منابع مشابه
Enabling Crowdsourced Visualizations to Support Large - Scale Civic Engagement
Cities and local municipalities have become petri dishes for exploring new strategies for engaging the public in massive decision-making processes to address some of the highly complex and controversial challenges such as climate change [e.g.1-7]. These platforms are important for at least two reasons: First, they democratize access to important decision-making processes. Second, they promise t...
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متن کاملCivic Engagement, Adulthood
COHABITATION Cohabitation is defined by social scientists as two adults of the opposite sex living together in an intimate, nonmarital relationship. Cohabitation has rapidly become a prominent feature on the landscape of American family life. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Kennedy and Bumpass (2007) estimated that 58% of women aged between 25 and 29 had cohabited at som...
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How does one transform underprivileged youth and selfless volunteers into citizens who are autonomous, tolerant, and masters of their own destinies? This is the ambition of Nina Eliasoph’s latest work, which, at the same time, offers a remarkable portrait of American civic life. Civil society, to the extent that it promotes empowerment and fosters personal development, is often presented as a f...
متن کاملCivic engagement and the transition to adulthood.
Constance Flanagan and Peter Levine survey research on civic engagement among U.S. adolescents and young adults. Civic engagement, they say, is important both for the functioning of democracies and for the growth and maturation it encourages in young adults, but opportunities for civic engagement are not evenly distributed by social class or race and ethnicity. Today's young adults, note the au...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SAGE Open
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2158-2440,2158-2440
DOI: 10.1177/2158244013495542