Corporate Newspaper Structure, Editorial Page Vigor, and Social Change

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Demers
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Information Diversity ◽  
Editorial Page

Many critics contend that corporate newspapers are less vigorous editorially than entrepreneurial newspapers because they are more concerned about the bottom line than about information diversity. This study, which involves a national probability survey of daily newspapers, fails to support that belief. Corporate newspapers publish more local editorials and letters to the editor, and a larger number and proportion of editorials and letters that are critical of mainstream groups and institutions. From a broader perspective, these findings may be interpreted as supporting theories which hold that the pace of social change quickens as social systems become more structurally pluralistic.

Structural Pluralism, Corporate Newspaper Structure, and News Source Perceptions: Another Test of the Editorial Vigor Hypothesis

1998 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Demers
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Police Chiefs ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Corporate Form ◽  
News Source ◽  
Alternative Methodology

A recent content analysis of newspaper editorials and letters to the editor disputes the conventional wisdom that newspapers become less vigorous editorially as they acquire the characteristics of the corporate form of organization. However, many scholars remain skeptical. This study tested the editorial vigor hypothesis using an alternative methodology: a national probability survey of mainstream news sources (mayors and police chiefs). The data provide partial support for the corporate structure theory - the more structurally complex the newspaper, the more news sources perceived that paper as being critical of them and their institutions. Drawing on previous research and these findings, the author argues corporate newspapers are more critical because they are more likely to be located in pluralistic communities, which contain more social conflict and criticism of dominant groups and value systems, and because they are more insulated from local political pressures. From a broader perspective, the results may be interpreted as supporting theories which hold that the pace of social change quickens as social systems become more structurally pluralistic.

Urbanization and Family Structure in the Ivory Coast

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remi Clignet
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Relative Decline

Urbanization may be viewed as a particular manifestation of social change. As such, it is often defined as a process leading originally distinct social systems to a common destination. As an example, it is supposed to facilitate the universal emergence of a European type of nuclear family. In this perspective, many scholars have been eager to determine the extent to which African patterns of familial behavior lose their traditional specific properties. These researchers have in fact equated the problem of measuring urbanization with the problem of measuring the relative decline and persistence of traditional affiliations. Taking as examples the familial systems of two Ivory Coast peoples, the present paper intends to show some of the limitations of this type of analysis.

Infrastructure for Entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Systems Of Innovation ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Resource Endowments

Entrepreneurship is a critical driver of economic health, industrial rejuvenation, social change, and technological progress. In an attempt to determine how to best support such an important component of society, researchers and practitioners alike continue to ask why some countries, regions, and cities have more entrepreneurship than others. Unfortunately, the answer is not clear. This question is addressed by focusing on location-based support or infrastructure for entrepreneurship. A framework based on a social systems perspective guides this examination by concentrating on three main categories of infrastructure: resource endowments, institutional arrangements, and proprietary functions. Work from the knowledge-based perspective of entrepreneurship, systems of innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and resource dependence literatures is integrated into this framework.

On Social Stability and Social Change

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 360-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron C. Kay ◽  
Justin Friesen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
System Justification Theory ◽  
The Status ◽  
System Threat ◽  
Do So

More than a decade of research from the perspective of system-justification theory (Jost & Banaji, 1994) has demonstrated that people engage in motivated psychological processes that bolster and support the status quo. We propose that this motive is highly contextual: People do not justify their social systems at all times but are more likely to do so under certain circumstances. We describe four contexts in which people are prone to engage in system-justifying processes: (a) system threat, (b) system dependence, (c) system inescapability, and (d) low personal control. We describe how and why, in these contexts, people who wish to promote social change might expect resistance.

THE DUTCH SCHOOL OF THOUGHT ON SOCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR TRANSITIONING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL VIEWS

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
VALENTINA KOMLEVA ◽  
◽  
YULIYA SHEVELYOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Social Management ◽  
Governmental Control

The authors identify the theoretical and methodological foundations of the Dutch approach to sustainable development based on the analysis of the Dutch research centers for sustainable development and the publications of Dutch scientists. Theories of complex social systems, the coevolutionary paradigm, social change theories, and management theories, the development of which began in the 1960s, form the basis of this approach. The article discusses such features of the Dutch approach as recognition of the non-linearity of development and the need for adaptive and reflexive management of transition; recognition of heterarchy, panarchy during the transition, the impossibility of transition to sustainable development under severe authoritarian management and rigid hierarchy, as well as the need for coordination of social interactions at the functional, hierarchical, geographical levels; the coevolutionary influence of the state, private, and public groups and institutions on the transition to sustainable development and the need for governmental control of the context and conditions for mutual decisions and actions.

