The Far Slower and More Conflict-Ridden Path to German Social Integration: Toward a Multicausal, Contextual, and Multidirectional Explanatory Framework

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kalberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
The One ◽  
East West

The process of social integration between eastern and western Germans has been significantly slowed by unexpectedly severe tensions along two major axes: the tempo of life and work on the one hand, and interaction patterns on the other. Although distinct explanations for the antagonisms have been offered by easterners and westerners, they share a number of similar weaknesses: a tendency to look outward toward the putative weaknesses of “the other,” a failure to provide multidirectional and broadly multicausal explanations, and a neglect of the manner in which single factors are embedded contextually in configurations of forces. Articulating a series of arguments in opposition to all unidirectional, monocausal, and acontextual modes of analysis, and emphasizing the importance of bringing values, customs, and conventions into the debate, this study calls for an expansion of the parameters of the explanatory framework and a greater acknowledgment of the complexities of east/west social integration.

Young People in Transition: The National Identity of Minority Youth

2018 ◽  
pp. 274-302
Author(s):  
Anthony Heath ◽  
Konstanze Jacob ◽  
Lindsay Richards
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Migration Background ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The One

This chapter uses CIL4EU data to investigate strength of identification with the nation and with the ethnic group. It explores how these vary across ethnic and religious groups, generations, and destination countries and how far these differences can be explained by processes of social integration on the one hand or perceptions of being excluded on the other hand. The key findings are that young people with a migration background are less likely than those without a migration background to identify strongly with their country of residence. This holds true more or less irrespective of their ethnic group or religion. Differences between European and non-European minority groups, and between Muslims and members of other non-Christian religions were generally modest in size, rarely reached statistical significance and were dwarfed by the overall gap between minorities and the majority.

scholarly journals Cross-Border Policies and Spatial and Social Integration: Between Challenges and Problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Bufon
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Level System ◽  
Constituent Part ◽  
Regional Control ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The One

The article is discussing both challenges and problems that emerge from an intensified cross-border integration, particularly in Europe, which is creating a sort of ‘cross-border regionalism’ that might be sought as a new constituent part of a complex, multi-level system of governance incorporating not only national, but also local/regional agents. Cross-border regionalism is thus not only a system of government, but also a system of ‘grass-rooted’ social and spatial (re)integration of borderlands. This process is closely related to the question of changing territoriality, preserving on the one hand the regional control and on the other hand re-acting societal and territorial co-dependence.

Recruitment Communication and Psychological Contracts in Start-Ups

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Mia Thyregod Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Psychological Contracts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Recruitment Communication ◽  
The One ◽  
Start Ups

Recruitment communication presents a dilemma for organisations. When organisations hire, they often engage in branding themselves as employers (Backhaus & Tikoo, 2004) and rely on positive framing to present vacant positions in order to attract candidates. This leads to the ensuing challenge of living up to these promises for the candidates who are ultimately hired. Overpromising and underdelivering leads to a breach of the initial psychological contract. This balancing dilemma is especially pertinent for new and unknown companies, where concerns about the company’s legitimacy as an employer may cause potential candidates not to apply (Williamson, Cable, & Aldrich, 2002). On the one hand, start-ups need and want to attract the best, and on the other hand, they need to be wary of the impression they are creating of the job and the organisation as a place of work, as they would also like the candidates to stay once they are hired. I draw on interviews with managers and newcomers in Danish start-ups to give empirical examples of this challenge and its results, using the literature on psychological contracts (Rousseau, 1995) as an explanatory framework. I discuss what organisations might do to accomplish this balancing feat from theoretical and practical perspectives.

scholarly journals Self-Concept and Social Integration

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Ben Spiecker ◽  
Jan Steutel ◽  
Doret de Ruyter
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

This article evaluates the credo ‘integration while maintaining one’s identity’ with the help of psychological arguments. First, it explores the requirements of being a good citizen in a liberal democracy. Following Rawls, we state that justice is the cardinal liberal virtue and that this virtue includes having the disposition to respect the rights of all citizens equally. It then investigates psychological theories about identity and the relation between culture and identity. We focus on the distinction between collectivistic cultures and an interdependent self-concept on the one hand and individualistic cultures and an independent self-concept on the other. We come to the conclusion that the development into a good citizen of a liberal democracy cannot be combined with the full preservation of an interdependent self-concept. Further, we argue that the state has the right and the duty to offer civic education to all pupils, even if this means that the development of an inter-dependent self-concept of children from particular immigrant groups will be hampered.

scholarly journals Reassessing the Greek National Schism of World War I: The Ideological Parameters

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Basil C. Gounaris ◽  
Marianna D. Christopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
The One ◽  
East West ◽  
Economic Criteria

The National Schism that erupted in Greece during World War I has already been thoroughly analysed in the bibliography as a crisis of national unification, defined by geographical, political and socio economic criteria. The aim of this article is to move a step forward, to support that the National Schism might also be considered as an act in the broader and much older Greek ideological drama, that of the tantalising and incomplete “return” to the East via the European West. It is argued that the Schism, far from being a bipolar confrontation between supporters and opponents of Europe, did select from the East–West debate whatever arguments were necessary to invest military and political choices with a “deeper” meaning. Our approach focuses mostly on the rhetoric produced by the two opposing camps, the Venizelists and the anti-Venizelist block, from 1914 to 1922. It is, however, complemented by a retrospective presentation of the nineteenth-century debateover the Enlightenment and liberalism, on the one hand, and German idealism, on the other.

