Introduction

A Child's Day ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Killian Mullan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Major Domain

This introductory chapter traces some of the major strands of social change thought to have had an impact on different areas of children's daily time use. The past several decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and technological change, widely thought to have affected many aspects of children's daily lives. Technological change potentially has had the most direct impact on children's lives, and certainly has garnered the most attention, through changes affecting screen-based activities. Education is a further major domain in children's lives where there has been persistent change over many decades. The chapter then examines the relationship between children's time use and outcomes relating to their health, development, and well-being, drawing together strands of thought from the sociology of childhood and research on child well-being. It sets out the data, measures, and methods of the empirical analysis, followed by a first outline of change in a child's day over four decades between 1975 and 2015.

A Child's Day

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Killian Mullan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Education Culture ◽  
The Relationship

We routinely judge how well children are doing in their lives by how they spend their time, yet we know remarkably little about it. This rigorous review of four decades of data provides the clearest insights yet into the way children use their time. With analysis of changes in the time spent on family, education, culture and technology, as well as children's own views on their habits, it provides a fascinating perspective on behaviour, well-being, social change and more. This is an indispensable companion to the work of policy makers, academics and researchers, and anyone interested in the daily lives of children. The book begins by tracing some of the major strands of social change thought to have had an impact on different areas of children's daily time use. The past several decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and technological change, widely thought to have affected many aspects of children's daily lives. It then examines the relationship between children's time use and outcomes relating to their health, development, and well-being, drawing together strands of thought from the sociology of childhood and research on child well-being. The book discusses overall trends in children's time doing homework and study. It examines associations between children's time use and a range of different health outcomes, and moves on to investigate the context of children's daily life linked to family, in particular concentrating on the time children spend at home and with parents. It evaluates children's time using technology, and focuses on the affective component of subjective well-being, specifically in connection with how children feel about how they spend their time. In conclusion, the book identifies areas of expected change as well as other areas of surprising stability. It reveals how change and stability in children's time use blend together to comprise a child's day, uncovering also the multi-layered contexts of a child's day.

Delineating CSR and social change: Querying corporations as actors for social good

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Miller Gaither ◽  
Lucinda Austin ◽  
MaryClaire Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Case Evaluation ◽  
Social Initiatives ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to delineate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social change and asks the important question of whether and how corporations may serve as agents of social change. Dimensions of the business–society relationship are explored to further distinguish CSR from other types of corporate social initiatives and critically examine what types of corporate social initiatives can effectively and ethically serve as vehicles for social change. Based on this exploration, the article advances a descriptive model of business–society relationships and their capacity for creating and promoting social change. A case evaluation of Coca-Cola’s ‘3Ws’ social initiatives – related to well-being, water, and women’s empowerment – is then used to highlight and contextualize the model.

scholarly journals Mediators of Differences Between Employed and Unemployed in Life Satisfaction and Emotional Well-being

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Fors Connolly ◽  
Tommy Gärling
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Financial Satisfaction ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPrevious research has shown that the unemployed has lower life satisfaction than the employed but that their emotional well-being may not differ. The aim is to investigate the role of mediators with bearings on these differences between the employed and unemployed in emotional well-being compared to life satisfaction. Participants were 3,463 employed and 452 unemployed living in five Western countries. They answered questions in an online survey. The results showed that the employed had both higher life satisfaction and emotional well-being. Mediation analysis replicated previous results in that the relationship between unemployment and life satisfaction was mediated by financial satisfaction. The relationship with emotional well-being was mediated by satisfaction with time use which was higher for the employed than the unemployed. Financial satisfaction was also a mediator of the relationship with emotional well-being, both directly and through satisfaction with time use. Although the unemployed felt lower time pressure than the employed, this factor was not a strong mediator of the relationship with emotional well-being, neither directly nor through satisfaction with time use. A possible explanation for the differences in the results for emotional well-being is that a negative mood is less associated with work than found in previous research.

scholarly journals Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Juliet Webster
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
The Relationship

 Why do we do research into ICTs and society at all?  Apart from advancing our analytical understanding of technological and social change, for many researchers, social studies of technology provide a way of supplying evidence for social policy, or shaping social practice.  Even if we do not always make it explicit, for many of us, our research is both political and personal.   In this paper, I consider the ways in which social and political values shape research questions and research methods.   Drawing on examples of recent feminist and other research which has investigated the employment relations of technological change, I discuss the academic and political ambitions of the work, the recognition of interests and the involvement of stakeholders, and the relationship between researchers and ‘users’ of the research.  I reflect on the importance of revealing and explicating the politics of ICT research, particularly in the context of imminent economic and social restructuring.

scholarly journals Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Juliet Webster
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
The Relationship

 Why do we do research into ICTs and society at all?  Apart from advancing our analytical understanding of technological and social change, for many researchers, social studies of technology provide a way of supplying evidence for social policy, or shaping social practice.  Even if we do not always make it explicit, for many of us, our research is both political and personal.   In this paper, I consider the ways in which social and political values shape research questions and research methods.   Drawing on examples of recent feminist and other research which has investigated the employment relations of technological change, I discuss the academic and political ambitions of the work, the recognition of interests and the involvement of stakeholders, and the relationship between researchers and ‘users’ of the research.  I reflect on the importance of revealing and explicating the politics of ICT research, particularly in the context of imminent economic and social restructuring.

