Social work had entered into social innovation scenario to address a host of issues like income deprivations, displacement, disability, racism, social conflicts, and social exclusion. In Indian situation care giving to the differently abled particularly those having mental illness is a matter of grave concern. Varied approaches including institutionalized care and family and community based care are tried out in different contexts depending on the nature and severity of illness. This study tries to examine the care and rehabilitation of the differently abled through the individual initiatives inspired by faith dimensions of Catholic Church lasting over a period of twenty years in the State of Kerala and outside. The objective is to explore the process and outcome dimensions of such social innovation to find out the motivating drivers and aspects of sustainability. The personal and familial dedication is also come under the purview of analysis. The study adopted a Grounded Theory approach and methodology to analyse and theorise the processes and outcomes of such initiatives. The sample was chosen using purposive sampling methods and data was collected using in-depth interviews of individual innovators, their family members, volunteers, professionals and community representatives taking 22 centers reaching theoretical saturation. Being a qualitative study, a conceptual framework is given to such home based social innovation rooted in faith based dimensions with social responsibility for social value creation through sustainability leading to a social mission. The committed and sustained involvement of the community and the neighbourhood generated an innovative model for care of the persons with mental illness. The results of the study brings out new relationships and innovative drives and motivations exceptional to the traditional philanthropic methods as well as professional care and rehabilitation approaches thereby characterising social innovation in care giving and rehabilitation of the mentally challenged. Unlike the western model of community care and rehabilitation of persons with mental illness, the new approach evolved through the study is a family based community supported care and rehabilitation. There is a new relationship paradigm emerges at different levels – between the client and innovator, the institution and the community, clients and the family members of the innovator, clients and their family, clients and the professionals etc.. It is a model for effective family education, care and compassion to complement other models of care and rehabilitation leading to theory of participatory family based care with community support in a spiral progressive paradigm.
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Prince CP
15 February 2017
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Entrepreneurship is an elusive concept. The concept of entrepreneurship has been a subject of much debate and is defined differently by different authors. It has been used in various ways and in various senses. The word entrepreneurship has been derived from a French root which means ‘to undertake’ Today, people call it by various names such as, ‘risk bearing’, ‘innovations,’ ‘thrill seeking’ etc. The word ‘Dalit’ comes from the Sanskrit root dal - and means ‘broken, ground-down, or oppressed’. Those previously known as Untouchables, Depressed classes and Harijanas who are sharing 24.4 percent in the total population (According to 2011 census data) are today increasingly adopting the term ‘Dalit’ as a name for themselves. The Dalits have historically been poor, deprived of basic human rights, and treated as social inferiors in India. They still face economic, social, and political discrimination in the name of ‘caste’. Entrepreneurship is particularly important, as the so called Dalits have run and managed a number of traditional and cottage industries such as handicrafts, pottery and leather-work for centuries. The skills, know-how and domain of knowledge necessary for this purpose have been passed on from one generation to the next and are available with them even today. In the modern technology dominated and development driven times, to fulfil the mission of, ‘Subka Saath- Subka Vikas’, there is an urgent need as well as wide scope for research on Dalit Entrepreneurship in a developing country like India. It is necessary to reflect on the factors that have imprisoned them in the dungeon of depravity and shed light on how to push them to the mainstream of the economy with access to means of better livelihood and opportunities.
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Radhakrishna Gowda, Pramod Gonchika
15 February 2017
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Introduction of malls has not been able to replace traditional markets, which are still popular among the pocket conscious people, but has definitely added a new adventure to the shopping experience. The retail sector will see over 34 million sq ft of shopping centre space by the year end, said the report on shopping centre development in India. ‘To the present generation, shopping means much more than a mere necessity and malls are now fast becoming image benchmarks for communities.’ Malls in India frequently open up with great fanfare; the glitzy stores, the ‘deals’ and the simple desire to spend some time in attractive (think novelties such as transparent lifts and escalators), climate controlled environs means that there is sufficient footfall to begin with. At the most, 20 percent malls delivering on the customer and financial counts, one can clearly say that the mall revolution has not been a grand success in India. Keeping the above observation, this paper attempts to focus on the evolution of mall culture in the research area (Mangalore City – Coastal District of Karnataka State) and focus will be on to study the new paradigm of ‘Mall Culture’ and about the evolution & negative trend of Mall Culture
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Iqbal Ahamed U T, Yathish Kumar
15 February 2017
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Human trafficking is condemned as a violation of human rights by international conventions. Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor: a modern-day form of slavery. The word ‘trafficking’ includes the word ‘traffic’, which we often equate with transportation or travel. However, while the words look and sound alike, they do not hold the same meaning. Human trafficking does not require the physical movement of a person (but must entail the exploitation of the person for labor or commercial sex). Additionally, victims of human trafficking are not permitted to leave upon arrival at their destination. They are held against their will through acts of coercion and forced to work or provide services to the trafficker or others. The work or services may include anything from bonded or forced labor to commercialized sexual exploitation. The arrangement may be structured as a work contract, but with no or low payment or on terms which are highly exploitative. Sometimes the arrangement is structured as debt bondage, with the victim not being permitted or able to pay off the debt. This paper is based on a survey conducted among Trafficked Women (rescued) in Mysore city-India.
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Nanjunda
15 February 2017
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Today more than ever before, there is ‘gender amidst the scenario of concern’. That is because of the fact that despite centuries of feminist struggles, voices from the margin etc, the present era of neo-liberalism is not free from ‘contradictory’ practices by state and non-state actors as far as women’s issues are concerned. Schemes for women and girl child, and programmes for women entrepreneurship development cannot change the big picture: women are either victimised or caricatured. What is more alarming is that, many perceive feminism to be an outdated ideology at the most to be discussed by women only. This paper tries to relocate feminism in the context of both Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals. Taking cue from the global recognition of women’s rights as human rights since 1993, human rights are essential for dignified human existence encompassing rights for fulfilling basic needs as well as for the development of human potential and personality. It is argued that if ‘empowerment’ has to be realised through education for women, then that education has to deal with human rights in general and women’s human rights in particular. In addition the paper also examines the status and rights of Indian women, with a glimpse into the future.
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Dr V Basil Hans, Sowjanya S Shetty, Raghavendra Rao
15 February 2017
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