scholarly journals Curriculum Theory and the Welfare State

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Benjamin Justice
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Curriculum Theory ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Policing Strategy ◽  
Parallel Play

How do states make citizens? The question is as old as states themselves. Surprisingly, however, the approaches to answering it have emerged as a form of parallel play, uncoordinated (and poorly understood) across fields. This essay attempts to reconcile disparate realms of social research that address the question. The first, curriculum theory, grows out of educational research that for a century has focused almost exclusively on schools, schooling, and intentional settings for academic knowledge transmission. The second realm draws primarily on research from psychology, sociology, and political science to look empirically for effects of exposure to particular kinds of social phenomena. These include, but are not exclusive to, public institutions and policies. This essay begins by developing a mainstream conception of curriculum theory. It then compares and contrasts social science traditions that engage questions related to the state’s role in civic identity formation. Finally, it offers a case study on New York City’s controversial policing strategy known as Stop, Question, and Frisk, exploring how curriculum theory (developed in the context of mass schooling) can be a useful framework for understanding the educational features of a distinct social policy.

scholarly journals Virtual Worlds, the IRB and a User's Bill of Rights

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Preliminary Version

Virtual worlds provide a vibrant and exciting new venue for the conduct of social research. New social phenomena have emerged in the context of these worlds as individuals and groups use the worlds’ social communication tools to overcome limitations of time and distance. Yet these worlds also pose some novel ethical problems for social researchers who wish to conduct their work in these contexts. The present paper discusses ethical dimensions of research in virtual worlds in order to uncover some of these novel problems. The paper reports and analyzes a case study in which the author participated in a virtual world research study. The paper discusses a preliminary version of a virtual world subject’s bill of rights that can serve as the basis for further discussion among social researchers. The paper concludes with recommendations for virtual worlds researchers on strategies for working with their institutional review boards (human subjects ethics review) to obtain approval for their research proposals.

Soziologie der Geschlechterkritik

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hutzler
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Critical Practices

This case study examines queer–feminist critique of gender differences and asks how gender categorisation is handled in this critical practice. Conceptually, the study develops the perspective of the sociology of gender critique, in which both traditional gender arrangements and critique of them are understood as contingent social phenomena. The fact that the investigation in this case encounters a field strongly shaped by academic discourse is taken as an opportunity to reflect on academic knowledge production: How do gender-critical practices inside and outside academia co-produce the very phenomena they criticise?

Technocratic Responses to the Politicization of Risk: Underwater Munitions in New York City’s Gravesend Bay and Narrows

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Bolton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Political Tension

Abstract Risk and its management are social phenomena, constructed through dynamic political, cultural, and economic systems. Those wishing to publicize and manage the risk posed by legacy underwater munitions would benefit from an awareness of the political context in which they work. The interaction of various local, national, and global political interests will enable certain kinds of risk management action while also constraining others. This article examines such issues through a case study of politics of underwater munitions in New York City’s Gravesend Bay and Narrows. The impetus to deal with these munitions has largely come from their politicization by local civilians: politicians, environmental activists, lawyers, and journalists. By contrast, risk management actions by national-level military institutions have consistently functioned to depoliticize the issue by framing it technocratically. This illustrates a common political tension in risk management. Public mobilization raises awareness of risk but may sensationalize it. Technocrats have the budgetary and technical wherewithal to deal with it professionally but resist politicization of risk and try to channel and defuse mobilization through existing institutions and programs.

Producers' Response to Changes in Prices and Marketing Policies: A Case Study of Sugarcane and Paddy in Eastern U.P. by S. C. Gupta and A. Majid. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1965.

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
Mohammad Irshad Khan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
The Other ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Northern India

It is alleged that the agricultural output in poor countries responds very little to movements in prices and costs because of subsistence-oriented produc¬tion and self-produced inputs. The work of Gupta and Majid is concerned with the empirical verification of the responsiveness of farmers to prices and marketing policies in a backward region. The authors' analysis of the respon¬siveness of farmers to economic incentives is based on two sets of data (concern¬ing sugarcane, cash crop, and paddy, subsistence crop) collected from the district of Deoria in Eastern U.P. (Utter Pradesh) a chronically foodgrain deficit region in northern India. In one set, they have aggregate time-series data at district level and, in the other, they have obtained data from a survey of five villages selected from 170 villages around Padrauna town in Deoria.

IMPACT OF LAND USE ON URBAN WATER-LOGGING DISASTER: A CASE STUDY OF BEIJING AND NEW YORK CITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1211-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfeng Zheng ◽  
Xiaolu Li ◽  
Nina Lam ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Lirong Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Logging

Potential impacts of slum urbanisation on channel bank storage in the Bang Pakong River, Thailand

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Harriden
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Balance Equations ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Recharge Rates ◽  
Water Quality Deterioration ◽  
Informal Urban Settlements ◽  
Storage Processes

Generally regarded as social phenomena, this paper regards slum urbanisation as an environmental actor. Specifically, how slum developments modify hydrogeomorphological processes motivates this research. Using the Bang Pakong River, eastern Thailand, as a case study, a literature review was conducted. The literature reviewed indicated changes in physical processes such as channel bank stability, water quality, flow regimes and the hydrological balance equations can occur with slum development. Given the importance of channel banks as the physical basis of many slum sites, this paper focuses on the possible changes to channel bank storage in the Bang Pakong River following slum urbanisation. The research highlights possible changes to channel bank storage processes, notably decreased storage recharge rates; increased anthropogenic extraction; and probable water quality deterioration. Deeper scientific understanding of how river processes are affected by specific forms of urban development can contribute to better management of both informal urban settlements and rivers.

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