Be Aware of Societal Changes Altering the Fundraising Environment

2022 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Keyword(s):  
Societal Changes

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: Serving GLBT Families in Our Schools

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Societal Changes

Abstract School speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are increasingly likely to serve children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) parents or GLBT students as cultural and societal changes create growth in the population and increased willingness to disclose sexual orientation. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has a progressive nondiscrimination statement that includes sexual orientation as a protected status and strongly urges the membership to develop cultural competence as a matter of ethical service delivery. The purpose of this article is to describe cultural competence in relation to GLBT culture, discuss GLBT parent and student cultural issues as they are important in parent-school or student-school relations, and to provide suggestions for increasing sensitivity in these types of interactions. A list of resources is provided.

Political Finance Reforms: How to respond to today’s policy challenges?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukihiko Hamada ◽  
Khushbu Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Finance ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Transparency And Accountability

Money is a necessary component of any democracy: it enables political participation, campaigning and representation. However, if it is not effectively regulated, it can undermine the integrity of political processes and institutions, and jeopardize the quality of democracy. Therefore, regulations related to the funding of political parties and election campaigns, commonly known as political finance, are a critical way to promote integrity, transparency and accountability in any democracy. Political finance regulations must adapt and adjust to political, economic and societal changes. This report contributes to the discussion of the future of political finance by exploring the following trends, opportunities and challenges related to money in politics that need to be taken into consideration when improving political finance systems: • mainstreaming political finance regulations into an overall anti-corruption framework; • supporting the implementation of existing political finance regulations and monitoring their performance; • harnessing digital technologies to ensure transparency and accountability in political finance; and • designing targeted political finance measures to encourage the inclusion of underrepresented groups in politics.

Realignment and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Societal Changes

Affluent democracies have experienced tremendous socio-economic changes since the mid- twentieth century, which has reshaped public opinion, party programs, and electoral choices. This chapter first summarizes the societal changes that have been a driving force behind the political changes described in this study. One pattern involves the longstanding economic issues of contemporary democracies, and shifting social positions on these issues. In addition, an evolving cultural cleavage and its ties to broader attitudes toward social change have altered citizen policy preferences. In most affluent democracies, the parties’ responses to these changing citizen demands have produced a realignment to represent both economic and cultural positions. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of the findings for the working of electoral systems and the democratic process more broadly.

Boundaries of the Stranger

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-354
Author(s):  
Søren Blak Hjortshøj
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
The Stranger

AbstractIn recent cosmopolitan work, scholars such as Julia Kristeva, Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Derrida, and Ulrich Beck have represented the stranger as a universal ideal for our global age and Georg Simmel’s stranger in the Exkurs über den Fremden has been emphasized as a model for this ideal. While these uses can be justified by generalized passages in Simmel’s essay, they still omit the problem of European Jewish historical exemplarity. Thus, in the decades before Simmel’s essay, this stranger type was already a well-developed figure related to the so-called Jewish question. Georg Brandes and Henrik Pontoppidan used the Jewish stranger to evaluate the societal changes of the fin-de-siècle period and questions of progress vs. decay. Yet, their work limited the stranger to a specific type of Jewishness not including other marginal existences. Hence, reading Simmel with Brandes and Pontoppidan outlines the boundaries of this stranger type as it raises questions regarding recent cosmopolitan uses of Simmel’s stranger.

scholarly journals Relationship satisfaction and concordance in attitudes to maternal employment in British couples with young children

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 2184-2204
Author(s):  
Lauren Bird ◽  
Amanda Sacker ◽  
Anne McMunn
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Potential Association ◽  
Paid Labor ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
Representative Cohort

