scholarly journals 100-year Anniversary of the Birth of V.J. Sukselainen, Founder of Väestöliitto

2006 ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Jouko Hulkko
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Member Of Parliament

Vieno Johannes Sukselainen was born in Paimio on 12 October 1906. His mother was a single woman who worked as a seamstress. Sukselainen matriculated from high school in 1927 and earned his masters degree in 1931. Sukselainens doctoral dissertation, Co-operatives as a business model, was approved in 1939. Sukselainen traveled to various countries during the 1930s to conduct research for his dissertation, including Germany, Switzerland, France and Sweden. He was actively involved in student politics and later in the 1930s also got involved in the activities of the Agrarian League. Although neither farmer nor Member of Parliament, Sukselainen was elected chairman of the Agrarian League in 1945. His chairmanship lasted nearly two decades, until 1964, and his contributions were mainly in the area of political economy and social policy. Sukselainen was a member of parliament almost without interruption from 1948 to 1978, and was Speaker in 1956-58, 1968-69 and 1972-75. Sukselainen occupied the post of Minister of Finance in 1950-51 and 1954, Minister of the Interior in 1951-53, and Prime Minister in 1957 and 1959-61. He also served as a university lecturer and professor of political economy throughout the 1940s and 50s, director of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland in 1954-71 and Chancellor of the University of Tampere in 1969-78. A founder of the Family Federation, Sukselainen was also its ? rst chairman from 1941 until 1971.Sukselainen and Elma Bondn, M.A., married on 6 July 1938 and had four children.V.J. Sukselainen died in 1995.

scholarly journals Robert Alexander Frazer, 1891-1959

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Private Life ◽  
London School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Four Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Robert Alexander Frazer was born in the City of London on 5 February 1891. His father, Robert Watson Frazer, LL.B., had retired from the Madras Civil Service and had become Principal Librarian and Secretary of the London Institution at Finsbury Circus, whence in the following two decades he produced four books on India and its history, of which perhaps the best known was one published in the ‘Story of the Nations’ Series by Fisher Unwin, Ltd., in 1895. The family lived at the Institution and Robert was born there. Young Frazer proceeded in due course to the City of London School where he did remarkably well and won several scholarships and medals. By the time he was eighteen years of age, the City Corporation, desiring to commemorate the distinction just gained by Mr H. H. Asquith, a former pupil of the school, on his appointment as Prime Minister, founded the Asquith Scholarship of £100 per annum tenable for four years at Cambridge. It thus came about that at the school prize-giving in 1909 the Lord Mayor announced that the new Asquith Scholarship had been conferred on Frazer, who was so enabled to proceed to Pembroke College, Cambridge, that autumn. Frazer, in the course of his subsequent career, had two other formal links with London. In 1911 he was admitted to the Freedom of London in the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Crosby, having been an Apprentice of T. M. Wood, ‘Citizen and Gardener of London’; and in 1930 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of London. The former may or may not have been a pointer to his subsequent ability as a gardener in private life; the latter was certainly a well-deserved recognition of his scientific work at the time.

scholarly journals The Establishment of School Social Work in Austria – From a Project to a Regular Offer

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Arno Heimgartner ◽  
Stephan Sting
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
School Problems ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The University

The contribution introduces the present situation and the basic challenges of school social work in Austria. Starting with the perception of a developing “knowledge society” (Höhne, 2004), school is seen as a life place at which social subjects and problems occur and are made manifest. The analyses are based in particular on empirical studies by the University of Klagenfurt (Sting & Leitner, 2011) and the University of Graz (Gspurning, Heimgartner, Pieber, & Sing, 2011), which were carried out in school social work facilities of Carinthia and Styria, but theyalso include Austrian-wide research projects. A methodical view is presented along the main target groups “pupils”, “teachers” and “parents”, and the basic orientations are discussed. The thematic analysis characterises school social work as a multi-thematic service (e.g., conflicts,  love, problems at school, problems of the family) that needs to oppose the reduction to single problem areas such as drug abuse or violence. The structural analyses render visible the meaning of spatial conditions, personnel competence and the social-spatial network. Finally, the possibilities of a lasting implementation of empirical research in school social work are discussed.

scholarly journals Die Bündelung familienbezogener Leistungen bei einem Parafiskus. Eine Zusammenfassung bisheriger Überlegungen und eine Einordnung in die aktuelle Debatte

