Dyslexia – a learning disability or an educational trend? People with reading and writing disorders in the light of worldwide regulations and the legislative acts applied in Poland and Great Britain as well as in the social perception

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Monika Chodyna-Santus
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Trend ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Insight Into

Dyslexia – a term appearing in various aspects, for some – a disorder of reading and writing, for others – a social construct, in some areas regarded as a disability, in others as an excuse, perceived as a disease or a mystery disorder. The term used in scientific fields, educational units, in the educational reports and acts, as well as in the media and common discourse. Among arising doubts concerning the disorder, the rights of people with dyslexia bring on the controversy and emotions. The article points to the worldwide regulations, with emphasis on legislative acts applied in Poland and the UK, shows the situation of people with dyslexia in schools and the workplace. It also shows that the regulations constitute both the basis of due rights as well as cause disputes in the context of their appropriateness and necessity. The article is an insight into the aspects of legal regulations concerning the disorders and the social tensions or doubts concerning them.

scholarly journals Archetypal Dominant in the Ukrainian Sector of Social Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Tatyana Khraban
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of the article is to analyze which archetypes are dominant in the personality, activities, objectives, self-concept of users of the Ukrainian sector of social networks and project as a manifestation of users’ personal preferences and resonance in the posts on the social network Facebook. Materials and methods. Insight into phenomenon of identity has been carried out in the media-centered approach to understanding the personality. The essence of this approach based on psychoanalytic theory and extends to modern ideas about oneself and the people which a person encounters throughout his life. In this study the method of contextual and intuitive-logical interpretive analysis was used in order to identify the meanings of publications (aphorisms and quotations) based on personal experience and logical thinking. Content analysis was used to separate certain patterns into thematic groups, which made it possible to identify the dominant archetypes in publications. The posts (aphorisms and quotes) posted on the users’ pages in the Ukrainian sector of social networks (780 units) provided inputs for the study. Results and discussions. Since archetypes are characteristic characters and plot elements, often represent key roles in life-story narratives with familiar and consistent traits, archetypal figures have become prototypes for a universal role model. Quotes and aphorisms are very common incentives for discussion on social networks. Personal preferences in this area are enough indicative to provide a complete picture of the issues of concern. Conclusions. The most common archetypes in the Ukrainian sector of social networks are “Sage”, “Ruler”, “Innocent”, “Everyman”, “Wizard”. The share of these five archetypes is 73%. The fact that the share of the three archetypes “Sage”, “Innocent”, “Explorer” reaches 42%, indicates the prevalence of the strategy of individualism in social networks. The main characteristics of people using these three archetypes to build their identity are spiritual search, reflections on the world and their place in it, endless doubts about themselves, about the correctness/incorrectness of their choices, the desire to be a bright individual and to choose their own path. The full development of the personality and the realization individual’s intentions as an end in themselves become a prerogative. Taking into account these circumstances, as well as the fact that social networks users are united in communities of interest, we can conclude there is a tendency in the development of constructive individualism in social networks – individuals consciously unite into groups to achieve their own goals and organize their lives.

scholarly journals Social Enterprise Places: A Place-Based Initiative Facilitating Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Constructions of Legitimacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 027614672110407
Author(s):  
Anthony John Samuel ◽  
Gareth Reginald Terence White ◽  
Ken Peattie ◽  
Robert Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Good ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

Social Enterprises are becoming a significant force of social as well as economic good despite facing many difficulties that are brought about by their unique characteristics. Chief among these is the question of their perceived legitimacy that impinges upon their ability to gain funding, acquire contracts and appear as capable organisations to potential partnering institutions. This study explores the means by which Social Enterprises are legitimized through participation in the Social Enterprise Place (SEP) programme in the UK. By examining the Boundary Objects (BO) that span the intersections of the incumbent social groups it identifies three pillars upon which SEPs have facilitated SE legitimacy. These pillars comprise (i) the place-based language (syntactic BO), that enables the identification of (ii) common social goals (semantic BOs), and thereby enables the (iii) mobilization of resources toward their resolution (pragmatic BOs). This research provides insight into the facilitation of legitimacy for Social Enterprises that are engaged in a place-based initiative. By responding to Peterson’s (2016) call for macromarketers to take more note of meso level marketing dynamics in different industries the paper highlights the potential for place to facilitate the legitimacy of SEs. In addition, it reveals a further macromarketing dimension to Boundary Object plasticity whereby they may evolve through syntactic, semantic and pragmatic forms over time.

scholarly journals “Heart of Darkness” and “Dark Continent”: Africa and its Nations in Polish Media and Social Perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
M. Bodziany ◽  
M. Nowakowska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mutual Relations

