Contemporary Social Environment Research Articles

A Study of Multidimensional Influences on Employee Job Performance

Employee job performance, as a key indicator of organizational operating efficiency and productivity, has always been highly regarded in both academia and industry. Particularly in the contemporary social environment, studying factors affecting employee work performance is of immense theoretical and practical significance for more efficient organizational management and fuller employee potential tap. This study focuses on three main dimensions: individual employee attributes, organizational environment, and job characteristics, exploring the factors influencing employee job performance. Results confirm that excellent job design and high job satisfaction are crucial and indispensable for boosting employee job performance. The formation of employee job performance is a complex system engineering process, collectively influenced by individual, organizational, and job-level factors. Based on this, managers consider all these influential factors in their day-to-day operations, scientifically design and implement human resource policies to stimulate the enthusiasm of employees and improve their job performance. This study offers a new perspective and in-depth theoretical analysis for understanding the multi-dimensional impact mechanisms of employee job performance and provides effective decision-making references for practical management, thus bearing significant academic value and practical implications.

De la rencontre de l’Autre à la perte de soi. Les réécritures filmiques de "L’aventure ambiguë" de Cheikh Hamidou Kane

This article reads the films L’aventure ambiguë by French director Jacques Champreux and L’Afrance by Franco-Sen-egalese filmmaker Alain Gomis as possible sequels, continu-ations or follow-up stories of L’aventure ambiguë, the best known novel of Senegalese author Cheikh Hamidou Kane. Building on the hypothesis that film adaptation is a creative endeavour that allows filmmakers to state their views, not just on the literary source text but also about their contem-porary social environment, it studies the aesthetic strategies and film techniques deployed to replicate the written literary content in the audiovisual media and elucidates some of the new perspectives that this remediation brings on the ques-tions raised in the novel. It argues that through a complex relationship of continuity and rupture, convergence and sub-version, the films recontextualize the ideas put forward in the novel to connect them with present-day sociocultural issues.

The Situation of Innovative Entrepreneurship Courses Promoted by Technological Colleges and Universities in Taiwan and Recommendations

Babson College has become a model for the advancement of entrepreneurship education in the United States. Its personalized entrepreneurship education programs foster entrepreneurial elites, making it a model for Taiwan’s entrepreneurship education development. Its personalized entrepreneurship education programs foster entrepreneurial elites, making it a model for Taiwan’s entrepreneurship education development.Additionally, Taiwan has incorporated and adapted a series of entrepreneurship education courses. In recent years, the government has promoted practical projects and simulation entrepreneurial competitions aggressively. The entrepreneurial theories and practical experiences are combined to provide more comprehensive and structured learning courses for entrepreneurial students. In the contemporary social environment, innovation and entrepreneurship have become vital economic engines. Consequently, it is crucial to cultivate entrepreneurialism and entrepreneurial skills in students. Students and faculty in Taiwan’s higher education system have access to a plethora of excellent learning platforms where they can acquire a vast array of practical knowledge and skills. In entrepreneurship education, schools therefore adopt Babson College’s methodology and planning. In Taiwanese courses, the current situation is reviewed and related feedback opinions are collected in order to strengthen the prior knowledge of students and increase their employment competitiveness, thereby serving as the link between the self-awareness of students and their understanding of themselves.

The foundation for future education, teaching, training, learning, and performing infrastructure - The open interoperability conceptual framework approach

The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education, Teaching, Training, Learning, and the operational application (Performing) of acquired knowledge, skills, and competencies in contemporary social environments has directly influenced the transformation of early Networked Learning (NL) concepts into a Global Learning Infrastructure. Creating cooperative/collaborative stakeholders networks composed of learning subjects, objects, and competencies consumers, exposes the significant potential for gaining overall social progress. The main challenging obstacles of such globalization are: embedding semantics into the competence credentials carriers, trusted dissemination of verifiable competence tokens, the heterogeneous ontologies mapping, and sustainable service delivery infrastructure.The mainstream motivation of our research is the specification and development of a conceptual framework that fosters the interoperability of different stakeholders, whether individual or institutional, to declare, share and maintain the representative collections of information resources related to the particular Education, Learning, Teaching, Training, and Performing (Research, Development, Production, and Service) endeavors.In this article, we have specified an open, heterogeneous, interoperable conceptual framework capable of orchestrating past, current, and future paradigms to foster building the foundations for comparative analysis and evaluation of traditional and nontraditional competency-building processes, joined with students' portfolio creation, dissemination, and management. It is a starting specification that would serve for the future: open, heterogeneous, cooperative/collaborative, service-oriented software framework specification and development.

