Search results for " CONFLICT"

Diritti sociali Per una critica di alcuni luoghi comuni

2016

The article reconstructs and critically assesses some of the most recurring arguments in legal and political philosophy to the effect that social rights are different in structure from, and necessarily incompatible with, the more familiar civil and political liberties. The author shows that social rights and civil and political liberties have in common more than meets the eye, and so they are different in degree rather than in kind. Moreover, while these rights can certainly happen to conflict one against the other in particular instances, they prove not only to be compatible but even mutually reinforcing as far as their respective axiological foundations are concerned.

The predicting role of self-efficacyin the Job Demands-Resources Model: A longitudinal study

2012

AbstractTaking Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory as our starting point, we analysed the predicting role of self-efficacy in the Job Demands-Resources Model. We tested longitudinally the two underlying psychological processes, namely: 1) the motivational process, in which job resources (i.e., job autonomy and social support climate) foster engagement, and 2) the erosion process, in which high job demands (i.e., quantitative overload and role conflict) lead to burnout. Structural equation modelling in a sample of 274 secondary-school teachers confirmed both processes, as well as the powerful predicting role of self-efficacy. Finally, we discuss the theoretical findings and the practica…

La cultura en la televisión

1999

Un debate público frustrado: el conflicto de la línea eléctrica de 400.000 voltios en el nordeste de Cataluña

2011

Una plata forma popular y un grupo de municipi os del noreste de Cata luña se oponen a una línea eléctrica de muy alta tensión entre Francia y Espa ña por sus impact os paisaj ísticos y ambienta les. Recurren a expert os para reforzar su posición y elaboran argumentos y alternativas de alta calidad técnica. Los promotores públicos y priva dos del proyecto se enfrentan a una sociedad civil que no es at omizada ni amorfa, sino capa z de artic ularse y dotarse de saber científicotécnico. Se reúnen así las condiciones para un debate público y una gobernanza participativa , y no sólo sobre la línea eléctrica, sino tam bién sobre el modelo de producción y distribución de electricidad. Pero ni las…

Balance comparativo de las luchas contra la línea de muy alta tensión entre Francia y España a uno y otro lado de la frontera

2011

Emotions and political rhetoric: Perception of danger, group conflict and the biopolitics of fear

2016

Abstract In the present article I shall argue that human emotion is multifaceted and has a cognitive dimension in virtue of its intricate connections with beliefs, memories, imagination, and other products of human rationality. Human emotion also has a social and political dimension. When we think about fear we cannot characterize it as a mere stimulus-response phenomenon: it is, due to its cognitive facet, more complex and related to our ideas about survival and well-being. This leaves fear exposed to political rhetoric, and thus to political manipulation. Fear can be aroused, guided and nourished amongst the population, giving rise to a biopolitics of fear. In this article, I will conside…

Review of Agent-Based Models of Social Conflict and Civil Violence

2017

This chapter contains a review of the state of the art on agent-based models for simulation of large-scale social conflict and violence. It is structured in four parts. The first contains a summary of general definitions and concepts. The second contains the presentation and discussion of Epstein’s agent-based model, which is a landmark model of civil and ethnic violence due to its simplicity, soundness, and explanatory power. The third part contains a review of extensions of Epstein’s model that have been proposed by several authors. The chapter ends with some remarks on the limitations of existing ABM and on possibilities for their improvement.

Variaciones del drama historial en Lope de Vega

2013

Starting from the presentation of the principles underlying the current research and that link it to previous studies —principles which deal with the concept and features of drama historial (historic drama) in Lope de Vega—, the essay focuses on the distinction of two fundamental modes of drama historial: the commemoration of famous historical events on the one hand, and moral conflict analysis, almost always of private nature and exploding in specific historical circumstances, on the other hand. These two major strategies of significance, the one being characteristic of a collective memory, associated with the identity of the nascent nation, and the other one exploring private identity, th…

Using System Dynamics to understand Workplace Conflict

This study uses a systemic approach to explore the dynamics of learning and negative emotion in workplace intraorganisational conflict. Our dynamic hypothesis was that the endogenous dynamics between the level of intraorganisational conflict and the levels of learning and negative emotion, which are accumulating in the organisation as by-products of conflict, are causing the conflict level to oscillate. A review by Cronin & Berzukova (2006) identified two problematic, undesired patterns of intraorganisational conflict development over time (Group Disintegration, Groupthink) and one desired pattern of moderate conflict level (Cohesion and Resilience), which comprised our Reference Mode. …

TRUST AND CONFLICT BETWEEN EMPLOYEES: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDY IN GREEK HOSPITALS

Σκοπός Η παρούσα ποιοτική έρευνα χρησιμοποιεί την αφηγηματική προσέγγιση για τη διερεύνηση της φύσης και του ρόλου της εμπιστοσύνης στα διάφορα στάδια των συγκρούσεων που παρατηρούνται μεταξύ εργαζομένων στο Νοσοκομείο: από τη δημιουργία τους μέχρι την κλιμάκωση και τη μετατροπή τους από «συγκρούσεις έργου» σε «σχεσιακές συγκρούσεις». Υλικό-Μέθοδος Πρωτογενή ποιοτικά δεδομένα (Retrospective, self-reflective) συλλέχθηκαν χρησιμοποιώντας έναν ημι-δομημένο οδηγό συνέντευξης. Ένα διαθέσιμο δείγμα 15 συμμετεχόντων (7 άνδρες και 8 γυναίκες ηλικίας 25-35 ετών, εργαζόμενοι σε ελληνικά νοσοκομεία) κλήθηκαν να περιγράψουν τουλάχιστον δύο πρόσφατα περιστατικά σύγκρουσης που αντιμετώπισαν στο χώρο εργα…