ESTIMATES OF SOCIAL MINIMUM BASKETS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 564 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Piotr Kurowski
Keyword(s):  
Household Consumption ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Food Basket ◽  
Seasonal Decline

The article presents values of social minimum baskets for the fourth quarter of 2020. The presented estimates take into account the needs as foreseen in the model under normal conditions – the new circumstances of COVID-19 are not taken into account. There is lack of research data on changes in household consumption in 2020. If there will be a need to change assumptions in the model, the values of social minimum can be recalculated in the future. After a seasonal decline in in the third quarter, the fourth quarter brought a gentle increase in the value of the social minimum baskets. Compared to the previous survey, the social minimum rose by 0.1% in a household of two pensioners to 0.5% in a household of five with three children. Inflation rose by 0.4% during this period. The increase in the social minimum was mainly due to the higher cost of housing – it rose from 1% to 1.2%, with the value of the food basket falling from 0.5% to 0.7%.

ESTIMATES OF SOCIAL MINIMUM BASKETS FOR THE SECOND AND THIRD QUARTER OF 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 562 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Piotr Kurowski
Keyword(s):  
Household Consumption ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Energy Carriers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Subsistence Minimum ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Energy Products

The article presents estimates of social minimum baskets for the second and third quarter of 2020, i.e. when the sanitary restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic took place. They obviously affected the functioning of households in various aspects. The presented estimates take into account the needs as foreseen in the model under normal conditions; the new circumstances of Covid-19 were not taken into account. There is lack of research data on changes in household consumption in 2020. If there will be a need to change assumptions in the model, the values of social minimum can be recalculated in the future. The value of the social minimum in the 2nd quarter increased by 2.1% in a one-person household and by 1.8% in a four -person household, with inflation by 0.3%.The increase in the subsistence minimum was mainly due to a further increase in food prices (from 4.3 to 4.5%), with the costs of housing and energy carriers rising from 1.7 to 2.0%. The very same factor contributed to a decline in the value of the minimum in the third quarter. In this period, the social minimum estimates decreased by -1% in a one-person household and by -1.1% in a four-person household, with a trace increase in CPI index (+0.1%). Seasonal decreases in food prices caused the value of food in the basket to decrease from -6.1 to -6.4%, with a CPI of -2.3% in this expenditure group. This time, expenditure on housing and energy products did not exceed 0.5%

ESTIMATES OF SOCIAL MINIMUM BASKETS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 568 (7) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Piotr Kurowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Price Index ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Similar Amount ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
Energy Carriers ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Social

The article presents values of social minimum baskets for the first quarter of 2021. The presented estimates take into account the needs as foreseen in the model under normal conditions of social life – the new circumstances of COVID-19 are not taken into account. There is lack of research data on changes in household consumption in 2020. If there will be a need to change assumptions in the model, the values of social minimum can be recalculated in the future. The first quarter of 2021 has brought quite marked increases in basket values. Compared to the previous survey from Q4 2020, the social minimum increased by 2.4% in the household of a single person and by 2.1% in a 4-person household with two children. Inflation rose by a similar amount (2.1%) over the period. Among the groups of needs with the highest share in the social minimum, the value of food items increased from 2.6% to 2.7%, with the price index in this group at a similar level (2.5%). Expenditure on housing maintenance and energy carriers increased significantly: from 2.3% in 5-person households to 2.7% in 1-person households. The dynamics of these expenditures in the social minimum was lower than the value of the CPI index (3.6%) in this group.

scholarly journals Futures Narratives, Possible Worlds, Big Stories: Causal Layered Analysis and the Problems of Youth

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cate Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Causal Layered Analysis ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Causal Variables

Narratives of the future can be seen as a form of colonialisation, structuring fields of discourse, in a process which Johan Galtung (cited in Andersson, 2006) refers to as ‘chronological imperialism’. However, futures narratives can also be used to disrupt these attempts at colonialisation through surfacing problematic assumptions in order to explore alternative scenarios. In this paper I first consider modal narratives and possible worlds and their relevance to the social sciences. I then discuss Sohail Inayatullah's ‘Causal Layered Analysis’ (CLA) - a narrative technique for constructing past and present and imagining the future. CLA draws on a ‘poststructural toolbox’ to examine problematic issues using a process which focuses on four levels of analysis: litany (the official public description of the issue); social science analysis (which attempts to articulate causal variables); discourse analysis or prevailing worldview; and myth/metaphor analysis. The aim is to disrupt current discourses which have become sedimented into practice and so open up space for the construction of alternative scenarios. In the third part I demonstrate how this approach can be used to examine ‘big issues’ taking as my example the current preoccupation with troubled and troublesome youth.

