Agents of Social Change: Developing intercultural competence through fieldworkBackground:Intercultural competence (ICC) is an essential skill for health care professionals. With an increasingly diverse global demographic, along with technology that allows high migration and contact, health care students and...
According to theindividual-mobility belief system, individuals are free agents who are capable of moving from one group to another. The defining feature of the system is the notion that group boundaries are permeable, such that individuals are not bound or restricted by their group memberships in...
A contextualist spectrum of shades of meaning for sector-related SE as an example ofMentalism.(Source: authors’ own work).1Dees did not limit SE to any specific sectors. He believed,“ In addition to innovative not-for-profit ventures, social entrepreneurship can include social purpose business...
In 1986, a group of Pennsylvania researchers found a how-to manual entitledTraining for Change Agents: a seven volume "change agent study" commissioned by the U.S. Office of Education to the Rand Corporation in 1973-74. They also uncovered a series of papers submitted by behavioral scientists...
Social Workers as Social Change Agents: Social Innovation, Social Intrapreneurship, and Social Entrepreneurship. Hum. Serv. Organ. Manag. Leadersh. Gov. 2015, 39, 38–56. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version] Schröer, A. Fostering Innovation in Social Services–A Diaconal Intrapreneurship...
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They are known as social change agents, which are able to make fundamental ... A Salamzadeh,Y Salamzadeh - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 42发表: 2012年 Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship: where have we reached? Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss...
Thus, social identity theory originated from theconvictionthat group membership can help people to instill meaning in social situations. Group membership helps people to define who they are and to determine how they relate to others. Social identity theory was developed as an integrative theory, as...
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Specht (1975), in his analysis of agents of social change, has developed a gradient that could be used to determine levels of social change within a socially innovative initiative (see Table 1). This gradient matches elite and challenger perceptions of levels of change with corresponding responses...