scholarly journals A Critique of the Concepts of “Youth” and “Generation” as Applied in Empirical Research in Contemporary Tunisia

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 881-908
Author(s):  
Jonas Roellin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Reference Category ◽  
Age Cohort

Abstract In this paper, I argue that both concepts of “youth” (arabic “šabāb”) and “generation” (arabic “ğīl”) are in different ways misleading and problematic when applied in empirical research on Tunisians of lower age. While they are not affirmatively used and partly even rejected by the latter, they also appear inadequate when employed as analytical categories. Instead, as I will suggest, (historical) “age cohort” is an adequate reference category that can be qualitatively described according to the shared perceptions and actions of its respective members. Thereby, the focus on self-concepts and self-narratives appears to be particularly helpful in understanding the contemporary condition of Tunisians of lower age and their social mobilization practices. It reveals, among other findings, that their movements are not primarily directed at political and social change, though conventionally assumed, but rather express a search for greater possibilities of mobility and autonomy beyond both state and societal boundaries.

I Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale. Una proposta solida nella societŕ liquida

2009 ◽  
pp. 95-122
Author(s):  
Letizia Carrera
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Illusion Of Control ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Political Impact

- In the currently liquid and uncertain world, purchasing represents a dimension where individuals live the illusion of control over their own lives. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (or GAS, an Italian acronym for Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale) aree an attempt to reverse this model, and to build relationships not despite but through the market and purchasing. They choose products and producers on the basis of respect for the environment and solidarity between the members of the groups, traders, and producers. GAS aree rooted in a critical approach to today's global economic model and lifestyle of consumerism; individuals that feel the unfairness in this model and who aree searching for a practical alternative can find reciprocal aid and advice by joining solidarity purchasing groups. They aree a catalyst of political and social change. Empirical research, which completes these reflections, points out two very different ways to live this experience: "health cares" ("salutisti") and "critical protester" ("contestatori critici"). Only the second one is characterized by a strong, albeit scarcely perceptible, political impact.Keywords: Solidarity Purchasing Groups, Purchase, Market, Civicness, Political Participation.

Religion and Social Change at the Grass Roots in Latin America

1997 ◽  
Vol 554 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. SAMUEL ESCOBAR
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Role Of Religion

Recent historiography and social studies in Latin America have developed new approaches to understanding the significance of movements by the poor for social change as well as the role of religion as a key factor for social mobilization. It is now possible to perceive the importance of messianic and revolutionary movements since the colonial period, and also the different forms of religious commitment that motivate people to reject modernization or to accept it. Several case studies coming from Catholicism and Protestantism are considered here.

scholarly journals What’s Hegemonic about Hegemonic Masculinity? Legitimation and Beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuchen Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Feminist Sociology ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Progressive Potential

Raewyn Connell’s theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity has been profoundly influential in feminist sociology. Despite the rich literature inspired by her theory, conceptual ambiguities have compromised its full potential. In this article, I critique a pessimistic tendency in the interpretation and application of hegemonic masculinity, which focuses on its regressive role in reproducing/legitimating heteronormative patriarchy while overlooking its progressive potential. I propose that revisiting Antonio Gramsci’s theorization of hegemony can help us understand hegemonic masculinity by its mechanism of domination—force accompanied by consent—rather than via certain pregiven masculine qualities. This reformulation of hegemonic masculinity not only pushes us to maintain a relational understanding of masculinities in empirical research, but also brings attention to Connell’s vision for social change.

scholarly journals Introduction to Special Theme Veillance and transparency: A critical examination of mutual watching in the post-Snowden, Big Data era

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171769899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vian Bakir ◽  
Martina Feilzer ◽  
Andrew McStay
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Ethics Regulation

Introducing the Special Theme on Veillance and Transparency: A Critical Examination of Mutual Watching in the Post-Snowden, Big Data Era, this article presents a series of provocations and practices on veillance and transparency in the context of Big Data in a post-Snowden period. In introducing the theoretical and empirical research papers, artistic, activist and educational provocations and commentaries in this Special Theme, it highlights three central debates. Firstly, concerning theory/practice, it queries how useful theories of veillance and transparency are in explaining mutual watching in the post-Snowden, Big Data era. Secondly, it presents a range of questions concerning norms, ethics, regulation, resistance and social change around veillance and transparency. Thirdly, it interrogates the upsurge in veillance and transparency discourses and practices post-Snowden, and asks whether they are adequate to the task of educating and engaging people on abstract and secretive surveillance practices, as well as on the possibilities and pitfalls of sousveillance.

