Conceptualizations of Societal Development: An Under-Investigated Construct and its Potential Implications for Employee-Organization Fit

Among the societies that are moving from a centrally planned economy with weak property rights towards a market-oriented economy with stronger and more privatised property rights, China is undergoing an especially rapid and extensive urbanisation that obscures the diversity and relevance of local pre-Reform property arrangements. Official discourse emphasises the formalisation, clarification and, to some extent, the privatisation of property rights in the name of overall societal development and gradual integration with the global economy. In local informal, popular practice and discourse, however, the invocation of property rights reflects the continuing political relevance of both revolutionary and traditional notions of rights to urban space that challenge a unitary, linear view of the development process.

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Российсkое общество сегодня в аспекте социализации молодёжи

International Dialogues on Education Journal ◽

10.53308/ide.v1i2.219 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Николай Дмитриевич Никандров

Keyword(s):

Educational Institutions ◽

Societal Development ◽

The Usa ◽

Current Practices

In Russia, current practices in the education and socialization of the young are recognized as important parts of societal development. However, the success of such practices is made difficult through uncoordinated actions by socializing and educational institutions. Specific examples of such inconsistencies are analyzed along with the content of messages in respective materials pertaining to essential promises through media socialization and education. The necessity of programming of relevant societal processes is described, with consideration of differences in the interests of various groups and subjects. The article also discusses differences between Russia and the USA with regard to the socialization of the young.

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Towards Cultural Sensitivity in Societal Development

10.31234/osf.io/2ux6k ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kuba Krys ◽

Yukiko Uchida ◽

Colin Andrew Capaldi ◽

Katarzyna Cantarero ◽

Claudio Torres ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cultural Sensitivity ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Pairwise Comparisons ◽

Scaling Analysis ◽

Poverty Eradication ◽

Multidimensional Scaling Analysis ◽

Lay Beliefs ◽

Societal Development ◽

The 1960S ◽

Country Specific

People across cultures differ in behaviours, thoughts and preferences. Cultural sensitivity – i.e., acknowledgment of these cultural differences – in development science is a postulate known since at least the 1960s, but has remained understudied. The goal of the current paper is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development, and in particular to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs on what constitutes good societal development. In this study we collected data on preferences in social developmental from 2,684 participants across nine countries from five continents. We measured preferences towards twenty-eight different development aims, and separately for preferences towards three aims constituting Human Development Index. We used a comprehensive analysis approach, consisting of multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to characterize universal and country specific preference patterns. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization remains substantially universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to be different between countries. We also distinguished three facets of modernization: basics for modernization (e.g., trust, safety, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality, human rights). Importantly, in all studied countries, we found that each of the three types of modernization is much more preferred than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic, religion). Cultural sensitivity may be reflected in how development is conceptualised and measured, and in this paper we propose a method of implementing our findings into development indexes

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