English translation: community involvement through non-profits or associations
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Spanish term or phrase:
asociacionismo/asociacionista
English translation:
community involvement through non-profits or associations
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Spanish term or phrase:asociacionismo/asociacionista
La fuerza del asociacionismo en XXX es notoria en todos los campos de la cultura. El movimiento asociacionista de la ciudad arroja una cifras sorprendentes como lo son el registro de casi 1000 asociaciones con domicilio social en el concejo, de las cuales, más de un tercio son Asociaciones Culturales.
Have had a look for this but none of the explanations given seem to fit in this context - any help much appreciated. Cheers.
Explanation: it's the idea of community involvement..
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Or....The significance or strength of the philosophy of community involvement through non-profits.....
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one example, though not culture..in this case the environment, it is however the same idea:
... COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING: ... philosophy was to
increase “emphasis and involvement of associations and [to foster] community- ... www.escarpment.org/leading_edge/LE99/le99_s3/krug.pdf - Similar pages
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In France,they even say: vie associative..I wonder if Spanish has that expression..la vida associativa? Of course, there are so many non-profits and no way to say it precisely in English...except for the non-profit community..maybe..non-profit experience...oh boy..
thanks for that Jane - that certainly would fit into the context of the translation in general - it's dealing with community involvement in local issues relating to culturage and heritage. cheers!
Neil - thanks for the advice - I had the feeling this was going to be one of those ones I was going to have to paraphrase! I know what you mean about associationism sounding a wee bit dodgy - even if it's not made up, I don't think it'll have much meaning in the sentence I need to use it for! Have been playing around with a few ideas on getting the meaning across - will not close the question just yet but think that paraphrasing is going to be the only way forward - unless anyone comes up with a magical solution!! Cheers
thanks! i meant to put it as a Pro question, but figure I must have left it at 'easy' from a question I asked a few days ago. I know what you mean - anything I have been able to come up seems to be quite negative, but obviously this is a positive term in the context given...I'm pretty much stumped too!
This is a bear of a challenge - so I moved it to "pro" category. The most literal translation is organizationalism, but in English that's mostly used by anarchists in a pejorative sense! And asociacionismo is always seen as very positive. So I'm stumped.
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tendency towards forming associations/groups/collectives
Explanation: In this context, because "associationism" sounds well dodgy, if not made up, in English IMO
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\"Collective\" is nowadays used to refer to any sort of cultural group, not just left-leaning ones...
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I. e: In this case, I believe you need to paraphrase the word.
neilmac Spain Local time: 07:25 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 11
associationism (referido a la teoría,no peyorativo). Ver exp.
Explanation: s·so·ci·a·tion·ism (ə-sō'sē-ā'shə-nĭz'əm, ə-sō'shē-) pronunciation
n.
The psychological theory that association is the basic principle of all mental activity.
as·so'ci·a'tion·ist adj. & n.
as·so'ci·a'tion·is'tic adj.
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In the philosophy of mind, associationism began as a theory about how ideas combine in the mind. John Locke suggested that each of us was born without any innate capabilities - a Tabula Rasa - which learned to form representations as a result of experiences, rather than of reason. "Experimental Psychology", as David Hume (1711-1776) called it, was concerned with studying the mind as a mirror of representations of nature, constantly trying to make sense of the world. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was among those criticising Hume’s focus on experiences, claiming that knowledge must be the result of an either God-given or evolved rationality, but that the nature of the mind made direct observations impossible. Despite his theories, the empirical methodology begun by the associationists kept its stronghold, and before the end of the nineteenth century experiments were conducted in areas such as memory and animal learning. This theory sets up that all consciousness is the result of the combination, in accordance with the law of association, of certain simple and ultimate elements derived from sense experiences. It was developed by David Hartley and advanced by James Mill.
In the early history of socialism, associationism was one term used by early-nineteenth-century followers of the utopian theories of such thinkers as Robert Owen, Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, and Charles Fourier to describe their beliefs.
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associationism is mentioned in the following topics:
Arnedo Hartley, David (English physician, philosopher & psychologist)
Mill, James (English philosopher) association (in psychology)
Principles of Psychology George Ripley
John Stuart Mill Richard Payne Knight
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