Comparing Household Structure Over Time and Between Cultures

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Hammel ◽  
Peter Laslett
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Household Structure ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Domestic Group ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Over Time

Because of the importance of the family and household in all societies and at all historical periods, it is essential to be able to make comparisons between varieties of domestic groups. If we wish to comment on the extent to which the household is affected by social change and especially by the process of modernization, industrialization, social mobilization, or whatever that vague but ubiquitous phenomenon is called, it must be clear what would consitute such change. This means knowing how domestic group structure differs from country to country as well as from period to period.

The effect of political generation on identity and social change: Age cohort consequences

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Lewis Brown ◽  
Deana A. Rohlinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Age Cohort

Gated Communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-141
Author(s):  
John Wei
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Queer Communities

This chapter focuses on the politics of proximity on locative mobile media that evoke the issue of social position and class affiliation, and on online and urban queer communities that are separated and segregated by class-related cultural capital and social privilege as “gated communities”. Mobilized queer cultures and desires are deeply structured and further complicated by social mobility and immobility through the myth of quality. Social and spatial gating and walling in China’s online and urban middle-class communities have functioned as vehicles of social inclusion and exclusion in the country’s ongoing post-suzhi transformations. This has significantly hindered the once-promising social mobilization and started to concretize existing social stratifications and segregations amid the ongoing social change.

scholarly journals Beholding Chicano History

Athanor ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Héctor Ramón Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Chicano History

I consider Chicano History an ideal mural to expand on the analysis of form and content considering that it reflects the time in which it emerged: a period of civil disobedience and social unrest in which art, and art making was utilized for social mobilization and people awakening in order to effect social change.

scholarly journals “Nutella versus Church”. Worship, Need, and Social Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-314
Author(s):  
Konrad Müller
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Attendance Rates ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Direct Competition

Abstract The following essay argues that worship attendance rates stand in direct competition with current social developments at all times. The author bases his arguments upon the empirical research results found in the sociological study by Martin Engelbrecht “Human–Routine–Worship”, which determined criteria for church attendance. He discovered that people are motivated to participate in routines or rituals based on needs. These needs can be described in the following seven categories: pleasure; self-determination; self-care; locality; sense of purpose; structure and orientation; and aesthetics. Müller focuses more closely on four of these needs and explores how 1) each of these needs is influenced by social change, and 2) how this can affect the decision to participate in worship. Müller emerges with the axiom: these needs describe a person's inner demand on his or her outer world. And while religious worship addresses these inner needs and fulfils them (or not), each and every social (outer) change will correspondingly influence a person's decision to attend worship (or not). The trajectory of worship is always two-way: worship is certainly the product of social change, yet worship can also effect change in society because of its transformative power.

scholarly journals Theoretical Study of Social Hybridity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirofumi Utsumi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Complex Entity ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Perspective

The purpose of this paper is to show the new directions for reconstruction of the concept of society made possible by another concept – that of hybridity. First we shall argue that in the era of globalisation, the conventional view perceiving society as a self-fulfilling entity is no longer valid. Next, we will critically review the spatial and temporal frameworks, which have served as the basis for the concept of society so far, basing our analysis on the recent theories of space and time. We shall then focus on the concept of hybridity, showing that it can serve as a pivot providing us with the clue for reconstruction of society making the latter valid again. Although ‘hybridity’ is a term predominantly used in cultural research, here we shall try to look at it from a sociological perspective. We shall demonstrate that ‘social hybridity’ presents a new way to see society as a complex entity made of various interactions both within and across borders. Lastly, in order to show how this theory can be applied in empirical research, we shall introduce the concept of ‘zones of interactivity’. We will show that the ‘social hybridity’ approach built around a core of the ‘zone’ concept makes it possible to resurrect ‘society’ helping us to see the present social change from a completely new perspective.

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