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Information-sharing behavior constitutes one of the key elements for the success of online charitable crowdfunding (OCC) projects, but it has received relatively limited academic attention so far. From a relational perspective, this study proposed a conceptual model to better understand the relationship between consciousness of social face, two types of impression management motivations, OCC informationsharing behavior, and perceived relational value. An online survey was conducted among 1,166 Internet users in China (47.2% were male; 70.8% fell within the age group of 18-35 years old). The finding showed that consciousness of social face was positively associated with information-sharing behavior through the positive mediation of promotion-focused impression management motivation and the negative mediation of prevention-focused impression management motivation. Furthermore, informationsharing behavior was positively associated with perceived relational value. This study sheds light on the impact of social face consciousness on prosocial information-sharing behavior through impression management motivations and offers practical implications concerning how to promote individuals' OCC information sharing behavior on social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gauging the extent of consumers' willingness to choose electric vehicles rather than conventional vehicles has become increasingly important. Based on the push–pull–mooring framework, this study aims to examine how these three factors influence consumers' intention to shift from conventional vehicles to electric vehicles. Based on 886 validated questionnaires from six pilot cities, findings reveal that push factors such as price consciousness and social influence are effective in convincing consumers to switch from conventional vehicles to electric ones. Moreover, pull factors, including perceived benefit and convenience, attract consumers to switch to EVs. In line with our expectations, mooring factors such as perceived risk and inertia have a negative effect on consumers' switching intentions. Furthermore, perceived risk and inertia significantly reduce the positive effect of push and pull factors on consumers' switching intentions. These findings provide important implications for China's transition to low-carbon transportation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the essence and content of communication, which, being an element of social interaction, ensures the transmission and exchange of information in various spheres of human activity. The analysis of linguistic, socio-psychological, activity, cultural, informational and semiotic approaches carried out in the article made it possible to understand the diversity of ideas about communication, to formulate a more complete idea of its essence and content. It also made it possible to identify inaccuracies and discrepancies in the understanding of the concept of communication, which is important for further development and clarification of the theoretical and applied aspects of this problem, and will also contribute to the development of recommendations on the formation of effective interaction and dialogue, reducing misunderstandings, avoiding conflicts and improving the quality of relations, including and legal. The article analyzes the key components of communication. Special attention is paid to its essence, which consists in creating and maintaining social relationships. It plays an important role in the formation of social consciousness, cultural identity and social integration. Communication ensures the coordination of actions and decision-making, promotes the exchange of knowledge and experience, as well as the formation of public opinion. Emphasis is placed on the fact that, by its very nature, it is a multifaceted and dynamic process, covering various aspects of interaction between people. Such interactions include verbal and non-verbal means of communication, emotional and rational components, and social and cultural contexts. It contributes to the preservation of cultural heritage and adaptation to changes in society. It is substantiated that the main purpose of communication is the transfer and exchange of information, knowledge, emotions and ideas to achieve mutual understanding. It was found that the content of communication includes informational, emotional, motivational and evaluative aspects. Informational content refers to facts, data, and knowledge that are conveyed during communication. The emotional aspect reflects the emotional state of subjects and affects their perception of information. The motivational aspect is related to the intentions and goals that drive communication. The evaluative aspect includes the evaluation of information and the reaction to it, which determines the course of communication and the subsequent behavior of subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: With the development of women's sports, the mechanism of barriers to women's leisure sports participation has attracted extensive attention from the academic community. Despite its significant impact, there are few empirical studies on intra-personal barriers. Consequently, a structural equation model was established to examine the relationships between traditional social gender awareness, gender bias, gender stereotypes, and barriers to participation in leisure sports. Methods: In this study, a total of 508 questionnaires were collected and analyzed using AMOS 24.0 software for structural equation modeling. After model testing, the relationships between the variables were examined. Results: The results of the statistical analyses indicated that traditional gender awareness could serve as an antecedent variable for barriers to participation in leisure sports, and that gender stereotypes mediated the relationship between traditional gender awareness and barriers to participation in leisure sports. The study also concluded that gender bias could not mediate the relationship between traditional gender awareness and participation barriers in leisure sports, but gender bias and gender stereotypes could act as chain mediators in the process of the influence of traditional gender awareness on barriers to contact leisure sports. Discussion: This study emphasizes the need for women to break down the traditional social gender awareness, gender bias, gender stereotypes, and other intra-personal barriers when engaging in leisure sport participation. According to this study, the promotion of sustained and healthy development of women's sport requires the breaking down of traditional social gender awareness education and the creation of more gender-inclusive sports policies and environments. The significance of the study is that by proposing and confirming the internal participation barriers to women's participation in contact leisure sports, it will lead to the ideological liberation of women's gender perspectives, so that they can break down the participation barriers to contact leisure sports, participate in sports activities, and enjoy the right to play sports on an equal