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	Humax Articles - Social Capital By Design
		Social actors can be persons or corporate actors: people acting as individuals, people acting as agents or representatives, organizational subunits (such as teams or departments), organizations, and even governmental bodies, states, and nations.
		The alternative to the holes-view of social capital is what we call social cohesiveness, where the structure of social capital is characterized by dense networks and multiple redundancies.
		Individualism, for example, is 'a social pattern that consists of loosely linked individuals who view themselves as independent of collectives; are primarily motivated by their own preferences, needs, rights, and the contracts they have established with others; and emphasize rational analyses of the advantages and disadvantages of associating with others' (Triandis 1995: 2).
	www.humaxnetworks.com /corpsoc.html (7577 words)

	Alternative Income-Social Justice in Post-Industrial Society
		As a result, to solve the dilemma of social justice, the source of income disparity should be examined, and that study should be done about the main products of the post-industrial production which are increasingly comprising the bigger share of total social production.
		Of course, it is forgotten that socialism and liberalism in both Europe and the U.S. have shown their failure to work for the 21st Century societies.
		For example, Marx thought that in the socialist society the formula of from each according to his ability and to each according to his work was justice, which in reality not only this did not challenge the principle of capitalism to see income as the reward of work, but took that principle to its zenith.
	www.ghandchi.com /427-AlternativeIncomeEng.htm (1774 words)

	Creating Alternative Social Movements: Working Class Studies
		Proposals for "alternative movements" need to recognize, on one hand, the broad system of capitalism, the international war of the rich on the poor that it has engendered, its current intensity, and, on the other hand, the specifics of conditions from nation to nation, even city to city.
		In the US, which is more likely to produce the ideas for coming uprisings, moreso than the social practice, conditions are such that there seem to be three choke points in society: the military, prisons, and schools-- from which change is most likely to be initiated.
		Those who want to do school reform without doing social and economic change, and beyond that revolution, either are so stupid that they deserve to be ignored, or they are dishonest.
	www.rohan.sdsu.edu /~rgibson/creatingalternatives.htm (658 words)

	Alternativa Sociale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alternativa Sociale (Italian for "Social Alternative") is an coalition of neo-fascist political parties in Italy.
		Mussolini united her group with the National Social Front (Fronte Sociale Nazionale), Tricolor Flame (Fiamma Tricolore), and New Force (Forza Nuova) for the 2004 European Parliament election, gaining one seat in the European Parliament.
		The group is committed to a strong Italian nationalism that celebrates and glorifies its past, and has been particularly critical of Gianfranco Fini's modernisation of the right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternativa_Sociale (245 words)

	FASAB: Active Projects Social Insurance
		Six members believe that for social insurance programs an expense is incurred and a liability arises when participants substantially meet eligibility requirements during their working lives in covered employment, and that some portion of the benefits accumulated at the balance sheet date should be recognized as a liability (Primary View).
		Three members believe that for social insurance programs, consistent with current reporting requirements, an expense is incurred and a liability arises when the participants have met all eligibility requirements and the benefit amount is “due and payable” (Alternative View).
		The three members supporting the Alternative View would add to the current sustainability reporting by requiring a statement of fiscal sustainability and additional sustainability information, in the context of all federal programs, as an integral component of social insurance reporting, subject to additional refinement through a broader FASAB project on sustainability.
	www.fasab.gov /projectssocialinsurance.html (5308 words)

	Social Movements Working Group
		The central goal of the Social Movements Working Group (SMWG) is to provide a forum for scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and professional schools to engage with critical debates about the role of contemporary social movements in the transformation of public life, broadly speaking.
		While some see in the ascendancy of globalization and the disappearance of “real socialism” the demise of social movements, others perceive in the incipient yet growing forms of global protest the beginning of a new round of resistance that is qualitatively different from those of the most recent past.
		To investigate the role as well as the political and practical effectiveness of social movements in the articulation of alternative worldviews and practices of local, regional, and global world-making –that is, their role in globalization and the transformation of public life.
	www.unc.edu /smwg/generalintro.htm (1077 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology - Playback, Hip-Hop, Alternative Media, & Social Change 2005
		This is a ten-day program for artists, performers, activists, and media makers who wish to create and examine socially engaged art and media projects.
		Students will be introduced to key theoretical concepts in culture, media and social ecology, providing a framework for students to identify and promote their political visions and artistic work.
		The aim of Playback, Hip Hop, Alternative Media and Social Change is to provide participants with the practical and conceptual skills, along with a theoretical perspective, to make activist art and media that is at once accessible, transformative, and revolutionary.
	www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031014162341336 (503 words)

	Archived: Taking Responsibility for Ending Social Promotion: A Guide for Educators and State and Local Leaders — ...
		Social promotion is generally understood to be the practice of allowing students who have failed to meet performance standards and academic requirements to pass on to the next grade with their peers instead of completing or satisfying the requirements.
		Retention, sometimes viewed as the only alternative to social promotion, is a policy that holds back students who have failing grades at the end of a school year.
		As with students who are socially promoted, often students who repeat a grade are treated as "lost causes." Teachers assume that the retained students have limited potential and thus have low expectations of them.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/socialpromotion/intro.html (3071 words)

