Leadership for Social Change

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen S. Astin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Individual

We have long viewed leadership as a solitary activity, the province of the individual. Now Helen Astin and a working ensemble of student affairs faculty and practitioners have created a new model of leadership for social change—one that celebrates both individuality and collaboration.

A New Model for Biologic Constructs: Biotensegrity

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
New Model ◽  
Automobile Parts ◽  
Finite Element Meshes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Central Factory ◽  
Model Structures ◽  
As If

Present biologic models envision organisms behave like the character ‘Topsy’ in Gone with the Wind; they “just grew.” Modeled of Lego©-like components, the individual structures are linked together as if they are automobile parts that are manufactured at different plants and assembled at some central factory. For the most part, hexahedral finite element meshes are used to model structures. When tetrahedral modeling is used, no account is made of the different mechanical properties that are inherent in triangulated structures, (trusses), that make the structures behave very differently than hexahedral-based models.

World War I Conscription and Social Change in Guinea

1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Summers ◽  
R. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
World War I ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Military Conscription ◽  
Social Grouping ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual

When the French government introduced military conscription into the A.O.F. in 1912, the Guinean colonial authorities saw the measure as a means of training a local administrative corps to replace the traditional chieftaincy, through whose military defeat the conquest of Guinea had very largely been effected. However, the chiefs had by no means disappeared by 1914, and wartime demands for recruits were too massive to be supplied without their assistance. Their help was bought with promises to consolidate their authority in peacetime. Although able to marshal recruits, the chiefs seem to have been unable to prevent large-scale desertions before the moment of embarkation for France; village populations could also avoid conscription by overland migration out of the A.O.F. The colonial authorities therefore felt constrained to offer substantial inducements, mainly concerning improved social status vis-à-vis the chiefs, to the individual recruits. These contradictory policies were compounded by the recruitment drive of Blaise Diagne in 1918, which involved a further promise to recruits of improved status vis-à-vis the French authorities. The return of ancien combattants to Guinea was marked by outbreaks of strike action among workers in Conakry and along the railway line; by riots in demobilization camps; and by rejection of or agitation against chiefly power in the home cantons to which they dispersed. The anciens combattants did not form a coherent or organized political movement, but remained a conspicuous social grouping between the wars. Although they appear to have been strongly influenced by their experience of war and by contact with French socialists, their conflict with the chiefs seems to have counted for more with them than any confrontation with the French.

Temporary Housing and Unsettled Population: Drivers of Urban Change in Early Modern Marseille and Rome

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 118-140
Author(s):  
Eleonora Canepari
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Mobile Population ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper argues that unsettled people, far from being “marginal” individuals, played a key role in shaping early modern cities. It does so by going beyond the traditional binary between rooted and unstable people. Specifically, the paper takes the temporary places of residence of this “unsettled” population – notably inns (garnis in France, osterie in Italy) – as a vantage point to observe social change in early modern cities. The case studies are two cities which shared a growing and highly mobile population in the early modern period: Rome and Marseille. In the first section, the paper focuses on two semi-rural neighborhoods. This is to assess the impact of mobility in shaping demographic, urbanistic, and economic patterns in these areas. Moving from the neighborhood as a whole to the individual buildings which composed it, the second section outlines the biographies of two inns: Rome’s osteria d’Acquataccio and Marseille’s hôtel des Deux mondes. In turn, this is to evaluate changes and continuities over a longer period of time.

“A Cult of Cookie Bakers”: The Spiritual Qualities of Youth Social Justice Organization Free the Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-482
Author(s):  
Emma Funnell-Kononuk ◽  
Sharday Mosurinjohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Spiritual Movement ◽  
Individual Self

This article analyzes the growing youth social justice initiative Free the Children/ME to WE as a kind of “spiritual movement” by demonstrating how the discourses utilized by participants and authorities resemble both the discourse of self-spirituality, as found among actual millennials, and the discourse of youth spirituality found in the developmental sciences literature. Building on previous research in which we characterized this family of organizations as a “new secular spiritual movement,” (Mosurinjohn and Funnell-Kononuk, 2017). we situate the phenomenological experience of its distinctive “WE spirituality” in the landscape of contemporary Western spirituality. Following on arguments that the politics of self-spirituality are more social change-oriented than previously acknowledged, we illuminate the logics of a spiritual movement that develops the “me” of the individual self into a part of the “we” of an imagined global community, by making spirituality coextensive with social civic engagement.

