scholarly journals Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Tereza Butková
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Relations Of Power

What is care and who is paying for it? Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so much further.As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards one another—in short, to care more—become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our time will be solved by simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity.The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? What would it mean to seriously value care?

4. The modern world

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-84
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Intellectual Discipline

Although we can view sociology as a disinterested intellectual discipline that stands aside from the world it observes, sociology is itself a symptom of the very things it describes. ‘The modern world’ summarizes what sociology sees as distinctive about the social formations that concern it, considering modernity, social order, social mobility, and postmodernity. The key sociological proposition that much of our world is inadvertent and unintended is important, not just for understanding why things do not go as planned, but also for understanding why things are as they are. This has serious policy implications, because if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.

Attitudes towards Bearing the Cost of Care in Later Life across the World

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafiz T. A. Khan ◽  
George W. Leeson ◽  
Helen Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost

scholarly journals Contributions of Muslim Women in Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iqra Khan, Maryam Bibi, Muhammad Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Patterned Structures

The term education has been the living phenomena among the social and cultural lives of the human body that derives the crucial needs and necessities of the modern world. This could be considered as the realistic approach to say- as education provided the positive barrier between the old and new learnings to help bring out the development in the logical and literal minds. The fundamental requirements of education result the possibility when its acquirements are made reachable to the deserving hands. Education is hence freed from all the discrimination and racial comments- welcomes the technological and scientific learnings to those who seeks for it. As, for men, education has been the revolving agenda to succeed in the rushing world and as it’s similar for the women of every religion and culture. With the rising inventions and prominent technological factors, the demanding scope for the educational promotions established the future needs. This need in an outcome prevailed the exceeding desires of women to work side by side with men and to meet the necessities of the coming age. The patterned structures that the society follows, advances the efforts of men rather than women and if it belongs to any religion, Muslim women are the first to face the discriminative attitudes in the work places and learning institutes. But to count their efforts in an extensive manner, there are many of the Muslim women who took charge in the advancement of the technological and the social sciences. This article aims at the perpetual challenges and contributions of Muslim women in their respective work areas. The problems and hurdles they experienced at the social and cultural surroundings. The main objective of this paper is to highlight the difficulties and hardships of Muslim women all around the world and the challenging atmospheres they worked in while giving their utmost for the betterment of society  

scholarly journals Lessons from abroad: Rebalancing accountability and pedagogy in the Irish social care sector through the use of effective leadership

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Cathy Jones ◽  
Catherine Smey Carston
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Care Managers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Disciplines ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Leadership Approaches

Abstract A concern is emerging in Ireland that social care managers and staff are moving too far away from the ‘care’ in social ‘care’ work. In this paper a discussion of the impact of the bureaucratic procedures and regulation within the social work and social care work sectors is presented along with an exploration of leadership approaches. It is argued that certain leadership approaches, in particular pedagogical leadership, could not only help social care managers to negotiate the complex issues they are facing but also facilitate putting the ‘care’ back into social ‘care’ work. Pedagogical leadership is globally supported across a variety of human service disciplines: it facilitates the creation of a learning culture within the workplace where social care managers facilitate conversations with their teams to encourage reflection, critical thinking and contributions to the professional wisdom required for quality service. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the dialogue within leadership practice for social care professionals. This discourse is necessary if lessons are to be learned from past experiences in this country and others about how to balance the need for care, learning and compassion with accountability.

scholarly journals Problems of economic globalization of China as a factor of cultural security

2018 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 08026
Author(s):  
Olga Borisenko ◽  
Dmitry Sukharev ◽  
Marina Fomina ◽  
Nataly Kondakova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problems of economic globalization in China and as a factor of cultural security. A philosophical analysis of the social aspect of China’s regional development. J. Sigurdson, like many researchers, analyzes economic, political factors, technological innovations, regional development programs of China. Our attention was drawn to the fact that he is one of the few Western researchers who analyze social problems. J. Sigurdson gives an analysis of Chinese society in the context of the development of technological systems. He notes that the creation of clusters, the use of new technologies contribute to the development of the social infrastructure of modern Chinese society. It is worth noting that his analysis is based on the historical information approach. In this case, we are not interested in ascertaining the facts presented by him, but in describing the role of innovation systems in the development of the social sphere of Chinese society. Thus, the relevance of this article is due to the need to analyze Western research on the social factor of regional changes in China. The entry into globalization processes and the perception of the economic opportunities of the modern world in China is refracted through traditional culture and allows not only to preserve its own values, but also to successfully adapt them to the realities of the present day on one hand and spread it outside on the other. China plays an important role in the modern economic development of the world. The main task of the Chinese strategy for the development of clusters was to ensure that the results met not only the economic development of the country, but also the rise of the social, cultural component. The Chinese government is aware of the depth of existing problems in society, and how we see new promising plans for the development of China’s economic system. In the artical, we allows us to view modern China not only as a simple element of the world economic system, but rather as one of the leading subjects of economic globalization, actively participating in the world economy and making a significant contribution to the development of the modern world. In our view, it is the integrity of the domestic political and foreign policy course of the country’s development that allowed the Chinese economy and culture to become a visible and important element of the world economy.

scholarly journals The conceptual metaphor of play in P. Handke’s short novel «The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick»

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Yana Kravchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
Text Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Textual Strategies ◽  
Play Elements

