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The Lineup of Social Entrepreneurship
2021
As an introductory chapter to the second section, this chapter describes the sequence of the social entrepreneurship analysis followed from the macro perspective. As a chronology, the construction of social ventures begins with a social problem or an unjust social equilibrium. At this point, an individual tries to change the unjust situation through a disruptive idea. The big challenge for that individual arises because, as in any equilibrium situation, institutional forces make difficult the shift from one situation to another. One of the main issues linked to the institutional forces is legitimacy, which can be seen to a certain extent as conflicts of interest. Finally, social ventures an…
Sociología y Ciencias Sociales en tiempos de crisis pandémica
2020
En este artículo se realiza una discusión sobre el papel de la sociología, junto a otras ciencias sociales, para analizar algunos aspectos sociales de la crisis provocada por la pandemia del COVID-19. Para ello se acude a condicionantes sociales provenientes de la estructura social, la cultura, el poder y la autoridad de los científicos y la construcción de instituciones relacionadas con la salud y la I+D. Los efectos de la pande- mia se abordan teniendo en cuenta las consecuencias previstas y no previstas del confinamiento. En las conclusiones se incluyen reflexiones sobre el impacto de la crisis en las ciencias sociales.
BETWEEN PROGRESSIVISM AND INSTITUTIONALISM: ALBERT BENEDICT WOLFE ON EUGENICS
2013
Albeit concerned with the biological element in social evolution, Albert B. Wolfe was among the very few economists of the progressive era who openly expressed his concerns about certain implications of eugenic rhetoric for the social science. Specifically, Wolfe questioned the strong hereditary boundaries that more extreme eugenicists suggested about human beings. As I will attempt to show in paper, a careful examination of Wolfe’s writings reveals that his reaction was rooted in the belief that many of the social problems which eugenicists attributed to hereditary limitations, were actually imputable to the influence that the social, economic, and physical environment exercised on the ind…
“How Real People Really Need Mathematics in the Real World”—Authenticity in Mathematics Education
2018
This paper discusses authenticity from the perspective of mathematics education. Often, school mathematics offers students inauthentic word problems, which don’t show the authentic usefulness of mathematics in real life. In some tasks, authentic aspects are combined with inauthentic ones (e.g., an authentic context, but the question is artificial and different from what people within that context would ask). Several studies show that students are more motivated by authentic questions than by authentic contexts. Embedding these findings, I discuss issues associated with defining authenticity in education. A first issue is that philosophers use the term to characterize a person’s existential …
Psychometric properties, validity and insights of the School Bullying Questionnaire (CIE-A) in secondary schools of the Valencian Community (Spain)
2021
Besides its several threats to health, welfare, social and academic development and performance of kids and teenagers, school bullying remains highlighted as one of the most relevant related challenges for educational, behavioral and legal sciences worldwide. Moreover, the lack of research on the field and the crucial but unattended need to count on psychometrically suitable and valid tools to detect school bullying make difficult understanding its contexts, dynamics and possible solutions. Objective The aim of this study was to thoroughly present in detail the psychometric properties and validity issues of the School Bullying Questionnaire (CIE-A) among secondary students. Methods A region…
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature Linking Music and Adolescent Mental Health
2013
There is a diverse literature that explores the relationship between youth, music, and mental health, with few attempts at systematic synthesis. This critical interpretive review included 33 studies published between 2000 and 2012 investigating the relationship between music and the mental health of young people, particularly targeting depression. An iterative methodology was used involving several layers of inductive analysis with the intention of generating an organizing framework that critically synthesized the available literature. The organizing framework highlights that decisions related to research design, assessment of health, and the nature of musical engagement have predictably i…
The Willingness to Intervene in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (WI-IPVAW) Scale: Development and Validation of the Long and Short V…
2018
Willingness to intervene when one becomes aware of a case of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) reflects the level of tolerance and acceptance of this type of violence in society. Increasing the likelihood of intervention to help victims of IPVAW is also a target for prevention strategies aiming to increase informal social control of IPVAW. In this study, we present the development and validation of the Willingness to Intervene in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence (WI-IPVAW) scale. We report data for both the long and short versions of the scale. We analyzed the latent structure, the reliability and validity of the WI-IPVAW across four samples (N = 1648). Factor analyses suppo…
Los medios masivos de comunicación y el terrorismo: entre la verdad y el miedo
2017
Los medios masivos de comunicación cumplen un rol importante en la sociedad, son una suerte de reforzadores morales que problematizan y ofrecen soluciones a las cuestiones importantes de la sociedad. No obstante, en la sociedad de consumo, somos testigos de un cambio sustancial en el rol de los medios quienes han pasado a ser productores del “espectáculo del desastre”. El 11 de septiembre ha marcado a fuego no solo el poder de los medios para distorsionar ciertas realidades a sus audiencias, sino para cubrir la noticia escondiendo las causas reales que fomentan el terrorismo. El presente ensayo intenta situarse como una critica constructiva al discurso periodístico y de los medios dominante…
Les Juges et l’Assassin (de l’École) : les méfaits illusoires du progressisme
2021
Dans le droit fil des ouvrages qui, chaque rentrée scolaire et littéraire, déplorent avec une belle régularité le déclin continu du système éducatif, un récent pamphlet s’est donné pour mission de dénoncer les assassins de l’école au nombre desquels se trouve Alain Viala. Le procédé, qui n’est pas nouveau, ne doit pas dissimuler au fil des ans les subtiles évolutions de cette tradition littéraire. Évolution tout d’abord du profil des contempteurs du progressisme éducatif qui semble s’adapter ...
Research on Socialization Problems among Hearing-Impaired Children at Special Primary School Establishment
2011
Abstract The article researches the issue of family and the educational institution influence on socialization of children with special needs. Note that hearing plays a very important role in the language learning process, but reading for hearing impaired children is a kind of “compensatory mechanism”. Interrelation of Latvia's state institutions and NGOs with families and schools with children with special needs are researched within the article as well as identified and analyzed the LR legislation, relating to the mentioned social problems. The research analyzes the data obtained from surveys of parents having the hearing impaired child. Facts obtained from the documents on the life and e…