Social Administration Research Articles

Utilization Trends of the Israeli Higher Education System by Generation Z from 2015-2020

This study focuses on members of Generation Z, born from the mid-1990s until the end of the first decade of the current century into a world of technology, social networks, and a culture of immediate messaging. The study seeks to examine the effect of this generation’s pragmatic outlook both in general and in the context of acquiring a higher education, on trends involving registration for undergraduate studies. The Israeli system of higher education was chosen as a case study since the rate of Israelis with a higher education is among the highest in the world. Academic studies are perceived in Israel as a crucial milestone and an essential developmental stage in the life course of many young people. Data on the distribution of students among the different disciplines shall be analyzed by correlational examination of changes in these trends in the various degree levels from 2015-2020. The research findings show that from the mid-2010s a drop is evident in the number of undergraduate students. Moreover, a conspicuous increase is evident in the number of students in the fields of medicine and allied health professions, science and mathematics, engineering and architecture, which are considered applied fields, while a decline is evident in the social sciences, the humanities, law, and business administration. These findings point to the tendency of Generation Z to practical and technological studies more than fields considered less practical. The research conclusions call for implementing several regulatory steps in order to adapt the system of higher education to the characteristics and needs of Generation Z, such as expanding the professional training program in less practical disciplines, shortening the duration of studies in technological vocational departments, increasing the use of online teaching, and others.

Positioning and Research of Social Administration Meshing Management Mode in Terms of IOT

In the context of the continuous step forward Internet + mode, the IOT related to it is also developing rapidly. On account of this network tech, the administration mode of the step forward social administration meshing is also accelerating correspondingly. IOT is a network link On account of computer network tech, which uses a unified network to link and spread things from center to point. Through the promotion of IOT tech, the superiority of social administration meshing management mode is also greatly enhanced. The IOT tech strengthens the data exchange among the central database and each sub-node, makes it convenient for the central warehouse to obtain the data of each sub-node, and also speeds up the data loading and transmission of the central database of each sub-node, and strengthens the double backup of the data of the central node and the sub-node, ensuring the data security. This article studied the IOT perspective meshing management pattern of social administration of orientation and related research, this text expounds the definition of the IOT, the concept, purpose, the advantages of tech, this text expounds the definition of social administration at the same time, the meshing management pattern, the advantages of the IOT perspective what is the positioning of the network management of social administration mode, management mode is studied related features. On account of IOT tech, this text, under the perspective of the IOT running principle of social administration, and discuss compared with the traditional perspective of social administration mode positioning, So as to draw a contrast effect, through the test data, this text, on the IOT under the perspective of social administration meshing management mode and traditional mode localization and the superiority of performance. Through testing and research, it is found that the positioning of social administration meshing management mode in terms of IOT is clearer, with 80.9%, 83.1%, 90.4% and 96.3% effects in terms of coordination, digital performance, network connectivity and efficiency.

PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY IN THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

The article considers the origin of the idea of subsidiarity, which was originally formed in the XIX century within the Catholic Church. The process of its evolution, during which the principle of subsidiarity acquired a new content and during which it was implemented in the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church is traced. While at its origin the principle was considered to regulate the level of interaction of different hierarchical levels of authorities in relation to the institution of the family, then over time the borders were expanded to the sphere of social administration, which can be applied in different organizational models within geopolitical, international, national and administrative structures. The norms of canon law, which enshrined the principle of subsidiarity as an integral tool used in the division of powers in the administration of the Catholic Church, are analyzed.

