scholarly journals Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanna Boffo ◽  
Paolo Federighi ◽  
Francesca Torlone
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Training System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
University Training

In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow the supply and demand for young people to meet in the different types of social economy bodies. In particular, it concentrates on the problem of how to bring into line initial university training and the skills required by these organizations. The focus is placed on the varied family of training workers present in at least 75% of the organizations, whose professionalism is nevertheless rarely acknowledged. The papers proposed in this book try to identify the most suitable solutions at the level of curriculum, career development and accompanying measures, while drawing solutions from objective findings and not from training system needs or convictions.

scholarly journals Educational Activities for Developing Social Entrepreneurship

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Gorzelany ◽  
Magdalena Gorzelany-Dziadkowiec
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Initiatives

The purpose of this article is to analyse educational activities undertaken in the area ofsocial entrepreneurship. The main conclusions are that respondents do not know about social entrepreneurship and social initiatives are undertaken only to a minimal extent; education for social entrepreneurship is at an unacceptable level. Thus, education in economics in Poland should be enriched with social economy and social entrepreneurship. An essential element that can positively affect the development of social entrepreneurship is the support of social activities undertaken by young people within a broader debate about the social dimension of our lives.

Social Skills Efficacy and Proactivity among Native American Adolescents

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0601000
Author(s):  
Sherri L. Turner ◽  
Julia L. Conkel ◽  
Allison N. Reich ◽  
Michelle J. Trotter ◽  
Jason J. Siewart
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Urban Adolescents ◽  
Contextual Model ◽  
The Social

This article discusses Native American urban adolescents’ construal of social skills, and relationships between these skills and proactivity behaviors as identified in the Integrative Contextual Model of Career Development (Lapan, 2004). Recommendations that build upon the social skills strengths of Native American young people are included.

scholarly journals Rola kultury hip-hop w kształtowaniu się tożsamości młodzieży – wybrane konteksty

2018 ◽  
pp. 457-467
Author(s):  
Monika Bieńkowska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Youth Subculture

This article was developed on the basis of my master’s thesis on hip-hop culture as a factor shaping young people’s identity. In today’s world, young people are increasingly looking for ways to express themselves and their values, which may be associated with belonging to different types of subcultures. Growing individuals manifest their independence by disagreeing with the surrounding reality and defying the prevailing social principles. It seems appropriate to belong to a chosen youth subculture. I will devote my attention to the subculture originating among the black Americans, namely the hip-hop subculture. The rap environment is very often associated with a pejorative phenomenon, vulgarisms, blockers derived from the social margin. In today’s times, in the era of ubiquitous openness and availability of mass media, in the consumer-oriented environment, hip-hop has become a part of the lives of most young, adolescent audiences. The article will also present the development of hip-hop culture in Poland and around the world, as well as the effects that it brought in the process of shaping the identity of young people.

scholarly journals Young Climate Protesters’ Mobilization Availability: Climate Marches and School Strikes Compared

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Rainsford ◽  
Clare Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Survey Responses

Although there is a developing strand of literature on young people’s participation in environmental activism, there have been few systematic comparisons of their participation in different forms of environmental activism. This article compares the participation of young people and their older counterparts in climate change marches and Global Climate Strikes (GCSs). The agential and structural factors that draw people into protest participation are, in general terms, well recognized. However, it is also recognized that the factors that lead to particular types of protest on certain issues might not be the same as those that lead to different types of protest on different issues. In this article, we keep the protest issue constant (climate change), and make comparisons across different forms of climate protest (marches and school strikes). We coin the term “mobilization availability”, which is a useful way to understand why young people are differentially mobilized into different types of climate change protest. Our notion of mobilization availability invites scholars to consider the importance of the interplay of the supply and demand for protest in understanding who protests and why. We analyse data collected using standardized protest survey methodology (n = 643). In order to account for response rate bias, which is an acute problem when studying young people’s protest survey responses, we weighted the data using propensity score adjustments. We find that the youth-oriented supply of protest evoked by GCS mobilized higher numbers of young people into climate protest than did the more adult-dominated climate marches. GCS did this by providing accessible forms of protest, which reduced the degree of structural availability required to encourage young people to protest on the streets, and by emotionally engaging them. Indeed, the young people we surveyed at the GCSs were considerably more angry than their adult counterparts, and also angrier than young people on other climate protests. Our conceptual and empirical innovations make this paper an important contribution to the literature on young people’s political participation.

