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Book Synopsis The Regional Dimension of Social Progress in Europe by :
Download or read book The Regional Dimension of Social Progress in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definition of societal progress is not straightforward. It is a complex concept encompassing many aspects that can be interpreted differently by different societies. Over the last century, progress has been largely reduced to a single figure: the growth of the gross domestic product (GDP). This aggregate monetary measure was first developed in the 1930s as a tool to assess the policies implemented in the United States to foster economic recovery after the Great Depression. Simon Kuznets, the main architect of the national accounting system and GDP in the United States, cautioned against equating GDP growth with economic or social well-being. Instead, he warned that: 'The valuable capacity of the human mind to simplify a complex situation in a compact characterization becomes dangerous when not controlled in terms of definitely stated criteria. [...] Measurement of national income are subject to this type of illusion and resulting abuse, especially since they deal with matters that are the centre of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent upon oversimplification' (in Lepenies, 2016, p. 71). Despite his warnings, GDP growth became the paramount goal pursued by policymakers all over the world as a means of summarising development and well-being. Social aspects only began to be included in the debate from the 1960s, when the need to widen the concept of development became evident. However, it was not until the 1990s that the debate gained momentum with the appearance on the measurement landscape of a serious contender to GDP: the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI derives from Sen's capability approach (Sen, 1985) and includes simple indicators of health, education and income (UNDP, 2019). Probably due to its simplicity, HDI neglects key elements that have become increasingly prominent in recent times, especially following the recommendations in the report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi, 2009). The report stimulated a multitude of initiatives all focusing on replacing and/or complementing GDP.
Book Synopsis Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2015 by : David Natali (OSE)
Download or read book Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2015 written by David Natali (OSE) and published by ETUI. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play has a triple ambition. First, it provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. Second, the volume provides a more analytical reading, embedding the key developments of the year 2014 in the most recent academic discourses. Third, the forward-looking perspective of the book aims to provide stakeholders and policymakers with specific tools that allow them to discern new opportunities to influence policymaking. In this 2015 edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play, the authors tackle the topics of the state of EU politics after the parliamentary elections, the socialisation of the European Semester, methods of political protest, the Juncker investment plan, the EU’s contradictory education investment, the EU’s contested influence on national healthcare reforms, and the neoliberal Trojan Horse of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Book Synopsis The European Social Model in Crisis by : Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Download or read book The European Social Model in Crisis written by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the impact of the crisis and austerity policies on all elements of the European Social Model. This book assesses the situation in each individual EU member state on the basi
Author :Commission of the European Communities. Directorate General for Social Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :31 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (12 download)
Book Synopsis Social Progress in Europe. Action by the Commission in the Field of Social Affairs in 1969 by : Commission of the European Communities. Directorate General for Social Affairs
Download or read book Social Progress in Europe. Action by the Commission in the Field of Social Affairs in 1969 written by Commission of the European Communities. Directorate General for Social Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Cohesion and Social Change in Europe by : Gerard Boucher
Download or read book Social Cohesion and Social Change in Europe written by Gerard Boucher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived. In the social sciences, social cohesion is a term used to explain the social and cultural consequences of structural changes related to industrialization and modernity. In the European Union, structural changes which relate to globalization, European integration, the restructuring of welfare states, ageing societies, and transitions from communism, have often led to more insecurity and material inequalities between people. Higher rates of immigration, and issues related to the integration of migrants and their descendants, have also led to anxieties about the preservation of national cultures and identities. This book argues that perceived crises in social cohesion in Europe have more to do with the consequences of structural change rather than the failure of multiculturalism and immigration. It looks at the relationship between social cohesion and social change in Europe, focusing on the European Union as a whole, and on urban areas such as Paris, France and Bradford, UK. This book was originally published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.
Book Synopsis Social Progress in Contemporary Europe by : Frederic Austin Ogg
Download or read book Social Progress in Contemporary Europe written by Frederic Austin Ogg and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War and Social Change in Modern Europe by : Sandra Halperin
Download or read book War and Social Change in Modern Europe written by Sandra Halperin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small and medium scale conflicts often ignored by researchers and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. This book revisits the historical terrain of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944), however, it argues that Polanyi's analysis is.
Download or read book Western Europe written by Max Schulze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new text offers a clearly structured introduction to the economic and social development of Western Europe since the Second World War. A team of experts explore key aspects of postwar Europe's economy and society in a number of thematic chapters, with a regional and strongly comparative focus and these are followed by specific national studies.
