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Social Security reform - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 08, 2005 In the past few weeks, Republican lawmakers have been demoralizing themselves with defeatist talk about putting off reform until next year, as if it would be any easier in the run-up to mid-term elections to enact change. Republican lawmakers reportedly are facing skepticism in their home districts about Social Security reform and have returned to Washington from their congressional break ready to express their nervousness to the newspapers. The opposition to reform is in lock-step unity in its labors to sow fear, while the Republican Party has strayed off message and is publicly seen negotiating with itself about how to go about reforming Social Security. washingtontimes.com /op-ed/20050307-083133-8079r.htm

Talk given at Duke at Roundtable A social world devoid of those surprises, of the ambiguities and uncertainties entailed in the course of affairs, as Radcliffe -Brown or Levi-Strauss would have characterized it, may have seemed systematic and orderly but it would lost the critical elements of human experience. One change was in the status and influence of the mirs, the individuals who represented the local inhabitants in their relations to the government. It’s the difference between learning how to live in a society through direct encounters with one’s social and material world, not as a repertoire of rules to be followed, as social scientists would have it. www.artsci.wustl.edu /~canfrobt/wedding

Social Theory It's aim, broadly speaking is to encourage the development of social theory that is historically rooted and comparative history that is theoretically informed. Talk, Thought, and Thing: The Emic Road Toward Conscious Knowledge Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution home1.gte.net /ericjw1/social.html

A Green Conservatism Bennett was responding to a caller on a talk show who had just claimed that social security might be in much better financial shape if the abortions of the last 30 years had not happened. Lots of people thought the disaster in the gulf states would precipitate a change of direction and legislative action in a social democratic direction. Queers are a lot more libertarian on social issues than the population as a whole, much as you would expect. conservativeobserver.blogspot.com

ASIAN SOCIAL FORUM (ASF) REFLECTIONS - ISAAC I think the ASF or even the WSF is predominantly (I hope I am wrong) a bunch of individuals working within the system to build alliances for change (quite innocuous if I may)...but it was also full of people drawing immense benefits from the system while protesting/agitating against it. Somehow I get this uncomfortable feeling that this short article will be treated as an ASF demonization piece and that my experiences at the ASF — some of which I talk about here — will then fail to generate important ideas for those who read it to think about. At the ASF, there were times when I felt a level of ‘anarchist’ militancy was needed---outright disobedience (not Civil Disobedience) with a heavy dose of human scale. www.swaraj.org /shikshantar/asfreflect_isaac.html   (1091 words)

ss_ben.txt People who already get their Social Security and SSI benefits by check can continue to be paid by check for the present, unless they opt to change to direct deposit. When you're thinking about retirement, you should talk to a Social Security representative in the year before the year you plan to retire. Social Security was never intended to be your only source of income when you retire or become disabled, or your family's only income if you die. www.empowermentzone.com /ss_ben.txt   (1091 words)

rumcrook's tavern They can try to explain the motivations of criminals still at large, to advocate for broad social change for example, so the public is better protected. Unfortunately, the intellectual elites of our nation, many of whom are condensed onto college campuses have utterly forgotten that their precious pillars of academic freedom rest comfortably on the graves of patriots who have been willing to act, rather than merely talk or write. I am here to tell you that there is no way a graduate student knows what motivates a man like Ranger Tillman, or all of the other brothers in arms who have actually gotten off their fourth points of contact and served. rumcrook.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_rumcrook_archive.html   (1091 words)

AlterNet: Election 2004: Taking Back the Youth Vote Help document where each representative and senator in the 109th Congress stands on Social Security "privatization." They'll have a harder chance voting for it when their opinion is publicly known. That is beginning to change in this election, as candidates realize the untapped potential of the millions of young people who make up the highly-prized "undecided" category of American politics. Politicians don't address their concerns, advertise on their television shows, talk to their radio programs. www.alternet.org /election04/19926   (1091 words)

