Harmonious Social Relations Research Articles

Representation of Multiculturalism and the Wu Lun Teaching In the Indonesian Movie “Cek Toko Sebelah”

The conflict between ethnic and moral decadence are two negative effects of Globalization era that currently occur in Indonesian society. Two things cause it; first, Tunggal Ika has been forgotten as the local Wisdom of the Indonesian nation that can manage the life of this multiethnic society wisely. Secondly, moral coaching in the scope of the family as the most important social institution in society is not successful. From time to time it will paralyze the strength of a country. The Story in the Cek Toko Sebelah (meaning: Please check it in next store) movie implies one of China's teachings to build ideal relationships in family and community life. This is in stark contrast to the ethnic Chinese stereotype in Indonesia, which is always associated with the issue of economic inequality that often leads to discriminatory treatment and leads to conflict between ethnic groups. The representation of the moral values is interesting to study by using semiotic of Roland Barthes. The results of this discussion revealed that the movie Cek Toko Sebelah is able to represent accommodative multicultural life with a humorous style. One of the thousands of years old Chinese ideologies is still relevant applied in the story line of today's movies, but its application is adapted to today life, especially about the equality of women and men in the modern era. The happy ending of the story in this film can be an inspiration that tolerance in ethnic diversity is actually easy to do and will result in harmonious social relationships. It can be an inspiration that single Bhinneka must be applied in social life so that the Indonesian state remains united.

Организация динамичного социального взаимодействия в процессе инновационной деятельности

The purpose of the article is to compare the classical principles of personnel management of a multifunctional team to maintain harmonious social and labor relations in the innovation process. Studies of various models show the necessity to consider the team of innovators as the most effective form of innovation activity, and the principles of Follett M. are most suitable for organizing dynamic social interaction in a team aimed at increasing the effectiveness of an innovative project. Implementation of collective responsibility for an innovative project that is carried out by a multifunctional team strengthens group interaction and promotes interpenetration and creation of new ideas. Leadership should be based not on power, but on the interaction of the leader and partners. In order to organize and develop social partnership, it is necessary to involve workers in management and replace enforcement with integration, which allows not only to strengthen joint actions, but also to resolve group conflicts.

FORMATION OF MODERN MODEL OF BUDGET MANAGEMENT BASED ON METHODS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The review of scientific studies and publications confirms that in Ukraine, the interest of scientists in the theoretical and practical problems of budget management is growing. Domestic and foreign scientists have repeatedly drawn attention to the need for full and timely disclosure of the state of the formation and use of financial resources of society. The foreign experts studied foreign experience and grounded measures that could and should contribute to the achievement of the effectiveness of this process, the methods of ensuring transparency of the state budget and involving the public as the subject of control over the use of budgetary resources, in particular, public hearings, “e-government”, are an area public administration. Budget management is an important instrument of state regulation of the activity of authorities. According to the analysis, one can see that today it is necessary to distinguish the following types of budget support as: informational, organizational, methodical, and regulatory. The state implements a policy of budgetary management with the help of management bodies. There is a close interconnection between representative, national, and operational management bodies. The principle of transparency of the budget system (in conjunction with its publicity) is enshrined in Article 7 of the Budget Code of Ukraine. An attention is drawn to the fact that the budget system as a “totality of the state budget and local budgets” is transparent by definition. It is fair to note that insufficient transparency of the budget process is not only a domestic problem. The Board of Directors of the IMF approved one of twelve internationally recognized financial standards – the Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency. An assessment of the state of implementation of the principle of publicity and transparency in the budget management of Ukraine makes it possible to draw the following conclusions: 1. The content of the principle of publicity and transparency in the text of the Budget Code of Ukraine should be amended by formulating it as a principle of the budget process, while it is necessary to specify the ways of its practical implementation. 2. The full implementation of the principle of publicity and transparency of the budget process will increase the level of trust of citizens to the authorities of different levels, which is one of the factors of successful implementation of the state social and economic policy, and will deepen the democratic principles of the formation and development of Ukrainian society. 3. The lack of transparency of budget information at the planning stage significantly impairs the ability to manage budget resources, primarily at the local level, exacerbating the problem of full budget financing, especially at the end of the budget period. 4. Budget information for an overwhelming majority of stakeholders remains inaccessible, inaccurate, untimely, and incomplete in Ukraine, which led to a deterioration of Ukraine’s position in the international rating by the Open Budget Index. 5. Improving the transparency of the budget process can be achieved through the use of the above measures. Their implementation will serve not only to improve the quality of the budget process and the effectiveness of budget management but also to establish harmonious social relations. At the same time, the task of developing further directions of increasing publicity and transparency of the mechanism of functioning of the entire system of public finances in Ukraine remains relevant.