footing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of automatic driving and path planning technology, predicting the moving trajectory of pedestrians in dynamic scenes has become one of key and urgent technical problems. However, most of the existing techniques regard all pedestrians in the scene as equally important influence on the predicted pedestrian's trajectory, and the existing methods which use sequence‐based time‐series generative models to obtain the predicted trajectories, do not allow for parallel computation, it will introduce a significant computational overhead. A new social trajectory prediction network, Social‐ATPGNN which integrates both temporal information and spatial one based on ATPGNN is proposed. In space domain, the pedestrians in the predicted scene are formed into an undirected and non fully connected graph, which solves the problem of homogenisation of pedestrian relationships, then, the spatial interaction between pedestrians is encoded to improve the accuracy of modelling pedestrian social consciousness. After acquiring high‐level spatial data, the method uses Temporal Convolutional Network which could perform parallel calculations to capture the correlation of time series of pedestrian trajectories. Through a large number of experiments, the proposed model shows the superiority over the latest models on various pedestrian trajectory datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Triple X is largely unheard of: in global medical science where there is only a partial knowledge, and in welfare and community-based institutions which have virtually no knowledge of it at all. This article focusses on the unheard voices of Triple X families: on the reflections of ten UK parents on nurturing their daughters with Triple X throughout their childhood and into adulthood and the world of work. Layers of daughters' individual characteristics, institutional bodies' knowledge and preparedness to adapt, and centrally, parental interventions in daughters' lives are assessed to consider these young women's own autonomy and community citizenship as they consolidate. Using a Bourdieusian framework, and testing against a benchmark of cultural and social capital, the article assesses the position of families of varying social classes who are differently able to mitigate institutional inadequacy. But equally, the article looks into the notion of disability as a factor independent of the standard system of generational capital transfer. Granted that (as it emerges) they effectively live their lives outside the typical familial socio-economic structure, adult daughters' individual abilities and achievements relating to their own growing social consciousness and contributiveness are investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article shows the prevalence of identities of Russians related to subjective well-being (identity with people of the same material wealth, with those who are in constant need and with those who have achieved success in life) based on the research data of the Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS. The analysis of these identities effectively complements the traditional methods of studying well-being by assessing it not “in the moment”, but over a long period of time, since the identities are formed over a long period of time and are stable. It is shown that these three symbolic identities allow to “capture” different components of subjective well-being. Self-identification with those in constant need reflects the disadvantage caused not only by low income and experienced deprivations, but also by the gap between a person's aspirations and actual achievements. Identity with those who have achieved success is closely related to overall satisfaction with life and with one's position in the status hierarchy, reflecting the achievement of goals that are important to the individual (not necessarily related to material well-being). Identity with people of the same material well-being is more common among the well-off population, as many of the disadvantaged try to find more favorable grounds for positioning themselves in society. As these identities reflect different aspects of subjective well-being, the coexistence of apparently mutually exclusive identities is typical of Russians. It is also shown that the self-identifications of representatives of the mass strata of the country's population based on their wellbeing occupy an important place in their identification system, and that the prevalence of these identities is stable over time, although they are no longer among the “nuclear” identities. They are relatively more pronounced among representatives of polar groups in terms of their place in the system of social inequality. At the same time, as a whole, they allow to define the position of a person in the system of social inequalities quite clearly.

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The high degree of social consciousness among Generation Z (Gen Z) makes the cohort a critical target for nonprofits. Our study investigates the relative impact of advertising appeals based on guilt and sympathy on Gen Z students in the U.S. The study fills a research gap by comparing the impact of both emotions in one study and examining their effect on Gen Z vs. non-Gen Z individuals. Findings indicate that advertising appeals eliciting guilt and sympathy are more impactful among Gen Z than non-Gen Z individuals, but that sympathy is more effective among the Gen Z cohort. We relate these findings to sympathy being more sensitive to the Gen Z desire not to be manipulated by guilt. In addition, the effect of sympathy is stronger among women than men among the Gen Z cohort. Results are valuable to nonprofits seeking to make inroads on charitable giving with Gen Z. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Albanian customary law represents an unwritten set of rules, which were established ad hoc by courts of elders or assemblies and aimed to regulate social relations in various fields of life. The implementation of these norms, was provided by the force of tradition, social consciousness and the patriarchal authority of the people’s self-government bodies. It is created by people over the centuries, not from a particular person, or a special legislative body. It was a reflecion of the material conditions of life in human consciousness and therefore has a double character. The purpose of the research paper is to analyze that on one hand it preserves the characteristic rates of the old tribal order (common ownership), while on the other hand it regulates the category of private ownership with all its features (eg. property rights do not expire). The methodology I used for the research paper is the analytical method. The result of the research paper is that rates of Albanian customary law are summarized in canons, such as: the Canon of Leke Dukagjini (The Canon of the highlands), the Canon of Laberia, the Canon of Skanderbeg (Canon of Arberia), the Canon of Luma. These canons acted in different times and space: so the Canon of Laberia acted during 11th century in southwestern Albania, the Canon of Leke Dukagjini and the Canon of Skanderbeg acted during 15th century in the northern highlands, as well as central Albania, nonetheless they have many similarities. Women, according to these ancient rules, are considered to be of a lower social status: they do not share either the rights and privileges or the responsibilities of men. In conclusion, as severe and discriminating to women as it may seem, customary law has to be seen in a historical context. The preservation of customary law was one of the most important elements in helping the Albanian people to maintain their individuality over the centuries and under different invasions. Although customary law is inversely proportional to the rise and development of the modern state, it shows distinguished lawmaking capacities and laid the foundations of today’s positive law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language Proficiency and Cultural Awareness: Impact of Black Lives Matter in EFL Instruction. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a Black Lives Matter (BLM) teaching unit designed to enhance students' cultural awareness and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) skills. Employing a mixed-method approach, the study investigates students' viewpoints through online questionnaires. The methodology integrates pre- and post-questionnaires to analyse the pedagogical impact, drawing on established theories of communicative competence and intercultural pedagogy to contextualize the study. The results demonstrate that the project significantly contributed to students' social consciousness development while also improving their English language proficiency. REZUMAT. Competența lingvistică și conștientizarea culturală: Impactul unității didactice Black Lives Matter în contextul EFL. Această lucrare evaluează eficiența unei unități didactice Black Lives Matter (BLM) concepută pentru a conștientiza studenții la nivel cultural, dar și pentru a le îmbunătăți abilitățile de limba engleză ca limbă străină (EFL). Studiul investighează opiniile studenților prin intermediul unor chestionare online, printr-o abordare metodologică mixtă. Metodologia folosită integrează chestionare aplicate înainte și după desfășurarea unității didactice pentru a analiza impactul pedagogic, bazându-se pe teorii consacrate ale competenței comunicative și pedagogiei interculturale pentru a contextualiza studiul. Rezultatele demonstrează că proiectul a contribuit semnificativ la dezvoltarea conștientizării sociale a studenților, îmbunătățindu-le totodată competența lingvistica în limba engleză. Cuvinte-cheie: Black Lives Matter (BLM); conștientizare culturală; abilități în limba engleză; studii literare și culturale; conștiință socială Article history: Received 18 July 2024; Revised 17 November 2024; Accepted 25 November 2024; Available online 10 December 2024; Available print 30 December 2024.

The involvement of the private sector in fostering sustainable development is propelled by significant advancements in commercial and industrial spheres. However, despite these advancements, there is a noticeable decline in corporate social responsibility, attributed to various factors such as scepticism among owners or board members regarding sustainability concepts and the perceived high costs associated with adopting sustainable technologies. This paper endeavours to investigate the relationship between community responsiveness and the extent of businesses' commitment to sustainability in the context of Jordan. Utilizing a mixed methods approach comprising interviews and a comprehensive questionnaire, data was collected from a sample of two hundred and ten members of the Jordan community through an online platform. The collected data underwent rigorous analysis including descriptive and regression analyses as well as relevant correlations. Encouragingly, the findings of this study reveal a robust association between individuals' social consciousness and their support for businesses and organizations operating within the Jordan community. Future research endeavours could further explore additional influential factors. The conclusions drawn from this research hold potential significance as they may provide valuable insights for incentivizing businesses to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency in cultivating a genuine societal commitment to sustainability, thereby contributing to scholarly discourse on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors talk about the methodological problems of training designers in transitional educational systems of postcolonial society. They solve new theoretical perspectives of integrative design teaching for future specialists. The authors aim not only to generalize the theoretical foundations, but also to create a single relatively closed model of formation of artistic and graphic skills and abilities of future designers and even offer illustrative tasks with simultaneous use of different types of social consciousness and the main (generic) types of modern design - environmental, universal., communicative (communicative-digital) and futuristic. Achieving this goal was possible by using only theoretical methods - system analysis of literature, historical and typological observations, epistemological generalizations extrapolations within an integrative understanding of the object of transformation and pedagogical modeling. The main practical achievements of the article are the universal multilevel model, its explication and illustrative examples of the tasks of its implementation. The theoretical results of the article were a new understanding of the functionality of artifacts, the secondary nature of the aesthetic component, the integration of its practical and universal communicative functions. The article may be of interest to teachers of design departments and courses, design students, design practitioners and specialists in the field of advanced design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This comparative analysis scrutinized the entrepreneurship education curriculum and social-emotional learning, aiming to distinguish the similarities and discrepancies between the two programs based on the ten components of the Acker curriculum. Methods: This study involved a detailed comparison that was conducted through the utilization of the Brody method. Results: The study revealed that both initiatives share commonalities concerning the instructor's role, educational materials, group dynamics, geographical setting, and scheduling. Nonetheless, distinctions exist in their underlying principles, goals, subject matter, educational tasks, and evaluation techniques. Nevertheless, both schemes contribute to enhancing the individual and social growth of children, enabling them to cultivate mutual competencies in self-awareness, self-esteem, self-regulation, strategic planning, social consciousness, interpersonal communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. Conclusions: The outcomes of this investigation serve as a foundational exploration and open up the opportunity to amalgamate these two programs, thereby crafting a more beneficial and efficient educational framework to equip