Law and Nigeria's Development: How to Strengthen the Efficacy of Law for Development in Nigeria

In today's world, the role of law transcends the maintenance of social order and administration of justice. Law has a crucial role to play in the developmental processes of states. Nigeria, a country now reputed to be the poverty capital of the world, is in dire need of development. Law can aid Nigeria's quest towards development. This study addresses the question what is development and makes an attempt to offer a holistic notion of the concept. In appraising the relevance of law in Nigeria's developmental process, the study examined instances where the law was employed to enable development, either through the facilitation of indices of development or through the inhibition of impediments to development. Additionally, the study interrogated the nexus between the law and development policy in Nigeria, and appraised the role of law in Nigeria's development process. Prescriptively, the study suggested ways in which the relevance of law in Nigeria's development process can be supplemented, namely prioritisation of the development question in law-making, execution and interpretation; promoting the realisation of socio-economic rights; and the mainstreaming of customary law as an integral part of the law and development discourse.

Social Quarantine and Its Four Modes: Conceptional Exploration and the Theoretical Construction of the Polices Against COVID-19.

Building on the studies of health quarantine from a social perspective, this article explores the complex contexts of social quarantine as a mode of public health, a mode of community action and a behavioural and psychological mode of social distancing. To establish a conceptual investigation of the “social quarantine” issue, this study investigates four approaches to quarantine: public health, social administration, behavioural norms, and psychological effects. The study identifies the features of these modes and discusses their relationships. In addition, this study constructs a preventive framework for quarantine that embraces social and health policies to enrich the understanding of policy measures for social distancing and lockdown measures. On this basis, the study evaluates the strategies of policy development in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study concludes that these modes can reconstruct social relations and provide some basis for theoretical analysis about the features of social quarantine, which is vital for policymakers when considering national and global prevention strategies for public health.

The application and deployment of welfare technology in Swedish municipal care: a qualitative study of procurement practices among municipal actors

BackgroundWelfare technology has been launched as a concept to accelerate digital transformation in care services, but the deployment of these technologies is still hindered by organisational resistance, lack of infrastructure, and juridical and ethical issues. This paper investigates decision-making among municipal actors in the application and deployment of welfare technology from a procurement process perspective. The study explores the perceptions and negotiations involved in purchasing welfare technology at each stage of the procurement model, revealing the impact of technical, economic, juridical and ethical competence on the mapping, planning, procurement, implementation and management of welfare technology.MethodsThe study presents empirical findings from qualitative interviews conducted among municipal actors in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were gathered in 2020 among procurement managers, IT managers, and managers in social administration in three different municipalities (n = 8). Content analysis and systematic categorisation were applied resulting in the division of procurement practices into sub-categories, generic categories and main categories.ResultsChallenges in the application and deployment of welfare technology occur at all stages of the procurement model. In mapping and planning, barriers are identified in the need analysis, requirement specification and market analysis. In the procurement stage, economic resources, standardisation and interoperability hinder the procurement process. Implementation and management are complicated by supplier assessment, legislation, cross-organisational collaboration and political strategy. Building on these findings, this study defines ‘procurement competence’ as consisting of technical, economic, juridical and ethical expertise in order to assess and evaluate welfare technology. Technical and ethical competence is needed in early stages of procurement, whereas juridical and economic competence relates to later stages of the model.ConclusionsProcurement competence is associated with the application and deployment of welfare technology in (1) assessment of the end-user’s needs, (2) estimation of the costs and benefits of welfare technology and (3) management of juridical and legislative issues in data management. Economic and juridical decisions to purchase welfare technology are not value-neutral, but rather associated with socially shared understandings of technological possibilities in care provision. Optimisation of procurement processes requires a combination of capabilities to introduce, apply and deploy welfare technology that meets the demands and needs of end-users.

The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas

This article discusses public social welfare provision to homeless EU migrants in Norway. Most of these migrants have no or weak affiliations with the formal labour market, resulting in restricted rights to public social assistance. Drawing on the concept of precarious inclusion, I suggest that rather than being simply excluded from public social welfare, homeless EU migrants are included in the welfare state but in fragile and insecure ways through provisions directed at safeguarding bodily survival. I understand these limited inclusionary policies and practices as forming part of the Norwegian state’s management of ‘undesired’ migrants. Building on interviews with social workers in the public social welfare administration, I reflect on how assessments of cases involving homeless EU migrants signal hierarchical conceptions and differentiation of human worth within Norway’s borders and how territorial belonging emerges as a prerequisite for ‘deservingness’ in social workers’ accounts.

