Social Change and the Twenty-first Century

My Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 582-624
Author(s):  
Rosalind Gottfried
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Heemsbergen ◽  
Angela Daly ◽  
Jiajie Lu ◽  
Thomas Birtchnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Law And Technology ◽  
3D Printed ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Economic

This article outlines preliminary findings from a futures forecasting exercise where participants in Shenzhen and Singapore considered the socio-technological construction of 3D printing in terms of work and social change. We offered participants ideal political-economic futures across local–global knowledge and capital–commons dimensions, and then had them backcast the contextual waypoints across markets, culture, policy, law and technology dimensions that help guide towards each future. Their discussion identified various contextually sensitive points, but also tended to dismiss the farthest reaches of each proposed ideal, often reverting to familiar contextual signifiers. Here, we offer discussion on how participants saw culture and industry shaping futures for pertinent political economic concerns in the twenty-first century.

The Integral Humanism of Mahatma

1998 ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Geeta S. Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Free Will ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Societal Development ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Twenty First Century

Humanism as a theistic, pragmatic theory was first conceived around 2000 BCE in India. It is a this-worldly, human-centered, secular philosophical outlook. Gandhi understands religion as connoting the individual’s integrity and society’s solidarity. Free-will for him is freedom of the "rational self." Morality is not a matter of outward conformity, but of inward fulfillment. His integral humanism is indicated by his enumerated seven social sins: (1) politics without principles; (2) wealth without work; (3) commerce without morality; (4) knowledge without character; (5) pleasure without conscience; (6) science without morality; and (7) worship without sacrifice. The eleven vows recited in his Ášrama prayer began with Truth and Non-Violence as foundational for the integration of moral, social, political and economic values. Non-Violence should be a creed rather than a policy. Gandhi’s Truth meant freedom of self-actualization for societal development. He fulfilled these two principal themes of humanism in the civic function of religion and religious tolerance which aimed at evolving moral individuals in moral societies. "The twenty-first century should bring a synthesis of science and spirituality, socialism with human rights, social-change with nonviolence. And this is Gandhi."

The Tensions of Transparency in Urban and Environmental Planning

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1982763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Marantz ◽  
Nicola Ulibarri
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
First Century ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Government Transparency ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Urban And Environmental Planning

Government transparency is generally uncontroversial, intuitively appealing, and held to be a cornerstone of planning practice. This article systematically reviews planning scholars’ treatment of government transparency in the twenty-first century. We find that transparency frequently underpins key theoretical constructs and policy prescriptions, but scholars rarely define or operationalize the term and generally treat it as unproblematic. We then identify how transparency requirements can conflict with the goals of accountability, participation, and inclusion, and we conclude by discussing the implications for assessing the role of transparency in social change.

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