individuals with the necessary skills for a productive role in forthcoming societies. Moreover, this integration would avert the need for multiple and/or conflicting programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the evolving landscape of Indonesian cinema and its profound societal ramifications, focusing on the film 99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa (99 Lights in the European Sky). Using critical discourse analysis and drawing insights from Baudrillard's theoretical framework on simulation, this research systematically unpacks the ideological underpinnings embedded in the film. At the heart of this investigation is the symbiotic relationship between Islam and popular culture as manifested through the film's discursive constructions. The study combines Jäger and Maier's method of critical discourse analysis with Baudrillard's conceptualization of simulacra and simulacrum. It examines how the film's audio-visual elements shape perceptions of Islam within the broader social consciousness. The study brings to light the complex interplay of power dynamics and reveals how societal structures and practices contribute to the formation and perpetuation of these representations. Significantly, the research underscores the transformative potential of popular culture, presented in the film as an imaginative force, to shape the values and perspectives of contemporary young Muslim audiences, providing a new understanding of the role of popular culture in shaping religious identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Today, we encounter the influence of media on public consciousness in various aspects of our lives – from news portals to social networks. The way we perceive and understand the world around us is significantly shaped by media influence. This calls for a detailed examination of this phenomenon through the lens of socio-philosophical analysis. In the modern information society, where information is primarily transmitted through media channels, understanding the impact of media on public consciousness becomes crucial for revealing different aspects of social processes. The relationship between society and the media is viewed not only as a means of information transmission but also as an active process of interaction that shapes public opinion, influences stereotypes, and cultural values. The relevance of this study lies in understanding this influence, which will help uncover the complex mechanisms of interaction between informational structures and society, as well as explore potential pathways for societal development. The aim of this research is to examine the impact of media on public consciousness from a social and philosophical perspective. We seek to analyze the role of media in shaping public opinion, defining values and stereotypes, and its influence on the sociocultural landscape. Our task also involves identifying the ethical aspects of media usage and revealing the possible consequences of this influence on society. Over the past two decades, the word «media» has increasingly been used both in academic discussions and everyday communication. This term has gained popularity in the lexicon of journalists, PR managers, programmers, military personnel, politicians, and has also found its place in the academic context, especially in the humanities. It is discussed across various fields, from philology to sociology, from communication theory to philosophy. This wide range of usage sometimes complicates the clear definition of its meaning. Thus, it would not be redundant to recall the key concepts associated with this term. «Media», as a term, gained widespread use in the journalistic environment and in its literal sense, becoming associated with mass communication tools. Soon, it found its way into the realm of sociology. Scholars began to study and critically analyze both the concept of «media» itself and the phenomenon it represents. Media are no longer perceived merely as intermediaries between events and their recipients. They are seen as tools for manipulating public opinion. The function of the media is not only to transmit information, but also to shape the ways this information is perceived. It is from this point that the analysis of the media phenomenon begins, which encompasses the study of its historical, social, and political impacts on public life. To achieve the set objective, we will employ a review of literature, scientific articles, and publications from the fields of philosophy, sociology, and media studies. We plan to explore various approaches to understanding the impact of media on public consciousness and analyze their scientific foundations. In particular, we will consider theories related to the formation of stereotypes, ideologies, and the interaction of media with political processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article attempts to analyze the relationship between three perfectionism scales, such as rigid perfectionism, self-critical perfectionism and narcissistic perfectionism, and one’s own appearance on social media among a group of emerging adults. The final sample size for the analysis was 174 participants aged 18 to 24 years. Methods used were the Big Three Perfectionism Scale (BTPS) and the Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale (ASMC) translated into Polish. The conducted reliability analyses showed a satisfactory level of internal consistency. Hypotheses were confirmed using linear regression analysis. The gender of the subjects and time spent on social media were also taken into account. Self-critical perfectionism was shown to explain variation in the social media self- -awareness dimension to a greater extent than rigid perfectionism. Lower severity of the narcissistic perfectionism dimension wasshown to explain variability in the social media self-awareness dimension to a lesser extent than self-critical perfectionism. Differences were observed between the perfectionism styles manifested in the context of social media appearance awareness among men and women. The presumed mechanisms explaining the results: comparison bias with dissimilar models, satisfaction of the need for self-validation, and differences in goals and motivations for social media usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amidst the transformative initiatives set forth by the Agenda 2030, literature, along with other cultural expressions, assumes a pivotal role. This research seeks to scrutinize the perceptions of university students undergoing teacher training regarding the roles of literary education and digital tools in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Employing a descriptive crosssectional methodology, the quantitative analysis is presented through descriptive statistics derived from a customized questionnaire administered to 237 students. The questionnaire consists of sixteen items rated on a ten-point Likert scale. The instrument demonstrated satisfactory reliability (a = .749) and is delineated into three factors based on confirmatory factor analysis, affirming its robustness as an analytical tool. The findings underscore the significance students place on comprehending the SDGs in their prospective roles as educators fostering social consciousness and civic responsibility. Nevertheless, they also reveal a limited self-awareness regarding proficiency in digital resources linked to literary education that could amplify critical reading through the lenses of sustainability and social consciousness.