The Intellectual and Modernization: Definitions and Reconsiderations: The Egyptian Experience

1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-533
Author(s):  
Charles D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Traditional Societies

Past studies of modernization have assumed that intellectuals adhering toWestern values would be conduits of rational, scientific norms deemednecessary to the structuring of modern, complex societies. Littleconsideration was given to the attitudes of these intellectuals towards thesocial change presumably resulting from the distribution of rationalvalues. Modernization theorists supposed a positive relationship betweenrationalism as a mode of thought and social change, a suppositionreflecting their own expectations of a progressive and relativelypredictive evolution of traditional societies toward more modern and intricate social systems.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship and Communication for Development and Social Change

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (Special-Issue) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emile G. McAnany
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Change Agency ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Communication For Development ◽  
Development Practice

Abstract This article argues that social entrepreneurship has not yet been adequately defined even though it is increasingly being used in social change/development practice. Muhammad Yunus, creator of the Grameen Bank and microlending, and Bill Drayton, founder of the global change agency Ashoka, have practiced social change through social entrepreneurship for more than 30 years. Increasingly, the development community has been adopting many of its practices. The basic process of social entrepreneurship involves: defining a social goal for the solution of a serious problem; innovation in solving the problem; ability to expand the organization to serve large numbers of people (scaling up); focusing on the social bottom line with empirical evidence (impact evaluation). Three cases are briefly reviewed to illustrate this process. Finally the article examines how these practices might help Communication for Development (C4D) to better adapt its own practices in achieving real change with people.

scholarly journals Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren Sebagai Salah Satu Model Pendidikan Islam Dalam Konsepsi Perubahan Sosial

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Nurochim Nurochim
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Model ◽  
Formal School

Abstract: The social change in Islam is used as the concept to realize the safety of the human being  in the world and the after life. One form of the processes of social changes is education which aims at improving the quality of human to have high competitiveness. Education in Indonesia has two models: pesantren (boarding school) model and formal school model. Boarding School model aims at developing human capabilities on the religious aspect and its curriculum is proven to be 100% on religions. Formal School model emphasizes on academic achievement with its curriculum 93% of general knowledge. Pesantren-Based School (PBS) is one of models of Islamic education that integrates two social systems, the excellence of the pesantren (boarding school) social system and school social system. Model of Islamic education is to create religious human beings, as well as clerical scientists, so that they can participate fully in the social community system. Pesantren-based School in the conception of this social change integrates pesantren and school education system into a wholly unified one. This social change is a change due to willingness of parents and the ideas of experts to establish educational institutions that embody graduates of scientists and religionists. This article is a descriptive study using a qualitative approach to investigate a social change by searching for information from the documents or the results of research related topesantren-based school. الملخص: كان التغيّر الإجتماعي في الإسلام لتحقيق الإنسان السالم في الدنيا والآخرة. ومن شكل هذه التغيّرات الإجتماعية هو التربية التي تهدف إلى ترقية نوعية الإنسان المتنافس. والنمط التربوي في إندونيسيا هو التربية في بسانترينات والتربية في المدارس العامة . ويهدف النمط التربوي في بسانترين إلى تنمية الطاقات البشرية في الجانب الديني، وكان المنهج الدراسي في بسانترين % 100 في العلوم الدينية. أما النمط التربوي في المدارس العامة فيركّز في الانجاز الأكاديمي والمنهج الدراسي فيها % 93 يكون في العلوم التجريبية والكونية. والمدرسة على أساس بسنترين هي أحد الأنماط للتربية الإسلامية الجامع للنظامين الإجتماعيين هما تفوّق النظام الإجتماعي لبسنترين وتفوّق النظام الإجتماعي للمدرسة. استطاع هذا النمط التربوي تكوين إنسان عالم متديّن وعالم في العلوم الكونية والتجريبية حتي يكون له دور فعّال في النظام الإجتماعي في المجتمع. والمدرسة على أساس بسانترين – في مفهوم التغيّر الإجتماعي -  يجمع النظام التربوي البسانتريني والنظام التربوي المدرسي في وحدة متكاملة. وهذا التغيّر الإجتماعي هو التغيّر لوجود إرادة أولياء الطلبة واسهامات فكرية من الخبراء لتكوين مؤسسات تربوية تخرّج فيها علماء في العلوم الدينية والعلوم الكونية والتجريبية. Abstrak: Perubahan sosial dalam Islam untuk mewujudkan manusia yang selamat di dunia dan akhirat. Salah satu bentuk proses perubahan sosial adalah pendidikan, yang bertujuan meningkatkan kualitas manusia yang berdaya saing tinggi. Pendidikan di Indonesia terdapat model pendidikan pesantren dan model pendidikan sekolah. Model pendidikan pesantren bertujuan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan manusia dari aspek agama dan terbukti kurikulumnya 100% agama. Model pendidikan sekolah menekankan prestasi akademik, yang terbukti kurikulumnya 93% pengetahuan umum. Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren (SBP) merupakan salah satu model pendidikan Islam yang mengintegrasikan dua sistem sosial, yakni keunggulan sistem sosial pesantren dan keunggulan sistem sosial sekolah. Model pendidikan Islam ini dapat menciptakan manusia yang agamawan sekaligus ilmuwan, sehingga dapat berperan penuh dalam sistem sosial kemasyarakatan. Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren dalam konsepsi perubahan sosial ini mengintegrasikan sistem pendidikan pesantren dan sistem pendidikan sekolah menjadi kesatuan yang utuh. Perubahan sosial ini merupakan perubahan karena adanya kemauan orang tua siswa dan hasil pemikiran para pakar untuk membentuk lembaga pendidikan yang mewujudkan lulusan yang ilmuwan dan agamawan. Artikel ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, untuk mengetahui suatu perubahan sosial, dengan mencari informasi dalam dokumen atau hasil penelitian mengenai sekolah berbasis pesantren.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Corporate Citizenship ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter introduces Blockchain technology and its potential for social change. It explores the exponential growth of new technologies, highlighting key challenges in Blockchain applications. For context, the authors draw upon management literature for an historical overview of the constructs of social change including charity, stewardship, corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility, and the triple bottom line. The advent and rise of each construct are presented to explain the dynamics that have contributed to the global focus on social change and the opportunities it creates.

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