scholarly journals Sustainability Assessment in Manufacturing under a Strong Sustainability Perspective—An Ecological Neutrality Initiative

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9232
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando Rodrigues Pinto ◽  
Glória de Fátima Pereira Venturini ◽  
Salvatore Digiesi ◽  
Francesco Facchini ◽  
Geraldo Cardoso de Oliveira Neto
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Industrial Context

The concept of strong sustainability establishes ecosystem conservation as the basis for socioeconomic development. Despite the increase in the number of studies on this subject, the qualitative approach used in studies on strong sustainability makes the introduction of this theme difficult in the industrial context. The absence of a model of sustainability evaluation in manufacturing based on the concept of strong sustainability was the gap identified by this research. The objective of this study was to develop a model that embeds strong sustainability within the sustainability assessment of manufacturing companies. The research used survey methodology to obtain the opinion of experts on the relevance of sustainability metrics. Information collected from experts was used to calculate the weights of indicators and of the participation of each dimension in strong sustainability. The results indicated that strong sustainability consists of 48% of environmental, 29% of social, and 23% of economic factors. The model has been applied in a study of multiple cases in factories in the automotive sector, two in Brazil and two in Italy. The results revealed that the four companies were rated regular in the strong sustainability scale. However, the sustainability performances of the companies showed different patterns over five years. Furthermore, analysis of the individual performance of the dimensions showed that the economic growth of the two Brazilian factories was superior to the socio-environmental development. The result of the Italian units emphasized different priorities. A firm reached the best result in environmental performance and the other one on the social dimension.

SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIAL QUALITY AS INSTRUMENTS OF THE STATE POLICY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Valeriy HEYETS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Individual

Self-realization of the individual in the conditions of using the policy of “social quality” as a modern tool of public administration in a transitional society is largely related to overcoming the existing limitations of the individual in acting in such a society and economy transitioning to a market character. Given that, in particular, in Ukraine the market is hybrid (and this is especially important), the existing limitations in self-realization of the individual must be overcome, including, and perhaps primarily, through transformations in the processes of socialization, which differ from European practices and institutions that ensure its implementation. Thus, it is a matter of overcoming not only and not so much the natural selfish interests of the individual, but the existing gap in skills, which are an invisible asset to ensure the endogenous nature of economic growth. It is shown that there is an inverse relationship between the formation of socialization and the policy of “social quality”, which is characterized by the dialectic of interaction between the individual and the group and which is a process of increasing the degree of socialization. The latter, due to interdependence, will serve to increase the effectiveness of interaction between the individual and the group, which expands the possibilities of self-realization of the individual in terms of European policy of “social quality” as a tool of public administration, whose successful application causes new challenges and content of the so-called secondary sociology. The logic of Ukraine's current development shows that new approaches are needed to achieve the social development goals set out in the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and to minimize the potential risks and threats that accompany current reforms in Ukrainian society. They should introduce new forms of public administration to create policy interrelationships of all dimensions, as proposed, in particular, by the social quality approach to socialization, the nature of which has been revealed in the author's previous publications. As a result, the socio-cultural (social) dimension will fundamentally change, the structure of which must include the transformational processes of socialization of a person, thanks to which they will learn the basics of life in the new social reality and intensify their social and economic interaction on the basis of self-realization, thereby contributing to the success of state policy of social quality and achieving stable socio-economic development.

scholarly journals Podwójne życie tłumacza

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Gawlak
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Social Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Translator’s Double LifeThe manner of functioning of South Slavic literature translators in the social field is presented in the article as a case of “multiplied social participation”, participation in the “game”, which they treat as an incentive for cultural, intellectual and moral development in the individual and social dimension. Methodological considerations on the translation presented in the article are based on the concepts of Barnard Lahire, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roger Caillois.KEY WORDS: Bernard Lahire, Pierre Bourdieu, literary field, game, Roger Caillois, literary translation

Telling lies together? Sharing news as a form of social authentication

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482093101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barui K Waruwu ◽  
Edson C Tandoc ◽  
Andrew Duffy ◽  
Nuri Kim ◽  
Rich Ling
Keyword(s):  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Validation ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Categorization Theory ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Information Verification ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social News

The increasingly assertive position of social media as a news source means that news audiences can no longer depend on traditional journalists for information verification. Instead, they must determine the news credibility on their own. The majority of information credibility studies have considered news audiences’ information evaluation as a purely cognitive endeavor, implying that individuals can arrive at valid information without social validation. By drawing on self-categorization theory, this article re-conceptualizes audiences’ acts of news authentication by considering it not as a one-off activity under the uncontested control of the individual, but as a cycle of collective authentication strategies whereby individual authentication and social validation are entangled in the context-dependent processing of social news. To do this, we unpacked the social dimension of news authentication by looking at the social motivation, strategies, as well as the consequences that support it through a series of focus group discussions in Singapore.

