scholarly journals Social distance in terms of demographic features – Kosovo population study

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Sc. Aliriza Arënliu ◽  
Dr.Sc. Dashamir Bërxulli ◽  
Dr.Sc. Mytaher Haskuka
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
The European Union ◽  
State Identity ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Homosexual Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Dimensions

Kosovo aims for development of a state over the Kosovo state identity, which includes all communities living in Kosovo. Integration of all communities in public institutions and life remains one of the challenges of Kosovo society. The social distance refers to the extent of understanding of another group, which characterizes parasocial and social relations. Another definition is the lack of availability and relations in being open to others. Bogardus states that social distance is an outcome of affective distance between members of two groups. Earlier studies have shown that the social distance or gap is related to the ethnic background, education level and earlier interaction with other ethnic groups. Also, studies have shown a link with social/political activism. Further, it has been proven that social distance is manifested at three different spatial dimensions, their own self in a reciprocal co-product: physical, symbolical and geometric. The study aims to explicate social distance in a relation with demographic records of respondents to a research undertaken in Kosovo in 2010, in which 1296 citizens (64.4% Albanians, 13.9% Serbs, 6.9% Turkish, 5% Roma/Ashkali/Egyptian (RAE), 6.9% Bosnian and 2.7% others). Social distance has been measured by asking the respondents about the groups or persons they would object in terms of neighborhood: they, who speak another language, have another religion, have homosexual orientation, etc. Comparisons of average social distance in relation with ethnic sub-groups, gender, level of education, experience in earlier trips to the countries of the European Union (EU), size of settlement and the region of origin of the respondent, show significant differences, at p < 0.05. Also, the research also reviewed the link between social activism and activism in civil society and social distance. In these terms, outcomes are less clearer, thereby suggesting that social activism or activism in civil society not necessarily influences the narrowing of the social gap. Outcomes are discussed in due account of permanent efforts to involve minorities in governance and public life in Kosovo.

scholarly journals ROLE OF TRUST IN KAZAKHSTAN SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
G.K. Atabayeva ◽  
◽  
G.O. Abdikerova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Social

Trust is the basis of self-knowledge and the realization of a person in a complex system of social relations. Therefore, it is necessary that all people understand the essence of this phenomenon. The purpose of the study is to reveal the potentials of trust as a social phenomenon, and to substantiate its role in improving the quality of social relations in Kazakhstani society. The main problem is the insufficiently high level of trust among people in the interpersonal and institutional aspects. Problems arise due to the low level of development of civic values, and the emergence of behavioral patterns that do not comply with the social norms of civil society. Trusting relationships between social actors can develop by improving the basic aspects of successful socialization in the process of creating a competitive nation, such as education, healthcare, culture and social Security. The main tasks of the problem under study are directly related to the disclosure of the essence of social trust, its role in harmonizing social and social relations, in improving the social capital of modern Kazakhstan. Studies of foreign and domestic scientists allow us to understand the conceptual foundations of trust, the interaction strategy of social groups, the prospects for the development of civil society, as well as the features and specifics of the social capital of modern societies, models of civil behavior of the population. Trust plays an important role in building a civil society, is its main institution, as well as the main component of social capital and effective social relations. Today, quality information is reflected in the human mind and affects its social behavior. Therefore, great attention must be paid to the quality of the information provided, and their usefulness to citizens. Types of trust are also characterized by the quality of social relations. The study of trust in modern society is primarily due to the need to disclose its potential resources; secondly, the substantiation of its important role as a structural element of interpersonal and institutional social relations of a particular society. The need to reduce poverty growth in society, distrust and social risks are important challenges facing modern societies

scholarly journals Social distance of youth of Luhansk region: survey results

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Kateryna Kotelenets ◽  
Olena Kondratiuk
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results