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research provides a comprehensive overview of micro-influence marketing, analyzing the characteristics of influencers and the mechanisms of their impact. A systematic review was conducted, encompassing 2091 citing articles and references across 74 studies involving 95 research institutions and over 12,000 samples. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from computer science, information science, communication, culture, psychology, sociology, education, business, and management, this study outlines the distinct features of micro-influencers. These features include performable authenticity, affinity expressed through consistency and transparency, musical and artistic media talent, and competitive individual traits. The research synthesizes antecedents of trust and attachment mechanisms commonly employed in influencer theory, taking an objective standpoint and minimizing emphasis on audience engagement and perception to trigger influence. The findings highlight that followers' pursuit of self-branding, driven by self-consciousness, social consciousness, credibility, and social presence, significantly influences the impact of self-expressive products on the audience's purchase intention. The research contributes to micro-influence marketing theory by integrating mechanics, offering practical implications for micro-influencers, and suggesting future research agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the phenomenon of service learning applied to a personal health course comprised of liberal arts students enrolled at a public community college. General themes emerging from the service-learning cases studied here include curriculum contextualization, workforce competencies, social consciousness, and personal development. The feasibility of embedding service-learning activities within a personal health course, given budgetary and staff limitations, is also examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The point of departure for this article is the small wooden chest that the Countess of Empúries, Maria Álvarez de Xèrica (c. 1310-1374), commissioned to hold the instructions for the annual commemorations of her death. I address the wills, tomb, death, funeral rites, and anniversary celebrations of the countess as a grand performance, a work deployed over space and time. In addition, I focus on the agency of the memory containers: chests, tomb, boxes. The aim of this exploration of the acts, desires, objects, and people that made up this performance is to understand them not only in and of themselves, but as parts of a network. The study reveals the potential of such a network to construct memory by forging a constellation of nodes of objects but also of family ties, and political and social consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To test the relationship between social face consciousness (SFC) and life satisfaction (LS) among new employees in a Chinese context, we administered the Consciousness of Social Face Scale, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, the Perceived Social Support Scale, and the Ruminative Responses Scale to 624 employees with 1 year or less of service in the job market. The results showed that SFC had a significant negative predictive effect on new employees' LS, and indirectly affected new employees' LS through perceived social support. Further, rumination played a significant role in moderating the influence of SFC on new employees' LS; specifically, for new employees with a low level of rumination, SFC had no significant predictive effect on LS, whereas for those with a high level of rumination, SFC had a significant negative predictive effect on their LS. Thus, SFC inhibits new employees' LS and affects LS through the intermediary role of perceived social support, while rumination moderates this relationship. This study provides insight into how new employees can improve their LS in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increased interest in social entrepreneurship at the organizational level has a broad impact on human resource development (HRD) professionals. Organizations with an enhanced social consciousness may employ HRD training to create awareness of social issues and facilitate social movement learning. At present, HRD literature lacks guidance on fostering social responsibility among employees. This study, utilizing Q Methodology, examines the efforts of faculty members to change the perceptions of social issues held by learners enrolled in a "business as force for good" course at their university. The findings of this study have implications for faculty members and HRD professionals tasked with improving the social consciousness of their workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article in my ANTOA series outlines analogy between my New Theory of Art, seen as journey, and a travel itinerary that includes train, plane and offroad vehicle. Starting out in Danish capitol of Copenhagen and arriving in north German metropole of Hamburg, the train stops at anthropoligcal, sociological and psychological stations. The journey continues via air to Johannesburg in South Africa. The experience is called Social Consciousness Xpress after title of essay published in 2015, calling visual artists to send samples of socially motivated works in an epoch of poor political leadership. The article explains how laypeople gained access to the myth of creativity. Especially the modern age popularizing the notion. Eg thru ethnological expeditions of expressionists like Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, yet the message heavily coded and rarely appreciated by outsiders. It also illustrates link between stone-age processing of artefacts and their imaginative value, long overlooked and part of anthropological angle of creative travels. The article ends by quoting the 5-pointer table of the New Arts Theory as worthwhile final destination. The universal itinerary of soulful invention marked by detours into personality, social consciousness, skills innovation, abstraction and symbolic message. As cornerstones of and signposts to true Art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. The interview is considered a key technique in social research that, over the past four decades, has become a means of understanding consciousness and social reality. Materials and methods. For this reason, the semi-structured interview is intended to be presented as a relevant tool for perceiving social values in life, as well as a highly useful semi-structured procedure when seeking to understand attitudes, judgments, perceptions, and/or expectations of the social actors under investigation. Objective. To present the semistructured interview as a relevant tool in the perception of