Aspects Of Membership Research Articles

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An awareness of neurodiversity is important for educators as there has been an increase in the number of neurodivergent students accessing higher education (HE) in recent years (HESA, 2022). Additionally, universities have a legal obligation under the Equality Act 2010 to provide anticipatory reasonable adjustments to reduce barriers to learning (Equality Challenge Unit, 2010). In this wildcard session, the authors presented the journey of the ALDinHE Neurodiversity/ Inclusivity Community of Practice (CoP). They invited new members to become involved with the CoP. CoPs are ‘socially configured spaces that necessarily involve learning as an aspect of membership’ (Tummons, 2018, p.4). Community members can become involved by joining the bi-monthly meetings, hosting a session on a topic they are passionate about, or reviewing submissions for the Neurodivergence Resource Bank. The session offered delegates the chance to explore the Neurodivergence Resource Bank. This open-access repository is available through ALDinHE’s website, meaning all HE staff can access the resources. This is key as all HE staff ‘should be aware of inclusive teaching practices, to ensure an equitable learning experience for all students’ (Dettmer and Welton, 2023, p.64). Participants gave feedback on the submissions. They were also encouraged to submit their resources to it. This session explained how to submit resources and the benefits of evidencing impact for professional development.

Digital-based Indonesian Cooperative Civilization Education

As a business entity whose existence is strengthened by law, cooperatives in Indonesia cannot be run traditionally. Cooperatives are the cornerstone of the economy which must be managed in a modern way in the current modern era. The purpose of this research is to explain thateducationis one of the important aspects in changing digital-based cooperative civilization, especially in the aspects of membership, capital and member profits (SHU). The research design uses a qualitative approach with a case study type on a single case. The research results found that members become owners, users and potential customers of cooperatives, therefore cooperatives must respond to the needs of these members quickly through digital services. Cultivating cooperative capital is carried out through savings and loans, where by digitizing financial reporting can be monitored directly. Through participation, members' welfare can be improved in a sustainable manner.

Women as a Growing Force in Critical Care Medicine-the Journal, Profession, and Society.

Women as a Growing Force in Critical Care Medicine-the Journal, Profession, and Society.

Identifying well-being profiles and resilience characteristics in ex-members of fundamentalist Christian faith communities.

There is a lack of empirical research on the heterogeneity in well-being of individuals who disaffiliated (i.e., left or were expelled) from an exclusionary and demanding faith community. Thus, little quantitative knowledge exists on factors related to resilience in these individuals. Therefore, the study aims were twofold: (1) to identify profiles of well-being in ex-members; and (2) to examine the characteristics of the identified profiles. A cross-sectional online survey assessed ex-members of various fundamentalist Christian faith communities. Latent profile analysis identified latent heterogeneity within the sample. Well-being profile indicators included perceived stress, psychopathological symptoms, affect, and satisfaction with life. Profile-related characteristics included socio-demographics (i.e., gender, age), membership (i.e., reason for joining, duration, extent of involvement, reasons for exit, social support during exit, and time since the exit), and resilience-supporting resources (i.e., social support, self-esteem, sense of coherence, personality, socio-economic status). In the final sample (N=622, Mage=41.34years; 65.60% female), four distinct profiles were identified: resilient (25.70%), normative (36.40%), vulnerable (27.20%), and adverse (10.70%). The resilient profile was characterised by higher age, lower reporting of abuse or maltreatment as exit reason, and highest levels of resilience-supporting resources. Ex-members of fundamentalist Christian faith communities differ substantially in their well-being. Membership aspects were only weakly related to current well-being, with the exception of the exit reason of abuse or maltreatment. This study provided novel quantitative insights into the well-being profiles of individuals who disaffiliated from a fundamentalist Christian faith community in German-speaking countries.

Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents

A recurring claim in the literature is that civic engagement in voluntary associations is crucial for the formation of a variety of interpersonal attitudes, such as social trust, tolerance, and intolerance. In this article, we study the role of membership in voluntary associations and volunteer work in the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents. Using a four-wave longitudinal design with a target sample comprising approximately 2000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 at the first measurement occasion, this study contributes to previous research by analysing the impact on anti-immigrant attitudes of different dimensions of membership in voluntary associations and volunteer work. The results showed that membership in voluntary associations and volunteer work over several years serve to decrease anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents over time. In addition, volunteering over several years seems to have a somewhat stronger impact on anti-immigrant attitudes than do various aspects of membership in associations. Our study also shows that anti-immigrant attitudes become more firmly established with age and that membership in only certain types of voluntary associations relates to attitudes toward immigrants. In sum, this study contributes to previous research focusing on the role of civic engagement in the development of interpersonal attitudes.

