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The article focuses on a symposium examining the future of the Catholic Church and includes the impact of the Second Vatican Council, challenges to papal authority under Pope Francis, and the Church's adaptation in a changing world.

The article focuses on the importance of volunteering as a remedy for societal issues, particularly loneliness and isolation, exacerbated by events like the Covid-19 pandemic. It discusses personal experiences, professional insights, and statistical data to advocate for a national embrace of volunteerism as a means to address social fragmentation and improve community well-being.

The article offers information related to xenophobic violence by South Africans against other Africans, mainly Nigerians in September 2019. It is noted that the current spate of xenophobic attacks started in Pretoria on August 27, 2019, when a taxi driver was allegedly killed by a drug dealer. It is noted that earlier xenophobic attacks have shocked South Africa in 2015 and 2008 targeting foreigners including Nigerians and Kenyans.

A recent study conducted by researchers at University College London (UCL) aimed to evaluate the relationship between different variables and property crime patterns in London during the pandemic. The study utilized dynamic human activity variables, static variables of social disorganization and crime generators, and combinations of both sets of variables to develop regression models. The findings showed that dynamic human activity had a stronger influence on specific types of property crimes compared to other static variables, with theft showing particularly high relationships with dynamic human activity. The study also revealed important nuances in the spatial associations between property crimes and human activity in different contexts during the pandemic. This research provides support for crime risk prediction that considers the impact of dynamic human activity variables and their varying influences in distinct situations. [Extracted from the article]

A recent study conducted by researchers at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, examined the impact of neighborhood-level factors on bullying perpetration and victimization. The study utilized data from the National Survey of Children's Health and found that indicators of social disorganization, such as low socioeconomic status and neighborhood decay, increased the likelihood of both bullying perpetration and victimization. On the other hand, collective efficacy, or the ability of a community to work together to address problems, was found to reduce the odds of bullying. These findings suggest that factors beyond the school environment play a role in bullying outcomes. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers a firsthand look at conditions in Baghdad, Iraq, as of July 2004. Since April most roads into the capital of Iraq have been closed by sporadic combat and marauding gangs of looters. Westerners are special targets. Some elements in the resistance are said to pay $20,000 a head for hostages. So now journalists fly in. After fourteen months of U.S. occupation and alleged reconstruction, Baghdad is tormented by a fever of violence, social breakdown, administrative anarchy and economic decline. Lack of security--the central issue--means lack of electricity, which means no work, which means more violence, and so on. In response, Iraqis either cling to a blind faith that the U.S. will sort things out, or they turn to tradition, self-organization, Islam and armed resistance. Bechtel has the$ 1.8 billion contract to rebuild Iraq's water, sewage and electrical systems. Local engineers say the firm has done next to nothing.

Both press coverage and public speculations concentrate on what is readily visible--the genocidal war waged by the Pakistani Army against the people of East Pakistan; the independence movement there; the terrible plight of the millions of refugees who in the past several months have crossed over into India; revelations about the possible malfeasance, stupidity or just plain bumbling bureaucracy involved with the delivery of those shiploads of military hardware, etc. At the risk of seeming to lack compassion, the author thinks the time is long overdue to mention some of the unmentionables.

Health and Medicine, Mental Health Diseases and Conditions, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychosis, Risk and Prevention Keywords: Health and Medicine; Mental Health Diseases and Conditions; Neurology; Pediatrics; Psychosis; Risk and Prevention EN Health and Medicine Mental Health Diseases and Conditions Neurology Pediatrics Psychosis Risk and Prevention 492 492 1 07/10/23 20230714 NES 230714 2023 JUL 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health Weekly Digest -- Researchers detail new data in psychosis. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the differing views within a family on Israel's judicial crisis, reflecting societal divisions. Topics include the fight over the nature of Jewish Israel, concerns about the erosion of democracy, and the impact on the economy. The family emphasizes the importance of social solidarity and finding common ground.

