Introduction—An Americanization of Homelessness in Post-Industrial Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 923-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen von Mahs
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Post Industrial

scholarly journals Sustainable Development: Myth or Reality?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Prof. Vladimir Gorbanyov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Conditional Term ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Post Industrial

<p><em>The report “Our Common Future” gives a definition of sustainable development. </em></p><p><em>In principle, the idea of sustainable development is extremely humane and noble, and it has no alternative. But at the same time this idea in the modern world looks very unrealistic. This is more a slogan than a scientific concept. Sustainable development of our planet is a global process, it is an ideal, because our planet is a single balanced geoecological system. However, today theoretically sustainable development can be achieved only in a small number of highly developed post-industrial countries. In developing countries, unfortunately, there can be no question of sustainable development. In other words, at the global level, it is not possible to achieve sustainable development in the near future.</em></p><p><em>There can be no sustainable development in a single country. But this does not mean that all countries without exception do not need to implement environmental protection activity. On the contrary, it is necessary to carry out such activities everywhere. But this will not be sustainable development, this will be local measures for the rational use of nature. But all these measures are of a local nature, they will not become global, which means that this will not be a sustainable development.</em></p><p><em>However, the term “sustainable development” has gained wide popularity, is humane in nature, so it may remain, but we should remember that this is just a conditional term, and in fact it is a rational use of nature on a local level.</em></p><p><em>Examples of sustainable development strategies and projects in a number of countries are given. It is shown that most of these projects are in essence projects on rational nature use in individual regions. The other part which concerns global problems, can be implemented only by developed countries, they also cannot be sustainable development projects.</em></p>

The Impact of Migratory Flows on the Swiss Labour Market. A Comparison Between In- and Outflow

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Wanner ◽  
Jonathan Zufferey ◽  
Juliette Fioretta
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

International labour migration in post-industrial countries raises numerous questions. A wide range of studies have been published on the impact of immigration on the labour market but only few studies take into account both arrivals (immigrations) and departures (emigrations), rather than only the role of newcomers on the labour market. This paper is based on a Swiss Longitudinal Demographic Database which links data from Population and Household Registers, administrative registers, and surveys. In particular, the Swiss Population Register provides the date of arrival or departure of immigrants/emigrants while the Structural Survey provides information on their characteristics and position on the labour market. Based on these data, this paper compares the socioeconomic characteristics of both immigrants and emigrants arrived in Switzerland during the period 2011-2013 or having left the country during the same period, a time span  characterized by a yearly net migration of + 80,000 and a rapid economic growth. In terms of level of education, every category is characterized by a positive migration balance, which is not surprising: the economic growth observed in Switzerland during the period led to a demand on the labour market for both skilled and unskilled migrants. More precisely, migratory flows counterbalanced the erosion of the low and averagely skilled working-age non-migrating population and contributed to approximately one third of the increase in the number of highly skilled workers in the labour market. Concerning the occupations, the impact of the migration balance is highest among managers and sales workers. The paper also demonstrates that the migratory flows contribute to balance the decrease in the low and averagely skilled positions and to partially fulfil the economy’s demand for highly skilled workers.

Global values shift and social work in America

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Gross
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Global Values

English Advanced post-industrial countries manifest values change in the direction of greater secularity and self-actualization. Since 1980, however, America has shown evidence of regression towards authoritarian and anti-democratic values. This article explores why the regression is occurring and its negative implications for social welfare policy development and practice. French Les nations post-industrielles avancées manifestent des changements de valeurs dans la direction d'une plus grande sécularité et de l'actualisation de son potentiel personnel. Toutefois, depuis 1980 l'Amérique fait preuve évidente de régression vers des valeurs autoritaires et anti-démocratiques. Cet article explore les raisons de cette régression et ses répercussions négatives sur le développement des politiques sociales et sur les pratiques sociales. Spanish Los países avanzados post-industriales muestran un cambio de valores hacia mayor secularizad y autorrealización. Sin embargo, desde 1980 América muestra evidencia de una regresión hacia valores autoritarios y antidemocráticos. Se explora el por qué de esta regresión y las implicaciones negativas para el desarrollo y la práctica de la política de bienestar social.

scholarly journals Postmodern cinema and postmodern culture: information-communication, otherness and history in Wenders’s Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)

Literator ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
B. Olivier
Keyword(s):  
Personal History ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
The Common ◽  
Post Industrial

What one may call the obscenity of information is the common thread that runs through Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire, postmodern culture a n d Baudrillard's radical cultural critique. The latter shows that communication has degenerated into the availability of information (in advanced, post-industrial countries , at least), while Wenders’s film provides a paradigm for the problematization of communication and personal history in a postmodern culture of fragmentation.

scholarly journals Life Expectancy of White and Non-White Elite Heavyweight Boxers

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-289
Author(s):  
Thang S. Han ◽  
Jonathan Gabe ◽  
Pankaj Sharma ◽  
Michael E. J. Lean
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Premature Deaths ◽  
Death From Natural Causes ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
White Elite

