ROUSSEAU’NUN EMİLE’İNDE İDEAL KADIN VE ERKEK KURGULARININ ELEŞTİRİSİ by Cansel USLU, Tuba KANCI

“…Although Rousseau has egalitarian views based on the concept of the general will in The Social Contract, in Emile, while he offers good citizenship education for men, limits women to being the ideal woman-mother. …”
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Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation by Johnson, Amanda

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Middle-class Housing as a Cross-cultural and Multi-disciplinary Project by Gaia Caramellino, Kostas Tsiambaos, Ana Vaz Milheiro

“…In a sense, Europe, in its various civic configurations and cultural representations, became the symbol of progress and prosperity for the middle classes, an international formation restored and restructured by the middle classes which was meant to serve and protect according to a new post-war social contract. …”
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The logic, life, language and limit of contractarianism on punishment by William Idowu

“…The article discovered that even though the theory of contractarianism, when viewed from the perspectives of its life, logic, language and limit, is not a completely convincing alternative to traditional theories on the justification of punishment, however, it expresses emphasis on the unambiguous utility of the social contract idea in the justification of punishment. …”
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Reconsidering government digital strategies within the context of digital inequalities: the case of the UK Digital Strategy by Efpraxia D. Zamani, Anastasia Rousaki

“…This shift, exacerbated by digital poverty, appears incongruent with the social contract between citizens and the state. We employ a critical discourse analysis to identify contradictory outcomes resulting from these neoliberal policies and showcase that the UK Digital Strategy, while seemingly committed to aspects of equality and inclusivity, appear to prioritise almost entirely market rather than citizens’ interests.…”
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SEXISMO Y RACISMO EN LA GESTIÓN NEOLIBERAL DE LAS MIGRACIONES: SUBTEXTOS DEL CONTRATO SOCIAL by Rebeca Moreno Balaguer

“…We argue that under the apparent neutrality of the (neo)liberal social contract there are "subtexts" of gender and race. …”
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The Damned Neighbors Problem: Rousseau’s Civil Religion Revisited by Micah Watson

“…Near the conclusion of <i>The Social Contract</i>, Jean-Jacques Rousseau starkly proclaims that no state has been founded without a religious basis, and thus if he is right, every political community must grapple with the tension between the conflicting claims of the divine and the mundane. …”
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Liebe, Unschuld und der Staat. Liebe und Politik: Was die politische Theorie vom Kino lernen kann/Love, Innocence and the State. Love and Politics: What Political Theory can learn... by Kahan, Paul W.

“…Theory is dominated by liberalism and its insistence on interests, reason, rights, individualism, and the social contract. Movies - and the social imaginations of the political they mirror - turn out to be completely different: Instead of interests, we find love, instead of the contract, we find sacrifice, and instead of the individual, we find the family. …”
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The Nordic welfare model, law, and the financial crisis by Dawid Bunikowski

“…The NWS ideology is a very practical philosophy about how to provide equal opportunities (the minimum social security, access to health, free education) for everybody in a society. The social contract is a basis of the NWS. The NWS might be changed due to economic crisis to some extent, of course, but its philosophy remains the same: help the weaker.…”
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Sharing responsibility in disaster management policy by Cameron Atkinson, Steven Curnin

“…However, it has been contended that shared-responsibility in Australia is a partially articulated social contract. Through targeted engagement with the works of Foucault, a combination of document analysis on selected disaster risk reduction policies and employing a taxonomy of obligations of shared-responsibility, we investigate if shared-responsibility signifies the failure of dominant disaster management discourses to articulate concrete responsibilities. …”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“…Based on the Aristotelian insistence that the good life is the end of politics, the essay argues for a rethinking of the concept of public morality as character-based political dynamics that enables politicians to think more about the social contract between the government and the governed, rather than an amoral understanding of politics that eschew morality and undermines the well-being of the citizens. …”
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Civil religion in Russia A choice for Russian modernization? by Elina Kahla

“…Habermas proposes a new “third way” for a social contract, one that requires an equal dialog between religious and secular citizens.1 My aim here is to elaborate on the improvement of the relationship among the church, the state, and society in the contemporary Russian situation by comparing it with the West, where secularization has been seen as a key component of modernization. …”
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Markets as Spaces: An Autoethnography of Women’s Solidarity by R. Duncan M. Pelly, Mariam Abisoye

“…Our story demonstrates the market as a true heterotopia with a different social contract that influenced the values of market participants throughout their lives.  …”
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Revealing the Ideas in the Swedish Social Services Act Regarding Support to Individuals with Disabilities by Kent Ehliasson, Urban Markström

“…A text analysis of SoL identified the following ideas, that is, conceptions of reality and values: (1) the social contract and justice, (2) the collective and integration/normalisation, (3) the individual and autonomy and (4) decentralisation and the shift of power. …”
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MANAGING CHANGE: THE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY SECTOR IN CYPRUS, OPERATIONS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT. A CASE STUDY by SIMONA MIHAI YIANNAKI

“…These reside mostly the inequalities, the social contract issues and keeping promises.…”
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Arguments for the Normative Validity of Human Rights. Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporary Criticisms of the 1789 French Declaration of Human and Civic Rights by Esther Oluffa Pedersen

“…Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and Rousseau’s Social Contract (1762) are discussed as important predecessors. …”
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The covenant in Ulrich Huber's enlightened theology, jurisprudence and political theory by A. W. G. Raath, S. A. de Freitas

“…This takes place against the background of the more prominent insights  regarding the covenant in 16th and 17th century Western political thought, namely the idea of the Biblical covenant (with the emphasis on the conditional nature of God’s law), and the secular social contract theories stemming from the early Enlightenment. …”
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A FAIR guide for data providers to maximise sharing of human genomic data. by Manuel Corpas, Nadezda V Kovalevskaya, Amanda McMurray, Fiona G G Nielsen

“…Providers of human genomic data (e.g., publicly or privately funded repositories and data archives) fulfil their social contract with data donors when their shareable data conforms to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles. …”
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Soberania e justiça em Rousseau Sovereignty and Justice in Rousseau by Thomaz Kawauche

“…The analysis takes as its subject the relation between sovereignty and civil laws, which is comprehended in terms of the opposition between natural justice and civil justice found in the Social Contract.…”
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The Silicon Doctrine by Aitor Jiménez

“…This article examines the social contract proposed by Silicon Valley, evaluating its two-sided role as a disruptive breakout from the twentieth century social model, and as a continuation of the neoliberal shock doctrine.…”
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