Keywords: Seoul; South Korea; Asia; Bullying; Health and Medicine; Legal Issues; Mental Health; Social Behavior EN Seoul South Korea Asia Bullying Health and Medicine Legal Issues Mental Health Social Behavior 450 450 1 05/22/23 20230526 NES 230526 2023 MAY 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health Weekly Digest -- Investigators discuss new findings in Social Behavior - Bullying. Funders for this research include Ministry of Education (MOE), Republic of Korea, National Research Foundation of Korea, Research Resettlement Fund for the new faculty of Seoul National University. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the aspects of the various categories of the nations and its trustworthiness according to its characterization. Topics discussed include the various categories of the nation's actors such as international order states, the rational national advantage state, and the state which are fundamentally controlled by groups which are not belong to state and non-state actors. Also mentions ways of negotiations and agreements among the groups.

Chicago, Illinois must be helped, and that soon. This young, boisterous, and somewhat violent city has about reached the end of its road. True, that road is lined with unpleasant and costly memories, with records of both political and private thievery beyond compare. From the police strike, the gas steal, and the Yerkes franchise case of the last century, through the Haymarket riot, the Pullman strike, the race riots, the labor racketeering, the gangsterism and Thompsonism, the million-dollar cinder paths, and the organized tax-dodging of the present decade, Chicago's story has been one of violence and of utter disregard for the legal and human rights of the private citizen and the small taxpayer.

For a demonstration of the war's decreasingly revolutionary and increasingly nationalistic progress, one has only to look at Barcelona. In Barcelona the people have faced the more depressing aspects of war-economic maladjustment, hordes of refugees and consequent overcrowding, shortage of food and fuel during one of the coldest winters ever known, uninterrupted air bombardments, general disruption of social life--without any of the galvanizing factors of proximity to the front. In Barcelona the two mutually antagonistic, electric currents of the war are crossed--the military and the political. If there is a short circuit, it is in Barcelona that the sparks fly.

The article discusses a story which appeared on the Spanish Website Rebelion in September 2015 about the development of a relationship between social movements and progressive governments in Latin America. Topics cited include struggles of social movements caused by neoliberalism including the social fragmentation, flexibilization, and subcontracting and the trend among Latin American countries towards embracing an alternative society which is built by the people.

The article discusses the public health approach to reducing youth gun violence by focusing on different academic areas, including child's psychology, social work, and criminal justice. Topics discussed include homicide rate among African-American youth, gender and racial disparities in minority children, and social disorganization.

This research explores how residents' experiences of unsafety in their neighbourhoods during week-ends are explained by individual factors and residential area characteristics. We are particularly interested in the role of the residential area and its characteristics. Our analysis draws on data from the 2009 Security questionnaire in Helsinki and statistical data com-piled for individual districts in Helsinki. Theoretically our analysis is informed by the urban sociology con-cept of social disorganisation and the idea we have de-veloped from the criminological and sociological liter-ature about how the general sense of insecurity is chan-nelled into unsafety at the residential area level. Even after controlling for individual factors there are quite marked differences between Helsinki districts in residents perceived unsafety. It is interesting to ex-plore the reasons behind these differences. Our find-ings suggest that the risk of experiences of unsafety is greater among women than men, and that young women are particularly vulnerable. The individuals education or labour market position, by contrast, show no associations with perceived unsafety. Living in sub-sidised rental accommodation involves an increased risk of unsafety. The same goes for personal experiences of violence and particularly witnessing violence. The result for residential area characteristics is that living in the vicinity of rail transport links, a high frequency of emergency callouts to deal with public disturbance in-cidents in the residential area and socio-economic dep-rivation expose residents to unsafety. We maintain that the association betvveen socio-economic deprivation in the residential area and perceived insecurity can be understood not only on the basis of the traditional social disorganisation rhesis, but also via what may be described as a channelling process. Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has proposed that the general insecurity and unpredictability that character-ise late modern society may become channelled into concems at a more concrete level. People living in so-cio-economically deprived areas might have to vvitness not only disruptive behaviour that they experience as threarening, but also symbolisin that reminds them of insecurity and engendets a sense of unsafety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores trends in suburbs development in the U.S. as of summer 2012. The trend was reportedly impacted by urban lobotomies in the 1950s and 1960s and housing market boom in the 1980s which feature walkability, density and the single-family houses that lead to physical and social fragmentation. Also mentioned are the effects of rising energy costs on housing and population densities.