scholarly journals Η Υλοποίηση της Πολιτικής Συνοχής της ΕΕ στην Ελλάδα, 2007-2013: Ένας Ενδιάμεσος Απολογισμός

2012 ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Γιώργος Ανδρέου ◽  
Μαρίνος Παπαδάκης
Keyword(s):  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to identify the factors that have affected the implementation of the Programmes falling under Greece’s National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). The relevant analysis is inspired by historical institutionalism and relies on an explanatory framework based on the double distinction between conjectural and structural factors on the one hand and external and domestic factors on the other hand.

scholarly journals Walter Scott and the Islamic East: Ivanhoe and the Talisman

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 758-764
Author(s):  
Nisreen Tawfiq Yousef
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
The West ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West

This paper examines representations of the Islamic East in two novels by Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe (1820) and The Talisman (1825). The paper’s argument is that Scott’s representations of the Islamic East seems influenced in very specific ways by dominant nineteenth-century portrayals of the East. Scott’s two novels present ambivalent depictions of the East, some of which deviate from standard patterns of representation of earlier centuries. For instance, on the one hand his novels attribute positive spiritual qualities to Saracens such as generosity, bravery and kindness to animals, while on the other, and often in the same passage, they sometimes depict Saracens as violent and atavistic. I argue that, through his various narrators and characters, Scott depicts the relationship between the Islamic East and the Christian West as a significant form of cultural interaction whereby the East is presented as complementing the West. However, Scott’s portrayal of East-West relation is complex, and it would be inaccurate to claim that this denotes total acceptance of Islamic manners, customs and perspectives. 

scholarly journals Environmental, economic and energetic benefits from implantation of several modes of solar collector movements

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Mustafa Hamad ◽  
Mhanna Obaid
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Solar Collector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tracking Systems ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Solar Radiation Intensity ◽  
Solar Radiation Incident ◽  
The One ◽  
East West

In this research, the performance of a moving solar system on two axes was studied, the east-west axis, this axis represents the tilt angle of the solar collector. The other movement is the surface's rotation around the perpendicular axis on the surface in the east and west directions, which in turn represents the azimuth angle of the solar collector. All possibilities for these movements were also studied, in order to reach the optimal option, which in turn depends on the importance of alication and the available space on the one hand, and the economic conditions on the other hand. The maximum value of solar radiation intensity was adopted as a guide to compare the performance of six options for tracking systems. Despite the high costs of tracking systems, they often have a positive economic return, as these systems increase the efficiency of the solar system, whether it is electric or thermal twice, the first one by increasing the intensity of the solar radiation incident on the solar collector, and the second one by increasing the optical efficiency of the solar collectors and thus increasing the overall efficiency of the device. The percentage of increase in the sixth type of solar energy is about 38% compared to the fixed mode. The minimum optical efficiency of the dual tracking mode has been found as 84%, while for fixed mode is about 48%.

scholarly journals Potlatch, absolute hospitality and metaphorization in constructing socioeconomic intercultural reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Andrey Yakovlevich Bolshunov ◽  
Sofia Andreevna Bolshunova ◽  
Aleksandra Sergeevna Proskurina ◽  
Aleksander Georgievich Tyurikov
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

The article reveals and substantiates the following thesis: the “economy of trust” exists exclusively in the context and sphere of specific social relations named potlatch. Potlatch is a traditional gift-giving feast that taken place among the natives of North America. Nowadays there are two points of view on the phenomenon of potlatch. On the one hand, potlatch is claimed to be a reckless waste. On the other hand, it is considered as a clear illustration of trust integration. At this point, the gift-giving process introduces the phenomenon of “absolute hospitality”, the embodiment of which is the trust-based space of social integration. Absolute hospitality presupposes the free economic activity of the guest, which is based on unlimited trust and conditioned by nothing. The economy of trust can exist only in such space. Narrativization and metaphorization are essential features of gift-giving space and socio-economic relations developed in it. These are the main forms of construction and interpretation such spaces and relations.

scholarly journals Periorbital Hyperpigmentation, a Dermatologic Condition Having a Strong Geographic and Ethnic Determinism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia Andrei ◽  
Daciana Grujic ◽  
Cristina Lazar ◽  
Anca Dragomirescu
Keyword(s):  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Lower Eyelid ◽  
Skin Aging ◽  
The Other ◽  
Therapeutic Decision ◽  
The One ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Surgical Treatments

POH (Peri Orbital Hyperpigmentation) represents a minor clinical entity that attracts immense aesthetic damages and it generates social integration difficulties. This review focuses on the etiopathogenic causes of this entity, differentiating and reclassifying this defect as having, on the one hand, genetic causes of melanic hyperproduction – for Fitzpatrick cutaneous phototypes IV and V – and, on the other hand, both genetic and acquired vascular causes, in individuals with light-coloured skin phototypes. Hence, there is a big difference in the field of pathogenic treatment, for the two entities. In addition, this study notes the direct relationship between skin aging and POH, especially for aquired vascular causes. In this reasoning, other aesthetic deficiencies of the skin in the palpebral area should be also considered, like: blepharochalasis, wrinkles, the anatomical causes of the lower eyelid shading, symmetrical or asymmetric suborbital oedema. All of these issues will complicate the therapeutic decision and subsidiary, the pharmaceutical advice. In this context, the review shows the guidelines for a honest councelling of the patients, pointing the efficiency limit for the topical pharmaceutical medication (depigmentants, exfoliants) versus the necessity of minimally invasive or/ and surgical treatments (in blefarochalasis).

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