scholarly journals Dialectics instead of dichotomy: Perspectives on the twin ambition of the disability movement.

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Local Chapter ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Level I ◽  
Disability Movement

This article discusses the mobilizing work of a disability organization, at the local chapter level. I have spent about a year following the work of a chapter, mainly through contacts, conversations and interviews with the persons who are active on its board. The analysis of the chapter’s work takes as its starting point two traditions that emphasize collective sense of community and mobilization of groups. These traditions, continental social pedagogy and Anglo-Saxon community development, are complemented by the theoretical concepts of recognition and redistribution. A number of dilemmas, which can be expressed in terms of dichotomies, are built into these theories. They can be challenged in different ways by the empirical data. Through these confrontations, we can see how the dichotomy is transformed into dialectics where phenomena cannot be regarded as either or but rather as both.

scholarly journals Rewitalizacja jako zadanie rozwojowe

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
Piotr Błajet
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Healthy Longevity ◽  
Starting Point

The article focuses on healthy longevity. The starting point is the assumption that a long and healthy life, much as it is genetically– and environmentally-dependent, is likewise related to one’s lifestyle. The text tries to indicate which elements of the lifestyle contribute to healthy longevity. To this end, the article reviews approaches and theoretical concepts on healthy ageing and provides empirical data gathered in longevity zones worldwide, called the Blue Zones by National Geographic researchers. Analysis confirmedK. Wisniewska-Roszkowska’s observations that a long and healthy life depends on a proper diet, physical activity and care for mental health. The author has suggested that the obe-sity index should be an indicator of ageing pathology.

Shared Action: Stronger communities, safer children

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Fiona Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Community Ownership ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Community Responsibility ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Exciting Project

This article explores the effectiveness of an innovative and exciting project called ‘Shared Action’, a community development approach to child protection in Bendigo, Victoria. Shared Action was a three-year project which started in January 1997. It began by encouraging a sense of community ownership. A shared vision was developed with key goals leading to a wide range of community activities. A sense of hope and cooperation grew along with social networks, the capacity to resolve conflict constructively and a shared sense of community responsibility.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONING FEATURES OF THE GERMAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL VOCABULARY IN SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL SPHERES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Myroslava Duzha-Zadorozhna ◽  
Volodymyr Zadorozhnyy
Keyword(s):  
German Language ◽  
Partial Loss ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
And Control

The article analyzes the use of German professional social and pedagogical vocabulary in scientific, academic and practical spheres of activity in order to clarify the functioning of terminological units in these spheres. Due to the peculiarities of tasks facing different spheres of social pedagogy specialists’ activity, there was a certain linguistic differentiation in them. Terminological changes in the language of social pedagogy signal the phenomenon of certain concepts euphemisation and indicate the use of parallel paradigmatically different lexical meanings. Professional concepts define the process of narrow-branch terminology perception by the recipients and control their actions. Due to some arbitrary use of terms within the social and pedagogical professional language, there is sometimes a partial loss of the meaning of the concept caused by the lack of clear and formalized theoretical concepts in social pedagogy. Terminological units in the professional language of social pedagogy constantly correlate with theoretical concepts, in the pragmatic context of which they reveal their specific meaning. The issue of the scientific content of terminological units is connected with the dominance of certain social and pedagogical scientific schools and the imposition of their terminological apparatus on the whole field of knowledge. In recent decades, there has been a significant impact of economic processes on the German language of the social and pedagogical field, which leads to the active use of economic vocabulary in it.

Sepulchral Jews and Stony Christians

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Lavezzo
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Old English ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
English Poem ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Temple

This chapter examines the unstable geography of Christian and Jew during the Anglo-Saxon period through an analysis of Bede's Latin exegetical work On the Temple (ca. 729–731) and in Cynewulf's Old English poem Elene. It takes as its starting point how Bede and Cynewulf tackle a material long associated with Jewish materialism, stone, in comparison with Christian materialism and descibes their accounts of the sepulchral Jew as well as the stony nature of Jews. It also considers how Bede and Cynewulf construct Christianity by asserting its alterity and opposition to an idea of Jewish carnality that draws on and modifies Pauline supersession. The chapter concludes with an assessment of how Bede's and Cynewulf's charged engagements with supersession and “Jewish” places contribute both to our understanding of Anglo-Saxon material culture and to the important role that ideas of the Jew played in such materialisms.