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The article focuses on the report concerning the social and economic impact of cholera. It states that cholera outbreaks can cause panic and create reactions such as quarantine, extreme isolation, and utilization of mass chemoprophylaxis. It mentions that global exchange of information about cholera can give updated information to policy-makers, decision-makers, media, and the public. It adds that the information will improve control activities and guidelines on cholera vaccines.

The aim of this report is to present a synthesised analysis of the correlation between the consequences of climate change and armed conflict. The report identifies and explores the progressive link between the ecological and social effects of climate change and how it increases the likelihood of armed conflict. It demonstrates that, whilst there is no direct link between climate change and the increased threat of armed conflict, the ecological and social effects of climate change create, to a varying degree depending on the context of each society, a progressive pathway towards social disruption and armed conflict. The ecological and social effects that are emphasised in this report are resource scarcity, degradation and loss of good agricultural land, economic decline, migration, social fragmentation and political instability. The ecological effects of climate change will not have the same social implications for every society. It is the ability of the individual society to adapt to such ecological changes that is an important factor in determining the degree to which armed conflict becomes an increased threat. The ability to adapt to the consequences of climate change is one that is highly dependent on the institutional structures of individual societies and their access to resources, and therefore is one of great global disproportion. That is to say, there is a great divide between the resource and knowledge accumulation of the global North and South on how to cope with the effects of climate change, and lower the risk of social disruption and conflict. Climate change is a multidimensional issue. Whilst the current discussion on the global level concerns the ecological consequences of climate change and the need for mitigation strategies, the social dimensions of climate change also produce problems that need to be addressed. The following research has been conducted with a focus on the social problems that are predicted to arise from the ecological consequences of climate change and the importance of a society's ability to adapt to these changes. This report argues that, whilst there is not a direct link between climate change and armed conflict, there is a progressive pathway between the ecological and social effects of climate change, social disruption and conflict. The findings reveal a correlation between the ability of a society to adapt to the consequences of climate change and the likelihood of armed conflict. The report identifies three areas of particular importance: demonstrating the progressive link between climate change and the increased likelihood of conflict, the ability of a society to adapt to the ecological effects of climate change, and recommendations on how societies can be aided in the adaptation process. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), climate change is best understood as a 'change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods'. This report focuses on the '[c]hanges in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare'. Whilst there is no direct connection between climate change and armed conflict, it is the adverse effects of climate change that create a progressive pathway towards an increase in the likelihood of social disruption leading to armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study tests the effects of social disorganization on juvenile crimes rates by zip code within two nonmetropolitan counties. It does so by examining the relationships between the selected social disorganization indicators of nontraditional family, residential mobility, and socioeconomic status (poverty) and violent and property crime among juveniles through the use of ANOVA testing. Secondary data obtained from the South Dakota Department of Corrections on adjudicated juveniles and their associated crime and residential location, as well as data from the United States Census Bureau is used and analyzed to test three main hypotheses. Findings indicate that areas characterized by poverty and residential mobility are associated with violent and property crime committed by juveniles. A discussion and implication section is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study assesses an integrated control model to account for adolescent violent behavior. Neighborhood context is hypothesized to reduce informal social control mechanisms, thus affecting violent behavior primarily through informal social controls. These informal social controls are taken from social bond theory and self-control theory. Youth residing in disorganized neighborhoods, having weak social bonds, and reporting a lack of self-control should also be more likely to associate with groups having deviant definitions. The model hypothesizes that adolescent violent behaviors result from weakened social controls due to the environment in which they reside. This hypothesis is tested within the context of a full structural equations model, and it is only partially supported as little of the effect of neighborhood disorganization on violence is empirically channeled through the informal social control measures. Overall, the results indicate that, at least in these data, social disorganization and control theories mostly operate independently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the creation of a range of separate religious schools can prevent integration and encourage separation. It might well be that in fifty years' time, people will look back at this moment and blame us for exacerbating the social fragmentation that characterises modern Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This analysis is an application of social disorganization theory for understanding variations in county crime rates in the state of Minnesota. Social disorganization is seen as the breakdown of community institutions of social control, where indicators of breakdown included such things as family disruption and over-crowding. With few exceptions, measures of social disorganization were found to be correlated with county crime rates, with three variables as showing up as especially important; these are percent of children not living with both parents, per capita alcohol tax collected in the county, and net-migration. Three variables—percent of persons with incomes less than $5000, median income, and percent of adults with a high school education—were correlated with crime in directions opposite than what was predicted. Limitations and suggestions for further research are also provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the social condition of Greece right after the postwar of Europe in 1953. Accordingly, a year after its liberation, Greece has been split by two warring factions; the Leftist EAM or the National Liberation Front and the Right Wing elements. Although it has already been proclaimed that the Right Wing elements had dominated over the leftists, the bloody civil war seemed to never stop. This is allegedly because each has sworn to fight its opponents to death.

