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The Social Networks and Psychological Well-Being of Korean Women Immigrants (한국 여성 이민자의 사회적 지지와 심리적 복지)

  • Seo, Lee-Na
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.87-107
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    • 2006
  • A study of 117 Korean immigrant women who had husband and(or) children in Hawaii found the relation between social networks and psychological well-being. Social networks composed supporters, support structure, and support contents. Psychological well-being examined family life satisfaction, family life stability, and women's psychological health. Results showed as followed. First, the choice of immigration place among Korean immigrant women and her family based on other family members and friends lived in there. Second, her supporters were family and relatives, Korean friends, foreign friends, religions, belonged organizations and groups, public agencies in Hawaii, and mass-media. The best supporters of them was family and relatives and they mostly provided mental health to Korean immigrant women. Family, Korean friends, foreign friends, and religions tended to support emotional assistance. Third, the level of psychological well-being was higher. Her level of psychological health was higher than the others. Fourth, the best predictors of psychological well-being were child existence, occupation, and immigration duration. Fifth, psychological well-being significantly distinguished different relations of supporters from support structure of social network. The number and support duration with foreign friends supporter and the support duration and the level of perceived useful support content highly related with psychological well-being.

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A Study on the Influence of Social Regulation on Competition and Innovation: A Case of Fire-retardant Coating Material for Steel Structure Sector in Korea (사회적 규제가 대체재 간 경쟁과 혁신에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 : 국내 철강 구조물용 내화 피복재 산업의 사례연구)

  • Chang, Chul Kwon;Ji, Ilyong
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.939-969
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    • 2017
  • The interest in social regulation and its influence on innovation are increasing as the society concerns more for environment and safety. There have been plenty of literature about the impact of social regulation on innovation and its mechanism. Majority of research have been influenced by or based on the famous Porter's hypothesis. However, majority of the literature focus on internal factors such as expected benefits from change of regulations, and it is hard to find one studying social regulation's influence on innovation through external factors such as market or industrial structure. This study addresses this issue of the impact of social regulation on innovation by analyzing the case of fire-retardant coating material for steel structure industry in Korea. It scrutinizes the impact of social regulation which affects competition and innovation on substitute competing market, and tries to reveal that there might exist the other path to innovation, besides the way that the expected benefit from compliance of regulation directly drives innovation. As a result of the case study, we have found that changes in social regulation may act like economic regulation and restructure the market segment and this effect may lead to innovation. It can be explained by the fact that expected benefits from compliance of regulation can be a direct source of innovation, as Porter suggested, but the change of industry structure and competitive strength caused by the change in social regulation can also act as a driving force of innovation.

A Systems Thinking Approach on the Dementia as a Social Problem (사회문제로서의 치매에 대한 시스템사고적 고찰)

  • Cho, Sungsook
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.29-50
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to comprehensively understand the dynamics of the dementia as a social problem and to find out its causes and solutions, using the systems thinking approach. The contents of the study are as follows. Firstly, it examines the existing studies on the dementia, draws their limitations and further presents the major variables to understand the dementia as a social problem. Second, it analyzes the structure of the causation in order to find out the dynamics of the problem. Lastly, it concludes with the suggestions to solve the problem based on its feedback structure presented in the causal loop diagrams. This study is expected to make a useful and basic material to grope for the solutions, as the first research to dynamically understand the dementia as a social problem.

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An Analysis of Elementary Mathematics Lessons Considering Social Connections (사회적 연결을 고려한 초등학교 수학 수업의 사례 분석)

  • Kim, JeongWon;Kim, YuKyung;Pang, JeongSuk
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.157-174
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzed the process of establishing a social structure in a third-grade mathematics classroom for one semester and explored learning processes based on various social interactions and relationships between the teacher and students. In the early phase of the semester, main foci were placed on establishing an overall social norms and basic social structure for effective mathematical learning. In the middle phase of the semester, an emphasis among students' interactions was given to exploration of mathematical concepts. Students tended to ask whatever they did not know exactly and clearly understood what to explain. In the late phase of the semester, students' individual disposition was further considered. Disciplinary personality traits including intellectual courage, honesty, consideration, and cooperation were emphasized along with mathematical exploration. Based on these research results, this study was intended to provide implications for implementing more meaningful mathematics lessons by fully considering not only mathematical connections but also social connections.

