University-community bridge: service learnining to society

A University/Community Partnership to Bridge the Digital Divide

IntroductIon Companies want employees with core values who ascribe to corporate values. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is used by companies in recruitment (Foote, 2001), and guides managers in dealing with team performance problems. Similarly, leadership requires refocusing on core values, which over time builds character (Badaracco, 1998). Thus, educational institutions should devote considerable...

Society in Hand: Toward Community Service through Social Network

Technology plays a significant role in the development of society. Social Networking Sites (SNS) have not only been used to cover the needs of entertainment, finding friends or family but also have been extended to cover other issues such as social and community services. This paper explores usefulness of using social network in the context of community and social services. By analyzing the lin...

The Alcoholic and Society *Based on talks to the "Crime—A Challenge" Society, Oxford University, in February 1959, and to the Social Service Organisation, Cambridge University, October 1959.

Despite the marked decrease of heavy drinking and of alcohollsin in this country in the first half of this century, alcoholism still institutes a social and medical problem of considerable magnitude. field studies showing the number of alcoholics in this country are available. An estimate carried out a few years ago by the ^Icoholism Sub-committee of the World Health Organisation? )Jised on the...

Obligation to Society, Loyalty to Community

Obligation is displayed toward rules or requirements of formalized roles stemming from membership in society, whereas loyalty is shown to persons and is founded upon communal commitment to them. Loyalties entail obligations, but the converse does not necessarily hold. While one may have obligations toward everyone, it is neither conceptually nor psychologically possible to be loyal to all perso...

Job Stability in Transition from Industrial Society to Service Society