Value contrasts and consensus in present-day Europe : painting Europe's moral landscapes / / edited by Wil Arts and Loek Halman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790829203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden : , : Brill, , 2014
• ISBN: 90-04-26166-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Collana: European values studies, , 1568-5926 ; ; volume 15
• Altri autori (Persone): ArtsWilhelmus Antonius <1946->; HalmanLoek
• Disciplina: 303.3/72
• Soggetti: Social values - Europe; Values - Europe; Civil society - Europe; Work - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1. Cross-National Values in Europe Today: Facts and Explanations / Wil Arts and Loek Halman -- 2. Who is Afraid of the (Big Bad) European Union? European Integration and Fears about Job Losses / Jonas Grauel , Jana Heine and Christian Lahusen -- 3. Shifting Loyalties? Globalization and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century / Tim Reeskens and Matthew Wright -- 4. Support for Labour-Market Discrimination of Migrants in Europe / Marcel Coenders , Marcel Lubbers and Peer Scheepers -- 5. The Relative Deservingness of the Unemployed in the Eyes of the European Public / Marjolein Jeene and Wim van Oorschot -- 6. Neighbours: Determinants of Whom Europeans Want to Keep at a Distance / Edurne Bartolomé Peral and Alice Ramos -- 7. Freedom or Equality / Peter Gundelach -- 8. The Distribution of Social Capital across Europe / John Gelissen and Wil Arts -- 9. Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation / Eline A. de Rooij and Tim Reeskens -- 10. Religious Vitality and Church Attendance in Europe / Nienke Moor -- 11. Secularization in Europe: An Analysis of Inter-Generational Religious Change / David Voas and Stefanie Doebler -- 12. Modernization, Culture and Morality in Europe: Universalism, Contextualism or Relativism? / Hermann Dülmer -- 13. ; Public Good Morality in Europe: An Impact of Communist Rule? / Loek Halman and Inge Sieben -- 14. Attitudes towards Gender Roles in Europe: Modernization and Social Institutions / Malina Voicu and Andreea Constantin -- 15. Work Values in Europe: Modernization, Globalization, Institutionalization and Their Moderating Impact on the Occupational Class Effect / Maurice Gesthuizen and Ellen Verbakel -- 16. Social Capital, Social Cohesion and Health: Is Country-Level Trust Associated with Self-Assessed Health in Europe? / Christiaan Monden -- 17. If Money Does Not by Much Happiness, What Does? A Multilevel Analysis on the Impact of Absolute and Relative Income, Social Values and Modernization on Subjective Well-Being in Europe / Ruud Muffels , Daniela Skugor and Ellen Dingemans -- About the authors -- Subject index -- Author index.
• Sommario/riassunto: People's fundamental values can be conceived of as conceptions of what is desirable. They influence their selection from available modes, means and ends of action. Because of the societal importance of values they deserve scholarly attention. This volume inquires into the values present-day Europeans cherish by empirically analyzing the data of 2008/2010 wave of the European Values Study and explaining the consensus and contrasts in value orientations found. The contributors to this volume try to capture the diversities and similarities in value orientations between contemporary European countries in a range of life-spheres by unravelling context and composition effects. They are in search of evidence that either country level factors such as institutional arrangements or the composition of the populations of countries in terms of gender, age, socio-economic status, religion etcetera have the greatest impact. By doing so they paint the moral landscapes of Europe today.

