Any direct involvement by the government to "grow " civil society will be perceived as an attempt to control the freedom of expression of its people. ... As Professor Kenneth Paul Tan stated, "Civil society is a place where people can vent their views to make their ideas about what makes for good policies known"" (Saad, 2013). An example of how civil society can be effective in making the government re-think or clarify its policy is the protest led by civil society against the Population White Paper in February 2013. After the civil society uproar against increasing the population in vi...

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When large segments of populations are displaced by natural or man-made disasters, people become separated from time-honored roots of language, culture, and social bonds. As a result, displaced peoples are forced to create new social and economic relations in the areas to which they re-locate, as we...

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Controlling government issues is important element and reinforces our success as nation. ... The social workers are responsible for spreading the awareness regarding the impacts of political situations on society and should support the alterations in legislation and policies to improvise the social conditions to promote social Justice (Lundy, 2011). ... The social workers are responsible for spreading the awareness regarding the impacts of political situations on society and should support the alterations in legislation and policies to improvise the social conditions to promote social Justi...

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Relevant literature, as well as up to date legislation and policy involving equality and human rights will be used to look at the issue critically, by identifying the inequalities related to class and how it can have an impact upon the social, personal and educational experience of the child within school as well as parent and teacher. ... As part of the study, strong links from the case study will be made directly to relevant policy and legislation as well as background critical literature. ... Besides government initiatives, legislation and policies are too, to hold responsible for the pr...

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In the contemporary socio-economic sphere, Polanyi's analysis of market patterns and progression of markets can become increasingly relevant to investigating current socio-economic policy issues. ... Due to this pervasive unfairness, the area is extremely important for social research and policy making in order to counteract the negative effects of the free market. ... Adequate regulation and protective controls such as minimum wage rates and social security services provide the necessary options for counter-movements in safeguarding the society from socio-economic collapse. Polanyi'...

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This thesis of this essay revolves around the political and social influence of mass media on its audience, as I examine the extent of their control over the populous as an agent of socialization as well as the collaborative efforts between state and media pertaining to political issues and the narratives used to disseminate the information to the public. ... Mass media's political influence may rival their social ascendency, as it is not uncommon for the media to work side by side with the state, with the most notable modern example being China, in which they use their various platforms ...

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These endeavors can be complemented by some practical measures taken by the service providers; they will have to implement policies that make the anonymous use of the services very difficult or even impossible. The measures that are designed to protect people's right to be forgotten should also be implemented; this will further decrease the chances for violating people's privacy rights by enabling the users to control the dissemination of "unwanted" personal information before it becomes uncontrollable. ...

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Moreover, they are latter investigating the reasons for women's invisibility that exists not only at the level of policy discourse but also in field of IPE as well as much of feminist analysis of economic globalization have examined hierarchical structures of class, race, and gender. ... For example, for women reproductive control is fundamental to liberty, but the pressure to restrict the availability of abortion is also mounting in the independent states of the former Soviet Union. This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patri...

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In our opinion, the main reasons for the low efficiency of interaction of customs and other law enforcement agencies in the field of prevention of customs offenses are the following: -Lack of timely exchange of information in the field of foreign trade activities; For example, the lack of important relevant information sometimes leads to the situations when a customs officer has difficulty in carrying out customs control, taking a decision about allowing or forbidding the release of goods under a certain procedure. ... Because of that sometimes certain difficulties in the tracking of all the...

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This almost always precludes media self-control by those who realize the long-term impact of their product. ... The Centers for Disease Control realizes the impact visual images and "news" has on potential behavior: their policy to suppress "copycat" suicides is to refrain from showing victims of suicides, provide no details about the technical aspects of the method chosen, and in no way to glorify suicide. ...

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These instances are when society is subjected to accelerated changes in its structure; if we look at western society as a balanced system of control if something occurs that unbalances the system in the short term the collective tensions caused by this unbalancing or change cannot be resolved quickly enough, which is seen to be why collective social movements form to combat this change (Della Porta, 2006:7). ... Social movements will engage in activities such as protests (violent and non-violent) with the aim to influence the policies that governments make so that they will favour the aims of ...

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Since its development, the differential association theory has played an integral role in stimulating theoretical revisions and refinements; it has been applied in policies and programs and facilitated research[Mar10]. ... Other scholars such as [Kor78] have strongly rejected the differential association theory principles that agree with social control. ...

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(BBC, 2010) Subsequently, it outlined key recommendations of new practices and policies to be implemented within the criminal justice system, which now allow rape victims to be treated much more respectfully than in the past. ... This perspective therefore supports the positivist notion, that like criminality, the cause of victimisation could be beyond victims' control, due to psychological and sociological factors which they as individuals possess. ...

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