scholarly journals Ways of Psychosocial Development During Adolescence (12–20 years)

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Shamne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Social World ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Psychosocial Transition

We analyze the results of empirical operationalization of options (types) of psychosocial development in adolescent age. We studied a large sample of adolescents and young adults of 12-20 years (N = 1130, 48% male) from different strata of the urban and rural (17%) Ukrainian population (students of secondary, vocational, technical and higher education). We used the author’s method “Psychosocial Questionnaire”. Data were analyzed with K-means cluster analysis. We identified and analyzed five clusters (“internal”, “dominant”, “integrated”, “addict”, “aloof”), which represent individually typical features of modern youth psychosocial transition to a state of maturity. Clusters (types) were also analyzed with the following criteria: 1) productive / prosperous and non¬productive / dysfunctional types of psycho-social development; 2) psychosocial integration / adaptation and disintegration / maladaptation in the social world. We revealed the tasks and conditions of effective psychological support of the youth (correction zone) with different types of psycho-social development.

Profiles of Citizenship Orientations Among Youth

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882110086
Author(s):  
Iana Tzankova ◽  
Gabriele Prati ◽  
Elvira Cicognani
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Citizenship Orientations

Prior studies revealed that low levels of youth political activity are not necessarily indicative of complete disengagement from societal affairs but could be accompanied by interest and latent involvement stemming from a standby or monitorial attitude. However, no prior study has investigated patterns of citizenship orientations including both manifest and latent engagement defined by one’s position towards institutional politics, according to different forms of participation. A questionnaire was filled out by 1,732 late adolescents and young adults in Italy (15–30 years old, M = 19.73, 60.7% female). Cluster analysis identified six profiles of citizenship orientations across different types of participatory activities (political, activist, political online and civic): active trustful, active distrustful, standby trustful, standby distrustful, unengaged trustful and unengaged distrustful. The results showed that each level of engagement—active, standby and unengaged—could be further differentiated between trustful and distrustful based on their attitude towards institutions and the electoral process.

scholarly journals LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN EL ECUADOR EN EL PERÍODO 2008-2016. OPORTUNIDADES PARA LA UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE MANABÍ

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Eneida María Quindemil Torrijo ◽  
Stefania Monserrate Intriago Cedeño ◽  
Felipe Rumbaut León
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical University

La educación superior a nivel mundial ha sufrido transformaciones engendradas por el propio desarrollo social y el caso de Ecuador no ha estado exento de ello. El estudio que se presenta es de tipo descriptivo; tiene como objetivo caracterizar la Educación Superior Ecuatoriana en el período 2008-2016, haciendo énfasis en las oportunidades que ha tenido la Universidad Técnica de Manabí. Como metodología se utilizó el método de análisis documental a la literatura publicada sobre el tema, lo que permitió ubicar los presupuestos teóricos y constatar información relacionada con las becas otorgadas a estudiantes, a modo de alternativas para cerrar la brecha social en el acceso a las universidades. Asimismo, se aplicó la entrevista abierta en profundidad a un grupo de estudiantes beneficiarios de estas becas en la Universidad Técnica de Manabí. Como conclusiones se visualiza que la coyuntura para acceder a la educación universitaria en el Ecuador está presente después del año 2008, donde es muy positiva la acción del gobierno de otorgar becas de estudio en post de asegurar la igualdad de oportunidades y la gestión de la educación superior, repercutiendo positivamente no solo en el desarrollo social de la nación, sino de los estudiantes y sus familias. PALABRAS CLAVE: Educación superior; Educación Superior Ecuatoriana; educación universitaria; Universidad Técnica de Manabí THE HIGHER EDUCATION IN ECUADOR IN THE PERIOD 2008-2016. OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MANABÍ ABSTRACT Higher education worldwide has undergone transformations engendered by social development itself and the case of Ecuador has not been exempt from it. The study presented is descriptive; Aims to characterize Ecuadorian Higher Education in the period 2008-2016, emphasizing the opportunities that the Technical University of Manabí has had. As a methodology, the method of documentary analysis was used to the published literature on the subject, which allowed to locate the theoretical presuppositions and to verify information related to the scholarships granted to students, as alternatives to close the social gap in the access to the universities . Likewise, the in-depth open interview was applied to a group of students who received these scholarships at the Technical University of Manabí. As conclusions, it is visualized that the conjuncture for access to university education in Ecuador is present after the year 2008, where the government's action is very positive to grant study scholarships in post to ensure equal opportunities and management of education Positive impact not only on the social development of the nation, but also on students and their families. KEYWORDS: Higher education; Ecuadorian Higher Education; University education; Technical University of Manabí.

