Mit dem Hochschulranking nach Gleichstellungsaspekten 2015 legt das Kompetenzzentrum Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung CEWS die siebte Ausgabe dieses Instruments vor. Für diese Ausgabe wurde die Methodik des Rankings grundlegend überarbeitet. Das aktuelle CEWS-Hochschulranking berücksichtigt nun strukturelle Veränderungen beim Hochschulpersonal und bei der wissenschaftlichen Qualifikation für eine Professur genauso wie Weiterentwicklungen in der Gleichstellungspolitik.
The Soul of Jewish Social Justice offers a novel intellectual and spiritual approach for how Jewish wisdom must be relevant and transformational in its application to the most pressing moral problems of our time. The book explores how spirituality, ritual, narratives, holidays, and tradition can enhance one's commitment to creating a more just society. Readers will discover how the Jewish social justice ethos can help address issues of education reform, ethical consumption, the future of Israel, immigration, prison reform, violence, and business ethics
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Science and Babies -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Reproductive Health Issues -- INFERTILITY -- CONTRACEPTION -- TEENAGE PARENTHOOD -- PRENATAL CARE -- ETHICAL ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- 2 Infertility -- HOW COMMON IS INFERTILITY? -- THE PROCESS OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION -- WHEN THE SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK -- SEEKING THE CAUSE -- DAMAGE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT -- OVULATION DISORDERS -- ENDOMETRIOSIS -- CAUSES OF MALE INFERTILITY -- MEDICAL THERAPIES FOR WOMEN AND MEN -- SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR VARICOCELE -- SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR WOMEN -- ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION -- NEW FERTILIZATION PROCEDURES -- In Vitro Fertilization -- Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer -- Setting Standards for the New Technologies -- PROTECTING THE CONSUMER -- Physician Credentials -- Using Procedures Appropriately -- Defining IVF and GIFT Success -- Questions to Ask an IVF Clinic -- Some Approaches for Protecting Consumers -- IVF CLINICS-THE CURRENT SCENE -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 3 Contraception: Having a Healthy Baby at the Right Time -- WHY THE DECLINE IN CONTRACEPTIVE DEVELOPMENT? -- The Lawsuit Proliferation -- Changes in the Legal Rules -- The Increased Cost of Insurance -- The Funding Gap -- FDA Requirements -- THE NEED FOR BETTER CONTRACEPTION -- To Prevent Abortions -- To Slow Population Growth -- To Improve Maternal and Child Health -- To Increase the Choice of Effective Methods -- To Increase Acceptability and Accessibility -- HINDERING CONTRACEPTIVE USE -- CONCLUSION -- Birth Control Methods Available in the United States Today and Their Effectiveness -- Birth Control Methods on the Horizon for the United States -- Birth Control Methods Not Available in the United States -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Dilemma of Teenage Parenthood -- THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM -- PRECURSORS OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY.
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This research focuses on those Gradec citizens who were elected to administrative functions since these were held by the richest and most distinguished citizens. They constituted the political elite of the city as there was only a thin line between the economic, social and political elites in Gradec. This paper deals with many aspects and elements that played a role in the formation of the urban elite, elements such as family ties, wealth, moral values, piety, education and membership of the nobility.
This volume explores the relationship between law and economics principles and the promotion of social justice. By social justice, we mean a vision of society that embraces more than traditional economic efficiency. Such a vision might include, for example, a reduction of subordination and discrimination based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or class; increased wealth dispersion throughout all sectors of society; a safe and healthy environment; worker rights; and a flourishing political democracy. The volume chapters here fall into four main categories, Assumptio
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a worldwide public health emergency that forced the Italian Government to deliberate unprecedented actions, including quarantine, with a relevant impact on the population. The present study is one of the first Italian nationwide survey within the first period of the COVID-19 outbreak aimed to understand the social and psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: An online survey collected information on sociodemographic data, history of direct or indirect contact with COVID-19, and other information concerning the COVID-19 emergency. The General Psychological Well-Being Index and a modified version of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5, focused on the COVID-19 experience, assessed the respondents' general psychological condition. Results: Of 1,639 respondents equally distributed in the Italian territory, 5.1% reported PTSD symptomatology, and 48.2% evidenced lower psychological well-being linked to COVID-19 diffusion. Lower psychological well-being was significantly higher in women, younger than 50 years, and with health risk factors. Lower psychological well-being was also detected in individuals who did not know if they were infected, who have had direct exposure or were uncertain about their exposure to COVID-19, or who knew infected people. Regarding the social and behavioral consequences, respondents perceived worsening in demographic, economic, social, and relational conditions. Moreover, they reported increased film viewing, cookhouse time, social media use, and decreased physical activity. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be a risk factor for psychological diseases in the Italian population, as previously reported in the Chinese people. About half of the respondents reported a significant psychological impact. Moreover, we confirmed the role of restraining measures that led to modify lifestyles, social perception, and confidence in the institutions. These results underline the need for further studies aimed to develop psychological interventions to ...