The article is devoted to the study of the social distance of the youth of Luhansk region. Social distance described as a certain degree of closeness and remoteness of people in relation to each other. It illustrates social relationships among people of different cultures, nationalities, social groups, so it is relevant for research. Exploring the problem of social distance, the author turns to the scientific works and research of such scientists as R. Park, E. Bogardus, V. Paniotto, N. Panina and others, describing their contribution to the development of science on this topic. The purpose of this article is to study the social distance of young people in Luhansk region, by conducting this study at the local level, which indicates the lack of such experience before. For this purpose, we chose the method of questionnaires, and 418 young people of Luhansk region of different ages and fields of activity acted as respondents. The study used a simplified method of E. Bogardus to measure the degree of social distance of respondents to representatives of certain social groups, and the terminology of interpretation of social distance by N. Panina. Also, a simplified scale of social distance was used, limited to three possible answers: "I agree to communicate with them personally", "I agree to accept them in society, but would like to avoid personal communication" and "No I want them to be in our society in general, ”and not only national minorities but also social groups of a marginal nature and representatives of sexual minorities were chosen as social groups. Particular attention was paid to the description of the results of the study. The study found that young people in Luhansk region have social closeness to residents of the European Union, are tolerant of people with disabilities, people with COVID-19 and IDPs, as well as socially distant from marginalized groups, sexual minorities and more. As a result, it was proved that the students have an average level of social distance.

Civic Organization beyond the ‘Open Society’ Battle: Cases from Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-177
Author(s):  
Ágnes Gagyi ◽  
Márton Szarvas ◽  
András Vígvári
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Civic Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Debates

Our paper aims to contribute to the understanding of civil society in Hungary by looking beyond the struggles around open society and international NGOs, a topic that has dominated public debates on civil organizations in Hungary for the last decade. Our starting point follows the literature that has broadened the understanding of NGOs in the post-socialist space with the perspective of their insertion in global hierarchies in terms of unequal knowledge and resource transfer, material dependencies and the effects in local social settings. More attention recently has been given to the social positions of domestic civil organizations and the political and material dependencies they operate within. The analysis of organizations which represent and defend different interests within different social strata is crucial to understanding civil society in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Following this thread of discussions, we look at three segments of civil society which were previously understudied, to expand on how social relations structure civil society in contemporary CEE: 1) nationalist but anti-governmental organizations, for example in the field of housing; 2) urban and rural informal self-organization in order to cope with material hardships collectively has been significantly growing in the recent years; 3) rural civil organizations aligned with local elites, embedded in material dependencies, which have been present since 1990, but occupy a more and more significant role after the illiberal turn. We think that adding these segments to the study of civil society in CEE can help to broaden the analysis beyond the discursively and ideologically thematized struggles around NGOs, and contribute to a better understanding of illiberal regimes and the counter-movements they produce.

scholarly journals Language that Supports Sustainable Development: How to Write about People in Universal Design Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9561
Author(s):  
Stina Ericsson ◽  
Daniel Wojahn ◽  
Ida Sandström ◽  
Per-Olof Hedvall
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Is Design

Universal Design (UD) is a design approach that recognises and anticipates diversity as a fundamental human condition. UD is also frequently referred to in relation to the social dimension of sustainable development. Central to both UD and sustainability is the way “everyone,” as the target of UD and sustainability goals, is understood. The purpose of the study is to identify how UD’s “everyone” is conceptualised in Swedish UD policy and to provide a set of recommendations for how to categorise people with regards to UD. A qualitative text analysis is used, which investigates semiotic modes in relation to the content, form, and social relations of texts. Based on the analysis, two challenges for UD policy are identified: (i) how to convey that UD is design for everyone, and (ii) how to move away from a thought pattern of norm and deviation. Seven recommendations for how to approach categorisations of people in UD policy are formulated. We argue that an adoption of UD has the potential to bring about sustainable living environments for all, if integrated with social, economic, environmental, and spatial dimensions of development, but that in order for this to succeed, careful attention needs to be paid to how UD is conceptualised, and a radically different way of categorising people is necessary.

Salutations, closings and pronouns: Some aspects of recipient design in online counselling

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wyke Stommel
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Pronoun ◽  
Address Forms ◽  
Online Counselling ◽  
The Social ◽  
E Mail

This article examines recipient design in online counselling. Recipient design has been found to be an important aspect of professional-client interaction (Heritage 2002; Wilkinson 2011). It essentially means that professionals devise their talk for the specific client, which is crucial for building the counselling relationship. This article focuses on the ways in which counsellors and clients design their salutations, closings and pronoun address forms in e-mail with the recipient in mind. It is known that second person pronouns (in languages with informal vs. formal pronouns) invoke a certain social distance between the participants and that greetings play an important role in establishing social relations in e-mail. The analysis, informed by conversation analysis, revealed that while counsellors initially use a formal recipient design in the e-mails, clients frequently use informal salutations, closings and/or the informal second person pronoun (T) to reduce the social distance to the counsellor. Rarely, they also directly request to be addressed more informally. Another finding is that counsellors sometimes fail to recipient-design their e-mails, which seems related to the use of prefabricated text or ‘forgetting’ which client preferred which recipient design.

