Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-295
Author(s):  
Orlando Pereira ◽  
Daniel Gonçalves Novo Gomes ◽  
Ana Martins ◽  
Isabel Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Social Balance ◽  
The Individual

This chapter discusses the role of education in “humanizing the economy” and emphasizes its contribution to the development of a new socio-economic model that helps to overcome the irregularities present in contemporary society. It proposes the implementation of school practices aimed at the completeness of the individual and in favor of social balance. It also emphasizes the importance of the humanizing process in the attainment of values such as, justice, freedom, solidarity and cooperation, which are structuring values of social cohesion. The primary data focused on the Secondary Education in the Districts of Braga and Viana do Castelo, in the northwest of Portugal. Interviews were conducted with school principals as main actors in the research. In spite of the limitations of the work, the results show that, in Portugal, education is still focused on individualism. It is also noted that assimilation of social aspects and humanization is weak, which inhibits placing the individual at the center of economic concerns and produces negative externalities on economic and social performance including wellbeing.

The Calculation of Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1627-1653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Graham
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Political ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Individual

This article explores the role of calculative technologies, such as taxation, accounting and actuarial practices, in constructing ‘age’ in contemporary society. It argues that retirement income programs built on these technologies attempt to construct specific relations not just between the individual and other generations, but between the individual and herself at other stages of life. Retracing the series of Canadian attempts to secure income for the elderly over the course of the 20th century, the paper shows how calculative technologies have been used to connect responsibility for the elderly to the political rationalities of the day. This genealogy allows us to recognize how the present Canadian retirement income system, with its public and private programs addressing different subsets of the population, is contingent on neoliberal rationalities of governance. These demand the alignment of the individual with the goals of the capital markets, and seek to achieve this through a distributed agency that encourages the investment of individual savings in retirement income products. The paper argues that this distributed agency is perpetually incomplete, and that uncertainty is necessary in order that the individual be constantly remade as an investor.

Journey of customers in this digital era: Understanding the role of artificial intelligence technologies in user engagement and conversion

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Surajit Bag ◽  
Gautam Srivastava ◽  
Md Mamoon Al Bashir ◽  
Sushma Kumari ◽  
Mihalis Giannakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Repurchase Intention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Sales ◽  
The Individual

PurposeThe first research objective is to understand the role of digital [artificial intelligence (AI)] technologies on user engagement and conversion that has resulted in high online activities and increased online sales in current times in India. In addition, combined with changes such as social distancing and lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital disruption has largely impacted the old ways of communication both at the individual and organizational levels, ultimately resulting in prominent social change. While interacting in the virtual world, this change is more noticeable. Therefore, the second research objective is to examine if a satisfying experience during online shopping leads to repurchase intention.Design/methodology/approachUsing primary data collected from consumers in a developing economy (India), we tested the theoretical model to further extend the theoretical debate in consumer research.FindingsThis study empirically tests and further establishes that deploying AI technologies have a positive relationship with user engagement and conversion. Further, conversion leads to satisfying user experience. Finally, the relationship between satisfying user experience and repurchase intention is also found to be significant.Originality/valueThe uniqueness of this study is that it tests few key relationships related to user engagement during this uncertain period (COVID-19 pandemic) and examines the underlying mechanism which leads to increase in online sales.

scholarly journals Human Capital and Multifaceted Innovation: Evidence from the Lahore Knitwear Cluster in Pakistan

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Fahd Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Cluster Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

Clusters have the potential to grow, but their potential in Pakistan is rarely analyzed and examined. This study examines the knitwear cluster of Lahore in general and the performance of enterprises in particular. Most of the literature on clusters in Pakistan has not looked at the characteristics of the individual enterprises that play a pivotal role in cluster development. Using primary data collected from 59 finished-knitwear producers in Lahore, this study assesses the role of human capital in acquiring multifaceted innovations. We find that general human capital acquired by schooling and specific human capital acquired through operational experience is associated with the size of the enterprise. Additionally, specific human capital acquired through operational and marketing experience is strongly correlated with improved marketing channels.

scholarly journals SURVEILLANCE AND GUARDIANSHIP ATTITUDES: ROLE OF MULTIPLE MEDIATORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali ◽  
Aldrin Abdullah ◽  
Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
Situational Characteristics ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
The Individual

Urban design researchers and environmental criminologists believe that personal and situational characteristics influence how and when residents act as guardians over where they live. However, little is known about the individual factors that explain residential guardianship behaviours. This study focuses on sociophysical factors in explaining residents’ willingness to act as guardians to control criminal behaviour through multiple mediators. A sample of 247 residents in Penang, Malaysia was analysed via structural equation modelling. Results demonstrated that although no significant direct association exists between natural surveillance and guardianship, this relationship was mediated via territorial identity and increases in social cohesion. Findings also indicated the significant role of territorial identity, perceived risk and social cohesion in explaining the amount of guardianship attitude. Furthermore, surveillance helps reduce perceived risk among residents. Social cohesion is the most influential factor in shaping the opportunity for capable guardianship in the study area. It is concluded that organising community-based activities will help strengthen community ties, thereby creating substantial willingness among residents to intervene for the common good and building safer communities. Using extensive survey data from a multi-ethnic community in Malaysia, this study brings to the fore the ways in which the sociophysical factors help foster guardianship attitudes within residential contexts using multiple mediators.

