scholarly journals Education of values: Marketizing the aging population in urban China

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Yifan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Aging Population ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Demographic Aging ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sales Strategies

In this article, I examine some of the marketing and sales strategies at Gardenview, a newly established eldercare company that ran a few residential eldercare facilities in Nanjing, China. There, like elsewhere in urban China, the projected aging demography was mobilized to push for an industrialization (chanyehua)—marketization and professionalization—of eldercare, transforming ideas and experience of eldercare by putting forward a new set of knowledge of aging. To this end, I first ground the rising eldercare industry in the transitioning paradigm of conceptualizing China’s population from population control to demographic aging. Then I explore ethnographically how Gardenview participated in the eldercare industry in a rapidly aging China. In particular, I look at the floorplans and the marketing stories as devices of the education of values—as prices, the good and desirable, and differentiators—to understand the social, economic, and ethical dynamics instigated by a transitioning demography. These values, as I show, are crucial in linking everyday life and choices with the paradigmatic shift of China’s population. Finally, I discuss how understanding the very processes of marketing and sales as an education of values could shed further light on what anthropologist Michael Fischer calls “literacies of the future” as a socially and economically elaborated and contested world of an aging China.

The Future of Primary Care

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
RITAMARIE MOSCOLA
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
Missed Appointments ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Pediatric Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Physician Relationship

To the Editor.— In the article "Primary Care: The Future of Pediatric Education"1 Dr Alpert addresses many issues facing pediatrics. I agree with his list of problems. However, I doubt that the social, economic, and cultural changes he describes will ever occur. My informal survey of pediatricians in practice is a song of frustration and boredom. The ringing telephone provides the rhythm. How does a patient-physician relationship develop in an environment of missed appointments, 3 AM emergency department visits, and managed care? Many families change physicians whenever employers change health benefits packages.

Recapitulation and a Look Ahead

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett Hardin
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
The Public ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Growth Limits

The cosmopolitan approach is required for some worldwide problems, such as ozone depletion, acid rain, and the exhaustion of oceanic fisheries. By contrast, potholes and population call for a parochial orientation. But if local "laissez-faire" in population matters is interpreted to mean no borders, a suicidal commons results. To survive, rich nations must refuse immigration to people who are poor because their governments are unable or unwilling to stop population growth. With its borders secured, how is a nation to control its own population growth? In one sense population control is inevitable; in another problematical. If the citizens of a nation pay absolutely no attention to their numbers, population will eventually be controlled by "nature"—by disease, starvation, and the social disorders that follow from too many people fighting for limited resources. But when wellwishers call for "population control" they mean something gentler than nature's ultimate response. Can we now predict what form successful human measures will take? I don't think we can, because the question demands that we successfully predict human history. Who, in the year 1700, could have predicted the Constitution of the United States? Who, in 1900, could have predicted Chernobyl? What happens in history is the result of the interaction of (first) the dependable "Laws of Nature" with (second) the apparent capriciousness of human nature. As concerns the first component, Francis Bacon should be our guide: "Nature to be commanded must be obeyed." Coming to the second factor we turn to the inventor of the holograph, the Nobelist Dennis Gabor: "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." Ignorance of this insight leads the public to take too seriously the projections of demographers (who rightly insist that they cannot predict the future). Demographers merely project curves—present trends—into the unknown future, all the while knowing—as Rene Dubos said-—that trend is not destiny. This book has been one long dissertation on the laws of nature that must be obeyed, namely: the properties of exponential growth; limits generally; the properties of usury; the significance of human unreliability; and the consequences of reproductive competition (including natural selection). But within these limitations lie many possibilities of population control. Some controls are kinder than others.

scholarly journals Strategic planning under the Local Government Act 2002: towards collaboration or compliance?

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Reid ◽  
Claudia Scott ◽  
Jeff McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Audit Report ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

By July 2006 all 85 local authorities expect to have their 10-year Long Term Council Community Plans (LTCCPs) signed and sealed, and passing muster with an unqualified audit report. The new Local Government Act 2002 (LGA 2002) has provided councils with general empowerment and introduced a new purpose (section 3) for local government: to ‘promote the social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being of communities now and for the future’.

The Future of Love and Sex

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-228
Author(s):  
Elaine Hatfield ◽  
Richard L. Rapson ◽  
Jeanette Purvis
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Yale historian Robin Winks once observed that writing history is “like nailing jelly to the wall.” But, he added, “someone must keep trying.” Trying to describe sweeping historical trends and then to predict future trends is even more difficult. This chapter considers futurists’ predictions as to the social, economic, and behavioral advances we might expect in the next 50 years. The predictions are divided into three categories: technological transformations, economic and practical changes, and cultural alterations in general attitudes. The future of love and sex is discussed in the context of these changes, along with trends in globalization. Since we tend to think technology may be the major driver of change in history, the chapter starts there.