Nonprofit Care Work as Social Glue: Creating and Sustaining Social Reproduction in the Context of Austerity/Late Neoliberalism

Affilia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-465
Author(s):  
Donna Baines ◽  
Ian Cunningham ◽  
Innocentia Kgaphola ◽  
Senzelwe Mthembu
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social

This article will bring together the social glue concept of social reproduction and a feminist analysis of civil society to the study of nonprofit care work in order to cast analytic light on the dynamics of care work in the nonprofit sector and contribute to theorizing care work, to identify and theorize aspects of nonprofit care work which reproduce and sustain social glue, and to supplement theory on civil society. Drawing on qualitative interviews with nonprofit care workers in South Africa and Scotland, this article argues that care work, in general, and nonprofit care work, more specifically, are key components of civil society and central to the gendered social glue that holds societies together. We argue that nonprofit care workers are part a distinctive but porous set of social relations and have their own unique way of sustaining social bonds in the context of late neoliberalism. The article looks closely at three dynamics of social glue in nonprofit care work, namely, empowerment, emotional/personal costs, and unpaid work. We argue that nonprofit care workers find micro ways of resisting the erosion of social glue and reweaving the social fabric through care and relationship and further that these forms of resistance may sustain much needed social bonds until larger social transformation is possible.

scholarly journals Understanding networks of actors involved in refugee access to higher education in Canada, England and France

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-51
Author(s):  
Melody Viczko ◽  
Marie-Agnès Détourbe ◽  
Shannon McKechnie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
National Context ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brighter Future

In times of intense migrations, securing a brighter future through education has become a growing concern in many societies. In particular, access to higher education for refugees has been the object of multiple initiatives among governments, civil society and non-government organisations. However, only 3 per cent of refugees access higher education, and there is a need to better understand, support and develop successful access for refugees among policymakers, educators and researchers. This research takes an original comparative digital approach to identifying those networks in three countries: Canada, England and France. Our findings suggest that the nature of issues for refugee access to higher education is constructed differently in each national context, as the social relations between government, civil society, non-government agencies and higher education institutions are uniquely configured.

scholarly journals Território do Sisal-Bahia: da difundida precariedade ao fortalecimento dos ativismos sociais/ Sisal Territory-Bahia (Brasil): from the widespread precariousness to the strengthening of social activism

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Jamille da Silva Lima ◽  
Agripino Souza Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Political Clientelism

Analisar a coexistência entre as condições estruturais que perdura no Território do Sisal e a emergência e o fortalecimento dos ativismos sociais é o objetivo central deste artigo. Para a leitura desse contexto espacial acionamos os termos “permanências” e “emergências”, empregados como um par dialético. As permanências manifestam-se pelo conjunto de condições estruturais e pela particularidade histórica que se forjou no Território do Sisal (Bahia)  reconhecido pela prevalência das chamadas adversidades físico-naturais atribuídas à seca, por um conjunto de indicadores socioeconômicos desfavoráveis exemplificados pelos índices de analfabetismo, desemprego, entre outros, bem como pelos esquemas de autoritarismo e clientelismo político. As emergências são reveladas na mobilização e complexificação de redes de organizações sociais, consideradas como modalidades de ativismos sociais. ABSTRACT To analyze the coexistence between remaining structural conditions in the Território do Sisal and the emergence and strengthening of social activism is the centrapurpose of this article. To read this spatial context, we used the terms "permanence" and "emergencies", employed as a dialetic pair. The permanencies are manifested by the set of structural conditions and the historical particularity that was set up in the Território do Sisal (Bahia), recognized by the prevalence of the so-called physical and natural adver - sities related to drought, by a set of unfavorable social economic indicators exemplified by illiteracy, unemployment and among others, as well as the schemes of dominion and political clientelism. Emergencies are manifested in the mobilization and complexity of networks of social organizations, considered as social activism modality. This article is a result of a documental research and interviews with the most active social organization from Território do Sisal, during the years of 2010 and 2014. As a result, it was found that the social activisms of the Sisal Territory were searching for a political and moral direction conceived by social relations based on solidary cooperation, as well as on a more horizon - tal political and productive organization, and has been fighting for democratization of planning and public administration. Keywords : social activism, permanencies, emergencies, Sisal Territory.

The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Analysis Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

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