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-340
Author(s):  
C. Katharina Spieß
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

In Germany, support for families includes diverse types of financial and material aid. These different programs are not aligned and coordinated, but rather stand alone alongside each other and are far from being transparent. This article argues that this situation could be remedied by grouping the various family-related support measures within a single family support agency as a parafiscal institution. Here we summarize the basic advantages and disadvantages of parafiscal institutions and evaluate them in the context of family-related support measures. Then we examine the aspect of self-administration, which has taken a prominent role in the debate on parafiscal institutions. The paper concludes by outlining further parameters for the design, financing, and range of services that could be offered by a family parafiscus. However, a detailed discussion of the services offered by a family parafiscus would require systematic evaluation of the overall system. In the medium term, there is substantial evidence that efforts should begin to integrate the family-related support measures provided by the social insurance system with other support measures provided by the federal government in a single family support agency. Zusammenfassung Familienbezogene Leistungen umfassen in Deutschland eine Vielzahl von Sach- und Geldleistungen. Diese Leistungen sind nicht aufeinander abgestimmt, stehen häufig unverbunden nebeneinander und sind wenig transparent. Die Bündelung familienbezogener Maßnahmen bei einer Familienkasse als Parafiskus könnte, so die zentrale Aussage dieses Beitrags, Abhilfe schaffen. Die grundsätzlichen Vor- und Nachteile parafiskalischer Institutionen werden zusammengefasst und es wird diskutiert, wie diese im Kontext familienbezogener Leistungen zu bewerten sind. Daran anschließend wird der Aspekt der Selbstverwaltung beleuchtet, da er in der Debatte um Parafisken einen prominenten Stellenwert einnimmt. Der Beitrag schließt mit der Skizzierung weiterer Ausgestaltungsparameter eines Familienparafiskus, seiner Finanzierung und des Leistungsspektrums. Eine Diskussion um den Leistungskatalog eines Familienparafiskus setzt allerdings eine systematische Evaluierung des Gesamtsystems voraus. Mittelfristig spricht einiges dafür mit einer Integration der familienbezogenen Maßnahmen in der Sozialversicherung und anderer beim Bund angesiedelter familienbezogener Leistungen in eine Familienkasse zu beginnen.

Familiengerechtigkeit in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 627-641
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Term Care Insurance

Zusammenfassung Ausgehend von Beiträgen des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats für Familienfragen zum Verhältnis Familie und Sozialversicherung beleuchten wir in diesem Aufsatz die Frage der Familiengerechtigkeit in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung. Ein Großteil der Pflegearbeit in Deutschland wird innerhalb der Familie erbracht, gleichzeitig gewährleisten Familien die nachhaltige Finanzierung der Pflegeversicherung. Demographische Entwicklungen und veränderte Verantwortungskonzepte stellen diese Leistungserbringung vor Herausforderungen. Wir argumentieren, dass Familien auf der Beitrags- wie auf der Leistungsseite mehr ­Unterstützung benötigen, z. B. bei der arbeitsrechtlichen und finanziellen Absicherung pflegender Angehöriger, um die bestehende Schieflage zwischen stationärer und häuslicher Versorgung zu mildern. Abstract: The Role of Families in the Social Insurance System Based on previous reports of the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Affairs on the role of families in the social insurance system, this essay examines the aspect of family fairness in long-term care insurance. The majority of care work in Germany is provided within the family, while at the same time families ensure sustainable financing of long-term care insurance. Demographic change and changing concepts of responsibility challenge these modes of care provision. We argue that families need more support on the contribution as well as the benefit side, e. g. by securing labour rights and financial protection of caring relatives to alleviate the existing imbalances between institutional and home care.

Significant Facts in the History of the Metric system for Teachers of Junior and Senior High School Mathematics

1929 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 373-381
Author(s):  
Edwin W. Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Family History ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
The Sun ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

It was down in old Mexico that I had my first real introduction to the metric system. 'Tis true I had met the meter and her children, centimeter, millimeter, and little micron, in a formal way whiJe busy in the laboratories at the university in my undergraduate clays-but it was a cold and scientific acquaintance. Under a warm southern sky, with the sun doing its full share to brighten the picture, I read in no uncertain letters on a freshly painted sign which was posted on a little rail way station in old Sonora: "To Calexico, 33.5 Km." So here upon a common road (not a royal one) Kilometer and I met face to face. From that friendly meeting of a member of the metric system a desire was kindled within me to know more about the family history of the meter, and since that time (1913) I have picked up some interesting facts covering the whole family, some of which it is my purpose to relate at this time.