Academic research and researchers / / edited by Angela Brew and Lisa Lucas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955192203321
• Autore: Brew Angela <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Maidenhead, : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-335-23920-X; 1-283-33816-5; 9786613338167
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 229 p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): LucasLisa
• Disciplina: 378.12
• Soggetti: Research institutes; Research - Government policy; Universities and colleges - Graduate work
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover -- Half title page -- SRHE and Open University Press Imprint -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Peter Scott -- Introduction: academic research and researchers. Angela Brew and Lisa Lucas -- Part I The politics and culture of university research -- 1 Academic un-freedom in the new knowledge economy. Margaret Thornton -- 2 Research quality assessment: objectives, approaches, responses and consequences. Ian McNay -- 3 The structure of academic research: what can citation studies tell us? Malcolm Tight -- 4 Research management and research cultures: power and productivity. Lisa Lucas -- 5 Creating collaboration: an exploration of multinational research partnerships. Betty Rambur -- 6 Producing researchers: the changing role of the doctorate. Alison Lee and David Boud -- Part II Researcher experiences and identities -- 7 Balancing different audiences: experiences of Dutch academics. Liudvika Leisˇyte˙, Jürgen Enders and Harry F. de Boer -- 8 Post-colonial perspectives on interdisciplinary researcher identities. Catherine Manathunga -- 9 'You do it from your core': priorities, perceptions and practices of research among Indigenous academics in Australian and New Zealand universities. Christine Asmar, Ocean ; Rı¯peka Mercier and Susan Page -- 10 Isn't research just research? What are candidates and supervisors thinking? Margaret Kiley -- 11 Learning to be a researcher: challenges for undergraduates. Mari Murtonen and Erno Lehtinen -- 12 Understanding academics' engagement with research. Angela Brew and David Boud -- 13 Conclusion: directions for future research. Angela Brew and Gerlese S. Åkerlind -- Index -- Back cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: University research is of central political, cultural and economic importance for nations and is currently the subject of considerable debate and discussion in universities worldwide. Research has become highly competitive though scarce resources. In recent years, research policies and strategies at different levels have called into question researcher autonomy, problematised academic freedom, created new disciplinary hierarchies, skewed publication rates and processes, created powerful ways to measure research outputs and demanded new working habits. This book is concerned with how individual researchers experience and respond to this scenario. It brings together research and scholarship examining the socio-political context of university research and explores how researchers' perceptions and identities are changed by political and cultural agendas for research. The book brings together the work of leading international scholars from different countries who have investigated theoretically and empirically the nature of research, research cultures and academic researcher identities. It brings together work that has hitherto only been reported in isolated and esoteric contexts internationally, thus consolidating the nature of research as an important field of study in its own right and providing important new understandings of how research is experienced in universities. A range of different theoretical positions taken by different authors is indicative of a lively and robust field of developing knowledge. Contributors: Dr Gerlese S. Akerlind, Dr Christine Asmar, Professor David Boud, Dr Harry de Boer, Dr Jurgen Enders, Dr Margaret Kiley, Dr Liudvika Leisyte, Professor Alison Lee, Dr Catherine Manathunga, Professor Emeritus Ian McNay, Dr Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Dr Mari Murtonen, Associate Professor Susan Page, Professor Betty Rambur, Professor Sir Peter Scott, Professor Margaret Thornton, Professor Malcolm Tight

Liberation and democratization : the South African and Palestinian national movements / / Mona N. Younis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971702803321
• Autore: Younis Mona
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000
• ISBN: 0-8166-9002-2; 0-8166-5300-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Collana: Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 11
• Disciplina: 320.540968; 956.95/3044
• Soggetti: Black people - South Africa - Politics and government - 20th century; National liberation movements - South Africa - History; Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government - 20th century; National liberation movements - Palestine - History; Arab-Israeli conflict
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. The South African and Palestinian National Liberation Movements in Comparative Perspective; 2. Liberating the Nation: Social Movements, Democratization, and Class Formation; 3. Merging Elites as Nation and Movement Formation, 1910's to 1940's; 4. Middle-Class Hegemony and the Containment of Class, 1940's to 1970's; 5. Merging Class and Nation in the Expansion of Popular Struggles, 1970's to 1990's; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; List of Interviews; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Arising in the 1910's and emerging as legitimate governing bodies in the 1990's, the South African and the Palestinian national liberation movements have exhibited remarkable parallels over the course of their development. The fortunes of the African National Congress and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, however, have proven strikingly different. How the movements, despite similar circumstances and experiences, have arrived at such dissimilar outcomes is described in Liberation and Democratization.