scholarly journals Formation Architecture: Interactive Vertical Community

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benyi Hu
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Design ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
High Density ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Residential Architecture ◽  
Performance Variability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Residential Living ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Community Space

<div>High-density residential architecture under the influence of industrialization and mass production has developed a culture of design toward uniformity and standardization. This thesis deploys the parametrics approach to mass customization for a personalization culture in architecture. A systematic participatory design approach is developed to accommodate individual performance variability of the users and the changing demands of the social environment as part of the design solution. This design strategy allows the architect to balance the two separate forces of control between the collective and the individual, which transform the high-density residential living conditions from externally defined homogeneity towards individually initiated flexibility. A mixed-used vertical neighbourhood is designed to promote social intimacy and stability, and making the creation of community space an outcome of neighbourhood negotiation. The intention is to transform the monotonous and anonymous highdensity residential tower into a dynamic system that always maintains overall coherence. This personalization culture can incentivize people’s emotional connection with the physical environment and making architecture more sustainable by establishing an enduring relationship with the user. </div>

An Enactivist Approach to Web-based Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Giuseppe De Simone ◽  
Diana Carmela Di Gennaro ◽  
Riccardo Fragnito
Keyword(s):  
Social Dimension ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Informal Knowledge ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Web

In the Web-based learning era, the possibility to use the online network for learning activities, studies and research has brought about a revolution in the educational processes and the emergence of a new culture characterized by the idea that knowledge is not closed and defined, but open and accessible to all. Within a perspective in which knowledge is generated by the interaction of the individual with the environment, the socio-constructivist approach paved the way to new theoretical frameworks that, starting from the social dimension of learning, acknowledge and embrace the biological aspects of learning processes, thus offering interesting reflections on the web-learning phenomenon. Stemming from these assumptions, LiveCampus was created; a social learning environment aimed at fostering a synergistic integration between the dimensions of formal and informal knowledge.

scholarly journals Social Psychiatry in Germany in the Twentieth Century: Ideas and Models

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

In the first decades of the twentieth century, German-language papers were published which included the term “soziale Psychiatrie” in their titles. At the same time modern concepts of extramural psychiatric care were being developed. Yet, the meaning of “sozial” (“social” in English) varied widely. This was partly due to its ambiguity. “Social” can be used in the sense of small communities or the wider public; it refers to interpersonal relationships, or to relationships between individuals and social groups or other communities. According to this latter meaning, “social” can emphasize the interests of social groups rather than those of the individual. This is how the term was used at the end of the 1920s and during the National Socialist era. On the other hand, “social” may indicate a friendly and humane intention, a philanthropic approach. It was in this sense that the term was widely used in the 1970s when philanthropic psychiatrists and others called for psychiatric reform and the closure or downsizing of asylums for the mentally ill. Moreover, in association with psychiatry, it can mean both the social dimension of mental illness (including the aetiology) that is assumed to lie in human relationships and in social circumstances, and the social and economic effects of mental illness. In parallel with these shifting meanings of the term “social”, the established models of twentieth-century ambulant psychiatric care also showed a variety of structural characteristics.

Social Engagement of Employees

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Urszula Bukowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Organizational Engagement ◽  
Employee Volunteering ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The aim of the article is to determine the degree of universality, ways of expression and the benefits of social engagement of employees. Employees can get involved not only in work but also in the functioning of the organization. The social engagement is the organizational engagement in case of the enterprise implementing the concept of CSR. Most often it is expressed as employee volunteering. The volunteering can have many forms and types. The benefits of social engagement have the individual, organizational and social dimension.

JOB BURNOUT OF TEACHERS – PRESENTATION OF CHOSEN CONCEPTIONS AND RESEARCHES

2019 ◽  
Vol X (2 (27)) ◽  
pp. 67-91
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Rowicka ◽  
Iwona Błaszczak
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Rescue Workers ◽  
Close Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Nowadays job burnout is concerned to be a serious problem not only in the individual but also in the social dimension. Extensive researches point out that it is a common and, at the same time, strongly escalating issue, which in particular concerns representatives of social services’ workers. Especially affected are teachers, doctors, nurses, police people, rescue workers, psychotherapist, so the ones who are professionally involved with commitment to another ones and close interaction with them. Undoubtedly such kind of job could become a source of satisfaction and fulfilment, however, at the same time, itexposes to bearing high psychological charges, especially in the situations connected with high expectations, going beyond one’s possibilities. In this article, given the burning issue, which isteachers’ job burnout in modern education, the author presented key theoretical conceptions and empirical researches of prominent representatives who work on this topic.

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