Toylukta Bir Çıraklık: Bir Anti-Bildungsroman Örneği Olarak Witold Gombrowicz’ten Ferdydurke

This article argues that Ferdydurke , Witold Gombrowicz’s novel published in 1937 in Poland, formally and thematically subverts the classical Bildungsroman . The seminal novel that has propagated the Bildungsroman genre is Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795). Bildungsroman , commonly understood as a narrative of self-formation, was conceived in Germany in the late eighteenth century in the age of humanism and emphasizes the harmonious integration of the individual with society. This social mission also carries over to aesthetic idealism’s notion of form, which is modeled on the organic unity of parts and the whole. Comparing Gombrowicz’s Ferydurke with Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship , the article contends that Ferdydurke displaces Bildungroman ’s notion of “beautiful totality” by a grotesque aesthetics of parts that alludes to the collapse of harmonious social relations in the aftermath of the First World War, and on the threshold of the Second. Gombrowicz’s unique articulation of Form as the sedimentation of interpersonal antagonism is embodied in Ferdydurke , which, much like its protagonist, sabotages its own formal maturation through manifestoes, theoretical reflections, narrative digressions, and prefaces to the digressions thrown between the chapters. If the classical Bildungsroman presents us with the image of man in the process of becoming as Bakhtin has argued, Ferdydurke enacts the dissolution of that process in its very form.

TRADISI NYAAGANG DI LEBUH PADA HARI RAYA KUNINGAN DI DESA GUNAKSA KECAMATAN DAWAN KABUPATEN KLUNGKUNG (Perspektif Pendidikan Agama Hindu)

<p><em>Nyaagang Tradition in Lebuh is held every 6 months by every family and is a series of Brass Days in Gunaksa Village, Dawan Sub-district, Klungkung Regency. This tradition is led by the rifts of each family. This tradition is unique because of the form of implementation of Pitra Yadnya teachings held in Lebuh. The Nyaagang Tradition in Lebuh is a unique tradition. The uniqueness is clearly visible from the procession of its implementation and place of execution, Tradition nyaangang in Lebuh is done in front of the entrance of the home yard of each family.</em></p><p><em>The results showed (1) The procession of Nyaagang Tradition consists of preparation of upakara means and implementation phase. (2) The Function of Tradagang Nyaagang there are 3 namely the religious function is to increase sradha bhakti to the ancestors. The social function is to build harmonious social relationships. Cultural function is to preserve Tradition Nyaagang especially to the younger generation. (3) The value of Hindu religious education found in Tradagang there are 3 values of Sradha and Bhakti is convinced by the existence of ancestors and devoted to the ancestors. The value of Solidarity is to increase the sense of unity among family members. Aesthetic value is an element of beauty that is reflected from upakara.</em></p>

The Ubuntu Challenge to Business: From Stakeholders to Relationholders

This paper addresses whether, and to what extent, the African ethic of Ubuntu can contribute to ethical thinking in general and provide an alternative to stakeholder theory specifically. The conception of Ubuntu that is employed to further the analysis is Thaddeus Metz’s Ubuntu principle of right action, which focuses on promoting harmonious social relations premised on a shared identity and solidarity amongst people. This principle is used to develop an Ubuntu heuristic for organisational decision-making, which serves as the basis for a relationholder theory. It is argued that this relationholder theory can overcome the weaknesses identified with a libertarian account of stakeholder theory, as well as serve as a profitable framework for determining both the purpose of the firm, and the responsibilities that management has towards those parties who affect, and who are affected by, the firm.