The Analysis of Opportunities of the Application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Public Governance and Social Policy

This interdisciplinary article presents a concept of the 21st century and phenomena that are products of the 4th industrial revolution – big data and Artificial Intelligence technologies – as well as the opportunities of their application in public governance and social policy. This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of big data, problems of data collection, its reliability and use. Big data can be used for the analysis and modeling of phenomena relevant to public governance and social policy. Big data consist of three main types: a) historical data, b) present data with little delay, c) prognostic data for future forecasting. The following categories of big data can be defined as: a) data from social networks, b) traditional data from business systems, c) machine-generated data, such as water extraction, pollution, satellite information. The article analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of big data. There are big data challenges such as data security, lack of cooperation in civil service and social work, in rare situations – data fragmentation, incompleteness and erroneous issues, as well as ethical issues regarding the analysis of data and its use in social policy and social administration. Big data, covered by Artificial Intelligence, can be used in public governance and social policy by identifying “the hot spots” of various phenomena, by prognosing the meanings of variables in the future on the basis of past time rows, and by calculating the optimal motion of actions in the situations where there are possible various alternatives. The technologies of Artificial Intelligence are used more profoundly in many spheres of public policy, and in the governance of COVID-19 pandemics too. The substantial advantages of the provided big data and Artificial Intelligence are a holistic improvement of public services, possibilities of personalization, the enhancement of citizen satisfaction, the diminishing of the costs of processing expenditure, the targeting of adopted and implemented decisions, more active involvement of citizens, the feedback of the preferences of policy formation and implementation, the observation of social phenomenas in real time, and possibilities for more detailed prognosing. Challenges to security of data, necessary resources and competences, the lack of cooperation in public service, especially rare instances of data fragmentation, roughness, falseness, and ethical questions regarding data analysis and application can be evaluated as the most significant problems of using big data and Artificial Intelligence technologies. Big data and their analytics conducted using Artificial Intelligence technologies can contribute to the adequacy and objectivity of decisions in public governance and social policy, effectively curbing corruption and nepotism by raising the authority and confidence of public sector organizations in governance, which is so lacking in the modern world.

Публичное и приватное в профиле социальной сети (в свете теории С. Петронио)

A profile on a social network site (SNS) containing the user’s personal information qualifies as both a personal and public space, which raises the problem of delineating, what is private and what is public in this virtual domain. The paper attempts to identify privacy boundaries in the social media environment and the actual ownership of personal information disclosed on users’ profiles. The stated problem is considered through the lens of Communication Privacy Management theory, an influential approach to the study of privacy in the online environment proposed by Sandra Petronio. The terms and concepts of the theory are applied to analyze the peculiarities of privacy management of the user’s personal information on the pages of the social network VKontakte (i.e. in the context of ‘one-to-many’ communication). The peculiarities noted are as follows: the presence of social media administration as a co-owner of the data (i.e. the user is not granted exclusive ownership of their personal information); difficulties with discussing information ownership rules with other social media participants; the presence of such phenomena as ‘online friends’ and ‘the imagined audience’ making it difficult for the user to recognize the composition of their actual audience and set proper privacy boundaries. It is also shown that the social network provides what can only be described as rather vague collective privacy boundaries (if the term privacy is even applicable to the social media environment). All the information shared by the user on the social media profile crosses the personal privacy boundaries and is moved almost uncontrollably to the collective ownership domain. The further theoretical research of privacy management of personal information on social media profiles should aim to critically examine the concept of collective privacy in the digital space and determine the ownership rights of original owners of personal information gone public.