Abstract Background In post-industrial countries, ethnic minorities suffer poorer health and premature deaths. The present study examined ethnic differences in life expectancy and related features among elite heavyweight boxers. Methods Dates of birth and death, anthropometry, and championship years were gathered from media archives for champions and challengers (never been a champion) between years 1889 and 2019. Cox regression adjusted for age at contest, nationality, BMI, champion/challenger status, and number of contests was used to assess survival. Results All 237 boxers, 83 champions (37.3% whites) and 154 challengers (61.0% whites), who contested for heavyweight championships were identified. By 2019, 110 (75 whites, 34 non-whites) were known to have died. Non-white boxers died at an earlier age than whites boxers (mean ± SD = 59.8 ± 14.2 years versus 67.3 ± 16.4 years, p = 0.018) and had shorter survival: HR = 2.13 (95% CI = 1.4–3.3). Among non-white boxers, deaths were higher from neurological disorders: OR = 8.2 (95% CI = 1.3–13.5) and accidents: OR = 15.1 (95% CI = 2.3–98.2), while death from natural causes was lower: OR = 0.2 (95% CI = 0.03–0.8). After boxing careers, fewer non-white boxers had non-manual jobs (34.4% versus 71.8%) than manual (34.4% versus 19.7%) or were unemployed (28.1% versus 2.8%). Reported substance abuse was similar across ethnicity (8.0% versus 8.8%) but conviction rates were higher among non-white boxers (17.6%) than white (1.3%). Conclusions Compared with white boxers, non-white boxers tend to die younger with excess neurological and accidental deaths, and they have lower social positions in later life. Sporting authorities should reappraise the wisdom of permitting head injuries in sport and monitor and support the health and wellbeing of sports men and women after retirement.

scholarly journals Presentation of Functional, PPS and Hall’s Methods in Comparison with other Research on Space Quality / Prezentacja Metod: Funkcjonalnej, Pps I Hall’A Na Tle Innych Badań Jakości Przestrzeni

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Anna Kossak-Jagodzińska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Abstract The end of the twentieth century was a period in which the need for quality control was developing in all areas of life in post-industrial countries. The impulse for the development of numerous methods of evaluating the quality in architecture and construction was "Green Paper" and "Agenda 21" concerning the idea of sustainable development. First of all, creation of a system of evaluation criteria is the basis for elaboration of any system of quality control. Several years of cooperation between J. Serdyńska and the author resulted in a cycle of studies on urban public space (squares in the city of Katowice) based upon functional, Hall’s and PPS methods. This study aims to embed them in a typology of other studies of space quality.

The endangered middle class? A comparative analysis of the role played by income redistribution

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Dallinger
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Income Redistribution ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Income Position ◽  
Post Industrial

Contributing to the debate on the decline of the middle class, this article provides a comparative and longitudinal analysis of changes to the relative position of middle income groups in 19 (post)industrial countries between 1985 and 2005. How much did the income position of the middle worsen compared with more vulnerable groups? To what extent did public policies mitigate the market position of different income groups? The analysis is based on microdata of the Luxembourg Income Study. It divides the broad category of ‘middle class’ into three groups. Results suggest little change in the income position of the middle classes with respect to both market and disposable incomes. In most countries market incomes in the top quintile increased remarkably while the bottom quintile group lost out. The scale of government income redistribution has improved the position of the lowest income group, while burdening the highest income group. But it failed to fully compensate for the growing gap between the top and bottom income groups. The distance between the middle and the top incomes grew significantly, which might be one reason for the current public debate about an endangered middle class.

scholarly journals On Substantiation of the Project «Foundation of Cooperation is Respect of National Authenticity» in Terms of Implementation of Mega-Project «New Silk Road»

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Mariya Balashova ◽  
Olesya Kuchun ◽  
Ivan Degtev ◽  
Anastasiya Balashova
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Mode Of Life ◽  
Central Asian Countries ◽  
National Languages ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Global Project

Present-day world economy presents a complex system of economic interrelations of its subjects. An opportunity of incrementing usefulness can be either elemental (for limited number of participants) or maximally complicated or more likely unobtainable (for major part of the countries in the world). The practice testifies that a timely performed transition to the post-industrial type of development can contribute not only to beneficiation of the corresponding courtiers but also to expansion of еtheir living space by means of export alongside with national goods and services of their own culture, traditions and mode of life. As a variant of not only the reserve of economic development of agrarian and industrial countries of the post-Soviet region but a salvation of their cultural identity and language originality, the article offers a project aimed at preservation of the national languages in Russia and Central Asian countries. Its implementation is possible in terms of the format developed in 2013 by PRC «New Silk Road». The financial support of this «global project» can be based on the local business idea of creating an ethno-park in Bolshoye Goloustnoye settlement, which warrants the availability of demand for studying cultures, traditions of the world’s national ethnos, as well as preservation of the national languages.

scholarly journals Kontekstualizacija istraživanja suvremene mladosti na primjeru mladih u Dalmaciji

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Tomić-Koludrović ◽  
Anči Leburić
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Initial Assumption ◽  
German Researcher ◽  
Post Industrial

Since contemporary research on youth fails to differentiate the various youth scenes, we have taken as a hypothetical framework for our research the differentiation of youth behaviour as discussed by the German researcher Karl Lenz (1986, 1988, 1991). By using his model, we have tried to establish empirically to what extent each aspect of youth behaviour is present in the Dalmatian context. The general hypothesis has facilitated an overview of the potentially relevant empirical "answers" to the question: can the Lenz's model offer a model of analysis for the behaviour of young people in a society in transition like Croatia?The results have not entirely confirmed the initial assumption of the similarities between the young people in Croatia and those in the developed post-industrial countries. However, the wealth of common characteristics in the basic areas of activity that characterize the types of youth behaviour fits the assumption that significant differences do not exist. The results obtained allow us to conclude that, for example, the young people of Croatia today have similar priorities in their lives, and that they are similarly orientated in Peers's terms, as well as being highly demanding in questions concerning schooling and future vocation.

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