This paper is concerned with the interlinked issues of citizenship and the structured dependency of older people within Social Gerontology. It argues that implicit in much British Social Gerontology is a strategy of advancing the wellbeing of elderly people through the extension of citizenship rights. Absence of these rights leads to poverty, exclusion and ageism being commonplace experiences o...

The recent popularity of nationalist movements bears witness to the continued power national feeling in politics. This article considers potential relationship between different kinds attachments and what we call active allegiant citizenship—support for democracy, community participation, prosocial behavior. We analyze these relationships using data from two waves European Values Study. find th...

Citizenship Education and Foreign Language Learning: Deconstructing the Concept of Good Citizenship Embedded in Foreign Language Curricula in China and America

In this research, the purpose is to develop a systematic perspective on research citizenship education within scope of social studies field, reveal tendency studies, and reach synthesis in direction. Meta-synthesis method was used for purpose. Researches "citizenship" were collected reviewed according certain criteria, then reading process repeated order identify relationships between researche...

The Snowden leaks provided unprecedented insights into the workings of statecorporate surveillance programs based on the interception and collection of online activity. They illustrated the extent of “bulk” data collection and the general and widespread monitoring of everyday communication platforms used by ordinary citizens. Yet public response in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has been cons...

This study examined how employees react to formal evaluations of organizational citizenship behaviors in performance appraisals. Using a sample of 107 business students with relevant job experience, this experimental study found that their reactions to such formal inclusion of organizational citizenship behaviors depended on their task performance. Respondents with high task performance, compar...

Over the past five years or so, in the streets of places like Seattle, Washington DC, Genoa, Goteborg and Montreal, an extraordinary and diverse protest movement has been critiquing and resisting the dominant political-economic order. That order is characterized by (1) the increasing control of large corporations over material life and the persistent extension of capitalist social relations; an...

Science literacy, often defined as competency in school-like science activities, is frequently touted as a key to good citizenship. Based on a two-year ethnographic effort regarding science in the community, we suggest that science as taught in schools has no determinate relation to the activity of good citizenship. Rather, when considering the contribution of scientific activity to the greater...

'Caring and Supportive Environments' are fundamental to a social model of health and were a core theme of Phase V (2009-13) of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. Deploying the methodology of realist evaluation, this article synthesizes qualitative evidence from 112 highly structured case studies from 68 Network cities and 71 responses to a General Evaluation Questionnaire, which asked cit...