scholarly journals Reflective function: A move to the level of concern

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 657-673
Author(s):  
Naomi Benbassat
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Reflective Function ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Family Contexts ◽  
Accurate Perception ◽  
Level Of Concern ◽  
The Individual

Reflective function (RF) is the capacity to reflect on one’s own thinking and feelings, as well as on that of others. It involves an increasingly complex awareness that there is more than what is visible on the surface. Most studies of RF have focused on its significance for self-development and interpersonal relationships in dyadic and family contexts. In this article, I suggest that by imparting a more accurate perception of the intra- and interpersonal reality and interrelatedness, RF is inextricably related to concern and to reaching others in widening circles. I further suggest that obstacles to its development and realization can be found at the individual, relational, and sociopolitical levels. I conclude that the construct of RF both captures and facilitates the connection between psychology and ethics, and that psychologists play a key role in exploring the conditions that affect the realization of RF, and in promoting social change in general.

Aesthetics of Globalization in Daya Pawar’s Baluta: Reflexivity and Social Change in Critical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Peter Ndambiri Murage ◽  
Justus K. S. Makokha
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The People ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Lower Castes ◽  
Point Of Intersection

This article seeks to discuss the point of intersection between globalization and localization. The study is aimed at discussing the effects of globalization on the lives and the characters exposed in Daya Pawar’s powerful book Baluta (translated in English under the same title in 2015 by Jerry Pinto). The characters, who are otherwise well rooted in the traditions practised in their localities, are forced to adapt to the strong waves of change occasioned by modernity. Globalization has occasioned migrants to settle in the localities of Kawakhana and the neighbouring regions. Consequently, popular social joints have sprung up in these localities, prompting the lives of characters to change drastically. Social vices such as betting, alcoholism and prostitution have risen drastically with the increase in clubs, betting dens and brothels. The individual lives of the dwellers of Kawakhana have deteriorated with increased modernization and urbanization. On the brighter side, modern schools have become more popular, with the parents seeing the need of taking their children to school. This element of social change has resulted to the emancipation of the people in the lower castes—the Mahar. Through education, the children of the Mahar have gained economic empowerment, enabling them to break the yoke of tradition that has relegated them to the inferior social position. It is in light of these drastic social changes that this article seeks to explore the aesthetic manifestation of globality, reflexivity and social change.

Re-embodiment and Rehabilitation

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Keri Chiveralls
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Ordinary Experience ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
The Individual

This article examines the process of rehabilitation through Wendy Seymour's concept of re-embodiment and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus. It argues that rehabilitation practitioners need to focus not only on the damaged body of the patient, but also on the patient's subjective experiences of health and illness and the wider social context in which they occur. The process of disembodiment caused by periods of injury or sickness creates a rupture in the ordinary experience of the individual in society. In doing so, it renders both the individual habitus and ordinary societal conceptions problematic. Individuals must then embark on a process of transformation or identity reconstruction, whereby they again come to understand themselves as “healthy”. As rehabilitation workers are likely to work closely with people over an extended period of time, they are in an excellent position to consider the person not just as an objective patient, but as a person or subject influenced by many overlapping social forces and relationships that have an impact upon their reconstitution of identity, their rehabilitation and re-embodiment. Thus, rehabilitation as re-embodiment offers an opportunity for both the patient and practitioner to reconsider themselves and their place in society, and in doing so, to effect social change both within themselves and society at large.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lucander
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Change ◽  
World War ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
March On Washington ◽  
The Individual

This concluding chapter assesses the March on Washington Movement's (MOWM) accomplishments and shortcomings. MOWM did not achieve most of its stated goals, but the organization did give its members a place to refine their skills as leaders. Many of those individuals would use their experiences of fighting racism in World War II to jump-start a lifetime of activism that outlasted the organization they coalesced under during the war years. It is here, in the individual lives of certain members, that MOWM made its greatest impact—and it is at the personal level that this long-defunct organization has the most to teach about sustaining movements for social change.

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