scholarly journals Kultura a problem zacofania

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Wiesław Banach
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Robert Putnam ◽  
Francis Fukuyama ◽  
Michael Porter ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic

The aim of this paper is to present and examine the link between culture and economic backwardness. One of the main questions of economic thought is: why some are so rich and some so poor? Traditionalexplanations like imperialism, dependency and racism are no longer adequate, and increasingly observers are concluding that the principal reason why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others lies in cultural values, which powerfully shape political, economic and social performance. According to many authors (Lawrence E. Harrison, Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Berger, David Landes, Mariano Grondona, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Putnam, Ronald Inglehart, Michael Porter) adequate values, axiological determinants and other cultural factors (like customs, beliefs attitudes, trust in the individual, the moral imperative, the value of work) have a very positive impact on the economic development of each society. The paper is an attempt to show why the category of backwardness is more appropriate and helpful for the understanding of the role of culture than the category of development.

scholarly journals Muslim Ritual Practices and their Multilayered Messages in a Non-Muslim Environment: Examples from the Dutch Context

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
HERMAN L. BECK
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Islamic Rituals

Many Muslims in the Netherlands want to live according to the prescriptions of their religion, but are trying at the same time to accommodate themselves to Dutch society in everyday life. Accommodation also seems to occur in the area of Muslim ritual practices, even though most orthodox and orthoprax Muslims are convinced of the 'unchangeability' of Islamic rituals. The study of Islamic rituals and changes in them in a non-Muslim Western environment have therefore become very popular among Western researchers. Most studies have focused on the relation between ritual, social cohesion and group identity. By focusing on certain Muslim ritual practices in the mon-Muslim environment of the Netherlands, this article draws attention to the role of ritual as an expression of faith on part of the individual beliver, thus stressing the multilayered messages conveyed by ritual practices.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Kepatuhan Wajib Pajak Orang Pribadi Berdasarkan Theory Planned Of Behaviour (TPB)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209
Author(s):  
Hurian Kamela
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Common ◽  
Tax Payments ◽  
The Individual

There must be an awareness of the public regarding compliance in paying taxes. Tax is a state asset that is collected by the state for the common interest. The role of society in paying taxes must be accompanied by internal (within) the individual itself because there are still limited people who know that taxes are crucial. This study aims to link the effect of individual taxpayer compliance based on the "Theory of Planned Behavior" because this theory is a theory that can measure the internal thinking of taxpayers. This study uses primary data collected through a questionnaire using linear regression analysis. The sample used is a sample (people) of 100 taxpayers using measurements random sampling (people who are in the tax office) 1 month (November 2015). The study results found that the variable attitudes toward behavior, subjective norms and perceptual behavior control were positive influences. That explains a need for awareness of taxpayer compliance to run appropriately, and income from tax payments can increase.

scholarly journals Refleksi Pemimpin Yang Memberdayakan Berdasarkan Keluaran 18:18-24

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Hergyana Saras Ningtyas ◽  
Sriyati Sriyati
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Leadership Succession ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

The focus of leadership is not about position. An important role in leadership is to help those being led to grow in Jesus Christ. This study discusses the Reflections of Empowering Leaders Based on Exodus 18: 18-24. The objective is to identify the role of leaders in the empowering principles studied from Exodus 18: 18-24 regarding the leadership of Moses. One of the reasons for Moses' leadership to be ineffective was that Moses was leading alone. Therefore Jethro, who was Musa's father-in-law as well as a priest in Midian known as a prophet, suggested that Moses develop the principle of empowering capable people to become leaders for the smaller groups under his leadership. The methodology used is literature research using primary sources from books, journals and previous research as a source of study. The primary data is then analyzed and synthesized to become the novelty discussed in this study. So the orientation in empowering leadership is an effort to help the individual being led reach a better stage so that it is more light than Musa's single leadership. The leadership principles discussed include delegating leadership, increasing responsibility, increasing capacity, training independence and being willing to learn and be taught. Thus, this leadership can have a wider influence and create empowered individuals, independent of certain situations or organizations. Today's leadership succession requires to form leaders who excel in the face of competition, innovation, and leadership succession skills that can be manifested in empowering leadership. An empowering leader is a solution to leadership problems in the Indonesian nation, the church and the family as the smallest unit in the organization.

School Success and School Engagement of Immigrant Children and Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi ◽  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
School Success ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
The Individual

Academic achievement in immigrant children and adolescents is an indicator of current and future adaptive success. Since the future of immigrant youths is inextricably linked to that of the receiving society, the success of their trajectory through school becomes a high stakes issue both for the individual and society. The present article focuses on school success in immigrant children and adolescents, and the role of school engagement in accounting for individual and group differences in academic achievement from the perspective of a multilevel integrative model of immigrant youths’ adaptation ( Motti-Stefanidi, Berry, Chryssochoou, Sam, & Phinney, 2012 ). Drawing on this conceptual framework, school success is examined in developmental and acculturative context, taking into account multiple levels of analysis. Findings suggest that for both immigrant and nonimmigrant youths the relationship between school engagement and school success is bidirectional, each influencing over time the other. Evidence regarding potential moderating and mediating roles of school engagement for the academic success of immigrant youths also is evaluated.

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