Potensi konflik dan pembentukan modal sosial: belajar dari sebuah desa transmigran di Kalimantan Timur

Conflicts caused by differences in cultural backgrounds and competition over natural resources among social groups in the project areas of transmigrations in Indonesia are not uncommon occurrences. This paper seeks to explore two aspects pertaining to this issue: (1) social conflict potentials among transmigrant communities particularly those between local transmigrants and the inter island transmigrants; and (2) the formation of social capital as an instrumental power in achieving and sustaining harmonious social relationship in the area in question. The research on the two subjects was a qualitative field research. In-depth interview and observation were employed in gathering data. The research had led to the finding that the conflict potentials in the observed transmigrant area were related to land distribution among transmigrant households and access to economic resources. Nonetheless, the conflict potentials did not inhibit the formation of social capital that bound all the members of the society. The result of the observation showed that a social trust has been constructed among the transmigrant settlers based on the value of cooperation or working together formutual benefit both in the daily interactions in the settlement area and in the plantation management activities. The prevalent social trust has prevented open conflict from breaking out among different ethnic social groups and hencecreated harmonious social relations

Invisibility and the Politics of Reconciliation in Australia: Keeping Conflict in View

Is reconciliation a process of masking conflict in order for it to be eradicated from the view, consciousness and responsibility of the state? Why do we focus on solutions rather than managing and embracing the issues that generate ‘conflict’? This article draws on the politics of reconciliation debates in Australia to highlight the dangers that emanate from political efforts to bring about reconciliation merely as a mode of conflict resolution. We contend that an uncritical advocacy of reconciliation risks losing sight of the centrality of conflict to the maintenance of identity and contestation around racial and cultural inequalities. We ground this in a discussion of the experiences of societies like South Africa and Northern Ireland. The implications of a conflict-free approach to reconciliation for Australia are profound because it neglects the experiences and concerns of Indigenous people. A conflict-free approach to reconciliation ignores the conflict inherent in Australian society due to the experience of structural injustice and Indigenous inequality. Alternatively, a political narrative that keeps conflict in view potentially provides greater legitimacy and is more successful in highlighting inequalities around race and identity than approaches focused on harmonious social and racial relations. These concerns are addressed through a discussion of contemporary debates on ‘changing’ and ‘reforming’ the Australian constitution to ‘recognize’ Indigenous Australians.

Interpersonal Violence and Health in Female University Students in Spain.

Most studies address the health impact of violence by an intimate partner; therefore, violence exerted by someone other than a partner in university students and its health effects are less known. This study aims to analyze the effect of different forms of interpersonal violence on female university students' health. Women 18 to 25years of age enrolled at two schools of the University of Valencia in the academic year 2013-2014 (N = 540) were selected, with a participation rate of 82%. Students were grouped as follows: no lifetime violence, violence by an intimate partner (IPV), other personal violence (OPV), and by both (IPV and OPV). Adjusted logistical regression analysis was performed to assess the effects of the different forms of violence on students' health. As many as 92 students (20.6%) experienced violence at least once in their lives: 46 (10.3%) by an intimate partner, 24 (5.4%) by someone other than a partner, and 22 (4.9%) by both. Abused students are more likely to suffer psychological distress and poor health perception, and more regularly used psychoactive drugs than nonabused students, although the use of medication is higher for those abused by a partner and others. Women who experienced only IPV are more likely to suffer psychological distress (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 1.78, p < .05, 95% confidence interval [CI; 1.10-2.86]), while those who experienced only OPV are more than twice as likely to perceive their health as poor (aOR = 2.68, p < .05, 95% CI [1.38-5.22]). The high prevalence of violence and its consistent association with a wide range of female university students' health problems suggest that violence seriously compromises women's health. Prevention programs that promote harmonious social relationships among university students should be implemented.