Secularism and Ethnic Minorities: Comparative Case Studies on Ethnic, Religious, and Political Cognitions in Pakistani-Controlled Kashmir, Central Russia, Romania, and Northern Scandinavia

According to my study, “political secularism” means the separation of political power from religious institutions, while “social secularism” is a theory and endeavor to eliminate religiosity from not only public but also private life, considering it an obsolete way of thinking. I examine four case studies based on my ethnological fieldwork in Hunza (in the Pakistani-controlled Kashmir), the Middle Ural (Russia), Transylvania (Romania), and Sápmi (northern Scandinavia). I outline and compare ethnic minorities (Hunzakuts, Tatars, Szeklers, Samis) according to their historical background, contemporary social environment, relation to the majority, their political endeavors, and the role of religion(s) among them. Based on my fieldwork notes, interviews, and sociological data, I analyze the similarities and differences of ethnic complexity, terminological confusions, problems of “lived religion,” and the impact of social and political secularism. Since their religiosity differs from the majorities’ ones, I found that secularism has a complex role and reception. Political secularism is essential for defending these minorities from assimilation, but most of these minorities reject social secularism since religion is part of their multifunctional ethnic discourse space. Religiosity is part of their survival strategy. Notwithstanding, ethnic minorities’ religious institutions participate in political activity and propagate their claims for self-governance.

Development and Dissemination of the kkiumipsa Technique in late Chosŏn, Focusing on Copper Crafts

This paper studies the development of the kkiumipsa technique used on copper crafts, focusing on the types of the technique, materials, and the cultural consumption of the crafted items. The surviving artifacts and Intangible Cultural Heritage also provide information on the history of kkiumipsa in the Chosŏn period. kkiumipsa is a representational example that demonstrate how a traditional craft technique can be transmitted, transformed, and disseminated while reflecting contemporary social environment. This study is significant in understanding how the socio-cultural circumstances affect the way craftworks are consumed, and in appreciating the evolvement of traditional ways that are critical in transmission and improvement of craft techniques. The surviving artifacts show that two types of kkiumipsa technique were used in Chosŏn, one passed down from the Koryŏ period, and the other developed in the late Chosŏn period. The first technique, type I, was mainly employed for silver inlay items that were used by the royal family, private individuals, and Buddhist temples. As not only silver, but different materials of copper alloy such as black copper, nickel copper, and brass were considered precious, they were also used for embellishments. The type II uses heat and soldering to apply the inlay technique on narrow or thin surfaces of copper craftworks, for example, tobacco pipes, acupuncture needle cases, and columns of candlesticks. The use of the inlay technique on these items show that it was a part of the everyday life. The history of copper pipe making artisans (paektong yŏngjuk chang) and the inlay technique that they preserve, show that it was popularly used since the mid- to latenineteenth century at the latest.

