The Feasibility of Applying Shakespearean Drama to Address Social Disorders in Sierra Leone

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Philip Y. Thulla ◽  
Amuel M. Senesie ◽  
Peter M. Muffuh ◽  
David Bull
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Social

Like many other African countries, Sierra Leone has gone through tragic experiences, which tend to elevate the quest for peace above most other human concerns. Persons and Institutions that deal with human development are generally urged to target such issues as peace – building, conflict prevention, reconciliation, etc. It seems that the literary discipline bears remarkable potentialities to such effects. This is the concern of this paper. In order to maximize the possible benefit of literature, in this regard, the “best choice” of literary writers was adopted – William Shakespeare. The findings include but not limited to ‘that many of the social problems that can be addressed sociologically or legally, or morally can as accommodate literary address’ and ‘that Shakespeare’s play can be used to address social disorders in Sierra Leone.

The Social Problems of the Sociologist

1964 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin B. Sussman
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
The Social

THE CONTENT OF THE PROCESS FRAMEWORK FOR THE SOCIAL COMPETENCE FORMATION IN SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (97) ◽  
pp. 202-210
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Bushnaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Process Framework ◽  
Senior Students

Social competence of senior school students serves as their integrative characteristic and acts as the result of education. The formation of social competence in senior students is realized in the school educational environment by means of solving social problems of personal, public and life-futurological content. School educational environment incorporates definite zones which act as incentives to motivate and involve students into the activity of formulating and solving social problems.

Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Richards
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fixed Boundaries

Shifting cultivation is a type of farming without fixed boundaries. It obeys an ecological logic but requires constant improvisation and adaptation to fluid circumstances. The character of improvisation in shifting cultivation is explored with reference to an African case study (rice farming by the Mende people of Sierra Leone). Two elements are emphasized in particular—the management of fire (by men) and rice seeds (by women). A contrast, applicable not only to farming, but also to other activities such as military conflict and musical performance, is drawn between strategic planning and tactical improvisation. The relevance of Mary Douglas’s grid-group theory to the framing of the social skill sets required for improvisation is discussed.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the interactionist model of socioeconomic status and problem behavior: A developmental cascade across generations

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica J. Martin ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Thomas J. Schofield ◽  
Shannon J. Dogan ◽  
Keith F. Widaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Family Stress ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Social Causation ◽  
Adolescent Problem Behavior ◽  
The Social

AbstractThe current multigenerational study evaluates the utility of the interactionist model of socioeconomic influence on human development (IMSI) in explaining problem behaviors across generations. The IMSI proposes that the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and human development involves a dynamic interplay that includes both social causation (SES influences human development) and social selection (individual characteristics affect SES). As part of the developmental cascade proposed by the IMSI, the findings from this investigation showed that Generation 1 (G1) adolescent problem behavior predicted later G1 SES, family stress, and parental emotional investments, as well as the next generation of children's problem behavior. These results are consistent with a social selection view. Consistent with the social causation perspective, we found a significant relation between G1 SES and family stress, and in turn, family stress predicted Generation 2 (G2) problem behavior. Finally, G1 adult SES predicted both material and emotional investments in the G2 child. In turn, emotional investments predicted G2 problem behavior, as did material investments. Some of the predicted pathways varied by G1 parent gender. The results are consistent with the view that processes of both social selection and social causation account for the association between SES and human development.

Mechanisms and Obstacles of Investing Social Capital of Retired Saudi Woman

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Asma Abdullah Alzakari
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Return To Work ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Evaluators

The present research aims to identify the mechanisms required for investing the social capital of retired Saudi woman and the relevant obstacles. To achieve the research objectives, the author adopted the descriptive analytical approach. A questionnaire was used to identify the major mechanisms and obstacles of investing the social capital of retired Saudi woman. The results showed that the mechanism of (the inclusion of retired holders of master or doctorate degrees in the membership of evaluation committees instead of the external evaluators) was ranked the most required one, whereas the mechanism of (providing good allowances and benefits for the retired women to encourage them to return to work and rearranging their life requirements according to the relevant studies and papers) was ranked the least required.  Furthermore, it indicated the substantial obstacles that prevent investing the social capital of retired Saudi woman. The paper recommends collaboration among civil society institutions to reinforce and disseminate volunteering culture, especially among the retired women because they constitute the foundations of the community that adopts the fundamentals ​​of social capital, which achieve human development by setting the regulations that organize and protect voluntary work.   Received: 4 October 2020 / Accepted: 30 November 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

براہوئی ڈرامہ نا اولیکو کتاب ’’استو نا بندغ‘‘ اسہ جاچ اس

Al-Burz ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ashraf ◽  
Muhammad Nasir Kiazai
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Radio Drama ◽  
The Social ◽  
Folk Literature ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Different Parts

Raag, a folk term has used for Drama in ancient Brahui. In folk literature when the Brahui modern literature were not introduced the Term Raag were used for entertain. After establishment of Radio Station center at Quetta, the different parts of modern literature opened the windows for Brahui fiction. There is prominent writer which Mr. Ghulam Nabi Rahi has started firstly Brahui radio Drama, soon after the tradition of Brahui drama has spread all over the Balochistan. A compilation of his first period’s Drama known as Isto naa Bandagh. This research paper discussed and analyses the technique and tendency of Rahi’s Drama. Mostly his dramas have played from Radio and Television Quetta center after Sixties. Shaahbeg naa wataakh a very famous radio Drama, where the social problems were reflecting. A descriptive method has been used to complete this paper.

The Instrumental University

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Schrum
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Research University ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Procedural Rationality ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managerial Knowledge

This book argues that Clark Kerr, Gaylord P. Harnwell, and other post-World War II academic leaders set the American research university on a new course by creating the instrumental university. With its emphasis on procedural rationality, organized research, and project-based funding by external patrons, the instrumental university would provide technical and managerial knowledge to shape the social order. Its leaders hoped that by solving the nation’s pressing social problems, the research university would become the essential institution of postwar America. On this view, the university’s leading purposes included promoting economic development and coordinating research from many fields in order to attack social problems. Reorienting institutions to prioritize these activities had numerous consequences. One was to inject more capitalistic and managerial tendencies into universities. Today, those who decry universities’ corporatizing and market-driven tendencies often trace them to the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s. This book suggests that a fuller explanation of these tendencies must highlight their deeper roots in the technocratic progressive tradition that originated in the 1910s, particularly the organizational changes within universities that this tradition spawned from the 1940s onward as part of the instrumental university.

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