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Book Synopsis Collective Action for Social Change by : A. Schutz
Download or read book Collective Action for Social Change written by A. Schutz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.
Book Synopsis OECD Skills Studies Skills for Social Progress The Power of Social and Emotional Skills by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Skills Studies Skills for Social Progress The Power of Social and Emotional Skills written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents a synthesis of OECD’s empirical work that aims at identifying the types of social and emotional skills that drive children’s future outcomes.
Book Synopsis Action Learning for Social Action by : Mike Pedler
Download or read book Action Learning for Social Action written by Mike Pedler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about action learning in the service of social action and social change. The contributors are all engaged in developing new approaches to the wicked problems found in the world today, including the climate emergency, the circular economy, food poverty and insecurity, homelessness, disadvantage, active citizenship, social entrepreneurialism, and the learning of young women abducted by Boko Haram. They reflect a great diversity of settings in South Africa, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, Mozambique, Hungary, Poland and the UK. At this time of global crisis rapid technological and social developments sit side by side with apparently impossible challenges needing urgent action. In the Global South, conflicts, terrorism and climatic changes have forced millions of people to abandon their homes and to migrate in search of food and safety. In the Global North, neo-liberal and market-based policies have pursued deregulation, privatisation and the shrinking of the state with consequent increases in homelessness, poverty and ill-health. Action learning was devised to help people work together in challenging situations to bring about changes from the bottom-up. The people in these stories and cases are not passively awaiting brighter futures but are acting together to create a better world for themselves. They are taking back control in local community regeneration schemes, local energy and housing projects, setting up co-working spaces and inventing new ways of doing business and learning new ways to inhabit the earth. They demonstrate a confidence in an action learning idea that is alive and evolving. The chapters in this book were first published in the journal Action Learning: Research and Practice.
Author :International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :1108502393 Total Pages :971 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (85 download)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 1, Socio-Economic Transformations by : International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Download or read book Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 1, Socio-Economic Transformations written by International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as economic inequality and growth, finance and corporations, labor, capitalism, and social justice.
Book Synopsis Voluntary Action for Social Progress by :
Download or read book Voluntary Action for Social Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pursuit of Development by : Ian Goldin
Download or read book The Pursuit of Development written by Ian Goldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ian Goldin shows how the understanding of how nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has changed as the pendulum has swung from arguments for state-led development to a preoccupation with market forces.
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Bill Moyer and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.
Book Synopsis Social Development by : James Midgley
Download or read book Social Development written by James Midgley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a time when social welfare is undergoing structural economic change, this text puts the important emerging field of social development into the hands of the student. Inspired by the conceptual insights of contemporary political economy, social development offers a macro view of social needs and social problems. It provides a complete introduction to the field, providing the student with discussion of comprehensive strategies for social development as well as definitions, history, and theory"--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Voluntary Action and Social Progress ... By T.R. Batten and A.G. Dickson by : Thomas Reginald BATTEN (and DICKSON (Alexander Graeme))
Download or read book Voluntary Action and Social Progress ... By T.R. Batten and A.G. Dickson written by Thomas Reginald BATTEN (and DICKSON (Alexander Graeme)) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309452961 Total Pages :583 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Communities in Action by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Book Synopsis Social Progress the Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide by : Gerardus Blokdyk
Download or read book Social Progress the Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What situation(s) led to this Social progress Self Assessment? Is there any existing Social progress governance structure? What may be the consequences for the performance of an organization if all stakeholders are not consulted regarding Social progress? Where do ideas that reach policy makers and planners as proposals for Social progress strengthening and reform actually originate? At what point will vulnerability assessments be performed once Social progress is put into production (e.g., ongoing Risk Management after implementation)? This powerful Social progress self-assessment will make you the accepted Social progress domain auditor by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Social progress challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Social progress work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Social progress task and that every Social progress outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Social progress costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Social progress advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Social progress essentials are covered, from every angle: the Social progress self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Social progress outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Social progress practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Social progress are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Social progress self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.