The article discusses issues associated with social dysfunction and moral degradation in the U.S. Topics discussed include income inequality and job prospects for Middle Americans of middling education and talent; moral disintegration of white working-class U.S., impact of collapse of marriage norms and disintegrating communities on social life and heightened rhetoric of racial tension and souring attitudes toward immigration.

The article discusses aspects of Communism. It mentions that the nature of Communism changes in which one of the most effective instruments of subversion remains the front organization and the focal points of conflict have shifted from Europe to Africa, Latin America and most notably Southeast Asia. It also explores the Communism exploits the vast turmoil of social disorder and political-economic discontent and become the problem of prosperity in the nation.

Presents information on some recent socio-political developments in Germany. Opinion that Germany is a nation that knows how to use defeat as a means of preparing the way for new aggression; Information that Germany is half-paralyzed by hunger and social disorganization; Note on problems that may arise in establishing a functional economy in Germany; View that German industry should be revived in the interest of Europe as a whole.

The new National Government, Republic of China, now that it has defined its form under the five Yuan system, subsidiary to a State Council headed by a military leader, begins its career with every sign of lively realism in approaching the problem of China's foreign relations. The new regime is showing the most complete blindness toward the domestic problems in China. It proceeds as if domestic problems would settle themselves, if only foreign problems can be solved and a sound working administration be set up. The major domestic problems in China have to do with the land, the status of the peasant and the improvement of his condition, trade-union organization and development.

The article offers information on exponential growth of social media and how it has changed the entire informational landscape. It is noted that authorities have attempted to regulate social media and the wider Internet have been met with creative responses. It is noted that social media is a powerful tool that can be to push agendas that can subvert the rule of law, create panic and social disruption and violence.

The article discusses the presumed coup and assassination against Uganda President Idi Amin Dada, also known as Big Daddy. It states that Amin disappeared from view and resurfaced through Radio Uganda announcements. It says that the assumptions started when anti-Amin Kenya press reported that Amin was ambushed by a squad led by an Ugandan army major and had escaped with minor wounds. It adds that 13 Ugandan military officers and civil servants sought protection in Kenya because of the alleged hostility of Amin's security forces. It mentions the doubt on the possible disturbance in the country since Big Daddy was said to be very fit which seems to contradict the believed reports. However, it says that Western diplomats in Kenya were inclined to believe the assassination attempt.

The article reports on the political and social conditions in Ethiopia under the leadership of its military junta known as the Dergue. It states that the Dergue launched a full-scale campaign to end the civil war in the northern province of Eritrea and to suppress reactionary forces marching towards the Eritrean border. It also outlines the problems faced by the Dergue which include the successive years of drought that resulted to starvation and deaths, social unrest, and bitter oppositions with neighboring countries. It also notes that the regime has failed to solve the country's chaos of a socialist revolution and ancient feudalism. It explains that the lack of government effectiveness has affected the country's business community where law and order are marked by volatility.

The article discusses the changes that happened in the town of Butte, Montana. It mentions that there has been a lot of changes that occurred in the area, which include the disappearance of its gambling joints and whorehouses, the failure of its mining sector which boosted the economic growth of the place in the previous years and the passing out of industrial firms. It affirms that many residents in the town fled in search for employment and many of its residents became arsonist and burn their own properties for the sake of its insurance.

