scholarly journals Book Review: Social Changes in a Global World by Ulrike Schuerkens

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ligia E Toutant
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Global World

Walden University’s social change approach is an essential part of its vision and is transmitted through the academic work and knowledge of its graduates, who are trained to find solutions to critical societal challenges in pursuit of advancing the greater global good. Schuerkens’ <em>Social Changes in a Global World</em> can serve as a compendium for the Walden family and others interested in this topic. The author examines how social transformations and changes are connected to issues of power and political influence; how transformations and changes have been influenced by concepts of modernity, progress, and rationalization; how transformations and changes differ in various contexts and geographical areas. The author explores globalization through both anthropological and sociological lenses along with the distinct journeys of humanity in developing and industrialized nations that are now seemingly merging and sharing commercial and cultural interests. The audience for this book may include academics, higher education practitioners, individuals concerned with global civil society, and political activists.

scholarly journals Governance of Higher Education in the Arab World and the Case of Tunisia

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Adnan El Amine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Dominant Model ◽  
Progressive Reform ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Arab Spring

Public universities in the Arab world have suffered from what might be called a political model of governance. This model involves the subordination of universities to political influence, from top to bottom as well as horizontally. It leads to the closing of minds, the undermining of knowledge production, and limiting the ability of universities to bring about social change. The exception to this dominant model in the Arab world is Tunisia, which, not coincidentally, has also been the only exception to the failure of the “Arab Spring,” continuing on the path of democracy and progressive reform despite some setbacks.

Informing Consent: Ethics and Immigrant Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Alexander Carson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Immigrant Studies ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Global World

In an increasingly global world, immigrants find themselves taking on a prominent role in the discourse and social change impacting both developing and industrialized nations. The character and profile of immigrants and migrants has diversified considerably over the last several decades, with refugees and immigrants seeking economic opportunity being joined by foreign nationals, medical tourists, and others who have chosen or have been forced to live outside of their nation of origin. Mobile populations rely extensively on communicative technology, and many depend on the growing presence of the Internet in the daily lives of people around the world. For immigrants as much as anyone else, and particularly those immigrating to and from industrialized nations, the Internet serves as equal parts tool, medium of expression, and a link back home.

scholarly journals Cambio e Historia: necesidades y posibilidades del análisis historiográfico a través de las "experiencias de transformación"

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Pablo Ortega del Cerro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Change Theory ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Social Change Theory ◽  
Methodological Problems

Resumen: El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo hacer una revisión de algunos problemas metodológicos del análisis historiográfico del cambio social. Se pre­tende superar la idea esencial de que las transfor­maciones sociales adoptan formas de transiciones entre modelos de sociedad, se quiere subrayar la complejidad de las mutaciones y se intenta recla­mar un examen de los cambios a través de una disección micro. Se propone lo que hemos deno­minado «experiencias de transformación» como un instrumento para indagar en los procesos de cambio y como un medio para abordar la com­plejidad de los factores que están en juego. Esto significa estudiar los cambios sociales desde los episodios micro de la vida social, es decir, analizar todos los momentos vividos en relación con ciertas mutaciones sociales en contextos determinados y las formas en que los individuos reaccionan, perci­ben, gestionan, negocian, promueven o, incluso, se resisten a los cambios. Aunque el trabajo no abor­da una cronología específica, gran parte de las re­flexiones proceden de los problemas que emergen en el estudio de los siglos XVIII y XIX.Palabras clave: cambio social, teoría, metodología, experien­cias de transformación, siglo XVIII, siglo XIX.Abstract: The main objective of this present paper is to review some methodological problems of the historical analysis of social change; the aim is to overcome the idea that postulates that social transformations adopt forms of transitions be­tween models of society. This works seeks to em­phasize the complexity of mutations and try to claim an examination through a micro dissection of changes. With this aims, it is proposed what has been called «experiences of transformation» as a way to investigate the processes of change and as a means to address the complexity of the fac­tors that were playing. This means studying social changes through the micro episodes of social life; that is, analyzing all the moments that individu­als lived in relation to certain social mutations in specific contexts and the ways in which they re­acted, perceived, managed, negotiated, promoted or even resisted changes. Although the work does not address a specific chronology, much of the re­flections come from the problems that emerge in the study of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen­turies.Key words: social change, theory, methodology, expe­riences of transformation, 18th century, 19th century.

scholarly journals Book Review: Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Moletsane, R. (2017). Participatory Visual Methodologies: Social change, community and policy.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia C Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
P 16 ◽  
Actual Policy

Mitchell, De Lange and Moletsane (2017) discuss the use of participatory visual research (PVR) to give voice to those involved in research and particularly to create opportunities for social change. Social change is characterized in different ways “new conversations and dialogues, altered perspectives of participants to take action, policy debates, and actual policy development” (p.16). The book intends to shift the conversation on PVR “towards outcomes and the ever-present question “What difference does it make?” (p.3). Both the ways social change is portrayed in the book, and the positioning that researchers, research participants, the community and policy makers take as audiences reflecting on the visual productions, are crucial to understand how PVR can stimulate social transformations.

scholarly journals Introduction: An Overview of the Research

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Carmen Păunescu ◽  
Katri-Liis Lepik ◽  
Nicholas Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Present System ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Innovation In Higher Education ◽  
Existing Data

AbstractThe ambition for this book is to demonstrate how higher education institutions (HEIs) can respond to societal challenges, support positive social change and influence the international public discourse on social innovation. It attempts to answer the question, ‘how does the present higher education system, in different countries, promote social innovation and create social change and impact’. In answering this question, the book identifies factors driving success as well as obstacles. The book offers suggestions about how the present system can be improved both based on existing data and international literature on social innovation in higher education. The book presents a selected set of peer reviewed chapters presenting different perspectives against which relevant actors can identify and analyse social innovation in HEIs.

scholarly journals Menggagas Pendidikan Berbasis Nilai-Nilai Civil Society di Madrasah

MADRASAH ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Baharuddin ..
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Weak Point ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Entities

<span><em>In an effort to realize the civil society (civil society) need for serious efforts </em><span><em>to build and develop civic cultur (cultural refiement). Compressive point, </em><span><em>the social aspect and the social networks that are considered a weak point </em><span><em>for the creation of a strong horizontal social entities. With an emphasis on </em><span><em>that aspect, is expected madrasa can lead to cooperation among citizens in </em><span><em>resolving public issues around it. The existence of social change in valuesbased education civil society produces promising practices, but not a few</em><br /><span><em>social changes it gave birth to the contrary, become more childbirth social </em><span><em>practices that “do not educate”. Where the importance we look back at how </em><span><em>the process of social change in education based on the values of civil society </em><span><em>could bring about a change in the desired direction.</em><br /><span><strong>Keyword: </strong><span><em>Madrasah, Civil Society, learning Society</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></span>

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