Sense of community (SOC) is empirically “unpacked” as a multilevel construct with place and social elements. SOC has been studied primarily at the individual level despite researchers acknowledging its effects at the community level. Little attention has been given to the roles of place and place attitudes in SOC. We argue that place and social are inextricably bound, and studying the impact of...

The relationship between the individual and collective is one of most important topics in Confucianism. Though this concept has been widely studied, ming 名 (meaning ‘name’), its crucial categories, not yet deeply explored within theoretical domain. This article discusses four aspects their contributions to self community. Firstly, Confucius’ proposition zhengming 正名 (rectifying names or rectifi...

BACKGROUND A child is a developing person with evolving capacities that include autonomy, mental (decisional) capacity and capacity to assume responsibility. Hence, children are entitled to participatory (autonomy) rights in South Africa as observed in the Children's Act 38 of 2005. According to section 129 of the Act a child may consent to his or her own medical treatment provided that he or s...

Abstract This article introduces an intuitive conservation dilemma called the Canyon Dilemma: Is it possible to condemn mining of Grand Canyon, even by a poor generation, while also permitting this generation’s unremarkable small canyon? It then argues that not one several prominent theories environmental justice, including various forms egalitarianism, welfarism, deep-ecological theories, comm...

there are different approaches to the question of developments in contemporary iran. this research is an attempt to introduce communitarianism theory whilst at the same time use it to examine the history of political thought in contemporary iran. today this theory is one of the most important approaches of post modernist era which has challenged liberalism and some tenets of modernity. using th...

Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements makes a significant contribution to contemporary capability theories by challenging their individualism. Mainline versions of the Capabilities Approach (CA), including those developed Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Ingrid Robeyns, insist on methodological normative And with good reason: communitarianism most often reinscribes p...

This paper examines how economic fragmentation (widening inequality of skills, income and education) gives rise to social (via incompatible identities), generating political policies). We consider three value-driven identities: individualism, focused on status concerns, communitarianism, affiliations, multi-affiliatedness, encompassing both objectives. Under endogenous identity formation high-s...