HUNGARIAN AND SLOVAK ISSUES IN THE TEXTS OF LAJOS HAAN IN THE BACKGROUND OF CULTURAL AND LITERARY SCIENCE

Slovaks living abroad form an integral part of the Slovak national cultural context. They create values that need to be preserved, enhanced and point out their versatility and use for contemporary forms of cultural identification. Slovaks in Hungary, who have been living in the vicinity of Békéscsaba for more than three hundred years, are also an important component of the Slovak minority of Hungarian Lowland. From this “Slovak Palestine”, as Ján Kollár named it, in the 18th and 19th century a historical-religious-cultural center of Slovaks (and also Hungarians) was created, which can still be rightfully proud of its heritage. Being a part of it, as a kind of pioneer, even as a historical basis, is also the personality of Lajos Haan (1818-1891), who performed his versatile activity in the chronotope of “Hungarian and Slovak” Békéscsaba. In this spirit, the article interprets his letters, his diary, “Pamätnosti” (Memoirs) and “Dejiny” (History), while presenting material and immaterial sources, monuments, inspirations that have been, are and will certainly be useful in artistic, cultural and literary “communication”. It is based on the attributes of cultural and literary science, which is thus an integrative model of literature research: a set of approaches that focus on cultural topics, theories and methods. The region of Békéscsaba ( pars pro toto: contemporary Hungary) is its focus. In selected texts of his material writings, Lajos Haan reflects his closer understanding of cooperation with the environment, from a broader point of view the intra- and interculturality of Hungarians and Slovaks: their coexistence, cooperation and diverse creative efforts. It points out the importance of Haanʼs personal contacts within the contemporary social environment, which is also specified in his personal letters. Memoirs are a testimony of an intellectual from the second half of the 19 century; to today's reader they will reveal the “strange, interesting, Hungarian” atmosphere of the time - in the background of social, political, historical, cultural and literary attributes. The description of the characteristic features of the city is a symbol of the peaceful coexistence of nations and nationalities in the Lowlands. In fact, the article presents the complex activity of an unusual personality: a Hungarian historian and a Slovak priest in one person, Lajos Haan, whose texts are interesting and current for today.

“The Bag Is My Home”: Recycling “China Bags” in Contemporary African Art

“The Bag Is My Home”: Recycling “China Bags” in Contemporary African Art

Chapter 3: Education and Social Self-Creation between Solid and Liquid Modernity

This essay intersects John Dewey’s pragmatism with Zygmunt Bauman’s sociological thinking. It explores the creative dimension of Dewey’s constructivism with an emphasis on social self-creation. Bauman’s notions of solid and liquid modernity – among other things his ideas about conditions of time/space and work – supplement Deweyan constructivism by specifying some characteristics of the contemporary social environment that contribute to the social construction of the mind and self. The paper situates the Cologne International Teacher Education Laboratory within the flux of liquid modernity before discussing what Dewey’s theory of inquiry may contribute toward teachers living a more enthusiastic, free, and more creative professional life. The paper concludes with a call for teachers and teacher educators to join with us in forming what Dewey would call a “public” of concerned, committed, and creative educators.

“Phase transition” between Confrontation and Dialogue in the Light of the Concept of the Unity Charism

Abstract In the twenties of the last century the process of building a new type of philosophical culture began, based on the sensitivity towards another person, the recognition of values and dignity of the person and the search for platforms of dialogue and compromise between people. However, it did not gain a broad social resonance. The 20th Century became the scene of the triumph of totalitarianisms, based on the idea of collectivism and marked by the contempt towards the individual, his rights and needs. In the post-war reality environments favouring the humanization of the culture of coexistence earned a voice, but they too did not manage to divert the tendency towards building a bureaucratic and technocratic order. In this kind of system, the person feels reduced to his instrumental functions, and the dialogue submerged in the world of humanistic values becomes a distant and unequalled dream. This text undertakes the problem of the conditions which must be met in order for the tendency towards dialogue and mutual respect to prevail over the hostile, confrontational approach, which characterizes many contemporary social environments. The author suggests that we refer to the analogy with the thermodynamics phenomenon, phase transition, and consider the notion of spiritual energy (the analogue of the physical term enthalpy) as an agent regulating the internal disposition of the individual to “freeze” or “thaw” relations with his fellow human beings. The key thesis is that the most important source of energy indispensable to move from confrontation to dialogue lies in the resources of religious experience- the openness to the grace flowing from the transcendental reality, and the guides on the path to discovering this source are the witnesses of faith- among them the spiritual heirs of Chiara Lubich’s charism.

Cultural Perspective-based Chinese Adolescent Martial Arts Teaching Development Research

In contemporary China, martial arts teaching is an important mean to let Chinese martial arts culture to be in- herited and developed, but with the diversification of teaching courses, it lets Chinese martial arts teaching's position to be worsen in the mind of adolescent, more and more special courses similar to martial arts are replaced by literacy class. The paper studies Chinese martial arts teaching development conditions in contemporary social environment from the per- spective of adolescent martial arts teaching. First, it makes statistics of Chinese schools' teachers and students martial arts culture cognition degree, and analyses their satisfaction degree, and then learns martial arts culture popularization among school teaching; secondly, utilize correlation analysis method and adaptive filtering method, it analyses Chinese adoles- cent favourite martial arts events. And then further get the conclusion: affected by martial arts events technical content, adolescents prefer to young Changquan, Taijiquan and others martial arts courses of lower technical content requirement and field constraint, and their satisfaction degree is higher. To let Chinese martial arts culture to be continued to carry forward and inherit, it should enlarge teachers and students cognition to martial arts culture and emphasis on.

