scholarly journals The Care-Responsiveness Barometer: A framework to plan, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of policies, investments and institutions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharmistha Chauhan ◽  
Swapna Bist Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Care Work ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Economic Good ◽  
Critical Social

Care work, paid, unpaid or underpaid, is a critical social and economic good. There is a need to place it at the core of all policy decisions and investments in development work, as well as across institutions. The Care-Responsiveness Barometer has been developed as a guiding tool for all institutions to plan, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of their work.

In Need of a New Lens

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 250-273
Author(s):  
Abamfo Ofori Atiemo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Development Work ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Workers ◽  
Religious Elements

Despite the considerable volume of material produced by scholars in recent times on the political and social relevance of Africa’s religious revival, policy makers and development workers continue to pay only scanty attention to religion in their work. In cases, where some attention is paid to religion, the focus has been on institutions and public-spirited religious personalities. Most policy makers and development workers seem more comfortable to deal with these than the core religious elements such as rituals. Based on discussion of data drawn from a study of the Corinthian Church of South Africa (CCSA), this paper argues that aspects of religion such as beliefs and rituals, which are often ignored in development work constitute an important “spiritual capital” that can enrich social capital; and that if these are taken account of in social policy crafting, they will provide a new vista to some of the developmental challenges of Africa.

Recovering the critical potential of social pathology diagnosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Pathology ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
Critical Social ◽  
Cognitive Understanding

While the framework of social pathology remains a crucial tool for critical social theorists, there is confusion and debate surrounding the precise nature of the heuristic. The core argument of this article is that while the diagnosis of social pathology harbours radical potential as a critical device, recent developments have led to the ascendancy of a restrictive, recognition-cognitive understanding. I argue that this has displaced alternate, more radical framings. To illustrate the changing face of the heuristic, this article opens by articulating the merits and demerits of five predominant conceptions of social pathology. The second section elucidates the turn to increasingly view social pathology in a manner compatible with just one of these five framings. By drawing on, and extending, the existing critical literature, I seek to demonstrate the relative limitations of such an understanding. Throughout this analysis, I argue for the continued relevance of social pathology diagnosis, the need for sustained critical scholarship, and the dangers of embracing too readily the turn to an exclusively recognition-cognitive understanding of social pathology.

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FOREIGN POLICY IN MALAYSIA: DEFINITIONS, PREMIERSHIP AND FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 01-15
Author(s):  
Faridah Jaafar ◽  
Nurulhasanah Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Definition Of

Academic discussion on the fundamentals of foreign policy often draws a debatable argument in International Relations research. Yet, the effort to unravel the core definition of foreign policy is limited and largely unobserved. Regardless of any foreign policy beliefs, understanding the fundamentals is crucial to make informed decisions related to international affairs. Therefore, this paper seeks to explore the fundamentals of foreign policy in twofold namely; (1) Working on outlining the definition of foreign policy and (2) Factors that influence foreign policy decisions. By employing secondary data, the systematic review was conducted based on past literature with respect to foreign policy studies and premiership; extracted from reputable databases. The literature search was limited to English sources, published in Scopus, ScienceDirect, and indexed in Google Scholar from 1960 to 2020. Accordingly, five factors emerged from the review which revealed the significant influence of individual, position, government, society, and system in formulating foreign policy decisions. These factors are considered as drivers in the foreign policy landscape and evidently shaped the Malaysian principles in collaborating with international cooperation. Finally, this paper provides insights into the existing literature with a detailed definition of foreign policy and narrates the way foreign policy decisions have effects on Malaysian political affairs. A set of recommendations were proposed as a brief agenda for future research.

scholarly journals Getting to the CORE: Putting an End to the Term “Soft Skills”

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Parlamis ◽  
Matthew J. Monnot
Keyword(s):  
Core Competence ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
The Core ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Critical Social

We need to retire the term “soft skills.” A new vocabulary for describing critical social and organizational skills is long overdue. Substituting the acronym “CORE” (Competence in Organizational and Relational Effectiveness) for the loaded word “soft” provides a more fitting term for the important skills the term describes and, in doing so, reframes the perceptions of these key skills to reflect their importance for career and organizational success.