Punk, class, and taste in Desert Island Discs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Webb
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Desert Island ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Uk

This chapter attempts to use popular music as a way of connecting a number of castaways who shared a similar love of punk and post-punk and who described certain experiences that their appreciation of that music had resonance with. The music is used as a starting point to trace the experiences of the castaways to wider sets of social, cultural, and political histories of the UK. Among the castaways chosen are Kathy Burke, Ian Rankin, Ricky Gervais, and Hanif Kureshi. Each of these had a working-class upbringing and Kureshi grew up in a working-class area with parents who had been well off in India before moving to the UK. The choice of music intertwines with their descriptions of economic hardship, domestic violence, and racism but also a developed sense of community, sensitivity, and humanism that illustrates a sector of British life in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

Graph-Theoretical Indices based on Simple, General and Complete Graphs

2013 ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Lionello Pogliani
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Molecular Connectivity ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
General Chemical ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Connectivity Indices ◽  
Core Electrons ◽  
Multiple Edges ◽  
Electrotopological State

Valence molecular connectivity indices are based on the concept of valence delta, d v, that can be derived from general chemical graphs or chemical pseudographs. A general graph or pseudograph has multiple edges and loops and can be used to encode, through the valence delta, chemical entities. Two graph-theoretical concepts derived from chemical pseudographs are the intrinsic (I) and the electrotopological state (E) values, which are the used to define the valence delta of the pseudoconnectivity indices, ?I,S. Complete graphs encode, through a new valence delta, the core electrons of any atoms in a molecule. The connectivity indices, either valence connectivity or pseudoconnectivity, are the starting point to develop the dual connectivity indices. The dual indices show that not only can they assume negative values but also cover a wide range of numerical values. The central parameter of the molecular connectivity theory, the valence delta, defines a completely new set of connectivity indices, which can be distinguished by their configuration and advantageously used to model different properties and activities of compounds.

scholarly journals The influence of social distancing on employee well-being: a conceptual framework and research agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Tuzovic ◽  
Sertan Kabadayi
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Service Continuity ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe ongoing pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus has severely influenced lives and livelihoods. As service organizations either face hibernation or continuity of their business operations, the impact of social distancing measures raises major concerns for the well-being of service employees. In this paper, the authors develop a conceptual framework to examine how different social distancing practices impact an organization's service continuity or service hibernation, which in turn affects different dimensions of their employee subjective well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on macroeconomic data and industrial reports, linking them to theoretical concepts to develop a conceptual framework and a research agenda to serve as a starting point to fully understand the impact of this pandemic on employee well-being.FindingsThis article develops an overarching framework and research agenda to investigate the impact of social distancing practices on employee well-being.Originality/valueThe authors propose two opposing business concepts – service continuity and service hibernation – as possible responses to social distancing measures. By bridging different theoretical domains, the authors suggeste that there is a need to holistically examine macro-, meso- and micro-level factors to fully understand the impact of social distancing–related measures on employee well-being.

Aspects of a Theory of Transition within the Capitalist Mode of Production

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
K D Gibson ◽  
R J Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Historical Materialism ◽  
General Level ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Level I ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Mode Of Production

Marx's primary focus in his theoretical and practical work was on the transition between modes of production; our concern here, however, is to offer a theory of transition within the capitalist mode of production which is consistent with the fundamental principles of historical materialism. The methodological solution to this problem, we suggest, lies in recognizing the levels of abstraction and corresponding degrees of historical specificity in theoretical concepts. Four levels of abstraction are identified: level I, universal theory; level II, theory of a mode of production in general; level III, theory of variants of a mode of production; and level IV, theoretically informed analysis of real concrete formations. It is at the more historically specific level III that a theory of transition within the capitalist mode of production is offered by identifying four variants of capitalist production: the transitional, competitive, monopoly, and global submodes of production. Finally, it is proposed that at level III a more satisfactory theory of uneven development is possible based on the articulation of submodes of production within given social formations.

scholarly journals Utopia and vision. Learning from Vienna and Frankfurt

2016 ◽  
pp. 84-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Porotto
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Social Models ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Spatial Quality ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The article identifies and observes critically two emblematic cases of modern utopia of 1920s: Das rote Wien and Das neue Frankfurt. These two architectural experiences correspond to two alternative but complementary spatial and social models, the courtyard block (Hof) and the settlement (Siedlung). Through the historical distance today we can observe in critical way these experiences, analyzing the effects of utopian character within the contemporary city.Referring to the theoretical concepts of “utopia” and “realism” by Tafuri, the analysis tries to show the spatial elements that characterize these examples. The comparative approach highlights that today their solutions produce spatial quality at the urban and housing scale. In this way, Höfe and Siedlungen represent a “vision”.The actuality of utopia of social housing in Vienna and Frankfurt is the starting point to reflect to the contemporary architecture and collective living.

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