The Legal Analysis of Signature Forgestion Handling Process in Land Selling by PPAT

The problems in this research, first: how Legal Analysis of the Process of Handling Signature Falsification in the Sale and Purchase of Land Conducted by PPAT in Semarang City (Live Study Case No. 505/Pdt.G/2020/Pn.Smg)? Second, what is the legal consequence of the Minuta Akta which is falsified by a notary? This research is a normative study. The results of the study conclude, first: the implications for the notary position can be categorized into four (4) aspects, namely, i) implications for deed engagement, ii) aspects of administrative positions; iii), Professional Aspects of Membership; vi), the criminal aspect. Second, the legal consequence of the Minuta deed which is falsified by the notary is that the deed only has the power of proof as an underhand deed, if the parties can prove the untruth of the authentic deed in court proceedings and result in the deed being canceled and the power of proof as the deed below hands will no longer apply.The problems in this research, first: how Legal Analysis of the Process of Handling Signature Falsification in the Sale and Purchase of Land Conducted by PPAT in Semarang City (Live Study Case No. 505/Pdt.G/2020/Pn.Smg)? Second, what is the legal consequence of the Minuta Akta which is falsified by a notary? This research is a normative study. The results of the study conclude, first: the implications for the notary position can be categorized into four (4) aspects, namely, i) implications for deed engagement, ii) aspects of administrative positions; iii), Professional Aspects of Membership; vi), the criminal aspect. Second, the legal consequence of the Minuta deed which is falsified by the notary is that the deed only has the power of proof as an underhand deed, if the parties can prove the untruth of the authentic deed in court proceedings and result in the deed being canceled and the power of proof as the deed below hands will no longer apply.

Blockchain in the World of Work: Hype or Hope?

Among the many disruptive new technologies that have emerged recently, blockchain is the one that has the most potential to profoundly revolutionise society and the labour market. For blockchain to be socially acceptable, however, accountability and transparency in the governance of its architecture is necessary – as is giving all actors, including workers, the ability to become co-creators in its technological development and to shape its implementation. This Foresight Brief describes blockchain technology and analyses its implications for the world of work and possible uses in certain sectors, including value chains. On a more experimental basis, it discusses whether blockchain can help to manage trade union organisations, including membership aspects, without establishing a specific ‘use case’. The publication finally highlights one (r)evolution for which society needs to be prepared, namely the way blockchain and artificial intelligence will increasingly be combined in the future. It outlines four important areas that need to be considered if these technologies are to be more widely adopted: data quality; privacy and data protection; environmental sustainability; and solving issues related to ‘smart contracts’ and ‘decentralised autonomous organisations’.

Negotiating membership and participation across languages in performative community arts

This article examines multilingual English–Finnish interaction in a community art group, comprising dancers with varying cultural backgrounds, linguistic competences and physical abilities. The group is defined as an artistic / English as a lingua franca community of practice. The study avails of the authors’ ethnographic participant observation in the community and transcribed audiovisual data. Through conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis, the study centers on the negotiation of a role-playing exercise: how language choices reflect identity and enable participation, how individual and social motives and foci of attention contribute to the process of co-creation, and how the discussants merge reality and fiction in transitioning into the world of art. Besides aspects of membership and participation, the analysis uncovers ambiguities that emerge in the collaboration of participants with asymmetric language skills and diverse backgrounds. It also addresses the potential of community art to create an inclusive environment with artistic value.