IT Help Desk Implementation

2011 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Steve Clarke ◽  
Arthur Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Help Desk ◽  
The Core ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
International Airline ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Critical Social ◽  
Human Systems

This case study concerns IT help desk management within an international airline. The core of what is described relates to attempts at implementing help desk procedures in practice, and illustrates the problems of treating these both as predominantly technology systems and predominantly human systems. From the failures outlined in the case, an alternative approach is proposed, based on the application of methods drawn from an understanding of critical social theory. The practical problems and theoretical issues are discussed, and a theoretically informed framework is applied retrospectively to the case. This allows conclusions to be drawn which, it is argued, strongly support the value of a critically informed approach to human-centered IT help desk issues.

Quality at some point became quantity

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (45) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rew ◽  
Martin Rew
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Participatory Assessment ◽  
Combined Methods ◽  
Critical Social

The 'qualitative' pole of (Q-squared) combined methods has been defined in mainly residual ways as 'non-numerical' or 'noneconomics'. There is need, instead, for a critical social theorization of qualitative methods. Evidence from a development program for chronically poor, tribal, northern Orissa is used to examine the communicative action of 'participatory assessment' (PA). PA assumes that 'group' and 'visual' synergies can challenge the power relations that restrict communication and poor people's emancipation. The authors' ethnographies show that participants sequestered information from PA village seminars. Although well trained, the PA organizers increasingly ignored cultural context and substituted universalized techniques that produced only quantities of noncontextualized attitudes. The core PA routines therefore gave misleading results; they mistakenly replaced substantive accounts of communication in relation to lifeworlds with abstract seminar techniques. To obtain more reliable results, methods of 'embedded' economic anthropology were used instead to assess poverty.

scholarly journals Critique Skills As The Core Competency of IS Academics

10.28945/2537 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Metcalfe ◽  
Jonathan Wilson ◽  
Carmen Joham
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Social Thinking ◽  
The Core ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Unique Core ◽  
Critical Social

This paper is about information systems (IS) academics. It seeks to suggest a unique core competency they may wish to consider developing in order to differentiate themselves from practioners. So, this paper will explore the argument that the core competency of IS academics should be a unique insight into how to critique technology related problems. There are multiple disparate critique methods that IS educators might seek to develop and apply. Examples include systems thinking, multiple perspectives, dialectic analysis and critical social thinking.

What face familiarity feelings say about the lateralization of specific entities within the core system

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Gainotti
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory System ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Right

Abstract The target article carefully describes the memory system, centered on the temporal lobe that builds specific memory traces. It does not, however, mention the laterality effects that exist within this system. This commentary briefly surveys evidence showing that clear asymmetries exist within the temporal lobe structures subserving the core system and that the right temporal structures mainly underpin face familiarity feelings.

A scanning electron microscopic study on dissolving process of cholesterol gallstones by chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA)

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 522-523
Author(s):  
T. Kanetaka ◽  
M. Cho ◽  
S. Kawamura ◽  
T. Sado ◽  
K. Hara
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Chenodeoxycholic Acid ◽  
Outer Surface ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Cholesterol Gallstones ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic ◽  
Acceleration Voltage ◽  
Scanning Electron

The authors have investigated the dissolution process of human cholesterol gallstones using a scanning electron microscope(SEM). This study was carried out by comparing control gallstones incubated in beagle bile with gallstones obtained from patients who were treated with chenodeoxycholic acid(CDCA).The cholesterol gallstones for this study were obtained from 14 patients. Three control patients were treated without CDCA and eleven patients were treated with CDCA 300-600 mg/day for periods ranging from four to twenty five months. It was confirmed through chemical analysis that these gallstones contained more than 80% cholesterol in both the outer surface and the core.The specimen were obtained from the outer surface and the core of the gallstones. Each specimen was attached to alminum sheet and coated with carbon to 100Å thickness. The SEM observation was made by Hitachi S-550 with 20 kV acceleration voltage and with 60-20, 000X magnification.

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