scholarly journals General introduction: the return of social innovation as a scientific concept and a social practice

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Moulaert ◽  
Diana MacCallum ◽  
Abid Mehmood ◽  
Abdelillah Hamdouch
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
General Introduction

Kant’s Metaphilosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 292-310
Author(s):  
Michael Lewin
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Demarcation Criterion ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract While the term “metaphilosophy” enjoys increasing popularity in Kant scholarship, it is neither clear what distinguishes a metaphilosophical theory from a philosophical one nor to what extent Kant’s philosophy contains metaphilosophical views. In the first part of the article, I will introduce a demarcation criterion and show how scholars fall prey to the fallacy of extension confusing Kant’s philosophical theories with his theories about philosophy. In the second part, I will analyze eight elements for an “imperfect definition” (KrV A731/B759) of philosophy outlining the scope of Kant’s explicit metaphilosophy against the backdrop of recent metaphilosophical research: (i) scientific concept of philosophy, (ii) philosophy as an activity, (iii) worldly concept, (iv) philosophy as a (proper and improper) science, (v) philosophy as an architectonic idea (archetype and ectypes), (vi) philosophy as a social practice and the appropriate holding-to-be-true (one or many true philosophies?), (vii) reason as the absolute condition and subject of philosophy, and (viii) methodology of philosophy. I will put these elements together for an attempt to give an imperfect definition of philosophy – something that Kant promised but never did – in the conclusion.

scholarly journals Diakoni som teologisk fagområde, videnskab og nyt universitetsfag i Danmark

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Jakob Egeris Thorsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Academic Subject ◽  
Constructive Analysis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Theological Concept

Since 2014, the Department of Theology at Aarhus University has offered a 2-year, interdisciplinary MA-program in Diaconia (Christian Social Practice). Thereby, diaconia has officially become an academic subject in a Danish university. The author uses this occasion to provide a general introduction to diaconia and its role in church and theology, to the science of diaconia, and to the character of the new MA-program. The article centers on the apparent paradox that while diaconia is becoming an increasingly important theological concept, especially in ecclesiology, the diaconal field of practice is characterized by interdisciplinarity and secularization. The author argues that the science of diaconia should reflect that situation and make it the starting point for a continuing constructive analysis of the role and identity of diaconia in an increasingly pluralist context.

scholarly journals Children Education in ICT Age in Nigeria: A Tripartite Socio-Cultural Phenomena

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Taiwo Frances Gbadegesin ◽  
Olusola Alabi ◽  
Kemisola Omodun
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract Studies have established that the use of technology in early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings positively contributes to children’s development. However, this position has generated conflicting views as individual circumstances largely depend on where a child is born and raised. In this study, adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in ECCE in the Nigerian context is examined, with a view to deciphering practical implications of ICT as social innovation in learning and its influence on socio-cultural values in childhood education. To achieve this aim, the following research question was generated: What and how can we describe the impact and practical implications of ICT on Nigerian children’s ways of life, and what values does ICT contribute towards socio-cultural aspect of ECCE education in Nigeria? The paper utilised data collected through an interpretive qualitative study, underpinned by social practice and innovation diffusion theories. Data were generated through interviews and classroom observations. The findings suggest tensions between social innovations and socio-cultural implications of ICT usage. It was observed that ICT usage in Nigerian childhood education is situated within tripartite classification; One, as a veritable tool for achieving innovative and creative thinking in children. Two, as an effective instrument of disseminating globalised ideas and three, as distortions to socio-cultural values that are embedded in culturally-sensitive children learning and development. In conclusion, it was suggested that while the use of ICT should remain a veritable instrument for learning in children’s formative periods, its usage should be monitored for values’ security in Nigeria.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY MODERNIZATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
А.V. Oposhnyansky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post Industrial

The article is devoted to the problem of modernization of the Russian society, which is central from a practical and theoretical point of view for the existence of the Russian state. It is connected with the nature of the culture of Russian civilization, with the sociocultural type of personality and society that requires its reformatting. These are both traditional mechanisms involved in the reproduction of Russian society and innovative development factors. The focus is on the modern civilizational Challenge, which has stretched over several decades. Even such a grandiose transformation as the deconstruction of the USSR did not lead to the Answer to the Challenge. A closed, authoritarian type of Russian society with a two-dimensional traditional cultural code can be modernized only by using an external factor as a transformation lever. The article describes the specifics of Russian civilization in connection with the peculiarities of modernization at the stage of transition to post-industrial society. This transition included a crisis of a two-dimensional sociocultural code reflected in Soviet ideology and social practice, overcoming the closure of the country, and using the social and technological innovations of the West. The two-dimensional code did not provide restructuring and transition to post-industrial civilization by borrowing technological and social innovation. Modern ontology of sociality is constructed by synergy of media interactions. Media is a word and deed that designs and formats social reality. At present, the humanities can be anthropologically effective if they turn into media design that designs and formats social reality. The creators of social and anthropological design are social energy actors — scientists, proactive subcultures. The traditional national sociocode is gradually transformed under the influence of globalization, adapted to it, or aggressively extremist enters the fight against postmodernization (fundamentalist extremism). The postmodernization of the Russian society includes its diversification, also manifests itself in a multiplicity of intents into the future. The two-dimensional code of negative identity is overcome, according to the laws of synergy, through chaos and new sociality will be formed either spontaneously or by the method of managed chaos, if domestic managers, who still keep the Russian society in a state of sluggish stagnation, are ripe for it. However, the principle of bifurcation reminds us that the future is ambiguous. Without mastering the art of managed chaos, one cannot take a productive step in social governance and development.

