scholarly journals RE-DEFINING CRIME IN MORAL DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL SECURITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Shipunova
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Moral Discourse ◽  
Main Criterion ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Decent Life

The author connects further study of the problems of social security with the need to redefine crime. The article deals with the transformation of ideas about crime and the appeal of modern researchers to the idea of understanding it in moral discourse. The author supports and develops further the thesis about the need to use the concept of «ethical minimum», which should be used in assessing the activities of the main subjects of social security. Violation of the principle of social justice in its instrumental meaning is considered as the main criterion for assessment. Those norms, laws, measures implemented by various subjects of social security that support the foundations of a decent life for people in society will be socially just. If this principle is ignored, “gray zones” of social security arise, in which there are increased risks of violation of the “ethical minimum”. The article also discusses the issue of separating such violations from completely understandable and explainable errors and management deficiencies that are difficult to avoid in situations of increased risks. Violations of the “ethical minimum” in the “gray zones” of social security, in contrast to a criminal offense, should receive an independent public assessment based on the methodology for studying the social responsibility of all agents important for ensuring the protection of the population.

scholarly journals Zakat and the Concept of Ownership in Islam: Yusuf Qaradawi’s Perspective on Islamic Economics

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-385
Author(s):  
Euis Nurlaelawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Islamic Insurance

Looking at the two functions of ownership which include the individual and social, Qaradawi explores such a relationship and analyzes its implication for social justice. Zakat has multiple functions: the religious, economic, and social. It constitutes the earliest concept of mutual social responsibility proposed by Islam to achieve social justice. Zakat serves as a means to both guarantee social security and strengthen social solidarity. From this perspective, Qaradawi moves forward to link up the concept of zakat with the Islamic system of economics. The linkage between zakat and the Islamic system of economics is visible in the ways Qaradawi investigates various aspects of ownership and zakat in Islam. This can particularly be seen in his analysis that the concept of Islamic insurance coheres with the interpretation of al-gharimin, one of the groups deserving to the income of zakat and in his emphasis that mutual social responsibility, which aims to fulfill the needs of adequate livelihood, can be supplied only by zakat. This article argues that these views in turn confirm Qaradawi’s concern with the importance of zakat as the foundation of both the social and economic systems of Islam. This article also emphasizes that, for Qaradawi, different from voluntary charity that can only fulfill the minimum requirement of the needs of livelihood, zakat can supply the answer to cover all the needs of livelihood of Muslim society.

Self-employed surfers, universal credit and the minimally decent life

Legal Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Christopher Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
The Self ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Wage Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
The Government

Abstract As part of its response to Covid-19 the government paused the use of the ‘Minimum Income Floor’ (MIF), which restricts the Universal Credit (UC) entitlement of the self-employed. This paper places the MIF in the wider context of conditionality in the social security system and considers a judicial review which claimed that the MIF was discriminatory. The paper focuses on how UC affects the availability of real choices for low-income citizens to limit or escape from wage labour, with two implications of the move to UC highlighted. First, the overlooked labour decommodifying aspect of tax credits, which provided a minimum income guarantee and a genuine alternative to wage labour for people who self-designated as ‘self-employed’, even if their earnings were minimal or non-existent, has been removed. Secondly, UC has in some respects improved the position of low-paid wage labourers in ‘mini-jobs’, who are not subject to conditionality once they work for the equivalent of approximately nine hours a week on the minimum wage.

Intergenerational service-learning, sustainability, and university social responsibility: A pilot study

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Asier Arcos - Alonso ◽  
Ángel Elías - Ortega ◽  
Ander Arcos - Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
The University

This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an innovative educational action. The students of the studied classrooms in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) collaborated with a social entity Emmaus Social Foundation dedicated to environmental sustainability, social justice and the social and solidarity economy to provide community services through a service-learning methodology. Using a mixed method approach, we combined the practical experience of the social entity with an active student-centred teaching methodology in order to foster the acquisition of general and specific competencies related to sustainability and social justice. The aim was to create learning connections between members of the university community and links with the environmental and social reality of the Basque Country. This pilot study was carried out in the first term of the 2018–2019 academic year. This work allowed (a) critical knowledge to be generated by incorporating and hybridising discussion elements of social justice, such as sustainability; (b) intergenerational participation processes to be generated between elders, university students and social organisations in order to acquire general and specific learning competencies and (c) social and environmental needs to be addressed through community services.   Keywords: Higher education, intergenerational learning, service-learning, teaching innovation, university social responsibility.

scholarly journals Intergenerational service-learning, Sustainability and University social responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1629-1641
Author(s):  
Asier Arcos Alonso ◽  
Ángel Elías - Ortega ◽  
Ander Arcos - Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
The University

This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an innovative educational action. The students of the studied classrooms in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) collaborated with a social entity Emmaus Social Foundation dedicated to environmental sustainability, social justice and the social and solidarity economy to provide community services through a service-learning methodology. Using a mixed method approach, we combined the practical experience of the social entity with an active student-centred teaching methodology in order to foster the acquisition of general and specific competencies related to sustainability and social justice. The aim was to create learning connections between members of the university community and links with the environmental and social reality of the Basque Country. This pilot study was carried out in the first term of the 2018–2019 academic year. This work allowed (a) critical knowledge to be generated by incorporating and hybridising discussion elements of social justice, such as sustainability; (b) intergenerational participation processes to be generated between elders, university students and social organisations in order to acquire general and specific learning competencies and (c) social and environmental needs to be addressed through community services.   Keywords: Higher education, intergenerational learning, service-learning, teaching innovation, university social responsibility.

Qualifications for Rehabilitation Counselors: A Social Justice Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Michelle Aliff ◽  
Matthew E. Sprong
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Security ◽  
International Association ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Social Security Administration ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
National Importance ◽  
The Social

The importance of qualifications for vocational experts serving in the Social Security Administration is an issue that gained national importance recently. Prior to the most recent awarded contract the required qualifications were not appropriate and had little resemblance to the requirements in other venues vocational experts provide testimony in. This article addresses the journey that the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) Social Security Vocational Experts section took to influence and ultimately were successful in having the Social Security Administration to primarily adopt the qualifications listed in the IARP SSVE White Paper. Finally, in order to maintain achievements and continue advancing, it is essential to remain persistent in continuing to engage in governmental relations.

scholarly journals Social security circumvention as an obstacle to social justice: the correlation with labour status and whistle-blowing

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Tsetoura
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Whistle Blowing ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Financial Balance ◽  
The Eu

<p>This article explores social security delinquency, which can impair social justice <br />and its awarding. The parameters leading to social security fraud or delinquency are examined. Taking into account that the social security status is linked to employment, precarity in work or undeclared work are presented as a threat for the balance of a social security system. It is about a financial balance, but also a social one, since the previous can ultimately result in the disruption of social justice causing anti-motives for the participating in the social security system<br />and the proper fulfillment of the obligations it entails. After presenting the situation in the EU as regards the “grey zones” of employment which then have their impact on social security equilibrium, U.S.’ mechanisms for reporting fraud and whistleblower’s protection are analyzed in order to explain the recent trends in many of the EU countries of adopting similar measures.</p>

scholarly journals Social Security Works for the United States 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
At Risk Populations

Social Security Works is a nongovernmental organization that works to protect and improve the economic security of disadvantaged and at-risk populations; safeguard the economic security of those dependent, now or in the future, on Social Security; and maintain Social Security as a vehicle of social justice. With permission, New Solutions has reprinted a recent report that provides details of the Social Security system’s expansive coverage and protections for U.S. individuals and families, as well challenges the system faces.

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