scholarly journals Ellasue C. Wagner’s Korean Female Education and Social Welfare Work in the First Half of the 20th Century

2014 ◽  
Vol null (41) ◽  
pp. 115-152
Author(s):  
Kim, Seong Eun
Nature ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 202 (4929) ◽  
pp. 241-241
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2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Pollard

AbstractIn this article I argue that the Egyptian state emerged as a welfare provider in the mid-20th century, first by depending on the services of charitable societies to feed, educate, and provide medical assistance to the poor, and later by imitating and harnessing the activities of charitable societies. Drawing on correspondence between the state and service societies from the 1880s to 1945, when King Faruq (r. 1936–52) granted the Egyptian Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) the authority to define and to circumscribe the activities of social welfare organizations, the article illustrates the interactions of and the similarities between private and state-sponsored charity. The article further suggests that the establishment of MOSA helped to consolidate the hegemony of the Egyptian state over society and, at the same time, exemplified a dialectical process of state formation engaged in by Egyptian heads of state, service organizations, and the Egyptians whose needs they served.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Fernanda Conceição Costa Frazão

Ao longo do século XX, as mulheres conquistaram novos espaços nas relações sociopolíticas. Eram marcantes as restrições à atuação sócio política feminina, que se pautavam em uma sociedade de padrões patriarcais, que julgava o sexo feminino inferior nas relações humanas. Este trabalho apresenta enunciados da revista de variedades Careta, fonte para delimitar os exercícios de poder históricos através da circulação de enunciados que serviam tanto à informação quanto à instrução da sociedade de um modo geral. Para as mulheres, orientações de comportamento e a expressão de opiniões sobre a atualidade efervescente e diversa, como forma de conformá-las ao destino de recato ou por vezes sugerindo ironia em observar as disparidades entre masculino e feminino. Em contraponto às determinações de um lugar de recato, destaca-se também indícios de resistência feminina aos saberes e poderes que oprimiam e naturalizavam um lugar de silêncio para elas. O movimento dos acontecimentos históricos sugere margens habitadas por possibilidades latentes de respostas à ordem vigente. O movimento sufragista, a Primeira Guerra, a Escola Normal, com ou sem teor de movimento pelos direitos femininos são apresentados como meios de propor o debate sobre a tensão estabelecida no jogo de forças e poder entre o masculino e o feminino.Indications of interditions to the feminine speech and its forms of resistance: the Careta magazine and the will of truth (1914-1918). Throughout the 20th century, women gained new spaces in socio-political relations. There were striking restrictions on the socio-political feminine performance, which were based on a society of patriarchal standards, which judged the female sex inferior in human relations. This paper presents statements from the variety magazine Careta, a source for delimiting historical power exercises through the circulation of statements that served both information and instruction of society in general. For women, behavioral guidelines and the expression of opinions on the effervescent and diverse present, as a way to conform them to the destiny of modesty or sometimes suggesting irony in observing the disparities between masculine and feminine. In contrast to the determinations of a place of modesty, there are also signs of female resistance to the knowledge and powers that oppressed and naturalized a place of silence for them. The movement of historical events suggests margins inhabited by latent possibilities of responses to the prevailing order. The suffragist movement, the First War, the Normal School, with or without the content of the feminine rights movement, are presented as a means of proposing the debate on the tension established in the game of strength and power between the masculine and the feminine. Keywords: History of female education; Magazine Careta; Game of strength and power.


Author(s):  
Melissa L. Caldwell

This chapter examines the ambiguous role of religiously affiliated charitable organizations within the field of social justice work in Russia and how these organizations promote new ethics and practices of humaneness, civility, and civic engagement in their social welfare work. Specifically, religiously affiliated charitable organizations creatively play with both the official and unofficial criteria and terminology for different types of organizations and assistance – development, charity, humanitarianism, nongovernmental, religious, and secular – in ways that enable them to work both outside and alongside state organizations. In so doing, not only do they trouble distinctions between secular and religious, state and non-state, governmental and nongovernmental, but they also contribute to a different form of civil society and civil activism in Russia.


1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Harney

AbstractThe essay in hand is an attempt to make use of systematic theoretical categories in order to describe the function of a defined professional field, social welfare work. On the basis of LUHMANN’S systematology, the definition and explanation of which is the subject of the first part of the essay, the functions of social work are analysed under the aspect of accomplishing the complexity between service-system and client-system, which is brought by way of social technology.To make evident the special significance of the theoretical disposition in this essay, it is based on a standardization, definition, and valuation of those functional definitions of social welfare work that are presently acknowledged.


1965 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 40-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Strasburger

On the life of Poseidonios there is but little reliable information elucidating the theme of this paper. The probable years of his birth and death are 135 and 51 B.C. About his background nothing is known except that Apameia in Syria was his place of origin. In view of the mixed population of that country one might surmise the presence of non-Hellenic ethnical components in his ancestry, but nothing is known about this. He was a disciple of the stoic philosopher Panaitios of Rhodes, probably at Athens; afterwards he became himself the head of the stoic school in Rhodes, where he must have acquired the citizenship, for he acted as a magistrate (‘prytanis’) and as an ambassador of the city. Strabo's praise of the exemplary social-welfare work at Rhodes (14, 653) seems to be derived from Poseidonios; in any case it is characteristic of Poseidonios' interest in social problems (see below p. 48).


Author(s):  
Saburo Morishita

As one of the older "new" religious movements in Japan, Tenrikyo has often struggled with its self-presentation to the public. This was especially so in its quest for legal recognition at certain times in its long history, but also in response to broader public suspicions. However, work by Tenrikyo members to benefit society should not be seen as public relations efforts to create a positive image for institutional growth and acceptance. A case in point is social welfare work undertaken quite early in the movement's history. Drawing on in-progress research and interviews focusing on Tenrikyo members' work with people suffering from Hansen's Disease (leprosy) in Japan, this essay makes the case that good works are not carried out to create a positive public image, but rather are pursued for the betterment of society and personal spiritual development.


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