Flooding Wall Street: Echoes from the Future of Resistance around Climate Change

ABSTRACTThe global capitalist system is ravaging ecosystems at a staggering and accelerating scale as it transgresses multiple ecological planetary boundaries, from massive species extinction to climate change, radically threatening life on this planet. Through analyzing power as a network of intersecting sets of relations, we can start to appreciate capitalism and the state not as entities, but as comprised by social relationships and local operations of power. This perspective reveals how effective resistance can be conceived in the form of destituent power – not as a direct clash with constituted power but instead as the withdrawal of our energies from and obedience to the political order. This destituent approach proceeds by deactivating the subjugating relationships constituting the system, thereby opening spaces to undertake constantly evolving experiments of developing new harmonious social and ecological relationships. Actions to disrupt and delegitimize the operations of capital, like Flood Wall Street, serve as tentative glimpses of ascendant destituent forces assembling against ecological collapse. The further challenge becomes how to connect the multiplicity of resistances, thought not in terms of a unity as a homogenous movement, but through actively cultivating their transversal relations across the rhizomatic network of experiments in practices of destituent power striving to realize new worlds.

由《漂海録》看明代中国人的社会思想

Abstract Nowadays Chinese society advocates a kind of principal thinking, which Chinese call it harmony. The entire Chinese society is trying to build a so-called society, that is, people live in with the natural environment and carry out sustainable development; people live in with others and build harmonious social relationships; people live in with themselves and cultivate self-morality and enhance national self-quality. It can be seen that the word harmony runs through this thinking all the time. This paper aims at viewing Chinese people’s philosophy in Ming Dynasty from the Piaohailu. Likewise, the starting points of the paper are also these three aspects which are people’s relationships with nature, others and themselves. Based on this angle, it tries to conduct a simple analysis and study by taking Korean official Cui Pu’s Piaohailu as the main historical data. Key Words : Piaohailu，the Relationship between Chinese and Nature, the Relationship between Chinese and Others, the Relationship between Chinese and Themselves, Harmonious

Exploring well-being among US Hispanics/Latinos in a church-based institution: a qualitative study

Major theories informing conceptions of psychological well-being draw heavily from Western-centric perspectives, which often neglect culturally bound frameworks. We investigated how US Hispanics/Latinos conceptualize well-being, how psychosocial and behavioral aspects may increase well-being, and how psychosocial stressors may impact positive emotional states. Spanish-speaking Hispanic/Latino adults were recruited from a church in an urban city in the US and invited to participate in focus groups. Two groups of women (n = 19) and one group of men (n = 8) participated. The importance of harmonious social relationships emerged as a theme with the central family unit as the fundamental force influencing long-lasting emotional well-being. Additional correlates of well-being included: faith/religiosity; physical health; self-love and -esteem; effective/open communication with family and friends; and financial security. Programs aimed at increasing well-being may need to be adapted before administration in Hispanics/Latinos to include a heightened focus on interpersonal factors. Delivery in religious institutions may also be particularly beneficial.

Li Zehou’s Reconception of the Confucian Ethics of Emotion

Li Zehou uses the concept of emotion as the substance of morality to summarize the core ideas and values of classical Confucian ethics. A new interpretation of the term qing and its signification in the Guodian manuscripts supports Li’s thesis. From the broad perspective of human development, Li Zehou further combines Confucian ethics with Kantian rationality to develop his theory of emotional-rational structure, with the hope that, through certain creative transformations and integration with various modern forms of public reason, the Confucian ethics of valuing human existence, human emotion, and harmonious social relations can become universal values that contribute to the new construction of humanity and world cultural order

Social sanctions or social relations? Microfinance in Mexico

Microfinance is a vital source of funding for micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets and underdeveloped nations. The emphasis in the literature on social sanctions as a mechanism for ensuring high repayment rates may be misplaced. We propose that the construct of harmonious social relations needs to be added in order to explain repayment rates and that high repayment rates foster increased capital formation for micro-entrepreneurs. Using a sample of 182 respondents drawn from a microfinance institution in Mexico and structural equation modeling, the results support the main hypotheses. Unexpectedly, social sanctions had a negative impact on repayment rates.