scholarly journals Are Social Economy Organizations a Viable Alternative on the Labour Market for Students from Non-Economic Fields of Study? Research Results

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-7
Author(s):  
Janusz Reichel ◽  
Agata Rudnicka ◽  
Błażej Socha
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Economy Organizations

Abstract Labour market is getting more and more diverse. Young people have broad spectrum of possibilities to plan and develop their future careers. Future graduates may put attention on different opportunities from huge corporations to local non-governmental organizations. One of still underestimated sectors as a working place is the social enterprise sector. The current debate of the labour market is focusing on the issue of competences needed to meet the needs of a highly competitive labour market. The idea of entrepreneurship is also a focal point for these considerations. The main aim of the paper is to present the analysis of choices for career development among students from non-economic fields of study. The research was conducted among students of non-economics majors in the University of Lodz, Poland. Authors were seeking the answer to the question of whether the social economy organizations are treated as a potential workplace. The main results of the study confirm that the social economy sector is not the priority as a future choice for career development.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Media on Risk Communication of Disasters—A Comparative Study Based on Sina Weibo Blogs Related to Tianjin Explosion and Typhoon Pigeon

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiezhong Liu ◽  
Huyuan Zhang ◽  
Hubo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Information Transmission ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Sina Weibo ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

Social media has brought opportunities and challenges to risk communication of disasters by undermining the monopoly of traditional news media. This paper took blogs about Tianjin Explosion and Typhoon Pigeon posted through Sina Weibo as empirical objects. Moreover, the paper used the analytical method of social network to conduct a comparative study on the network structures of information disseminated among different types of disasters, with the goal of uncovering the impact of social media on different types of risk communication of disasters. The result shows a different impact of the risk communication on the two types of disasters. While the role of social media for the risk communication of natural disasters is mainly to influence information dissemination, the roles of social media for the risk communication of man-made disasters are to transmit information as well as to communicate emotions. The differences seen within the structure of social media networks are causes differences in functions. Specifically, the structure for the social media communication network on man-made disasters takes on a “core - periphery structure” which is endowed with both information communication and emotional communication functions. Also, the role of the opinion leaders for the subnet is found to be significant while the communication within small groups is kept pretty active; additionally, the slow speed of information transmission of the network could result in easily distorted information. On top of that, the network is characterized with intense vulnerability to the attacks on core nodes. In contrast, the social media network for natural disaster risk communication is not seen with an obvious “peripheral-core” structure which is a relatively pure information transmission network with relatively equal principal status. In other words, the entire network is found with stronger connectivity and relatively faster information transmission speed. Furthermore, the nodes inside the network are found to have weaker control over information transmission. In sum, the research results are helpful in improving the risk communication theory based on social relations, optimizing the communication structure of disaster information so as to change the effect of risk communication.

Re-imagining education

FORUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Patrick Yarker
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Education System ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Comprehensive Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Selective System ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Do So

FORUM is part of the movement for instituting a system of comprehensive education. Such a system would, among other things, prevent selection of young people for different types of education in different types of schools. It would do so principally on the grounds that a selective system educationally damages all young people in it. Commitment to a system of comprehensive education entails a particular conception of human educability: that it is limitless. Such a view is radically at odds with the conception of human educability which informs arguments in support of educational selection between types of school and also within schools of any type. It poses a host of questions which adherents of comprehensive education must continue to address, related to all aspects of an education system: the nature of learning and teaching, how those who learn are to be regarded and how their learning might best be assessed, what is to be taught, how those who are taught may be grouped and organised in school, how education and democracy, school and community entwine, and more broadly, the social purposes of education. To envisage a comprehensive system is to re-imagine education thoroughly.

Impact of the Locus of Causality and Internal Control on the Social Utility of Causal Explanations

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Perrin ◽  
Benoît Testé
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
External Control ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types

Research into the norm of internality ( Beauvois & Dubois, 1988 ) has shown that the expression of internal causal explanations is socially valued in social judgment. However, the value attributed to different types of internal explanations (e.g., efforts vs. traits) is far from homogeneous. This study used the Weiner (1979 ) tridimensional model to clarify the factors explaining the social utility attached to internal versus external explanations. Three dimensions were manipulated: locus of causality, controllability, and stability. Participants (N = 180 students) read the explanations expressed by appliants during a job interview. They then described the applicants on the French version of the revised causal dimension scale and rated their future professional success. Results indicated that internal-controllable explanations were the most valued. In addition, perceived internal and external control of explanations were significant predictors of judgments.

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