Son of the Heartland

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-24
Author(s):  
Andrew Zangwill
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Speed Skating ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University

Anderson’s parents come from academic families in Indiana. Phil and his sister Grace grew up in Urbana, Illinois because their father was a plant pathologist at the University of Illinois (UI). Mother Elsie demanded academic excellence and respect for others. Father Harry was a model of integrity, a fact displayed during the so-called Krebiozen affair. The Depression affected the family relatively little and Phil acquired his lifelong liberal politics from a UI social group called the Saturday Hikers. At age twelve, he accompanies his family to Europe (a sabbatical for his father) where they observe the rise of Nazism. Phil attends and excels at the University High School where he enjoys math, tennis, and speed skating, but not physics. He wins a National Scholarship to attend Harvard University with a plan to major in mathematics.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1914 ◽  
Vol 87 (599) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
International Institute ◽  
African Society ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training ◽  
Microscopical Society ◽  
Royal Microscopical Society ◽  
Member Of Parliament ◽  
Attention To Detail

The first Lord Avebury, for many years better known as Sir John Lubbock, died on May 28 last, in his 80th year. He was the eldest son of the third Baronet and Harriet, daughter of Captain Hotham, of York. He was educated at Eton, but left at an early age to join his father in the family bank. He married firstly Ellen the eldest child of Peter Hordern, and some years after her death, in 1879, Alice Augusta Laurentia, daughter of the late General A. A. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, and grand-daughter of the second Baron Stanley of Alderley. In 1865, he succeeded his father as fourth baronet, five years later he became Member of Parliament for Maidstone, and held this seat until 1880, when he was elected representative of the University of London. This seat he held until 1900, the date when he was removed to "another place," as Baron Avebury. Lord Avebury took an active but restricted part in politics. His most prominent efforts were directed to the establishment of Bank Holidays, but he devoted much time and attention to educational questions and social reform. Without having had a University training he was yet peculiarly fitted to be a representative of a University, being a man of wide culture as well as a very competent man of business. For many years he was head of the great banking company, Robarts, Lubbock and Co., and by his tireless activity and ceaseless care for detail, he became a very prominent man in City circles. This attention to detail and his knowledge of procedure made him an admirable President; and, indeed, he seems to have presided over nearly every scientific society and countless mercantile associations. At various dates he was President of the British Association (Jubilee Year), the Entomological Society, the Ethnological Society, the Linnean Society, the Anthropological Institute, the Ray Society, the Statistical Society, the African Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Microscopical Society. He was also the first President of the International Institute of Sociology, the President of the International Association of Prehistoric Archreology, the International Association of Zoology, the International Library Association, the London University Extension Society, and the first President of the Institute of Bankers, President of the London Chamber of Commerce, and of the Central Association of Bankers.

scholarly journals The Biopolitics of Ordoliberalism

2011 ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Biebricher
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

This article examines the biopolitical dimension in ordoliberal thought using Wilhelm Röpke and Alexander Rüstow as exemplary figures of this tradition. Based on an explication of various biopolitical themes that can be extracted from Foucault’s writings and lectures the article argues that these biopolitical themes, although rarely touched on in Foucault’s lectures on ordoliberal governmentality, nevertheless constitute an integral aspect of the thought of Röpke and Rüstow. From the regulation of the population through the strategic lever of the family to the organicist concerns over the health of the social body, biopolitical themes pervade the socio-economic theories of ordoliberalism. The article suggests that critical evaluations of the ordoliberal approach to political economy, which has been gaining ground again in the aftermath of the financial crisis, should take into account the biopolitical–and rather illiberal–dimension of this approach as well.

scholarly journals Understanding Student Protest in Canada: The University of Toronto Strike Vote

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
John H. Simpson ◽  
Walter Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Protest ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Student Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
The University

A behavioural indicator of student protest - voting in favour of a student strike referendum - is shown to be positively associated with two social discontinuities accompanying the student role: the weakening of ties with the family of origin and an uncertain future. Also, a student's commitment to the social order as measured by a variety of items is shown to be inversely related to favouring the strike. An argument is made that recent student protest in Canada and the United States differed in terms of the major issues involved and that the difference can be explained by variation in the valued means of social participation in the two societies.

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