scholarly journals Świat społeczny ludzi żyjących w ubóstwie

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Tarkowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Poor Families

This is a chapter of a book containing the results of a study entitled ‘Old and New Forms of Poverty—The Lifestyles of Poor Families,’ which was conducted under the direction of Elżbieta Tarkowska in the second half of the 1990s. The author presents the social world of poor people in Poland, and two of its aspects in particular: the limitation of interhuman contacts to the family circle, and the role of institutions such as parishes, schools, and especially social support, in resolving the ongoing problems of daily life. Social policy, as reconstructed from the statements of people living in poverty, is oriented toward temporary activities and not toward shaping aspirations and behaviors, and yet the sole method of overcoming the apathy and helplessness accompanying long-term poverty is to arouse aspirations in the sphere of education.

THE ROLE OF LIBERAL IDEOLOGY IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Irina N. Mysliaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Liberal Ideology

The article examines the causes and directions of transformation of the social functions of the state. The role of liberal ideology in changing the forms and methods of state social policy in the context of globalization is determined. The interrelation between specific measures of social support of the population and the interests of large transnational capital in modern society is revealed.

scholarly journals The Social Environment’s Relationship With Frailty: Evidence From Existing Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daan Duppen ◽  
Michaël C. J. Van der Elst ◽  
Sarah Dury ◽  
Deborah Lambotte ◽  
Liesbeth De Donder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Increasingly, policymakers assume that informal networks will provide care for frail older people. While the literature has mainly discussed the role of the family, broader social networks are also considered to be important. However, these social networks can diminish in later life. This systematic review investigates whether the social environment increases the risk of frailty or helps to prevent it. Findings from 15 original studies were classified using five different factors, which denoted five dimensions of the social environment: (a) social networks, (b) social support, (c) social participation, (d) subjective neighborhood experience, and (e) socioeconomic neighborhood characteristics. The discussion highlights that the social environment and frailty are indeed related, and how the neighborhood dimensions and social participation had more consistent results than social support and social networks. Conclusively, recommendations are formulated to contemplate all dimensions of the social environment for further research examining frailty and community care.

Compassion in Contemporary Social Policy: Applications of Virtue Theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY ELIZABETH COLLINS ◽  
KATE COONEY ◽  
SARAH GARLINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Virtuous Action ◽  
Environment Policy ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Social

AbstractCurrent academic debate in the social sciences and humanities is revisiting the role of virtue in civic life. This debate is relevant to social policy. We argue that virtue is already an implicit component of policy debates, but that the virtue of compassion has not received sufficient emphasis. To support our argument we review classical and contemporary arguments regarding virtue and its linkage to the ‘good society’; articulate the necessity of compassion and its application to specific policies areas (e.g., domestic violence, welfare, emergency care); and assess how compassion intersects with other virtues in the policy environment. Policy implications are identified including: recognition of the realities of suffering, the need for sufficient administrative infrastructure and trained professionals and an often long-term commitment to work in community settings. Weighing the risks, and the overall challenges of virtuous action, our analysis suggests compassion remains a compelling, yet under-utilised, basis for constructing and implementing policies.

scholarly journals Social Participation, Social Support, and Social Policy Among Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 621-621
Author(s):  
Linda Waite
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social World ◽  
Silent Generation ◽  
The Social

Abstract The social world is closely linked to other dimensions of health, including physical health and illness, physical functioning, cognition and emotional well-being, and these links may change across generations and may depend on social and policy context. The papers in this symposium focus on these links. Carr examines the associations between productive engagement in later life and perceptions of social support and interactions with friends and family. She finds that volunteer engagement is associated with greater perceived social support and interaction with friends and family but not with support from spouse. Waite, Duvoisin and Kotwal measure changes in social participation between the Silent Generation cohort, born between1938 and1947, and the Baby Boom cohort, born from1948-1958. They find find that the gender differences shown in the Silent Generation cohort are reduced among those born during the Baby Boom. Azar examines the moderating role of social policy, particularly defamilization, on the link between loneliness and health, using data from30 European countries and the U.S. Choi compares marital and partnership status, social support and strain in Silent Generation vs. Baby Boom cohorts. Her results suggest that those born during the Baby Boom are embedded in looser social relationships compared to their older counterparts. Together, these papers point to the importance of considering various dimensions of social life, gender, and context, including historical time and the life cycle, in understanding how the social world acts to affect well-being.