	The Khalsa of Guru Gobind Singh: A Social Alternative@
		Social scientists and culturologists have not yet explored this area in all its depth and breadth despite the common acceptance that there must be enormous scope and possibilities for such research.
		The alternative social patterns in history are rarely in the modern realistic language and idiom that we often become insensitive to identify them in their own.
		Perhaps the earliest attempt for an alternative, possibly, at the emerging period of the varna-caste system, is identifiable in Buddhism, an east-Indian social vision putting a lot of stress on the egalitarian, inter-related, communitarian possibilities of social living.
	www.sikhreview.org /may2000/heritage1.htm (2114 words)

	Grinnell College - Office of Social Commitment -- Alternative Summer
		In recognition of the success of the Alternative Summer program, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell proclaimed July 15, 2000 to be "Grinnell College Day" in the city of Seattle.
		The goal of this program is to provide students with a long-term, in-depth service experience, towards the greater goals of creating an ethic of life-long service and helping students discern their desires for post-graduation service.
		Alternative Summer is not an internship and participants will not receive academic credit.
	www.grinnell.edu /offices/socialcommitment/programs/summer (250 words)

	Alternative Archaeology Social Sciences Science
		We?ll tell the story of this Victorian alternative to mistletoe and use evergreens from the gardens to...
		The joy of archaeology is that it licenses wild conjecture by subjecting it...
		densification" as a fiscally and environmentally responsible alternative to suburban sprawl...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Alternative (1096 words)

	The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security
		The Cato Project on Social Security Choice, therefore, has developed a proposal to give workers ownership of and control over their retirement funds.
		Those who wished to remain in the traditional Social Security system would be free to do so, accepting a level of benefits payable with the current level of revenue.
		We expect this plan to restore Social Security to long-term and sustainable solvency and to do so at a cost that is less than the cost of simply propping up the existing program.
	www.socialsecurity.org /pubs/ssps/ssp-32es.html (449 words)

	Social Security Choice and Reform, a Cato Institute Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		See Social Security Paper No. 32, "The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security," by Michael Tanner (February 17, 2004), for a complete review of Cato's reform plan.
		Allowable investment options for the individual accounts will be based on a 3-tier system: a centralized, pooled collection and holding point; a limited series of investment options, with a lifecycle fund as a default mechanism; and a wider range of investment options for individuals who accumulate a minimum level in their accounts.
		That is, the Social Security system will be restored to a solvent pay-as-you-go basis prior to the development of individual accounts.
	www.socialsecurity.org /alternative.html (379 words)

	Alternative Social Forum, Caracas 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Alternative Social Forum aspires to be a net with as many hubs as possible, performing many activities in different places throughout the nation, with an agenda collectively defined and coordinated in a decentralized way.
		In tune with these values, the ASF is a pluralistic space for dialogue, discussion and debate for all those who want social change and are active in social movements.
		Therefore, the ASF is born not to become the rival of the WSF, but to initiate a dynamic for debate from and for the local social movements that we think does not exist today.
	www.nodo50.org /ellibertario/fsaenglish.htm (1080 words)

	i n c e n d i o
		The result was a small-scale event (in contrast to the World Social Forum), however, it reflected the true capacity to organize independently and to self-manage, accumulated from years of experience in the Venezuelan context.
		The Alternative Social Forum was able to articulate a replica of the local political spectrum, generating an autonomous space that dealt with different social movements, diverse subjectivities, and offered an alternative vision that contrasts with the imposed Manicheism that has been prevalent the past years in Venezuela.
		The Alternative Social Forum took place in three venues throughout Caracas: at the Central University of Venezuela, at the Engineering College, and at the Nelson Garrido Organization.
	www.geocities.com /incendiopublicacion/issue1/venezuela2.htm (1270 words)

	Phoenix-Area Social & Support Groups
		A social outlet for young professional gay men (21 - 35 years old), providing a safe place to social that is free of drugs, drama, and excessive noise.
		This social, recreational and educational program was developed with and for young gay and bisexual men 18-29 years old.
		Established in 1977, the purpose of this non-profit group is to establish and maintain a society of deaf gays and lesbians to encourage and promote the educational, economical, and social welfare; to foster fellowship; and to defend the rights and advance the interests of deaf gay and lesbian citizens concerning social justice.
	www.pflagphoenix.org /community/social.html (1947 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology - Summer Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Social ecology suggests that the solutions to the ecological crisis will require a new approach to social life, one which is based in humanly scaled, decentralized, democratic communities.
		Playback, Hip-Hop, Alternative Media, and Social Change is a program developed in 2005, designed to provide participants with the practical and conceptual skills, along with a theoretical perspective, to make activist art and media that is at once accessible, transformative, and revolutionary.
		The ISE's Ecology and Community program is intended as an intensive educational experience in the field of social ecology.
	www.social-ecology.org /index.php?topic=summer_programs (547 words)

