Evangelical indigenous radio stations in Colombia: Between the promotion of social change and religious indoctrination

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-328
Author(s):  
Diego Mauricio Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Negative Contribution ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Religious Indoctrination

This article refutes dominant views that define evangelical indigenous media as intrinsic tools for religious indoctrination. The case of the Colombian Misak community shows that evangelical radio stations can contribute to community building. However, the degree of the positive or negative contribution of evangelical media depends on the dominance of evangelical presence at indigenous localities. The rapid expansion of indigenized evangelical groups via the provision of social services has radicalized Evangelicals against views different from their own. As a result, these evangelical media are progressively leaving their role as promoters of positive social change to become tools for religious indoctrination.

‘A Radical causation’: Coleridge's Lyrics and Collective Guilt

Romanticism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany Pladek
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Ideal Form ◽  
Ethical Work ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Meaningful Relationships

This paper argues that the early lyrics of Samuel Taylor Coleridge explore the ethical work of collective guilt, a feeling with enormous Romantic and contemporary significance. Coleridge's lyrics formally model collective guilt while making a cautious case for its social value. By reading ‘Fears in Solitude’ and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through recent work in social psychology and the philosophy of ethics, I show how Coleridge creates causalities of feeling, affirming meaningful relationships of responsibility that go beyond personal guilt. I conclude that Romantic lyric offers an ideal form not only for illustrating how collective guilt works as a ‘structure of feeling’, but also for examining the emotion's potential to create positive social change.

Social Policies, Social Services, and the Law

1978 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 523-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Creed Lukton
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Client Advocacy ◽  
The Law

Adapting social work techniques to the preparation of a legal suit can serve as a mechanism for client advocacy and contribute to social change

Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 104225872110497
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Bailey ◽  
G. T. Lumpkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
Positive Social Change

Entrepreneurship is an innovative solution for many businesses, communities, governments, nonprofits, and social innovators to address societal issues, such as poverty and social injustice. Civic wealth creation (CWC) is one type of entrepreneurial change process that engages diverse stakeholders to enact positive social change (PSC). However, resistance to change and low stakeholder engagement often impede efforts to achieve desired outcomes. Because stakeholder theory holds that stakeholders with joint interests create new value when they interact, we propose a stakeholder engagement framework that uses the awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement (ADKAR) change methodology to enhance CWC stakeholders’ propensity to participate in the entrepreneurial change processes that create PSC.

Reimagining the cartographic nation: In praise of risk taking

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110445
Author(s):  
Valentina Carraro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Eve Sedgwick ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Normative Dimension

I read Rossetto and Lo Presti's article, ‘Reimagining the National Map’, as an invitation to develop what I call, following Eve Sedgwick, a reparative study of national cartographies. In this commentary, I enthusiastically support their call but also argue for the need to move from an appreciation of maps’ fundamental instability to a more daring engagement with the normative dimension of national mapping. Like many scholars working from a post-representational perspective, Rossetto and Lo Presti associate the fundamental dynamism and contingency of maps with (potential) positive social change and, more specifically, the development of multicultural national imaginaries. I suggest that these associations deserve further scrutiny and argue that change and ‘everydayness’ may offer a starting point, but not a basis for progressive national mappings. Finally, drawing on the thought-provoking examples presented by Rossetto and Lo Presti, I reflect on what principles and practices could guide a progressive national cartography of Italy in 2021.

USLUGE HUMANITARNIH ORGANIZACIJA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Bataveljić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Basic Program ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Countries In Transition

The author of this work point to the fact that humanitarian organizations are the part of non-profit sector which are established and work in order to achieve general welfare of the individuals, particular social groups or society in whole. What is important to emphasize is that they belong to so called, voluntary sector whose work is transparent and is based on the laws of the country in which they operate. Each humanitarian organization has its own strategic plan, which as a written document, is aimed at achieving basic program goals. The monitoring of the implementation of adopted projects and the control of the management process are the mandatory (final) phases of their work. Humanitarian organizations as the part of non-state sector today play increasing role in offering services in various fields of social life to a wide range of beneficiaries. 0 It is interesting to note that these organizations are more present in developing countries and the countries in transition, particularly in the field of social services. The grounds for this situation can be found in the decentralization process and new, modified apprehension of the role of the state in the work of the growing number humanitarian organizations and movements. Namely, decentralization allows the delegation of powers and tasks from the central to local government levels and this is the main reason for rapid expansion of non-government sector on the global level and increasing participation of non-government sector in service providing.

Compassionate Reasoning, the Mind, and Moral Choice

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-130
Author(s):  
Marc Gopin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Extensive Training ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Obedience To Authority

The ethical schools of thought are essential to decision-making for peacebuilding and positive social change. The directives emerging from ethical schools often contradict each other, but Compassionate Reasoning can help resolve these contradictions and guide people in a more coherent direction of thinking and acting. The cultivation of compassion is shown to be a glue that bonds schools of ethics into one enterprise of moral reasoning as seen through several lenses. People who reason together are more adept at problem solving than when reasoning alone, but only if they have cultivated caring and compassionate relationships as a group. Moral reasoning in fierce competition with others, by contrast, retards the discovery of solutions to thorny problems. Compassionate Reasoning encourages collective reasoning rather than isolated and selfish reasoning. Excessive obedience to authority is also one of the most dangerous aspects of the human lower brain. A critical antidote is extensive training in taking the perspectives of others through Compassionate Reasoning.

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