Social Change Theories When we talk about social change, we're referring to changes on a large scale: changes in communities, states, even nations. There are also a couple of other important theories of social change that have had an impact on human relations. was a social scientist and researcher who coined the phrase cognitive dissonance as a way to describe what he believed to be a cognitive force that shapes human social behaviors. www.occe.ou.edu /distance/hrtheor-fream/five.html   (1349 words)

Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Home Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization, including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change, the uses of information technologies in social contexts, and the ways that the social organization of information technologies is influenced by social forces and social practices. Youth, Technology, and Social Networks Topic of 11/11/05 Talk Our goal is to serve as a repository for activities, people, and opportunities related to the field of Social Informatics. rkcsi.indiana.edu   (130 words)

synthesis_en.doc And the European Monitoring Centre on Change, set up in 2001 within the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, is specifically tasked with helping offset the negative long-term impact of restructuring by examining how best to manage and anticipate social and economic change in society. The European Commission is providing some continuing support for wide involvement of all stakeholders — even if it remains primarily up to the economic and social actors to talk to one another, and to organise their representation appropriately. The EU Consultative Commission on Industrial Change, located within the European Economic and Social Committee since the demise of the European Coal and Steel Community, assures wide representation in the discussions. www.esc.eu.int /ccmi/audition_events/ice21112003/synthesis_en.doc   (2164 words)

Faith - The Bahá'ís It seeks to build a movement of spirituality and social change. Faith Talk · Autos Talk · Wings Talk · Lions Talk · Pistons Talk · Tiger Talk · Big 10 Talk · High Schools · Movie Talk · Tech Talk. FBIC ranks insurance companies on their records to willingly not pay and deny claims in bad faith or pay claims promptly and properly in good faith. hawaiian-vacation.easylookfor.com /elf/hawaiian-vacation-faith.htm   (206 words)

Matt Gonzalez Opens New Metropolis Symposium On Thursday, April 15, Matt Gonzalez, president of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors, will present this year's Raven Lecture, "The American City: A Tool for Progressive Change in the 21st Century." His talk will open The New Metropolis: Social Change in California 's Cities conference. Gonzalez's talk will take place on Thursday, April 15, at 4 p.m. The full-day event will focus on the ways in which globalization, immigration, and other economic and social trends have been transforming the ethnic, racial and economic of landscape of California 's metropolitan areas. www.law.berkeley.edu /news/2004/raven%20lecture.html   (202 words)

Tides Foundation MMMC 2005 Through community-building activities, workshops and discussions, participants inform, support, inspire, challenge, and share ideas with each other about personal wealth and social change philanthropy. Want to use your resources to transform society and promote innovative social change? Interested in strategic philanthropy, responsible consumption, and/or effective social change activism? www.tidesfoundation.org /mmmc   (295 words)

The Hindu : Nation in disarray He was clear that it was futile to talk of revolutionary politics unaccompanied by social change and further that ``only that political party has a future in the country which would make itself the spearhead of this social revolution and herald a new dawn.'' Looking around, I find an eerie similarity to the period of the French Revolution which made Rousseau say ``when a prince no longer administers the state according to laws then the state is dissolved, the social pact is broken'' and political life has been destroyed''. A situation like this was the prelude to the French Revolution when people standing in the streets read aloud Rousseau's ``Social Contract'' emphasising the public good. www.hinduonnet.com /2001/05/21/stories/05212524.htm   (295 words)

Service Learning Assignment Description-Grassroots Democracy As part of the field research for this class, you are expected to have ongoing participation in some community or school based project engaged in popular mobilization to bring about social change. That is, the idea here is that you are active as a participant-observer and not simply that you talk about the problem or plan to change address the problem. b) how the grassroots organizing efforts in your service learning compared and contrasted with at least one other social justice movement among people of color studied in the class. www.deanza.fhda.edu /faculty/yuen/Grassroots_Democracy/SOSC54/Handouts/grd_serviceasgnmnt.htm   (295 words)