social values for life, with this aim in mind, its application in the study entitled "Impact of the Principles-based Sports Method on children, adolescents, and youth from the departments of La Guajira, Norte de Santander, and Arauca" seeks to understand the perception and adoption of social values transmitted by this method through its educational processes. Conclusions. Thus, the precision and rigor offered by the interview as an information collection technique are proposed in order to better comprehend a specific social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This preregistered study aimed to identify antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness (CC) profiles with person‐centered approaches based on data from 663 ethnically diverse German adolescents collected from 2017 to 2019 (Mage = 12.91, 50% male, 50% female). Latent profile analyses of adolescents' critical reflection and interpersonal and structural critical action intentions yielded three profiles: "uncritical," "armchair activists," and "actionists." Discrimination experiences, but not CC classroom climate, predicted a higher likelihood of being in the armchair activist or actionist profiles. The actionist profile showed better, but the armchair activist profile worse socioemotional and academic adaptation cross‐sectionally and over time (vs. the other profiles). The results highlight the potential of person‐centered approaches and of fostering developmentally appropriate forms of critical action among adolescents in novel contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Optimizing the process of physical education as a specialized, purposeful, managerial pedagogical activity requires the search for new approaches to the physical activity of students of higher educational institutions of Ukraine. Recently their level of health and physical fitness is a cause for concern. The impossibility of fulfilling the control and module standards according to the program with of physical education for a positive assessment reduces students' motivation for classes physical education and sports. Therefore, the issue of systematics is acute independent classes of students in their free time from studying. Self-study of students in physical exercises should be aimed at strengthening health, increasing work capacity, mastering skills and skills, improvement of professional activity, formation of social activity and consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates a government's subsidy strategy for motivating a manufacturer to set up a flexible production line for emergency supplies. Four subsidy strategies are proposed to ensure a desired service level in case of an emergency: zero subsidy, a fixed subsidy, a marginal subsidy, and a hybrid subsidy. We develop a game theoretical model to examine how the government can induce a manufacturer to set up a flexible production line that can respond promptly to an emergency, based on the manufacturer's cost structure (fixed and marginal costs). We find that when the marginal profit of an emergency product is higher than that of the manufacturer's regular product, a fixed (marginal) subsidy is the dominant strategy if the manufacturer's fixed (marginal) cost is high, while a hybrid subsidy strategy is dominant if both costs are high. When the marginal profit of an emergency product is lower than that of the manufacturer's regular product, neither a fixed subsidy nor a zero subsidy will be the dominant strategy. We also find that a marginal subsidy can ensure the effectiveness of the strategy, while a fixed subsidy helps improve strategy efficiency. We use government subsidy strategies implemented for Chinese COVID‐19 emergency supplies as examples to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the subsidy strategies under the proposed framework. We also extend the discussion by considering the manufacturer's social consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research describes Islamic Religious Education as related to the lack of religious education for minority students. This research is qualitative research that uses a pedagogical approach. The data source in this research comes from interviews, while the parties interviewed were the principal, teachers, students and parents. Meanwhile, secondary data is taken from documents related to research. The research results show that a. Awareness of success can be seen from the practice or implementation of the school principal's plan regarding religious education, there is no prohibition on Muslim students from praying, in fact the school always holds Islamic religious activities. Social Success is seen from the elements found in the field, namely the relationship between teachers, teachers and students who appear close in intimacy without distinguishing between each other. The sschool's strategy in providing understanding of religion to Muslim students apart from teaching at school is through friendship by building communication with interfaith students leaders, religious institutions, educational institutions as well as through a socio-cultural approach and management of educational units to accept all Muslim to school without special requirements, and provide services to students regardless of ethnicity and religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes and proposes improvements to the policy of developing social consciousness during training in higher educational institutions. Furthermore, it focuses on the pedagogical aspect of this issue. Developing social consciousness is crucial in shaping modern specialists. These specialists must possess not only developed practical and theoretical professional skills, but also a high level of empathy and social awareness. The research employs the IDEF0 functional modeling method, a novel approach that goes beyond simply listing key stages. Instead, it demonstrates the place and role of additional elements within the process. As a result, a model system for enhancing the policy of developing social consciousness in higher education institutions was formed. The study acknowledges a limitation: it solely considers processes for improving pedagogical methods among students with a pedagogical profile. Future research plans to expand this study to encompass other higher education institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An innovative primary teacher education course at the University of Padova combines children’s literature, ecocritical dialogues, and social-emotional learning (SEL). It aims to enhance educational quality and prepare teachers for global environmental and social challenges. Developed through the Green Dialogues project, it fosters internationalization and interdisciplinarity. This article examines the course’s interdisciplinary teamwork, focusing on its design and teaching methods. A case study highlights the benefits of incorporating ecocritical and SEL approaches in climate action teacher education. The course illustrates how children’s stories can foster environmental and social consciousness and empathy among students. This approach not only enhances pedagogical practices but also prepares