NARRATIVES OF DEATH IN RURAL MALAWI IN THE TIME OF AIDS

ABSTRACTThe key to understanding the experience of AIDS mortality lies in the stories that people tell each other about those they know who are suspected to have died from AIDS. We use a unique set of texts produced by rural Malawians reporting everyday conversations in their communities. These texts, drawn from the online archive of the Malawi Journals Project, consist of several thousand instances of ordinary people telling each other stories in the ordinary course of their lives. They are a form of insider ethnography, accounts of everyday life written by people immersed in the lives of their communities. Through analysis of these texts, we show that narratives of death are predicated upon the question ‘Who is to blame?’ We argue that a micropolitics of blame arises from practices of narrating death and shapes individual and collective responses to the epidemic. When we pay attention to the details of the production and exchange of these stories, we can see how the fact that narratives of death are predicated upon the question of blame both expresses and produces a desire for justice, both for the righting of wrongs through retributive punishment and for the restoration of harmonious social relations among the living. This desire for justice, we argue, is a central feature of the social impact of AIDS.

Social Capital Innate and Nurtured: The Case of Indonesia

The article examines the concept of social capital as it applies to Indonesia at the meso level aggregation, some of its manifestations and impact on socioeconomic wellbeing. The paper is based on data drawn from socioeconomic indicators published in Statitik Potensi Desa, Indonesia, 2008. Study findings confirm previous empirical studies on the subject (Miguel et al 2002 being the paper that inspired this article, being one of them) to the effect that social capital is an important people-centered resource, and takes various manifestations. Even more important, social capital, based on findings in this paper, can be nurtured or induced through actions of state and non-state actors alike. This makes social capital a highly potential community and country resource that awaits reawakening where it has been ignored, but also promoted, in social contexts, where it is innately nonexistent. Creating conditions that favor the evolution and sustainability of savings and credit unions, non-governmental organizations, and other self-help social organizations that help in voluntary resource mobilization, exchange and utilization associations enhances the ‘tangible’ benefits which members of social organizations see, obtain and derive from working and collaborating with other members in their vicinity as well as those not very near but with whom they share interests, problems, hence the natural affinity to ‘band’ together. Moreover, though not significant, study findings point to the fact that conditions are characterized by rampant violence in society are inimical to social capital. To that end, encouraging and fostering social capital is imperative to avert violence plagued conditions, which by extension shields society from associated dangers. It is also important to note that the creation and sharing of benefits of social capital, which is possible under conditions of easy transportation and communications, harmonious social relations and social stability, are very vital for nurturing and development of social capital. To that end, the West-East divide that is not only palpable but also very real in Indonesia which is manifested in the relative paucity of voluntary associations in the East compared to the level in Western Indonesia, is in part responsible for the stark disparity in development between the two regions. Marked difference in level of social capital intensity between the two regions of Indonesia, all factors remaining the same, has affected the disparity in the capacity in the two regions to take advantage of the fruits of a democratized Indonesia (with attendant observance of freedom of expression and association, including the right to demand state respect for the right to economic rights and security of property. This explains why institutions which enhance the ability and capacity of members of community to access economic resources (savings and credit cooperatives, NGOs, and Non KUD cooperatives are key factors that influence and are influenced by social capital level. To that end, social capital, by serving as an ‘enabler’ of the community to mobilize, exchange financial resources available within the community and beyond, is vital for reducing obstacles of financing, which community members either in individual and collective capacity, face in carrying out their economic activities.

