scholarly journals ‘Unhappy News’: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness Problem

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Frawley
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Movement Theory ◽  
Issue Ownership ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
The Uk

Drawing on a study of UK national broadsheets, this article examines the emergence and spread of happiness as a social problem in the UK by drawing on the theoretical insights of social problem constructionism and related social movement theory in terms of the processual, rhetorical, and contextual factors involved in the construction, transmission, and institutionalisation of new social problems. In particular, issue ownership in the realm of process and flexible syntax, experiential commensurability, empirical credibility, and narrative fidelity in the realm of rhetoric are argued to have played an important role in the discursive spread of the happiness problem in this public arena. A socio-political context hospitable to de-politicised and highly personalised constructions of social issues is argued to have played a major contextual role in the construction of the ‘happiness problem’.

New (and Networked) Social Movement Literature

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-45
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
International Community ◽  
Social Movement Theory ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Diasporic Communities

This chapter provides a summary of new social movement literature, with a particular focus on the phases that social movements progress through as well as the tools (namely digital) that are being used to establish diaspora (as well as social movement) networks across the international community and provide for mobilization. The chapter particularly focuses on the theories of Herbert Blumer (Life Cycle of Social Problems) and Martin Sökefeld, who writes about mobilization of various diasporic communities using social movement theory. The chapter also focuses on identity theories and the importance of developing of collective identities for effective mobilization of movement communities (diasporic and social movement).

Neighborhood Action as a Social Movement

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER FRANZ ◽  
DONALD I. WARREN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Movement Theory ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Phases

This article compares the development of the “neighborhood movement” in the United States and the German Bürgerinitiativbewegung from the late 1960s to the present. The interconnections between neighborhood action and bureaucratic reaction are worked out on the background of some dimensions of the political context of both societies and analyzed for two phases. In addition to this, criteria of the social movement theory are applied to neighborhood action, and its potential for creating a social movement is discussed.

Backyards, NIMBYs, and Incinerator Sitings: Implications for Social Movement Theory

1993 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Walsh ◽  
Rex Warland ◽  
D. Clayton Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Movement Theory ◽  
Movement Theory
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