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SOCIOLOGY
Response to Post #1 Your post illustrates one of the most complex problems in administrating government efficiently: namely, tailoring academic concepts and fiscal policies to the unique and multidimensional elements of specific communities. Your idea of incorporating local business people into community fiscal governance is attractive in principle, but it could also present various potential barriers such as the need to distinguish local business people with high-level subject-matter comprehension from those with comparatively lower levels of knowledge and understanding. Even among fiscally sophisticated local business people, there might also be inevitable conflicts of interest among them that would have to be mediated fairly and without adding delays instead of expediting the process of local policy-making and fiscal planning.
Response to Post #2
In theory, your suggestion that it is important to restrict government office and financial planning to individuals without self-interests and political motives represents a fundamentally important ideal. However, it may be somewhat unrealistic because the individuals who typically choose...
This is true at every level of government from local PTA associations to national-level politics. Unfortunately, it seems that relatively few people who devote their efforts and time to government do so for purely altruistic reasons and I think we have to accept that as a given.
Response to Post #3
I think your post perfectly illustrates one of the classic paradoxes of complex societies and the government and legislative processes upon which they rely. Specifically, the more complex society and its institutions and legislation becomes, the more cumbersome it becomes to administrate functions that are, in principle, not necessarily very complicated. When it comes to matters of modern municipal contracts and government administration, there are so many areas and sub-areas involved in decision-making that the fundamental duty of due diligence makes it very hard to start excluding individuals and functions in the interest of streamlining processes.
Response to Post #4 What comes to mind when people…
Response to Post #4 What comes to mind when people hear "reinventing government," is referring to federal government, thinking that our country's problems stem from Washington, D.C., but in all reality it is coming from the kind of people who have won Exemplary State and Local awards (Osborne, 1993), also part of the fiscal problem is due to the recession and in part out of control spending. Osborne states in order to fix this problem the federal government needs fundamental changes, and others believe we need a complete rebuilding. I tend to believe and lean towards Osborne (1993), in order to be effective organization of today, must be fast on their feet, lean always adjusting to constant change, be responsive to their participants, and able to improve productivity, which means organizations need to be less bureaucratic and more entrepreneurial.
Response to Post #5 Your post illustrates a fundamental problem in our society: namely, the relative differences in the availability of many essential services and programs to people living in poor and rural communities. As you point out, it is not cost-effective to send professionals out to serve small numbers of rural residents when so many more people can be served by situating program centers in areas with higher population densities. This problem is a particularly important issue in the provision of health care services. Unfortunately, because public programs must make sound fiscal decisions about resource allocation, it is a very difficult problem to resolve.
Response to Post #6 Your post makes an important point about the value of using good management tools to optimize fiscal efficiency in government and program planning. However, it might be slightly optimistic or simplistic to expect management tools to solve the problem, because it does not address the importance of cultivating an organizational culture of efficiency and responsibility and individual competence. While I agree that the right tools are an important part of the solution, I think the problem requires a more comprehensive solution at the organizational level and also in terms of personnel selection, qualifications, training, and management.
Sociology: Marx, Weber and Research Approach When Karl Marx observed how the Industrial Revolution, with its new capitalist economic system, was affecting society and social life, he was especially concerned with the division industrialization brought into society. In his view, this new revolution polarized society into the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production, the factories and the land) and the much larger proletariat (the working class who actually perform
Sociology: Changing Societies in a Diverse World (Fourth Edition) George J. Bryjak & Michael P. Soroka Chapter One Summary of Key Concepts Sociology is the field of study which seeks to "describe, explain, and predict human social patterns" from a scientific perspective. And though Sociology is part of the social sciences (such as psychology and anthropology), it is quite set apart from the other disciplines in social science; that is because it emphasizes
Sociology Discussion Responses Response to Post #1 I agree with you completely about the moral travesty of the continuing social and political inequality in many African nations as well as the continuing detrimental effects, even today, of European colonialism on the African continent. Likewise, it is inexcusable that racial inequality still persists today. However, the inability of many African societies to overcome the challenges that still bar significant social reform and progress
Sociology Discussion Responses Response to Post #1 While I agree completely with your sentiments and your long-range goals and the values they represent, I am not so sure that providing the resources you mentioned is as realistic a solution as it may have been in prior years. In my opinion, there is actually a fundamental barrier to the goal of increasing the availability of social programs in the current political climate. Specifically,
Post Communism and Social Policies -- an Introduction Communism and Capitalism are the two terms that have been defining the societies of the world. Needless to say, the understanding of the aforementioned terms is important before we go on to discuss the social policies in different countries. Communism is basically the economic organization is which the ownership of everything belongs to the government. Capitalism is the opposite of Communism. Karl Marx
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Abuse This paper will highlight post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its related causes such as abuse. The main idea here is to overview some of the causes of this disorder and to relate it with physiological and sociological aspects, some other important facts related to the topic will also be mentioned in order to give the reader a better idea about those individuals who are diagnosed