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This open access book introduces a groundbreaking concept - civil society elites - and serves as an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in the complexities of power and influence within contemporary civil societies. Through a series of unique empirical studies, the authors offer a comprehensive examination of the individuals occupying the upper echelons of influential civil society organisations and movements. By delving into the factors that propel individuals into key positions and examining the connections between civil society leaders within and across sectors, the book offers insight into the mechanisms that shape access to powerful positions in civil societies. As a reflection of current debates on elites and populism, the book furthermore explores the expression and conceptualisation of counter-elite positions and criticism of civil society elites. With its original approach, the book serves as a catalyst for further research into inequalities, power structures and elites within civil societies. Håkan Johansson is Professor of Social Work at Lund University, Sweden. He has a long-standing interest into studies of civil society, which includes street protests, social movements, lobbying and advocacy as well as studies into Europeanisation of civil societies and civil society elites. Anna Meeuwisse is Professor of Social Work at Lund University, Sweden. Her main research interests are social movements and the role of civil society in welfare states. In recent years, she has conducted research on the Europeanisation of Swedish civil society, elitisation processes, and on transnational conservative movements that oppose sexual and reproductive rights.

Social structure. --- Equality. --- Social service. --- Political sociology. --- Social Structure. --- Social Work. --- Political Sociology.

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In the pandemic, the state in Germany reacts in lockdown with restrictions within the private sphere of a shutdown of the leisure and cultural sphere, while the work contexts are only peripherally affected. Out of this crisis, new techniques of leadership are intensifying. Discipline and norms are no longer suitable enough to ensure productivity in today's world, which is why there is a shift towards self-directed processes and mechanisms such as flexibility, motivation and goal setting. The actors are therefore no longer assigned a fixed place in the sense of discipline, but are encouraged to surrender to the new control mechanisms and to adapt themselves again and again with a high degree of self-control. The realistic fear of contagion reinforces the actors' willingness to submit to these forms of mobilization. The Editor PD Dr. Rolf Hepp teaches at the Institute for Sociology at the FU Berlin and coordinates the SUPI-Network.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Social aspects --- Social structure. --- Equality. --- Social Structure.

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Le savoir-vivre existe dans toutes les cultures et à toutes les époques. A l'heure des "incivilités", la politesse reste une valeur phare dans les sondages. Preuve s'il en est de son utilité et de son actualité. Elle ne se réduit pas à une suite de prescriptions. Système de valeurs fondé sur le respect, la reconnaissance et la réciprocité, elle permet à chacun de trouver sa place, de défendre son image et de construire son identité. Code de conduite, elle régule les contacts sociaux dans l'espace privé comme dans la vie professionnelle, avec ses proches comme avec les inconnus. Connaître les enjeux et les fonctions de la politesse, c'est comprendre ce qui fonde le lien social et la convivialité. C'est aussi savoir mieux vivre ensemble.

Conduct of life --- Courtesy --- Social norms --- Social structure

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Amid the opportunities and challenges we face at the dawn of the fifth industrial revolution, Digital Literacy and Inclusion presents a carefully curated selection of case studies, theories, research, and best practices based on digital literacy as a prerequisite for effective digital inclusion. More than a dozen experts provide deep insights in stories, research reports, and geographical studies of digital literacy and inclusion models, all from a multi-disciplinary perspective that includes engineering, social sciences, and education. Digital Literacy and Inclusion also highlights a showcase of real-world digital literacy initiatives that have been adopted by communities of practice around the globe. Contributors explore myriad aspects and modalities of digital literacy: digital skills related to creativity, urban data literacy, digital citizenship skills, digital literacy in education, connectivity literacy, online safety skills, problem-solving andcritical-thinking digital skills, data literacy skills, mobile digital literacy, algorithmic digital skills, digital health skills, etc. They share the principles and techniques behind successful initiatives and examine the dynamics and structures that enable communities to achieve digital literacy efficiently and sustainably. Their practical solutions, propositions, and findings provide theoretically grounded and evidence-based facts that inform interventions intended to ensure that all citizens have and can enhance their digital literacy while meaningfully and responsibly participating in the digital economy and society. The ideas and histories in this book will appeal to scholars and researchers in the social sciences, engineering, education, sustainable digital technologies, and transformation, and will also be of interest to practitioners in industry, policy, and government.

Computer logic --- Telecommunication. --- Social structure. --- Equality. --- Digital media. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Social Structure. --- Digital and New Media.

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“This is a groundbreaking re-evaluation, review and extension of Elias and Scotson’s model of established–outsider relations. A rich array of examples — from the 'rainbow nationalism' of minoritised sexual and gender groups, to the plight of Ukrainian Roma refugees — are explored as part and parcel of processes of post-community transformation and established–outsider reconfiguration in Poland… This is a major contribution to scholarship across a range of fields, its significant far-reaching and its conceptual implications manifold.” —Professor Jason Hughes, Professor of Sociology, CSSAH RIKE Lead, School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson’s The Established and The Outsiders to map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland after 1989. Looking at gender and sexual orientation, nationalism and patriotism, race and class, antifeminism and homophobia, elitist and populist imaginaries, religious and political ideals and ideologies, hate speech, and the crisis of the rule of law, this book tracks how inequalities are transformed into figurations of the have and the have-nots by way of spatial, symbolic and institutional exclusion. This edited collection is rooted in a socio-historical understanding of the trajectory of Polish society before and since the fall of Communism over thirty years ago, and a critical assessment of the dramatic turn that Polish society has taken since the beginning of the democratic backsliding in 2015. Professor Marta Bucholc is Director of the Centre of Figurational Research, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She leads the Polish National Science Centre project on national habitus formation in Poland, as well as the ERC Consolidator project ABORTION FIGURATIONS and the Polish team of the Volkswagen Foundation project “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism”. She is a Fellow of Norbert Elias Foundation, Amsterdam, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Universalism and Particularism KFG at the University of Munich. .

Poland --- Social conditions. --- Sociology. --- Culture. --- Political sociology. --- Social structure. --- Equality. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Political Sociology. --- Social Structure.