MODERNIDAD, REFLEXIVIDAD Y CIENCIA POSNORMAL EN LA SOCIEDAD DEL RIESGO

This article aims to show the main proposals of Ulrich Beck about how the technological risks function in the context of the so-called second modernity, in order to expose their implications in terms of new forms of reflexivity in complex societies. We analyze the relationship between reflexivity, scientific knowledge and epistemological pluralism to understand how technological risks, posed with an increasing force, question the authority of science, therefore leading to new areas of organization, conducive to claim various groups excluded from public discussions on scientific and technological matters. In this paper, we try to provide some important elements for analysis of current problems regarding the risks and dangers technologically produced, allowing us to locate different forms of reflexivity in contemporary social environments. Therefore, we want to show the validity of the main tenets offered on the sociology of risk and the theory of reflexive modernity in relation to notions proposed by CTS studies in philosophy of science; specifically based on the approach of post-normal science raised by Silvio Functowicz and Jerome Ravetz, who problematize, like Beck, reflective political dimension of technological risks; however, he does it with a more epistemological emphasis which appears to an interdisciplinary and dialogical horizon concerning knowledge of the risk. Making this junction between both perspectives, allow us in our view, to understand the relevance of the contributions of the sociology of risk and expand their thoughtful routes in relation to other social philosophical fields

The Culture and Ethnicity Influence on the Manifestation of Human Cognitive Styles

Under the influence of a kind of social, historical, cultural and ethnic factors in the various ethnic communities of Kazakhstan some specifics in the content and display of cognitive strategies, cognitive styles were formed and consolidated. Examination and description of the essential features of the representation and display dynamics in the ontogeny of mental representatives of Kazakh and Russian nationalities, let understand adequately their daily existence and activities in relation to the conditions of the contemporary social environment. The research aims to determine whether KZKZ, KZRU and RU groups are dissimilar, whether the general trend of thought is similar to strategies put forward by us in the theoretical part of the assumption, is there dependence between culture and thinking features.

Slaugos praktikos vertinimas reflektuojant: studentų požiūris

Žurnalas „Sveikatos mokslai / Health sciences“ yra recenzuojamas tarptautinis mokslinis žurnalas, skirtas skleisti naujas žinias ir informaciją apie visuomenės sveikatą, sveikatos ugdymą, ligas, klinikinius tyrimus ir klinikinius atvejus, naujas technologijas, slaugą, reabilitaciją, sveikatos ekonomiką ir vadybą. Žurnalas spausdina mokslinius straipsnius lietuvių, anglų ir rusų kalbomis, kasmet išeina 1 tomas (6 numeriai) spausdintiniu ir elektroniniu variantais. Daugiau nei 140 mokslinių straipsnių publikuojami per metus. Žurnalas priklauso Lietuvos mokslo periodikos asociacijai.

Play to Learn, Learn to Play. Creating Better Opportunities for Learning in Early Childhood

New trends are emerging in learning and development at early ages, as children characteristics are changing in contemporary social environment; the main challenge for early childhood educators will be to initiate innovative learning experiences, according to these new treats of the kids.Design and implement creative and beneficial learning settings/opportunities for early ages is becoming a key competence of early educators, that should be consistently reflected in their initial and continuing training programs.Learning through playing is not a new topic anymore in the pedagogical debate, especially when it comes to early childhood education. Nevertheless, new trends and challenges in the area appeared lately, showing how keeping a learning purpose in mind, young children can really benefit from meaningful learning situations, carefully designed and implemented in practice. In this paper, the inter-changing between learning to play and playing to learn is analyzed, from the perspective of the impact on child development and increase of their learning capabilities at the early age. New life in contemporary societies brought new behaviors and daily practices in children's life. The professionals working in early childhood education, care and development should benefit from mentioned approaches, but should also be very aware of all the new trends n learning environments at early ages. The new pace of family life, the new technological world, the new games kids are likely to play from very early ages are all bringing into attention specific challenges for adults organizing their learning.How all these impact on learning processes themselves, but also on the training of new educators for early ages is the central reflection point for this paper, based both on systematic observation of the processes in place, but also on a great deal of secondary data analysis, coming directly from specialized institutions.Multiple stimulation and challenging learning experiences/scenarios according to the brain and social development of contemporary children is a key for success in early childhood education. This will have to directly impact on teacher training programs design and development.

