The Impact of Population Ageing and Social Stratification: The Case of Latvia

- In this article the authors analyse the social evaluation of occupations, examining the impact of generation on the judgments about the social desirability of occupations. The authors show that some generational differences are noticeable when looking at the criteria that respondents use to order occupations.Key words: Generation, Labor flexibility, Evaluation criteria, Labor market, Social Stratification, Occupational Stratification Scale

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Social Stratification in the New York Athletic Club: A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of the Club on Amateur Sport in Late Nineteenth Century America

Canadian Journal of History of Sport and Physical Education ◽

10.1123/cjhspe.7.1.41 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 41-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard Wettan ◽

Joe Willis

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

Amateur Sport ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Impact ◽

Athletic Club

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Investigating the business performance on the financial well-being of the Government retirees

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202112403006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 124 ◽

pp. 03006

Author(s):

Abdul Mutalib Embong ◽

Norzamziah Afzainizam ◽

Mariati Norhashim ◽

Amirsaman Ahmadi

Keyword(s):

Business Performance ◽

Profile Analysis ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

The Elderly ◽

Population Ageing ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

Population ageing; where there is growth in the percentage of older persons in the population; is becoming a worldwide phenomenon due to better healthcare and lower birth rates. The phenomenon of population ageing brings with it both challenges and opportunities. The challenges of an ageing population include social, health and economic support of the elderly. Malaysia is recognizing the need to address this issue of financially supporting an ageing population. The purpose of the paper was to investigate the impact of business on the financial well-being (FWB) of the ageing, specifically the government retirees. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among retirees who were in business throughout Malaysia that employed a cross sectional design. Forty-one respondents were successfully interviewed. Statistical procedures for the analyses included descriptive analysis and a profile analysis using scatterplot on the perceived business performance vs financial well-being. The survey revealed that the majority of the respondents operated business in the services, trade or retail industries which were set up and fully owned by themselves. Resource wise, the majority had very low financial capital, human capital and social capital. The study provides some empirical evidence that the retirees in business may be categorized into opportunity driven and necessity driven groups. The paper concludes that there is a need to find alternative income generation methods for the necessity driven group. Making paid work accessible to the elderly must be urgently put on the national agenda.

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Social Inequalities

The Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198829911.003.0074 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 646-652

Author(s):

Raj Kollmorgen

Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Relative Deprivation ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Social Groups ◽

Radical Change ◽

Social Transformations ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact

Social inequality means the existence of social status groups and, therefore, a normatively embedded structure of social stratification. This chapter deals with social inequalities and their dynamics as conditional and causal factors and as results of processes of radical change. Concerning the first aspect, the chapter discusses social class inequalities and dynamics of (absolute) impoverishment, relative deprivation, and rising expectations among certain social groups that may determine ‘transformative’ pressure or even revolutionary situations. Regarding the impact of social transformations on social inequalities, the chapter suggests that the more radical and complex the social transformations, the greater are their effects on social structures and regimes of social inequality. This thesis is underpinned by providing empirical findings on social mobility and income inequality in different historical waves and (sub-)types of transformation. Finally, the chapter identifies seven crucial bundles of factors determining the extent of income inequality as an outcome of current societal transformations and their characteristics.

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Exploring the impact of social inequality and poverty on the mental health and wellbeing and attainment of children and young people in Scotland

Improving Schools ◽

10.1177/1365480219835323 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 204-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Joan Gaynor Mowat

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young People ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Impact

The poverty-related attainment gap is an internationally recognised problem. There is growing recognition that it cannot either be understood or addressed without taking cognisance of children’s mental health and wellbeing. The focus of this conceptual article is to examine the impact of social inequality and poverty on the mental health and wellbeing and attainment of children and young people in Scotland through the lens of resilience. While not a ‘state of the art’ literature review, a systematic approach was adopted in the selection of the literature and in the identification of themes to emerge from it. A range of risk and protective factors at the individual, social, societal and political levels emerged as impacting on the mental health and wellbeing and attainment of children living in poverty, and three important mediating variables are the negative impact of social stratification and adverse childhood experiences and the positive impact of a supportive adult. Schools alone cannot solve the problem. The findings revealed that there is a need to build a strong infrastructure around families and schools and to examine how economic, social, health and educational policy interact with each other as a starting point in addressing the problem, supported by inter-disciplinary research.

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China's Scientific Elite. By Cong Cao. [London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. 256 pp. £60.00; $95.00. ISBN 0-415-32757-1.]

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741005230266 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 182 ◽

pp. 431-433

Author(s):

Stanley Rosen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Sociology Of Science ◽

Columbia University ◽

Elite Group ◽

Systematic Effort ◽

Scientific Elite ◽

Elite Status ◽

Science Framework ◽

The Impact

Since the completion of his doctoral dissertation in sociology at Columbia University in 1997, Cong Cao has published a number of very insightful articles on various aspects of China's scientific elite. He has now taken the next step and, incorporating some material from these earlier publications, given us the most systematic effort to examine this important social group. His agenda is certainly ambitious. Inspired by one of his mentors, the late, great sociologist Robert K. Merton, Cao employs the Mertonian sociology of science framework, using the norm of universalism and the theory of social stratification in science to determine the basis for the formation of this elite group. Using membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as the indicator of elite status, Cao sets himself four primary tasks. The first – and the major focus of the book – is to examine the various factors that might have played a role in one's selection to this Academy, including social origins, the influence of mentors, the quality of research, political party membership, and personal relations. Secondly, he examines the impact of major historical changes on the development of science and the formation of this elite. Thirdly, he seeks to put the Chinese case into a comparative perspective, often citing the work of another of his mentors, Harriet Zuckerman, a leading scholar of the American scientific elite, among other sources. Finally, he addresses the role this elite has played in influencing the nation's policy making and urging autonomy and democracy in scientific research and societal life.

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The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: from conception to implementation

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x03001661 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 147-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

ALEXANDRE SIDORENKO ◽

ALAN WALKER

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

United Nations ◽

Monitoring And Evaluation ◽

Active Participation ◽

Population Ageing ◽

Pivotal Role ◽

Systematic Process ◽

Current Century ◽

The Impact

The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing is the most important United Nations (UN) document on population ageing for 20 years and sets the context for global policies on ageing for the current century. Drawing from the authors' active participation in the preparation of the draft that formed the basis of the Madrid Plan, the primary purpose of this article is to describe the two-year process of development of the Plan. Then the main features of the Plan are outlined, including the pivotal role of the society for all ages concept and its thematic foundations. The Madrid Plan is contrasted with its Vienna predecessor of 20 years earlier – the priority given to developing countries in the former is identified as one of the key differences between them. Following a brief outline of the implementation and monitoring processes for the Madrid Plan, a model is presented as a potential template for use in evaluating the impact of the Plan and, especially, its effectiveness in improving the conditions of older people's lives. It is argued that a systematic process of monitoring and evaluation is required if the Plan is not to suffer the fate of being regarded as yet another worthy ‘wish list’.

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