The Past, Present, and Future of the Social Environment Surrounding Dance Criticism in Korea

The concept of “stress” was applied to biological and social systems in the first half of this century because it appeared to provide an explanation for the apparently “non-specific” effects of biologic agents, and for the occurrence of illness as a part of the response of people to their social environment. Evidence subsequently accumulated has confirmed that a large proportion of the manifestations of disease are produced by reaction of the host and not directly by the “causal agents” of disease, and that the components of the host's reactions are not in themselves “specific” to any given “causal agent”; it has confirmed that reactions of people to other people, or to the social environment may influence any physiological process or any disease; but it has also indicated that the concept of “stress” does not provide an adequate explanation for these phenomena. Living organisms are highly ordered and complex biological organizations that maintain themselves precariously over a limited period of time by the interchange of energy and information with the environment. Their reactions to the environment are complex and highly ordered, are based upon information, and are communicative and “logical” in nature. Although the components are “not specific,” the reactions themselves may be highly specific to the stimulus that initiates them. These reactions are not random but are “directed” (apparently “purposeful”) and tend to preserve the integrity of the organism, and the integrity of its relation to its social group and to its environment. The concept of “stress,” which was derived partly from popular usage, and based upon 18th and 19th century mechanical models of “force,” “counterforce,” and “distortion,” does not provide a meaningful scientific description of organism-environment relationships. These are better described by other concepts. The “stress concept” was heuristically valuable in the past, but it is no longer necessary, and it is in some ways hampering at the present.

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Terapia pracą, czyli wybrane zagadnienia nowej ekonomii społecznej

Kultura i Spoleczenstwo ◽

10.35757/kis.2010.54.3.5 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 89-104

Author(s):

Marta Danecka

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Social Environment ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

Statistical Data ◽

Social Economy ◽

Modern Method ◽

Voluntary Participation ◽

Job Market ◽

The Past ◽

The Social

The article concerns the issue of social economy and social employment as one of its forms. Social employment is represented as a modern method of combating social exclusion. It is part of the principles of an active social policy, based above all on voluntary participation, collaboration and concentrating resources on the support of people fit to work, but engulfed by poverty. The author presents the various forms and functions of social employment, the groups of people who are encompassed by such aid, and the methods of reintegration in the social environment and the job market. Statistical data and the opinions of participants in these courses are used to present the results achieved by the spread of social employment schemes in the past few years.

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Public receptivity regarding “in-house” water recycling: results from a UK survey

Water Science & Technology Water Supply ◽

10.2166/ws.2003.0015 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 109-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

P. Jeffrey ◽

B. Jefferson

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Environment ◽

Public Acceptance ◽

Willingness To Accept ◽

Water Recycling ◽

Practical Application ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Successful Employment ◽

The Uk

Whilst the development of suitable technologies which provide opportunities for water recycling has moved on apace over the past decade, their practical application will not depend solely on effective and reliable engineering performance. Successful employment of preferred strategies and technologies will require an understanding of the social environment in which they are to be applied. The study reported below explores some of the attitudinal determinants of public acceptance of water recycling in the UK. Findings show that there is broad willingness to accept in-house water recycling as long as public health is not compromised.

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Student Perspectives on Language Learning in a Study Abroad Context

Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad ◽

10.36366/frontiers.v4i1.64 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 91-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Valerie A. Pellegrino

Keyword(s):

Study Abroad ◽

Language Learning ◽

Social Environment ◽

Learning Process ◽

Student Perspective ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Language Classroom ◽

The Impact

This chapter offers an overview of research that has been performed over the past 35 years concerning study abroad participants’ perceptions of language and language learning, the role of the language classroom, the influence of the social environment, and the study abroad experience as a whole. The impact of students’ perceptions on the language learning process and the value of student perspective research in the field of SLA are also considered.

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Pelatihan Penulisan Laporan Litmas Di Bapas Kelas 1 Banjarmasin

Jurnal Pengabdian UntukMu NegeRI ◽

10.37859/jpumri.v4i2.2170 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 285-290

Author(s):

Jamiatul Hamidah ◽

Akhmad Syakir ◽

Sri Normuliati ◽

Istiqamah Istiqamah

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Clear Picture ◽

Community Research ◽

Narrative Form ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Scientific Papers

Bapas plays a role in mentoring clients and one of his duties is to make community research reports (Litmas). Considering the importance and importance of Litmas in helping judges to make a right and fair decision, to determine appropriate coaching therapy, the Litmas report must be able to provide a clear picture of the background of the client's life, both in the past and after becoming a client. All problems contained in life and the social environment are covered in the Litmas content report. The purpose of this activity is to: (1) Improve the ability to write scientific papers of PK. (2) Improve understanding of Indonesian spelling rules. (3) Provide training in writing narrative from interviews and observations. The activity was carried out for one day which was divided into 3 sessions. From the results of the activity, it was concluded that many Litmas writing violated the rules of the General Guidelines for Indonesian Spelling. In addition, the obstacle faced by PK in writing Litmas is the difficulty in transforming the data obtained in the field into narrative form.

