scholarly journals Healthcare resource allocation in the English courts: a systems theory perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Keith Syrett
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Healthcare Resource Allocation

Engagement with sociological perspectives can enrich an understanding of medical law and provide a basis for critique of certain of its key premises. Since both law and healthcare are frequently conceptualised and analysed as systems, the theoretical frameworks developed by Niklas Luhmann and Gunther Teubner would seem to offer particular promise in this regard. This article explores a particular area of medical law to which an understanding of the social (and political-economic) context of decision-making is of clear importance – adjudication upon the allocation of scarce resources – in order to identify what insights may be gained from an approach grounded in systems theory.

scholarly journals The Controversy between Niklas Luhmann and Jűrgen Habermas Related to Sociological Approach to Law

SEEU Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Jovanoski ◽  
Agron Rustemi
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social

Abstract The aim of the paper is to present a brief insight into the significant works and views of the German sociologists Niklas Luhmann and Jűrgen Habermas on the role of law in regulating human relations in society. Educated as a lawyer, Niklas Luhmann in the late academic career was under the influence of the American sociologist Talcott Parsons. Niklas Luhmann later, under the influence of the American sociologist Talcott Parsons, he built a sociological theoretical system called the systems theory. On the other side, Jűrgen Habermas was a philosopher and sociologist, highly influenced by the Frankfurt school of sociology. According to Luhmann‘s systems theory, the social reality and the separate aspects of the social life are part of a deeper system called society, and in relation to the same they are set as subsystems. Social systems are divided into allopoietic and autopoietic. One of the significant axioms of Luhmann’s theory is that the largest number of systems tends to simplify due to the pressure of the environment for greater efficiency. Law in Luhman’s systems theory enjoys the status of an autonomous system for regulating society, rather than an instrumental contribution to politics. This brief review exposed a big clash between two influential German thinkers. In this paper we are going to use historical method and analysing of the content of different materials and previous authors that are dealing with the work of Niklas Luhmann and Jűrgen Habermas.

Globalization

Anthropology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Gullette
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
Political Economic

In effect, globalization is the development and proliferation of complex, interdependent international connections created through the movement of capital, natural resources, information, culture, and people across national borders. This includes the social and cultural resistances and receptions to these varied movements. The marked increase in anthropological and allied disciplines research that either specifically examines and unpacks the idea of globalization, or uses the structural and theoretical components to examine particular case studies, has largely transformed globalization into a ubiquitous framework or concept. As a result, globalization is naturalized for many—something that inevitably exists and does so in particular forms. Much of the work that anthropologists conduct within globalization studies informs, and is informed by, research in fields such as economics, sociology, and human geography, to name a few. Extensive intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary networks are characteristic of anthropological research in globalization. As this bibliographic source demonstrates, the actual areas of study and the processes that constitute globalization (e.g., migration, tourism, neoliberalism, identity formation, urban planning and development) are not clearly demarcated from other research areas, nor are they taken up unproblematically by anthropologists. Debate often centers on how to define the field of study and determine what (transnational) processes form the foundation of globalization. Additionally, anthropologists debate globalization’s heuristic relevance in research and the value of particular theoretical frameworks when determining its contours and effects on social, political, economic, and environmental systems.

Mediation Is the Message

2018 ◽  
pp. 311-327
Author(s):  
Marco Briziarelli ◽  
Joseph Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Level ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Main Language

In this chapter, the authors explore the deep level of ambiguities that characterizes the relationship between social media and capitalism, and the social, political economic context in which in several regions of world they operate. This reflection is provided in a particular moment of history in which media may have become at the same time the main “language” in order to decipher contemporary economics as well as the material terrain in which those economic activities develop. Yet, while social media seems to have been more and more integrated within the logic of capitalism, and capitalism has increasingly assumed the morphology of an informational dispersal, their relationship is not straightforward but defined by a series of deep rooted tensions.

scholarly journals Compartilhando sonhos: bem-viver, pedagogia Freinet, arte/educação e educação das relações étnico-raciais

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Alessandra Guerra da Silva Oliveira ◽  
Carolina Laureto Hora ◽  
Gabriela Luchesi Martins
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Political Economic