teachers to contribute meaningfully to climate literacy and social equity in European higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the effect of the new teaching method applied in the Kazakh literature course on students' cultural identity and sensitivity, patriotic consciousness, and achievement. In this context, the experimental group experienced innovative teaching methods based on the works of Abish Kekilbayev. This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of educational activities on achievement, social consciousness, citizenship, cultural identity, and sensitivity based on the works of Abish Kekilbayev, a leading Kazakhstania writer, among second-year university students. The experimental group underwent the new teaching method, while the control group followed the activities outlined in the current Kazakh literature textbooks. The effectiveness of the method was assessed through post-test applications. The results indicated significant differences in students' academic achievement, citizenship, social consciousness, cultural identity, and sensitivity between the experimental and control groups, highlighting the substantial impact of the new method. Similar approaches can be applied to students at various educational levels. Additionally, a comprehensive citizenship and identity education program could be developed by closely examining the works of Abish Kekilbayev and other similar authors in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The issue of social consciousness is an important content of Karl Marx's philosophy. Deeply understanding this issue is of great significance to the task of building a new social consciousness. On the basis of Karl Marx's philosophy, the role of language in the development of social consciousness is examined extensively. Marx not only considered language a tool of communication, but also a means of reflecting and influencing the relations of production and productive forces in society. Language not only reflects social conflicts but also forms ideology, affecting how people understand the world around them and themselves. In this work, we will focus on clarifying the above issues and suggesting future research directions.

Adorno's social theory is enjoying renewed attention, as is the debate to what extent is it Marxist. A central issue remains Adorno's concept of social totality: capitalism as a fully integrated society in which every difference is levelled. One problem this raises is why is he still committed to the Marxist concept of class. And second, how to understand his critique of the idea of proletarian class-consciousness, which seems to leave his critical theory without an addressee. The article suggests that, for Adorno, capitalist society exhibits what is termed here "differential integration." It is predicated both on the labor/capital distinction and, at the same time, on sufficient homology between the two, such that the qualitative class divide is experienced as mere quantitative variance. This efficacious gap between social structure and social experience is at the center of his concept of ideology. Ideology-critique for Adorno is mainly the critique of symptomatic misconceptions of how ideology functions, due to lack of attention to how the class structure is in fact not experienced as such. Adorno's alternative to proletarian class consciousness is "differential solidarity": consciousness of social domination that is on the one hand found across class divides yet is experienced differentially between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I foreground the view that, as human agents initiating and participating in developmental projects that are both economically and educationally oriented, the possession of social consciousness of what development in society in the twenty-first century fully entails is an indispensable attribute. This paper, therefore, interrogates the narrower views of development, which tend to focus on identifying development with the growth of a gross national product with the rise in personal incomes, with industrialisation, or with technological advance (Sen, 1999:3). Thus, I argue that social consciousness on the part of human subjects, who are in turn agents of social developmental change, is critical since development ...requires partnerships within a framework of common values and goals (Badat, 2009:11). It is against this backdrop, therefore, that Coppedge’s (1999:465) averment to the effect that “development is more than just average wealth”. Arguably, it is rendered intelligible since “development is a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy”, which ‘contrasts with the narrower views of development’ (Sen, 1999:3). Thus, societies that are bedevilled by social illsresulting from a lack of development must continue to ‘search for human agency and for the means through which inequality can be undone (Hammami, 2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investment is the purchase of an asset to obtain profits in the future. Capital investment aims to increase income, avoid economic recession, and save for retirement funds. Currently, the most popular investment instruments are mutual funds and shares. Generation Z is interested in investing because it can add value to money in the future. Investment is also influenced by perceived risk and social consciousness. This research aims to find out whether social consciousness has a significant influence on investment decisions for mutual funds and shares of Generation Z in Surabaya, mediated by perceived risk. This research uses a survey approach and data collection method. The instrument used in this research is Google Forms which will be distributed via social media such as WhatsApp, LINE, Twitter, and Instagram. The analytical method used is Structural Equation Modeling, with data processing using Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis and the software to be used is Smart PLS4. The population in this research is Generation Z in Surabaya. The sample in this study was 100 people with minimum investment criteria of one year, and aged 17 to 26 years. Sample selection was based on the Lemeshow formula. This research proves that social consciousness has a significant influence on investment decisions for mutual funds and shares of Generation Z in Surabaya, mediated by perceived risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a near century of mainstream academic exclusion, recent efforts in sociology have centered Du Bois as a foundational figure. However, these efforts have overlooked his contributions to theorizing K‐12 and college/university formal curricula. Moreover, curricula, teaching, and learning scholarship, already marginalized within mainstream sociology of education, have typically overlooked Du Bois' theorizations, thus reproducing his marginalization. As a correction, this article centers Du Bois as a key figure in critical curricula theory. Specifically, Du Bois theorized that schools institutionalize formal curricula imbued with race‐class ideologies and that said ideologies shape peoples' subjectivities, identities, and consciousness of social