Frontiers for Networks for Social Impact

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
Michelle Shumate ◽  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Network Design ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
Do So

The final chapter synthesizes arguments from the book. We offer a systems approach that integrates the configuration and processes approaches, addressing the possible network designs needed for success and how the system must adapt to a changing environment. We do so by unpacking the axioms that underly our approach, integrating material from the rest of the book. We draw several implications for research and practice. We advocate a solution-science approach to the study of social impact networks. We argue that researchers need to test interventions to improve networks’ social impact and communicate the results widely. We contend that both funders and network instigators should pay attention to the nature of social issues (i.e., simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic) when writing requests for proposals and selecting a network design. The match between the type of social problem and the network design is critical to achieving social impact. We end the chapter with optimism and urgency. Not only do we think networks can be impactful if designed and managed well, but we also believe they must be impactful to address the most challenging issues of our time.

Losing metrics … finding heart

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-192
Author(s):  
Julia K. Day
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Narrative Methods ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Do So

Purpose This paper aims to provide an example of ways in which research plans may shift and how the research team dealt with necessary changes as they unfolded; within this context, the authors encourage the use of qualitative and narrative methods prior to and during the design process to better understand the population for which they are designing. Second, the stories from this case study illustrate the importance of understanding the overall context in design solutions, understanding the value of working with residents during the design process and using design as a tool for advocacy and empathy. Design/methodology/approach Initially, a traditional mixed method approach was developed to study the feasibility of tiny homes in homeless populations. Responding to unforeseen circumstances, the research team shifted to more appropriate narrative research methods, capturing a profile of the community. The paper shares narrative accounts from the tiny home village residents. Findings Overall, the stories from the Portland visit illustrate the importance of social impact and the understanding of the overall context in design. This study also advocates the use of qualitative interview and narrative methods in design research, especially when used to better understand the “houseless” or other special populations. Research limitations/implications There were limitations to the research that likely affected the outcomes and the results. The most apparent limitation was the unanticipated shift in methodology that occurred during the research study, which is also arguably one of the best strengths. Also, because of the qualitative nature of this research, the results are not generalizable to a broader context and only valuable or applicable to special cases. Practical implications The true human condition of displaced people is often misrepresented in the minds of those who are unaffected. Designers are uniquely qualified to help solve seemingly unsolvable problems but must do so with caution. Social implications For those taking on the challenge of designing for disadvantaged communities, this paper reveals that design research is more than just a problem to solve through habitable boxes. This study brings to light several social, economic and design complications that may arise in this vein of research. Originality/value This research methodology was unexpectedly altered when unforeseen events necessitated a shift in the research plan. This process revealed that sensitive social issues can be difficult to navigate and must be treated with utmost respect and flexibility. Issues such as affordable housing, homelessness and sustainability are all examples of wicked problems, which designers are uniquely qualified to help solve but must do so with caution and a true understanding of context. Many lessons were learned through this process.

scholarly journals Social impact of epilepsy on life of people with epilepsy: An ethnographic evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
Neha Wasal
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Case Material ◽  
Epilepsy Patient ◽  
Northwest India ◽  
Level Hospital

Epilepsy is considered as a stigma in our society, and PWE’s have to face many social issues. This becomes more prominent among those who are in marriageable age. In this paper21 PWE were interviewed who attended an outpatient epilepsy clinic at a secondary-level hospital in Northwest India between 01.01.2015 and 31.03.2015 formed the case material for this study. Some cases were deeply interrogated and it was found that all of them faced certain kind of social problems while suffering from epilepsy. Half of respondentssaid that main social problem faced by them was related to marriage. Many of the epilepsy patient denied the fact of having epilepsy with their future partner . They also denied of revealing them about taking ADE’S. it was found that PWE’s face many social and psychological problems while marriage negotiations and even after marriage.

Five Modes of Scepticism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Sienkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Sextus Empiricus ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Limiting Case ◽  
Do So

This book offers an account of the functioning of the five Agrippan modes of scepticism as presented in the works of Sextus Empiricus. These five modes (of disagreement, hypothesis, infinite regression, reciprocity, and relativity) are analysed, individually, in the book’s first five chapters, and, collectively, in its sixth. Two perspectives on these modes are distinguished from one another—a dogmatic perspective which considers how a dogmatic philosopher might come to suspend judgement on the basis of these modes and a sceptical perspective which considers how a sceptic might come to do so. It is argued that the standard way in which these modes have been understood has been from a dogmatic perspective. The book opens up an alternative sceptical perspective on the modes according to which mode of disagreement (or one version of it) is equivalent to the sceptic’s method of equipollence, and the modes of hypothesis, infinite regression, and reciprocity are different instances of that method (with the mode of hypothesis being a limiting case of the method). It is also argued that the mode of relativity is inconsistent with the mode of disagreement and should be discarded when considering how the modes work together in a combined sceptical strategy. The final chapter offers an account of four different ways in which the modes might be combined together and concludes that each of these ways turns on a number of theoretical assumptions which the sceptic is not in a position to make.

