CAUSES OF ADULT ILLITERACY: A CASE STUDY OF FEROZEPUR DISTRICT

2016 ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Kulwinder Singh ◽  
Ravinder Kamboj
Keyword(s):  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Literacy Process ◽  
Social Causes

Present research is an attempt to study the social, educational and personal causes of adult illiteracy. Qualitative approach was adopted to evaluate causes of illiteracy. Ferozepur district of Punjab (India) was chosen as the region for conducting this study mainly for its low literacy rate and being a border area of Punjab, from where 60 adult respondents were taken as sample. Data was collected by a self-administered interview schedule, which seeks information regarding causes of non-educability. Findings of the study show that lack of parents interest, alcoholism/drug abuse of father and 'early marriage' have been reported as social causes for illiteracy among adults while in educational causes, adult respondents have enlisted three main causes 'school was far away', 'physical punishment' and 'behaviour of teacher not being appropriate'. Poor economic conditions, no source of income, over workload, hesitation and over-aging emerged as personal causes for discontinuation of the literacy process. It has been suggested that intervention programmes should be introduced in border areas to increase participation in adult education programmes and to remove obstacles in getting education.

scholarly journals Social Capital Function of Community of Tuban Literacy for Collective Action Building Cultural Literacy in Tuban District

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Afdolu Nasikin
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Action Process ◽  
Youth Community

The low literacy culture is a problem that should be our responsibility. Thus, the solution is not only based on formal education, but also paying attention to environmental factors. Because the environment is one of the factors that influence society's habits or interests. So literacy-based social movements should be considered. This study aims to examine the social capital in community of Tuban Literacy and its function to collective action taken to build a youth reading culture in Tuban district. This research takes case study to community of Tuban Literacy. Community Tuban Literacy is a youth community that is engaged to cultivate youth literacy culture in Tuban district. The methodology used in this study is qualitative design with data collection method through observations and in-depth interviews that aim to obtain specific data related to social capital and collective action process undertaken by community Tuban Literacy. Based on the analysis, the social capital of community of Tuban Literacy has a significant effect on collective action. The collective action in the form of activities is Lapak Baca, Tadarus Books, Nggacor sak mbledose, Tour to School, Writing Competition, Cangkruk'an Literacy, Ngamen Literacy, Reading Tree, and Pesantren Literacy. These activities are able to attract teenagers to participate in every community of Tuban Literacy activity. The average ability of young people to read in the community of Tuban Literacy is at the level of literacy. Thus, the output produced is a lot of teenagers whose intensity of reading increases and leads to critical thinking. Keywords: Community, Social Capital, Collective Action, Literacy Culture

scholarly journals Brand Activism, the Relation and Impact on Consumer Perception: A Case Study on Nike Advertising

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Bassant Eyada
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
Social Leadership

Recently various brands have been promoting their products through social issues that consumers are engaging with, by moving from social corporate responsibility to leadership and harnessing the brands' power to inspire social and environmental problems and change. Whether brands are creating social leadership campaigns to raise profit margins, or because they simply care about the issues they discuss, several brands have been playing this role through their campaigns, as seen for example with brands like Nike, Under Armor, Gillette, and Uber. This paper follows the qualitative methodology by proposing an analytical study of the advertising messages and concepts through a case study of Nike advertising promoting their products through social leadership campaigns, and an analysis which aims to measure the impact of these campaigns on brand image, profit margins, and the means the social causes are being perceived by the consumers.

scholarly journals Legal Society Service of Pro-Bono on Migrant in Morocco in Law Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amine El Khalfi
Keyword(s):  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pro Bono ◽  
Bar Association

Morocco is a constitutional, democratic and social monarchy. The King is the Supreme Representative of the Nation and the Symbol of the unity thereof. He is the guarantor of the perpetuation and the continuity of the State. As Defender of the Faith, he ensures the respect for the Constitution. He is the Protector of the rights and liberties of the citizens, social groups and organizations. System Barriers to Pro Bono work result from the social environment of the judiciary and, more specifically, from the current practice of law in Morocco. The population generally has a low regard for the legal and judicial sector, and expects corruption in the judiciary. In Morocco, legal information is also not adequately disseminated to the public.[1] In addition, the low literacy rate 52.3% for the total population (39.6% for women, 65.7% for men) renders access to justice all the more difficult. A substantial proportion of the population is therefore vulnerable and may fall prey to unethical behavior. The Bar Association has great difficulty in supervising “homeless” lawyers, who are lawyers with no fixed business address and operate with a cellular telephone from undisclosed premises. Up to 800 of the 3,000 lawyers registered with the Casablanca Bar Association are reportedly “homeless” lawyers, who prey on the uninformed and often maintain frivolous suits in order to collect higher fees.[1] US Department of State, 2004 census <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5431.htm accessed on January 10, 2021

scholarly journals Data Forgery dalam Perkawinan Dini Perspektif Fungsionalisme Structural

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
St. Sariroh
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Structural Functionalism ◽  
Legal Marriage