Resumo Diante do momento de crise sanitária, ambiental, ética e econômica mundial, ocasionadas pela pandemia do Coronavírus, o presente estudo se propõe a esperançar mudanças no viver em sociedade a partir dos pensadores indígenas. O objetivo deste ensaio é dialogar com reflexões críticas acerca do pensamento colonial, das acomodações e desesperanças de nosso tempo, do contexto social, político, econômico em que estamos vivendo e trazer considerações sobre o conceito de Bem-Viver como possibilidade de mudanças. Ao buscar uma interface com os temas que permeiam as pesquisas das autoras/pesquisadoras deste estudo, pretende-se estabelecer diálogos entre o Bem-Viver e a Pedagogia Freinet, a Arte/Educação e a Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais enquanto possibilidades de atuação no campo da educação alinhadas com a cosmovisão indígena.Palavras-chave: Bem-Viver. Pedagogia Freinet. Arte/Educação. Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais. Sharing dreams: Good Living, Freinet Pedagogy, Art/Education and Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations Abstract In the face of a global health, environmental, ethical and economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, the present study proposes to hope for changes in living society from indigenous thinkers. The purpose of this essay is to dialogue with critical reflections about colonial thought, the accommodations and hopelessness of our time, the social, political, economic context in which we are living and bring considerations about the concept of Good Living as a possibility for changes. In seeking an interface with the themes that permeate the researches of authors / researchers of this study, it’s intended to establish dialogues between Good Living and Freinet Pedagogy, Art / Education and the Educacion of Ethnic-Racial Relations as possibilities of action in the field of education aligned with the indigenous worldview.Keywords: Good Living. Freinet Pedagogy. Art Education. Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations. Compartiendo sueños: Buen Vivir, Pedagogía Freinet, Arte/Educación y Educación de las Relaciones Étnico-Raciales Resumen Frente a una crisis sanitaria, ambiental, ética y económica mundial causada por la pandemia del coronavirus, este estudio se propone a esperar cambios en la vida en la sociedad desde los pensadores indígenas. El propósito de este ensayo es dialogar con reflexiones críticas sobre el pensamiento colonial, las acomodaciones y desesperanza de nuestro tiempo, el contexto social, político, económico en el que vivimos y plantear reflexiones sobre el concepto de Buen Vivir como posibilidad de cambios. Al buscar una interfaz con los temas que permean las investigaciones de las autoras/investigadoras de este estudio, se pretende establecer diálogos entre Buen Vivir y Pedagogía Freinet, Arte/Educación y Educación de las Relaciones Étnico-Raciales como posibilidades de acción en el campo de la educación alineado con la cosmovisión indígena.Palabras clave: Buen Vivir. Pedagogía Freinet. Arte Educación. Educación de las Relaciones Étnico-Raciales.

Assembling Contexts

Inner Asia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The People ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to rethink the relationship between the practice of shamanism and the political-economic ‘context’ it is held to emerge from in contemporary Mongolia. In the face of an extraordinary ‘revival’ in shamanism, anthropologists have sought explanations for the phenomenon that centre around a concern with how to locate it in relation to the social, economic and political structures alongside which it manifests. Authors tend to produce accounts that either reduce shamanism to an expression of more fundamental material realities, or explore the cosmo-ontological parameters of the practice itself, in turn masking its articulation with other processes in the social field. This point will be illustrated with reference to a novel ethnography of the making of the shamanic gown in Ulaanbaatar. Yet more than this, it will be suggested that a more sustained reflection upon the nature of the shamanic gown, and consideration of new information regarding the processes that contribute to its creation, might provide the means to theorise in a rather different fashion. The shamanic gown and the people and things mobilised in its emergence do not simply collect social and theoretical contexts, but rather flow outward. As such, while being both intimately reactiveandirreducible to the adjacent realities, Mongolian shamanism also engages in themakingof these very structures. Shamanism and the making of shamanic gowns do not simply emerge from, or deny, contexts; they assemble them.

scholarly journals FROM THE DREAM OF GOLD TO ACCESS TO LAND: Signs of Violence in Serra Pelada and Life Stories in Palmares II

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. a8en
Author(s):  
Jax Nildo Aragão Pinto ◽  
Marcelo Barbalho ◽  
Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Landless Rural Workers Movement ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Military

The purpose of this article is to show that Serra Pelada (1980-1992), the largest open gold-digging in the world, has a close relationship with the establishment or rural settlements in southeastern Pará. To demonstrate that the epic of the prospectors and the historic struggle of workers for a piece of land have been linked for more than three decades, two resources are used: a photography taken by Sebastião Salgado in Serra Pelada, in 1986, and testimonies from ex- garimpeiros who now lives in Palmares II, a settlement created in Parauabepas, in 1996. The discussion is based on the social-political-economic context of the military dictatorship and the first actions of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Pará.

Policy Design for Non-anthropocentric Pathways to Protect Biodiversity and Re-generate the Land

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Sentient Beings ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
And Training

This article is a thinking exercise to re-imagine some of the principles of a transformational vocational education and training (VET) approach underpinned by participatory democracy and governance, and is drawn from a longer work on an ABC of the principles that could be considered when discussing ways to transform VET for South African learners and teachers. The purpose of this article is to scope out the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental context of VET and to suggest some of the possible ingredients to inspire co-created design. Thus the article is just a set of ideas for possible consideration and as such it makes policy suggestions based on many ways of knowing rooted in a respect for self, others (including sentient beings) and the environment on which we depend. The notion of African Renaissance characterises the mission of a VET approach in South Africa that is accountable to this generation of living systems and the next.

Different Resources, Different Conflicts? The Subnational Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Crime in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Conflict Behavior ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades of armed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature focusing on the subnational level of armed conflict behavior. It also illustrates how the social and economic context of these resources can operate as deterrents or as drivers of violence. The book thus provides important lessons for policymakers and scholars alike: Just as resources have been linked to outbreaks and transformations of violence, peacebuilding too needs to take into account their impacts, legacies, and potential

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