scholarly journals Rediscovering the Cooperative Enterprise: A Systematic Review of Current Topics and Avenues for Future Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Felipe Camargo Benavides ◽  
Michel Ehrenhard
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Multilevel Studies ◽  
Cooperative Enterprise ◽  
Organizational Literature

AbstractFor decades, the cooperative enterprise (CE) produces market goods and/or provides services in the interest to its members, such as communities, customers, and suppliers. The upsurge of interest in social enterprises, and their balancing of social and economic interests, has also led to a renewed interest in CEs, often seen as a specific type of social enterprise. However, from an organizational perspective, this renewed interest has been both limited and scattered over a variety of fields. In this paper, we systematically review papers on CE in the mainstream organizational literature, defined as literature in the fields of economics, business, management and sociology. Our review integrates and synthesizes the current topics in the mainstream organizational literature and provides a number of avenues for future research. In addition, we compare our findings in the organizational literature to the social issues literature as these appeared to be quite complimentary. We found multilevel studies, determination of social impact—in particular measurable impact, managerial practices for sustainable (organisational) development, and the entrepreneurial opportunity generation process as the four key avenues for future research.

Stand-Up and Be Counted: Exploring The Role of Comedy in Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Robinson ◽  
Zoe Turner
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Perceived Price ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Sensitive Issues

Comedy is a multidimensional, diverse and versatile spectacle, an identifiable art form and source of entertainment and it has a rich historical identity and purpose. It contributes to cultural identities and has more recently been proven to provide positive impacts in mental healthcare. It offers social and cultural benefit and influences social change. The growth of live comedy has a strong background in working-class venues which has possibly predisposed it to being perceived as less significant other performance arts such as dance and theatre. Given the untapped potential for further research this empirical paper sought to evaluate the potential opportunities for comedy to make a greater positive impact on local communities. To facilitate this, data was collected through surveys administered online and in comedy clubs in the West Midlands (UK). A total of 179 questionnaires were received, supported with in-depth interviews with comedy club managers. Key issues for live comedy engagement were found to include a lack of awareness, perceived price barriers and a lack of publicity. 70% of respondents agreed that live comedy could have a wider, positive social impact and also offers a platform to address difficult social issues. A number of participants expressed the importance of communitas and the opportunity to discuss difficult and sensitive issues in a structureless state of liminality.

scholarly journals Kewirausahaan Sosial dalam Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Umat

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-139
Author(s):  
Mandala Faldini
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Unique Product ◽  
Problem Design

Social entrepreneur is a branch of entrepreneur. Solutions of social problems who implementated is a social entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur be required a person who can read a social problem, design a social solution and mobilize the idea in order to implemented. Entrepreneur with social motivation, makes a lot of impact. Social impact of entrepreneur is fullfilment of needs, serve alternative unique product with low cost and provide solutions of goverment problems. Indonesia as a country with muslims as mayority, social entrepreneur is a needs for people economy. Social entrepreneur can be solution of economic gap or disparities in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Teaching students how to think, not what to think: Pedagogy and political psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 388-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Velez ◽  
Séamus A. Power
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Do So

Academia is often critiqued as an “ivory tower” where research, thinking, and teaching are isolated from the complexity and everyday experience of so many people. As instructors of political and other psychology courses, we strive to break down these barriers and engage with the dynamic and nuanced nature of phenomena as situated in lived social and political contexts. In this report, we unpack and detail how we strive to achieve this goal by expanding on Plous’ articulation of action teaching (2012). We first define our pedagogical focus on active engagement, critical thinking, and staying on the move between multiple perspectives. We then provide specific examples of how we enact our philosophy in activities and assessment. We end by articulating how this approach to teaching in social and political psychology can be understood as furthering not only our students’ intellectual growth as psychologists, but also their development as democratic citizens. In doing so, we argue that action teaching not only involves course activities directly engaging with social issues, but also provides students with a scaffold to actually do so in a way that is attentive to the complexity, pluralism, and dynamism of social and political issues.

scholarly journals Modelo descritivo de atuação sustentável para o desenvolvimento de inovações sociais

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262
Author(s):  
Priscila Rezende Da Costa ◽  
Lucimar da Silva Itelvino ◽  
Sonia Francisca Monken
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Social Innovations

