Religious schools, social values, and economic attitudes: evidence from Bangladesh

This paper uses new data on female graduates of registered secondary secular schools and madrasas from rural Bangladesh and tests whether there exist attitudinal gaps by school type and what teacher-specific factors explain these gaps. Even after controlling for a rich set of individual, family and school traits, we find that madrasa graduates differ on attitudes associated with issues such as working mothers, desired fertility, and higher education for girls, when compared to their secular schooled peers. On the other hand, madrasa education is associated with attitudes that are still conducive to democracy. We also find that exposure to female and younger teacher is associated with more favorable attitudes among graduates.

Sentencing Guidelines, Judicial Discretion, And Social Values

This paper studies the institutional structure of criminal sentencing, focusing on the interaction between legislatures, which set sentencing ranges ex ante, and judges, who choose actual sentences from within those ranges ex post. The key question concerns the optimal degree of judicial discretion, given the sequential nature of the process and the possibly divergent interests of legislatures and judges regarding the social function of criminal punishment. The enactment of sentencing reform in the 1970s and 80s provides both a context for the model and an opportunity to evaluate its conclusions.

Investigation and measurement of the social values governing interpersonal relations among adolescent youth and their teachers.

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Gaining social values of wireless technology:an interpretive case study in the healthcare institutional context

The existing literature has given little consideration to social values of information technology in general or of wireless technology in particular. The purpose of this paper is thus to shed new light on this issue. Based on an interpretive case study, we examine two healthcare organisations and discover that social values are often manifested beyond, as well as within, organisations. A matrix of social values in relation to technology changes and their interactions with various stakeholders is further discussed. The matrix helps understand how various social values emerge from and revolve around organisations’ strategic management of information technology. The implications of the findings about social values are discussed and future research directions are suggested.

The social values of wireless technology in the institutional context

Despite growing attention, social values, compared to economic aspects, of information technology (IT) capture substantially less attention in the mainstream IT literature. In the context of mobile technology, social values might be as critical to help justify technology investment as the predominant economics perspective in the existing IT literature. As wireless networks and relevant mobile technologies continue to penetrate the global society and business world, an emerging social phenomenon rapidly reshapes how organizations interact with the technology and reposition themselves in their specific institutional context where organizations often develop networked alliance to compete against one another. This study thus seeks to shed light on how organizations make sense of the social aspects of wireless network implementation. Preliminary understanding derived from two higher education organizations' experiences is summarized. Implications for future research endeavor are suggested.

Mapping social values of ecosystem services: What is behind the map?

A growing interest in mapping the social value of ecosystem services (ES) is not yet methodologically aligned with what is actually being mapped. We critically examine aspects of the social value mapping process that might influence map outcomes and limit their practical use in decision making. We rely on an empirical case of participatory mapping, for a single ES (recreation opportunities), which involves diverse stakeholders such as planners, researchers, and community representatives. Value elicitation relied on an individual open-ended interview and a mapping exercise. Interpretation of the narratives and GIS calculations of proximity, centrality, and dispersion helped in exploring the factors driving participants’ answers. Narratives reveal diverse value types. Whereas planners highlighted utilitarian and aesthetic values, the answers from researchers revealed naturalistic values as well. In turn community representatives acknowledged symbolic values. When remitted to the map, these values were constrained to statements toward a much narrower set of features of the physical (e.g., volcanoes) and built landscape (e.g., roads). The results suggest that mapping, as an instrumental approach toward social valuation, may capture only a subset of relevant assigned values. This outcome is the interplay between participants’ characteristics, including their acquaintance with the territory and their ability with maps, and the mapping procedure itself, including the proxies used to represent the ES and the value typology chosen, the elicitation question, the cartographic features displayed on the base map, and the spatial scale.

El PEIN a les comarques gironines: una visió geogràfica

El Pla d’Espais d’Interès Natural (PEIN) és una figura de planificació contemplada per la Llei 12/1985 d’espais naturals del Parlament de Catalunya. Cal assenyalar que el 1989 ja es va produir una primera exposició pública, en el transcurs de la qual el pla va patir fortes pressions, sobretot provinents d’associacions lligades al món rural, ja que són les més afectades per l’aprovació del pla, fet que va provocar el desenvolupament d’una nova versió presentada el setembre de 1992

Les últimes eleccions del franquisme: la minielecció d'alcaldes de 1976

Article sobre les últimes eleccions del franquisme a la província de Girona

Una excavació frustrada a la Jonquera: de quan el governador civil fou detingut pels militars (1950)

En època franquista el repartiment de les funcions entre l’autoritat civil i la militar no estava clar, el que comportava algun conflicte. En aquest article es documenta un exemple de l' any 1950, centrat a la zona fronterera de l’Alt Empordà, en què la manca de bona entesa entre el governador civil, Luis Mazo Mendo i el governador militar, Manuel Baturone Colombo, privà una excavació vinculada al secret de confessió

El lloc de la dona en les explotacions agràries familiars gironines

A partir del Cens Agrari de 1982, aquest article analitza el lloc que ocupa la dona pagesa dins les explotacions agràries familiars de la província de Girona. L'article vol posar de manifest el pes de la norma 'cultural' en la marginació professional de la dona pagesa, així com l' important paper que la dona juga en el treball agrícola i, en especial, en les explotacions mes dinámiques del camp gironí

Els Paisatges d'atenció especial

Arreu hi ha paisatges que presenten característiques molt singulars, i que destaquen bé per la presència d’elements naturals amb un alt valor de conservació, bé per la configuració del mosaic paisatgístic que ha resultat d’una activitat humana. També hi ha paisatges que sobresurten perquè estan sotmesos a dinàmiques de transformació territorial molt intenses. Tots aquests paisatges necessiten polítiques de gestió especials, orientades tant a la conservació dels seus trets específics més valuosos com a una ordenació paisatgística que corregeixi els efectes perversos de les dinàmiques accelerades de transformació territorial

Excavacions arqueològiques al poblat ibèric de Sant Julià de Ramis

L'ampliació del cementiri municipal de Sant Julià de Ramis va comportar la realització de diverses obres a la muntanya de Sant Julià on es van localitzar diversos indicis que permetien deduir la presència de restes del poblat ibèric de Sant Julià en l'àrea afectada per les obres. Aquests indicis consistien en la presència de diversos blocs de calcària i algun de sorrenca que pressuposaven l'existència d'un gran mur i d'un estrat d'uns 40 cm. de centenars de fragments de ceràmica superposats uns als altres que semblaven pertànyer a un abocador

Hisendats, de classe dominant classe dirigent

Estudi dels hisendats a les comarques gironins durant el s. XIX. Es tractava de famílies que durant centúries havien anat acumulant propietats agrícoles, i així es van consolidar com una minoria de grans propietaris rurals que podien viure de les seves rendes