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Taking action to achieve equality
\"This insightful book examines ways to reduce the global inequality of people-one of the United Nation's sustainable development goals. From tackling gender inequality to fighting for the right to a good education, readers will gain an understanding of how all the UN goals work together, and learn concrete strategies to inspire change. Profiles of youth-led movements and other collaborative efforts to fight inequality will empower readers to get involved to achieve equality for all global citizens\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids
Abstract We empirically examine social innovation and openness through a survey of social enterprise hybrids in the United Kingdom (UK). Social innovation refers to new products, processes, and services that respond to grand challenges. Social enterprises pursue economic, social, and environmental goals but vary in their goal orientation, namely the relative importance ascribed to such goals. We first explore the relationships between commercial, social, and environmental goal orientation and social innovation performance. Next, we consider the moderating impact of openness to external knowledge and ideas on social innovation performance. Our analysis finds positive and significant relationships between commercial and social goal orientation and social innovation performance, but no relationship with environmental goal orientation. In addition, the use of external sources of knowledge and ideas positively strengthens these relationships for both commercial and social goal orientation but not for environmental goal orientation. Our results reveal some important influences on social innovation, openness, and hybrid organizing.Plain English SummaryHeadline: The more social enterprises focus on both commercial and social goals, the more successful they are in improving their social innovation performance.Social innovation refers to new products, processes, and services that respond to a range of social challenges such as poverty, inequality, homelessness, health, and environmental issues.Our study suggests that the more social enterprises focus on both commercial and social goals, the higher their social innovation performance. In addition, the more open innovation-oriented social enterprises are, that is, the more they use external sources of knowledge and ideas, the more they can benefit from their commercial and social goals to improve their social innovation performance.Implications of our research for practice: social enterprises are encouraged not only to focus on both commercial and social goals but also to build relationships with external stakeholders. These external stakeholders can provide information on entrepreneurial opportunities, how to respond to problems and market and government failures, and how to remain successful while collaborating with a range of partners.
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Social development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia
\"This book assesses the roadmap for the implementation of the SDGs in South Asia, focusing in particular on the areas of poverty reduction, inequality, health/wellbeing and water and sanitation. South Asia is amongst the fastest growing regions in the world, with an aggregate GDP in excess of 2 trillion US dollars, but at the same time it has significant deficits in human development, with 37% of the world's poor and nearly half of the world's malnourished children. For South Asia, the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs) represent a constructive opportunity to end many of the region's deprivations in a time-bound and systematic manner. Starting with the legacy of the Millennium Development Goals, the book goes on to provide a country by country overview of strategies for addressing the problems of poverty, health, water, and sanitation. South-South Cooperation and in particular the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are discussed, and finally the editors present a summary of policy priorities for social development. This book aims to be a useful resource for researchers, policy influencers, planners, implementers, students, and activists aiming to push to achieve the SDGs\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An examination of the joint effects of adolescent interpersonal styles and parenting styles on substance use
The current study examined how parenting and adolescent interpersonal styles jointly influence youths’ abilities to form close relationships – a central developmental milestone – yet avoid substance use, which predominantly occurs in the presence of peers. Nine annual waves from an adolescent sample (N = 387) were used to assess (a) combinations of interpersonal and parenting styles from early to middle adolescence using longitudinal latent profile analysis, (b) the validity of these profiles on indicators of adjustment, and (c) the relationships between the profiles and growth in substance use across adolescence as well as substance-related consequences in late adolescence. The results supported five distinct combinations of interpersonal and parenting styles, and validity analyses identified both risk and protective profiles. The protective profile submissive–communal interpersonal style + high-warmth–authoritative parenting style was associated with indicators of positive social adjustment (e.g., friendship quality, resistance to peer influence) as well as lower levels of substance use. Significant differences also emerged with respect to substance-related consequences. The findings of this study highlight how combinations of adolescent interpersonal style and parenting render adolescents more or less successful at navigating peer relationships while avoiding substance use behaviors.
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How Can Value-Added Intermediary Service Providers and Exporting Firms Co-Create Value in Bottom of the Pyramid Markets?
International business (IB) research has recently turned its attention to social innovation, whereby firms are expected to create value for under-privileged societies. We examined the roles played by manufacturing firms that export their products to bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets and by their partnering value-added intermediary service providers located in such markets in achieving value co-creation, for the speed of social innovation. By means of a survey of Pakistani exporting firms, we found that the exporters’ communication with service intermediaries in regard to social goals and the psychological benefit of social innovation positively influences value co-creation between them. These effects are strengthened in the presence of a strongly shared vision. The co-creation of value by exporting firms and intermediary service providers mediates the effects of such communication on social innovation speed. Our findings contribute to the value co-creation perspective by validating important role played by value-adding intermediary service providers in accelerating the social innovation of emerging market exporters for BOP markets. Our study highlights the important roles played by exporters’ cross border communication and shared vision with intermediaries in the value co-creation for BOP markets. In this paper, we also discuss the managerial and policy implications of our findings.