The article reports on the increasing racial disturbances caused by social inequality and poor living conditions in the U.S. It cites the riot involving African Americans in several states such as the bombing of buildings in Nebraska, the looting of White American-owned stores in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the street loitering by Puerto Ricans in New Jersey. Particular focus is also given to the efforts of former presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy to address the social problem in the country.

The article focuses on the book "The Bridgeroom Cometh," by Waldo Frank. Frank's new novel is his most objective, mature and interesting one so far. To be sure, it displays, though to a reduced degree, his chief defects as a novelist. For one thing it redirects our attention to the truth that while Frank oftentimes is a gifted, vigorous and immensely thoughtful writer, to all appearances he is not a natural one. Frank may not be considered consistently endowed with taste. Again and what is more unfortunate, a human touch often is absent from his representations of the jazz age through which he moves his heroine. The feeling imparted by them still is somewhat harsh, infrequently compassionate: in the very face of the circumstance that miserable human and social disorders have existed in periods previous to the war and in post-war decades and doubtless will exist in epochs successive to our own.

The author offers insights on the March 2016 bombing incident by Islamist terrorists at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore, Pakistan. Topics discussed include the security in the region compared to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in the country, the way the media and Pakistani government responded to this incident, and the impact of social fragmentation on Islamist groups in South Asia.

The author presents thoughts on the prospects for capitalism and democracy as of the early 21st century, drawing on the work of economist Joseph Schumpeter's work "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" to assess the significance of slow economic growth, social disharmony, and populism in the West upon the international political and economic order.

The article assesses the cultural disintegration in Turkey. According to the author, there are two groups that are mobilizing their power in the country. They include the first group who is inimical to the western countries and the second group who embraces the western lifestyle. He views that the world would encounter a phenomenon it has never seen before if there is a coup, and that a bloody conflict which seems to be approaching could set the world on dispute.

This article presents views of the author on iPod. Apple Computer Inc., the creators of the iPod, have just released the Shuffle, a smaller, cheaper iPod which brings the price very low. It's cute and sleek, it's the size of a stick of gum and, has enough memory to fit 240 songs. The piece is gently parodying Apple's conventionally hyped-up marketing and loyal, not to say fanatical user base. The iPod is an example of a beautifully designed, convenient and desirable object, which promises to make people's lives better, but whose promise on reflection, as so often, turns out to reinforce the worst in our already denuded culture. In an age of atomisation and social fragmentation it reinforces solipsism, places the individual and that dreaded value choice at the heart of experience, it suggests connection while enforcing separation, it encourages the tuning out of people while occupying social space with them, as if others were mere irritations, and it reduces the experience of music which is an inherently social and collaborative art and medium, to a preselected relationship with the self.

The article discusses three scenarios that may happen when Russian President Vladimir Putin departs from his position, noting how it would affect the country, as well as the U.S., and how the leadership can will be passed without destabilizing the whole system. The scenarios mentioned include the institutionalization and transformation of the so-called Putinism into an ideology, the Spanish option, after Spain's democratic transition, and the collapse or fragmentation of Russia.

The author reflects on the issue of linguistic and cultural diversity. Topics discussed by the author include the social disorganization in Ukraine, the negative outcome of creating and promoting an official language, and the statistical data on the utilization of Spanish language in the U.S. The provision of low-cost or free programs for adult English learners is also suggested.

The authors discuss strategies for improving the economic and social conditions of Great Britain in light of the 2011 riots across the country. They note the role of socioeconomic disengagement and hostility towards government in the unrest. They advocate for social reforms based on the philosophies of British governments during the Victorian era which emphasize collective action, national identity, and the potential of the individual to solve societal problems and distribute wealth.

The article discusses the impact of the social unrest in the Middle East, which represents a democratic awareness, considered as the Arab Spring. It states that Senator John Kerry has compared the turmoil in the country to the fall of Berlin Wall and Central and Eastern Europe's release from the governance of the Soviet Union.

The article offers news briefs related to political, economic, and social issues in China. Dalai Lama's comment of East Turkestan has triggered anger of China's government. China is planning to boost the development in Xinjiang, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), and other Tibetan-inhabited areas. The Communist Party's effort to preserve monopoly on power through state violence and ideology is intensifying social fractures in the country.