A Study on the Structure and Characteristics of the Utilization Support Systems(USS) to Aid the Use of Social Welfare Services in Japan's Social Welfare Systems (일본의 사회복지체제에 있어서 사회복지서비스에 대한 이용지원체제의 구조와 특징에 관한 연구)

  • Chung, Jae-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.57 no.1
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    • pp.121-146
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the structure and characteristics of the utilization support systems(USS), which has been institutionalized to aid the use of social welfare services in Japan's social welfare systems recently. In order to conduct such purposes, this paper made the process as follows. Firstly, this paper examined the developmental processes of social welfare systems, and the back ground of institutionalization of USS in Japan. Secondly, this paper formulated at ideal dimension the analytic model which was to explain the structure and characteristics of the USS. To build this model, this paper used two factors which were the connective dependency to the welfare support systems and the feasible-satisfying alternative setting for user. Thirdly, this paper analyzed the characteristics of the user-driven support facilities which has already activated in social welfare systems in Japan. According to the result of analyzing such model, this paper explained that USS in Japan has possessed the structure and characteristics, such as to aid self actualization and human right of user, to compose the inner coalition organization with supply systems, to emphasize the employee to train care management's skill, and to keep up bounded openness to USS's participation. Therefore, oligopoly market is formulated owing to bounded openness in the field of USS and the role of social worker such as a care manager is emphasized on making care plan.

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Performance analysis of information propagation in DTN-like scale-free mobile social network

  • Wang, Zhifei;Deng, Su;Huang, Hongbin;Wu, Yahui
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.11
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    • pp.3984-3996
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    • 2014
  • Mobile social network can be seen as a specific application of the DTN (Delay Tolerant Network), in which the information propagation can be impacted by many social behaviors of the nodes. For a specific node, its social behaviors are various. For example, the node may not be interested in the information before receiving it and may also discard the information after getting it. On the other hand, people are more willing to forward the message to his friends. These interactive behaviors between nodes can be seen as social behaviors. It is easy to see that the impact of the social behaviors is related to the social ties, which can be manifested by the structure of the social network. State of the art works often simply assumes that the social networks can be divided into some communities. At present, some works find that the structure of some social networks is scale-free. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a theoretical model to evaluate the impact of above social behaviors in the DTN-like scale-free network. Simulation shows the accuracy of the model. Numerical results show that both social behaviors and scale-free character have significant impact on information propagation. Moreover, the impact of social behaviors is related to the scale-free character of the networks.

A Study on Intellectual Structure Using Author Co-citation Analysis and Author Bibliographic Coupling Analysis in the Field of Social Welfare Science (저자동시인용분석과 저자서지결합분석에 의한 지적 구조 분석: 사회복지학 분야를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hee-Jeon;Cho, Hyun-Yang
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.283-306
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    • 2010
  • This study intended to make new suggestions by clarifying usefulness of analysis methodology for the intellectual structure of disciplines, which combines author co-citation analysis and author bibliographic coupling analysis. It also aimed to identify the recent research trend and key researchers recently doing research activities actively as well as the intellectual structure in the field of social welfare. It was found to be more efficient to conduct both author co-citation analysis and author bibliographic coupling analysis in order to identify traditional sub-areas of disciplinary subject or the research trend of actual researchers in examining the intellectual structure of a specific discipline.

The Tax Structure of Welfare States - Recommendations for Universal Welfare States - (복지국가의 조세체계와 함의 - 보편적 복지국가 친화적인 조세구조는 있는 것일까 -)

  • Yoon, Hong-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.63 no.4
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    • pp.277-299
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    • 2011
  • The current study analyzed the tax structure in the welfare states. The appropriate tax structure of universal welfare state should be based on expanding all taxes, rather than choosing between direct and indirect, progressive and regressive, or mobile and immobile tax. The revenue for the universal welfare payment should be raised by levying tax on all people provided that the welfare payment is made available to all people. The analysis led to classification of tax structure into the high tax European model and the low tax English and East Asian model. The high tax European model was further classified into the balance tax model and the high social security model. The low tax English and East Asian model was classified into the low social security model and the high property tax model. Based on the results, the study maintained that the universal welfare states need not only to expand welfare resources but to develop tax system that corresponds to the universal welfare system.

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A Study of Ways of Ameliorating Social Conflict and Leading Social Integration using Causal Loop Analyses (인과지도 분석을 통한 사회갈등 해소 및 통합 방안 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Ki;Park, sang-Mahn;Kim, Gang-Hoon
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.51-81
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    • 2015
  • The main purpose of this study is to seek better approach which explains reciprocal causality associated with factors causing social conflict and improving social integration respectively. Throughout this study, there are several important implications how social conflict can be solved in South Korea. In particular, government and policy makers in political sector should create an environment of social integration through political reforms by switching from vertical structure to horizontal structure and by encouraging ordinary people to actively participate in the policy-making processes and political activities. In economic sector, government and stakeholder associated with a certain economic issue should induce a change in the economic environment for social integration, focusing on distribution of wealth and employment stability. In social and cultural sectors, it is necessary to solve social and cultural problems (e.g., generation gap and conflict between the young and the old, multi-ethnic families, and lack of communication) by exploring better ways to establish an altruism and to interact with each other. In psychological sectors, PsyCap(Positive Psychological Capital) will help ordinary people to crate positive thinking and lead to social integration. For instance, political leaders having PsyCap are able to communicate with the people and can help the people to build positive main influencing on social integration. Finally, the improvement of the system is required because the improvement of insufficient system is the basis for reasonable and equitable social integration.