scholarly journals A Case Study on the Social Practice of the Liberal Education －Focusing on K University’s Social Innovation Living-lab Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Daesik Woo
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
University Education ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Media Reports

The purpose of this study is to examine educational achievements and their implications, focusing on the social practice case of the Social Innovation Living-lab Project implemented by K University in 2020. The progress of the project, its performance, and educational implications were analyzed based on the results of project-related reports, media reports, resident surveys, and student interviews.The project was effective in terms of revitalizing local urban regeneration, and resident’s satisfaction was generally positive. In educational effects, students also became passionate and interested in the effects of cooperation between themselves and their chosen majors. Moreover, they demonstrated positive effects from the reflecting they did regarding their own prospects as they considered their social contributions.This project is meaningful in that cooperative partnerships between universities and society can be formed through university education. Futhermore, this study proposed to improve the academic system and to establish a support system to promote it.

scholarly journals A multilevel transition perspective on embedding intersectoral action in local health policies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Super ◽  
Laurens W A Klerkx ◽  
Niels Hermens ◽  
Maria A Koelen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Intersectoral Action ◽  
Local Health Policy

Summary Intersectoral action is advocated as a social practice that can effectively address health inequalities and related social issues. Existing knowledge provides insight into factors that may facilitate or hinder successful intersectoral action, but not much is known about how intersectoral action evolves and becomes embedded in local health policies. This is where this study aims to make its contribution, by adopting the multilevel perspective on transitions, which is increasingly used to study social innovation in sustainability transitions but has not yet been applied to public health and health promotion. Through this perspective, it was unravelled how intersectoral action between youth-care organizations and community sports clubs became embedded in local health policies of Rotterdam, a large city in the Netherlands. A single explorative case study was conducted based on content analysis of policy documents and 15 in-depth interviews with policy officers, managers and field workers operating in the fields of youth and sports in Rotterdam. The findings showed that intersectoral action between community organizations and policymakers evolves through congruent processes at different levels that changed institutional logics. Moreover, it emerged that policymakers and other actors that advocate novel social practices and act as boundary spanners can adopt multiple strategies to embed these practices in local health policy. The multi-level perspective adds value to earlier approaches to research intersectoral collaboration for health promotion as it allows to better capture the politics involved in the social innovation processes. However, further sharpening and more comprehensive application of transition concepts to study transitions in public health and health promotion is needed.

scholarly journals The Genesis of Corruption—the Dominant Features of Contemporary Societies of the Colonial Past Inheritance

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Miroslav Kuka
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Social Innovations

One of the most significant characteristics of the contemporary society is the continuous and an intense social change. This continuous social change initiates a special subject of research into social practice, which envisages in social innovations, influencing to change the life style of citizens of a society. Social innovations are encouraged through the interaction of the institutional networks and individuals and changes can be visible in practice, processes, business models, and organizational forms, all in order to respond to a social problem. In addition to historical and political conditions, social innovations are also determined through cultural patterns, in a manner that not every social innovation will aim to develop potential and seek to answers to social problems. In contemporary societies of the 21st century with a colonial past (inheritance), the inherited cultural and historical patterns are just the crucial components which creating social problems, by developing organizational models of corruption, as a parallel form of functioning of the rule of law. The institutional practice within the Serbian institutions through a direct research in the form of this paper, considering period from 2009 to 2021, serves to analyze the genesis of the emergence and development of corruption, i.e., an illegal use of the system of positions (status) for the purpose of gaining one's own benefit and collapsing the rule of law. Simultaneously, the paper provides with a hypothetical answer to explain how corruption, as the primary form of a social innovation in the countries of “colonial democracy inheritance”, can potentially suppress.

“Before She Was Born, I Ate Cheerios and Beer for Dinner”: A Qualitative Examination of Green Parenting in Lowcountry South Carolina

2020 ◽  
pp. 016059762094319
Author(s):  
Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Media ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
The Face ◽  
Multiple Challenges

Drawing on both social practice and social innovation research, this article analyzes 48 qualitative interviews to explore the narratives of self-described green parents who live in Lowcountry South Carolina. The interviewees talked about their motivations, challenges, and understandings of the goals and meanings of green parenting. They reported that the arrival of young children represented a new challenge but also triggered motivations to continue and often intensify green lifestyles. Parents voiced three key challenges: living “green” in a “red” state, time and financial constraints, and navigating environmental media. In parallel, they articulated three main goals: to limit their impact on earth, to live healthier lives, and to socialize their children into green living. When asked about meanings, parents stressed the overlapping importance of engaging in conscious decision-making, building connections to people and nature, and cultivating overall well-being. This study suggests that parents remain resilient in the face of multiple challenges and innovate by socializing their children to live green lifestyles.

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