Contemporary Social Problems Research Articles

The Impact of Comprehending Islamic and Social Humanities Materials on Students' Perspectives on Resolving Contemporary Social Problems

This study aims to analyze the effect of understanding Islamic and Social Humanities material on student perceptions in addressing contemporary social issues in Indonesia. Using a mixed method approach, this study involved 100 2nd semester students of the Constitutional Law study program at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta who were selected through the random sampling method. Data were collected through attitude scales, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation, and analyzed using descriptive tests, normality tests, linear tests, and hypothesis testing with regression analysis. The results showed a positive relationship between understanding Islamic and social humanities courses and students' perceptions of contemporary social issues. The correlation is based on a significance value of 0.000 <0.05 and a coefficient of determination (R Square) of 0.585. So this study reveals that the understanding of Islamic and Social Humanities material explains 58% of the variability of student perceptions in addressing contemporary social issues. Students who have an open and critical attitude towards social issues show a good understanding of the course. The process of student understanding develops through several stages, ranging from initial knowledge to the development of complex new ideas. The role of lecturers in providing space for discussion, reflection, and open dialog is very important in facilitating a critical and holistic understanding of contemporary social issues in the context of Islam and the social humanities. Keywords: Islam and Social Humanities, Contemporary Social Issues, Understanding, Perception

Political Protestant Party, Protestant radicals in the Dutch electoral and parliamentary arena between 1918 and 2023.

The aim of the article is to analyze the ideological and programmatic evolution of the Protestant Political Party in the Netherlands. A hypothesis was put forward that this party itself does not undergo any major ideological changes, constituting a kind of ideological fossil. The study used a quantitative-qualitative method. Quantitative research is based on statistical analysis of election results and the distribution of seats. Qualitative analysis is based on an attempt to answer research questions based on literature analysis, historical, institutional, legal and systemic comparative studies. The program analysis carried out over the years showed that changes in the party’s political program concerned mainly the language and the addition of contemporary social and political problems. The change in the issue of woman’s political rights is a change forced by external institutions, pragmatic acceptance of the democratic system took place already in 1918.

Scientific research entangled in the context of social needs. A practical example of the implementation of the evaluation criterion social impact: original research project Popular Legal Culture

The article addresses the issue of evaluating the scientific activities of universities in Poland and around the world in relation to the new, third evaluation criterion: the qualitatively measured impact of scientific activities on the functioning of society and the economy. The context of the text is a broadly understood critical analysis of universities' policies towards contemporary social problems: exclusion, poverty, helplessness, ignorance of rights and obligations. Social impact, as one of the three criteria for assessing scientific units, has a chance to become a tool for eliminating social inequalities. It is an idea of broadly understood social policy to involve universities in social life. Thanks to the new tasks given to researchers, they have a real chance to improve the world around them and look at local problems and challenges. The text will present the original idea of a research team whose aim is to spread the legal awareness of students of pedagogy and social work, as well as teachers working in schools and social workers working with the socially excluded.

Hurried Child Syndrome in Schools: A Blessing or Curse? Understanding the Causes and Implications on the Well-Being of the Hurried Child in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT Purpose The practice of hurrying children through schools by parents and guardians has become a contemporary social problem in Nigeria. This study is an attempt to underscore the causes and consequences of hurried child syndrome in schools and how they affect the well-being and development of the hurried children in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Materials and methods Thirty-one participants were selected for the study, using multistage sampling techniques. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and analyzed thematically with the use of NVivo 9. Results Findings revealed that a weak educational policy, proliferation of private schools, busy parents/guardians, and desire to train children before retirement were some of the causes of hurried child syndrome; while depression, anxiety, and poor academic performance were some of its implications on the well-being of the child. Discussion The practice of the hurried child syndrome was seen to have negative implications on the well-being and development of the child. The study findings revealed that most hurried children suffer anxiety, and depression and feel unworthy when they fail to fulfill the expectations of their parents. Conclusion School counselors, health educators, school social workers, and concerned stakeholders should sensitize the public to the dangers associated with the practice of hurried child syndrome. They should also work toward revamping the educational policies and ensure that all schools (private and public) play by the rules. This will help reduce the practice of hurried child syndrome as well as its negative implications on the well-being of the children.

