Harmonious Community Research Articles

Understanding relationship benefits from harmonious brand community on social media

Purpose – Brand communities have been labeled as a social aggregation of brand fans and businesses. Yet, limited research has examined customers’ perceived relationship benefits in brand community on social media. Drawing from social capital theory and relationship benefits research, the purpose of this paper is to discover how online harmonious brand community influence customers’ perceived relationship benefits (i.e. confidence, special treatment, social and honor). Design/methodology/approach – Hypotheses are tested by applying a structural equation modeling and the data are collected from a survey of smartphone community members (n=543) based on Sina Weibo. Findings – The results suggest that harmonious brand communities strengthen customers’ perceived relationship benefits on social media, which are the important factors to form community satisfaction and positive word-of-mouth of community. And community engagement amplifies the influence of harmonious brand communities and has a moderating effect on the role of harmonious community relationships in confidence benefits. Originality/value – The present study extends prior research on relationship benefits from the perspective of brand community based on social media and reveals the role of harmonious community relationships in developing community satisfaction and positive word-of-mouth.

Provisional notes on ubuntu for journalists covering war

There is a growing pool of literature on the implications for journalism of the African moral philosophy of ubuntu. However, little of this literature is framed around the conception that the world is fundamentally violent and/or that communication itself is violent, focusing on the idea of harmonious life. This article contributes to changing this, insisting that valuing of harmonious community relations should neither involve denying the violence within which communities are established nor the taking for granted of any “we.” After all, communication is violent and failing to conceptualize African journalistic practice in ways that are consistent with how Africans inordinately experience violence is concerning. With special interest in news regarding violent, I draft a provisional understanding of news that reflects values of ubuntu, tentatively conceptualizing news values inspired by ubuntu, and advocating an ubuntu-informed normative account of how journalists should cover conflict, war, and possibilities regarding peace.

PEMBINAAN KERUKUNAN UMAT BERAGAMA MASYARAKAT TRANSMIGRAN DI KALIMANTAN TENGAH

<p>Indonesia is plural society. This pluralism is observed in its<br />ethnics, religions, languages, and customs. In social life, pluralism <br />in religion especially often creates many problems. This could<br />happen in migrant society. It is, for example, effected by<br />interpretation of each religious moral; although in their religion <br />also suggest tolerance.</p><p><br />Hence, government needs to manage trans-migrant society. <br />This management could be observed in management administration.<br />Result of the study show that governmental management generally<br />only gives religious community's harmony at the beginning of their<br />settlement in trans-migrant areas. Afterward, management is doing<br />by religious figures and communities figures. That management is<br />not specifically designed to manage community in harmony among<br />religious community in that area. The management is through<br />pengajian, religious preaches and lecturers,</p>

How community interactions contribute to harmonious community relationships and customers’ identification in online brand community

As a proxy for the vitality of online brand community, effective interaction has always been viewed as a prerequisite for the formation of harmonious organization atmosphere and high degree of organizational identity. To investigate the process, this study proposes a model delineates the relationship among community interactions, harmonious community relationships, and customers’ community identification. The findings, based on 665 valid samples, reveal that different community interactions (product-information, human-computer, and interpersonal) have different effects on harmonious community relationships (customer-brand and customer-other customers’ relationships), which in turn influences customers’ identification with community. Furthermore, these community interactions have an interactive effect on harmonious community relationships. Based on the analytical results, this study concludes with some managerial and research implications.

Geographical Indications: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products

We begin by explaining what a geographical indication (GI) is, by situating the term historically and explaining the way it differs in important ways from other forms of intellectual property (IP). We then discuss the political and economic conditions under which GIs have attracted new interest from a diverse group of international actors. We suggest that a certain ‘social imaginary’ (Castoriadis 1987, 1997; Gaonkar 2002; Maza 2005; Taylor 2004; Touraine 1981; Wagner 2012; Zavela 1992) of a harmonious community with a naturalized relationship to a territory and its resources is fostered by the use of GIs. Those who are encouraged to develop GIs come to understand this as a strategy of legitimation, both for claiming economic revenues and for asserting cultural identity. These rhetorical forms are neither true, nor necessarily false, we suggest, but the deployment of such strategies may bring benefits in some regions while undermining sustainable development objectives in others. We show how such marketing strategies may have unintended social consequences and could give rise to unexpected social disputes, as well as contests over the proper scale for marking the provenance of goods described in cultural terms. While holding social appeal for framing development aspirations in some regions, this social imaginary obscures important social complexities in contexts where tradition and indigeneity are contested terms through which different social groups attempt to maintain or to assert gains in status, income and opportunity, as the following chapter, focused on South African rooibos, will attest.