Demographic policies for large families in Greece: an opinion survey and implications for the social administration

Opinion surveys as a tool for policy formation and effectiveness testing in the area of demographic / family policies is rather neglected, although it may reveal significant perceived effectiveness and preference rankings by the recipients of these policies, giving a strong indication of what works best for families who are thinking of or have already been accredited the status of a large family. In an era of demographic decline and fiscal constraints, demographic / family policies need to be focused on what parents consider as important in order to affect their decisions. Given that the demographic decline has a negative cascading effect on several aspects of economy, society and personal life, selecting the policies that work best according to parents’ views who are the decision makers in these policy field, should be an imperative for governments nowadays.

GOOD GOVERNANCE: GRANT SERVICE RESEARCH

Application of Good Governance principle is highly important in the implementation of public services in order to increase the quality of service performance. Social Prosperity Administration Bureau East Java Province as the institution that carries out grant service in their performance is still not going optimal and have to be carried out changes into better ways. This matter is occurred because of application of Good Governance principles that is carried out not maximal by the Social Prosperity Administration Bureau employees in doing services to society agency/institution/organization concerning to grant. This research aims to describe and analyze application of Good Governance principles in carrying out the grant service. This research used Descriptive Qualitative research method based on Good Governance principle according to ((UNDP), 1997) that focus on participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, and accountability. The research value shows that good governance principle has been applied sufficiently optimal in grant service that carried out by Social Prosperity Administration Bureau. It is proven by the existing of the participation applications, service that is carried out under law and applicable SOP (standard Operating Procedure), creating transparency in services, responsiveness and accountability that is given by Social Prosperity Administration Bureau party to receiver grant institution. However, there are also obstacles in this grant service implementation from the application of good governance principle such as human resource that is less mastered on technology and limited employees, lack of time, limited grant budget and lack of awareness of the institution party in collecting the Accountability Sheet.

Ensuring Sustainability of the Social Order as a Priority in the Field of National Security

The purpose of the article is to analyze the factors on which the stability of the social order depends and to substantiate the expediency of its priority in the sphere of national security. The scientific novelty of the article is the justification of the interrelationship between national security and the stability of the social order in the need’s context to merge society around the goals that guarantee its security. Conclusions. The study shows that the sustainability of the social order ensures the existence and security of society and social institutions. We analyzed the axiological dimension of social order and sustainability through the disclosure of the social function of value orientation. We see them as the basis for the choice of action of the elements of social systems. In this context, we emphasized justifying the importance of a conceptual framework for its sustainability that considers the socio-cultural specificities of society and the values of the indivisible. We have shown that the main reason for the danger of social order and stability leading to the disintegration of society is the disparity of traditional values. They inform society of the ideological principles, program goals, and legal norms concerning its existence and the development of the State, which are determined by the highest political leadership. This makes it advisable to study the social system in question, its hierarchical levels, and their interrelationships. Hierarchical levels (moral, legal, conceptual) are described, their interrelationship is described, and it shows the category of sustainability to reflect the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the social order as a social system. Level – the quality (conflict-free) of its internal structuring. Emphasis has been placed on the desirability of distinguishing, at the conceptual level, the social order from the conceptual and ideological, and programmatic aspects this ensures that political decisions are made at the strategic level of public administration and that the strategic objectives of society, the means, and means of achieving them in national security, are justified. It has been established that the most effective means of destroying the State is to generate the prerequisites for threatening the stability of the social order, Therefore, the priority task of the actors of public administration and administration is to develop and implement a set of measures aimed at structuring and harmonizing principles, values and objectives at and between hierarchical levels of social order. We have identified basic prerequisites for the effectiveness of these measures, including mutually agreed goals, timetables, means, and methods of implementing strategies for socio-political and socio-economic development. Key words: social order, national security, public administration, social order and stability risks, value orientations, social order levels

Universities of the Muslim World in Context of Globalization


 
 This article expects to discourse the fundamental matters in regard to the emergency in advanced education in Muslim nations and investigate conceivable pathways for change. Notwithstanding being tested by the developing hole in instructive guidelines and accomplishments between exceedingly industrialized countries and Muslim nations, most Muslim social orders keep on producing fair outcome in advanced education. It’s clear in most recent world college ranking, advance significance to evaluate the effect and difficulties of globalization on advanced education in Muslim social orders addressed in this article and additionally the main drivers of the emergency of advanced education in Muslim social orders, bad administration and insufficient governmental strategies lie at the base of the emergency.
 
