L'actualité du capital social, de la vie en société et des options de société.
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Hello week: basic gestures
If you spontaneously say "hello" to a stranger on the street between May 5 and 9, all you risk is winning 25 or 25,000 euros. Members of “Message sans nom”, a group which campaigns for a more friendly and caring society, will indeed walk the streets in search of these spontaneous “hellos” during “Hello Week”. “Message without a Name” is based on the principle that small changes are enough to make socie...Read More >>
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| Civil freedom - Germany - Social trust | ||
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For a decriminalization of tax law
The head of state of Liechtenstein accused Germany of having "attacked its sovereignty" by accepting that its secret services pay an informant to transmit Liechtenstein banking data to them. “For us, such a thing would be unthinkable. We do not place tax interests above the principles of the rule of law.” “We categorically reject the way the German government is ...Read More >>
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| Belgium - Civil society - Social capital | ||
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Microsociology of daily life
On November 20, 2005, a couple of African origin approached a lady while she was at the Bancontact self-banking machine at the ING bank in La Hulpe, asking her to explain how the machines worked. The victim turns around to discuss and one of the two perpetrators manages to steal his bank card from the device. The victim then gives up her place t...Read More >>
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Christmas: the celebration of social bonds?
We could imagine: people living in towns with high purchasing power are not the happiest. The well-being of the population is higher outside the centers, where social relations are still intact, reports a study by Deutsche Bank Research. The healthiest Germans apparently live in the Ulm region. Well-being analysis is very trendy in Germany. (…) To identify the problem, researchers from the main German bank identified six criteria: ...Read More >>
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| European Union - Social trust | ||
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European Parliament: the worst shoemaker
The European Parliament is a bit Janus. With MEPs presenting the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on the one hand, and the head of the audiovisual service Anne-Margrete Wachtmeister preventing a Portuguese journalist from filming images of the strike of the auxiliaries-session of the Parliament of somewhere else. MEPs who vote for the creation of a fund intended to financially help employees who are victims of ...Read More >>
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| Civic engagement - Social trust - State institutions | ||
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9/11 and conspiracy theories
Why do doubts surround the official investigations into the events of 9/11? For one thing, several major questions in the past have only revealed partial truths. Beyond this, major historic events always provide scope for speculation. President John F. Kennedy, assassinated by a lone gunman? Impossible! There must be more to it. The 9/11 attacks on the United States? Allegedly perpetrated by a bunch of Arabs with box cutters and ru...Read More >>
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| Social capital - Social trust | ||
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Communication rules that can help create social capital by establishing clarity and trust: the four "Toltec agreements"
“Let your word be impeccable”
Speak with integrity, only say what you think. Do not use speech against yourself or to speak ill of others.
“Don't r...Read More >>
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