Quantitative methods for the social sciences ; a practical introduction with …

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9783319991184

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179 hlm

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A companion to the anthropology of education

The anthropology of education sits at the crossroads of anthropology as a discipline, schooling as a professional field, and education as a perennial human endeavor. As anthropologists of education, we attempt to offer the insights and concepts of anthropology to educational theory and practice, and conversely, to enrich the discipline of anthropology by offering deep inquiry into educational p…

Integrasi Sosial dan Konflik Horizontal: Studi pada Masyarakat Kabupaten Roka…

Sejak Tahun 1946 terjadi enam kali pertikaian antara anggota kelompok komunitas di Kabupaten Rokan Hilir, yaitu tiga kali antara anggota komunitas Melayu dengan anggota komunitas Cina (Tionghoa) yang terjadi pada beberapa kawasan di Kabupaten Rokan Hilir, yaitu di Kota Bagan Siapi-Api dan Bagan Batu, dua kali antara komunitas Melayu dengan komunitas Batak yang terjadi di Kota Bagan Siapi-Api da…

Law, Development and Innovation

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978-3-319-13311-9

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SxI – Springer for Innovation /SxI – Springer per l'Innovazione Volume 13

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Homicide Data Sources: An Interdisciplinary Overview for Researchers

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978-3-319-19881-1

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SpringerBriefs in Criminology

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A good life : human rights and encounters with modernity

This is a book about hope, the hope that we have ways to live together in a rapidly changing world which will enable us to ‘live a good life in the modern world’. It goes beyond hope and suggests how we may do this. The how is a critical question at a time when rapid change is impacting on all societies. What will be the human outcomes of political turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere?…

Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change

A preface generally tells the story of how a book came into being. This particular book is rooted in my previous work in macrosociology: notably, two earlier books in which I summarize the work of the big four in nineteenth-century sociology—Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber—and of contemporary theorists who write in the tradition of these founders. In writing these books, I not only lear…

‘O Effeminacy! Effeminacy!’ War, masculinity and the myth of liberal peace

Abstract This article challenges a received wisdom in the liberal peace thesis, namely that the roots of the conjunction of liberalism and peace can be traced back to the idea of an essentially pacific commercial civil society in the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment. The article instead shows that the Scottish Enlightenment was committed to the idea of military virtue. Textual analysis …

New Trends in Globalisation: An Examination of the Brazilian Case

Abstract. This analysis looks at the role of Wal-Mart in Brazil by using glocalisation theory. Glocalisation refers to the strategies and practices adopted by transnational corporations to cater to local cultures and customs. In the case of Wal-Mart in Brazil, it unsuccessfully attempted to impose the US strategy of management practices, employee standards, low wages, EDLP (every-day-low p…

Electronic Networks, Enhanced State Surveillance and the Ironies of Control

Abstract. The article begins by mapping the worldwide surge of state network surveillance initiatives that has occurred over the last decade or so. Invariably, the rationale for these initiatives include the claim that they will curb crime and/or terrorism. Focusing on the US context, it is argued that the proliferation of state network surveillance initiatives has resulted in a substantial…

Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population

In 2010, Congress asked the National Research Council (NRC), the operating arm of the National Academies, to prepare a report on the longrun macroeconomic effects of the aging U.S. population. In response, the NRC appointed an ad hoc committee, the Committee on the Long-Run Macroeconomic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population, under the auspices of its Board on Mathematical Sciences and thei…

Policymakers’ Use of Social Science Research: Looking Within and Across Pol…

Evidence-informed policy creates the conditions for families to perform the functions they provide for their members and society. To increase research utilization in policymaking, we must better understand policymakers and the professional and institutional cultures in which they operate. This exploratory cluster analysis examined within-group differences in valuing, seeking, and use of social …

Connecting humans and ecosystems in tropical fisheries: social sciences and t…

The current state of the biodiversity and ecosystems of the Caribbean is a complex predicament developed from the historical interactions of human populations. Resource and ecosystem conservation requires an understanding of the human and natural dimensions of the problems and a research and conservation strategy that unifies both experiences. We believe that the current emphasis on ecosystem-b…

Association between Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction of College Teachers

