Difficult Reputations and the Social Reality of Occupational Medicine

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Draper
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
The Social ◽  
Company Doctor ◽  
Individual Ethics ◽  
Corporate Employment

This response to Tee Guidotti's (2008) critique of Elaine Draper's The Company Doctor: Risk, Responsibility, and Corporate Professionalism (2003) argues that a forthright examination of the conflicts of those working in the field of occupational medicine is essential to maintaining the health of the profession and to promoting constructive policies. Research for The Company Doctor reveals how doctors walk a tightrope of professional demands on them. The author describes how corporate employment affects medicine and science and how professionals working in corporations are subject to the decisions of company managers and to economic and legal imperatives stemming from their status as corporate employees. Analyzing company doctors' role in confronting toxics and responding to liability fears in corporations, the author argues that problems of lost credibility, stigmatization, and tarnished reputation that company doctors describe largely stem from the organizational constraints, economic interests, and other aspects of the social context of their work. These social forces exert powerful pressure on the ethical framework and daily work lives of these professionals as well as on the reputation of their field. The author discusses ways in which the conflicting demands from being both a corporate employee and a physician are a social and structural problem beyond individual ethics.

Notions of property: traditional land use and boundaries in the Deh Cho region

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol J. Brown-Leonardi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumer Interests ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Traditional Land Use

ABSTRACTThe Deh Cho Dene have been negotiating territorial land since early European settlement. This paper argues that the changing needs of Deh Cho Dene society has changed their concept of property and this transformation has evolved with a responsibility to conserve cultural practice and ecological balance in Deh Cho Dene territorial lands. The article considers how the changing need of European society addresses property and ownership in the context of basic human rights and consumer interests. It uses the theories of Macpherson, Locke, and Marx to construct a model to understand the property relations that exist in the Deh Cho Dene region. Accordingly, the paper addresses oral narratives to give historical insight into the relations between neighbouring tribal groups and their understanding of territorial boundaries. An account of present day negotiations highlights the various initiatives taken to protect traditional interests and uphold historical claim to the territory. The negotiation of joint ventures and property ownership has evolved with concerns over ecological sustainability and the protection of a subsistence lifestyle, which is critical for the social and economic interests of Deh Cho Dene culture, and is closely connected to the land.

The Political Theory of German Fascism

1934 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Schuman
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Surface Phenomena ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Changing Patterns

In dealing with the evolution of political thought, most historians and social scientists, until recently at least, have tended to view political behavior and the changing patterns of power in society as rational implementations of dynamic ideas. They have accordingly concerned themselves more with the development of abstract philosophical systems than with the social-psychological contexts conditioning this development. To other observers, more Marxian than Hegelian in their outlook, all political ideas are but reflections of the economic interests and class ideologies of the various strata of society. This school therefore probes for the secrets of political and social change, not in the surface phenomena of ideas, but in the progress of technology and in the shifting economic relations of groups and classes within the social hierarchy. Still others, few in number as yet, have adopted Freud as their guide.

scholarly journals Aligning the social, environmental, and economic interests of “green growth” of the Ukrainian nature reserve fund objects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Natalya Andryeyeva ◽  
Nina Khumarova ◽  
Tatiana Nikolaychuk
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Monitoring ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
Institutional Traps

The article is devoted to the issues of forming the institutional basis for “green growth” of the Ukrainian Nature Reserve Fund territories in the context of aligning the society’s social, environmental, and economic interests. The methodological approaches to forming the institutional basis for “green growth” of the Ukrainian Nature Reserve Fund territories in conditions of the need to transform the approaches regarding the interaction with small and medium-sized businesses were developed. The main focus is on the issues of studying the existing institutional risks, institutional “traps,” and ensuring the stakeholders’ functional interaction. The proposed scheme for managing and planning the spatial development of the Nature Reserve Fund territories is based on business planning, “micro-K modeling” method, strategic monitoring method. Based on the complex combination of ecosystemic and polyfunctional approaches, the typology of Nature Reserve Fund territories management functions and “green growth” indicators system was defined. The institutional framework was formed, which enables to ensure aligning the society’s social, environmental, and economic interests.

Societal Shutdown and Reopening and Reclosing in the U.S. as Expressed in Social Imagery Narratives

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-453
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Government Interventions ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
National Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Susceptible Populations ◽  
The U.S

In the COVID-19 pandemic era, political leaders have to navigate a difficult socio-political landscape balancing mass public health with socio-economic interests. They have to protect their susceptible populations and protect the social structures supporting their respective economies, healthcare systems, educational systems, international relationships, law and order, cultures and subcultures, national values, and others. A pandemic tends to disrupt systems and spark other social discontents among roiling publics. In May 2020, the U.S. started reopening from a mass lockdown involving a majority of its states, even as viral transmission rose. This work explores visual senses of societal shutdown, societal reopening, and societal (partial) reclosing in the U.S. in social imagery (all captured July 3, 2020, during the crisis) to better understand public responses to public health and other government interventions.