scholarly journals Gender aspect of social development of future specialists of the socionomic field as subjects of development of safe and healthy educational environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-250
Author(s):  
Nelli Tarasenko ◽  
Olga Rasskazova ◽  
Katerina Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Human Life ◽  
State Level ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Aspect

The article presents the essence and ways of the gender aspect of social development of future specialists in the socionomic sphere. Several legislative documents on the establishment of gender equality adopted at the state level in Ukraine are analyzed. The necessity of developing the gender aspect of specialists in the socionomic sphere is substantiated. Analyzed components: «gender» (one of the basic components of the social structure of society), «sociality» (acquired in the course of human life in society supra-individual structure of his personality), «hidden curriculum» (what is latently broadcast to students in parallel with the official curriculum). The components of the development of the gender component of human sociality (cognitive, value, emotional-personal activity-behavioural), which are formed based on the social experience of the individual, values of gender equality, subjectivity in gender construction, gender sensitivity, gender tolerance, empathy behavioural strategies. Theoretical provisions for the development of a safe and healthy educational environment are outlined. It is established that in practice the development of the gender component of the sociality of students of socionic specialities in the conditions of pedagogical higher education establishment becomes possible through the implementation of the following areas of work: organization of meetings with representatives of units concerned with prevention and prevention of discrimination; updating of programs and material of initial disciplines taking into account the leading principles of gender-sensitive approach; introduction of certain topics on gender issues into the educational process; promoting the self-education of student youth on the implementation of gender policy; creation of gender promotion centres in higher education institutions.

National Development Paths 1965–1987: Measuring a Metaphor

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Political Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Factorial Ecology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Development Paths ◽  
Geographical Imaginations

The path-of-development metaphor registers in language the idea that the conditions of existence of people get better (or worse in the case of underdevelopment) in particular ways. To measure a metaphor, in this paper, a method of moving between the figurative and the literal is used. Development paths for 150 nations are measured for the period 1965–87 by using a methodology that can be described as historical factorial ecology. The measurement of development paths involves analytically combining the social, historical, and geographical dimensions of the development and underdevelopment process, an interpretation of which requires and encourages a combining of the sociological, historical, and geographical imaginations. The findings indicate that the debates within development theory resulted from different theories focusing upon different types of development paths. Development is complexly multidimensional with economic and social development paths resembling the linear and multilinear claims of orthodox modernization theory and with political development paths approximating the antilinear claims of underdevelopment theories. Development and underdevelopment theorists, like the blind wise men encountering the elephant, each described only parts of the beast, assuming that the economic trunk was identical to its political leg.

Normality as social semantics. Schmitt, Bourdieu and the politics of the normal

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Croce ◽  
Andrea Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Political Representation ◽  
Social World ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Social Semantics ◽  
Rule Out

This article takes issue with the practical and the cognitive roles of normality within political life and its relevance to the constitution of the groups that comprise a political community. From a practical viewpoint, normality fosters standards of correctness; from a cognitive viewpoint, these standards are what allows individuals to perceive themselves, and to be recognized, as group members. To achieve this aim, the article delves into Carl Schmitt’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s accounts of how politics is a field where semantic struggles take place that are meant to impose alternative visions of the social world. Different types of connections and relationships among individuals and groups (which rule out alternative connections and relationships) shore up a specific vision of the social world (which rules out alternative visions). The article concludes by saying that awareness of the normalizing effects of politics is key to producing a counter-politics meant to defy the naturalization and de-historicization that every political representation furthers.

scholarly journals A Cluster Analysis of University Commuters: Attitudes, Personal Norms and Constraints, and Travel Satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4592
Author(s):  
Marco De Angelis ◽  
Luca Mantecchini ◽  
Luca Pietrantoni
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Personal Norms ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Travel Satisfaction

Higher education institutions are recognised as settings where the community’s awareness of sustainable mobility can be strengthened or reshaped. The first objective of the present study was to identify groups of commuters based on their modal choice in a large higher education institution in Italy. The second objective was to compare the groups on socio-demographic and psychosocial variables, specifically attitudes, personal norms, personal constraints, and travel satisfaction. The cluster analysis revealed five different types of commuters: car-oriented, two-wheeled urban users, pedestrians, long-distance commuters, and regular bus users. Attitudes, personal constraints and norms, and satisfaction differed in the five groups of commuters. The present study provides insights for behavioural change programmes and organizational policies on sustainable mobility.

scholarly journals Conceptualization of serious play in modern sociocultural reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Fanenshtil ◽  
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Irina V. Sadykova ◽  
Sofya Y. Sukhanova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Social World ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Social