Abstract Colleges should motivate the teachers for their job satisfaction in order to enhance the performance of the organizations. This paper examines the association between work motivation and job satisfaction of teachers. With convenient sampling technique, only 112 responses are usable out of 150 questionnaires distribution to the teachers of university constituent, affiliated and plus tw…

Poverty Reduction and Policy Regimes

Summary. Poverty reduction is currently prominent on the agenda of international development. Most countries have wide-ranging anti-poverty programmes, irrespective of whether they have signed up to the least developed country (LDC)–focused Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) of the international financial institutions (IFIs). However, there are concerns that many countries will b…

Financing Social Policy

Summary. In her concluding remarks to the workshop, Hujo suggested that one useful way to approach the financing of social policy was through the lens of the multiple roles of social policy, and that this conceptual framework could be especially useful for empirical research at the country level. Exploring how social policy influences the productive and reproductive economies, and how it imp…

Ethnic Inequalities and Public Sector Governance

Summary. There is increasing recognition by scholars and policy makers that inequalities between groups constitute a more potent source for violent conflict than inequalities among individuals. When inequalities in incomes, wealth, and access to social services or political power coincide with group differences, ethnicity may assume importance in shaping choices and mobilizing individuals for…

Equitable Access to Health Care and Infectious Disease Control. Concepts, Mea…

Summary. Based on the presentations and discussions, the following specific issues emerged from the symposium. Access and equity. The issue of access is inextricably linked with ideas of disparities, equity and social values. Disagreement about what individuals and societies value translates into disagreement on approaches to improving access. A prime example is the debate over universalism v…

Trends in Government Support for Non-Governmental Organizations. Is the “Go…

Summary. This paper looks at trends in government support for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), asking whether the “golden age” of the large international NGO (INGO) is behind us. Since the 1980s, INGOs have been seen as increasingly important actors in development policy. The first part of the paper outlines the role of INGOs in development policy from 1980 to the present, arguin…

Transnational Civil Society Movements. The State of Anticorruption Efforts

Summary. Over the past several years there has been increasingly heated debate on issues of global concern, such as corruption. Corruption as a local and national problem has jumped out of these arenas and permeated the international arena as a result of transnational civil society actors. Global civil society organizations (CSOs) provide much of the impetus for the debate on corruption. A gro…

Toward a Typology of Civil Society Actors. The Case of the Movement to Change…

Summary. This paper proposes a typology of civil society actors based on organizational attributes and worldviews. It then applies the typology to the movement to change international trade rules and barriers. In so doing, it aims to contribute to current debates about the increasing autonomy and influence of civil society, and the growing diversity of civil society actors in the context of gl…

The Rise and Development of the Global Debt Movement. A North-South Dialogue

Summary. For decades, the debt issue has remained a front-runner—or perhaps even the front-runner—on the agendas of civil society organizations and movements throughout the world. The debt problem is a fascinating mosaic of world politics and power relations spiced with greed and mistrust. It also shows the devastating consequences of systemic imbalances in the global economy. From the civ…

The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Uganda

Summary. This paper traces Uganda’s experience of HIV/AIDS, and the reaction of the government, civil society and communities of Uganda to the epidemic. The motives underlying the decision in 1986 of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government to admit there was an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country are examined. While the HIV prevalence rate was documented to have started dropping as o…

The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context. Conceptual…

Summary. Care (whether paid or unpaid) is crucial to human well-being and to the pattern of economic development. Some analysts emphasize the significance of care for economic dynamism and growth. Others see care in much larger terms, as part of the fabric of society and integral to social development. Citizenship rights, the latter argue, have omitted the need to receive and to give care. To …

The Indian Parliament as an Institution of Accountability

Summary. This paper examines the institutional challenges facing the Indian Parliament. It argues that over the years there has been a decline in the effectiveness of Parliament as an institution of accountability and oversight. It shows that the instruments that Parliament can use for accountability—motions on the floor, oversight powers, the committee system—are increasingly being re…

The Global Women’s Rights Movement. Power Politics around the United Nation…

Summary. This paper examines the discourse, inputs and reorganization of strategies that emanated from the lobbying of women’s rights movements vis-à-vis global agencies like the United Nations (UN), as well as the World Social Forum. Harcourt sets out some key strategic questions for consideration: How much have women’s movements achieved by working in collaboration with the UN? Is there…

