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Sensemaking the ‘social’ in social entrepreneurship Open
In the collective imagination, the practices and outcomes of social entrepreneurship seem to hold hope for a better future. So far, these practices have been largely assumed as idealised types with the ‘social’ in social entrepreneurship u…
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Going It Alone Won’t Work! The Relational Imperative for Social Innovation in Social Enterprises Open
Shifts in the philosophy of the “state” and a growing emphasis on the “Big Society” have placed an increasing onus on a newly emerging organizational form, social enterprises, to deliver innovative solutions to ease societal issues. Howeve…
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Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services: Undertaking transformation? Open
This article discusses some of the challenges encountered in embedding effective and sustainable social enterprise and social innovation within established political institutional systems to deliver local welfare services. It draws upon ev…
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Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics Open
In Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to social media. Examining platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinter…
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Critical Theory and Processual Social Ontology Open
The purpose of this article is to bridge the gap between critical theory as understood in the Frankfurt school tradition on the one hand, and social ontology understood as a reflection on the ontological presuppositions of social sciences …
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Toward a Theory of Social Influence in the New Normal Open
Acknowledging that social influence is complex and multifaceted, this article introduces a new theory to account for the complex relationships among the manifestations of social influence. The new theory, which is called the theory of soci…
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‘State governing of knowledge’ – constraining social work research and practice Open
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been launched, spread, and established in social work in Sweden in the last decade. Today, impact studies and ‘what works’ are the recommended approaches, and medical ways to understand and examine social …
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Social Movements, Collective Action and Activism Open
Collective action and oppositional political activism are firmly established features of any society and pose a challenge to inequality, exclusion and injustice rooted in the oppression of people. Oppressive practices and exclusionary poli…
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Pathways to social value and social change: An integrative review of the social entrepreneurship literature Open
Social entrepreneurship has emerged as an important means of addressing grand challenges. Although research on the topic has accelerated, scholars have yet to articulate an overarching framework that links the different pathways taken by s…
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Social Justice and Social Order: Binding Moralities across the Political Spectrum Open
Two studies explored the relationship between political ideology and endorsement of a range of moral principles. Political liberals and conservatives did not differ on intrapersonal or interpersonal moralities, which require self-regulatio…
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Four conceptions of social pathology Open
This article starts with the idea that the task of social philosophy can be defined as the diagnosis and therapy of social pathologies. It discusses four conceptions of social pathology. The first two conceptions are ‘normativist’ and hold…
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Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development Open
The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development (“The Agenda”) was launched in 2010 by the International Association of Schools of Social Work, the International Council on Social Welfare, and the International Federation of Socia…
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Justice-based social assistance Open
What are the main objectives of social protection institutions in developing countries? What should be their scope and reach? What is the source of their legitimacy? Finding appropriate answers to these questions is essential to understand…
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Critical realism, community psychology, and the curious case of autism: A philosophy and practice of science with social justice in mind Open
Community psychology (CP) is a transformative subdiscipline of psychology which aims to address inequality and social injustice and to attend to wellbeing. It has been argued that CP lacks an underpinning philosophy of science. Philosophie…
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Social work in East Africa: A <i>mzungu</i> perspective Open
Social work in East Africa is confronted with myriad social and structural problems. The heritage of imported theories and concepts from the West is still affecting education and practice. The profession lacks resources and has only limite…
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Social Work, Politics, and Social Policy Education: Applying a Multidimensional Framework of Power Open
The call to promote social justice sets the social work profession in a political context. In an effort to enhance social workers’ preparedness to engage in political advocacy, this article calls on educators to integrate a broad theoretic…
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Social Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneur and Social Enterprise:A Review of Concepts, Definitions and Development in Malaysia Open
A decade ago the concept of social entrepreneurship was rarely discussed in Malaysia even though the practice of delivering social values to the population has been around for years. Efforts that combined the concept of entrepreneurship an…
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Diversifying Academic Philosophy Open
The article asks why, in Western universities, the success of the academic field of comparative philosophy has so far failed to significantly diversify the curricula of academic philosophy. It suggests that comparative philosophy has mainl…
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Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Open
This encyclopedia covers all topics in the philosophy of law and social philosophy, including history, theory, and leading theorists.
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A conceptual framework for taking subversive social work into the classroom Open
Social work educators commonly describe aspects of subversive social work, or intentionally small-scale practice behaviours of caring resistance which fall outside the professional, procedural, or even legal boundaries of their roles. In c…
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Introducing Post-Secular Social Work: Towards a Post-Liberal Ethics of Care Open
This paper considers the post-secular turn in critical theory as enabling vocational social work to re-engage with public religion within deliberative and participatory democratic practices in the interests of social welfare. In particular…
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PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF PERSONALITY Open
Purpose. To analyse the philosophical and psychological contexts of social expectations of personality, to form general scientific provisions, to reveal the properties, patterns of formation, development and functioning of social expectati…
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Reclaiming international social work in the context of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development: Some critical reflections Open
The protection of human rights and the promotion of social justice is a shared spirit manifested within all social work. Islands of local concern are directly affected by global stresses and inequalities, and the Global Agenda for Social W…
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The Fundamental Principles of Social Sciences Open
This paper provides an overview of the fundamental principles of social sciences, encompassing a wide range of academic disciplines dedicated to studying human society and human relationships. Drawing from the author’s understanding of soc…
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How Social Developmentalism Reframed Social Policy in Brazil Open
How Social Developmentalism Reframed Social Policy in Brazil Lena Lavinas Abstract This paper proposes to critically situate the social-developmentalist current of the last decade within the broader moment of finance-dominated accumulation…
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Social Science as a Guide to Social Metaphysics? Open
Work on this paper was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
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Comparing public perceptions of social work and social workers’ expectations of the public view Open
INTRODUCTION: Previous studies have explored public perception of social work and social workers. There is little written about what social workers think about how they, and the profession of social work, are viewed by the public. This art…
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Social geography III: Committing to social justice Open
Social justice is regarded as a key underpinning principle of social geography. This report focuses on social justice in social geography and related issues of inequality, discrimination and intolerance. I appraise debates about social jus…
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The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science's withdrawal from social concerns Open
At some point during the 1950s, mainstream American philosophy of science began increasingly to avoid questions about the role of non-cognitive values in science and, accordingly, increasingly to avoid active engagement with social, politi…
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Chinese Philosophy as a World Philosophy Open
I will argue for three points. The first is on the need to make Chinese philosophy a world philosophy. The second point is that, in order to promote Chinese philosophy as a world philosophy we should not historicize philosophy. Philosophy …