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Targeting IEP Social Goals for Children with Autism in an Inclusive Summer Camp
Children with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate challenges in socialization that can interfere with their participation in common childhood activities and can persist or worsen if not addressed. The purpose of this study was to assess whether individualized education program (IEP) social goals could be targeted by a supervised paraprofessional during a short-term inclusive summer camp program. Data were collected using a concurrent multiple baseline design across four children. Results showed that following a 2-week summer camp program all participants made social improvements, reaching their year-long IEP goals, that maintained at follow-up in natural environments. Further, the paraprofessionals reached fidelity of implementation. Findings are discussed in terms of the value and feasibility of providing social interventions in inclusive summer camps.
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Culture, Goal Orientations, and Mathematics Achievement among Chinese Students
This study examined the relationships among cultural values, goal orientations, and mathematics achievement in mainland China. Structural equation models were used to analyze data on 350 Grade 5 students. The results showed that mathematics achievement was positively related to family-support and mastery goal orientations and negatively related to performance-avoidance goal orientation; that family recognition through achievement positively predicted mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance, and family-support goal orientations; that conformity to norms was positively linked to mastery, performance-approach, and family-support goal orientations; and that collectivism had a positive association with the adoption of family-support goal orientation, whereas emotional self-control positively predicted performance-avoidance goal orientation. Results of bootstrap analysis further confirmed the mediation role of goal orientation in the relationships between cultural values and mathematics achievement with positive indirect paths via family-support and mastery orientations but negative indirect paths via performance-avoidance orientation. Possible explanations of the results are discussed.
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The role of social goal orientation and academic help-seeking behavior on mathematics achievement of primary students
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of students' social goal orientation and academic help seeking behavior on their mathematics achievement. Data were collected from 930 Grade 8 primary school students in Ethiopia. The data were analyzed using the Smart-PLS software, specifically the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the expected 2-factor structure of social goal orientation and the 3-factor structure of academic help seeking behavior. The results of structural equation modeling analyses indicated that (a) social goal orientation positively predicted both academic help-seeking behavior and mathematics achievement, and (b) academic help seeking behavior had a significant positive impact on mathematics achievement. The research highlights the importance of social goal orientations and academic help seeking behavior in order to understand students' behavior and achievement in school. Moreover, the result confirmed that students' academic help seeking behavior is more academically related behavior, which boosts learning and achievement. Therefore, the results provide evidence to suggest that researchers and practitioners should focus on improving students' social goal orientation and academic help-seeking behavior, which, in turn, would enhance their academic achievement.
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Profiles of Social Achievement Goals Among Korean High School Students: Associations with Academic Achievement Goals and Emotions
This study explored Korean adolescents’ social achievement goal profiles and their associations with academic achievement goals and achievement emotions. A sample of 1210 high school students completed measures of social achievement goals, 3 × 2 academic achievement goals, and achievement emotions. Latent profile analysis based on three social achievement goals (development, demonstration-approach, and demonstration-avoidance) identified four profiles: Development-Focused Low Social (7%), Development-Focused Moderate Social (49%), High Development and High Avoidance (35%), and Active Socialites (9%). The Development-Focused Low Social profile showed the lowest overall academic achievement goal endorsement, with self-approach goals being most prominent and with lower levels of negative emotions. The Active Socialite group reported the highest academic achievement goals overall, with self- and other-based academic goals most prominent, as well as elevated pride alongside heightened anxiety and shame. Overall, the findings highlight the central role of social motivation in adolescents’ academic goal regulation and emotional experiences within a highly competitive Korean school context.
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Adolescents’ Social Status Goals: Relationships to Social Status Insecurity, Aggression, and Prosocial Behavior
Peer status is an important aspect of adolescents’ social lives and is pursued actively by them. Although extensive research has examined how social behaviors are related to peer status (e.g., social preference, popularity), little attention has been given to adolescents’ social goals to obtain a desired peer status. Thus, this study examined two types of social status goals, popularity goal and social preference goal, and their relationships to social status insecurity and social behaviors among 405 ethnically diverse early adolescents (267 girls;
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age = 12.92 years; age range = 11–15 years). After accounting for adolescents’ attained peer statuses (popularity and social preference), both social status goals were related distinctly to aggressive and prosocial behaviors as measured by self reports and peer nominations. Specifically, higher endorsement of the popularity goal was related to more self-reported relational aggression, but less peer-nominated prosocial behavior. In contrast, higher endorsement of the social preference goal was linked to less self-reported overt and relational aggression, but more self-reported and peer-nominated prosocial behavior. In addition, this study reveals that adolescents’ social status insecurity was related positively to both social status goals and had an indirect effect on adolescents’ social behaviors through the mediation of popularity goal endorsement. There were variations in goal endorsement as shown by groups of adolescents endorsing different levels of each goal. The group comparison results on social behaviors were largely consistent with the correlational findings. This study provides new insights into adolescents’ social cognitive processes about peer status and the implications of the two social status goals on adolescents’ behavioral development.
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