TCLA: Bill of Rights: Features: 7: Interview with Ariane Della Déa Can you talk more about how Theater of the Oppressed can effect social change? Legislative Theater is a great way to come up with social change. How do we get people to come and vote, what is the value of voting, and why can’t you go vote and how do you change that? www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu /rights/features/7/theater/interview2.html   (985 words)

Dear friends, In our book The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World, Sherry Anderson and I showed that taken all together, the effect of the new social movements and consciousness movements was to create a wave of change that has been going through Western culture for the last forty years. And because those changes grow out of all the new social movements of the last 40 years, the corporate media are very careful not to cover them, or interpret them accurately. Cultural Creatives are habitual volunteers, and most have cared about half a dozen of the new social movements in the past. www.skaggs-island.org /democracy/compass.html   (985 words)

Study of grammaticalization and convergence in Second Language Acquisition and Use: Former Soviet immigrants learning Hebrew and German One inevitable result of immigration is a change in language use and repertoire, and this is the topic that was studied by a team of Israeli and German investigators under a grant from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development to Bar-Ilan University and the Free University of Berlin. The chief objectives are to study relationships between language attitudes and actual language behavior and to look at the connection between developing syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and social competence. In Vera Regan (Ed.), Contemporary approaches to second language acquisition in social context: Crosslinguistic perspectives (pp. www.biu.ac.il /HU/lprc/fog0000000013.html   (985 words)

Nation in Disarray He was clear that it was futile to talk of revolutionary politics unaccompanied by social change and further that "only that political party has a future in the country which would make itself the spearhead of this social revolution and herald a new dawn." Rammanohar Lohia had warned that "the system of castes is a terrifying force of stability and against change, a force that stabilizes all current meanness, dishonour and life." He had wanted Dalits to be pushed into positions of power. I was shocked on my visit to Tamil Nadu to be told by a Dalit Christian priest that so much is the social ostracism that the Dalit Christians are not allowed to be buried in the same graveyard as non-dalit Christians. www.pucl.org /reports/National/2001/disarray.htm   (985 words)

GURT 2001: Schedule at a Glance, Thursday, March 8 A specialist in the use of video analysis in interactional sociolinguistics and microethnography, his work has focused especially on timing and rhythm in the social coordination of interaction, relationships of mutual influence between listening and speaking in interaction, and the signaling of multiple social identities in talk. His research concerns the social stratification of language, and the understanding of linguistic change through the study of linguistic change in progress. Shirley Brice Heath, Professor of English and Linguistics at Stanford University, is a linguistic anthropologist whose primary interests are sociocultural contexts of learning and relations between oral/written language socialization across cultures and institutional settings. www.georgetown.edu /events/gurt/2001/plenary.html   (3225 words)

Sociology: UG: Honours Courses Honours Courses: Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change See the ongoing research by Lindsay Paterson and Cristina Iannelli on "Education and Social Mobility in Scotland in the 20th Century" here. This lecture will be closely linked to a talk, under the same title, professor McCrone gave for the Annual Seminar of the BSA Scottish Studies Study Group, 2005 - you can read a transcript of that talk here www.sociology.ed.ac.uk /ug/hons/courses/scotland_course.html   (344 words)

NOWAR/PAIX: 741 Also recognize that his ward is Kanata, not a hot bed of social change, yet this is his 4th term, demonstrating that he is able to effectively mediate interests between citizens of all social and economic classes, not an easy thing to do. He walks his talk and has relentlessly supported for positive change in the city. Susan, I think your opinions about Alex Munter are misguided and misinformed, his work of which I have listed some here speak to his commitment to Ottawa's citizens, particularly the most vulnerable, the homeless and social housing. www.nowar-paix.ca /nowar/forum/741   (344 words)