Canonical regulation of family and marriage issues in Christian denominations: Comparative analysis

The paper is focused on the issues of canonical regulation of marriage and family relations in various Christian denominations. The objective of the paper is to identify the models of normative regulation of the family and marriage in Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism, as well as the changes that have taken place in this area. Based on the analysis of normative documents (collections of canons, encyclicals and letters of the popes, doctrinal documents of Protestant denominations, social doctrines and concepts of various confessions), it is shown that in Catholicism an evolutionary mechanism is used, which is expressed in the creation of new formal canons binding on all church members. A flexible response to a change in the system of values in Protestantism is based on a revolutionary mechanism that allows for various interpretations of biblical provisions. Orthodoxy, using the ancient canons, retains the traditional mechanism of norm-creating, makes attempts to adapt them creatively to contemporary reality, and relies on the principle of economy. Guidelines in this process are new regulations adopted at the local level. Understanding the peculiarities of the ecclesiastic law regulations of marriage and family relations can contribute to the establishment of interfaith dialogue and the search for a cross consensus that contributes to the joint solution of contemporary social problems.

Parental Influence on Teenage Pregnancy among Secondary School Students in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya

Education is a fundamental right that should be accessible to all members of the society. However, one of the major contemporary social problem confronting most African Countries in the world is the Teenage Pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy limits girls’ access to higher education in developed and developing countries. Teenage parenthood and pregnancy during adolescence are risk factors for school dropout. Despite the numerous interventions put in place to address the challenge of teenage pregnancy among secondary school students, this problem continues witnessed in Kenyan secondary schools, particularly in Tharaka Nithi County. The low effectiveness in combating teenage pregnancy can be attributed to many factors among them parental influence. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate parental influence on teenage pregnancy among secondary school students in Tharaka Nithi County. Descriptive research design adopted for the study. Data gathered from 15 secondary schools based on school categories using the Cluster sampling procedure. Clusters based on the school national ranking. The target population was 11,936 form three students in Public and Private secondary in schools in Tharaka Nithi, County. A sample size of 410 respondents comprising 30 teachers, and 380 students (300 girls and 80 boys) used. The instruments for data collection used were structured questionnaires and personal interviews. Pilot testing done in two schools in Meru County. The overall reliability coefficient of instruments using Cronbach’s alpha yielded 0.754. Data were analysis by use of descriptive statistics (frequencies, percentages, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Chi-square). Data analysis undertaken with the help of the Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.0 software. The study established that there is a strong positive significant influence of parental influence on teenage pregnancy among secondary school students in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. The study recommends that the National and Tharaka Nithi county governments should engage parents in workshops to train them on comprehensive sex education and provide them with educational materials and guidelines. The research findings of the present study can shed light on secondary schools administrators, the Ministry of education policymakers, teachers, parents, and other stakeholders on teenage pregnancy among secondary schools in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. This knowledge can inform appropriate measures to mitigate the parental influence on teenage pregnancies. The findings of this study add to the body of knowledge and act as a basis for further research.

Digital public transport in New Economy – contemporary mobility trends

Public transport is treated as a nerve of all city systems. Changing cities need proper transport – contemporary trends play important role in the development of public transport in a requiring environment. In particular, the development of public transport means today phenomena such as IT systems, big data, alternative energy sources, autonomous mobility, transport effectiveness, sharing economy and personal mobility (micromobility). Author presents contemporary trends that affect cities mobility. The macroeconomic context was also taken into account – the COVID-19 pandemia, inflation, migration trends. Changes in the demand and supply of transport services have become one of the challenges for cities in the new, digital, post-pandemic perspective. The purpose of this article is to review current trends in public transport development and mobility changes. The article is an attempt to answer the questions: what is the impact of digitization and technology development on the development of public transport? How are contemporary social, economic and political problems and are they strongly changing public transport? Article is based at critical analysis of literature and selected case studies. The result of research work is the indication of the most important directions for the development of public transport and the related risks and opportunities.