In the conditions of transformation of sociocultural reality, its processes, levels, spheres, and new integrative social phenomena emerge, the meaning and role of which in the modern world have yet to be clarified. One of such phenomena is serious play. Traditionally, the playful and the serious, at the intersection of which serious play arises, are positioned as independent and mutually exclusive elements of the social world. We examine what changes in the social reality, in the relations of the playful and the serious, in the position of man in modern social processes make serious play possible and how serious play redetermines the conditions of its occurrence. For this, we used methods of philosophical analysis and hermeneutics: interpretation, conceptualization, comparative analysis. As a theoretical and methodological basis, we used the categorical apparatus of social philosophy, theory of practice, pragmatism, and social epistemology. As a result, we found that serious play is thought of as a social process in the range from an individual to global scale. In serious play, the subject, through the generation of meanings, performs both the production and reproduction of culture in predetermined ontoaxiological bases, and constructs these bases, while realizing the degree of his freedom, responsibility and immersion in the world he creates through his practices. The significance of the results of our research lies in the fact that the concept of serious play at the intersection of serious and game relations reveals the potential of serious play as an element of sociocultural reality. Serious play reflects the level of complexity of modern reality and ensures that a person adapts to the ever-increasing dynamics of this complexity. The trend of gamification registers this in the space of higher education, which causes a change in the role of the university in the modern social world. Serious play redefines the position of a person in the modern, dynamic and individualized social world. For the first time, serious play is conceptualized at the intersection of the playful and the serious as independent and mutually exclusive elements of sociocultural reality and is analyzed in the trend of the gamification of higher education.

Optimal Cut-Off Score of Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief Form

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis-Joaquin Garcia-Lopez ◽  
Deborah Beidel ◽  
Jose-Antonio Muela-Martinez ◽  
Lourdes Espinosa-Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Phobia ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Screening Measure ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heated Debate

Abstract. No cut-off scores for the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief (SPAI-B) are available to screen for young adults with and without social anxiety disorder (SAD). In addition, there is a currently heated debate on the utility of the performance-only specifier in DSM-5. The present study is aimed at covering these gaps. Participants included 124 young adults in higher education with a clinical diagnosis of SAD and 81 healthy controls. The SPAI-B scores revealed a continuum of severity among the nonclinical population, performance-only specifier participants, and those with both performance and social interactional fears. Data suggested to use a rounded cut-off of 24 to screen for patients with both performance and interactional fears, and a rounded cut-off score of 23 for young adults with performance-only specifier. Findings demonstrated that the SPAI-B is particularly useful as a screening measure among young adults in higher education, but the limited discriminative capacity of the performance-only specifier may call into question the clinical utility of this recently established specifier.

Resistances to scientific knowledge production of comparative measurements of dropout and completion in European higher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Carlhed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Statistical Reasoning ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Limited Basis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Student Completion

The article is a critical sociological analysis of current transnational practices on creating comparable measurements of dropout and completion in higher education and the consequences for the conditions of scientific knowledge production on the topic. The analysis revolves around questions of epistemological, methodological and symbolic types and, in particular, how the social processes in the creation and use of different measures offer researchers different positions in the knowledge production. Descriptions of statistics and measurements from statistics agencies in Sweden and the UK and from the OECD, EUROSTAT and Eurydice, as well as policy texts and data collection manuals from European Union bodies, have been compared and analysed. Particular interest is directed towards examples of measures used in Sweden and the UK. The results suggest that available data on student completion offers only a very limited basis for research-driven comparative analysis. It offers also a problematisation of the notions of researchers seen as users or producers of data and different position takings in statistical reasoning in using statistics as for example different types of evidence for policymaking.

Logic, Paralogisms and Social Distinction

Theoria ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (155) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Michel Lallement
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Theoretical Interest ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Value Judgements

In La Barrière et le Niveau (1925), the French philosopher Edmond Goblot applied a logic of quality to the social world. The major thesis which Goblot defended at that time was: having no titles or property, the bourgeois class constructed itself superficially through value judgements, building upon commonly shared appreciations, however intrinsically contradictory they may be. If we accept this logical reading found in La Barrière et le Niveau, then two different types of paralogism, useful for sociological theory, merit consideration: paralogisms of criteria and paralogisms of judgement. When interpreted in this way, Goblot’s work presents a threefold theoretical interest: it associates logic and sociology in an original way; it illustrates the heuristic relevance of a social ontology approach, and it provides a grid of sociocultural analysis of the social classes which is still relevant today.

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