Integration is the elimination of barriers and enclosures that may limit free mobility and set up of positive non-hierarchical relationships (Marcuse, 2005). It means that spatially distributed resources and assets such as neighbourhoods, public facilities (schools, recreation areas and health facilities etc.) are shared by the members of different groups (Hartman & Squires, 2010). Many studies (Balbo & Navez-Bouchanine, 1995; Deffner & Hoerning, 2011; Kempen, 2007; Madrazo & Van Kempen, 2012)…
These roles reflect both formal and informal provisions of service. Some examples of the informal helpers are family, friends, neighbors, and volunteers. Both human service agencies and religious congregations have the similar desire to help and serve the community. Congregations have an impact on human services. They…
Africa with over 140 million people. It is a richly blessed country with a large oil and mineral deposits and over natural resources and was presently quoted to be the biggest economy in West Africa. Unfortunately, the Nigerian health sector, a foremost social service sector has never really fared well, principally due to its chronic underfunding. The WHO (2000) ranked the Nigerian Health system performance at a paltry 187th position among the 191 United Nations member. It is rather not…
diamonds in different contexts, it explores the changing balance of state, market, family, and community in the older care regime in urban China, especially in the field of home care. In urban China, there are trade-offs and cooperation among these four sectors. The state is still dominated in the older care but is changing from ‘big state’ to ‘indirect state’ (Jing, 2009) for monitoring, regulating, and financial supporting. China particularly values family for providing care to the…
IUD ASSIGNMENT The primary operations taking place inside one garment unit in Delhi can be cutting, stitching, thread cutting, ironing, checking and packing. Other processing activities are printing and washing, generally done by specialised agents. Subcontracting is adopted to increase actual tailoring capacity, or to for different processing or ancillary activities like embroidary. The labour process is as fragmented as the production cycle, responding to specific requirements of cost…
gender inequality at work. In central Asia and Europe, the decline in the manufacturing sector and the increase in the service sector favours women (World Bank, 2014). Women are more vulnerable in being offered opportunities in the formal sector with reports of abuse by female job seekers over the years. This increases the possibility of women being likely to live in poverty and participate less in the formal sector. This section highlights published scholarly works by various writers and…
A defining feature of this century has been the rise of the globalization phenomenon. By definition, globalization is the increased integration of nations in various aspects including economic, cultural, and political. This phenomenon has been more pronounced in the 21st century and it has had significant effects on all countries. The United States is one country that has strongly felt the effects of globalization. One aspect of globalization that the US has experienced more than any other is…
respond to life on the reservation as it drastically changes. With each tribe having their own distinct cultural practices and histories, they have overcome their obstacles to create wage, work and informal economies. The author does a fantastic job of demonstrating the intersection of kinship, the informal economy, ceremonial exchanges of goods, government assistance programs, and the cash economy on the reservation, Ft. Berthold, which is home to the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, the…
style. In terms of formality, Dewaele & Heylighen (1999) stated that different situational and personality factors are examined which determine the degree of formality in linguistic expression. The differences in using languages, both formal and informal, is called a difference register (Thornborrow and Wareing, 1998). Cyrstal (1991) defines register as "a variety of language defined according to its use in social situations." So, register is widely used to refer to varieties to use a language.…
destruction of property and loss of lives among farming households. Thus, it is perturbing that the agricultural sector is vulnerable to many risks and uncertainties. As a remedy there is emergence of weather index insurance…