The Value of Historical Knowledge for the Modern World

The purpose of the article is to understand the lessons of history from the standpoint of human values and to emphasize the heritage of the past as a social resource capable of fostering understanding, tolerance, complicity and contributing to the solution of contemporary social problems. The methodological basis is the use of socio-philosophical analysis to characterize the historical process as the interaction of two principles: objectively determined and subjectively volitional. The axiological approach helped to analyse the educational potential of history in the modern world practices and to present education as a space of freedom in a person’s self-development. The scholar underlines that the change of historical eras causes a change in the established system of values. It is about the process of revaluation and the value system ‘creation’. No historical fact can be explained and evaluated beyond its historical time. The understanding of the past including its value system in the realities of the modern world determines the understanding of a person as a development system, which is carried out on the basis of the cultural-historical experience of a particular society. The formation of a new system of values and moral-ethical priorities of each historical era does not occur from scratch. The universal human virtues tested by time and sanctified by history serve as a basis for revising and creating worldview and value standards of a specific historical era. They appear to be a spiritual capital of humanity, accumulated over millennia, which will never depreciate, but on the contrary, will gain more value. The reference point in all historical processes is a person. The person is considered to be an active agent of history, who does not create his life under the influence of objective laws and external factors, but who combines his own intentions with the worldview and value orientations of his time. The basis of the historical reality manifestation is determined by the multifaceted nature of human existence. A picture of the past is created from small particles of historical events, individual touches, memories, a mosaic set of human perception of the world, which is more reliable, because it carries the ‘human spirit’. The focus of the scholar’s attention is the world of the unique and unrepeatable, and not the general and theoretically modelled one. Education built on the intentions of tolerance is designed to contribute to the formation of an individual capable of caring about the universal pain of human problems, to cultivate involvement as an important component of worldview mobility.

Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization

Some of the most pressing contemporary social problems result from the amalgamation of a mass of actions that are not intentionally coordinated. Although these essentially aggregative harms are foreseeable, it is unclear what moral duties individuals have with regards to them. This paper offers a new analysis of these problems and uses a nonideal contractualist approach to argue in favour of two kinds of duties for individuals. Collectivization duties that require individuals to act responsively with a view to ensuring that there are effective governance agents that reliably, fairly, and efficiently prevent these outcomes in the long-term and duties of restraint that require individuals to avoid action of a kind that is likely to come together with other actions to cause serious EAH in the immediate future when restraint with regards to actions of this kind could help prevent the outcome from occurring.

Societal Impacts of Higher Education Research: From ‘Publish or Perish’ to ‘Publish and Prosper’ in Business School Scholarship

This paper introduces a transformative systems-level framework for understanding the interplay of institutional, cultural, and systemic dynamics influencing the societal impacts of academic research. We introduce and apply the Societal Impacts of Research Institutional Ecosystem (SIRIE) framework to business school scholarship and academic research in higher education. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as SIRIE’s normative ethical framework to benchmark: institutional mission; accreditation bodies’ compliance requirements; faculty tenure and promotion research expectations; the influence of rankings and ratings; and journal quality metrics. Our framework acknowledges the role the Anthropocene Epoch plays in contributing to contemporary social and environmental problems. We argue that recalcitrant institutional forces in academia neutralize the promise of academic scholarship to galvanize meaningful societal impacts. We assert that the contemporary state of higher education research is unfortunately dominated by a “publish or perish” mentality. This narrative produces academic research that is decontextualized from today’s exigent “grand challenges” related to poverty, climate, equity, health, peace, environment, etc., as well as transformative solutions for a sustainable future. By exploring an alternative paradigm for academic research through SIRIE and the SDGs—“publish and prosper”—we detail how academic research can meaningfully contribute to change the world for the better.

Peer Mentoring: A Case Study in Developing Legislative Advocacy Skills among Social Work Students

Peer mentoring in social work education can be beneficial in developing and promoting legislative advocacy skills among social work students taking foundational social welfare policy courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. A descriptive case study is presented of a student peer mentoring project within a social work educational program at a regional comprehensive state university. This study describes the incorporation of a peer mentoring program to assist in promoting legislative advocacy skills among social work students. The project encompasses annual state-level high-impact practice (HIP) legislative advocacy action events across 5 years before and during the global pandemic. This article also seeks to inspire social work educators to embrace peer mentoring as a means to enhance and promote the development of advocacy skills as students find their collective voice and speak up to educate lawmakers on contemporary social problems impacting vulnerable populations.

From Pariah to Baboon: Ludwig Robert’s Parody of Michael Beer’s Paria

Abstract Michael Beer’s successful 1823 play Der Paria is famous as an early complaint against the status of Jews as second-rate citizens. As such, it is fundamental to the conception of Jews as pariahs, best known through the writings of Hannah Arendt. Its long reception history has overlooked an important source, that is now uncovered for the first time in a hundred years. Beer’s play was parodied by Ludwig Robert with Der Pavian. Both authors were scions of Berlin’s Jewish elite, and among the first authors of Jewish descent to write in German. Robert’s parody shows why he did not share in the general enthusiasm about Der Paria, how the choice of the parodic genre was a self-referential critique, and how form and content of the parody together intervened in Beer’s use of the genre of Trauerspiel. Thus, it contributes to our understanding of the diverse strategies and self-perceptions of upper-class Berlin Jews, confronted with the limits of their pioneering the Jewish integration into non-Jewish society, showing the role of theater as a means of negotiating contemporary social problems both in private and publicly, stressing the difficult presence of Jews in the German public sphere.