The Global Justice Movement. How Far Does the Classic Social Movement Agenda …

Summary. This paper analyses the new form of contention represented by the global justice movement (GJM) through the lenses of the classic social movement agenda for explaining contentious politics. The paper takes up each of the three core components of the classic agenda (political opportunities, mobilizing structures and framing processes) in order to ascertain their relevance for expla…

Successful Targeting? Reporting Efficiency and Costs in Targeted Poverty Alle…

Summary. Economic, moral and political reasons may underlie the choice between targeting and universal models of social provision. In the debate about universal versus targeted solutions for combating poverty and social exclusion, many have called for targeted interventions, arguing that they are an effective way to reach the poor while maintaining budgetary restraint. In the context of minimi…

Social Policy and the Quest for Inclusive Development. Research Findings from…

Summary. This paper provides a reflective overview of the eight studies commissioned under the UNRISD project on Social Policy in Late Industrializers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Challenge of Social Policy. The studies involved subregional and thematic social policy concerns. Within this framework, one study was concerned with overall conceptual issues and macroeconomic policy directions, focu…

Remittances, Migration and Social Development. A Conceptual Review of the Lit…

Summary. This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationship between remittances and various dimensions of social development in the developing world within a broader conceptual framework of migration and development theory. Migration and remittances are generally part of risk-spreading and co-insurance livelihood strategies pursued by households and families. Migration and remitta…

Political Space for Non-Governmental Organizations in United Nations World Su…

Summary. The world conferences and summits held under the auspices of the United Nations have provided a new political space for involvement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In this paper, Britta Sadoun links this observation with broader developments in the relationship between the United Nations (UN) and civil society actors. The paper begins with a discussion of NGOs as civil soci…

Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Eco…

Summary. The aim is to study and describe the development of Finnish pension schemes. Special focus is given to the use of pension funds in national policy making. The Finnish case offers useful material for the study of two latent functions of social policy: how to create a unified nation (after a severe civil war) and how to invest pension funds in a way that makes national developmental pro…

NGOs and Social Movements. A North/South Divide?

Summary. This paper examines those contemporary agencies broadly termed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements. Emphasis is placed on political differences in approach, and the paper poses the question of how such differences coincide with geographical distinctions between the North and South. Differences in approach are also a product of different types of analysis and…

Neither Public Nor Private. Unpacking the Johannesburg Water Corporatization …

Summary. Local authorities across South Africa have undergone an enormous transformation in the postapartheid period. Ten years into democracy, most local authorities are contending with the difficulties of providing and improving the quality of water and sanitation services in areas that historically received service of abysmal quality, if any. The national policy guidelines driving local aut…

Mozambique’s HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Grappling with Apartheid’s Legacy

Summary. This study focuses on how apartheid, through its economic structures and wars of destabilization to preserve white minority rule, helped shape and deepen Mozambique’s HIV/AID pandemic, and how this tragic legacy continues to this day. Formal apartheid, and its efforts to destabilize black majority–ruled neighbours via proxy rebel movements, ended in Southern Africa in the early 1…

Liberalization and HIV in Kerala

Summary. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a good illustration of the well-established link between poverty and ill health; job insecurity can indirectly affect people’s susceptibility to diseases and infections such as HIV. Working and living conditions can put people at a higher risk for disease and infection: poverty-driven sex work and migration are acknowledged socioeconomic risk factors for…

How Far Does It Go? The Buenos Aires Water Concession a Decade after the Reform

Summary. Sanitation services in Argentina had traditionally been provided by a state-owned utility until 1982, when the national government transferred the responsibility of service provision to local governments. The city of Buenos Aires and a few adjacent districts were excluded from this move, retained under the control of Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (OSN). The performance of the dec…

Global Tax Initiatives. The Movement for the Currency Transaction Tax

Summary. The currency transaction tax (CTT), first proposed in 1972, is a simple idea: a tax levied on every currency exchange, set at a level low enough not to hinder transactions needed to finance trade in goods and services, or long-term investments. The establishment of the CTT, or a new organization to govern the CTT, would potentially constitute a far-reaching global regulatory change. T…