The effects of value co-creation practices on building harmonious brand community and achieving brand loyalty on social media in China

Value co-creation practices influence consumer-brand-consumer triad relationships.Harmonious brand communities enhance community commitment and brand loyalty.Community commitment has positive effec...

Internalisasi Nilai-nilai Multikultural dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam di Sekolah (Pendidikan Tanpa Kekerasan)

Multicultural education is a false sosial device to boost the schools’ participation in order to build the awareness of multicultural society. It will be useful to strengthen the tolerance to realize the ability of working together above the differences. Teachers are the important roles on spreading the multicultural values to create the harmonious community. Furthermore, teachers are expected to introduce the symbols of nationality insight through the education process in the class or in the vast society. Besides, teachers are supposed to actively participate on the development of multiculturalism in Indonesia. So that, the exclusivity which triggers the interpersona or group conflict could be decreased. Teachers, particularly the religion teacher should teach not only the values in the religion’s rituals, but also the universal values, such as justice, equality, humanity, kindness, honesty, and so on. Therefore, the religion teacher should thoughtfully profound the universal concepts believed by their own religion.

The Art of Interpretation: Rosenweig’s Midrash and Heidegger’s Hermeneutics

The shared trajectory and thought between the phenomenological hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and midrashic analysis of Franz Rosenzweig is established with respect to the task of taking up existing “classical” texts such as “The Song of Songs” and “The Ister” as well with respect to the embodied conditions of understanding through language with a view to delineating the motivating factors and the structural guidelines that determine our interpretive activities; specifically, intentional structures that distinguish communicative acts from one another that either brings them into conflict or into fruitful and harmonious communities.

The Art of Interpretation: Rosenweig's Midrash and Heidegger's Hermeneutics

The shared trajectory and thought between the phenomenological hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and midrashic analysis of Franz Rosenzweig is established with respect to the task of taking up existing “classical” texts such as “The Song of Songs” and “The Ister” as well with respect to the embodied conditions of understanding through language with a view to delineating the motivating factors and the structural guidelines that determine our interpretive activities; specifically, intentional structures that distinguish communicative acts from one another that either brings them into conflict or into fruitful and harmonious communities.

Visions of Public Space: Reproducing and Resisting Social Hierarchies in a Community Garden

Urban public spaces are sites of struggles over gentrification. In increasingly diverse cities, these public spaces also host interactions among people of different class, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. How do people share public spaces in contexts of diversity and gentrification? I analyze the conflicting ways of imagining shared spaces by drawing on an ethnographic study of a community garden in a diverse and gentrifying neighborhood in New York City, conducted between 2011 and 2013. I examine how conflicts among gardeners about the aesthetics of the garden and norms of conduct reproduce larger gentrification struggles over culture and resources. Those who wanted the garden to be a lush and orderly space drew on their privilege and resources to leverage support from institutional actors and push through a vision that resonated with aesthetic preferences of affluent residents and developers. At the same time, I found that the diversity, combined with several other characteristics, created openings for cultural disruption. Utilizing relationships built across dramatic lines of class, race, and immigration difference, less privileged gardeners were able to destabilize hierarchies and defend their visions of this public space. Conflict and messy deliberation—rather than harmonious community—facilitated engagement with difference.

A narrative inquiry into schooling in China: three images of the principalship

This narrative inquiry exploring contemporary Chinese schooling involved three researchers who worked collaboratively as a team. Each researcher resonated with a different image of the principalship embedded in the storied account proffered by Xu Xiaozhang 校长, leader of Hexie Elementary School in Tianjin, China. (1) Principal as the lead teacher; (2) principal as an agent of a harmonious learning community; and (3) principal as a teacher-maker were the images Principal Xu held and expressed. In the interpretive analysis, Xu Xiaozhang’s images of principal were nested one within the other in ways that brought Deweyan pragmatism and Confucian thought fruitfully together. The subtle nuances of the images provide an upclose view of schooling on one elementary campus in China that is of international interest and value.