processes. However, Du Bois also theorized how Black schools can serve as meso‐level sites for challenging hegemonic ideologies and producing transformative ideologies. In articulating these processes, Du Bois identifies how ideological propaganda, organizational structures, and interpretations of temporal processes maintain and perpetuate racism and capitalism. This article concludes with suggestions for future research in educational sociology that incorporates these insights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the changing relationship between urban and rural areas in China, the rural areas are experiencing rapid social transformation. To ensure successful implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, land consolidation has become a major measure of rural economic reform. Existing research focuses on quantitative studies exploring the relationship between land consolidation and rural economic development, but there is a lack of studies on the relationship between land consolidation and social change. In this study, we utilized Rocha's conceptual framework for community empowerment and selected Jin'an Village as our study area, using semi-structured interviews and semi-participatory observation to obtain original materials, with the aim of providing a detailed description of the specific practice of land consolidation and analyzing the impact of land consolidation on the transformation of rural social consciousness. The study found that the participatory practices of Chinese rural villagers in the land consolidation process are consistent with the development process of community empowerment. Rural land consolidation involves villagers in the land consolidation process, which can effectively stimulate villagers' participation in public affairs. Concurrently, the interaction between villagers and outside investors disrupts the conventional socialization model in rural areas and motivates villagers to act in accordance with contractual agreements. The conclusion is that land consolidation in rural areas can enhance the political democracy and legal consciousness of local villagers, which can lead to a change in local social consciousness. Our findings also emphasize the crucial necessity of providing rural villagers with improved accessibility to professional services and information, coupled with the continued promotion of land consolidation to advance modernization in these areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This multi-method qualitative study explores how immigrant-origin (I-O) youth express civic engagement on social media, and how youths' immigrant identities shape their online civic engagement. We analyzed 2,203 Twitter posts collected over a 6-month period from 32 racially and ethnically diverse I-O youth (an average of 69 posts per participant). Interviews with 11 participants supplemented Twitter analysis. Using a critical consciousness framework as a guiding lens, we identified three broad themes: Using Critical Reflection to Shift Culture and Minds, Navigating and Drawing on Multiple Identities, and Building Collective Political Efficacy. Findings contribute to a growing body of literature on how I-O youth are harnessing social media as agents of their own, and their peers', critical consciousness development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores Hungarian sociographic documentary films from the late 1960s and 1970 which called attention to the inner contradictions of the consolidated Kádár regime. Representatives of critical sociology and filmmakers shared the view that many of these contradictions were the result of the discrepancy between ideological and empirical perceptions of social reality, the emergence of dual social consciousness, and the strict control over access to the public sphere. The paper argues that consolidating the political system came at the cost of setting off an epistemic crisis characterised by the desperate suppression of knowledge and experience incompatible with the official interpretations of social phenomena. Analysing a handful of films made about rural poverty, the Roma minority, and agricultural businesses, the article explores in great detail how documentary strategies of analytical realism depleted and invalidated official concepts (e.g. the concept of maternity, Romani, cooperative democracy) and brought to light concealed layers of individual and social experience. In broad terms, the article claims that a new kind of political cinema came into existence during the consolidated Kádár regime, a cinema which exposed the epistemological unconscious of political establishment and opened new avenues for the understanding of Hungarian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following a long period of neglect, research on different facets of collective memory is now developing apace in the human and social sciences, as well as at their interface with psychology and neuroscience. This resolutely multidisciplinary renewal of interest in memory sciences has given rise to a plethora of concepts with diverse meanings (e.g., social frameworks of memory, collective, shared, collaborative, social memory). The purpose of the present study was to provide a conceptual overview from a historical perspective, and above all to clarify concepts that are often used interchangeably, even though they refer to very different realities. Based on recent research in psychology and neuroscience, we use the concept of collective memory to refer to the operations of individual systems of consciousness. Collective memory is not the memory of a collective, but that of its individual members, either as members of social groups (shared memory) or as participants in social interactions (collaborative memory). Drawing on the contributions of contemporary sociology, we show that social memory is not collective memory, as it refers not to individual systems of consciousness, but to social systems. More specifically, it is the outcome of communication operations which, through redundancy and repetition, perform a continuous and selective re-imprinting of meaning that can be used for communication. Writing, printing and the new communication technologies constitute the three historical stages in the formation and development of an autonomous social memory, independent of living memories and social interactions. In the modern era, mass media fulfill an essential function of social memory, by sorting between forgetting and remembering on a planetary scale. When thinking about the articulation between collective memory and social memory, the concept of structural coupling allows us to identify two mechanisms by which individual systems of consciousness and social systems can interact and be mutually sensitized: schemas and scripts, and social roles. Transdisciplinary approach spearheads major methodological and conceptual advances and is particularly promising for clinical practice, as it should result in a better understanding of memory pathologies, including PTSD, but also cognitive disorders in cancer (chemobrain) or in neurodegenerative diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]