Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development: Its Premises - and the Social Economy Basel example of practice

The SSE is a viable strategy in dealing with some contemporary problems known both in industrial and developing countries. SSE is contextualized against the background of recent developments: The liberalization of goods and capital flows world wide, continued industrialization, and the increased global division of labour. Addressed is how local populations could reach certain objectives and satisfy certain needs using techniques characteristic of SSE and, thus, carve out a social and economic space of their own vis-à-vis anonymous markets, global actors, local and national elites. Within this self governed space, it is suggested, a path can be layed for the necessary transition towards local, social and ecological sustainability. The Social Economy Basel www.sozialeoekonomie.org (SEB, founded 1996) will serve as an example to suggest how SSE principles could be operationalized into organizational practice

Estrangement: Marx\u27s conception of human nature and the division of labor

Estrangement: Marx\u27s conception of human nature and the division of labor, examines the idea of estrangement in philosophy and the social sciences through an analysis of Marx\u27s works. This book elucidates a functional meaning for the term estrangement and explores Marx\u27s views on the division of labor and human nature.https://surface.syr.edu/books/1021/thumbnail.jp

Transnational social work: a new paradigm with perspectives

In the course of its professionalisation, social work seems to have got trapped in national social policy frames while our world is increasingly marked by transnational processes. Due to its structural location within nation states, therefore, social work generally has its hands tied to adequately respond to ‘globalisation’, particularly in the almost total absence of transnational or world social policy frames. Given this situation, what can the profession do? This chapter explores how social work could experience a professional renaissance by explicitly reflecting its role and activities from a transnational perspective. First is explored what a transnational social work perspective is, and what it is not. Second, the possible locations are identified as to where transnational social work could already be practiced. Third, key knowledge dimension are identified for the entire social work field to move forward in adopting a transnational perspective in training, research, service delivery systems and practice

Sozialpolitik Anders Denken. Das Verursacherprinzip – von der Umweltpolitischen zur Sozialpolitischen Anwendung

The “polluter pays” principle in environmental law assumes that the actor would reduce or avoid adverse effects of his actions if he had to bear the consequences of those actions (internalization of effects). Such internalization can generally be done in two ways: either by avoiding or eliminating the harmful effects or by wearing the financial consequences of the injury. It is therefore on the one hand to have an incentive effect, on the other to a compensatory effect. Pineiro and Wallimann apply these societal cost principles from the environmental world to the social realm, where social problems can be seen as negative externalities caused by anything or anyone - which raises the question of the causes or perpetrators. It is indisputable that social problems, in fact, usually occur as a result of human activity, but to clearly identify the root cause can be infinitely more difficult than in the environmental field, where the evidence can be done using scientific inquiry. In advocating their case, Pineiro and Wallimann develop guidelines for a possible application of the polluter pays principle to the social sector, and additionally, highlight selected societal problem areas in the area of alcohol, unemployment, and disabilities where this could be applied.https://surface.syr.edu/books/1020/thumbnail.jp

Das Zeitalter der Knappheit – Ressourcen, Konflikte, Lebenschancen

Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann establish a disturbing but realistic scenario of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Authors consider a number of cause-and-effect situations on industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide, to name a few. This volume is a critical contribution to the field and will serve as an ideal introduction to courses in the environment, population, resources, genocide, and social conflict.https://surface.syr.edu/books/1018/thumbnail.jp

Sozialpolitik nach dem Verursacherprinzip : Beispiele der Anwendung bei Sucht, Gewichtsproblemen, Medikamentenmissbrauch, Arbeitslosigkeit, Prostitution

Dieses einzigartige Buch ist der Praxisband des bekannten und renommierten Experten im Bereich der modernen Sozialpolitik. In mehr und mehr Ländern wird punktuell das Verursacherprinzip auch in der Sozial- und Gesundheitspolitik angewendet, leider zu bruchstückhaft und oft wenig reflektiert. Sozialpolitik nach dem Verursacherprinzip ist genau jenes Thema, dass kontroversiell diskutiert wird. Prominente Fallbeispiele wie zB im Bereich der Tabakindustrie in den USA prägen die Diskussion und gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurse. Im Idealfall sollen mit dem Verursacherprinzip Soziale Probleme und Belastungen an alle dafür verantwortlichen Akteure zurückgebunden und so vermieden werden. Akteure, die andern Schaden zufügen, müssen dafür die Verantwortung übernehmen. Kosten zu „sozialisieren“ während Nutzen und Gewinne „privatisiert“ werden, soll unterbunden werden. Das Verursacherprinzip kann mit verschiedenen Methoden angewendet werden. Sie sind politisch mehr oder weniger gut akzeptiert und haben unterschiedliche Wirksamkeit. Hier ist die Debatte voll im Gang. Viel davon ist uns schon seit 40 Jahren aus der Umweltpolitik bekannt. Dieses Buch zeigt an aktuellen Beispielen einige Möglichkeiten (und Schwierigkeiten) auf, das Verursacherprinzip in der Sozialpolitik systematisch anzuwenden.https://surface.syr.edu/books/1031/thumbnail.jp

Urban Agriculture as Embedded in the Social and Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities

The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is a viable strategy in dealing with some contemporary problems known both in industrial and developing countries. Addressed is how local populations could reach certain objectives and satisfy certain needs using techniques characteristic of SSE and, thus, carve out a social and economic space of their own vis-à-vis anonymous markets, global actors, local and national elites. Illustrated further is this strategy on the example of Urban Agriculture Basel, a unit of the Social Economy Basel. Within this self governed space, it is suggested, a path can be laid for the necessary transition towards local, social and ecological sustainability. The Social Economy Basel www.sozialeoekonomie.org (SEB, founded 1996) and Urban Agriculture Basel (founded 2010) serve as an example to suggest how SSE principles could be operationalized into organizational practice

Towards the Holocaust: the social and economic collapse of the Weimar Republic

The social system of Weimar Germany has always been controversial. From the start 1Weimar society was characterized by a peculiar fluidity: between 1913 and 1933, the German Reich, commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, was a virtual laboratory of sociocultural experimentation. In the streets of German towns and cities, political armies competed for followers--a process punctuated by assassinations and advertised by street battles embroiling monarchists, imperial militarists, nihilistic war veterans, Communists, Socialists, anarchists, and National Socialists. Parliamentary activity involved about twenty-five political parties whose shifting alliances produced twenty governmental cabinets with an average lifespan of less than nine months.https://surface.syr.edu/books/1016/thumbnail.jp

Misreading Weber: The Concept of \u27Macht\u27

Max Weber\u27s definition of power (Macht), as presented in English texts, is examined in the light of the German original. Differences and discussed and an attempt is made to convey the sense of Weber\u27s original definition. Examples of research based on operationalizations of earlier versions are then evaluate