Changes in paid labor in families have occurred within the wider context of societal changes in gendered attitudes to work. However, changes in behavior and attitudes are not necessarily correlated with each other, and their associations with family relationships are complex. This study uses data from over 12,000 two-parent families in the U.K.’s Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative cohort of children born during 2000–2002. The study investigates the potential association between relationship satisfaction and discordance between attitudes to maternal employment and mothers’ actual participation in paid labor, as well as agreement in attitudes within couples. Results show that attitudes in favor of maternal employment and actual maternal employment are generally associated with better relationship satisfaction for both mothers and fathers. In addition, discordance between an individual’s attitudes and behavior in relation to maternal employment, and discordant attitudes within couples, is both associated with significantly lower relationship satisfaction compared with concordant couples.

scholarly journals An Important Need to Monitor from an Early Age the Neurotoxins in the Blood or by an Equivalent Biomarker

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The Body ◽  
Excessive Amount ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Broad Distribution ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Collaborative Interaction

An overwhelming amount of evidence now suggests that some people are becoming overloaded with neurotoxins. This is mainly from changes in their living environment and style, coupled with the fact that all people are different and display a broad distribution of genetic susceptibilities. It is important for individuals to know where they lie concerning their ability to either reject or retain toxins. Everyone is contaminated with a certain baseline of toxins that are alien to the body, namely aluminum, arsenic, lead, and mercury. Major societal changes have modified their intake, such as vaccines in enhanced inoculation procedures and the addition of sushi into diets, coupled with the ever-present lead, arsenic, and traces of manganese. It is now apparent that no single toxin is responsible for the current neurological epidemics, but rather a collaborative interaction with possible synergistic components. Selenium, although also a neurotoxin if in an excessive amount, is always present and is generally more present than other toxins. It performs as the body’s natural chelator. However, it is possible that the formation rates of active selenium proteins may become overburdened by other toxins. Every person is different and it now appears imperative that the medical profession establish an individual’s neurotoxicity baseline. Moreover, young women should certainly establish their baselines long before pregnancy in order to identify possible risk factors.

Urban Land Rent and Real Estate Markets in the Process of Social Restructuring: The Case of Germany

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Krätke
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Land Rents ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
Urban Land Markets

In this paper the urban real estate market is dealt with in the context of broad societal changes. Particular restructuring processes, such as the social and economic polarization between urban regions and the uncoupling of the spheres of production and financial investments, are leading to a rehierarchization of urban land markets and significant changes in the formation of urban land rents. The restructuring of urban land markets is demonstrated with empirical data on cities in West Germany. Against this background the author pleads for a partial reformulation of urban rent theory.

Consent for Medical Services for Children and Adolescents

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-291
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Definition Of

Major societal changes affecting the provision of child health care have occurred over the last few decades. In the area of emergency services, consent for medical treatment is an important issue. The purpose of this statement is to outline major considerations involving consent and provide the physician with practical guidelines concerning this issue. Today fewer than one third of children live in two-parent families in which only the father works outside the home.1,2 Because of foster care placement, or temporary or permanent arrangements with relatives or friends, parents may not be available to give consent for treatment of their children.3-6 Unaccompanied minors may seek medical attention in any one of a number of locations. Some go to the emergency department, 14% of which have no policy regarding consent for the care of these patients.7 Unaccompanied minors younger than 18 years of age account for 3.4% of all emergency department visits.7 Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia now have laws concerning the "mture minor." Most other states have provisions in which competent minors may arrange for care involving contraceptives, pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, drug and alcohol abuse, and psychiatric disorders.8 The dilemma for emergency physicians and practicing pediatricians alike is whether to follow a strict interpretation of the law or to adopt a more practical approach. Clearly, consent is not required in life- or limb-threatening emergencies,8,9 although the definition of emergency varies from state to state. However, in most instances, only routine care, not emergency care, is needed. As a result, many physicians fear charges of battery or litigation should their judgement regarding treatment be questioned.8

Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Christine Mupepele ◽  
Helge Bruelheide ◽  
Carsten Brühl ◽  
Jens Dauber ◽  
Michaela Fenske ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Societal Changes
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