Culture and social change : transforming society through the power of ideas

This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests,...

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Other Authors Wagoner, Brady, 1980- (Editor), Jensen, Eric, 1981- (Editor), Oldmeadow, Julian A. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
Subjects
Culture > Psychological aspects.
Social change.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Cultural studies.
Social and cultural anthropology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806614981
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-759-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor preface: semiotic freedom for the social sciences: inquiry in a new key / Jaan Valsiner
  • Introduction: changing times, changing science / Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian Oldmeadow
  • Collective action in context
  • The psychology of collective action: crowds and change / John Drury, Steve Reicher, and Clifford Scott
  • Commentary: collectives may protest, but how do authorities respond? / Flora Cornish
  • Change we can believe in: the role of social identity, cognitive
  • Alternatives, and leadership in group mobilization and transformation / Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam
  • Commentary: change non-westerners can believe in / Fathali Moghaddam, Zach Warren, and Rhea Vance-Cheng
  • Communicating change
  • Metaphor and stories in discourse about personal and social change / David Ritchie
  • Commentary: the earth, olympus, and the commuter bus / Carlos Cornejo
  • Balancing stability and change: a neo-diffusionist perspective on cultural dynamics of socially transformative ideas / Yoshihisa Kashima, Boyka Bratanova, and Kim Peters
  • Commentary: the meeting of ideas: diffusion, dialogical interaction, and social change / Brady Wagoner
  • Scientific controversies and the struggle for symbolic power / Eric Jensen
  • Commentary: the struggle for scientific consensus: communicating climate science around cop-15 / Rick Holliman
  • Societies in transition
  • Mediating social change in authoritarian and democratic states: irony, hybridity, and corporate censorship / Eric Jensen
  • Commentary: subversively funny: critical humor in art / Lisa Sayles
  • Assessing social change through social capital: local leadership and social-political change in Bolivia / Martin Mendoza
  • Commentary: social influence and social change: states and strategies of social capital / Gordon Sammut and Mohammad Sartawi
  • Changing fields, changing habitusus: the field of public service in post-soviet ukraine / Anastasia Ryabchuk
  • Commentary: dependent independence: a mechanism for conciliating determinism and freedom / Maaris Raudsepp
  • Conclusion: a cyclical model of social change / Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian Oldmeadow.

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