scholarly journals Applying Our Imagination to Settle Unfinished Business

JCSCORE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell J. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Organizing Vision ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Race Problem ◽  
Forward Looking

Recent events on colleges campuses specifically and society generally suggestthat a new generation of scholars will inherit the unfinished business of resolvingour nation’s longstanding “race problem.” What can a journal do to improve theirchances of producing scholarship that will lead to dismantling oppressive racialpatterns and order? I argue in this manuscript that JCSCORE should providemore space to exchange and critique imaginations of new racial meanings andstructures. Such forward-looking thinking that stretch beyond standardizedapproaches to scholarship can help coordinate and guide the application ofempirical research. After all, “social change” is much more than an empiricalproject and ultimately requires a creative and organizing vision that inspires,invents, and sustains transformative actions.

The Millennial/Gen Z Leftists Are Emerging: Are Sociologists Ready for Them?

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-427
Author(s):  
Elaine Bell Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Do So

Sociology is being challenged by the new generation of students and scholars who have another view of society. Millennial/Gen Zs are the most progressive generation since the 1960s. We have had many opportunities to discuss and imagine power, diversity, and social change when we teach them in our classes or attend their campus events. Some Millennial/Gen Z believe, especially those in academia, that social scientists are tied to old theories and ideologies about race and gender, among other inconsistencies. These old ideas do not resonate with their views regarding equity. Millennials are not afraid to challenge the status quo. They do so already by supporting multiple gender and race identities. Several questions come to mind. How do we as sociologists with our sense of history and other issues such as racial and gender inequality help them along the way? Are we ready for this generation? Are they ready for us?

NATIONHOOD, POWER AND HISTORY: UNFINISHED BUSINESS AND THE LONGUE DURÉE IN UGANDA Governing Uganda: British Colonial Rule and its Legacy. By GARDNER THOMPSON. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2003. Pp. x+366. £22.95, paperback (ISBN 9970-02-394-2). Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda. By HOLLY ELISABETH HANSON. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xxii+264. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07037-7); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07036-9).

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD REID
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Relative Stability ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation

The appearance of these two books marks the continuation of what has been a veritable resurgence of interest in Ugandan history in the last decade or so, facilitated in part by the relative stability provided by Yoweri Museveni's presidency. The renaissance dates to the early and mid-1990s: while scholars of a more senior generation published work which seemed to encapsulate several decades' thinking on the region – Christopher Wrigley and Jean-Pierre Chrétien foremost among them – a new generation turned its attention to Uganda in a manner that had not been possible since the 1960s. A number of doctoral theses produced by European and North American scholars during the 1990s have progressed into monograph form or given rise to flurries of articles. Holly Hanson's book is part of that wave; Gardner Thompson's research was undertaken a little earlier, but the Ph.D. thesis that forms the basis of his book was completed at the beginning of the 1990s. While not all of this work has been concerned with Buganda, it is clear that the kingdom continues to loom large in the scholarly imagination. The centrality of Buganda in Ugandan history is a theme which has linked together much of the work of the last decade, in terms of the nature of the precolonial kingdom, its relationship with the British and its role in the protectorate, and later independent nation, of Uganda. Other critical issues have been raised, too, such as the need to revisit both the precolonial and the colonial pasts, and discontinuity, in terms of understanding the degree to which the colonial ‘moment’ was as disruptive as it was transitory.

Socioeconomic Impact of Education on Agriculture

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saiqa Yameen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Socioeconomic Impact ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The People ◽  
Social Obligation ◽  
New Generation

Education is one of the basic activities in all human societies because continued existence of a society depends largely upon the transmission of it heritage to the new generation. In its broadest sense, education is the process by which society seeks to transmit its tradition, customs skills and culture to the young generation. Education has been rationally regarded as a social obligation and is widely accepted that the major factor in nation's economic progress is the quality of its man power resources. Education is considered as one of the important factors in speeding up the process of social change in any society. In order to understand the complexity of the society itself and to move along with the change, one need to be educated. Education brings changes in the attitude and behaviors of the people. Education helps to overcome poverty, increase income, improves health and nutrition and reduces family size.