Familiengerechtigkeit in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 627-641
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Term Care Insurance

Zusammenfassung Ausgehend von Beiträgen des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats für Familienfragen zum Verhältnis Familie und Sozialversicherung beleuchten wir in diesem Aufsatz die Frage der Familiengerechtigkeit in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung. Ein Großteil der Pflegearbeit in Deutschland wird innerhalb der Familie erbracht, gleichzeitig gewährleisten Familien die nachhaltige Finanzierung der Pflegeversicherung. Demographische Entwicklungen und veränderte Verantwortungskonzepte stellen diese Leistungserbringung vor Herausforderungen. Wir argumentieren, dass Familien auf der Beitrags- wie auf der Leistungsseite mehr ­Unterstützung benötigen, z. B. bei der arbeitsrechtlichen und finanziellen Absicherung pflegender Angehöriger, um die bestehende Schieflage zwischen stationärer und häuslicher Versorgung zu mildern. Abstract: The Role of Families in the Social Insurance System Based on previous reports of the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Affairs on the role of families in the social insurance system, this essay examines the aspect of family fairness in long-term care insurance. The majority of care work in Germany is provided within the family, while at the same time families ensure sustainable financing of long-term care insurance. Demographic change and changing concepts of responsibility challenge these modes of care provision. We argue that families need more support on the contribution as well as the benefit side, e. g. by securing labour rights and financial protection of caring relatives to alleviate the existing imbalances between institutional and home care.

scholarly journals Revitalization Model The Role of Tigo Tungku Sajarangan in Fostering Character of Children in Minangkabau Family and Its Socialization Through Website

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.5) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roswita Sitompul ◽  
A Alesyanti ◽  
H Hartono ◽  
Ansari Saleh Ahmar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Globalization is not a process of depriving identity, but a process for maintaining the identity of a nation. Maintenance does not mean to close themselves from the influence of foreign culture. The values contained within a culture must have the ability to adapt and adapt to other cultures through a selection process. Considering the social phenomenon that is happening in the daily life of Minangkabau society, implied the roots of cultural values, especially the value of characters, began to erode in the education of children in the family. The value of the character is almost no longer reflected in the daily life of Minangkabau youth. In fact there is an extreme statement that is often expressed by adat leaders, that at the level of the concept of Minangkabau human still densely, but not in line with the level of behavior. Changes in behavior of the younger generation seems to have tercerabut from the roots of culture.Starting from the above phenomenon, the researcher wanted to re-question the tasks and functions of the tuahku sajar tungku, which had been instrumental in providing character values for the children and nephew in Minangkabau, but slowly the task began to shift and rely on the parents alone. The question that arises here is why customary law no longer raises the responsibility of planting the value of character to the tuah kuung sangan, what factors lead to waning the spirit of character values in the education of children in the family, and how the model design that can be used as a reference for the effort to re-revitalize the role of tigo stoves in helping parents in instilling character values on Minangkabau family. This model is expected to be known to many people through socialization by using the website.  

scholarly journals Factors associated with social support for family members who care for stroke survivors

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-154
Author(s):  
Anna Kavga ◽  
◽  
Ioannis Kalemikerakis ◽  
Theocharis Konstantinidis ◽  
Ioanna Tsatsou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Annual Family Income ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

<abstract><sec> <title>Introduction</title> <p>Vascular strokes are a primary cause of long-term disability for adults, with many social consequences for the patient, the family and healthcare systems worldwide.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Aim</title> <p>To investigate the relation between patients' and caregivers' characteristics, as well as burden and depression, and the social support received by carers for stroke victims in Greece.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Method</title> <p>Patients and caregivers were recruited from community settings in the Attica region of Greece, using purposive sampling. They completed a set of questionnaires during face-to-face interviews. Correlational and multiple regression analyses were performed to identify factors associated with caregivers' perceptions of social support.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Results</title> <p>In total, 109 dyads of patients and their respective caregivers were recruited. The patients' mean age was 69.3 years, while caregivers' mean age was 58.0 years; 51.4% of patients were males, whereas 67.9% of the caregivers were females. The majority of both patients and caregivers were married, with an annual family income less than €10,000. The level of perceived social support was significantly associated with patients' or caregivers' annual family income, caregivers' working status and the daily caring hours (p &lt; 0.01). Greater perceived support was significantly associated with a lower care burden BCOS (r = 0.29, p &lt; 0.01) and female gender (p = 0.023), but not with the patient's functional level nor with depression (p &gt; 0.05).</p> </sec></abstract>

