Social Quality in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cui Yan ◽  
Huang Yongliang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quality Theory

Since the end of the 1990s, when European scholars put forward the social quality theory, related research has been recently and increasingly carried out in China. At present, Chinese society has entered a new stage of development, and the main demands of the population have gradually changed. For theoretical and practical reasons, it is highly attractive to strengthen the research on the social quality of China in order to meet new public demands and expectations and to promote the improvement of social quality through the implementation of effective politics and policies. Based on empirical data, this article comprehensively analyzes the cognition of different layers of China’s population and the change of the four conditional factors of social quality on the overall development of society.

scholarly journals From “the Moon Is Rounder Abroad” to “Bravo, My Country”: How China Misperceives the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifeng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Chinese Public

AbstractFor a long time, since China’s opening to the outside world in the late 1970s, admiration for foreign socioeconomic prosperity and quality of life characterized much of the Chinese society, which contributed to dissatisfaction with the country’s development and government and a large-scale exodus of students and emigrants to foreign countries. More recently, however, overestimating China’s standing and popularity in the world has become a more conspicuous feature of Chinese public opinion and the social backdrop of the country’s overreach in global affairs in the last few years. This essay discusses the effects of these misperceptions about the world, their potential sources, and the outcomes of correcting misperceptions. It concludes that while the world should get China right and not misinterpret China’s intentions and actions, China should also get the world right and have a more balanced understanding of its relationship with the world.

scholarly journals EL PAPEL DE LAS CONVENCIONES SOCIALES. NOTAS PARA EL ESTUDIO DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES BUROCRÁTICAS

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Alma Isunza Bizuet
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Bureaucratic Organization ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
The Social

En este artículo analizo la propuesta de cambio de paradigmas de las organizaciones burocráticas que busca mejorar la calidad de los servicios públicos ofrecidos a los ciudadanos. El paradigma posburocrático implica una corriente de cambio que cuestiona la figura del «servidor público» y concede mayor importancia a los empleados; se considera el peso y la importancia de las instituciones y su relación con las convenciones sociales que le imprimen una identidad característica a cada organización burocrática particular, por ello examino las aportaciones de la teoría sociológica para comprender la vinculación entre la acción social y las convenciones e instituciones sociales con el fin de documentar la importancia de las convenciones sociales sobre las que descansa el funcionamiento cotidiano de la burocracia, y proponer proyectos de investigación relacionados.   ABSTRACTThis paper analyses changes occurred within paradigms in bureaucratic organizations, aiming at proving the quality of the services offered to the citizens. The posbureaucratic paradigm implies a course change that questions from the own conception the figure of the «public servant» and grants the major importance to the employees, it considers the influence and the importance of the institutions and its relation with the social conventions that imprints a characteristic identity to each particular bureaucratic organization, for that reason the contributions of the sociological theory are examined to understand the entailment between the social action and the social conventions and institutions, to illustrate the importance of the social conventions on which the daily operation of the bureaucracy rests; in order to propose related research projects.

Social Quality in a Transitive Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriy Heyets
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Quality Approach ◽  
The Welfare State

Nearly 30 years of transformation of the sociopolitical and legal, socioeconomical and financial, sociocultural and welfare, and socioenvironmental dimensions in both Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, has led to a change of the social quality of daily circumstances. On the one hand, the interconnection and reciprocity of these four relevant dimensions of societal life is the underlying cause of such changes, and on the other, the state as main actor of the sociopolitical and legal dimension is the initiator of those changes. Applying the social quality approach, I will reflect in this article on the consequences of these changes, especially in Ukraine. In comparison, the dominant Western interpretation of the “welfare state” will also be discussed.

The social quality of school physical education in Flanders

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristof Huts ◽  
Paul De Knop ◽  
Marc Theeboom
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Indicadores de qualidade social da escola pública: avançando no campo avaliativo

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (66) ◽  
pp. 716
Author(s):  
Mara Regina Lemes De Sordi ◽  
Sara Badra de Oliveira ◽  
Margarida Montejano da Silva ◽  
Regiane Helena Bertagna ◽  
Adilson Dalben
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
Multidimensional Assessment ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Educational Indicators

<p>Um modelo de avaliação de larga escala multidimensional referenciado na qualidade social da escola pública é o recorte deste estudo desenvolvido junto ao Observatório de Educação. A voz de professores e gestores captada via grupo focal contrastada com o referencial teórico da formação humana gerou um instrumento contendo indicadores dispostos em uma escala tipo Likert respondida por 846 professores de uma rede municipal. Os dados tratados estatisticamente evidenciaram escolas que trabalham na perspectiva da qualidade social mantendo suas singularidades nas diferentes dimensões. A pesquisa pretende colaborar com os avanços no campo das medidas educacionais ao evitar o reducionismo dos índices uni/bidimensionais sem perder de vista a avaliação institucional participativa, necessária para que a escola interpele as práticas que produz e delibere sobre os novos desafios na luta pela qualidade social.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Indicadores Educacionais; Qualidade Social; Avaliação de Larga Escala Multidimensional; Avaliação Institucional Participativa.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Indicadores de calidad social de la escuela pública: avances en el ámbito de la evaluación</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Resumen:</em></strong></p><p><em>Un modelo de evaluación de amplia escala multidimensional basado en la calidad social de la escuela pública es el recorte de este estudio desarrollado junto al Observatorio de Educación. La voz de profesores y gestores captada vía grupo focal contrastada con el referente teórico de la formación humana generó un instrumento que contiene indicadores dispuestos en una escala tipo Likert respondido por 846 docentes de una red municipal. Los datos tratados estadísticamente pusieron de manifiesto escuelas que trabajan desde la perspectiva de la calidad social sin perder sus singularidades en las diferentes dimensiones. Esta investigación pretende colaborar con los avances en el ámbito de las medidas educacionales al evitar el reduccionismo de los índices uni/ bidimensionales sin prescindir de la evaluación institucional participativa, entendida como instancia estratégica para que la escuela interpele las prácticas que produce y delibere sobre los nuevos desafíos en la lucha por la calidad social.</em></p><p><strong><em>Palabras clave:</em></strong><em> Indicadores Educacionales; Calidad Social; Evaluación de Amplia Escala Multidimensional; Evaluación Institucional Participativa.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Social quality indicators of public schools: advancing in the assessment field</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Abstract:</em></strong></p><p><em>A large-scale multidimensional assessment model based on the social quality of public schools is the focus of this study developed alongside the Observatório de Educação. The voice of teachers and managers captured via a focus group was contrasted with the theoretical framework of human training, generating an instrument containing indicators arranged in a Likert-type scale, which was answered by 846 municipal teachers. The statistically processed data showed schools that work towards social quality without losing their identity in the different dimensions. This study is intended to be used as a way to collaborate with the advances in the field of educational measures in order to prevent the reductionism of the uni/bidimensional indexes. Such advances do not disregard institutional participatory evaluation, which is seen as a strategic instance that enables the school to address its practices and deliberate about the new challenges in the fight for social quality.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em>  Educational Indicators; Social Quality; Large- Scale Multidimensional Assessment; Participatory Institutional Assessment.</em></p>

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