The Sociological Aspects of Mass Media: Reality Construction SUMMARY Mass media is a powerful society institution that has a power to create stereotypes, that's why some questions arise: is Lithuanian society adequately informed about the events in the country and abroad? Does mass media always properly use its symbolic? Does her action always match the interests of civil society? Lithuanian mass media is not only the most trustful institution in Lithuania but also is one of the most important sources of information. The high level of mass media confidence, controversial and questionable presentation of information and events in Lithuanian society and the intention to look at this social institution from the other point of view – not from the audience but from the agent of mass media, encouraged to take an interest in this social institution and try to reveal its working principles in selecting, processing and presenting information to the society. The purpose of this work is to reveal an inner ideology of the mass media and critically evaluate the mass media as a mean of reality construction on the ground of the experience of mass media agents. There are reviewed the common features and peculiarity of the press and television. The common mass media aspects are analyzed on the ground of various sociological and communicative theories that are assigned to mass media. There are discussed M. McLuhan's, J. Baudrillard's, C. McCullagh's, P. Berger's, T. Luckmann's and some others theoretical ideas. On the ground of the experience of mass media's agents, there are revealed the main principles of information selection, the stylistic and technical means to present the infomation and the strategy and commercial interest of the mass media. Our knowledge of the world is formed by the information that mass media agents present to us. In this selective way the agents of mass media have a power to form and restrict our perception of the reality. The news that we receive, are the versions of events, presented and formed by the agents of mass media, that are depend on their relations and possibilities, experience, expertise and moral values, political attitude and their chance to reach the news-makers. Mass media can service for the purpose of the civil society at the same time be interested in its commercial interests. Everything depends on the inner ideology, i.e. on the principles of information selection, its processing and presenting.
The Sociological Aspects of Mass Media: Reality Construction SUMMARY Mass media is a powerful society institution that has a power to create stereotypes, that's why some questions arise: is Lithuanian society adequately informed about the events in the country and abroad? Does mass media always properly use its symbolic? Does her action always match the interests of civil society? Lithuanian mass media is not only the most trustful institution in Lithuania but also is one of the most important sources of information. The high level of mass media confidence, controversial and questionable presentation of information and events in Lithuanian society and the intention to look at this social institution from the other point of view – not from the audience but from the agent of mass media, encouraged to take an interest in this social institution and try to reveal its working principles in selecting, processing and presenting information to the society. The purpose of this work is to reveal an inner ideology of the mass media and critically evaluate the mass media as a mean of reality construction on the ground of the experience of mass media agents. There are reviewed the common features and peculiarity of the press and television. The common mass media aspects are analyzed on the ground of various sociological and communicative theories that are assigned to mass media. There are discussed M. McLuhan's, J. Baudrillard's, C. McCullagh's, P. Berger's, T. Luckmann's and some others theoretical ideas. On the ground of the experience of mass media's agents, there are revealed the main principles of information selection, the stylistic and technical means to present the infomation and the strategy and commercial interest of the mass media. Our knowledge of the world is formed by the information that mass media agents present to us. In this selective way the agents of mass media have a power to form and restrict our perception of the reality. The news that we receive, are the versions of events, presented and formed by the agents of mass media, that are depend on their relations and possibilities, experience, expertise and moral values, political attitude and their chance to reach the news-makers. Mass media can service for the purpose of the civil society at the same time be interested in its commercial interests. Everything depends on the inner ideology, i.e. on the principles of information selection, its processing and presenting.
"How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores the evidence, and suggests some answers. Avoiding both utopianism and despair, the book presents the voices of technology enthusiasts and skeptics, as well as social activists."--Jacket.
"Based on the author's scholar-activist interventions to promote social justice in cities, this book highlights the role engaged communication scholarship can play in fostering a more equitable future. Through three innovative case studies situated in South Los Angeles, the book illustrates engaged communication scholarship projects grounded in design criteria that are social justice-oriented, place-based, collaborative, and public. It models university-community partnerships that promote positive social change in marginalized communities that stand to benefit the most from university resources, guiding readers in how these partnerships can be incorporated into social justice-oriented curriculum and engaged learning projects. It provides strategic recommendations for how "in community" communication research and media practices can be used to build local power in marginalized urban neighborhoods, and calls for communication's research, pedagogy, epistemologies, practices, ethics, politics, and community engagement to purposefully serve the concerns of marginalized groups in society. The book will be of interest to researchers and social change practitioners interested in solution-oriented work in cities within the fields of research methods, organizational communication, urban planning, public policy, sociology, and social work"--
This topical book examines the consequences of our car-based transport system for social policy. Readers are introduced to the complexity of the relationship between transport and society together with the debates about the social inequalities produced by the transport system and the connection between social inequality, social exclusion and transport disadvantage
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