Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices

Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices
Author: Richard Alan Dello Buono
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004179933

"This collection of works by critical sociologists of various nationalities focuses on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists and others, these studies grapple with diverse forms of organized resistance in the 21st century. From homeless peoples displaced by Hurricane Katrina to young Muslim women refusing to shun their veils in French schools, the logic of a new generation of protest is deciphered with an eye to learning from as well as informing new social forces demanding progressive change. The result is an affirmation of the continuing relevance of critical sociology in analyzing key socialcontradictions in the United States, Mexico, and beyond"--P. [4] of cover.

Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices

Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-01-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047444221

This collection of works by critical sociologists of various nationalities focuses on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists and others, these studies grapple with diverse forms of organized resistance in the 21st Century. From homeless peoples displaced by Hurricane Katrina to young Muslim women refusing to shun their veils in French schools, the logic of a new generation of protest is deciphered with an eye to learning from as well as informing new social forces demanding progressive change. The result is an affirmation of the continuing relevance of critical sociology in analyzing key social contradictions in the United States, Mexico, and beyond.

Documentary Resistance

Documentary Resistance
Author: Angela J. Aguayo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2019
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0190676213

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections between unlikely interlocutors. In this process communities invest in the exchange of documentary moving image discourse around politics and social change. This book advances a new argument suggesting that documentary's capacity for social change is found in its ability to establish forms of collective identification and political agency capable of producing and sustaining activist media cultures. It advances the creation of a conceptual, theoretical, and historical space in which documentary and social change can be examined, drawing upon research in cinema, media, and communication studies as well as cultural theory to explore how political ideas move into participatory action. This book takes a distinctive approach, understanding how struggles for social justice are located, reflected, and represented on the documentary screen, but also in pre- and post-production processes. To address this living history, this project includes over sixty unpublished field interviews with documentary filmmakers, critics, funders, activists, and distributors.

Communicating for Social Change

Communicating for Social Change
Author: Mohan Jyoti Dutta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811320055

The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change. Attending to the concepts of communication and social change that emerge from and across the global margins, the book works toward offering theoretical and methodological lessons that de-center the dominant constructions of communication and social change. The chapters in the book delve into the interplays of academic-activist-community negotiations in communication for social change, and the ways in which these negotiations offer entry points into transformative communication processes of social change. Moreover, a number of chapters in the book attend to the ways in which Asian articulations of social change are situated at the intersections of culture, structure, and agency. Chapters in the book are extended versions of research presented at the conference on Communicating Social Change: Intersections of Theory and Praxis held at the National University of Singapore in 2016, organized under the umbrella of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE).

Voices of Resistance

Voices of Resistance
Author: Mohan J. Dutta
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1557536279

Key Points: • Presents a theoretical framework for understanding topical, popular resistance movements such as Occupy Wall Street.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2016-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1119250633

Featuring a collection of original chapters by leading and emerging scholars, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology presents a comprehensive and balanced overview of the major topics and emerging trends in the discipline of sociology today. Features original chapters contributed by an international cast of leading and emerging sociology scholars Represents the most innovative and 'state-of-the-art' thinking about the discipline Includes a general introduction and section introductions with chapters summaries by the editor

Researching Resistance and Social Change

Researching Resistance and Social Change
Author: Mikael Baaz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786601184

Provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change.

The Systems Work of Social Change

The Systems Work of Social Change
Author: Cynthia Rayner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Social change
ISBN: 0198857454

The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.

From Intervention to Social Change

From Intervention to Social Change
Author: Triin Vihalemm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317132157

This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing health-risk behaviour to ’green’ consumption or financial literacy. Examining the application of social practice theory as a way of understanding social change, From Intervention to Social Change connects theoretical reflections with empirical research, sample cases and exercises, emphasising the importance of communication and community engagement in the initiation and implementation of social change programmes designed to address social problems and improve quality of life. Adopting a ’communication for social change’ approach and presenting illustrative studies drawn from ’developed’ and rapidly transforming countries, this handbook will appeal to project managers and communication professionals in the public and private sectors, as well as scholars of sociology, anthropology and development studies with interests in social problems and social change.

Communicating Social Change

Communicating Social Change
Author: Mohan J. Dutta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136848819

Communicating Social Change describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politics, and examines the communicative processes, strategies and tactics through which social change interventions are constituted in response to the challenges.