John Profumo Biography - The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust All the initiatives he has set up have had social policy and social change at their heart and he is still personally instrumental in inviting politicians and academics to talk to decision-makers about the importance of social change. John has been credited with the instigation of many innovative projects at Toynbee including the start up of its sister organisation, The Attlee Foundation, as well as a housing association, after-care unit for ex-offenders, a family centre for the mentally handicapped and a project to help people with learning disabilities lead independent lives. John Profumo has been a volunteer at Toynbee Hall, the charitable foundation that campaigns for the rights of the poor, since 1963. www.beaconfellowship.org.uk /biography2003_15.asp   (271 words)

CT Classic: Ron Sider's Unsettling Crusade - Christianity Today Magazine In a densely packed talk, Sider goes on to plead for a church where both evangelism and social action work symbiotically—evangelism creating the changed lives that are necessary to lasting social change, social action living out the good news of the gospel in a way that attracts outsiders. Sider became a spark plug among a small group of evangelicals who were interested in social and political issues, most of whom were young, well educated, highly idealistic, and shared a concern for social and racial justice and simple living. Sider is no economist, and as he pushes through such large issues as the international debt crisis, the structure of world trade, and global warming (in the latest, updated edition), he is not particularly convincing. www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2000/111/12.0.html   (271 words)

philosophy.com: June 2003 Archives Though Positivist economists try to talk about reform in a neutral way (without expresssing their approval or disapproval), the reality is that citizen's understand these reforms in terms of the impact they have on their life. In the political forum of the Australian Senate we have a dialogical exchange between different groups of Senators that aims to change a bill with introducing, amending and correcting amendments. The Palestinan people are bonded by their social relations, culture, and their historical experience of Israel's occupation of their territory. www.sauer-thompson.com /archives/philosophy/2003_06.html   (271 words)

Anarres Books Catalog - Anarchism Contemporary classic by Bookchin which contains essays on organisation, technology, ecology and social change. Finally he states what is to be valued in both anarchism and Marxism in building such a Left, and offers guidelines for forming a new revolutionary social movement. A talk given by Graham Purchase at a conference on May Day, 1994 presenting arguments for an Anarchism based on bio-regional principals in Australia. www.anarres.org.au /subject.htm   (2628 words)

Staff Awards 2003 Invited talk at the British Ecological Society Symposium Biological Diversity and Function in Soils, 25-27 March 2003 (talk title: Plant community composition and diversity: implications for the decomposer subsystem). Invited and funded to participate in a meeting of the expert group for Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Water & Food Challenge programme � ensuring that US$60 million of competitive grant research supports stakeholder involvement and social learning, in Sri Lanka. (Along with PAGE, Mike; SAGGAR, Surinder; TRUSTRUM, Noel) Invited presentation on Erosion and sedimentation response to climatic change and agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases in New Zealand to 26 participants of Australia New Zealand Climate Forum Palmerston North, New Zealand, on 19 March 2003 www.landcareresearch.co.nz /about/staff_awards_2003.asp   (2628 words)

Folklore and Anthropology Syllabus Folklore shapes social order because it appeals to people, draws them into participation and belief, and can be a persuasive argument to change. Folklore should be understood as people create it in their lives, and change it for new purposes and to fit new situations. Folklore performance and folklife practices are closely tied to social identities: people constantly define themselves in terms of their skills, beliefs, language, dress, food, and amusements. www.utoledo.edu /homepages/nlight/a400flks.htm   (2628 words)

CrossLeft Organizing the Christian Left Progressive Christians are organizing a movement for social and political change, giving voice to Jesus' ministry of compassion, service, and social justice. The Center for Progressive Christianity and CrossWalkAmerica have initiated “WALKING THE TALK”, a nation-wide event and media campaign enabling local congregations to go public with their progressive Christian identity. People will be “walking the talk” all over America this spring and summer in a major initiative to raise the visibility of progressive churches. www.crossleft.org   (571 words)

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