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This study examines how cities help social entrepreneurship—the activity of private individuals and organizations taking initiative to address social challenges in their communities. Based on a national survey and in‐depth interviews among jurisdictions with populations over 50,000, the authors find that municipalities help social entrepreneurs by increasing awareness of social problems, and by helping them to acquire resources, coordinate with other organizations, and implement programs. Nearly three‐quarters of cities provide active or moderate support, which is positively associated with the perceived effectiveness of nonprofit organizations in their communities.

This article appraises the scope and legal obligations of the UK Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012. The law, by imposing on public authorities an obligation to consider wider social, economic and environmental benefits before they enter into major public service contracts, in principle improves service outcomes for communities, and it also facilitates better access for third sector organisations to public contracting opportunities. But evidence of the legislation's impact has been mixed. It is, at this stage, promising in its ambition but with little prescriptive legal force in practice. The article suggests that community and third sector organisations should promote an experimentalist governance framework that imposes non-legal accountability on commissioning authorities for social value, by linking them into an iterative peer-review process.

As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, "István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx's theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness-a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought-is unequaled in our time." Mészáro

Las redes sociales hoy en día se han convertido principal herramienta y plataforma de comunicación de los millenials y de la generación z; se estima que a la fecha existen más de 200 en todo el mundo, siendo las más populares Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp y las emergentes SnapChat e Instagram. Estas redes conectan a más de dos mil millones de personas usuarias de todo el planeta y son una de las expresiones más claras de la tecnología y de su influencia en el comportamiento y los destinos de la sociedad actual.

Résumé Dans ce qui incombe au service social pour un placement familial, quelles préoccupations donnent le choix de ce mode de protection des enfants, la nécessité d'un travail dans la durée auprès de tous les protagonistes, l'enfant, les parents, les assistantes familiales ? Quel sens pour chacun de son vécu ? Quel appui au long de l'évolution, dans ses situations chroniques comme dans les périodes de crise ? Avec l'exemple du placement d'un enfant, du travail sur la création ou le maintien des liens intrafamiliaux, et une réflexion sur le non-placement d'un autre enfant.

When an individual's reported preference scheme makes a difference to the selection of a policy, that individual's report imposes a cost on the rest of society because the selected policy would have been different had the individual's reported preference been different. In a paper in Economic Notes, Giacomo Bonanno argues that the penalty assessed by the pivotal mechanism is not equal to the cost that the individual's participation imposes on the rest of society. This note argues to the contrary, by presenting what we believe to be the correct definition of social cost.(J.E.L: D62, D71, H41).

The power of the church in the medieval town was ever-present and all-pervasive. It operated through the ritual of the sacraments, the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, the charitable foundations of the orders, through the pictorial teaching on church walls and windows, open-air sermons, public inflictions of penance, the celebration of saints' festivals, and in many other ways. There can be no reasonable doubt that the social teachings of the church, along with its other doctrines, were by one means or another impressed upon every townsman, in so far as he was capable of understanding them.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- The Origins of This Book: The Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology Series -- 1 Applications of Social Psychology: History, Issues and Prospects -- Introduction -- Theoretical vs Applied Research -- History and Background -- Mistaken Assumptions -- Overview of the Volume -- References -- Part I -- Basic Issues and Methods -- 2 Grounding Applied Social Psychology in Translational Research -- Introduction: From "Applied" to "Translational" Research -- Using Sampling-Theory Approaches to Inform Translational Social Psychology -- Base-rate Neglect and the Asymmetry of Conditional Samples -- Output-Bound Sampling -- Sampling at Different Aggregation Levels -- Evading the Regression Trap in Translational Research -- Concluding Remarks -- Author Note -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Evolutionary Mismatch Hypothesis: Implications for Applied Social Psychology -- Introduction -- Evolutionary Challenges and Psychological Mechanisms -- Finding Evidence for Evolutionary Mismatch -- Studying Potential Mismatches in Social Psychology -- Implications for Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Author Note -- References -- 4 "Bad" Things Reconsidered -- "Bad" Things Reconsidered -- What is "Bad"? -- Mindset Interventions vs. Reframing "Bad" Events -- Five Principles for Representing Bad Events Effectively -- Reframing Bad News: Paradigmatic Examples -- Education -- Health -- Close Relationships -- Economic Development -- Nuances of Effective Reframings -- How You Say It Matters -- Practical Guidance for Institutions -- Positive and Neutral Things Too -- Conclusion -- Author Note -- Note -- References -- 5 A Process Approach to Influencing Attitudes and Changing Behavior: Revisiting Classic Findings in Persuasion and Popular Interventions -- Introduction.