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The social aspects of agent design

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v14i7.2338 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Yun Wan

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Public Policies ◽

Software Agents ◽

Primary Source ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Web Based ◽

Social Agents ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Empirical Design

Web-based software agents have been the primary source of ecommerce innovation and development in the past decade. Yet, the fact that the empirical design and evolution of these agents are not only determined by technology but also by their social aspects is probably not much appreciated. No agent lives in a historical vacuum. Instead, Web-based software agents operate in a social environment. It is through this environment that they interact with their users, compete with peers, bring profit to agent maintainers, and undergo regulation by public policies. In other words, Web-based software agents are also social agents.

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LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A SOCIO-LEGAL ANALYSIS OF NIGERIA'S CORRUPT PRACTICES AND OTHER RELATED OFFENCES ACT, 2000

Journal of African Law ◽

10.1017/s0221855301001687 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 173-195 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Paul D. Ocheje

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Environment ◽

Legal Analysis ◽

The Past ◽

The Social

This article is in two parts. The first part analyses, and largely applauds, the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, the latest in a series of enactments designed to curb corruption in Nigeria over the last thirty years. The second part looks at the social environment within which corruption operates. It points out that in the past the environment was such that anti-corruption measures were bound to fail, but it concludes, in optimistic vein, that the recent return to civilian rule has created a climate in which the new Act is likely to have an effect in the fight against corruption.

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Obesity: a sociological guide for health practitioners

Australian Journal of Primary Health ◽

10.1071/py20100 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (5) ◽

pp. 362

Author(s):

Samuel G. Grace

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Social Environment ◽

Body Fat ◽

21St Century ◽

Adult Population ◽

Obesity Epidemic ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Health Practitioners

Obesity is a condition of excess body fat that has been identified as one of the most serious public health problems of the 21st century. Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death globally and increases the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and various cancers. Obesity worldwide has tripled in the adult population over the past 40 years, with 13% of the world’s adult population now obese, leading to calls for control of a global obesity epidemic. Causes of obesity can be delineated at individual, societal and systemic levels, highlighting the need for analysis that transcends the biomedical paradigm to explore the sociological influences of this condition. The pathophysiology of why obesity occurs has not changed within recent history, but the way that people live their lives and the cultural understandings that evolve within communities have. This article describes the interaction between obesity and the social environment, explores the meaning of obesity within the context of health and considers the social determinants of obesity within the community. It also discusses the influences of the professional–patient exchange in obesity, the comprehension of obesity as a disease and the challenges of addressing obesity within the healthcare system.

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Better Understanding the Population Size and Stigmatization of Psychologists Using Questionable Research Practices

10.31234/osf.io/3v7hx ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nicholas William Fox ◽

Nathan Honeycutt ◽

Lee Jussim

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Data Collection ◽

Social Environment ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Scale Up ◽

Research Practices ◽

Questionable Research Practices ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Insight Into

There has been low confidence in the replicability and reproducibility of published psychological findings. Previous work has demonstrated that a population of psychologists exists that have used questionable research practices (QRPs), or behaviors during data collection, analysis, and publication that can increase the number of false-positive findings in the scientific literature. The present work sought to estimate the current size of the QRP using population of American psychologists and to identify if this sub-population of scientists is stigmatized. Using a direct estimator, we estimate 18.8% of American psychologists have used at least one QRP in the past 12 months. This estimate rises to 24.40% when using the generalized network scale up estimator, an estimating method that utilizes the academic social networks of participants. Furthermore, attitudes of psychologists towards QRP users, and observed behavioral data collected from self-reported QRP users suggest that QRP users are a stigmatized sub-population of psychologists. Together, these findings provide better insight into how many psychologists use questionable practices and how they exist in the social environment.

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W cieniu fabryki. Wizja katastrofy Zakładów Azotowych w Mościcach w pomniku Wilhelma Sasnala

Zarządzanie w Kulturze ◽

10.4467/20843976zk.20.026.13044 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 325-346

Author(s):

Marcin Laberschek

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Social Life ◽

Visual Analysis ◽

The State ◽

The Past ◽

Research Material ◽

The Social ◽

Social Fear ◽

The Future ◽

Nitrogen Plant

In the Shadow of the Factory. A Vision of the Nitrogen Plant Disaster in Mościce at the Monument of Wilhelm Sasnal The article concerns the shadow phenomenon understood as the state of anxiety of people who create the social environment of an organization. This phenomenon was discussed on the example of Zakłady Azotowe in Mościce and the Wilhelm Sasnal monument, using research material from indepth interviews with the creator of the monument and with Dawid Radziszewski, artistic curator. Information from existing sources and the results of the visual analysis of the monument were also used. The result of the analysis is that: (1) shadow is a kind of social fear of threats from the organization (e.g., failures); (2) its source is the organization itself; (3) shadow is rooted in the past (4) and projected for the future; (5) shadow organizes social life in the environment of the organization and manifests itself in stories, myths and art.

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