Download or read book valuer la performance de l action sociale written by Jean-François Bernoux and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La performance gagne le secteur social. Leitmotiv : " moins de dépenses publiques pour une meilleure qualité de service ". Conséquence ou effet inattendu, le diktat du résultat immédiat s'impose et la donnée quantifiable - ou la séquence choc - devient la référence. Dangereuse approche de la performance sociale : à ne considérer que les morceaux choisis, ce sont des pans entiers de la réalité sociale que l'évaluation aseptise. Transposables aux nombreux domaines de l'action sociale et praticable à ses différents niveaux, la méthode présentée dans ce livre propose au contraire de donner de l'humanité à l'évaluation, de la rendre participative dans la recherche des conditions de réussite de l'action. L'ouvrage offre : plusieurs applications concrètes : évaluation des politiques sociales et de leurs dispositifs (contrats urbains de cohésion sociale, programmes de réussite éducative, etc.), évaluation de l'action sociale des Caf, évaluation des centres sociaux ; une analyse des notions, sous forme de lexique, apportant un supplément d'éclairage sur les appuis méthodologiques et les outillages proposés.
Download or read book La performance dans l action sociale written by Jean-Claude Placiard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planifier et valuer l action sociale written by Ricardo Zúñiga and published by PU Montréal. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage présente les diverses formes dʹévaluation comprises dans la planification de lʹaction structurée dans la perspective dʹun changement social. Lʹauteur guide le lecteur à travers un processus dʹanalyse méthodologique de lʹévaluation en tenant compte de toutes les personnes engagées dans lʹaction à évaluer. Cette conception de lʹévaluation exige une compréhension de la démarche complète de lʹaction et du rôle des participants. La planification de lʹaction sociale est une démarche indispensable pour que les participants puissent apprendre à en reconnaître la structure et identifier ainsi les éléments inhérents à son déroulement. Chaque intervenant a donc la possibilité de comprendre la stratégie évaluative qui pourra lʹaider à atteindre les buts quʹil sʹest fixés pour lʹinstauration de changements sociaux. Planifier et évaluer lʹaction sociale sʹadresse aux responsables des actions sociales qui doivent évaluer leurs mandats de façon organisée et exhaustive. Axé sur la méthodologie de lʹévaluation de lʹaction sociale, Planifier et évaluer lʹaction sociale a été conçu en étroite relation avec lʹouvrage intitulé Lʹévaluation dans lʹaction, qui fait part des divers enjeux et tendances de lʹévaluation dans lʹaction sociale. -- Back cover.
Download or read book Social Performance written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin, Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal to scholars and students alike.
Download or read book The Performativity of Value written by Steve Sherlock and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Performativity of Value: On the Citability of Cultural Commodities addresses the increased commodification of language in the U.S. cultural economy. The marketing of cultural commodities in formats such as websites, videos, movies, books, online games, or television episodes—as distributed across a wide range of technological devices—means that language is moving across situational contexts to an unprecedented degree. Just as authors quote or paraphrase sources in the construction of a text, subjects “cite” the commodified words, images, and works of others as they construct their social identities. Steve Sherlock discusses how consumer citational practices generate demand for those cultural commodities which align the self with particular subcultural groups. By “re-citing” the exchange value frame within which language itself has acquired an economic worth, consumer citational practices have become performative of the U.S. cultural economy. In order to describe this process, the book extends the work of Judith Butler on the performativity of gender to the performativity of exchange value, as well as to the performativity of subcultural values. The book also develops a critique of the increasing commodification of language in the contemporary economy. Sherlock follows Butler in developing a model of performativity based on Jacques Derrida’s work, particularly regarding the citability of language into new situational contexts. Derrida’s critique of the metaphysics of presence in Western philosophy and culture is extended toward a critique of the assumed presence of exchange value in the cultural marketplace. The book also incorporates the work of the Bakhtin Circle into this framework—especially their insight into how everyday utterances, which “report on” the words of others, become a site for the re-negotiation of values between self and others. The re-citational process used in contemporary identity construction can thus either re-cite the current cultural economy, or resist it. The Performativity of Value contributes to themes examined in social theory, social psychology, literary theory, continental philosophy, and cultural studies, and thus will be of interest to students and scholars working in those areas.
Download or read book Social Robotics written by Adriana Tapus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015, held in Paris, France, in October 2015. The 70 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. The papers focus on the interaction between humans and robots and the integration of robots into our society and present innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, novel applications on the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of social robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence pertaining to social robotics, and its interaction and communication with human beings and its social impact on our society.
Download or read book Corporate Social Performance written by Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporatee Social Performance: Paradoxes- Pitfalls and Pathways to the Better World is authored by a range of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP implementation and problems that occur in this area of consideration. The last decade had abundant corporate, national and international ethical and financial scandals and crises. After this epoch of moral catastrophes stakeholders expect that corporations which are considered as the most powerful institutions today and which have enormous impact on our planet’s ecosystems and social networks will take more active roles as citizens within society and in the fight against some of the most pressing problems in the world, such as poverty, environmental degradation, defending human rights, corruption, and pandemic diseases. Although Corporate Social Performance (CSP) has been a prominent concept in management literature and in the business world in recent years "it remains a fact that many business leaders still only pay lip service to CSR, or are merely reacting to peer pressure by introducing it into their organizations." (Bevan et al. 2004:4). So do really companies do “well” by doing “good” or maybe” companies engage in CSR in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility’? (Kotchen and Moony, 2012 p.4). I hope that we would agree that companies and CSR only by working together guarantee their own survival and we- the society and the planet -will be much obliged (Thomé, 2009 p. 3).