Biblical Allusion in the Opening Numbers of Three of Charles Dickens’s Serialized Novels

Biblical Allusion in the Opening Numbers of Three of Charles Dickens’s Serialized Novels Zhu Yuanyuan (bio) Charles Dickens’s allusive and thematic use of the Bible in his novels and other writings has caught critical attention over the past four decades, resulting in studies that either explore his personal belief and his attitude towards religious and theological issues,1 or interpret his texts’ themes, characters, or narratives by examining their connections with biblical counterparts.2 Most recently, Jennifer Gribble’s Dickens and the Bible: “What Providence Meant” (2021) has explored how Dickens engages the Judeo-Christian grand narrative in his novels in dialogue with other contemporary narratives. However, critical examination of biblical allusion in Dickens’s novels has overlooked the aspect of serial publication that shaped how his contemporary readers would have approached and read his works. Each of the three novels under consideration in this article was serialized either in Dickens’s weekly magazine Household Words (Hard Times) or in separate monthly instalments (Bleak House and Little Dorrit). This article aims to theorize both explicit and implicit use of biblical allusion and its workings in the opening numbers of these three novels as structural and thematic tools that help organize oppositional stances embodied in characters and institutions and that foster active reading by drawing upon the reader’s familiarity with the Bible.3 [End Page 155] My analysis of biblical allusion in the opening numbers of these serialized novels is based on the assumption that Dickens’s contemporary readers were indeed familiar with the Bible, in spite of the fact that the nineteenth century witnessed the process of secularization, with the status of the Bible being challenged by a number of factors, including the Higher Criticism and the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species.4 In fact, by the mid-eighteenth century, communal and individual readings of the Bible together with Bunyan’s Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress and Milton’s Paradise Lost had become common in many families. In the nineteenth century, in addition to the practice of family prayers, daily Bible study, and exegesis in family circles, Bible readings became part of the curriculum in grammar schools.5 Therefore, we may assume that Dickens and his readers shared a biblical literacy that was the prerequisite for the novelist to incorporate biblical allusions and stimulate the reader’s participation in the process of interpretation. An “imagined community,” to borrow Benedict Anderson’s term (46),6 can be thought of as existing between the novelist and his readers, as well as among the readers themselves, because of the cultural resonance realized by reading and sharing common cultural discourses.7 Each instance of allusion to the Bible engages the reader’s judgment through their efforts in recognition and interpretation. The aesthetic appreciation of an allusion involves an effective “exchange” and forges “intimacy and community” between the novelist and his reader, to use William Irwin’s terms (530). The use of biblical allusions in the opening numbers of serial fiction intensifies such cultural experience. My analysis has also been informed by the concept of biblical typology, defined by George P. Landow as “a Christian form of scriptural interpretation [End Page 156] that claims to discover divinely intended anticipations of Christ and His dispensation in the laws, events, and people of the Old Testament” (3). As Landow shows how the Victorians transfer “habits of mind derived from interpreting the Bible” to “contemporary politics, literary characterization […] and other areas of thought apparently far distant from theological studies” (15), my article will show such typological habits of mind are also transferred to Dickens’s literary production. I shall argue that in the opening numbers of Hard Times, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit, novels about contemporary social problems, Dickens draws on biblical allusions to construct “types” that foreshadow and prefigure certain aspects; or, put differently, “types” that the novels will fulfil. Dickens’s novels of the 1850s critique social problems and individual failings, and suggest their connection. The criticism of the Court of Chancery in Bleak House and of utilitarian educational theories in Hard Times set up these novels’ moral stance in opposition to idolatrous practices, similar to Little Dorrit’s...

