Improvisation as Normative Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Georg W. Bertram
Keyword(s):  
Normative Practice

TRANSLATION OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE AS A PROCESS OF NORMATIVE PRACTICE IN CONTEXT MODELS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-182
Author(s):  
Saodat Nosirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Context Models

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the socio -political terminology of the modern Chinese language.The purpose of the article is to search for an integrated approach to the study of the cognitive side of social and political terms of the Chinese language from the point of view of law enforcement in the process of translating official materials from Chinese into Uzbek and / or Russian and vice versa

scholarly journals Engineering Procurement Construction in the Context of Belt and Road Infrastructure Projects in West Asia: A SWOT Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ajmal Nikjow ◽  
Li Liang ◽  
Xijing Qi ◽  
Samad Sepasgozar
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Belt And Road

Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) is a normative practice globally approved since China has been engaging in international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure development. EPC has been adopted in the delivery of BRI infrastructure projects in other countries. Compared to the domestic method of contract, EPC remains at a low level in management practice, such as a lack of coordinating diverse project stakeholders, high cost of information communication, and risk in complex environments in West Asia (WA). However, no research has conducted a strategic analysis of the current situation of EPC for BRI infrastructure projects in West Asian countries. This study aims to understand the current status quo of EPC for BRI projects in WA by performing a strength, weakness, opportunity, and threats (SWOT) analysis and with the support of data collected from the literature review and semi-structured interviews with EPC stakeholders. The study brings awareness along which internally and externally circumstances of the EPC for BRI infrastructure projects can be perceived by major stakeholders participating. The four critical strategies presented based on the SWOTs identified could help EPC firms develop and promote EPC to implement BRI infrastructure projects in WA at the strategic level.

scholarly journals Synchronizing Operation of Russian Banks and Institutions of Development in the System of National Project Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
E. V. Altukhova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Project Financing ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
The Government

Stability of economic development depends mainly on the efficiency of steps taken by the government in view of providing the economic growth. Pandemic after-effects cause still greater necessity of progressive development of economy. Institutions of development play a special role in intensifying investment processes. Well-organized functioning of these structures can resolve problems, which can hardly be settled by market mechanisms. Taking into account the need in efficient tools for national projects implementation, the key problem we are facing now is how to ensure the productive interaction of infrastructural elements of the economic system. In this context the article studies issues of interaction of institutes of development in the system of national projects implementation in view of specific features of economic development and normative practice. As a result of the present analysis a set of measures and recommendations were worked out, which could foster the attainments of national goals of development by active engagement of institutions of development in the process of national projects implementation. The author proposes to strengthen the system of monitoring project financing in order to make it more flexible and grounded in the aspect of responding the changes in the object needs. The article also shows the possibility of Russian banks and institutions of development interaction in conditions of synchronization.

Autonomy and Motivation in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-177
Author(s):  
Jonathan J. Felix
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Learner Agency

Learner autonomy and motivation have been recognized by academics, researchers, and practitioners as both critical and problematic elements of linguistics and language learning, among other disciplines in higher education. The ongoing challenge lies at the heart of students exercising a critical sense of agency over their acquisition of disciplinary knowledge, educational experience, and applied practice. However, rather than being understood as a socially constructed action or outcome within limited frames of reference, learner autonomy and motivation may be viewed expansively as culture. Drawing on Raymond Williams's theory of culture and John Law's sociological concept of symmetry, this work attempts to explore how learner autonomy and motivation might be fostered and sustained, in an attempt to rethink how learner agency might be positioned as a normative practice.

Engineering as Normative Practice

2015 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Marc J. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
Normative Practices ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Ethical Reflections

The concept of social practice was introduced by Alisdair Macintyre as a means for ethical reflections for professional situations. This concept has been extended by Hoogland and Jochemsen to include different types of norms. The term “normative practice” indicates that practices are determined by the norms by which they are defined. Engineering is such a normative practice, one that is part of a more complex situation of technological developments, in which other normative practices are also involved (e.g., a government practice, a business practice, a consumer practice). The norms in a normative practice are not only ethical norms but also include task descriptions. In this chapter, the role of both non-ethical and ethical norms in engineering as normative practices is analyzed. This is illustrated by two case studies: one from military ethics (with a specific focus on the role of technology) and one from synthetic biology.