	Social Choice Theory
		Social choice theory is the brance of decision theory concerning agents who all agree to be bound by the outcome of a social choice procedure, such as a vote.
		It states that the socially chosen outcome should not change when unchosen options are eliminated from the preference profile.
		These examples are instances of a more general problem, which is that it is impossible to find a social choice function which satisfies all the criteria we would like it to.
	www.stanford.edu /class/symbsys150/social-choice-theory-5-8.html (966 words)

	Venezuela: Going Beyond Survival, Making the Social Economy a Real Alternative
		The conception which challenges the logic of capital is one which explicitly recognises the centrality of self-management in the workplace and self-government in the community as the means of unleashing human potential--- i.e., the conception of a social economy, a solidary economy, indeed, of socialism for the 21st century.
		For the most part, the pattern displays the familiar characteristics of social democracy--- which does not understand the nature of capital, does not attack the logic of capital ideologically, does not believe that there is a real alternative to capitalism and, accordingly, gives in when capital threatens to go on strike.
		To this was to be added the development of a 'social economy'--- conceived as an 'alternative and complementary road' to the private sector and the public sector.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1798 (2592 words)

	Will Dems offer Social Security alternative? - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com
		Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., was more forthcoming with specifics than Dorgan: Congress should raise taxes on upper-income people to raise the revenue to keep the system solvent, by not extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts Congress enacted, when they expire in 2010.
		According to the actuaries of the Social System, by 2042, when today’s 30-year old workers will be retired, the Social Security system will have insufficient funds and will be able to pay only pay 73 percent of promised benefits.
		There are other ways to deal with the issue that are smarter.” This seemed to open the door to paying for Social Security from general revenue, an idea some Democrats also have favored.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6843790 (1223 words)

	China's New Left calls for a social alternative - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		In the spring of 1989, Wang was a fellow at the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
		Democracy in China, he said, has to be based upon the active consent and mobilization of the majority of its population, and be able to ensure social and economic justice for them.
		This spring it began to become clear that the New Left's advocacy of a welfare state is being echoed within the Communist leadership, which is fearful of social instability and is keen to consolidate its power and legitimacy.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/10/13/news/left-web.php (4613 words)

	Alternative cards address social changes - greeting cards Drug Store News - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From serious to outrageous, from emotional to religious--and with all stops in between--they are the fastest growing part of the greeting card business, showing 25 percent to 30 percent growth each year.
		A high percentage of that growth is fueled by the primary alternative card lines of the four largest card companies: Shoebox Greetings from Hallmark, Just My Style from American Greetings (AG), My Thoughts Exactly from Ambassador and Life As We Know It from Gibson.
		Alternative card growth is fueled by the baby boomers' desire for self expression and differentiation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3374/is_n20_v16/ai_15893270 (830 words)

	The Alternative Social Forum in Caracas: Voices from the Left - International Miscellaneous - Anarkismo
		The alternative forum was independent, self-managed and borne out of years of experience of organizing in the Venezuelan context.
		This bureaucratization of the WSF is contrary to its genesis and original principles, which spoke of a convergence of diverse and contradictory movements, a “movement of movements”.
		One of the priorities of the Alternative Social Forum was to generate an autonomous space to develop and interrelate various local movements, whose diverse subjectivities offer alternative visions to the imposed discourse and Manichaeism that has characterized Venezuela in recent years.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=2361 (1532 words)

	A Week of Rebellion Against Social Injustice (Alternative Libertaire)
		Yet it should also be seen as being connected to the government’s strategy of tension and current repression of the social movements (transportation, postal workers, students, anti-GMO activists…) All of these struggles bear witness to the same social insecurity.
		Alternative libertaire in France and translated by yours truly.
		I have a “fast and loose” translation philosophy, meaning that when there is a choice between readability and the original phraseology i tend to favour the former, provided that the meaning stays the same.
	www.kersplebedeb.com /2005riots/al_week.html (977 words)

	Social Work Today - The Future of Nursing Home Social Work
		According to Geron, many of the social workers who are still employed by nursing homes are restricted to duties that make little if any use of their professional skills.
		“Social workers do too much paperwork and do not get to spend as much time working with the residents and their families around the important issues that these folks are dealing with—loss of functioning, fear, concerns about death and dying, grief.
		The second, the Eden Alternative (“A Journey in Honoring Our Elders: The Eden Alternative”; Social Work Today, January 27, 2003), also attempts to effect culture change in nursing homes and is known by its efforts to bring animals, children, and plants into the facilities.
	www.socialworktoday.com /archive/swt_0504p19.htm (2091 words)

	Social Science Course in alternative, holistic, online, nature career education, natural love and self-help
		A description of the required Social Science, Graduate School or CEU Continuing Education Orientation Course Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.
		Members of industrial society suffer critical problems because although as part of nature we are born of natural love, -- the vital force that sustains nature's balanced perfection -- we educate and train ourselves to spend over 95% of our lives indoors, separated from nature's holistic healing ways in natural areas.
		Alternative PNC nature science and career training education courses distance learning make a monumental contribution to the well-being of people and the environment.
	www.ecopsych.com /2004orientation.html (1195 words)

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