Ulama Jambi: Peran, Sirkulasi, dan Kebutuhan Replanting Ulama Muda

Ulama occupy a strategic position in Jambi social landscape. Alumni of religious schools and public schools strive to appear as ulama. On the other hand, social problems are increasingly complex. This paper aims to examine the Islamic scholarly indicators in the social context of the Jambi Malay community, to explore actualization and circulation of the ulama, and the factors that cause their lack of role. Data collected through a questionnaire by grouping respondents into Old Ulama and Young Ulama. Observations and interviews were also conducted regarding the relationship between two groups in two institutions, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Jambi City and State Islamic Institute of Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi which is now a university. The study found that both young and old ulama were united in their views of the importance of charismatic as main indicator of an ulama, but had different views on the role of ulama in contemporary social problems in Jambi. The Older stated that ulama still played a significant role, while the majority of young informants stated that the role of ulama was getting weaker and narrower only in Ulama Council (MUI). The study also found that the weakening of the ulama was caused by: first, the old ulama and their organizations were increasingly less independent and financially dependent on the government. Second, the charismatic ulema who are tawadu' are fading away and there is competition for influence among the old ulama. Third, ulama are divided by mass religious organizations. The researcher proposes replanting or a serious effort to "replant" ulama, especially with Sufi character, tawadu' or unpretentious attitude and charismatic. Young scholars who are cadres of mass media and have educational institutions are not sufficient to create charismatic scholars.

THE IMAGE OF RUTHENIANS AND UKRAINIAN LANDS AS PART OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER «THE NEW YORK TIMES» (1870–1900)

The image of Western Ukrainian lands and Ukrainians (Ruthenians) in the American press is revealed based on the materials of the newspaper «The New York Times». The article shows how this American newspaper covered the events related to Eastern Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the last third of the 19th century. There was traditionally no analysis in such news, which prevented readers from forming a full-fledged image of the western Ukrainian lands. It was found that the American newspaper most often focused attention on Lviv among all other Ukrainian cities. Other cities were mentioned much less frequently. It was found that western Ukrainian lands were most often mentioned in materials related to politics, crime, education and various disasters. In addition, the reader could learn something about Galicia and Bukovyna from notes devoted to interesting facts and comic incidents. Analyzing the representation of Ruthenians and their political life in the newspaper's columns, it was found that «The New York Times» published news that mainly related to political life. The editors of the American edition were hardly interested in the subjects of Ruthenian culture, life, history, and religion. Among the political news related to the Ruthenians, the topic of elections in Austria-Hungary dominated. It was found that the American press did not write about the Ukrainophile movement, and the information about the RURP (the first Ukrainian political party) was limited to only one mention. The emphasis was mainly on the Russophile movement and its conflicts with the Austrian authorities. The news concerning the Russophiles was devoted to their arrests and the pan-Slavist agitation they were conducting. It is important to note that the political programs and ideas of Galician Russophiles were not described. The article concludes that the reader, based on the materials published in «The New York Times», could learn that the Ruthenians (Ukrainians) are a separate nation with its own political elite. Despite this, the newspaper did not provide enough factual materials, as well as analytical articles for the reader to form an objective and complete image of the western Ukrainian lands. It is shown that «The New York Times» did not provide information about the cultural and political contacts of Galician Ruthenians and Dnieper Ukrainians. In addition, the contemporary social problems of the Ruthenians, as well as their causes, were not sufficiently covered. All the previously mentioned factors contributed to the formation of an unreliable and patchy image of the Ruthenians of Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia. Keywords; «The New York Times», press, Bukovyna, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Western Ukrainian lands, Ruthenians (Ukrainians).

The Left Behind: Precarity, Place and Racial Identity in the Contemporary ‘Serious Drama’

After the channel's initial rebranding as a streaming-only platform in 2016, BBC Three produced a number of critically successful single dramas which marry the broadcaster's public service remit with the channel's youth-centred identity and new mode of delivery. These programmes continued the tradition of the ‘serious drama’, adopting the single play format in order to represent contemporary social problems via the experiences of younger people. The 2019 drama The Left Behind is an example of this recent form of serious drama and is the subject of a case study in this article. Set in a former mining town in Wales, The Left Behind's subject matter addresses the intersection between the precarity found in Britain's post-industrial regions and the rise of hate crime and nationalist sentiment in recent years. This article asserts that, faced with the often essentialising frameworks through which this intersection and its terms have been produced, The Left Behind offers a complex imagining of how race, geography and precarity inform each other. In particular, the article pays close attention to the drama's textural construction of space and place. I consider how space and place are represented as the material sites in which the tensions of post-industrial classed and ethnicised identities are experienced, and I suggest that it is The Left Behind's particular engagement with space, made possible by its existence as an online serious drama, that allows it to convey these dynamic tensions.