 
 
 

Optimization of Internet of Things E-Commerce Logistics Cloud Service Platform Based on Mobile Communication

E-commerce conceivable future trade, consumption, and service is a new digital employer mode. Therefore, in order to decorate the customary natural environment of operation, it is quintessential to get rid of the preferred desktop in the true field, create a social logistics and transportation administration computing device with commodity agents and distributors as the key features, and mix freight logistics, business enterprise approach waft and data waft advertising and marketing, and advertising and marketing organically. The notion of e-commerce logistics looks alongside the enchantment vogue of neighborhood technological knowledge and social demand. It is an integral part of ending e-commerce authentic economic value. All kinds of cell networks clear up the problem of data flow communication; in the technological know-how of telephone network, digital cost solves the bother of capital flow; at present, logistics is however a long-standing problem of e-commerce. Logistics has grown to be the last and entirely bottleneck of e-commerce. If logistics cannot adapt to the enchantment of e-commerce, it may also additionally lead to the slow enchantment of e-commerce. The purpose of this paper is to supply an Internet of things (IoT) e-commerce logistics cloud provider platform based totally absolutely on cell communication, which can be combined with e-commerce and beautify the transport tempo of e-commerce. This paper moreover optimizes the e-commerce logistics system, so that it can combine with e-commerce to increase out the distribution of goods, the distribution tempo of e-commerce is doubled, and e-commerce can in a similar fashion develop rapidly.

ТЕОРЕТИКО-МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНЕ ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ РЕФОРМ У ПУБЛІЧНО-УПРАВЛІНСЬКІЙ СФЕРІ

Modern period of the Ukrainian society and statehood development necessitates addressing modern challenges by pursuing reforms in the field of public administration. The latter is related to the process of reforming social and economic relations, decentralization of power, establishing new territorial and administrative structure and changes in the healthcare system, education, etc. Within this context it is necessary to provide theoretical and methodological substantiation of the reforms under study, present them as well thought over ones, and overturn arguments of their spontaneous and unconsidered nature. The latest publications and researches in the world and domestic literature show that issues of general methodological substantiation of successful reform implementation require more specific consideration which is the goal of this research. It is identified that scientific substantiation of the reform process should take into account general democratic prerequisites, which include expanding social administration base and its transformation into deliberative (network) administration including participation of public subjects of society development and compliance with the principles of competition, transparency, social responsibility and accountability. Unlike condensed spontaneous and subjective forms of reform content identification, their theoretical and methodological substantiation is characterized by the combination of features of rational intermediation of different aspects of reform performance. They include identification of main subjects of reform and typical aspects of their activity, fixation of objective reality as a public activity prerequisite, illustrating the necessity of conceptual substantiation of each of the proposed reforms and specification of the tools for reform implementation. Conclusions and proposals are related to placing emphasis on the value of systemic theoretical and methodological substantiation of reforms in the field of public administration and bringing it in line with specific performance imperatives.

Research on the Types and Legal Basis for Biosecurity Crimes under the New Situation

Today, China is facing many risk factors and great challenges in biosecurity crimes. Biosecurity-related crimes generally include biological weapon attack, bioterrorism, destruction of biological genetic resources and biodiversity, and finally, interference with infectious disease prevention and control. Crimes related to biosecurity in the Criminal Law of China are mainly stated in the chapters about crimes jeopardizing state security, against public security, social administration, and crimes of dereliction of duty.