Intercessory Prayer across Generations: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Christina Embree
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Spiritual Maturity ◽  
Intercessory Prayer ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
Multiple Generations ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
The Church

The American church, much like the surrounding society, has become more age segregated with age-specific ministry defining the landscape of the church. However, Scripture indicates that generational discipleship, the passing of faith from one generation to another, is the normative practice of a community of faith, which requires the interaction and engagement of multiple generations. Intercessory prayer has been shown to have positive effects on a variety of social relationships and is a spiritual discipline available to all, regardless of age or spiritual maturity. This article explores the possibility of intercessory prayer being used as a vehicle to connect generations and create space for increased generational interactions within a local church context.

scholarly journals HOMOSOSIALITAS DI PONDOK PESANTREN: STUDI KASUS DI PONDOK PESANTREN AS-SAKAN

HUMANIKA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Gian Nova Sudrajat Nur ◽  
Aquarini Priyatna ◽  
Mumuh Muhsin Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Sex Segregation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male Friendship ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the homosexual practices among students at Pondok Pesantren As-Sakan. By using queer and homosociality theory, the paper will show that human sexuality is a very complex continuum, in which homosexual practices can be manifested in various forms. It will be shown that same-sex relationships are built on male friendship patterns among men, mentorship, entilement, competition between homosexuality and heterosexuality in intimate relationships so that there is a shift in the relationship in it. The practice of sex segregation which is part of the normative practice of the boarding school, manifested in, for example, activities, rules and sanctions, as well as facilities and infrastructure of the school, can be argued to have engendered practices that can be categorized as homosexual practices.

Holding Secrets While Living With Life-Threatening Illness: Normalizing Patients’ Decisions to Reveal or Conceal

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Bruce ◽  
Rosanne Beuthin ◽  
Laurene Sheilds ◽  
Anita Molzahn ◽  
Kara Schick-Makaroff
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Normative Practice

Communicating openly and directly about illness comes easily for some patients, whereas for others fear of disclosure keeps them silent. In this article, we discuss findings about the role of keeping secrets regarding health and illness. These findings were part of a larger project on how people with life-threatening illnesses re-story their lives. A narrative approach drawing on Frank’s dialogical narrative analysis and Riesman’s inductive approach was used. Interviews were conducted with 32 participants from three populations: chronic kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, and cancer. Findings include case exemplars which suggest keeping secrets is a social practice that acts along continuums of connecting–isolating, protecting–harming, and empowering–imprisoning. Keeping secrets about illness is a normative practice that is negotiated with each encounter. Findings call health-care providers to rethink the role of secrets for patients by considering patient privilege, a person’s right to take the lead in revealing or concealing their health and illness experience.

scholarly journals Make It New! The Redeeming Modernism of Law and the Collapsing of Its Polarities

Pólemos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Angela Condello ◽  
Luke Mason
Keyword(s):  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Normative Practice ◽  
The Law

Abstract This article argues that law is an inherently modernist normative practice. Constructing a vision of Modernism which is at once an epistemology and an attitudinal disposition to doubt and make anew our assumptions about the world, the authors demonstrate that legal practice encounters the world through individual cases. Through these examples, the law is capable of both interacting with and comprehending that world, while also being forced to question the law’s own precepts and their application. In this manner, the law’s generalisations and abstractions become concrete, and can indeed be upended, through fleeting, impressionistic and highly case-specific examples. This exemplarity within law explains how law is able to navigate its apparently contradictory aspirations and natures which have bedevilled legal philosophy for millennia. In reality, law exists within a series of polarities, rather than contradictions, which are navigated through the law’s encounters with examples from the extra-legal world. The authors conclude that this aspect of the law’s nature also has practical consequences, requiring the law to maintain the fora in which new and novel cases are heard, and through which law’s modernist spirit can thrive.

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