The Social and Political Implications of Lay Activism: A Case Study of Christian Social Action in Leeds

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Stacey Burlet ◽  
Helen Reid
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social

The “Social Pact” as Anti-Inflationary Policy: The Argentine Experience Since 1973

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Ayres
Keyword(s):  
Labor Union ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
Economic Considerations

Inflation has long been a fact of economic and political life in Argentina. The Peronist government which assumed office in mid-1973 attempted to control inflation through the so-called Social Pact, a wage-price agreement of two years’ duration involving the leading labor union organization, a leading businessmen's organization, and the Argentine state. An awareness of the principal issues of the economic situation is essential to an understanding of the crisis of contemporary Argentina, and a description of the evolution of the Social Pact reveals some of the essential contours of the economic debate. But the importance of the Social Pact extends beyond mere economic considerations. The study of the latest Argentine experience with anti-inflationary policy suggests some generalizations about the nature of populist political movements, the symbolic functions of economic policy initiatives, and the functions of such policies in co-opting private economic actors and legitimating governmental interference with free market forces. It also reveals some important characteristics of Argentine politics, especially concerning relations between the state and private economic groups. With economic and political implications of comparative significance, the Argentine Social Pact is an important case study in political economy.

scholarly journals Focus on Field in an Advanced Reading Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
Ayumi Inako
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
Code Theory ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Legitimation Code Theory ◽  
Solar Storms

What can a reading classroom provide for advanced English learners beyond input into grammar and vocabulary? The author proposes a focus on field—the nature of the social action realized in the text—as well as using the scale of semantic gravity—the degree to which the meanings of the text relate to its context. Many reading materials contain multiple fields, which can cause difficulty for students in tracking their content. A case study of a text on the topic of solar storms employs the methodology of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), whereby an external language for description is created for the specific research purpose. Analysis from the perspective of semantic gravity helps identify where shifts in the field of the text occur, enabling the teacher to guide the students in their reading as the text unfolds. The author concludes by discussing the applicability of this method. 上級英語学習者向けの読解授業が文法と語彙のインプット以外に提供できるものは何だろうか。本稿では、テクストによって具現化される社会的活動の性質を表す活動領域（field）に焦点を当てるとともに、テクストの意味が分脈と関係する度合いを示す意味的重力（semantic gravity）の概念を使用することを提案する。多くの読解教材には複数の活動領域が含まれ、学習者にとって内容の把握が難しくなる要因となっている。このケーススタディでは、「太陽嵐」に関する読解テキストを取り上げ、正当化コード理論（Legitimation Code Theory—LCT）の方法論に基づいて、本研究に特定の目的に合わせた外的記述言語（external language of description）を作成する。分析によって、意味的重力の観点がテキストの展開とともに活動領域の移行が起きている場所の特定に役立つことが明らかになる。結論として、この方法の応用可能性を議論する。

The Archaeology of Utopian and Intentional Communities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy C. Kozakavich
Keyword(s):  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth And Complexity ◽  
Economic Landscape

Intentional communities, including religious, utopian, and communal societies, have long been a feature of the American social and economic landscape. This volume describes and discusses historical archaeology’s contributions to our understanding of intentional communities throughout American history. Scholars across many disciplines have long been interested in communal experiments for their optimistic ideals, dramatic methods, and often eventual failures. Archaeologists’ focus on the material world and lived experiences of community members adds depth and complexity to our historical knowledge about these people. Sometimes our work demonstrates the ways that communitarians enacted their ideals. At other times it shows how daily practices diverged from a group’s ideal path. Often it makes us rethink the questions we ask about how communities are formed and maintained. Structured according to the scale of methodological focus—from settlement patterns and landscape, to the built environment, to artifact studies—the case studies presented in this volume will give readers a thorough introduction to archaeological research to date in this field. An expanded case study will describe archaeological research on the Kaweah Co-operative Commonwealth of late nineteenth-century California. The closing chapter discusses the social and political implications of retelling past experimental communities’ stories in publications and historical reconstructions.

Arendt, role theory and the ethical evaluation of action

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Sociology

In what way can social action be simultaneously inquired into and ethically evaluated by social theory? This paper explores the responsibility sociology has with regard to the political and ethical implications of its knowledge production and does so through a case study examination of the sociological concept of role. It compares and evaluates the different orientations that ground the concept of role and Arendt’s concept of action, which is then expanded to address the critique of the social sciences by theorists like Arendt and Foucault. The paper engages a particular tradition of reflexive sociology in the context of the danger of banal evil (Eichmann) and in the context of modern structures of domination that makes that danger more prevalent. Arguing that a theoretical non-empirical reflexivity is called for, and drawing on the phenomenological reflexivity of Berger and the constitutive reflexivity of Blum and McHugh, the paper seeks to demonstrate the need for a reflexive awareness of the actor’s responsibility for action and the theorist’s responsibility for formulating action that can make conceptual space for reasoned evaluation oriented by and to principle.

scholarly journals Perpetuating Oppression: Does the Current Counseling Discourse Neutralize Social Action?