Author :Commission of the European Communities Publisher :Commission of the European Communities ISBN 13 : Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Social Progress in Europe by : Commission of the European Communities
Download or read book Social Progress in Europe written by Commission of the European Communities and published by Commission of the European Communities. This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Class in Europe by : Etienne Penissat
Download or read book Social Class in Europe written by Etienne Penissat and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.
Book Synopsis Early Modern Capitalism by : Maarten Prak
Download or read book Early Modern Capitalism written by Maarten Prak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.
Download or read book Social Progress in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Progress in Contemporary Europe (Classic Reprint) by : Frederic Austin Ogg
Download or read book Social Progress in Contemporary Europe (Classic Reprint) written by Frederic Austin Ogg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Progress in Contemporary Europe IN this little volume an attempt has been made to gather up and to explain with succinctness those aspects of Euro pean social development since the later eighteenth century which by common acceptation seem to possess enduring sig nificance. The subject is as limitless as it is inviting, and in the present survey of it many things of substantial impor tance have, of necessity, been passed with the barest allusion, or, at the most, with an exposition which is not more than introductory. Not a few topics of interest, I am well aware, have failed so much as to be mentioned. Effort has been made, however, to lay emphasis upon fundamentals and to make clear at least some of the principal developments by which, within the past hundred and twenty-five years, the state of European society has been made what it now is. The reader who may desire to pursue further any of the sub jects here touched upon is referred to a selected bibliography which appears at the close. In the chapters which are con cerned with the growth of popular political institutions I have utilized a number of passages from a forthcoming volume entitled le Governments of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Social Progress in Europe : Action Bythe Commission in the Field of Social Affairs in 1969 by : Commission of the European Communities
Download or read book Social Progress in Europe : Action Bythe Commission in the Field of Social Affairs in 1969 written by Commission of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of European Societies by : Stefan Immerfall
Download or read book Handbook of European Societies written by Stefan Immerfall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European integration is one of the most ambitious and socially far-reaching developments in world politics and in world economics. Against growing opposition and despite increasing social heterogeneity, the European Union continues to expand and to acquire new competences. But to what extent is the self-proclaimed "ever closer union among the peoples of Europe" a social reality? In which ways is the political European project anchored in social developments? How does social change impinge upon political integration? Societal trends in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and socially diverse Europe have never been studied systematically. Handbook of European Societies: Social Transformations in the 21st Century sets to rectify this neglect of societal developments in Europe, providing a groundwork for the sociology of European integration. The book portrays social life and social relations in the enlarged Europe, and gives a perspective on the European Union as an evolving social entity. Handbook of European Societies is a pioneering source book analyzing the current social patterns on the continent. It covers a representative selection of major topics of social concern and sociological relevance, such as Collective Action, Consumption, Identity, Power Structure, Sexuality, Stratification and Well-being. Each contribution probes key developments in a strictly comparative manner. The Handbook thus offers a detailed look into the intricacies of the national societies of Europe and into the prospect of an emerging European society. The Editors have enlisted leading researchers to synthesize existing knowledge and to make use of many different data sources in a straight-forward style. The contributions stay away from jargon, simple labeling and sweeping assertions. Instead, they provide solid and accessible information on a wide variety of social trends and processes within and across European societies.
Book Synopsis The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being by : Giovanni Bertin
Download or read book The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being written by Giovanni Bertin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book critically examines the European Social Model as a contested concept and concrete set of European welfare and governance arrangements. It offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of new economic models and existing European investment strategies to address key issues within post-Covid-19 Europe.
Book Synopsis Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe by : Anna Kwak
Download or read book Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe written by Anna Kwak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this edited volume reflected on the role of universities and aimed to improve the preparation of social welfare professionals by the University of Warsaw for employment in the new market-oriented society that was being created in Poland after the end of ‘real socialism’ in 1989. Many of its articles were previously published in Polish and were published, revised and updated, in English for the first time in this collection. The contributors discuss two key issues. First, should universities worry about the employment of their graduates and the skills that are needed by the wider economy and society or just focus on transmitting advanced learning? Second, they considered the modernisation of the welfare state. The Polish experience, and the Western partners’ reaction to it, has proved an excellent case study for these issues.
