Born Again Politics and the Moral Majority: What the Social Surveys Really Show

Waste separation bins that are mainly categorized into recyclable and non-recyclable are being installed almost everywhere in China. It is notable that China is pushing hard to get the public involved in garbage separation and recycling. As an ethnographic research, this paper provides social and cultural explanations of why the roles of these newly designed bins are extremely limited. Explanation of such limitation is deeply concerned with, first, the beliefs and knowledge about recycling of the general publics, and more importantly, the history and hard-to-be-changed culture of informal recycling involving garbage pickers in China. As a foreign Chinese, the author has been running around Beijing and other cities in China to explore into the behind the scene Chinese informal garbage collection system. Using a series of informative social surveys, interviewing the public and personal observation, the paper illustrates and discusses the social challenges and current dilemmas China is facing in attempts to formalize its garbage separation and recycling. The aim of the paper is to address the importance of integrating the existing culture and knowledge of the people with the making of future environmental technologies and policies.

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Sin, Spirituality, and Primitivism: The Theologies of the American Social Gospel, 1885–1917

Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation ◽

10.1525/rac.2007.17.1.95 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 95-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Matthew Bowman

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Social Problems ◽

Social Gospel ◽

Christian Life ◽

Personal Morality ◽

The Social ◽

Spiritual Conversion ◽

Born Again ◽

Christian Society ◽

The Ideal

AbstractThis article seeks to draw attention to an often overlooked aspect of the social gospel. Rather than explaining social gospelers as theological liberals who took an interest in social problems, as many historians have done, this essay argues that they were possessed of a unique theology, one which welded evangelical ideas of conversion and experiential Christianity with liberal postmillennial hopes. Their devotion to combating social ills should be understood, therefore, not solely as a secular commitment to social justice or a nebulous allegiance to Christian charity but also as a theological obligation tied to evangelical conversion and a repudiation of social sin, a crime as offensive to God as murder or theft. The social gospelers modeled the ideal Christian society upon that of the biblical patriarchs, one in which no distinction between the secular and sacred existed and sanctification guided the Christian's actions in the economy as well as in personal morality. That society, that postmillennial Zion, would come again when all humanity experienced a spiritual conversion and were truly born again as Christians—a transformation not limited to individual salvation but which brought with it a new understanding of the nature of Christian life.

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Coexisting with sharks: a novel, socially acceptable and non-lethal shark mitigation approach

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-020-74270-y ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kye R. Adams ◽

Leah Gibbs ◽

Nathan A. Knott ◽

Allison Broad ◽

Martin Hing ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Acceptance ◽

Risk Mitigation ◽

Shark Species ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Aerial Surveillance ◽

Potential Threat ◽

Social Surveys ◽

The Social ◽

Detection Probabilities ◽

Large Predators

Abstract Conflict between humans and large predators is a longstanding challenge that can present negative consequences for humans and wildlife. Sharks have a global distribution and are considered to pose a potential threat to humans; concurrently many shark species are themselves threatened. Developing strategies for coexistence between humans and this keystone group is imperative. We assess blimp surveillance as a technique to simply and effectively reduce shark encounters at ocean beaches and determine the social acceptance of this technique as compared to an established mitigation strategy—shark meshing. We demonstrate the suitability of blimps for risk mitigation, with detection probabilities of shark analogues by professional lifeguards of 0.93 in ideal swimming conditions. Social surveys indicate strong social acceptance of blimps and preference for non-lethal shark mitigation. We show that continuous aerial surveillance can provide a measurable reduction in risk from sharks, improving beach safety and facilitating coexistence between people and wildlife.

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From duties to rights: revisiting the ‘Social Catholics’ in twentieth-century France

French History ◽

10.1093/fh/crz094 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 587-605

Author(s):

Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

French Revolution ◽

Social Rights ◽

Right Wing ◽

Left Wing ◽

Social Surveys ◽

Social Facts ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Catholic Organizations

Abstract Apropos the history of human rights in France, one spontaneously thinks of the French Revolution and then of left-wing activists, particularly socialists. Their opponents, the Catholics, normally considered to be right wing and usually opposed to socialism, appear as a counterpoint. This article argues that some Catholics, especially those who referred to themselves as ‘social Catholics’, also contributed to the adoption of certain rights, particularly social rights, in France in unexpected and paradoxical ways. Their contribution was made through their social activities, visible in their organizations’ archives more than through their discourse. Social Catholics spoke little of ‘rights’. Yet paradoxically, discourses about ‘duties’ can lead to the defence of rights, especially through the practice of social surveys and the importance of social ‘facts’. Examples are taken from the history of the Ligue Sociale d’Acheteurs, the Union Féminine Civique et Sociale and other French Catholic organizations such as the Secrétariats sociaux.

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Studies on the Social Surveys of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Revue Française de Sociologie ◽

10.2307/3319905 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 361

Author(s):

Y.-E. Frisch ◽

Sigeki Nisihira

Keyword(s):

Social Surveys ◽

Statistical Mathematics ◽

The Social

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Sentiment Analysis of Social Survey Data for Local City Councils

Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks ◽

10.3390/jsan11010007 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Marianna Lepelaar ◽

Adam Wahby ◽

Martha Rossouw ◽

Linda Nikitin ◽

Kanewa Tibble ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Survey Data ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Social Indicators ◽

Media Analysis ◽

Social Surveys ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

The Social ◽

The City

Big data analytics can be used by smart cities to improve their citizens’ liveability, health, and wellbeing. Social surveys and also social media can be employed to engage with their communities, and these can require sophisticated analysis techniques. This research was focused on carrying out a sentiment analysis from social surveys. Data analysis techniques using RStudio and Python were applied to several open-source datasets, which included the 2018 Social Indicators Survey dataset published by the City of Melbourne (CoM) and the Casey Next short survey 2016 dataset published by the City of Casey (CoC). The qualitative nature of the CoC dataset responses could produce rich insights using sentiment analysis, unlike the quantitative CoM dataset. RStudio analysis created word cloud visualizations and bar charts for sentiment values. These were then used to inform social media analysis via the Twitter application programming interface. The R codes were all integrated within a Shiny application to create a set of user-friendly interactive web apps that generate sentiment analysis both from the historic survey data and more immediately from the Twitter feeds. The web apps were embedded within a website that provides a customisable solution to estimate sentiment for key issues. Global sentiment was also compared between the social media approach and the 2016 survey dataset analysis and showed some correlation, although there are caveats on the use of social media for sentiment analysis. Further refinement of the methodology is required to improve the social media app and to calibrate it against analysis of recent survey data.

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