Purpose: The concept of social innovation as open, collaborative and social transformation process opens room to reinforce the need of legitimizing social impact businesses and of expanding partnerships for social change, as well as the urgency of establishing professional and more sustainable social innovation environments. Accordingly, we tried to answer the following research question: How can social business performance boost the development of social innovations?Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, we adopted the inductive approach of qualitative paradigm, based on the Grounded Theory, to investigate 24 social businesses. In addition, we adopted the Atlas.ti software for data organization and recovery.Aggregate results allowed us to  propose a descriptive model of sustainable performance for the development of social innovations in social business, based on the following propositions: sustainable performance in processes and social innovation, the prevalence of a cooperative environment to solve social issues, professional governance as causal factor to social innovation development, the development of actions focused on public interests as influencing conditions for social innovation development, technical and scientific evaluation of social impacts as strategy to measure the outcomes of developed innovations and the expansion of social impacts as the consequence of the self-negotiation of social affairs.Originality/value: A descriptive model of sustainable acting was proposed for the development of social innovations in social businesses.

scholarly journals Representasi LGBT dalam Perspektif Ideologi Khilafah: Kajian Transitivitas dalam Buletin Kaffah

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-358
Author(s):  
Dede Fatinova ◽  
Yasir Mubarok ◽  
Ratna Juwitasari Emha
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Radical Ideology ◽  
New Form

Ideologi khilafah merupakan sebuah ideologi yang kerap kali diinterpretasikan sebagai ideologi yang cukup radikal. Umumnya ideologi khilafah menyoroti isu-isu politik yang bertentangan dengan syariat Islam. Namun, kali ini ideologi khilafah juga menyoroti isu sosial, yaitu LGBT. LGBT merupakan isu yang kontroversial secara global. Sementara ideologi khilafah merupakan sebuah paham yang konsepnya bertentangan dengan negara Indonesia.  Penyebaran ideologi khilafah sudah dilarang oleh pemerintah Indonesia. Namun eksistensinya masih hadir dalam rupa yang baru, yaitu pada sebuah buletin bernama KAFFAH. Kajian ini akan mengungkapkan bagaimana LGBT direpresentasikan dalam perspektif ideologi khilafah. Data dalam penelitian ini berasal dari artikel tentang LGBT pada media Kaffah, edisi 025 yang dirilis pada 26 Januari 2018. Selanjutnya data dikaji secara kualitatif dengan metode analisis deskriptif. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan teori Transitivitas sebagai teori yang menyatakan bahwa bahasa merupakan representasi dari pengalaman manusia. Transitivitas ini berfokus pada tiga komponen, yaitu proses, partisipan, dan sirkumtan. Berdasarkan uraian Transitivitas, diketahui bahwa dalam perspektif ideologi khilafah, LGBT bukan hanya direpresentasikan sebagai masalah sosial, tapi juga sebagai implikasi dari tidak adanya Undang-undang yang bersumber dari hukum Islam yang secara eksplisit dapat menjerat LGBT. The khilafah ideology is an ideology that is often interpreted as a fairly radical ideology. Generally, the ideology of the khilafah highlights political issues that are contrary to Islamic law. However, the Khilafah ideology also highlights social issues, namely LGBT. LGBT is a controversial issue globally. While the khilafah ideology is a concept that is contrary to the Indonesian state. The Indonesian government has banned the spread of the khilafah ideology. But its existence is still present in a new form such as a bulletin called KAFFAH. This study aims to describe how LGBT is represented in the perspective of khilafah. The data of this study is a KAFFAH bulletin article, 025 editions, which released on January 26, 2018. Furthermore, the data were analyzed qualitatively by descriptive analysis methods. This study uses the Transitivity theory approach as a theory which states that language is a representation of human experience. The Transitivity focuses on three components; process, participants, and circumstance. Based on the description of Transitivity, LGBT is not only represented as a social problem but also as an implication of the absence of laws that originate from Islamic law which can explicitly ensnare LGBT.

Social Issues and Problem-based Learning in Sociology

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daina S. Eglitis ◽  
Fran L. Buntman ◽  
Dameon V. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Sample Case

This article discusses the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in the undergraduate sociology classroom. PBL shifts students from the role of passive listeners and learners to active knowledge builders and communicators through the use of concise and engaging social problem cases. PBL creates opportunities for building substantive area knowledge, research skills, and problem-solving capacities and fosters student enjoyment. This teaching note describes the key characteristics of PBL, discusses practical approaches to its use in a variety of sociology courses, and offers sample case studies. We evaluate student experiences with PBL and consider its broader applicability.

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