KAJIAN KELEMBAGAAN TERHADAP KEBERHASILAN KELOMPOK TANI HUTAN RAKYAT DI DESA DURJELA KECAMATAN PULAU-PULAU ARU KEPULAUAN ARU, MALUKU

An institution has an important supporting role ini the management of forest community. In general the institutional system for forest community adopts aself-management. It has a certain degree of influence on its members’ compliance to its regulation. It is expented to be able to provide solution to the problems of farmers.This study was intended to examine the institutional system of forest community. The institutional system refers to such aspect as regulation, guides, forms of agreement, decision masking, value system, institutional capacity and knowingthe level of successthathas beenachievedbya groupof farmersin the Durjela villagecommunity forest management. These results indicate that institutional forest farmer groups in the Durjela village formed from assistance programs and community desires. Institutional system Durjela Village farmer groups in the form of an agreement that is made of non-formal, Guidelines rooted in religion and local wisdom, decision making by consensus, the value system is characterized by the perception of the essence of life is good, working to make ends meet, oriented to future, the success of Durjela Village farmer groups included in the rate was due to the structural aspects, aspects of membership in the institutional and cultural aspects have not been entirely successful.

Investigating the Roles of Organizational Culture, Leadership Style, and Employee Engagement in Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge transfer as new concept which attracts scholars' attentions can be improved by factors such as organizational Culture, leadership style, and employee engagement. As the main objective of the preset study, three organizational, managerial and membership aspects were considered as main factors which can influence knowledge transfer through organizations. To gain this goal, the proposed model has investigated the relationship between three variables of organizational Culture, leadership style, employee engagement ad knowledge transfer through structural equation modeling method and by AMOS software. The present study has conducted 250 professionals working in over 8 software organizations. All data was gathered by multi dimensional questionnaire. The results indicated that all these three variables strongly related to knowledge transfer in organizations.

Developing metrics to characterize Flickr groups

AbstractFlickr, the large‐scale online photo sharing website, is often viewed as one of the ‘classic’ examples of Web2.0 applications through which researchers are able to observe the social behavior of online communities. One of the main features of Flickr is groups. These provide a means to organize, share and discuss photos of potential interest to group members. This paper explores the scale of group creation on Flickr and proposes a new set of metrics for characterizing groups on Flickr looking at aspects of membership, communication activity, and communication structure. Data collected from a sample of 1,000 groups was used to confirm the metrics and provide new insights into group formation in Flickr, such as the nature of larger and smaller groups. The contributions of the article are as follows: a set of metrics for characterizing online groups that extend existing schemes; an approach for sampling Flickr to estimate the number of groups; new insights into Flickr groups based on results from analyzing 1,000 randomly selected groups; and reflections on our experiences with using publicly accessible, automatically collected data to characterize the types of groups on Flickr.

A cross-cultural study on meaning and the nature of children's experiences in Australian and French swimming clubs

This article reports on a study conducted in Australia and France that inquired into the meaning and the nature of children's experiences of being in swimming clubs with a focus on the positive aspects of membership that keep them in their clubs. Three-month long case studies were conducted in a club in Australia and in a club in France, employing Lave and Wenger's (1991) analytic concepts of communities of practice and situated learning. Conducting case studies within two different socio-cultural settings allowed for the identification of common themes that transcend very different institutional and cultural settings while highlighting contextual factors and the situated nature of learning.

Help-Seeking Behavior for Intimate Partner Violence among Racial Minority Women in Canada

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is experienced by women of all ethnoracial backgrounds. Despite the serious adverse impacts of IPV on women's lives, many abused women do not seek help. The main objective of this paper was to determine whether a woman's racial minority status was a significant predictor of help-seeking for IPV after controlling for other factors associated with help-seeking. Data from a national Canadian, cross-sectional, telephone survey were used. Help-seeking variables included disclosure of IPV, reporting IPV to police, the use of social services subsequent to IPV, and barriers to social service use. In the bivariate analyses, rates of disclosure and reporting to police were similar for racial minority and white women, however, racial minority women, compared to white women, were significantly less likely to use social services. After adjustment for age, marital status, household income, number of young children at home, immigration status, household language, and severity of IPV, racial minority status was not a significant predictor of help-seeking in the multivariate analysis. Our findings suggest that further investigation is necessary to understand what aspects of membership in a racial minority group or sytemic factors may be contributing to inequalities in accessing help for IPV.

