Key to Success

2010 ◽  
pp. 130-166
Author(s):  
Mahmood Shah ◽  
Steve Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Issues

This chapter builds on previous chapters and brings together the technical, managerial and social issues discussed in this book so far, to offer practical solutions to the e-banking related problems. We have also included two detailed e-banking case studies of medium sized banks to illustrate our propositions. The chapter covers a number of practical dimensions such as common tools used to evaluate e-banking initiatives, real reasons for banks to implement e-banking, factors which led to their success as well as the ones which caused considerable problems.

Social Issues and Problem-based Learning in Sociology

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daina S. Eglitis ◽  
Fran L. Buntman ◽  
Dameon V. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Sample Case

This article discusses the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in the undergraduate sociology classroom. PBL shifts students from the role of passive listeners and learners to active knowledge builders and communicators through the use of concise and engaging social problem cases. PBL creates opportunities for building substantive area knowledge, research skills, and problem-solving capacities and fosters student enjoyment. This teaching note describes the key characteristics of PBL, discusses practical approaches to its use in a variety of sociology courses, and offers sample case studies. We evaluate student experiences with PBL and consider its broader applicability.

Safe Containers for Dangerous Memories

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Sarah Pharaon ◽  
Sally Roesch Wagner ◽  
Barbara Lau ◽  
María José Bolaña Caballero
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
House Museums ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Historic House Museums ◽  
Historic House

Since 1999, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has worked with historic house museums around the world who assist their visitors in connecting past and present, use dialogue as a central strategy in addressing needs in their immediate community, and encourage visitors to become active in the social issues their sites raise. Featuring case studies from Coalition members Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria (Montevideo, Uruguay), Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation (Fayetteville, New York), and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice (Durham, North Carolina), this article reviews the revolutionary approaches Sites of Conscience take toward addressing challenging histories and their contemporary legacies.

Humanizing the Headlines

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-140
Author(s):  
Caty Borum Chattoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Depth And Complexity

Opening with the story of Private Violence, an intimate documentary about domestic abuse, this chapter launches the book’s series of documentary film case studies and analyses positioned within specific titled themes. Each theme (as a chapter) spotlights documentary stories to illustrate a continuum of social change. Chapter 5 focuses on “humanizing the headlines,” showcasing social-issue documentaries that reveal—through creative interpretation and intimacy—the depth and complexity of human stories beneath hot-button, politically polarized social issues. The film teams profiled here are rooted in community, and several also facilitated community engagement efforts designed to help publics and decision makers see the issues in new ways. The documentaries include 13th, an indictment of American racial injustice from historical underpinnings to the present day; Heroine(e), the story of lifesavers and community members working to bring their neighborhoods back from the destruction of opioid addiction; and Charm City, a behind-the-scenes portrait of Baltimore coming together as a community after historic unrest.

scholarly journals Community Work Approach in Addressing Social Problems: Three Community Case Studies from Sri Lanka

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omalpe Somananda
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Direct Method ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Underserved Community ◽  
Child Engagement

Human development is at the center of social work to intervene in diverse problems affecting humanity. Community work is a direct method of community development that attempts to serve many people at a macro level. A community case study documents a local experience about delivering services to meet an identified need. This paper aims to illustrate three examples of community case studies that were developed while working with three diverse communities in Sri Lanka. The first community case study describes efforts to efforts to promote social harmony through child engagement in a rural community with ethnoreligious diversity in the Polonnaruwa District. The second community case study documents prioritizing several problems faced by an urban, underserved community located close to the Kolonnawa Garbage dump in the Colombo District. The third case study is on women's engagement in community development and harmony in a peri-urban community in the Gampaha District. The paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of community work in addressing diverse social issues in communities.

scholarly journals Progressivist gender-based activism as a means of social antagonism in Hungary through two case studies

Sociologija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalma Feró ◽  
Orsolya Bajusz
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
World Order ◽  
The West ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
European Values ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Material Issue ◽  
Global World ◽  
East West

The endorsing of ?progressive? issues is embedded in the imaginary of the East-West slope. It is especially issues defined more in terms of recognition than redistribution and framed in terms of individual tolerance that have become emphatic signifiers of ?progress?, ?Western?/?European? values, and thus the civilizational and moral hierarchy of the East-West slope. Aligning oneself with these issues (such as LGBT rights, liberal anti-racism, liberal feminism) on the periphery of Europe is a means of distinguishing oneself against the rest of the ?backward? country or region. As a strategy of raising one?s social status it is a tool of social antagonism. We look at two case studies from Hungary to analyse how progressivist narratives are enmeshed in self-colonization. We conduct discourse analysis to examine how self-appointed advocates activate the West-East hierarchy as they claim to morally elevate society, and how this progressivist narrative feeds a populist mobilization that increasingly uses ?gender? as a symbol for corrupting foreign forces. We argue that representing social issues such as women?s disadvantages as a matter of tolerance rather than as a deep-seated, structural, material issue serves as a mutual legitimating mechanism for the progressivist actors who accomplish it and the region?s position in the global world order.

scholarly journals Book Review of Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-90
Author(s):  
Ryan J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research And Practice

As part of Routledge’s ‘Studies in Food, Society, and the Environment’ series, Kenavy’s recent edited volume provides a timely look at plant-based eating, in both research and practice. Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability (2020) includes fourteen chapters divided into four thematic sections (environmental sustainability, human health, animal rights and welfare, and political economy), and is delivered in an engaging yet accessible way appropriate for academic and general audiences. Plant-Based Diets is particularly interesting given its focus on Canadian case studies and persistent social issues, with a noticeable number of cases focusing on Canada’s East coast.

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

Short-Form Application of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test to Latino Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Carol Melnick Ratusnik ◽  
Karen Sattinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Data Application ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique

Short-form versions of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar (Toronto, 1973) and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (Lee, 1971) were devised for use with bilingual Latino children while preserving the original normative data. Application of a multiple regression technique to data collected on 60 lower social status Latino children (four years and six months to seven years and one month) from Spanish Harlem and Yonkers, New York, yielded a small but powerful set of predictor items from the Spanish and English tests. Clinicians may make rapid and accurate predictions of STSG or NSST total screening scores from administration of substantially shortened versions of the instruments. Case studies of Latino children from Chicago and Miami serve to cross-validate the procedure outside the New York metropolitan area.

Case Studies for Telepractice in AAC

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Rose Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Computer Experience ◽  
Access Methods ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Barriers To Service ◽  
Communication Needs

As the field of telepractice grows, perceived barriers to service delivery must be anticipated and addressed in order to provide appropriate service delivery to individuals who will benefit from this model. When applying telepractice to the field of AAC, additional barriers are encountered when clients with complex communication needs are unable to speak, often present with severe quadriplegia and are unable to position themselves or access the computer independently, and/or may have cognitive impairments and limited computer experience. Some access methods, such as eye gaze, can also present technological challenges in the telepractice environment. These barriers can be overcome, and telepractice is not only practical and effective, but often a preferred means of service delivery for persons with complex communication needs.

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