Search results for "Sociology and Political Science"

Lyties dimensija socialiniame versle: Lietuvos socialinių verslininkių patirtys

2017

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, kaip moterys – socialinės verslininkės – suvokia socialinį verslą ir lyties dedamąją tokiame versle. Interviu (n=18) su socialinių verslų Lietuvoje atstovėmis analizė parodė, kad socialinio verslo misija yra arba labai pragmatiška (organizacijų, turinčių socialinės įmonės juridinį statusą), atsiejama nuo socialinio poveikio, kurį tokie verslai paprastai kuria, arba gana neapibrėžta, tačiau akcentuojanti gėrio kūrimą. Tačiau į lyties dedamąją socialiniuose versluose žvelgiama stereotipiškai, t. y. lyties poveikis arba ignoruojamas, arba interpretuojamas stereotipiškai skirstant į tradiciškai laikomas vyriškomis ir moteriškomis veiklos sritis. This paper explores how …

Digital participation in service environments among senior electricity consumers in Finland

2018

Research to date suggests that older adults engage with digital technologies less frequently than young adults. Studies typically focus on chronological age, ignoring the effects of life course factors on the adoption and use of digital technologies. By utilising multiple triangulation, the article investigates the role of age and life course stage in the usage of an electricity company's online services among senior consumers. The data are derived from an internet-based survey study (N = 1366) and six focus group discussions involving Finnish electricity consumers (N = 29). The results suggest that online consumers aged 50 and over utilise electricity company online services more frequentl…

Non-abusing mothers’ formal support needs after child sexual abuse disclosure: the case of North Cyprus

2021

This article investigates the formal support needs of mothers whose child has been sexually abused. Previous research has focused mostly on the provision of support for abused children to the relat...

The contested concept of vulnerability – a literature review

2018

The concept of vulnerability is widely used in the social sciences as well as in policy making, health and social care services and in social work, referring to a variety of groups or individuals, ...

Radical Experiences of Portuguese Social Workers in the Vanguard of the 1974 Revolution

2019

ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the contribution of social workers to the Portuguese democratic transition in the 1970s. Their involvement in urban social mobilizations and in the cooperative movem...

Research‐based knowledge about social work and sustainability

2020

The deteriorating work-related well-being among statutory social workers in a rigorous economic context

2014

This article examines the connection between economic pressures and impaired well-being at work experienced by Finnish statutory social workers. The survey data were collected during the years 2011–2012. The respondents (N = 817) were social workers in statutory social services. The overall response rate was 46.5 and nearly 60% of all Finnish municipalities participated in the study. This study affirms the worrying state of the well-being at work of statutory social workers. Up to 43% of the respondents reported worsening of their work-related well-being during the past two years. On average, they had experienced impaired work-related well-being at least once a month. Nearly 18% reported ex…

Making sense of domestic violence intervention in professional health care

2011

Intervening in domestic violence in the health care and social service settings is a complex and contested issue. In this qualitative, multidisciplinary study, the barriers to but also the possibilities for health care professionals in encountering victims of violence were scrutinised. The focus was on omissions in service structure and practices. The data consisted of six focus group interviews with nurses, physicians, social workers and psychologists in specialist health care (n = 30) conducted in Finland in 2009. The aim was to explore professionals' processes of making sense of violence interventions and the organisational practices of violence interventions. Four types of framing of th…

Honouring Hans-Uwe Otto

2020

Hans-Uwe Otto’s way of celebrating special commemorative occasions, including his last and 80th birthday, was always by means of challenging us to a topical, at times controversial academic debate ...

Menschen unterscheiden. Grundlinien einer Theorie der Humandifferenzierung

2021

ZusammenfassungDieser Aufsatz entwickelt ein analytisches Vokabular für die Erforschung von Prozessen der Humandifferenzierung – einer Form kultureller Differenzierung, die neben Formen sozialer und gesellschaftlicher Differenzierung wirkt und ihre Ansatzpunkte in unterstellten ‚Eigenschaften‘ von Menschen findet. Der Beitrag unterscheidet verschiedene Stufen der Humandifferenzierung: zunächst die elementaren Prozesse der vorsprachlichen Unterscheidung, der Kategorisierung, der materiellen Dissimilierung und der Klassifikation. Dann arbeitet er vier Besonderheiten der Humandifferenzierung heraus: die Agentivität und Relationalität ihrer Objekte, die Perspektivität von Selbst- versus Fremdka…