Global History and the Third World

For cultures of the West the existence of Athens, Florence or Paris is more important than that of Lo- Yang or Pataliputra. But, is it permissible to found a scheme of world history on estimates of such a sort?... The most appropriate designation for this current West-European scheme of history in which the great Cultures are made to follow orbits round us as the presumed center of all world…

Gendered Spaces in Party Politics in Southern Africa: Progress and Regress Si…

SUMMARY. This paper was written as a contribution to the review of progress toward gender equality since the 1995 Beijing Conference with specific reference to the southern African region. It recognizes that in the African context, a review of this nature is necessarily also an assessment of how far institutions and processes of accountable governance, reestablished in the 1990s in most Africa…

Gender Dimensions of Viet Nam’s Comprehensive Macroeconomic and Structural …

SUMMARY. From a gender perspective, Viet Nam is an interesting case study because it is widely seen as a “globalization” success story where historically the social and political status of women have been high compared with women’s status in many other developing countries. At the same time, there is concern that women’s status may be eroding during the country’s rapid transition to …

Part One - The Theory of Global History. From Universal History to Global His…

Summary. As a rule, the concepts of universal history and world history are treated as identical. However, in German historiography at least, one significant attempt to distinguish between the two was made. This effort was associated with Karl Lamprecht, spiritus rector of the Institute for Cultural and Universal History, established at the University of Leipzig in 1909. This institute repr…

Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Gender Equity: A Review of Researc…

SUMMARY. This paper provides a summary of the empirical and policy-related literature on the multifaceted relationships between gender inequalities and foreign direct investment (FDI). The literature on gender and FDI is evaluated with reference to the broader literature on FDI and economic development, new research directions are identified, and the policy implications of managing FDI for dev…

Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector in Nigeria

Summary. Nigeria has about 374 ethnic groups that are broadly divided into ethnic “majorities” and ethnic “minorities”. The major ethnic groups are the Hausa-Fulani of the north, the Yoruba of the southwest, and the Igbo of the southeast. These three “hegemonic” ethnic groups constituted 57.8 per cent of the national population in the 1963 census. All the other ethnicities constitu…

Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector in Switzerland

Summary. Switzerland is one of the few multilingual countries in Europe that does not have political difficulties with its linguistic minorities. Yet it would be fundamentally wrong to think of Switzerland as a country without historical conflicts. Modern Switzerland was not created by one homogeneous ethnic people but by different ethnic groups speaking different languages and following diffe…

Disempowering New Democracies and the Persistence of Poverty

Summary. In this paper, Thandika Mkandawire considers two processes taking place simultaneously in developing countries: the adoption of orthodox economic policies during a period of growing awareness of the pervasiveness and persistence of poverty, on the one hand, and the growing political empowerment of the majority of the population through processes of democratization, on the other ha…

Corporate Partnerships and Community Development in the Nigerian Oil Industry…

Summary. The volatile nature of corporate-community relations, which has meant significant loss in oil revenues for governments and a decline in profits for oil transnational corporations (TNCs), has shifted the acquisition of a “social licence to operate” from the periphery to the heart of strategic business thinking within the Nigerian oil industry. Oil TNCs are responding to this challe…

Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America. Mothers at the S…

Summary. This paper has three main objectives. First, to describe the principal elements of new approaches to social policy in Latin America, in order to further understanding of the new forms of social protection that are evolving in the South. Second, to examine and contrast new and older models of poverty relief with specific reference to Latin America; and third, to ask what the implicatio…

Beyond Pragmatism. Appraising UN-Business Partnerships

Summary. In recent years, the United Nations (UN) has emerged as one of the principal proponents of public-private partnerships (PPPs), considered by many to be a key instrument of development and an ideal to be emulated. The authors of this paper argue that idealizing the concept and its normative content, as well as the feel-good discourse that infuses much of the mainstream literature, risk…

Beijing Plus 10: An Ambivalent Record on Gender Justice

SUMMARY. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the “Beijing conference”) was a landmark in policy terms, setting a global policy framework to advance gender equality. Ten years after Beijing, in March 2005, the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women presided over an intergovernmental meeting in New York to review the progress achieved on the commitments made in the Beijing Declara…