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Theory written by Austin Harrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms
Download or read book The Performance of Social Systems written by Francisco Parra-Luna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parra-Luna (politics and sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) presents 18 contributions which attempt to build models that can measure and analyze output/input quotients of global efficiency (i.e., satisfaction in goals) in the study of complex social systems--a topic which he argues has been incomprehensibly ignored by the social sciences. The papers are organized into sections on the definition of values, models for defining social performance, and operational approaches to the concept of social performance. Some articles explore the topic from the perspective of the global system, while others focus on specific areas within the social system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Performance Indicators in Social Care for Older People written by David Challis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing focus on performance review and monitoring means that awareness and use of performance indicators has increased throughout a number of public services. Set within a national context, this book reviews the historical development and measurement issues of performance indicators within social care and the public sector for older people. It then provides an approach to effective local performance measurement in services for older people and an organizing framework within which organizations can arrange their performance appraisal for older people's services. The development of performance review in social care of older people is examined, as is the process of developing local performance measures and engaging staff in enquiry and quality management. The book also reviews the process of developing performance indicators and their utilization at an agency level. Performance Indicators in Social Care for Older People will be of particular interest in the UK for local service providers who are developing approaches for local performance review. It will also be of interest internationally, especially in countries where services for older people are currently developing in a similar direction.
Download or read book Social Media Performance Evaluation and Success Measurements written by Brown Sr., Michael A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many different social media platforms that provide a wide array of services. Exploring the results yielded by these platforms can enhance their usefulness and impact on society’s advancement. Social Media Performance Evaluation and Success Measurements is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on social networking participation expectations and values to examine individual performance in digital communication activities. Featuring coverage across a range of topics, such as crisis communication, social networking engagement, and return on investments, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, practitioners, and researchers seeking current research on the benefits of utilizing the social network environment of today.
Download or read book Teamwork in Multi Agent Systems written by Barbara Dunin-Keplicz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes teamwork tick? Cooperation matters, in daily life and in complex applications. After all, many tasks need more than a single agent to be effectively performed. Therefore, teamwork rules! Teams are social groups of agents dedicated to the fulfilment of particular persistent tasks. In modern multiagent environments, heterogeneous teams often consist of autonomous software agents, various types of robots and human beings. Teamwork in Multi-agent Systems: A Formal Approach explains teamwork rules in terms of agents' attitudes and their complex interplay. It provides the first comprehensive logical theory, TeamLog, underpinning teamwork in dynamic environments. The authors justify design choices by showing TeamLog in action. The book guides the reader through a fascinating discussion of issues essential for teamwork to be successful: What is teamwork, and how can a logical view of it help in designing teams of agents? What is the role of agents' awareness in an uncertain, dynamic environment? How does collective intention constitute a team? How are plan-based collective commitments related to team action? How can one tune collective commitment to the team's organizational structure and its communication abilities? What are the methodological underpinnings for teamwork in a dynamic environment? How does a team and its attitudes adjust to changing circumstances? How do collective intentions and collective commitments arise through dialogue? What is the computational complexity of TeamLog? How can one make TeamLog efficient in applications? This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in computer science and artificial intelligence as well as for developers of multi-agent systems. Students and researchers in organizational science, in particular those investigating teamwork, will also find this book insightful. Since the authors made an effort to introduce TeamLog as a conceptual model of teamwork, understanding most of the book requires solely a basic logical background.
Download or read book The Conditions of Social Performance written by Cyril Belshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998.This essay is an excursion towards model building by an anthropologist looking at social development in an exploration of the possibility of constructing a theoretical framework which would lead to the formation of hypotheses about the ways in which the conditions present in social systems affect their performance.
Download or read book The Social Value of New Technology written by Albert N. Link and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New technologies, with their practical contributions, provide social value. The chapters in this volume view this social value from a program evaluation perspective, and the focus of the evaluations is the generation of new technology funded by public sector agencies. The authors provide important background on methodology and application and show that it is relevant not only to the established scholars and practitioners, but also to students.
Download or read book Social Entrepreneurship Strategies and Social Sector Sustainability written by Ambica Medine and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social entrepreneurship strategies of nonprofit organizations (NPOs), with a focus on the Caribbean social sector. In addressing the conceptual ambiguities from an academic and experiential perspective, it aims to provide a much-needed reflection on social entrepreneurship (SE), including in developing contexts. Through a comparative analysis of the experiences of NPOs from the Caribbean, the authors demonstrate the applicability of SE for NPO sustainability and as an opportunity for social sector performance improvement. Blending both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this work is a useful base for researchers wanting to advance the mission of theory and methodological development toward maturing the field of social entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Proceedings written by International Association for Business and Society. Conference and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpersonal Coordination and Performance in Social Systems written by Pedro Passos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpersonal coordination is an important feature of all social systems. From everyday activities to playing sport and participating in the performing arts, human behaviour is constrained by the need to continually interact with others. This book examines how interpersonal coordination tendencies in social systems emerge, across a range of contexts and at different scales, with the aim of helping practitioners to understand collective behaviours and create learning environments to improve performance. Showcasing the latest research from scientists and academics, this collection of studies examines how and why interpersonal coordination is crucial for success in sport and the performing arts. It explains the complex science of interpersonal coordination in relation to a variety of activities including competitive team sports, outdoor sports, racket sports, and martial arts, as well as dance. Divided into four sections, this book offers insight into: the nature, history and key concepts of interpersonal coordination factors that influence interpersonal coordination within social systems interpersonal coordination in competitive and cooperative performance contexts methods, tools and devices for improving performance through interpersonal coordination. This book will provide fascinating insights for students, researchers and educators interested in movement science, performance analysis, sport science and psychology, as well as for those working in the performing arts.
