scholarly journals TOWARDS A MODEL OF SOCIAL INNOVATION: CROSS-BORDER LEARNING PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF AN AGEING SOCIETY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Berit Skov Bjerregaard ◽  
Sonata Maciulskyte ◽  
Elvyra Acienė ◽  
Jonas Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Innovation Model ◽  
Collaboration Process

<p>The aim of this paper is to reveal how the collaboration process mobilise resources among countries with different logics of welfare, yet address similar problems of ageing society, i a caring, a learning and a political perspective.</p><p>The study draws on social science theories and the analysis is based on qualitative empirical data from an interdisciplinary field.</p><p>The main conclusion is that a multi-dimensional understanding of dementia care by shared knowledge of different welfare logics adds value to experiences of cross-border learning.  A social innovation model is presented.</p>

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 2

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
New Research ◽  
Philosophical Questions

This is the second volume in Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, a series with the aim of providing a venue for publishing work in this emerging field. Experimental philosophy is a new movement that seeks to use empirical techniques to illuminate some of the oldest issues in philosophy. It is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and related disciplines, such as linguistics and sociology. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has already sparked an explosion of new research, challenging a number of cherished assumptions in both philosophy and the cognitive sciences. This volume includes both theoretical and experimental chapters as well as chapters that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is divided into three parts that explore epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and metaphysics and mind, showcasing the diversity of work that has arisen as traditionally philosophical questions have met the tools of social science.

Notes on the Sociological Study of Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (263) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
John Useem
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Committee Member ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field

AbstractThe SSRC’s Committee on Sociolinguistics (1963–1979) was formed to explore how the nascent interdisciplinary field of sociolinguistics could deepen scholarly understanding of the intersection of language with social, cultural, and political questions. In this 1963 piece, John Useem, a committee member, explains how “developing the sociological study of language” would advance social science. He emphasizes the potential contribution to social knowledge through research on how language is used across cultural contexts and social divides of class, geography, race, and ethnicity.

scholarly journals Explorative healthy aging approaches fostering social innovation: thematizing life course narratives of older women participating in a documentary film

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Riva-Mossman ◽  
Henk Verloo
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Relational Networks ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Learning Processes

The transformative process of investigating life stories and their impact on healthy aging has only recently been explored. The relationship between hope and individual healthy aging strategies is still an under-researched area. This study contributes to filling the knowledgeability gap. The authors examine senior stories of hope and the experience of self-determination and well-being. The study documents the social learning processes of older people as they narratively search for solutions and imagine a hopeful future of healthy aging. A group of four older women participated in a semi-structured filmed interview, questioned by an academic expert. Healthy aging emerged as an important concern among all participants, confirming the need to actively learn how to age well. This exploratory research brought forth thematic clusters, orienting shared value solutions to demographic change. Qualitative research methods reinforce lifelong, collaborative learning processes that not only produce scientific literature, but also put in place relational networks that can grow and endure over time, generating social innovation. The film documented the role of hope and resilience in healthy aging.

The Relevance of Political Engagement and Transparency in Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Environments: Analyzing Border Cities in Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-502
Author(s):  
Rui Alexandre Castanho
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Talented People ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
High Level ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Within European territories, exists a large number of borderlands comprising several Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) projects and strategies. However, these CBC relationships are known by a high level of complexity. Therefore, the study of all the variables and factors that could influence the success or failure of these CBC projects and strategies are critical to reaching long-lasting territorial sustainability. Contextually, the present paper analyzes the border cooperation of eight CBC projects (seventeen European cities) focusing on the political engagement and transparency. Furthermore, the study allows us to identify and isolate the four main critical factors to consider from a political perspective: (i) Connectivity - Movement between cities; (ii) Political transparency and commitment; (iii) Common objectives and master plans; and (iv) Young and talented people magnet.

scholarly journals Around and Around

Intersections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Ciaschi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
The City

Asylum-seeking and significant out-migration have been the response of many Roma communities who continue to face multiple insecurities in their everyday lives, leaving them to their own survival devices. This work seeks to understand how we approach and categorize realities of such internal and cross-border displacements of Roma in current day Hungary. Drawing from an interdisciplinary field of mobilities and borders scholarship, this paper advances the concept of border regimes to approach intersecting regimes of movement control and the dynamics of mobility and enclosure at local and transnational levels.  This lens is translated in the case of protracted Roma family evictions, and their struggles with an externalized border regime in the city of Miskolc, Hungary. Fieldwork accounts and snapshots, deriving from on-going ethnographic research in the city’s ‘Numbered Streets’, Roma-populated, residential neighborhood will provide the premises for empirical investigation.

scholarly journals E-Business Innovation Model of Setiu Wetland Resources for Women Entrepreneurship Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1101-1105
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Innovation Model ◽  
Financial Growth ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Grant Scheme ◽  
Wetland Resources

Setiu Wetland (SW) is located in Terengganu, Malaysia where it is enriched with vast variety of natural resources. Most SW rural women are doing small medium business with own special skills to help family in their living. They do have skills in utilizing SW resources but lack in proper marketing strategy for their business growth. The paper presents the results of Niche Research Grant Scheme (NRGS) project of UMT for improving the livelihood of Setiu Wetland (SW) rural women entrepreneurship skills through an e-business social innovation model. This project undertakes selected women respondents in giving assistance through the use of social media networking application in marketing of their local products, thus improving their financial stability. The results on income projection in pre and post implementation of the e-business model among SW women shows a significant improvement to their financial growth. It proves that the model has achieved the objective of improving the livelihood of Setiu Wetland (SW) women entrepreneurship program.

scholarly journals Mutual Learning in Innovation and Co-Creation Processes: Integrating Technological and Social Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kohlgrüber ◽  
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal ◽  
Antonius Schröder
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
End Users ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
The People

New digital solutions are often lacking integration and acceptance by potential users. Therefore, only a small amount of innovative software solutions is really in use. The article describes a co-creation process by integrating end-users and relevant stakeholders right in the beginning in a social innovation process. Within this process, technology is seen as an enabler of innovation getting its relevance from new social practices of the people using it (e.g. working practices). Against the background of EU funded projects conducted by the authors (GT-VET, GREEN STAR, COCOP, and ROBOHARSH) the relevance of mutual learning processes of engineers / researchers / trainers on the one side and end-users / beneficiaries / learners on the other side will become evident. Moreover, new (digital and analogue) skills of employees have been identified as key for a successful digital transformation. Thereby, this article shows a twofold perspective on social innovation in education: new skills demands for employees and mutual learning processes of developers and users/stakeholders. To obtain needed skills, traditional innovation practices have to be changed by setting up a social innovation process. Such a process design has to include stakeholder and user involvement beyond pure feedback on a new technology. Co-creation means that experience, knowledge and ideas of users will be considered to ensure high usability and impact of the new technology framed by organisational and people related measures. In this respect, the innovation process and the innovation itself is much more than technological functionality–it is a contribution to new social practices and performances of the people that innovate and use the technology.

scholarly journals Ciência, tecnologia e inovação social | Science, technology, and social innovation

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maíra Baumgarten ◽  
Maria Lucia Maciel ◽  
Fernanda Sobral
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Science Technology

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