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Little Women ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa May Alcott
Keyword(s):  
Daily Work ◽  
The Social

Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily work that earned her bread, and made it sweeter for the effort, Jo still found time for literary labors. The purpose which now took possession of her was a natural...

scholarly journals Land relationships in Bulgaria

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 490-494
Author(s):  
P. Yovchevska
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Agricultural Reform ◽  
Public Property ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Basic Production ◽  
The Republic

Agriculture is a traditional branch for the Republic of Bulgaria. The favourable agriclimatic and soil conditions further the growth of 145 agricultural crops and the production of various products, many of which have leading positions in the international market. The aim of this paper is to examine the nature and specific features of the reform of the land relationships in the Republic of Bulgaria during the period of transition towards market economy. The development of land relationships in this country reflects the economic interests of its society, which show their specific nature in the relationships between the owners and the leaseholders of the plots. It is typical for this country that during the collectivisation period, which took place in the middle of the last century, the land, being the basic production factor in the agricultural branch, was public property, the private character of which was never abolished. During the transition period, a process for restoring the land ‘within its real borders’ was started. This led to delay in the reform and a significant fragmentation of the land. The completed agricultural reform contributes to the recovery and precipitation in the process of developing of the land relationships in the country. A sign of this is the formation of land market. In the year 2001, 28 878.1 ha changed their owners, and another 280 000 ha were leased. The aim is, through active laws, to achieve synchrony of the social interests with the interests of the owners and leaseholders and to create conditions for optimisation of the production process in agriculture. A favourable economic environment will contribute to increasing the efficiency of the agricultural branch in the Republic of Bulgaria and to the formation of the land relationships, which will facilitate the process.

scholarly journals Are Smart-City Projects Citizen-Centered?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Sánchez-Teba ◽  
Bermúdez-González
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Manager

Smart cities have become a new urban model for thinking and designing cities in the connected society. It is time to ask ourselves what kind of city we want and need. There is still a long way to go in relation to the role of citizenship in the field of smart cities. This autoethnography reveals different contradictions found during the preparation of my doctoral thesis, which studied the citizens’ perception of smart city policies in a city in southern Spain, in my double role as a doctoral student/researcher and public manager. Many of the statements and conclusions of different scientific research contrasted with the reality that I was experiencing in my daily work. My conclusions can help in the current debate on which cities we want to build at a time when the population is concentrated in cities and where it is necessary to respond to not only the economic, but also the social and environmental problems posed by sustainability

Educational interventions for an inclusive culture in primary school: The qualitative dimension of the PRO-SEL programme

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Mar Badia ◽  
Pilar Escotorín ◽  
Annalisa Morganti ◽  
Robert Roche
Keyword(s):  
Reference Model ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Inclusive School ◽  
Heterogeneous Classes ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
The Right

Inclusive classrooms provide new opportunities for group membership and creation of effective learning environments. In order to facilitate the success of inclusion as an approach and philosophy, it is important that all class members as well as their teachers develop the skills to understand one another, and to communicate and work together effectively. Students with or without disabilities have the right to be educated in the least restrictive, most appropriate environment. The movement toward less restrictive environments is not only a school phenomenon; it is a societal one with the ultimate goal being to have individuals with all types of disabilities live, work and be educated in their own communities. For this reason it is imperative that the schools adjust to serve all students. If we do not work in this line, it is conceivable that he/she will not develop the necessary skills for how to effectively live and work with them. EBE-EUSMOSI have the aim to identify and integrate, within a reference model, the research procedures which can contribute to an evidence-based validation of educational programs aimed at school inclusion for all pupils. The PROSEL program was conceived: (1) From the will to experiment with innovative didactic practices which support the structure of an inclusive school through the development of social, prosocial and emotional skills in all students; (2) From the commitment to give teachers, appropriate “tools” useful in their daily work and adaptable in the increasingly heterogeneous classes. Four basic approaches to implement the PROSEL program: Systematical teaching of the social-emotional and prosocial competences; Integration of the social-emotional and prosocial competences in others subjects; Create a positive climate in class; Engaging the families.

Good Girls Grimacing: Grimacing and the Economy of Excess

2017 ◽  
pp. 82-85
Author(s):  
Monika Schwärzler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
Expressive Performance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Message ◽  
The 19Th Century

While at the end of the 19th century grimacing was considered a symptom of schizophrenia, and pulling faces was regarded as an assault on the decency and reliability of facial features, grimacing has become a frequent practice on social media today. My argument will be that the distorted physiognomy of Facebook users features ready-made expressions that do not correspond with any deeply felt psychic reality. There is nothing essential about the contractions of the facial muscles enacted by these members of the social media community. They are playing, trying out poses, and emulating already approved face farces. My thesis is that by performing these grimaces young people create a reality of surplus and excess which they would otherwise miss. If everyone is supposed to enjoy him/herself to the fullest, then the excessively grimacing party manages to communicate this effectively. Grimacing has become a performative act of talking or photographing oneself into a feeling of high life. To prove my point, I will do a close-reading of a commercial that most recently appeared on billboards in Vienna, depicted a young woman performing one of the standard grimaces. The verbal message said, “Do not just stand but pose,” implying that the model is given credit for the extra effort that “posing” requires. Subsequently, her figure morphs into the classic disciplined body, well known as one of the main battle zones of economic interests and power plays. Keywords: expressive performance, grimace, photography, selfie culture, social media

Extraterritoriality of Capital: Regional Dimension

Upravlenie ◽  
10.12737/2822 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Цветков ◽  
Valyeriy TSvyetkov
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Big Business ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Territorial Integration ◽  
Regional Interests

The paper concerns the analysis of big business activities at the regional level. Such analysis is important due the fact, that in order optimize costs, big business uses to refocus financial flows in detrimental to the regional interests ways. For this purpose regional specifics of corporate structures building are examined in details, particularly creation of holding structures and different emerging forms of cross-territorial integration. Corporate property transformation results in emerging of two major types of corporations, quite different in their impact on regional economic system development: regional (or territorial) corporations, integrated in the inner environment of the territory of activity; vertically integrated corporations, which usually integrate various territorial resources in corporate economic turnover with no concern for economic interests of the territory, where they operate. Main stages of the Russian big business evolution are considered and creation of holdings is described. Also considered are the issue of extraterritoriality of capital, impact of verticallyintegrated corporations on the social and economic development of the region of activity, ways to overcome negative effects of vertically-integrated corporations on the regional level.

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