Attributes and views of families with food allergic children recruited from allergy clinics and from a consumer organization

A significant body of food allergy research has been conducted with families recruited from consumer organizations (COs). However, there has been no systematic comparison of the characteristics of such families with those attending specialist allergy clinics (ACs), nor have parental views on food allergy COs been examined in detail. To address these questions, 44 families with food allergic children recruited from hospital clinics and 25 families recruited from a CO: (i) completed a survey with items concerning demographic details, allergy features, and sources of allergy information, and (ii) participated in qualitative interviews and focus groups concerning their experiences. Significant differences were found in reported number of food allergies and nut allergy, seeking of second opinions, adrenaline autoinjector possession (but not use) and sources of food allergy information. Parents valued COs as sources of practical information and emotional support, but viewed advice which did not acknowledge their individual circumstances and heightened anxiety from contact with other anxious parents as being unhelpful. Research conducted with CO members is valuable, but may have limited generalizability to other populations. To supplement the information and support provided by ACs, all parents should be given the opportunity to join a CO, with guidance from their clinician towards those aspects of membership which are most likely to be helpful.

Total propaganda: from mass culture to popular culture

Total propaganda: from mass culture to popular culture

The Human Aspects of Membership

The Human Aspects of Membership

The Subconscious in Organizational Control: The Case of Mitsubishi Heavy Industry

I. Culture and the Study or Organization ALTHOUGH LONG TRADITIONS of theory and research in the social sciences address the orientations of employees to their jobs and places of employment, there has been in recent years a convergence of interest, from highly diverse quarters, in the problem of control within, and commitment to, the work organization. From industrial psychologists to organizational sociologists to Marxist labor process theorists, a focus on the efforts by companies to foster dependence, loyalty and identification in a workforce has superseded older scholarly concerns with industrial attitudes, performance, and conflict. Part of the reason for the renewed attention to the question of commitment and cohesion is a widening theoretical interest in the role it plays in modern organizational control and its connection to culture. Since many centuries ago fundamental work values of Western countries stemmed from the Protestant Work Ethic, with its advocacy of individual achievement, personal responsibility and independence (Weber, 1920). Adam Smith reinforced these values by his moral philosophy in which he claimed that individuals should pursue their self-interest in order to have better consequences for society (Campbell, 1981). However, in recent years, increased attention has been paid to the concept of culture and its interorganizational implications, its relation to interpersonal network in organizations and to its contribution to organizational effectiveness. In a large and growing number of studies scholars have attempted to define, refine, and apply a cultural prospect to the illustration and analysis of organizational phenomenon. The concept of culture has in recent years been used with increasing frequency in the area of organizational studies, obliging experts to define it. In the field of sociology, culture is used as a collective noun for the symbolic and learned aspects of human society. Kluckhohn (1962) states that culture consists of patterns transmitted by symbols and the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values. Geertz (1973) also encounters culture with signs and symbols as instruments for collective communication. Hence, culture refers to a shared system of values, norms, and symbols which have become crystallized in the institutions they have built together. The continuing interest in the concept of culture suggests a change in emphasis in the study of organizations. The focus on culture is associated with a stress on the subjective realm, and a turn to interpretative and qualitative approaches in sociology, and organizational sociology in particular (Hofstede, 1986). The rise of organizational symbolism should involve the introduction into organization theory of formerly remote disciplines, including anthropology and history (Turner, 1990 quoted in Rowlinson & Hassard, 1993). In the field of organizational behavior the concept of culture has been welcomed in the hope that it might make organizational behavior relatively less reliant on the empirical analytical sciences and more dependent on the hermeneutic sciences. When attributed to organizational contexts, culture and its related perceptions present a relatively new approach and precise lexicons combining with a type of original hypothetical variables to the study of organization. According to Dobson (1990) culture in organization is observed as the result of shared organizational values that are stipulated in an unspoken, implicit contract between employer and employee. Berlin & Reimel (1992) who presented the organizational culture as a system of values which are meaningful to and shared by all members of the organization. Therefore in that concern, culture is principally perceived as the communal principles governing subjective and effective aspects of membership in an organization, and the means whereby they are shaped and expressed. Within the broad perception of culture, special emphasis has been attributed to the shared meanings, norms, and values that govern workrelated behavior, in particular the functionalist and structural causes and consequences of cultural forms and their relationship to various measures of organizational effectiveness (Kunda, 1992). …

Aspects of membership: On the integration of psychoanalytic object‐relations theory and small group science

Aspects of membership: On the integration of psychoanalytic object‐relations theory and small group science