Accounting for pre-conditions for a harmonious community of states: democratization and the security complex in East and Southeast Asia

This article addresses the relationship between the character of political regimes and security in East and Southeast Asia. In doing so, it draws on the insights of both regional security complex and liberal peace theories. The analysis of democratization processes is therefore juxtaposed with the general underdevelopment of democracy in the region. It is ascertained that the security paradox that features prominently in East and Southeast Asian international relations can be transcended. Democratization and modernization alone, however, do not suffice, in which case another normative basis is needed. The main conclusion takes the author to accept the importance of culture in political community building. In that respect, a common denominator is sought in building a genuine Asian identity based on human values, to which major political philosophies and religions in the region subscribe. Consequently, the convergence among social norms, political norms and peace is theorized.

Impossible Practice and Theories of the Impossible: A Response to Helene Illeris’s “Potentials of Togetherness”

In a recent commentary in Studies in Art Education, Helene llleris (2013) discussed the idea of performative experimental communities via a critique of visual culture pedagogy and the romanticism of community-oriented art education in Nordic countries, llleris underpinned her arguments with Jean-Luc Nancy's (1997) philosophy on togetherness and community. While I agree in principle with llleris's movement away from individual learning processes toward community, I find problematic the relationship between a presumed of collectivity and the theoretical impossibility of community. In what follows, I also use Nancy's theories to analyze the idea of performative experimental communities provided by llleris and discuss the theoretical impossibility of it.Traditionally, In community-arts-based projects, the artwork is the outcome of the collaboration-but the work process itself can also be defined as art, as it is a continuous performance (Kantonen, 2005). Artwork, then, becomes a jointly lived event, and the event becomes a shared experienced artwork (Kester, 2004). Community-based art is considered by many to be a logical step toward a more intimate and meaningful relationship between the artist and his/her local audience, or participants, and an efficacious means of shrinking the distance between the traditionally separate poles of production and reception. As such, community-based art is often celebrated as an artistically and politically critical and progressive (Kwon, 2004).Community-art-based projects, especially as described in art education, rely on an idea of an already existing community, or presuppose that the act of making art together would build up a purpose of community. Illeris (2013) criticized these kinds of projects, claiming that they often yearn for a mythic past where true belonging still existed. Illeris's argument has reverberated with Nancy's theory (1991) that longing for original and harmonious communities, and for immediate being-together, exists in every generation and in most cultures, and should be seen as mythical thought-an imaginary and nostalgic picture of our past. Nancy (1991, 1997), however, went further and posited that a community cannot be a subject with an idea, mind, destiny, or meaning of its own.Nancy developed his theories of community interactively with Maurice Blanchot (1988). For Nancy and Blanchot, community could only be possible without any shared subjectivities and shared substances. In the so-called of practice-often arbitrarily separated from the world of philosophical theory-most art educators understand the idea of community precisely through its subjectivity. For example, many community-arts-based projects, within the field of art education, aim to develop a stronger community identity by distinguishing social needs and community relations at a local level. In practice, the goals are often to improve community relations, to develop feelings of acceptance and belonging in the community, to support active citizenship and local involvement in governance, and so on. Through these practices, community is understood as presupposed, already physically and geographically existing. Characteristic to all presupposed communities of is that their members are supposedly embedded in some idea of a shared or communal mind. Collective subjectivity is exactly what is offered for members in community-arts-based projects in art education. In other words, in order to belong, in order to practice collectivity, the only way to remain as a member in the community is by adopting and holding a position in a collective subjectivity.For Nancy (1991, 1997), community was not something to which one could belong. Instead, as a presupposed structure, community has rejected all that connects its members and what might offer a persistent essence to it. The sense of belonging to a community does not exist as ready but can be composed momentarily in togetherness of its members' sense. …

Come, let us make a city and a tower”: Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Tower of Babel and the Creation of a Harmonious Community in Antwerp

Come, let us make a city and a tower”: Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Tower of Babel and the Creation of a Harmonious Community in Antwerp