学术日语言谈分析——研究论文口头宣读后之提问内容为主

本论文之研究目的为探究日语学术研究会中提问言谈之特质。所使用之语料取自于东京2011年召开之3个文科研究会提问时间20名提问的内容。本论文首先观察提问结构与流程，其中常被提问的话题，经常被使用的言谈策略，提问模态与语言表达方式以及后设言谈。研究结果发现日本学者提问时通常使用复合式的提问模态，并以后设言谈铺陈及谦让语词包装提问的核心；由此观察到日本学者在提问时与其明确直接地提问，更重视避免因提问而影响人际关系。 This study collected the spoken data of the follow-up question-and-answer sessions in the presentations delivered by 20 Japanese speakers in three different academic conferences conducted in Tokyo in 2011. The focus of our research was to investigate how the participants employed linguistic devices to construct question discourse. This study observed the following results: the topics that are mostly likely to be addressed, the patterns, the discoursal strategies, the language expressions, and the meta-discourse of those questions that distinguish the characteristic of Japanese academic scholars. Japanese scholars tend to be very polite and rarely ask questions abruptly. They usually use more than one question pattern, and use meta-discourse to mitigate the questions. In other words, for Japanese scholars, maintaining harmonious social relations is far more important than communicating and clarifying the questions.

Cultural Frames, Qualities of Life, and the Aging Self

We used the Self-Concept Enhancement Tactician (SCENT) model to explore whether older Norwegians and Canadians would tactically self-enhance on qualities considered significant within their cultures in their self-perceptions of aging. Qualities were measured using the WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD. Self-perceptions of aging were measured by the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire. The study is a secondary analysis of data collected in a larger study; 393 older Norwegians and 202 older Canadians were included. The Norwegian and Canadian group self-enhanced their perceptions of psychosocial loss based on harmonious social relationships and being part of a larger social group. For self-perceptions of physical change, both groups self-enhanced on being self-sufficient and being part of a larger social group. Our findings suggest that Norwegians and Canadians are not highly individualistic people and also provide evidence of a bicultural self-perception of aging. Nurses should consider how cultural and individual perspectives affect the care priorities of older people.

Harmony in the World 2013: The Ideal and the Reality

Many global indicators rank countries according to valued goods such as freedom, wealth, or happiness, but they all share the same flaw: they neglect the importance of rich and diverse social relations for human well-being. The Harmony Index (HI) is an effort to remedy this flaw. It measures four types of relations that matter for human well-being. The HI attempts to measure the extent of peaceful order and respect for diversity—what Confucian thinkers call harmony—within each relation, and ranks countries according to the score for overall harmony. This inaugural HI made use of comprehensive and reliable comparative data for 27 countries. Our findings show that small and relatively wealthy countries tend to be more harmonious countries. Compared to other leading global indices, however, the Harmony Index is less influenced by gross domestic product per capita and by the extent of democracy in a country. Population has a greater impact on harmony than either wealth or political system. We constructed another HI with fewer measurements for family well-being but covering a broader range of countries. A chart with 43 countries demonstrates that it is possible to achieve a high score on the HI without a high level of wealth or democracy. A detailed breakdown of the findings allows us to draw some tentative policy implications at the end of the report. Establishing and nourishing harmonious social relations and a non-destructive approach to the environment is a goal shared by most of the world’s cultures, ethical systems, and religions, and a harmony index can and should be used as a key indicator of social progress and regress.

Cosmological distortion and coherence in Tsotsi (2005): A perspective on the role of Miriam

In interpreting a film, the viewer actively participates in the construction of information. But whose perspective counts when doing so? Most people have such deep-seated frameworks of the universe that they do not even realise that far-reaching differences between interpreting totality do exist between people. As a result, they often project their own cosmological views onto the characters in a film. Without considering a relevant cosmological perspective in Tsotsi, an understanding of gender roles may be deprived of the necessary nuance and unjust conclusions could be reached. What should be noted here, is that concepts such as wisdom, the maintenance of harmonious social relationships and the measuring of the quality of experience through texture that are often linked to the female principle are also typical symbolic expressions of a coherent traditional African cosmology. This article explores the role of Miriam within such framework to conclude that her character overcomes gender stereotypes.