Need for Improvement of Teacher Education in the New Millennium

Drastic changes are required in the Teacher Education program in view of the ongoing changes in the social, cultural, economical and political environment so that teacher could come in terms with the changing needs of contemporary Indian society. In the absence of the clarity of vision about the contemporary social environment, Teacher Education program fails to secularize the behavior of the society with social enlightment. This article purports to highlight the need to improve the quality of Teacher Education program. A teacher needs to be a learner for the whole life. Besides, the problems faced in the field and suggestions to rectify them had also been discussed.

Cidade adentro, cidade afora: histórias entre Associação Morungaba e PACTO-USP

The partnership between the Morungaba Association and the Permanent Program Artistic Compositions and Occupational Therapy (PACTO) presented in this report takes place in a territory of reciprocal contributions that broaden and make complex the spectrum of actions offered to a population with heterogeneous characteristics by prioritizing those who are in a situation of vulnerability triggered by economic, clinical and/or social issues. A brief assessment of the history of this joint work, its projects and developments evidences its effectiveness in the assistance to the population, in the qualification of occupational therapy students and in the production of studies and researches. Everybody involved in this partnership handles the issues of the so-called third sector inasmuch as new understandings are reached by experiencing the complexity of how things work in the contemporary social environment. Through interventions cooperatively accompanied supervisors, coordinators, art educators and interns dedicate themselves to projects that have taken place in different social and cultural pieces of equipment of the city of São Paulo since 2000, thus stimulating experiences of the territory of interface among the arts, education and healthcare and related to the appropriation of public spaces.

The Software-Simulated Airworld: Anticipatory Code and Affective Aeromobilities

This paper is concerned with the way in which airspaces are organised, managed, and understood by virtual representations—software simulations that are tested and used both preemptively and in real time. We suggest that, while airspaces are often understood as simulations themselves—models and blueprints for real-world futures—they are among the most mediated of all contemporary social environments, produced not only through code, but based on scenarios which predict and plan for future events—real vitalities that might come true. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of aeronautical software simulation employed by civilian and military aviation, we explore how code has become increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous in response to the challenges set by the mobilities the simulations model and the affective susceptibility of the corporeal body that uses them. The paper explores how software simulations work to structure and mediate behaviour by producing specific emotional and affective experiences in order to prepare the body for future encounters.

Social Disadvantage is Not Mental Disorder: Response to Campbell-Sills and Stein

Our target article argued that, although there are genuine social-phobic disorders wherein something goes wrong with mechanisms that generate social anxiety, most conditions satisfying DSM-IV social phobia criteria are likely not disorders but high-end, normal-range social anxiety overstimulated by contemporary social environments that demand high interaction and scrutiny while frowning on submission displays (1). We used the harmful dysfunction analysis of mental disorder to evaluate disorder status: according to this model, a disorder is a harmful failure of an internal mechanism to perform a natural function for which it was biologically designed. Social anxiety, we argued, is a normally distributed, biologically selected trait designed to protect individuals from risky behaviour in the social group. High-end designed levels of social anxiety may be less useful now than in ancestral environments—and even disadvantageous in current social environments—but such anxieties are part of normal human nature and not dysfunctions. In their thoughtful defense of DSM criteria, Campbell-Sills and Stein (2) acknowledge that some community cases of DSM-defined social phobia are normal temperamental variation rather than disorders. Nonetheless, they defend the classification of most DSM social phobia as disorder. They argue that the harmful dysfunction analysis is inadequate for judging disorder; that, anyway, most DSM social phobia is harmful dysfunction; and that, regardless, DSM social phobia is best classified as disorder for pragmatic reasons. We consider these points in turn.

The Culture of Masculinity in an Australian Indigenous Community

Jan Hammill relates the evolution of undisciplined masculinity in a former Australian Aboriginal reserve. Decades of suppression and oppression have resulted in a contemporary social environment where violence in many forms is endemic and normalized. An intervention to encourage father/child interactions, although not successful in its intent, had positive repercussions for the young people of the community.