it is important to be cautious of the pitfall of cultural determinism that is still a popular perspective in today’s field of (everyday) racism.

scholarly journals Impact of Physical Education and Sports in Promoting Social Values among Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of physical education and sports in promoting social values among youth. Physical education and sports plays a vital role in educating the youth regarding the importance of social values in their life. Reviewed literature investigated that the importance of association in educating both minds and body. Further, it also encourages the social values among youth that allow them to develop the social relations with their community. Moreover, the benefits of physical education and sports can influence both academic learning and physical activity of the youth.

scholarly journals Between Travel Literature and the Social Sciences. Linda Gardelle’s Double Writing

Viatica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle SAUVAGE
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
The Social

How to bring closer today travel literature and human and social sciences? Sociologist Linda Gardelle has published a travelogue, Aylal, une année en Mongolie (2004), and a scholarly book, Pasteurs nomades de Mongolie. Des sociétés nomades et des États (2010), following her many trips to Mongolia. Cross reading of these two texts shows that the traditional rivalries between the two disciplines have been overcome.

Social Rationality, Semi-Modularity and Goal-Framing: What Is It All About?

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siegwart Lindenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Large Classes ◽  
Social Rationality ◽  
Goal Framing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Problem Solvers

AbstractHuman beings are not general problem solvers. Their mental architecture is modular and the microfoundations for the social sciences have to take that into consideration. Modularity means that there are hardwired and softwired functionally specific subroutines, such as face recognition and habits that make the individual particularly sensitive to a narrow range of information from both inside and outside. Goals are the most important creators of modules that contain both hard- and softwired submodules. Goals determine what we attend to, what information we are sensitive to, what information we neglect, what chunks of knowledge and what concepts are being activated at a given moment, what we like and dislike, what criteria for goal achievement are being applied, etc. Overarching goals govern large classes of submodules, and therefore the social sciences have to deal especially with these overarching goals. Three such overarching goals are identified: hedonic, gain, and normative goals. At every given moment one of them is focal (a goal-frame) and self-regulation is the process by which humans balance the dominance of goal-frames. In turn, self-regulation (here seen as the heart of ‘social rationality’), depends much on social circumstances that are open to sociological investigation.

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