The Concept of Yi (义) in the Mencius and Problems of Distributive Justice

This paper examines attempts to find a conception of justice in early Confucian contexts, focusing on the concept of yi (translated as ‘appropriateness’, ‘right’, ‘rightness’, even ‘justice’) in the Mencius. It argues against the approach of deriving principles of dividing burdens and benefits from the discussions of concrete cases employing the concept of yi and instead shows that Confucian ethical concerns are more attentive to what kinds of interpersonal relations are appropriate in specific circumstances. It questions the exclusive emphasis in justice-centred ethical discourse on assessing actions, and even more narrowly actions of governments and other public institutions, and their consequences regarding distribution of rights and material resources and goods. Instead of applying some abstract principles of justice, whether of equality or some other priorities according to individual characteristics, distributive problems are approached from the perspective of the effect of any proposed distribution on interpersonal relationships. Principles of justice treat opportunities, resources, and goods that are supposed to be distributed as possessions or potential possessions of individuals always competing for resources and goods. Confucians treat them not as objects to be possessed by one and denied to others, but as facilitators of personal cultivation effecting appropriate interpersonal relationships constituting harmonious communities. The Mencius offers a different perspective on distributive problems by shifting our ethical attention from ‘who gets what?’ to ‘how should we relate to others?’ within a different conception of the good life and the ideal society or polity.

Visualizing the application of GIS in transformation towards a sustainable development and a low carbon society

A strategy for sustainable development is a significant milestone on the road to a more socially, economically and environmentally responsible society. It creates a framework within which the stakeholders can make a strong contribution to a better future. Because of the merits and growing interest in sustainable development, the race is on for researchers and stakeholders in the construction sector to initiate actions to reduce the negative impacts of development and sharpen their competitive edge. The cities should be created with a vision which supports harmonious communities and living conditions through sustainable urban development. The resources must be used efficiently while reducing the development impact on human health and environment during the buildings' life cycle. Environmental auditing and pressure-state response based models to monitor sustainable development in Malaysia should be developed. A data availability and sharing system should be developed and implemented to facilitate for the use in the establishment of sustainable development and low carbon society. Ideas which affect millions of people and guide the policies of nations must be accessible to all. Only thus can they permeate the institutions from the local to the global level. Creating sustainable development and low carbon societies depends on the knowledge and involvement of all stakeholders in the industry. So what is our level of understanding of GIS and its application? The development of geospatial data in Malaysia is important because the successful implementation of sustainable development and low carbon projects depend largely on the availability of geospatial information. It would facilitate the stakeholders and resolve some of the problems regarding the availability, quality, organisation, accessibility and sharing of spatial information. The introduction of GIS may change the way for better sustainable urban development and low carbon society performance. The use of GIS is to improve decision making to implement development methods, awareness for the need for sustainable development and in development control to provide the information on the distance from the proclaimed objective. Malaysia should not fall in its attitude on sustainable development, green design, sustainable construction and a low carbon society. Literature review on GIS is carried out to understand the philosophy, concept, principles, challenges and advantages of using GIS for sustainable urban development and low carbon societies. This paper would encourage our understanding about the state of geographical information system (GIS) in sustainable development and its application which would further stimulate actions and strategies towards a sustainable built environment.

Socio-economic and political status of panchayats Elected representatives (A Study of Mysore District-Karnataka)