The Natural Life of the People of Mudhuvar Ethnic Community through the novel 'Valasai (Animal Migration)'

Tamil literature of this period plays a major role in speaking of the current scenario. In that sense, it can be said that there is no equivalent to novels in telling contemporary social problems and their solutions. No wonder today's Tamil novels are mirrors of time. Among such novels is Su. Venugopal's novel 'Valasai' is one of them. The novel speaks of the problems of the life of elephants; And as another storyline, it also talks about the life of the tribal people, the Mudhuvars. The novel reveals that the Mudhuvars have their own unique way of life and that they are ecologically concerned. This article shows how the way of life of the Mudhuvars revealed by the novel 'Valasai' is naturalistic. This paper describes the way in which natural life manifests itself in elements such as food, shelter, harmony with elephants, and practical recreation of the Mudhuvars.

한·중 재해 DB와 활용－12세기 고려사회의 재해와 그 영향－

The records related to disasters in the traditional societies of East Asia (Korea and China) differed according to regions and times. In other words, not only quantitative differences, but also clear differences in perception and expression can be found. In this respect, limitations in the compatibility of data may be revealed or unreasonable interpretation may be caused. However, it is inevitably more important than anything else to compare contemporary data in the only way to overcome the quantitative limitations of data. Therefore, in this article, I am going to examine the trends of the disasters in Goryeo society in the 12th century, focusing on 『Goryeosa』, and compares them with the cases of 『Songsa』, 『Yosa』 and 『Geumsa』, which are materials from neighboring countries. In the climatic environment of East Asia around the 12th century, the rate of disaster occurrence was higher than in other periods. Although it is necessary to compare and analyze the global or regional phenomena of these disasters, it should not be overlooked that the political and social situation in the 12th century of East Asia experienced a similar process. In this article, I examined whether the major category of disasters into 10 medium categories and 27 small categories is necessary for future research. To confirm this, the characteristic elements of disaster search terms appearing in Sega(世家) and Ohaengji(五行志) of 『Goryeosa』, Bongi(本紀) and Ohaengji of 『Songsa』, Bongi of 『Yosa』, and Bongi and Ohaengji of 『Geumsa』 were compared with each dynasty. As a result, ‘01Sujae(水災), 02Hanjae(旱災), 04Hwajae(火災), 05Jijae(地災), 09Jilbyong(疾病), 10Hungnyeon(凶年)’ in 『Goryeosa』, ‘01Sujae(水災), 02Hanjae(旱災), 10Hungnyeon(凶年)’ in 『Songsa』, ‘01Sujae(水災), 10 Hungnyeon(凶年)’ in 『Yosa』, ‘01Sujae(水災), 02Hanjae(旱災), 06Pungjae(風災), 07Chungjae(蟲災), 10Hungnyeon(凶年)’ in 『Geumsa』 were confirmed to be prominent. And what effect the climate environment had on actual society was examined along with the elements of social change in the 12th century. Whether it is appropriate to supplement the data limitations of 『Goryeosa』 through literature data from neighboring countries, which differs in geography or climate from the Korean Peninsula, is a matter to be considered continuously. However, we must not forget that comparing disasters that occurred at a time when contemporary social problems were shared can be another foundation for understanding contemporary society.

Counting Tents: Pedagogical Reflections on Faculty–Student Collaboration in a Real-World Project on Homelessness

This teaching note describes the design and implementation of an undergraduate research team project to conduct a tent census. Previous studies highlight the importance of real-world research as a part of sociology curriculum. Tents, as a visible sign of homelessness, represent one such contemporary social problem. Our undergraduate research team documented and geolocated tents in the city of Seattle between 2019 and 2020. This project integrated elements of active learning, collaborative learning, and problem-based learning. The strengths of our student research team were experiential learning, greater awareness and engagement in homelessness, and development of research and problem-solving skills. We offer some generalizable “lessons learned” from our assessment of the successes and challenges of a unique tent census project for student learning and engagement. This article concludes with the challenges of these kinds of real-world projects as well as recommendations for future faculty–student collaborations on important sociological issues.

Poszerzanie pola i nowe wyzwania

This article discusses the main theses formulated in Poszerzanie pola literackiego. Studia o literackości w internecie written by Elżbieta Winiecka. The author of this monograph has noteworthily analysed relations between literature and the digital world. Important research context here is the notion of literariness and the concept of literary field. The scholar also combines theoretical reflection on the boundaries of literature and the consequences of technological development with critical interpretations of specific texts or projects. The great value of this book is the fact that the author places the reflection regarding digital e-literature in the context of Polish literature and culture. Furthermore, Winiecka emphasises the links between art and contemporary social and political problems. Thus, the researcher takes part in the debate on socially engaged art and the functioning of literary texts in the social space.