75 FOUR Citizenship, value and digital culture Jon Dovey, Giota Alevizou and Andy Williams Introduction This chapter sets out to illustrate how the many different notions of creative value among our research partners play out at the level of community practice. We work through a range of digitally enabled but locally determined amateur, semi-professional, informal and activist creative processes and attempt to articulate the nature and quality of the impact they create. It argues for the significance of these impacts on some of the infrastructures of
31 TWO value incommensurability introduction Following in part Joseph Raz (1988, 1997, 2001), my central claim in this chapter is that understanding individual attachments opens up conceptual and normative space for promoting value incommensurability, given that individuals are attached to a range of incommensurable ‘valued objects’ as defined in Chapter One. However, these attachments raise various questions and issues concerning the character of valued objects, how and why these objects are imbued with value, and subsequently the nature and causes of
15 TWO Value judgements Introduction The sociologist Howard Becker once claimed that value-neutral sociology is not possible, that a person’s research cannot be divorced from their personal beliefs and values. The same is true for philosophy, criminology and, arguably, all other academic disciplines – despite some academics’ claims that their research is value free. According to Becker: ... one would have to assume, as some apparently do, that it is indeed possible to do research that is uncontaminated by personal and political sympathies. I propose to
organisation of society, characteristically (but not always) in terms of class or social movements; to the extent that it promotes collective values, such as mutual aid, cooperation and solidarity; in the methods it favours, including radical democracy and state intervention; and in the interpretation of the values associated with socialism, such as equality and social justice. But it is individual in its emphasis on individual rights, human dignity and personal capacity. Conservatism is collective in its understanding of society as a partnership or common enterprise; its
47 Voluntary Sector Review • vol 7 • no 1 • 47–66 • © Policy Press 2016 • #VSR Print ISSN 2040 8056 • Online ISSN 2040 8064 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204080516X14555532383091 research Value similarity: the key to building public trust in charitable organisations Yongjiao Yang, yangyongjiao11@outlook.com Sun Yat-Sen University, China Iain Brennan, i.brennan@hull.ac.uk Mick Wilkinson, m.d.wilkinson@hull.ac.uk University of Hull, UK This article explores the relationship between value similarity and public trust in charitable organisations. Through a focus
, reflection on the question ‘What is to be done?’ Hence it is involved in its essence with matters of value, since ‘What is to be done?’ always involves the question, ‘What is worth doing?’ – along with other value-laden questions. 1 This value-centric quality of policy analysis is highlighted by Wildavsky’s classic definition: policy analysis is about ‘finding a problem about which something can and ought to be done’ ( 1979 , 3). As Anderson points out, Problems are not just ‘out there’ waiting to be resolved. The first act of evaluation is to make a distinction
There are many other important intangibles which contribute to value. Because markets do not trade explicitly in these things, it is hard to identify and quantify their value. Intangible factors in health, happiness and wellbeing, for example, have the potential to keep the cost of health services affordable and are only now becoming better recognised. RICS (2016 , p 45) A function of public health spatial planning practice is to help identify and secure value from development to achieve health outcomes. The objective of procuring evidence to support
67 FIVE Best Value ‘Best Value’ has been defined as “securing continuous improvement in the exercise of all functions undertaken by [an] authority, whether statutory or not, having regard to a combination of economy, efficiency and effectiveness” (DETR, 1999, paragraph 3) . The 1999 Local Government Act (LGA) imposes on most bodies within the local government finance system in Britain, including police and fire services, a duty to make arrangements for the achievement of Best Value in the performance of their functions. The duty came into force from 1 April 2000
67 6 Values voters Voting is a fundamental part of a democratic system. The whole premise of democracy is that governments derive their right to rule through being freely chosen by citizens. How votes translate into government formation and then government action depends on electoral systems, party systems and institutional design. There is a vast literature that addresses these factors (for example, Ware, 1996) which I will not cover in detail here. The fundamental principle of open elections remains common to all those different democratic systems. From
This chapter assesses how and why residents came to value their estates as places to live. It begins by considering their attachment to their dwellings as homes. The importance of place belonging is then analysed at the spatial scale of the estate in relation to neighbourliness and community. This leads on to an examination of the intermediate scale – blocks of flats and rows of houses. The next two sections show how estates have been affected by the Right to Buy policy in relation to place belonging, by considering, first, RTB owners and, second, middle