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie T. Greenleaf ◽  
Rhonda M. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Professional Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Just Society

The counseling profession, by virtue of research, dialogue, and the evolution of professional ideology, continues to uphold the viewpoint that psychological distress and disorders emanate from innate or biologically based factors. Consequently, the social reality that counseling partially defines through this discourse may inadvertently constrain the very movement that can most affect change through social action and engagement. Counseling professionals may unwittingly undercut attempts by oppressed individuals, groups, and their allies to create a more equitable and just society through civil disobedience and concerted social action. This article discusses how the current discourse on social justice may neutralize social action by reviewing discourse theory and presentation of a case study that offers strategies to operational discourse theory and support social action and engagement.

scholarly journals Die Privatisierung des mexikanischen Ejido

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (126) ◽  
pp. 149-173
Author(s):  
Susanne Hildebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Agrarian Sector ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World

The article starts with an introduction into the structural changes on the world markets of agrarian goods occurred since the 1970s and its effects for the Mexican agrarian sector. As a consequence of the political shift towards an export oriented model in the countryside the Ejido and the peasants became dysfunctional. In 1992, the reform of article 27 of the Mexican Constitution brings the agrarian reform to an end. The case study of Ejido Sayula/Jalisco highlights the social and political implications of this historical reform.

GIS Use in Community Planning: A Multidimensional Analysis of Empowerment

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 905-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A Elwood
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Neighborhood Organization ◽  
The Social

A growing body of research examining the social and political implications of geographic information systems (GIS) considers the extent to which the use of this technology may empower or disempower different actors and institutions. However, these studies have tended not to articulate a clear conceptualization of empowerment. Thus, in this paper, I develop a multidimensional conceptual framework for assessing empowerment (and disempowerment), and employ it in examining the impacts of GIS use by community-based organizations engaged in urban planning and neighborhood revitalization. Drawing on a case study conducted with a Minneapolis, Minnesota, neighborhood organization, I show how this multidimensional framework fosters a more complete analysis of empowerment, and therefore, development of a more detailed explanation of the impacts of this new technology.

scholarly journals A New Spectacle in China's Mediasphere: A Cultural Reading of a Web-Based Reality Show from Shanghai

2011 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 133-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Berg
Keyword(s):  
Generation X ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceived Reality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis study offers a cultural reading of the web-based reality show Soul Partners (2007) from Shanghai. Soul Partners serves as a case study to explore how 21st-century Chinese cultural discourse debates the transformation of urban society in China, providing insight into the Chinese cultural imagination, perceptions of the globalizing metropolis and the impact of consumer culture. This reading positions Soul Partners within the discursive context of Chinese popular, postmodern and post-socialist culture and in relation to the cultural import of the reality show genre into China's mediasphere. Analysis focuses on the quest for authenticity in the Chinese discourse on perceived reality and the way Soul Partners generates new urban dreams for China's Generation X. The analysis of Soul Partners sheds new light on the dynamics of transcultural appropriation in a globalizing China and the social and political implications.

“First Love Is Exactly Like Revolution”: Intimacy as Political Allegory in Ivan Turgenev's Novella Spring Torrents

Slavic Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-522
Author(s):  
Alexey Vdovin ◽  
Pavel Uspenskij
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Allegory

This article tackles the allegorical mode of Russian realism using Ivan Turgenev's novella Spring Torrents (1872) and its political implications as a case study. We argue that this deeply intimate story of love and moral fall can be read in the context of the “social imaginary” which, in Turgenev's manner, is wrapped in motives and symbols correlating to “revolutionary” and “reactionary” discourses. The article shows how this projection emerges in the narration without direct political discourse by means of allegory. It is this mode that ties together the intimate and the natural and gives Turgenev's novellas a political dimension, which is obvious in his novels but latent in the novellas, thus opening them up to various sociological interpretations. Employing various theoretical readings of allegory, we explain how allegory is built upon and around the subjectivity of Turgenev's characters, implying concepts such as sexuality and the unconscious that had not yet been coined as such but directly influenced future European fiction.

scholarly journals Complementary and Alternative Medicine as a Functional Tendency. Formation of Preferences, Agency, and Diffusion Among Citizenships

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (26) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Antonia Ramirez Perez
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fashion Theory ◽  
Powerful Explanation ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

The work is centered in the social analysis of the formation of preferences and in the description of the social action related with the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The theoretical framework that will help to show this generation of preferences is the fashion theory and the social tendencies theory. And to illustrate this reality it has been get an empirical body of information from the Seville city, Spain, as case study. The mixed methodology used allows to show the narrative of the process as well as the 'pictures' in particular moments. To the first objective, it has been carried out ethnographic fieldwork from a decade. To the second objective, it has been elaborated a database with the complementary and alternative medicine activities offered in Seville. Both methodologies help to show a map of this disruptive innovation and the shape adopted. The results show that CAM tendency emerges because it is useful to the society. Beyond the seasonal fashions, the irruption of this disruptive fashion indicates a process of social change with a new understanding of the health. In the CAM the preferences are generated for instrumental and axiological reasons, though it seems that axiological rationality would be a powerful explanation when we observe its emergence. And finally the results show a group of innovative people as the agents of the change. Moreover, they would seem to be the group that accelerate the process until the tipping point, from which the trend expands thanks to the processes of mimesis or contagion.

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