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An Investigation of Spirituality in Person-Centered Planning for Adults With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities 智力/发育障碍成人以人为本计划的灵性研究

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2022-12-11 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2022.14.1.04

Holly F. Pedersen, Jolynn Webster

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Beating the Employment Challenges: How Unemployed Youths Generate Income for their Households 战胜就业挑战:失业青年如何为家庭创造收入

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2022-10-07 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2022.14.1.03

Gai Chol Paul

{"title":"Beating the Employment Challenges: How Unemployed Youths Generate Income for their Households","authors":"Gai Chol Paul","doi":"10.5590/josc.2022.14.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5590/josc.2022.14.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Youth unemployment remains a global threat to the achievement of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. It impedes the fight to end poverty in all its forms, limits opportunities to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, and undermines a country’s ability to reduce inequalities. In Sub-Saharan African nations, the unemployment rate is particularly high because the environment is prone to volatility caused by poor governance, chronic conflicts, and corruption. Unemployed graduates who lack effective strategies risk failing to generate income for themselves and their families. Thus, my purpose in this qualitative multiple case study, which was grounded in achievement motivation theory, was to explore the strategies unemployed youths use to generate income for their households. Four unemployed South Sudanese graduates were interviewed and directly observed, and the gathered data were thematically analyzed. Three themes emerged: exploitation of available opportunities including taking on casual work, working for others to get starting capital, and engaging in trade and microbusiness. A key recommendation was developed: i.e., provide training programs to help unemployed graduates change their mindsets, which value white-collar jobs over casual work, trade, and microbusiness; they can then embark on the identification and exploitation of available opportunities that can create anything of economic value. The implications for positive social change include evidence that unemployed graduates are adopting appropriate strategies to improve their household income. The findings also have the potential to help youth empowerment institutions address the gaps in strategies for directing youths to generate income.","PeriodicalId":224162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Change","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132628696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tasking the Leviathan: Right to Protest, Good Governance, and Implications for National Security and International Law 给利维坦分配任务:抗议权、善治及其对国家安全和国际法的影响

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-11-03 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.09

Olalekan Moyosore Lalude

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Innovative Strategies to Grow Sales of Women-Owned SMEs in Emerging Countries 新兴国家女性拥有的中小企业销售增长的创新策略

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.08

Adeola O Ogunyemi, Gene E. Fusch

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Counseling LGBT Military Clients Using the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies Framework 运用多元文化和社会公正咨询能力框架对LGBT军人客户进行咨询

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-08-08 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.06

Rebekah Cole

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The Evident Need for Banking Reform in the Legal Marijuana Industry 合法大麻行业银行业改革的明显必要性

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.3.2.07

Jonathan T. James, Steven C. Tippins

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Climate-Induced Relocation and Social Change in Keta, Ghana 加纳凯塔的气候导致的重新安置和社会变化

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-07-30 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.05

A. Salifu

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Social Change and The Greek Welfare State Crisis (2010-2020) 社会变革与希腊福利国家危机(2010-2020)

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.04

Nikos Kourachanis

{"title":"Social Change and The Greek Welfare State Crisis (2010-2020)","authors":"Nikos Kourachanis","doi":"10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5590/josc.2021.13.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to utilize the concept of social change for the study of transformations in the Greek welfare state during the period of the multiple crises it is currently experiencing (2010–2020). This will be done through an analysis of the changes taking place in the Greek social security system, the backbone of social policy in Greece. The main argument is that, although there are fundamental differences in the development of the Greek welfare state compared to the welfare model of Western European countries, in the last decade there has been a convergence towards a neoliberal model of social policy. The elaboration of this claim will examine those theories of social change that attempt to explain the transition from the Keynesian to the neoliberal welfare state both in the period after 1970 and in the period after the Great Recession of 2008. The development of the Greek social security system over time is then examined, with a particular focus on the decade from 2010–2020. This will show that, despite the different context for the development of the social security system in Greece, the reforms imposed by austerity policies in the last decade have led to a convergence with the model of the neoliberal welfare state. The trend towards residualization and privatization of the social security system with a focus solely on the management of extreme poverty can be observed as one of the mechanisms of social change that are being adopted.","PeriodicalId":224162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130639092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessment of the Prevalence of Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria: Evidence From Oto/Ijanikin, Lagos State 评估尼日利亚多维贫困的普遍性:来自拉各斯州Oto/Ijanikin的证据

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2021.3.2.03

T. Akinyetun, Jamiu Abiodun Alausa, Dare Deji Odeyemi, Aihonsu Samuel Ahoton

引用次数: 4

Changing Social Learning Theory Through Reliance on the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence 依靠物联网和人工智能改变社会学习理论

Journal of Social Change Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.5590/josc.2020.12.1.08

Adam I. Attwood

引用次数: 2