One Love Bob Marley, The Mystic, and the Market

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Jeremy Prestholdt
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Soft Drinks ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Intense Debate

This chapter explores how anti-systemic figures of the Cold War era were reimagined in the post-Cold War world. It begins by considering the exponential growth of Bob Marley's popularity after his death, and the amplification of discrete elements of his message. Specifically, it concentrates on the alternative meanings listeners have projected onto Marley since the 1980s, notably the view of him as a spiritual lodestar. From the mid-1980s Marley's record label and many fans began to champion him as a suprareligious figure and a symbol for politically neutral concepts like "One Love". This reinterpretation of Marley flattened his message but substantially widened his appeal. In the 1990s a new generation of Bob Marley fans looked to him as a voice of imprecise yearnings for spiritual fulfillment and social change. But Marley's skyrocketing popularity also contributed to increasingly vapid forms of commodification, which reduced Marley's message to cultural style. By the early 2000s, Marley's image appeared on a dizzying array of products, from underwear to soft drinks. Consequently, an intense debate ensued over the meaning of Marley's music and legacy, one in which Marley's heirs, seeking to redeem his name as an ethical brand, have played an increasingly important part.

Coda

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Hamera
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Industrial Labor ◽  
American Artists ◽  
African American Artists ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Heidelberg Project

The coda to Unfinished Business begins with the election of Donald Trump as US president, presenting this as a bookend to the election of Ronald Reagan nearly four decades earlier. Racialized and racist responses to the deindustrial are as central to the Trump phenomenon as they were to the so-called Reagan Democrats. Yet Trumpist nostalgia for industrial labor ignores or misremembers these jobs’ debilitating dimensions, as stated in the 1972 federal report “Work in America.” The coda notes that Michael Jackson’s legacy as an exemplary entrepreneur has been successfully redeployed by a new generation of African American artists, and addresses the continued gestic potential of the Heidelberg Project in the wake of Tyree Guyton’s decision to remove parts of it. It concludes by asserting that, until myths of white supremacy are confronted and dismantled, no systemic attempt to redress the predations of the deindustrial can be successful.

scholarly journals Introduction: Relational Activism in and through Pragmatist Feminism

Hypatia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Danielle Lake ◽  
Judy Whipps
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Generation

This Hypatia cluster aims to create space for sharing stories and tools designed to support situated, embodied, and dialogical philosophical activism. It emerges from a new generation of pragmatist feminists, illustrating how the field has evolved. These pieces locate pragmatist feminism in place- and issue-based philosophical activism. As an activist and pragmatically grounded philosophy, this approach values the embodied and relational nature of social change as well as the need to create multiple pathways of engagement situated in and across communities.

Education for Freedom: Children's Fiction in Jacksonian America

1976 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Scott MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Children's Fiction ◽  
Jacksonian America

What kind of reality is reflected in children's literature? In this article Anne Scott MacLeod suggests that one can come to understand a society's mood—the concerns of individuals about what is and what should be—by analyzing the literature written for children in that society. Viewing children's fiction of the early nineteenth century against the social background of the time, the author shows how the stories reveal Jacksonian Americans' concerns for the conservation of a particular kind of moral character that appeared threatened by social change. Thus,MacLeod argues that the primary function of children's fiction in Jacksonian America was not entertainment but the moral education of a new generation, emphasizing social responsibility in contrast to the spirit of individual aggrandizement that seemed, to these authors, to endanger their world.

An anarchist criminology for uncertain times

2021 ◽  
pp. 000486582110071
Author(s):  
Jeff Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Street Level ◽  
New Generation

Anarchist practices of direct action, decentralization, leaderless resistance, and mutual aid animate many forms of progressive activism that today percolate around the globe. For a new generation of activists, such practices are part of a more general anti-authoritarian reorientation to social life and social change. Here I suggest that this reorientation is worth exploring on its own terms, given that misunderstanding is all but assured if we try to make sense of it in the context of more conventional approaches. I argue in turn that street-level anarchist practices can productively reengage contemporary criminology with an increasingly uncertain world; attune criminology to the contested political dynamics of the present day; and help confront the precarious status of criminology and its practitioners.

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