Search results for "SOCIAL COHESION"
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La educación a lo largo de la vida: lógicas sociales y marcos de análisis
2021
El presente artículo ofrece una panorámica aproximativa de la educación a lo largo de la vida desde un punto de vista descriptivo y desde un punto de vista analítico. En una primera parte se presentan algunas lógicas o dimensiones sociales desde la perspectiva de la educación a lo largo de la vida. En una segunda parte se expone un marco de las políticas de educación a lo largo de la vida, distinguiendo entre el ámbito de la educación de personas adultas y su ampliación y desarrollo ulterior en interrelación con la educación a lo largo de la vida. En tercer lugar, se presta atención, en un marco evaluativo, al reciente programa PIAAC, y a los resultados del mismo en el caso de España. Por ú…
Were we stressed or was it just me – and does it even matter? Efforts to disentangle individual and collective resilience within real and imagined st…
2020
Although resilience is a multi-level process, research largely focuses on the individual and little is known about how resilience may distinctly present at the group level. Even less is known about subjective conceptualizations of resilience at either level. Therefore, two studies sought to better understand how individuals conceptualize resilience both as an individual and as a group. Study 1 (N = 123) experimentally manipulated whether participants reported on either individual or group-based responses to real stressors and analysed their qualitative responses. For individual responses, subjective resilience featured active coping most prominently, whereas social support was the focus for…
Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates
2012
In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquee were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The analysis finds that the entrepreneur…
Unequal Attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries
2014
Western countries have become increasingly diverse in recent decades and these demographic trends are certain to continue. The resulting ethnic diversity is a major challenge to policy-makers, who need to tackle issues of social justice and social integration. Education plays a pivotal role since it is the major stepping stone for the children of immigrants to successful economic integration and also plays a major role in social and political integration more generally since education gives access to the skills, resources and contacts which enable individuals to participate fully in the life of their society. Our central research questions are: Do the descendants of migrants experience equa…
Socio-technical innovation in community-based tourism organizations: A proposal for local development
2021
Abstract Socio-technical innovation is based on new patterns of interaction involving a set of new behaviors that have been legitimized in a given context. The approach of socio-technical innovation complements a purely technological innovation focus. However, studies of how to address social and environmental challenges under this approach are scarce. The aim of this paper is to identify the technical and social structures that underpin the socio-technical innovation system of community-based tourism organizations (CBTOs). This paper offers an in-depth case study of a specific type of collective property known as an “ejido”. Through this case study, the paper highlights the aspects that ha…
Group cohesion in group-based personal practice
2021
AbstractBackgroundPersonal practice (PP) is an integral component of many psychotherapy training programmes. It aims to promote personal and professional growth and is often conducted in a group format (g-PP). Group cohesion is one of the most researched mechanisms in group psychotherapy, but has rarely been studied in the context of g-PP.Aims and methodThis exploratory study examines the associations between cohesion, satisfaction with g-PP, its impact on personal and professional development, and theoretical orientation in a sample of n = 329 German psychotherapy trainees. Cohesion was assessed with the group questionnaire (GQ-D; Positive Bonding, Positive Working, Negative Relationship).…
De la ley de barrios al diseño de políticas locales de empleo
2009
(Erm) de Manlleu, localidad de la provincia de Barcelona. La investigación forma parte de un conjunto de acciones integradas llevadas a cabo en el Erm a partir de la aplicación de la denominada Ley de Barrios, impulsada por el Gobierno catalán. La Ley facilita el desarrollo de actuaciones en el ámbito local, especialmente en el terreno urbanístico. Pero, como mostraremos, puede ser también un instrumento eficaz para desarrollar políticas de promoción del empleo ligadas al territorio. Un tipo de políticas que remite a la importancia que viene adquiriendo el ámbito local en cuestiones de empleo; y que se refleja en los numerosos estudios que se realizan en torno a la idea del desarrollo local…
Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo
2022
Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…
RECIPROCITÀ: UNA DECLINAZIONE SOCIOLOGICA
2019
Tra iconcetti polisemici presenti in tutti i paradigmi sociologici, nonché approfondito da sociologi di diversa epoca, vi è certamente quello di reciprucità. Nella sua accezione più immediata, possiamo considerarla anzi come uno degli oggetti di studio principali della sociologia — si potrebbe sostenere che non vi può essere società senza reciprocità — ma proprio perché costituisce uno dei fondamenti alla base delle diverse società, a prescindere dalla loro diversa collocazione nel tempo e nello spazio’. Simmel, ad esempio, uno dei pionieri dello studio dei modelli di ‘sociazione”, come egli stesso definiva le forme di associazione e prosecuzione nel tempo di relazioni sociali, sosteneva ch…
Integrazione dei migranti
2022
Il termine “integrazione” nell’ambito degli studi sulle migrazioni, conosce una pluralità di accezioni, che deriva sia dalla molteplicità di variabili oggettive e soggettive che concorrono alla sua definizione, sia dalla sua interconnessione con i mutamenti politici e culturali costantemente in atto (partecipazione [3], inclusione giuridica, intervento civile e politico, cittadinanza, politiche sociali, convivenza democratica, diritti sociali ecc.). The term "integration" in the field of migration studies has a plurality of meanings, which derives both from the multiplicity of objective and subjective variables that contribute to its definition, and from its interconnection with the politic…