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The ongoing crises of child sexual abuse by Christian institutions leaders across the Anglophone world continue to attract public attention and public inquiries. The pervasiveness of this issue lends credence to the argument that the prevailing ethos functioning within some Christian Institutions is one which exercises influence to repeatedly mismanage allegations of child sexual abuse by Church leaders. This work draws on semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 Personnel in Christian Institutions (PICIs) in Australia who were identified as being pro-active in their approach to addressing child sexual abuse by PICIs. From these data, themes of power and forgiveness are explored through a Foucaultian conceptualising of pastoral power and 'truth' construction. Forgiveness is viewed as a discourse which can have the power effect of either silencing or empowering victim/survivors. The study concludes that individual PICIs' understandings of the role of power in their praxis influences outcomes from the deployment of forgiveness.

1. The transformation of the social housing sector in Eastern Europe : a conceptual framework / Jozsef Hegedus -- 2. Housing privatization and restitution / Jozsef Hegedus -- 3. Financing social housing / Wolfgang Amman. [and others] -- 4. Rent regulation and housing allowances / Martin Lux and Alexandr Puzanov -- 5. Social landlords and social housing management / Jozsef Hegedus and Nora Teller -- 6. Housing exclusion of the Roma : living on the edge / Catalin Berescu, Mina Petrovic, and Nora Teller -- 7. Bosnia and Herzegovina : limits of the human rights approach to social housing / Jozsef Hegedus, Gorana Stjepanovic and Nora Teller -- 8. Croatia : the social housing search delayed by postwar reconstruction / Gojko Bezovan -- 9. The Czech Republic : locked between municipal and social housing / Martin Lux -- 10. Estonia : residualization of social housing and the new programs / Anneli Kahrik and Juri Kore -- 11. Hungary : ideas and plans without political will / Jozsef Hegedus -- 12. Poland : old problems and new dilemmas / Alina MuzioÅ-WecÅawowicz -- 13. Romania : the national housing agency : a key stakeholder in housing policy / Wolfgang Amann, Ioan Bejan, and Alexis Mundt -- 14. Russia : the persistence of the socialist legacy? / Alexandr Puzanov -- 15. Serbia : a patchwork of local options / Mina Petrovic -- 16. Slovakia : on the way to the stable social housing concept / Marek Hojsik -- 17. Slovenia : the social housing sector in search of an identity / Andreja Cirman and Srna Mandic -- 18. The Ukraine : waiting lists without housing / Irina Zapatrina -- 19. New social housing strategies in post-socialist states : effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability / Martin Lux and Petr Sunega.

"Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland's conflict, liberalization and an 'opening up' of the state to new connections and flows take place alongside ongoing militarization, nationalist insurgency, and political unrest. Nagaland's complex peace-conflict continuum has encouraged a reordering of possibilities for men and for women in the state, but also, attempts to maintain fundamental social roles that are seen as defining an ethnic group, as foundations of identity, and for many as uncompromisable. In exploring the complex dynamics of peace, conflict, and tension in Nagaland, Borderland Anxieties offers a window to understanding how gender, politics and anxiety intersect in a borderland state experiencing rapid social, political, and economic changes"--

People often work together in groups that have to reach goals in a given time frame. Nonetheless, the impact of deadlines on group members' self-control has not been studied so far. Here this topic is addressed by integrating the action-phase model (Heckhausen, 1999), which postulates the use of different self-control strategies during individual-level goal pursuit, with the social identity approach. It was predicted and found in two studies that highly identified group members, in contrast to those who were only weakly identified, responded to a group's deadline phase (pre vs. post) by showing phase-appropriate patterns of engagement and disengagement. Study 1 measured identification and assessed intentions and behavioral indicators of self-control. Study 2 manipulated identification and assessed self-reports of intended self-control strategies. Overall, the findings corroborate the notion that the social self can serve as a basis for self-regulation.

This article seeks to present a counter-case to the `end of work thesis' advocated by writers such as Beck et al. It argues that work remains a significant locus of personal identity and that the depiction by these writers of endemic insecurity in the workplace is inaccurate and lacks empirical basis. The article draws upon case study data to illustrate how, across a range of workplaces, work remains an importance source of identity, meaning and social affiliation.

"Late Georgian England was a period of great social and political change, yet whether this was for good or for ill was by no means clear to many Britons. In such an era of innovation and revolution, Britons faced the task of deciding which ideals, goals and attitudes most closely fitted their own conception of the nation for which they struggled and fought; the controversies of the era thus forced ordinary people to define an identity that they believed embodied the ideal of 'Britishness' to which they could adhere in this period of uncertainty. Defining John Bull demonstrates that caricature played a vital role in this redefinition of what it meant to be British. During the reign of George III, the public's increasing interest in political controversies meant that satirists turned their attention to the individuals and issues involved. Since this long reign was marked by political crises, both foreign and domestic, caricaturists responded with an outpouring of work that led the era to be called the 'golden age' of caricature. Thus, many and varied prints, produced in response to public demands and sensitive to public attitudes, provide more than simply a record of what interested Britons during the late Georgian era. In the face of domestic and foreign challenges that threatened to shake the very foundations of existing social and political structures, the public struggled to identify those ideals, qualities and characteristics that seemed to form the basis of British society and culture, and that were the bedrock upon which the British polity rested. During the course of this debate, the iconography used to depict it in graphic satire changed to reflect shifts in or the redefinition of existing ideals. Thus, caricature produced during the reign of George III came to visually express new concepts of Britishness."--Provided by publisher.

