"Social Problems" as the Journal of a Social Movement: Comments and Suggestions

1976 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Herbert A. Aurbach ◽  
Bennett Berger ◽  
Egon Bittner ◽  
Herbert Blumer ◽  
David Bordua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Problems

"Social Problems" as the Journal of a Social Movement: Comments and Suggestions

1976 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Herbert A. Aurbach ◽  
Bennett Berger ◽  
Egon Bittner ◽  
Herbert Blumer ◽  
David Bordua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Problems

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’.

Man on the Street: Anthropology, Citizenship and the Fight for Housing Rights in Hungary

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Éva Udvarhelyi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Social Movement Activism

Doing anthropology can be a powerful means of reclaiming citizenship, while exercising critical citizenship is essential for being a good (applied) anthropologist. Through research and advocacy for homeless rights in my native Hungary, I have realized that drawing boundaries between the roles of "anthropologist" and "citizen" are false and disempowering, as in fact the two both complement and reinforce each other. While this might not seem like a particularly striking statement in the United States, this recognition has a special significance in Hungary, where anthropology is a new academically oriented discipline that is not yet widely applied to understand and improve social problems. However, I learned that it can be, and that it is crucial for anthropologists to move beyond mere formal citizenship and simply reporting what they learn, and to actively use this knowledge as political participants. The citizen in me was awakened when I conducted research among homeless residents of Budapest, and saw first hand that anthropology and social movement activism are intertwined.

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).

scholarly journals Social entrepreneurship as field encroachment: how a neoliberal social movement constructed a new field

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Spicer ◽  
Tamara Kay ◽  
Marshall Ganz
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
First Order

AbstractIn explaining the emergence of new strategic action fields, in which social movements’ and organizations’ logic, rules and strategies are forged, inter-field dynamics remain under-explored. The case of Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) shows how new fields can emerge through field encroachment, whereby shifts among overlapping fields create structural opportunities for the ascendency of new fields, which may adapt logics borrowed from adjacent fields to construct legitimacy. SEE leveraged the 1980s’ shift between first-order market and state fields to encroach on the political strategies of community organizing, birthing a neoliberal social movement to create a new field addressing social problems using market-based, profit-motivated approaches. With its borrowed veneer of justice, SEE rapidly developed a high academic and public profile over just three decades, despite little evidence its approach to solving social problems works. In encroaching on proven political strategies for solving social problems, it may further undermine democratic practices.

scholarly journals Social Movements, Social Problems and Social Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Ajay Kumar Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Collective Behaviors ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
Trade Unionism

Social movement is an organized effort by a significant number of people to change (or resist change in) some major aspect or aspects of society. Sociologists have usually been concerned to study the origins of such movements, their sources of recruitment, organizational dynamics, and their impact upon society. Social movements must be distinguished from collective behavior. Social movements are purposeful and organized; collective behavior is random and chaotic. Social movements include those supporting civil rights, gay rights, trade unionism, environmentalism, and feminism. Collective behaviors include riots, fads and crazes, panics, cultic religions, rumors. This paper deals with formation of social movement, emergence of social movement, social problems and social change.Academic Voices Vol.5 2015: 1-4

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