“Fighting the Uncertainty of Tomorrow”: Explaining and Portraying the Social Security System on French Television for Schools

This contribution analyses in detail a series of instructional television programmes for schools produced between the 1950s and the 1980s on national health insurance and the French social welfare system (known as Sécurité sociale). We consider the televisualization of health issues from two alternative perspectives: school television as a type of public health service and access as a matter of social welfare and public health. We investigate how these television programmes, which focus closely on social welfare administration, sought both to educate captive school audiences as future citizens and to shape and form their attitudes towards it.

REFORMATION OF CUSTOMS SERVICE OF UKRAINE TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The objective of the article is a systemic analysis of the approaches to reformation of the customs sphere, determination of the role of customs service in the process of ensuring a sustainable development under the present-day conditions. Eurointegration strategy of Ukraine necessitates the need for reformation of the national customs system in order to conform to the standards of the World Customs Organization and the perspective adaptation to the European requirements, elaboration of the development strategy with the purpose of integration with the developed countries of the world, harmonization of economic trade and ecological processes. Methodology. In the course of this analysis the customs service was considered as a complex open system with application in the research of the methodology of systemic analysis, which allowed to put emphasis on separate aspects of the specific character of its functioning. Results. In any country, customs service is an integral part of the system of state administration of the foreign economic activity, one of the important state institutes of social and economic processes administration. It ensures the balance of interests of all participants of international trade enshrined in the current conventions and agreements on the level of the international law. Modernization of the national customs system under the conditions of the European integration processes has to become an important mechanism of social and economic development and international collaboration of Ukraine. Under the present-day conditions customs service plays an important role in the achievement of goals established by the UN in the sphere of sustainable development till 2030. Some of these goals are directly connected with the strategic mission of the customs service and that is why it is important to ensure appropriate conditions for functioning of the customs service for the successful accomplishment of the tasks of sustainable development in the social, economic and ecological spheres. The key priorities of activities of the national customs system must ensure accomplishment of the main tasks of the customs authorities in the context of achieving the goals of sustainable development formulated by the World Customs Organization: formation of the favorable, safe, just and sustainable business environment for economic growth, ensuring social justice, facilitation of improving stability of the global, national and regional ecological systems and combating the climate changes. Practical implications. The performed analysis of particularities of the customs system functioning and its objectives allows to determine the role of the customs service in the achievement of the Goals of sustainable development till 2030, to highlight the key priorities in resolving the environmental problems, to form the potential of sustainable development. For Ukraine these are modernization of national society and minimization of consequences of existence of the corruption schemes. Value/originality. The use of the systemic analysis allows to detect the main problems in functioning of the customs service taking into consideration the specific character of its functioning under the present-day conditions.

Strengthening Social Welfare Administration Practice in India: A Context Centric Social Work Approach

Abstract This article explores the possibility of strengthening social welfare administration practice in social work training and education to respond to complex and varied issues located within Indian social reality keeping in view the people in concrete situations of vulnerabilities. Based on the case analysis approach, it situates the history of social work education and practice closely linked to the social welfare administration practice in Mumbai School of Social Work. The experience in this school reaffirms the contribution of social work administration practice towards welfare and development of people, and suggests the need for strengthening the practice suited to the changing needs of the time. Learning from this experience, this article argues for a positive recognition of context centric approach in social work practice.

Dynamics of suicide in Turkey: an empirical analysis

Suicide has become a public mental health problem in Turkey, with the number of deaths increasing: in 1974, the suicide rate was 1.92% for males and 1.31% for females; in 2013 this had risen to 6.22% for males and 2.26% for females. This study attempts to empirically investigate the behaviour of suicide in Turkey by focusing on sex and cause. We pay special attention to the role of structural shifts in suicide ratios, which may have arisen from the structural changes in Turkish economy during last 2 decades. We used time series analysis and employed unit root and stationarity tests for the period 1974-2013. The results show that disruption to female suicide and suicidal affairs stemmed from economic problems and business failures have a random walk process. This finding implies that shocks driven by economic issues and shocks toward the female sex have a permanent, long-term impact on suicide. The implication is that the social administration needs to implement relevant, necessary suicide prevention policies for suicides occurring in the female and economic problems groups.