The paper presents the structure and functions of Panchayati raj Institutions. It also highlights the social composition of elected members and their participation in the decision making process in PRIs. Liberal Democracy is one of the basic features of the Indian Constitution. Mahatma Gandhi advocated Panchayat Raj even before Independence. The further of the Nation felt that as issues at the village levels must be addressed by the people only under self-governance and the State or the Central Governments only facilitate such self-rule through grants and by conferring autonomy on them. Panchayat system had earlier an informal setup to redress the local issues and problems of communities which were mainly social and economic in nature. They were popular institutions at micro levels and the main objective was to keep the local community in harmony and to encourage participation in the process of development. The Mysore Government in 1902 passed the Mysore Local Boards Act with a view to revitaling the rural local Government. In 1918, the Mysore Government enacted the Mysore Local Boards and Village Panchayat Act making provisions for elected representatives at the district and taluk levels. After Independence, District and Taluk Boards were set up by the Mysore Government. The first independent legislation on Panchayat Raj Institutions was enacted by the Ramakrishna Hegde Government in 1983 and was brought into effect from April 1987 with the first elections to these local bodies in rural areas. This was amended during 1993. The salient features of the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act 1993 are: To establish a 3-tier Panchayat Raj System of elected bodies. Reservation of seats to SC/ST and 50% seats to women at all levels; reservation of seats to persons belonging to other backward classes. Reservation of offices of Chairpersons in favour of SC/ST, women and backward classes. Establishing Finance Commission and District Planning Committee. Constituting a State Panchayat Council. Mysore district consists of seven revenue taluks, namely, H.D. Kote, Hunsur, K.R. Nagar, Nanjangud, Periyapatna, T. Narasipura and Mysore (Urban and Rural). For administrative purposes, Mysore district is divided into two subdivisions, which are Hunsur and Mysore and the district has 1,216 villages, 11 statutory towns, 235 grama panchayats and 226 wards. The District Commissioner is responsible for managing the district administration and the Assistant Commissioners are responsible for managing the sub-divisions of the district. Objectives of the Study; To study the socio-economic and political background of the rural political leadership. To examine the nature of the power, structure of the panchayat raj leadership in mysore district, Karnataka. To analyse the problems in implementation of the rural development activities of the panchayats in mysore district, Karnataka. The methodology consists largely of methods of primary survey, namely the questionnaire survey and individual interviews. The primary sources of data are the collected from panchayats elected members in the mysore district. The mysore district has 235 Grama Panchayats (GPs) in which 23 (10 per cent) respondent to a questionnaire. The total number of GPs elected members is 4300, of which 215 (05 per cent) of respondent to a questionnaire. Samples were selected from all the taluks of the district. Word Key: PRIs, presidents, members, Socio, Economic, political

Banishment, Urban Community and Judicial Practice: Thieves in mid-17th-century Turku

The practice of banishing thieves, and the changes that took place in that practice in mid-17th-century Turku, illuminates the issues of building a good urban community as well as the changes that were happening in law and judicial practice in early modern Sweden. Variations and changes in punishing thieves in the 1640s and 1650s in Turku show that the position of the thief in the urban community, and the amount that was stolen, affected the courts’ considerations throughout the two decades. Nevertheless, an ongoing tendency towards moderation in sentencing is visible in courts, and the influence of a new penal ordinance of 1653 is noticeable. The banishment of thieves, even if it removed unwanted people from town, was no more strongly connected to the goal of creating a good community than other punishments were. Both banishment and other punishments, however, were connected to the conceptions of an ordered and harmonious community. The court cases, nevertheless, show that the makeup of the Turku urban community was more open than the strict moral or legal guidelines of the time would suggest.

General medical practice in China: evaluation of urban community health care service functions based on a rough set reduction theory

Objective This study aims to achieve an empirical evaluation on the functional performances of urban community health care services in five administrative districts of Nanchang city in China. Methods In order to increase effectiveness, data collected from five administrative districts of Nanchang city were processed to exclude redundant information. Rough set reduction theory was brought in to evaluate the performances of community health care services in these districts through calculating key indices’ weighed importance. Results Comprehensive evaluation showed the score rankings from high to low as Qingyunpu district, Xihu district, Qingshanhu district, Donghu district, and Wanli district. Conclusion The objective performance evaluation had actually reflected the general situation (including social-economic status) of community health care services in these administrative districts of Nanchang. Attention and practical works of community health service management were needed to build a more harmonious and uniform community health care service system for residents in these districts of Nanchang.

Small actions — big change: Delivering regeneration in the age of austerity

In the years since the recession hit the UK economy in 2008, the regeneration sector has been dealt a double blow. First, the credit crunch swept away lending to developers poised to build in regeneration areas. This was followed from 2010 by the introduction of deep cuts to spending by the Coalition Government. The former wiped out hope of further job creation and physical redevelopment in areas where markets were weak. The latter brought public services to their knees more swiftly and comprehensively than anyone could have previously imagined. So where does this leave regeneration? Central government, in the drive to reduce its economic deficit, is in danger of leaving behind those who need help most. This paper looks at ways of creating more viable and harmonious communities through low-cost and high-impact interventions, through springboards rather than safety nets, and by stimulating participatory democracy. It explores ways to help reshape neighbourhoods: through regaining control of decisions at a local level; by channelling optimism; and by harnessing financial and social investment. It offers practical ideas for delivering regeneration from the bottom up, drawing on specific examples of communities where new approaches have helped them create spaces and places to be enjoyed by all.