Repensar a Cidade Face a Novos Desafios

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Teresa Barata Salgueiro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

We start with the question of city definition and we present the concept as it is normally accepted in geography. That means focusing in concentration, centrality and services, besides the fact that the city is a social-economic process and a spatial form. The first component however raises the question of territorial appropriation and identification of space by users. Urbanization implies transformation, thus in the second part we refer to the most important components of the urban change. They run between opposite trends that almost enable the prediction o f the future for the cityscapes, once they are concentration and descentralization, growth and decline, global homogeneity and place differentiation. We look at them through the modifications they have in the urban land or in the social structure.

scholarly journals IDP and Refugee Return to Northern Iraq: Sustainable Returns or Demographic Bombs?

Refuge ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
David Romano
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Northern Iraq ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Displaced People

Regime change in Iraq has opened the door to the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), the majority of whom were expelled from Kirkuk and other areas in northern Iraq. The Iraqi case presents three broad, readily identifiable categories of displaced persons: refugees in Iraq's neighbouring states, internally displaced persons, and refugees and migrants in third countries further afield. The first two categories include the largest numbers of displaced people as well as the majority of those with a great desire or pressing need to return to their homelands in Iraq. Although some of those displaced have succeeded in making a good life for themselves in their new new homes, those who did not manage well after their displacement generally long to return to their original towns and homes. However, the following general problems, in order of gravity, impede the success and sustainability of returns to northern Iraq: (i) sectarian competition over political structures and power distributions in post-Saddam Iraq; (ii) increasing lack of security in Iraq; (iii) insufficient preparations and slow policy implementation by the former CPA and Coalition Forces; (iv) insufficient financial resources to deal with the full magnitude of the displacement problem in Iraq; and (v) high expectations of returnees vis-a-vis continuing lack of opportunities and the slow rate of positive developments in the social, economic and political situation in Iraq. However, the emerging political contests over the future of the new Iraq greatly complicate effective and comprehensive return programs; the ultimate test of success and sustainability of return to Iraq will depend on the future of post-Saddam Iraq itself.

scholarly journals The Rise of Nazism and Militarism

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Anping Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Economic Depression ◽  
Social Upheaval

The essay discusses the rise of Nazism and Militarism during interwar Germany and Japan. It compares the similarities and differences that existed in the social, economic, and political environment of the two countries. The essay approaches the topic by analyzing the cause and effect of economic depression, social upheaval, and unique political propaganda. The paper intends to provide information about circumstances when extremism revives, and thus to avoid similar conditions in the future.

Carthage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara K. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Ancient Religion ◽  
The Many ◽  
Made In

This chapter first lays out how we understand Christianity, contemporary ways of exploring ancient religion, and how contemporary studies of religious movements can help us to understand ancient religion; it also explores the social, economic, historical, archaeological, or other cultural forces that intersect with and explain the many facets of religious experience. It further discusses the provenance of Christianity in Roman Carthage; how Christianity started as a very small sect and became a dominant religion in a short period of time; Stark’s thesis about methods of and reasons for conversion; how a Christian or Christian group would have been identified and where they would have met; and who policed religious groups in the Roman empire. Finally the chapter discusses what difference Christianity and Christianness would have made in everyday life in Carthage.

The Future Is Open and Shapable: Using Solar Speculative Fiction to Foster Learner Agency

2021 ◽  
pp. 238133772110282
Author(s):  
Michelle Jordan ◽  
Jeremy Bernier ◽  
Steven Zuiker
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecological Theories ◽  
The Future ◽  
Learner Agency ◽  
Sustainable Futures

Speculative fiction is a powerful medium to explore possible futures, inviting literacy researchers and educators to consider the value of futures thinking as a tool for eliciting learners’ hopeful narratives about equitable, sustainable futures for their communities. Yet, when asked to imagine the future, adults and youth alike often envision dystopian stories and fail to consider the interdependencies between technological innovations and the social, economic, and environmental contexts they shape. Moreover, current pedagogic strategies for thinking about the future encourage globalized perspectives rather than stories localized in learners’ lived contexts. Using design-based research methods and informed by ecological theories that assume learners exercise agency through their actions that bring together past, present, and future, our team developed conjectures about how futures thinking might support learners’ agency in relation to sustainability activism and environmental justice. Data analyzed to test our conjectures were 18 solar futures narratives written by adult and youth participants in a solar energy research program. Findings show promise for writing practices that foster sustainability and climate change learning.

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