Objectives. The cognitive purpose of the article is to describe the stereotype of the Africans in the profiles of stereotypical perception of the Poles, created under the influence of the media and the low level of cultural competence of the Poles, as well as to identify the Poles’ attitudes towards the Africans and social problems arising in mutual relations. Background. The image of Africa and its inhabitants in the social perception of Poles is an issue still under-studied and burdened with deficit empirical knowledge. He is burdened with stereotypes created over many years by building a distorted image of Africa through the media and pop culture. An important determinant of the subjective image of the inhabitants of Africa in the perception of Poles is also their lack of cultural competence, which is based on the small population of Africans in Poland and limited contacts with them, as well as the lack of tendency of Poles to expand their knowledge about other nations. Methodology. The article is based mainly on qualitative research — on the analysis of secondary data (desk research) coming from research reports, which are supplemented by the results of quantitative research on the perception of refugees and immigrants in the opinion of the young generation of the Poles. The essence of the article is an attempt to answer the question: what is the image of Africans and Africa in Poland and to what extent is it changing? Conclusions. However, the stigmas of the past seem to be disappearing, and Polish society is also opening up to the world in terms of culture. thanks to this, changes in the perception of Poles are visible not only towards Africans but also to other nations. The increase in the population of „foreign” nationalities, including those from Africa, as well as the spatial mobility of Poles observed in Poland mean that the image of Africans is changing. It is still a slow process, but it shows change — moving away from misperception and stereotypes in favor of knowledge and openness.

scholarly journals Brexit, the Press and the Territorial Constitution

2020 ◽  
pp. 096466392092192
Author(s):  
Gregory Davies ◽  
Daniel Wincott
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk

Brexit has unveiled previously hidden aspects of United Kingdom (UK) society, law and politics. It provides a valuable opportunity to investigate the social reception of law, and in particular the mediation of the law and constitution in the press. The distinctive constitutional arrangements and histories of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England have given rise to different territorial interpretations of the UK state. These asymmetries have parallels in the UK’s territorial media landscape, yet we have little understanding of how this landscape contributes to constitutional discourses. This article offers quantitative content and thematic analysis of UK-wide media coverage of major court judgments which have served as critical junctures in the Brexit process. The analysis reveals striking territorial variation in the volume and substance of coverage. Here, the media appears to reinforce divergent understandings of the constitution: while English reporting chimed with a more unitary account of the constitution, reporting elsewhere was more consistent with a vision of the UK as union-state. In the light of these findings, we argue that media analysis can make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the law and the constitution.

scholarly journals NICE and Society: Health Technology Appraisal and the Cultivation of Social Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-183
Author(s):  
Matthias Benzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Health Technology Appraisal ◽  
Insight Into

This article presents a sociological inquiry into the politics of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) approach to health technology appraisals. It is based on analyses of documents published by NICE and of a 2005–2008 interdisciplinary debate about the ethics of its activities. Simultaneously, the article brings further perspectives to this debate by clarifying that NICE, through the comparisons central to its approach, arranges a competition in producing health between different treatments applied to their respective particular patient groups. In fostering competition for differentiation, NICE’s approach resembles objectives for shaping social relationships often attributed to neoliberal politics. Yet closer scrutiny reveals that NICE’s creation of positions for, and relations between, patients is simultaneously more problematic. A comparison between NICE’s work and long-standing sociological conceptions of the social relationship offers insight into the quality of the social relations NICE’s approach supports in more general terms.

Discourses on LGBT Asylum in the Uk

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaut Raboin
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Way

Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK analyses fifteen years of debate, activism and media narrative and examines the way asylum is conceptualized at the crossroads of nationhood, post colonialism and sexual citizenship, reshaping in the process forms of sexual belongings to the nation. Asylum has become a foremost site for the formulation and critique of LGBT human rights. This book intervenes in the ongoing discussion of homonationalism, sheds new light on the limitations of queer liberalism as a political strategy, and questions the prevailing modes of solidarity with queer migrants in the UK. This book employs the methods of Discourse Analysis to study a large corpus encompassing media narratives, policy documents, debates with activists and NGOs, and also counter discourses emerging from art practice. The study of these discourses illuminates the construction of the social problem of LGBT asylum. Doing so, it shows how our understanding of asylum is firmly rooted in the individual stories of migration that are circulated in the media. The book also critiques the exclusionary management of cases by the state, especially in the way the state manufactures the authenticity of queer refugees. Finally, it investigates the affective economy of asylum, assessing critically the role of sympathy and challenging the happy goals of queer liberalism. This book will be essential for researchers and students specializing in refugee studies and queer studies.

scholarly journals 'She knew he would murder her’

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Revital Sela-Shayovitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Intimate Femicide