ESTIMATES OF SOCIAL MINIMUM BASKETS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 554-555 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
Piotr Kurowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
Minimum Level ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
Energy Carriers ◽  
Younger Child ◽  
The Third ◽  
Single Person

The article presents estimates of social minimum baskets – defi ned as a model allowing the minimum level for social integration of households – in the fourth quarter of 2019. In comparison with the previous survey (Q3), the value of baskets fell from 0.9% (in a single-person household) to 1.3% (in a family with a younger child), while the infl ation increased by 0.6% at that time. The decrease in the value of social minimum baskets was mainly due to the reduction in food prices, especially of vegetables. Expenses for maintenance of housing and energy carriers in farms without children slightly decreased, in other types they increased slightly. The lower dynamics of expenditure on housing was partly due to necessary technical adjustments.

scholarly journals How to Create an Atlas of «Silver» Professions: on the Future of «Silver» Education and the «Silver» Labour Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
P. A. Ambarova ◽  
◽  
A. D. Stafeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current State ◽  
Labour Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The article substantiates the need to create an Atlas of «silver» professions for «young» pensioners and pre-retirees. Similar to the atlas of New Professions, it is considered as a navigator of the «third age» people in the education and labour market. The current state of «silver» education and the «silver» labour market requires the elaboration and implementation of a proactive educational and socio-labour policy capable of coordinating the trends in the development of education, the sphere of labour with the interests and needs of the older generation of Russians. The social technology of designing «silver» professions and places of employment for the «third age» people is considered, taking into account the Russian and foreign experience of using this method of social engineering.

The teaching of jurisprudence and legal theory in British universities and polytechnics

Legal Studies ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilaire A. Barnett ◽  
Dianna M. Yach
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
Self Renewal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

‘Whatever the future of the subject, the content of the present courses suggests that jurisprudence has a capacity for self-renewal and an elasticity which enables it to interpret ideas from philosophy and the social sciences to law students in a way which stresses their modern relevance to the social and theoretical problems which an intelligent and critical study of law should suggest.’ So concludes the last survey of jurisprudence teaching in British universities carried out in 1972/73 by Cotterrell and Woodliffe. To what extent could their sentiments be echoed in 1983/84?Ten years have elapsed since the previous survey was completed during which time important changes have occurred in legal education and its environment.

scholarly journals Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110578
Author(s):  
Thomas Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Organic Material ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
Opening Up

Cryopreservation practices have become increasingly important within contemporary life sciences in recent decades, opening up the perspective of modifying and modulating temporal pathways and developmental cycles. Exploring the concept of “suspended life,” this article first focuses on temporal liminality as cryopreservation practices operate by extending the present. I rely on Niklas Luhmann’s account of time, which advances the idea of an enduring present bound to the principle of reversibility. The second part of this article engages with the emergence of cryobanks. Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s concept of the “standing-reserve” ( Bestand), I conceive of cryobanks as storing facilities that ensure the disposition of organic material. The third section discusses the advent of a “politics of suspension” based on the proliferation of cryogenic life in contemporary societies, which is defined by reversibility and disposition. The conclusion sums up the main argument and briefly points to the social and political repercussions of this mode of governing the future by prolonging the present.

Current Postvention Research and Priorities for the Future

Crisis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Andriessen ◽  
Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart ◽  
Julie Cerel ◽  
Myfanwy Maple
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Suicide Bereavement ◽  
Ethical Approval

Abstract. Background: Suicide can have a lasting impact on the social life as well as the physical and mental health of the bereaved. Targeted research is needed to better understand the nature of suicide bereavement and the effectiveness of support. Aims: To take stock of ongoing studies, and to inquire about future research priorities regarding suicide bereavement and postvention. Method: In March 2015, an online survey was widely disseminated in the suicidology community. Results: The questionnaire was accessed 77 times, and 22 records were included in the analysis. The respondents provided valuable information regarding current research projects and recommendations for the future. Limitations: Bearing in mind the modest number of replies, all from respondents in Westernized countries, it is not known how representative the findings are. Conclusion: The survey generated three strategies for future postvention research: increase intercultural collaboration, increase theory-driven research, and build bonds between research and practice. Future surveys should include experiences with obtaining research grants and ethical approval for postvention studies.

Alkohol im Tank – Bio-Kraftstoffe und die Grenzen moderner Mobilität

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Hartwig Berger
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The article discusses the future of mobility in the light of energy resources. Fossil fuel will not be available for a long time - not to mention its growing environmental and political conflicts. In analysing the potential of biofuel it is argued that the high demands of modern mobility can hardly be fulfilled in the future. Furthermore, the change into using biofuel will probably lead to increasing conflicts between the fuel market and the food market, as well as to conflicts with regional agricultural networks in the third world. Petrol imperialism might be replaced by bio imperialism. Therefore, mobility on a solar base pursues a double strategy of raising efficiency on the one hand and strongly reducing mobility itself on the other.

Party preferences and political participation: the emergence of the Turkish-origin German voter

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Vera Eccarius-Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Green Party ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Turkish Origin ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Interests

The article examines trends in voting preferences and voting behavior of Turkish-origin German voters. Despite only representing a small percentage of the total German electorate, Turkish-origin voters are gaining an opportunity to shape the future political landscape. While the Social Democrats have benefited most directly from the minority constituency so far, this author suggests that the Green Party is poised to attract the younger, better educated, and German-born segment of the Turkish-origin voters. All other dominant national parties have ignored this emerging voting bloc, and missed opportunities to appeal to Turkish-origin voters by disregarding community-specific interests. 

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