How does the idea of Buen Vivir reformulate the meaning and practice of development?
What will be an ideal response?
The quest for a new development paradigm echoes across the world. For instance, in South Korea, a new desire for a culture of “fairness” confronts its ruthless, ultracompetitive, and increasingly corrupt social system. In West Africa, the concept "Bamtaare" means “harmonious development,” integrating community and environment. Ecuador and Bolivia captured the world’s imagination in 2008 when their national constitutions reinvented development as “living well” (in Spanish: buen vivir, or Quechua: sumak kawsay). "Buen vivir" — the fruit of decades of political struggles and alliances between indigenous peoples, peasants, afrodescendants, women, environmentalists, and youth — subordinates economy to ecology, human dignity, and social justice. Buen vivir is not dissimilar to Polanyi’s re-embedding of the market. It complements legal passage in each state of the rights of nature alongside human rights
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The economy increasingly requires workers to have computer skills and know multiple languages because of increased technology in the workplace and the globalization of the economy. The education system, however, does not adapt but instead continues to prioritize the classics, does not integrate foreign language into its curriculum, and does not offer computer literacy courses. The education system is challenging what functional concept?
A. social structure B. equilibrium C. achieved status D. social integration
Framing the Gay Rights MovementIn this exercise, you will apply the idea of framing to slogans associated with the gay rights movement over the past several decades.Go online and find images from the gay rights movement (1970s to current). Look for images of signs, buttons, and T-shirts that activists use to advocate for equality. If you are not working on your computer in class, print at least three of these images and bring them to class. Working with a group of other students, compare framing in early slogans like "Come out," "We're here, we're queer, get used to it," and "queer pride," with more recent slogans like "love is love," and "freedom to marry," and "love makes a family."What master frames are being used?
What will be an ideal response?
Modern capitalism first emerged and flourished in China
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
SAGE News Clips: Youth Suicide
Description: A mother agonizes over the suicide of her 14-year-old daughter who jumped off of the Golden Gate Bridge for feeling “boring” and “fat” even though she was a size zero. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that suicide rates have increased 24 percent between 1999 and 2014. During this time period, girls aged 10–14 were three times more likely to die from suicide. The CDC also reports increasing rates of psychiatric illness and depression among youth today when compared to previous decades.Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you’ve signed in, scroll to page 104, and watch the video. When you’ve finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:Which of the following statements about Durkheim’s book Suicide is true? A. It focuses on individual-level explanations for suicide. B. It rejects the idea that individual-level factors contribute to a person’s decision to commit suicide. C. It focuses on how the organization of societies gives rise to suicide. D. It rejects the idea that macro-level factors contribute to a person’s decision to commit suicide.