Set against the backdrop of the British Government's Future Reserves 2020 (FR2020) programme, this article addresses military reservists' experiences of how they are perceived by civilian colleagues in the workplace. Drawing on qualitative interviews with reservists, it analyses their understandings of civilian co-workers' qualified and sometimes reluctant acceptance in light of FR2020's implicit aim to use reservists to help realign civil–military relationships. While it appears that civilian work colleagues' social distancing of reservists helps consolidate the wider public's perceived lack of understanding of the British armed forces, a more critical view sees reservists' largely unchallenged presence in the workplace as an exemplary, yet subtle instance of militarization. This is because reservists' simultaneous (physical) inclusion and (social) distancing or stigmatization constitutes, and is constitutive of, their need to pass as civilian. In conclusion, we argue that a key implication of their passing as civilian is to neutralize debate of the legitimacy–or otherwise–of the armed forces as an institution tasked with violence on behalf of the state.

The gender gap in welfare state attitudes is the tendency of men to be less positive toward an encompassing welfare state than women. To study attitudinal gender differences at the individual level, this paper synthesizes prior explanations, focused on self-interest and norms, with a social identity perspective, centered on the process of social identification with a gender group. With representative survey data ( n = 1515), covering social spending preferences in Sweden, this study uses a psychometric instrument to gauge the emotional and psychological centrality of gender to individuals' concept of self—thus distinguishing between men and women with different degrees of attachment to their gender group (strength of gender identification). The results show a strong gender identification is negatively related to social spending preferences for men, but not for women. The findings are discussed in the light the influence of gender norms and masculinity threat, highlighting the structuring and normative implications of social policy for gender differences in attitudes toward the Swedish welfare state.

This article conceptualizes identity-mediated psychosocial disability of socially excluded individuals and groups from a socio-behavioural perspective. It postulates collective representations, inequitable social interactions and personal characteristics that lead to perception and internalization of negative identity in members of stigmatized groups. Non-dominant identity induces self-imposed and society-ascribed psychosocial disability through stigmatization and discrimination. Psychosocial disability is a state where individual or collective sense of incapacity restricts optimal use of individual and collective human agency to influence out-groups favourably to achieve self-expansion and communal expansion. The aspects of psychosocial disability include poor self-concept, low ethnic self-esteem, negatively internalized identity, poor social integration and conflicts in social relations. It results in psychosocial disability that further increases social exclusion, reduces quality of life and well-being. This article concludes that socially excluded individuals and groups experience psychosocial disability in everyday life.

Background As lifestyle-related diseases increase globally, there is a need to focus on the mechanisms for promoting healthy living and healthy behavioral intentions. Focus of the article The present study investigates how health self-identity influences health consciousness, self-efficacy, consumer knowledge, and normative beliefs. Moreover, the study analyzes the moderating effect of consumer knowledge and normative beliefs on behavioral intentions to maintain a healthy lifestyle. A posthoc segmentation analysis through latent class analysis distinguishes two main segments of health-conscious individuals. Research questions The following research questions guide the study (1) how does health self-identity as a motivational factor influence (a) health consciousness, (b) self-efficacy, (c) consumer knowledge, and (d) normative beliefs and, in turn, account for healthy behavioral intentions? (2) How does consumer knowledge interact with normative beliefs to predict behavioral intentions to maintain a healthy lifestyle? Methods A correlational research design was employed for this study where an online survey of 249 South African audiences was recruited to participate in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and latent class analysis through Mplus were used for data analysis. The interaction effect analysis was also performed using the latent moderated structural model approach, which employs the unique capabilities of SEM. Results The findings highlight the important role of health self-identity as a motivation base for maintaining health consciousness, self-efficacy beliefs, consumers' knowledge about healthy living, and normative beliefs. Health consciousness and self-efficacy, in turn, influenced healthy behavioral intentions. Although consumer knowledge and normative beliefs independently did not impact healthy behavioral intentions, when both factors interact, the effect becomes significant, suggesting that levels of consumer knowledge about healthy living associate reasonably with the extent of susceptibility to normative influence in explaining healthy behavioral intentions. Two segments classified as moderately health-conscious, and pure health enthusiasts were identified based on six psychographic and two demographics variables. Recommendations for practice Social marketers interested in effecting positive change in healthy living should emphasize the role of health self-identities to generate health consciousness and encourage a sense of self-belief about people's ability to make positive health choices. Moreover, communications seeking to promote healthy living among individuals should have campaigns highlighting the role of a knowledgeable audience about healthy living in social networks. Finally, social marketing campaigns may also focus on the extent of health consciousness, self-identity, and attitudes towards healthy living to encourage behavior change. Limitations The cross-sectional nature of the study does not warrant the establishment of causality of the influences examined in this study. Also, the sample size imposes limitations for generalizing the results to the entire population.