scholarly journals Assessment of the social well-being of families in Russian regions: A sociological analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-824
Author(s):  
T. K. Rostovskaya ◽  
O. V. Kuchmaeva ◽  
O. A. Zolotareva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Under the current humanitarian and technological revolution, the change of the paradigm of the social-economic development from the principle man for economy to the principle economy for man has become a priority criteria for positioning countries in the global space. The term quality of life plays the key role in this concept, since the high quality of life allows the state to accumulate on its territory the main resource - human capital. Improving the quality of life takes a leading place among the Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) approved by the UN General Assembly [19]. The 2020 Human Development Report underlines the meaning of a good life and the ways in which we can achieve it, and the emphasis is made on achieving the well-being of everyone [10]. The article is based on the data of the authors representative sociological survey on Demographic well-being of Russian regions conducted in 2020. The survey aimed at revealing the assessments of respondents from different regions of Russia of the metrics of family well-being, and at identifying family problems for the development of differentiated/narrowly focused measures to support families with children. Based on the survey data, the authors conducted a detailed analysis of the parameters of family well-being and of the role of the state social support in ensuring it in the respondents perspective. Russian families differ in their assessments of the significance of measures necessary to support the family, focus on measures of economic support, on the development of social infrastructure, and on the role of ideological influence. The cluster analysis confirmed the need for differentiated measures of the state social support, which would take into account the stages of the family life cycle (age of family members, number of children). The factor analysis allowed to identify the structure of Russians ideas about the main measures that would contribute to strengthening the family, which must be taken into account when developing managerial decisions in the field of the social-demographic development.

scholarly journals LA FAMILIA EN EL CUIDADO DE LOS ADULTOS MAYORES

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Gema Lorena Pinargote Parrales ◽  
Silvio Alejandro Alcivar Molina
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Development ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Apoyo Social ◽  
Structural Methods

El cuidado de los ancianos debe ser una preocupación constante a fin de mejorar su calidad de vida. Existe en el orden teórico y metodológico un déficit de literatura científica publicada en torno al papel de la familia en el cuidado de los adultos mayores. Se plantearon como objetivos del estudio: 1) identificar los aspectos que tipifican la Situación Social de Desarrollo en la tercera edad y 2) establecer el papel de la familia en el cuidado de los adultos mayores. El estudio aporta elementos de orden teórico y práctico en torno al cuidado de los ancianos. La presente investigación clasifica como descriptiva con aporte teórico. Para la obtención de resultados se emplearon métodos en los niveles teórico y empírico. En el nivel teórico se emplean los métodos analítico-sintético, histórico-lógico, inductivo-deductivo y sistémico-estructural. En el nivel empírico se emplea el análisis documental clásico a partir de la consulta de fuentes y bases de datos especializadas sobre las temáticas que se abordan. Se establecieron los aspectos que caracterizan la situación social de desarrollo en la tercera edad. Se enuncian los efectos de la institucionalización en adultos mayores y se destaca el papel de la familia en el cuidado de los adultos mayores. La familia constituye la red de apoyo social más importante para los adultos mayores. Es imprescindible para el anciano sentirse útil y querido por sus familiares. PALABRAS CLAVE: adultos mayores; redes de apoyo social; situación social de desarrollo; apoyo familiar. THE FAMILY IN THE CARE OF OLDER ADULTS ABSTRACT Caring for the elderly should be a constant concern in order to improve their quality of life. In the theoretical and methodological order there is a deficit of scientific literature published around the role of the family in the care of older adults. The objectives of the study were: 1) to identify the aspects that typify the Social Development Situation in the elderly and 2) to establish the role of the family in the care of the elderly. The study provides theoretical and practical elements around the care of the elderly. This research classifies as descriptive with theoretical input. To obtain results, methods at the theoretical and empirical levels were used. At the theoretical level, the analytical-synthetic, historical-logical, inductive-deductive and systemic-structural methods are used. At the empirical level, classical documentary analysis is used based on the consultation of specialized sources and databases on the topics addressed. The aspects that characterize the social development situation in the elderly were established. The effects of institutionalization in older adults are enunciated and the role of the family in caring for older adults is highlighted. The family constitutes the most important social support network for the elderly. It is essential for the elderly to feel useful and loved by their relatives. KEYWORDS: older adults; social support networks; social development situation; family support.

Experience of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an English Benedictine Monastery

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peripheral Participation

What is the role of imitation in ethnographic fieldwork, and what are its limits? This article explores what it means to participate in a particular fieldsite; a Catholic English Benedictine monastery. A discussion of the importance of hospitality in the life of the monastery shows how the guest becomes a point of contact between the community and the wider society within which that community exists. The peripheral participation of the ethnographer as monastic guest is not about becoming incorporated, but about creating a space within which knowledge can be communicated. By focusing on the process of re-learning in the monastery – in particular, relearning how to experience silence and work – I discuss some of the ways in which the fieldwork experience helped me to reassess the social world to which I would return.

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