Book Synopsis Social Progress by : Ulysses Grant Weatherly
Download or read book Social Progress written by Ulysses Grant Weatherly and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evaluating Social Development Projects by : David Marsden
Download or read book Evaluating Social Development Projects written by David Marsden and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change by : Luis Medina
Download or read book A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change written by Luis Medina and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that groups form and act in ways that respond to objective, external costs and benefits has long been the key to accounting for social change processes driven by collective action. Yet this same notion seems to fall apart when we try to explain how collectivities emerge out of the choices of individuals. This book overcomes that dilemma by offering an analysis of collective action that, while rooted in individual decision making, also brings out the way in which objective costs and benefits can impede or foster social coordination. The resulting approach enables us to address the causes and consequences of collective action with the help of the tools of modern economic theory. To illustrate this, the book applies the tools it develops to the study of specific collective action problems such as clientelism, focusing on its connections with economic development and political redistribution; and wage bargaining, showing its economic determinants and its relevance for the political economy of the welfare state. "Medina's study is a great step forward in the analytics of collective action. He shows the inadequacies of currently standard models and shows that straightforward revisions reconcile rational-choice and structural viewpoints. It will influence all future work." -Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University "Olson, Schelling, and now Medina. A Unified Theory deepens our understanding of collective action and contributes to the foundations of our field. A major work." -Robert H. Bates, Harvard University "Medina thinks that the main problem of social action is not whether or not to cooperate but how to do it. To this end he has produced an imaginative approach to analyzing strategic coordination problems that produces plausible predictions in a range of circumstances." -John Ferejohn, Stanford University Luis Fernando Medina is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.
Book Synopsis Transforming Social Action into Social Change by : Shana Cohen
Download or read book Transforming Social Action into Social Change written by Shana Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cohen offers a new framework for analyzing social projects and local social activism. Rather than look at how single projects are designed and managed to evaluate their impact, the approach calls for analyzing fields of social action: policy and politics, institutional behavior, social networks among policymakers and practitioners, and availability of funding and other resources. Combined, they affect the conceptualization of a social problem and the design and practice of social intervention. More broadly, through circumscribing the range of thinking about social problems, they delimit possibilities to generate social change. Analyzing fields also allows for linking macro-level trends in areas like policy to decision-making within individual organizations and the effectiveness of projects at instigating the desired transformation in individual and collective behavior. Working together, policymakers, individual activists, nonprofit organizations, and staff in public institutions like schools and hospitals can critique and alter fields to challenge more effectively social problems. This collaboration, in turn, affects how social policies are designed and, ultimately, the politics of social change.
Book Synopsis Society in Action by : Piotr Sztompka
Download or read book Society in Action written by Piotr Sztompka and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Society in Action, Piotr Sztompka sets forth a highly topical contribution to central theoretical debates of contemporary sociology. Taking the idea and practice of collective mobilization as his theme, Sztompka argues that modern institutions, particularly of late, are characterized by an increasing awareness of collective empowerment. The most obvious concrete expression of this phenomenon, as Sztompka makes clear, is the rise of a diversity of active social movements such as those which dramatically transformed Europe in the 1980s, from the birth of Solidarity in 1980 to the 1989 "Autumn of Nations." Sztompka connects the interpretations of such collective activity to a wider grasp of the nature of social action. The result is a comprehensive and original theory of social change which focuses on the self-transforming influence on society of its members' striving for freedom, autonomy, and self-fulfillment. He develops his theory by means of a general concept of "social becoming," the roots of which he traces to the early romantic and humanist work of Karl Marx and his followers and to two influential sociological schools of today, the theory of agency and historical sociology. Sztompka situates his theory midway between the rigid determinism of social totalities and the unbridled voluntarism of free individuals. Social change, he demonstrates, can be understood neither as the outcome of individual actions taken alone nor as structurally determined actions. Instead, he confers upon social organizations and movements a "self-transcending" quality: they express human agency yet, by virtue of their active character, are quite often able to achieve unpredictable outcomes. Throughout his analysis of social movements and revolutions in history, Sztompka emphasizes the dynamics of spontaneous social change generated from below—a theoretical testimony to the rapid and fundamental social change in Eastern Europe in recent history. Against the fashions of postmodernist malaise, boredom, and disenchantment, his theory of social becoming expresses the possibility of emancipation, of change leading to positive gains. His work registers a belief in progress, not inevitably gained, but its attainment fully dependent upon the creativity and optimism of an active citizenry.
Book Synopsis Social Justice in an Open World by :
Download or read book Social Justice in an Open World written by and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Forum for Social Development was a 3 year project undertaken by the United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs between 2001 and 2004 to promote international cooperation for social development and supporting developing countries and social groups not benefiting from the globalization process. This publication provides an overview and interpretation of the discussions and debates that occurred at the four meetings of the Forum for Social Development held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, within the framework of the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development.