The paper focuses on determining the peculiarities of the conceptual metaphor of play in Peter Handke’s short novel «The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick». The modern humanitarian discourse views the metaphor not only in its narrow sense (as a means of literary expressiveness) but also in the wide one – as a way of thinking and perception of the world around, which enables defining specific textual strategies aimed at interpreting complex, abstract, and principally incomprehensible concepts with the help of comprehensive, understandable, and mainly visual images. In P. Handke’s novel, the play acquires an ontological status developing into a multi-layer conceptual metaphor and functions as a key to understanding meanings on different levels of text organization – paratextual, informative, compositional, figurative, symbolic, and stylistic ones. The analysis conducted testifies that the play elements and devices can be found in various processes, activities, and people’s behavior because the category of play appeals to universal concepts, such as order, choice, pleasure, strive for results, etc. The play is realized as a complex integrity of worldview characteristics, unity of action, consciousness and communication. In P. Handke’s novel, the play is a model of self-cognition and a strategy of the character’s communication with the world. Since the P. Handke’s novel presents a type of a new subjective protagonist, who is usually a person alienated from the social environment, it is the play that is able to replace the usual behavioral practices and stereotypes in his mind. The play aspect serves as a means of constructing the literary world and helps to convey philosophical ideas. As a conceptual metaphor, the notion of play is actualized in the novel in order to explain complex abstract concepts: a crisis of a person or understanding of human relationships in the modern world. The play discards the principles of determinism and hierarchy being a guarantee of creative freedom and polivariability of events. In addition, the category of play generates an ironic attitude to the surroundings. The play does not intend to stick to reality, but rather to concentrate on urgent problems and stereotypes. The story of Joseph Bloch is a story of growing alienation from reality, exclusion of a person from the social community which has become impossible to comprehend. The play motifs of escape, silence, hide-out, and wordplay are signs of ironic self-identification. The character’s mind reconsiders the values, which highlights the distinct opposition of civilization and nature, rational and mythological, biological and physiological, male and female, etc.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Global Cultural Flow with Reference to Select Indian English Novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-Dec2020) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
Uma Maheshwari ◽  
P Nagaraj
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Contemporary Novels ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
White Tiger ◽  
Social Anthropologist

The world is unified by the word ‘globalization’ as a result of the growing interdependence of the world’s societies, economies, technologies, cultures, investment and information. Today, everything is accessible at one’s finger tips, because the world is interconnected. There is networking in all walks of life. Communication has become easier than ever and technology has begun to replace human resources. On one hand, globalization claims to have simplified living by interconnecting different parts of the world, but on the other hand, life seems to have become more complicated in the name of sociocultural networking and technological revolutions. The circulation of ideas, culture, language, and material goods as a result of networking, the reason for globalization, has been identified as global cultural flows, according to the social anthropologist and globalization theorist, Arjun Appadurai. The paper aims to look into the socio-cultural, political and economic impacts of globalizationon developing countries like India, with the help of three contemporary novels of the twenty first century Indian English literature – The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, and Q&A by Vikas Swarup. It explores the aspects of globalization in the select novels, in an attempt to understand the modern world under the influence of globalization, liberalization and capitalization.

A LOOK AT THE HEROES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S "HAMLET" TRAGEDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Leyla Musa Rzayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Great Poet

William Shakespeare is the most famous writer in England. He was a great poet and playwright. In his works, he wrote about the eternal problems that afflict people: life and death, love, loyalty and betrayal. Therefore, Shakespeare's works, especially tragedies, are popular today. In the tragedy Hamlet, William Shakespeare reworked the plot of a medieval legend and an old English legend about Prince Hamlet, describing in depth the tragedy of humanism in the modern world. Prince Hamlet of Denmark is a humanist figure facing a world hostile to humanism. The spread of evil in society has a negative effect on Hamlet, causing him to become frustrated with his lack of strength. Man and the world are not accepted as they used to be. Thus, Hamlet faces a random crime, not a single enemy, but an entire hostile society, and it is his far-sighted philosophical thinking that makes him feel powerless in the fight against evil. The content of the "Hamlet" tragedy was inspired by the social conditions of England at that time, but its significance went far beyond the borders of one country and one historical period. The picture of oppression and lies, especially oppression, has long been true. This is the interest of Hamlet, who has been fighting alone against evil and injustice for centuries. Key words: Shakespeare, Hamlet, tragedy, murder, love, romance, cruelty, nobility, life, death

Transformation of the World Order and the Conflict Potential of Contemporary Societies

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
E. Sadovaya ◽  
V. Sautkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Cleavages between economic growth and social development have deepened in recent decades. This is expressed in the growth of multidimensional inequality and is perceived as a global violation of the social justice principles, which leads to the growth of socio-economic conflicts. These are obviously long-term trends allowing to talk about the complete reconfiguration of the existing social space. This process is largely out of control and has a serious destructive potential. The authors emphasize that the modern high-tech economy is unmanned; high quality and secure jobs with permanent contracts are becoming less affordable. As a result, we are witnessing a shift from principles of the previously established social protection institutions, where access to basic social goods is reduced for a large number of citizens. Reforming the system of state support for citizens becomes a worldwide trend, which leads to an increase in the cost of social services and brings into question the very existence of the welfare state. Thus, in the context of social landscape global transformations in the modern world, the social impact of the unemployment problem has become a key issue for researchers and policy-makers. At present, it is difficult to foresee whether the world will continue to develop within a global perspective and whether the international community will be able to produce common regulatory principles, or we are heading for a period of fragmentation and disunity. The problem is largely politically determined, and its solution depends on whether humanity will be able to overcome the difficult period of controversy and confrontation in the name of development, and if so, on what principles consensus can be reached. Acknowledgements. The research of Elena Sergeevna Sadovaya was conducted with financial support of a grant provided by the Russian Science Foundation, № 15-18-00021 – “Regulating interethnic relations and managing ethnic and social conflicts in the contemporary world: the resource potential of civic identity (a comparative political analysis)”. The research was carried out at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO).

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