Sociology, the State and Social Change: Theoretical Considerations

The flow of both productive and speculative investment into housing relates to the state of capital accumulation in other economic sectors, as hypothesised in the ‘circuits of capital’ argument, but it also relates to the incentive to ‘switch’ investment into and out of housing, and therefore to expectations of ground rent and the (changing) social conditions that enable ground rent extraction. This is the first of three papers in which the relationships involved in these processes are explored. A series of theoretical problems arising from the argument are dealt with, principally relating to its seeming economic determinism and to an inappropriately narrow treatment of crisis and social change. In the subsequent papers, in this journal, these various ideas will be used to reflect on housing market and related social change in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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Introduction: Communications Teaching and Research--Looking Forward from 2000

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.2000v25n1a1136 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rowland Lorimer

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Research And Development ◽

Professional Training ◽

Research Strategy ◽

The State ◽

Complex Media ◽

Strategic Action ◽

Media Environment ◽

Teaching And Research ◽

The Media

Abstract: This introductory essay examines the state of Canadian communications scholarship. It maintains that the dominant stance taken by Canadian communications scholars is rooted in a leftist critique of the media that has become both detached from the media and disengaged from informed strategic action. In the context of a complex media environment, the paper argues for a refocusing on communication itself, an embrace of professional training, and, in the context of technological and social change, a research strategy based on research and development. Résumé: Cet article d'introduction examine l'état de la recherche en communication au Canada. Il soutient que le parti-pris prédominant de chercheurs canadiens en communication se fonde sur une critique gauchiste des médias qui au fil du temps s'est détachée à la fois des médias et d'actions stratégiques averties. Tenant compte de la complexité de l'environnement médiatique actuel, cet article appuie un retour à des approches portant sur la communication elle-même, une mise en valeur de l'entraînement professionnel et, dans le contexte de changements technologiques et sociaux, une stratégie de recherche fondée sur recherche et développement.

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Book Review: The Military Factor in Social Change, From Provincial to Political Society, The State as Revolution

Armed Forces & Society ◽

10.1177/0095327x0002600409 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 660-664

Author(s):

Kurt Lang

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

The State ◽

Political Society ◽

The Military

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Paradigms of Public Relations in an Age of Digitalization

Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication - Recent Developments in Individual and Organizational Adoption of ICTs ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3045-0.ch016 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 262-277

Author(s):

Badreya Al-Jenaibi

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Change ◽

Public Relations ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Cross Section ◽

The State ◽

Interview Data ◽

Public Acceptance ◽

Global Media ◽

Public And Private

This study explores the uses of social media in public relations (PR) departments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It seeks to lay the basis for understanding the place of social media in the UAE and to contribute to the analysis of the issue of social change in the PR offices. The chapter assesses the state of PR in the UAE in relation to global media and highlights needs in this area for both public and private enterprises. Presenting interview data taken from a cross section of 40 organizations throughout the UAE, it addresses perceptions of benefits, challenges, public acceptance, and future strategies of social media in relation to global SM as whole. It finds that barriers to the use and acceptance of SM in PR have mostly been lifted.

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Re-imagining the Social Order

Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860 ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198798163.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 155-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joanna Innes

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Order ◽

Reference Point ◽

The State ◽

Southern Europe ◽

Old Order ◽

The Social ◽

Mediterranean World ◽

Late Eighteenth

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw attempts around the Mediterranean world to replace an old order of privilege and delegated power with one in which all subjects were equal before the state. Across southern Europe, revolutionary France provided the model: under French and subsequently liberal regimes, privilege in state, church, and economy was cut back; there were analogous changes in the Ottoman world. Legal change did not always translate into substantive social change. Nonetheless, new conceptions of a largely autonomous ‘society’ developed, and new protocols were invented to relate state to ‘society’, often entailing use of tax status as a reference point for the allocation of rights and duties. The French Doctrinaires argued that the abolition of privilege made society ‘democratic’, posing the question, how was such a society best governed? By the middle of the nineteenth century, this conception was widely endorsed across southern Europe.

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