Health inequalities research has shown a growing interest in participatory ways of working. However, the theoretical ideas underpinning mainstream approaches to participation remain underexplored. This article contributes to theorising participatory practice for the kind of egalitarian politics to which many of those focused on reducing health inequalities are committed. First, we argue that th...

A major consequence of years of exclusion and neglect is that past attempts to change the social and economic conditions of Afro Latin American (AFLA) Communities have often been hampered by low selfesteem and significant degrees of internal apathy. This was often coupled with a deep sense of alienation from many of the regional and national institutions that are mandated to direct programs and...

In this paper, I offer an account of social alienation, a genre alienation engendered by contemporary work that has gone largely overlooked in the ethics labor. Social consists corruption workers’ relations to their life and people make it up. When one is socially alienated, one’s sociality close exist as mere afterthought or break from work, while labor central activity life. While might think...

introduction: problem statement: “sense of social belonging” is one of the human basic needs which is the outcome of social relationships and may have generally many impacts on social pathologies and specifically on local deviations. the aim of the present study is examining and identifying the relationship between municipality performance and citizenship commitments and sense of social belongi...

new concepts have formed in transition of traditional urban planning concept that their essence refers to sociology and even psychology and so has made urban planning interdisciplinary concept, could be titled social capital and sense of place and participation. in fact places have two aspects, material and immaterial and can form emotional feeling among its residents. these feeling which led t...