Feminism and social change: women's place in Taiwanese newspapers and public opinion

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-369
Author(s):  
Ping Shaw ◽  
Yue Tan
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change

Realignment and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Societal Changes

Affluent democracies have experienced tremendous socio-economic changes since the mid- twentieth century, which has reshaped public opinion, party programs, and electoral choices. This chapter first summarizes the societal changes that have been a driving force behind the political changes described in this study. One pattern involves the longstanding economic issues of contemporary democracies, and shifting social positions on these issues. In addition, an evolving cultural cleavage and its ties to broader attitudes toward social change have altered citizen policy preferences. In most affluent democracies, the parties’ responses to these changing citizen demands have produced a realignment to represent both economic and cultural positions. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of the findings for the working of electoral systems and the democratic process more broadly.

Changing minds via collective action: Exposure to the 2017 Women’s March predicts decrease in (some) men’s gender system justification over time

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 678-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Saguy ◽  
Hanna Szekeres
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Us ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Over Time

Even though social change efforts are largely aimed at impacting upon public opinion, there is an overwhelming scarcity of research on the potential consequences of collective action. We aimed to fill this gap by capitalizing on the widespread 2017 Women’s March that developed across the US and worldwide in response to Donald Trump’s inauguration. We assessed changes in gender system justification of men and women over time—before and right after the Women’s March ( N = 344). We further considered participants’ level of gender identification and reported levels of exposure to the march as predictors of change. Results showed that gender system justification decreased over time, but only among low-identified men with relatively high exposure to the protests. For men highly identified with their gender, gender system justification actually increased with greater exposure to the protests. For women, we did not observe changes in gender system justification. Implications for collective action and for gender relations are discussed.

PUBLIC OPINION AND SOCIAL CHANGE

1973 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-436
Author(s):  
S. HOLLANDER
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change

A Transformed Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-33
Author(s):  
Jeremiah J. Garretson
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Mass Attitudes ◽  
Rights Issues

The introductory chapter first outlines the basic puzzle that the book will focus on explaining: Why have mass attitudes involving lesbians and gays changed so radically since the early 1990s when public opinion research has shown that the public’s views on most issues are generally stable? The contours of attitude change on LGBT rights issues across time are then surveyed. The central theory of the book---Affective Liberalization---is then described. Lastly, the primary distinctive features of the book, including its emphasis on LGBTQ people as a primary mover of social change, is discussed. The chapter ends with a brief summary of the book.

Announcements of the Tocqueville Society

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-244
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The United States

The Society announces that the 1985 Tocqueville Conference on Recent Social Change in France and the United States will be held in Paris, June 13–15, 1985, under the auspices of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. The theme of the conference will be The Influence of Public Opinion on Public Policy.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Postwar Germany

William Collins Donahue, Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's “Nazi“ Novels and Their Films(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)Reviewed by Margaret McCarthyTheodor W. Adorno, Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany, edited, translated, and introduced by Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)Reviewed by Gregory R. Smulewicz-ZuckerFriedrich Pollock, Theodor W. Adorno, and Colleagues, Group Experiment and other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany, edited and translated by Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).Reviewed by Jan BoestenGabriele Mueller and James M. Skidmore, eds. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012).Reviewed by Sabine von MeringChristopher J. Fischer, Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939(New York: Berghahn Books, 2010)Reviewed by Jennifer A. Yoder

Setting the Agenda, Influencing Public Opinion, and Advocating for Social Change

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hanitzsch ◽  
Folker Hanusch ◽  
Corinna Lauerer
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change

Language is a ‘Beautiful Creature’, not an ‘Old Fridge’

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenija Bogetić
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Specific Role ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
And Control

Abstract Direct metaphor has been widely studied from the cognitive perspective, but its functions in the communicative dimension (Steen, 2011) remain less well understood. This study investigates direct metaphor as a tool of metaphorical framing (Ottati et al., 2014; Ritchie & Cameron, 2014) in discourse, by examining a corpus of British newspaper texts on the topic of language and language change. The analysis of direct metaphors is sufficient to point to major ideologies of language and communication in the observed media context, which echo broader anxieties over social change, social organization and control. Most notably, unlike the meanings stressed in existing studies, the vast majority of direct metaphors are here found to serve the specific role of relational argumentation. This function is achieved through a kind of ‘corrective framing’, which explicitly juxtaposes two conflicting representations through an ‘A is B and not C’ type of metaphor. The findings are discussed with respect to deliberateness, metaphorical framing and rhetorical goals in discourse. It is hypothesized that corrective framing is among the major functions of direct metaphor in public discourse, which can influence public opinion in ways different from other metaphorically created representations.

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