Perkawinan dini bukan hal tabu dilakukan di Madura. Banyak pasangan menikah diusia muda. Dalam Undang-undang perkawinan No. 16 Tahun 2019 bahwa perkawinan bisa terlaksanan jika mempelai sudah berusia 19 tahun. Namun mereka cenderung menambahkan usia dalam identitas perkawinan tanpa memohon dispensasi nikah. Ini dilakukan untuk menghilangkan rasa maloh atau tade’ ajhinah di masyarakat yang disebabkan Marriage by Accident dan mendapatkan legalisasi hukum. Dari permasalahan tersebut akan dianalisa bagaimana fenomena data forgery dalam pernikahan dini perspektif Fungsionalisme Struktural? Penelitian ini mengguakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan studi kasus, perolehan data menggunakan metode interview, observasi dan documentasi. Hasil penelitian; 1). Perkawinan dini dilaksanakan oleh pasangan “sebelum usia 19 tahun “. Dengan cara menambahkan usia di identitas perkawinanya sebab Marriage by Accident, karena menjadi beban keluarga yang dapat menimbulkan rasa maloh atau tade’ ajhinah. 2). Fungsionalisme struktural data forgery dalam perkawinan dini; Adaptation; proses habituasi para aktor dengan sistem sosial di masyarakat adalah dengan cara memalsukan usia perkawinan. Goal Attainment; hal ini demi mendapatkan legalisasi hukum perkawinan dan meningkatkan harkat martabat keluarga menjadi lebih baik. Integration; tidak selarasnya fungsi sistem sosial dan struktur lembaga di KUA. Latency; Masyarakat harus memelihara pola-pola tradisi sebaik mungkin, seperti penghormatan dan kepatuhan terhadap harga diri keluarga maupun orang lain Early marriage has accustomed in Madura. In act 16 in 2019 explained that marriage can be implemented if both of bride have 19 years old. Whereas, they add the age in their marriage certificate without asking marriage dispensation to religious court. This carried out to diminish malo and tade’ ajhinah in social environment caused of Marriage by Accident and get legal marriage. From the problem above will describe how is the Early marriage happened in Madura in Structural Functionalism perspective?. This research using qualitative approache and case study. The data collected by using interview, observation, documentation. The result; 1). The early marriage performed by young couple “under 19 years old “by adding the age in marriage certificate because of pregnant, it becomes moral burden which cause shamed and tade’ ajhinah. 2). structural functionalism of Early marriage, Adaptation; adaptation process of the actor to the social system i.e. married by adding the age. Goal-Attainment; This marriage aims to get registered marriage and to improve the family dignity. Integration; disintegration between social system and organizational structure. Latency; Madurese must maintain and sustain well-regarded cultural patterns such as their obedience and the reverence both of  their own dignity and others

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

Lord Dacre and the Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Scottish History

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) made several iconoclastic interventions in the field of Scottish history. These earned him a notoriety in Scottish circles which, while not undeserved, has led to the reductive dismissal of Trevor-Roper's ideas, particularly his controversial interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment, as the product of Scotophobia. In their indignation Scottish historians have missed the wider issues which prompted Trevor-Roper's investigation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a fascinating case study in European cultural history. Notably, Trevor-Roper used the example of Scotland to challenge Weberian-inspired notions of Puritan progressivism, arguing instead that the Arminian culture of north-east Scotland had played a disproportionate role in the rise of the Scottish Enlightenment. Indeed, working on the assumption that the essence of Enlightenment was its assault on clerical bigotry, Trevor-Roper sought the roots of the Scottish Enlightenment in Jacobitism, the counter-cultural alternative to post-1690 Scotland's Calvinist Kirk establishment. Though easily misconstrued as a dogmatic conservative, Trevor-Roper flirted with Marxisant sociology, not least in his account of the social underpinnings of the Scottish Enlightenment. Trevor-Roper argued that it was the rapidity of eighteenth-century Scotland's social and economic transformation which had produced in one generation a remarkable body of political economy conceptualising social change, and in the next a romantic movement whose powers of nostalgic enchantment were felt across the breadth of Europe.

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

The Social, Cultural and Behavioral Components of Information and Knowledge-Seeking Among Home Care Nurses

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Study Methods ◽  
Soins À Domicile ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Seeking ◽  
Case Study Methods ◽  
Home Care Nurses

Information and knowledge-seeking vary among users, including home care nurses. This research describes the social, cultural and behavioral dimensions of information and knowledge-seeking among home care nurses, using both survey and case study methods. Results provide better understanding and appreciation of nurses’ information behavior.La recherche d’information et de connaissances varie selon les usagers, y compris parmi les infirmiers et infirmières des soins à domicile. Cette recherche décrit les dimensions sociales, culturelles et comportementales de la recherche d’information et de connaissances parmi les infirmiers et infirmières des soins à domicile, en utilisant les méthodes de sondage et de l’étude de cas. Les résultats offrent une meilleure compréhension et connaissance du comportement informationnel des infirmiers et infirmières. 

THE ROLE OF LOCAL SOCIAL INSTITUTION IN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN BANDUNG REGENCY, INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helly Ocktilia
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Supportive Leadership ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the existence of the local social organization in conducting community empowerment. The experiment was conducted at Community Empowerment Institution (In Indonesia it is referred to as Lembaga Pemberdayaan Masyarakat/LPM). LPM Cibeunying as one of the local social institution in Bandung regency. Aspects reviewed in the study include the style of leadership, processes, and stages of community empowerment, as well as the LPM network. The research method used is a case study with the descriptive method and qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted against five informants consisting of the Chairman and LPM’s Board members, village officials, and community leaders. The results show that the dominant leadership style is participative, in addition to that, a supportive leadership style and directive leadership style are also used in certain situations. The empowerment process carried out per the stages of the empowerment process is identifying and assessing the potential of the region, problems, and opportunities-chances; arranging a participative activity plan; implementing the activity plan; and monitoring and evaluating the process and results of activities. The social networking of LPM leads to a social network of power in which LPM can influence the behavior of communities and community institutions in utilizing and managing community empowerment programs. From the research, it can be concluded that the model of community empowerment implemented by LPM Cibeunying Village is enabling, empowering, and protecting.

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