The media play a central role in the social construction of intimate femicide, and therefore the news coverage of femicide can contribute to social awareness and the response policies of institutions which deal with this crime. The current study analyses the differences in Israeli newspapers’ framing of femicide committed by members of ethnic groups between the years 2005-2014. The analysis shows that the social construction of intimate femicide reflects the intersection between gender, social class and ethnic origin. The findings suggest that news coverage fills a key role in the perpetuation of the structure of dominance, gender and social class, and that the overall coverage of femicide is mainly episodic and described in personalized terms, rather than within a thematic frame. This study provides new insight into the media’s role in shaping the social denial of this crime, and sheds light on how the prevalent discourse inhibits participants from taking responsibility.

scholarly journals UTV, THE NETWORK RELATIONSHIP AND REPORTING THE ‘TROUBLES’

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Orla Lafferty
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

UTV, formerly known as Ulster Television, has been the franchised commercial broadcaster in Northern Ireland since Hallowe’en night, 1959. While detailed research has been carried out on the history of the BBC in Northern Ireland (Cathcart, 1984, McLoone, 1996) there has been neglect in the study of the political, social and cultural role of UTV in this period. Johnson and Turnock (2005) attempted to address the lack of attention given to the regional structure of commercial broadcasting in the UK yet fail to even mention UTV in their index. There has however been some slight discussion of UTV within the wider context of broadcasting in Northern Ireland (Butler 1995, Curtis, 1998 and Millar 1994) and Bernard Sendall and Jeremy Potter’s (1983, 1990) volumes Independent Television in Britain provide an invaluable source of historical information. More recently a book released for the channel’s 50th anniversary gives some insight into the channel's working processes but remains mainly anecdotal. These studies have not acknowledged the importance of regional broadcasters, particularly in relation to Northern Ireland and have failed to sustain their research. This paper aims to address this issue through three assertions. Studies on broadcasting in Northern Ireland have tended to focus on the lack of political debate or exploration of the situation in the region as well as productions which caused controversy when aired. This has led to a large neglect of aired programme material that can be analyzed and critiqued to add a different perspective to the already vast debate on the media and Northern Ireland. Secondly, the most important relationship for UTV as an independent broadcaster was its relationship with the Independent Television Authority and network. Finally, in coping with the ‘Troubles’, UTV adopted the approach of creating a dialogue with the community and ensuring that their focus remained on local people and their stories.

scholarly journals Social perceptions of suicide among the university student in Gaza Strip (A field and descriptive study)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
أسامة جبر عماد ◽  
عبد الكريم سعيد رضوان ◽  
إلهام حمزة الخواجة
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
University Student ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Suicidal Person ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
The University

This descriptive, analytical study aimed to identify the social perceptions of suicide for a university student in the Gaza Strip, the sample size 101 students was chosen purposively, a social perception questionnaire for suicide was used for the university student (Zuhair, 2008). The main results of this study were as follows: 67% believe that suicide is a response resulting from a personal problem, 93% of the sample agree that suicide is the choice of death intentionally, 90% of the sample agree that the suicide sees suicide as a means of freedom from his suffering, 60% Of the sample, they agreed that suicide, according to the suicide, is an assertion of its own in its own way, 66% agree that severe anxiety often leads to suicide, 79% agree that suicide is a rebellion against social norms, 88% agree that youth are the most vulnerable group to suicide, 61.5% of the sample collectively That suicide affects males more than females, 63% have indicated that the failure of the emotional relationship causes young people to commit suicide, 91% of them agree that suicide hinders the movement for the growth of societies. On the other hand, 43.5% say that the media in Gaza avoids talking about the problem of suicide, 78% agree that the issue of suicide in Gaza is one of the issues that shame families, 82% considered that suicide is a criminal act against society as a whole, 90% agreed that the suicidal person touches his religion and his family. The study agreed 100% that one can fight the idea of suicide by adhering to the principles of the Islamic religion, and the study concluded that there is a difference in the social perception of suicide for a university student. The study recommended the necessity of working towards achieving a comprehensive suicide prevention response targeting all groups of Palestinian society, especially the youth.

scholarly journals Adopting Measures to Increase Alumni Donations at Prestigious Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Aftab Dean ◽  
John Graeme McLean
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alumni Donations ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

This research uniquely aims to identify the key factors that current students at prestigious universities indicate have influence upon their likelihood of making donations to their alma mater in the future. Using data and examples from both the UK and the USA we show the importance of voluntary donations to prestigious universities and suggest that UK universities have much to learn from their American counterparts. A novel questionnaire was administered to students studying at a number of prestigious UK universities which resulted in a large number of responses being accepted for inferential statistical analysis. The robust results provide new insight into the significance of student centred pedagogy and students' career and financial aspirations as major determinants of intention to donate and also confirm the importance of overall student satisfaction, acquisition of transferable skills and the social experiences of university as additional determining factors. It is intended that this research should have practical implications and so we emphasise elements of the student and pedagogical experience upon which universities and alumni departments should focus their resources in order to increase the likelihood of obtaining future alumni donations from their current students.

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