Introduction: Reinhabiting the Earth

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Common ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The Relationship

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the relationship between habit and climate change. It would be hard to overestimate the role of habit in people's lives. At one level, this is all well and good. There are, of course, bad habits, which people try to kick, but people's daily life would collapse without the scaffolding of habit. Still, when one contemplates climate change and the catastrophic future it presages, it is hard not to conclude that “business as usual” simply cannot continue for long. “Business as usual” means the common cloth of people's Western daily lives, their normal practices, in large part consisting of habits—personal, collective, economic, and intellectual. Forms of life, patterns of dwelling, other than the current consumerist model are undoubtedly possible. But whether people can get there from here voluntarily is another matter. If reinhabiting the earth means changing some of people's deep habits, habits reflecting historical sedimentations and congealings, then unearthing the forces in play, seeing how they operate and what is at stake in reconfiguring them, is a historical task to which philosophy can at least contribute. Economists are also central to imagining other economic orders, such as that of degrowth.

Action Mechanism of Psychological Empowerment on OCBs

2012 ◽  
Vol 601 ◽  
pp. 420-425
Author(s):  
Wen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Action Mechanism ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The relationship between psychology and behavior has been the investigative hotspot in management. In recent years, the scholars have been paid more attention to relationship between OCBs and psychological empowerment. Most of the studies following this line consider that psychological empowerment has a direct impact on OCBs, however, this paper following the research of Anna-Lena Ackfeldt and Leonard V. Coote holds the antecedents of psychological empowerment is put into effect and produce different empowerment, then through the moderating effect of the antecedents of OCBs stimulate different organizational citizenship behaviors, and then builds the comprehensive action mechanism of psychological empowerment on OCBs, this establishes the theoretical foundation for the empirical analysis in the future.

scholarly journals COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA INSTITUTE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (14) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Zul Aizam Yassin ◽  
Mohammad Rusdi Ab Majid ◽  
Aznida Aziz ◽  
Nurhijrah Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Trainee Teachers ◽  
Almost All ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Internet addiction among teenagers is an important issue discussed around the world. Almost all experts cite this issue as part of the main problems the country faces. While teenagers are the main group involved in this issue. This study uses quantitative methods as the main design. This survey study involved respondents consisting of 614 trainee teachers selected according to IPG zones throughout Malaysia. A descriptive statistical approach was used to obtain the level of internet addiction. While the inferential statistical method is used to see the relationship between the variables that have been set. The questionnaire instrument was adapted from An Internet Addiction Scale by Kimberly (1998) which was modified to coincide with the study conducted. The analysis was conducted using SPSS and analyzed descriptively to explain the findings of the study. The findings of this study as a whole found that internet addiction among students at IPG is at a moderate level where it is still under control and can be managed well without interfering with their daily lives. It is hoped that this study can provide good input to all parties to formulate actions for the well-being of society by forming a new generation that is concerned about the selection and use of information resources on the internet effectively.

scholarly journals From sanctuaries to prefigurative social change: Creating health-enabling spaces in East London community gardens

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine A. Guerlain ◽  
Catherine Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Effective Community

How do community gardens impact the psycho-social well-being of marginalized groups in urban settings? And to what extent are they examples of prefigurative social change, understood as the development of social relations that prefigure a more equal and empowering social world? We explore these issues through qualitative research with four community garden groups in East London, thematically analysing interviews and group discussions with 28 gardeners, Photovoice with 12 gardeners producing 250 photographs, and 40 hours of participant observation. We offer two unique insights: a novel understanding of how participation in community gardens affects well-being through creating ‘health-enabling social spaces’ (Campbell, C., & Cornish, F. (2010). Towards a “fourth generation” of approaches to HIV/AIDS management: Creating contexts for effective community mobilization. AIDS Care, 22(Suppl. 2), 1569-1579); and a discussion of how creating these spaces is an act of prefigurative social change. Our findings suggest that in East London, participation in community gardens is not based on a common political intention or self-conscious motive to prefigure a new society, but instead on the shared practice of gardening. This results in unintended benefits that often address participants’ personal adversities in ways that contribute to the material, relational and symbolic deprivation of their daily lives – opening up new possibilities for being, seeing and doing. In this sense, community gardens in East London offer an alternative to traditional notions of prefigurative social action that are predicated on strategic intention. We argue for an understanding of prefiguration that better accounts for what participants themselves would like to achieve in their own lives, rather than in relation to externally imposed notions of what counts as political change.

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