scholarly journals Implications of Lewin’s Field Theory on Social Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 617-625
Author(s):  
Vlad I. Roşca
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Protein Starvation ◽  
Second World

AbstractDuring the Second World War, Kurt Lewin was part of a wider research team commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense to study how dietary habits of American citizens could be changed so as to avoid protein starvation due to the lengthy war efforts. Lewin’s research on food habits can be linked to his earlier studies on social fields. This paper aims to interpret Lewin’s findings on changing dietary habits by using his very own field theory approach, in order to hypothesize how the such findings can be drivers of social change, with the findings being applicable for business management settings as well. Concepts of time and space, as well as ‘simultaneity’ and ‘psychological ecology’ are brought up to discussion in order to back up the purpose of research.

War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War.

1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 660
Author(s):  
Sean Glynn ◽  
Harold L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Second World War ◽  
British Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

From Coordinated to Disorganized Capitalism in Japan

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Saori Shibata
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
Bubble Economy ◽  
Second World ◽  
Bubble Burst

This chapter discusses the key changes that have been witnessed in Japan's political economy throughout the postwar period. In the 1970s, Japan experienced a slowing of gross domestic product (GDP) growth, although it maintained a growth rate of over 3 percent per year until the late 1980s. Efforts to maintain a sustained level of growth during the 1980s resulted in a “bubble economy,” with asset prices rising rapidly. Deploying a regulation theory approach, the chapter shows how Japan has experienced a process of neoliberalization since its economic bubble burst in 1991, with one of the key effects being the emergence of a new and growing group of precarious nonregular workers. The coordination between firms, workers, and institutions that enabled stability in employment relations from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s has been replaced by a trend toward neoliberalization, deregulation, and a lack of coordination. Ultimately, the Japanese model of capitalism has become increasingly disorganized, resulting in heightened anxiety and insecurity among workers.

Radical Hope as Protest

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Stanislava Dikova
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
World War ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Second World

Virginia Woolf’s pacifist commitments prevented her from fully endorsing militant political protest as a productive strategy for emancipation. This orientation is grounded in her belief that violence preserves the ideological structures of oppression and fails to achieve real and positive social change. Instead, her thought and writing explore alternative modes of agency as outlets for more radical emancipatory possibilities. Through a reading of The Years (1937), a historical novel written under the threat of an impending Second World War, this essay traces Woolf’s enquiry into the mechanisms of patriarchal state oppression and the everyday sites, practices, and encounters through which it operates. Using Sara Pargiter as a case study, it probes Woolf’s assertion that women’s status as outsiders is the entry point through which dominant power relations can be challenged and new forms of social freedom negotiated. Building on José Esteban Muñoz’s concepts of “queer futurity”, with its attendant notions of critical idealism, utopia and hope, it argues that Woolf’s everyday pacifist-feminist aesthetic is significant for formulating a future-oriented critique of institutional practices of control over bodies and agents who do not conform to normative standards of personhood.

Revisiting Southam Street: Class, Generation, Gender, and Race in the Photography of Roger Mayne

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
World War ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World ◽  
Urban Working

AbstractThis article examines pictures taken by the British photographer Roger Mayne of Southam Street, London, in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores these photographs as a way of thinking about the representation of urban, working-class life in Britain after the Second World War. The article uses this focused perspective as a line of sight on a broader landscape: the relationship among class, identity, and social change in the English city after the Second World War. Mayne's photographs of Southam Street afford an examination of the representation of economic and social change in the postwar city and, not least, the intersections among class, race, generation, and gender that reshaped that city.

scholarly journals THE CULTURALIST CONSERVATISM OF GILBERTO FREYRE: SOCIETY, DECLINE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOBRADOS E MUCAMBOS (1936)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 879-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Edward Cyril Lynch ◽  
Pía Paganelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Jose De Alencar ◽  
Second World

Abstract This work aims to deepen the knowledge of the culturalist, Iberian and Catholic aspects of Brazilian conservatism, turning to the work by Gilberto Freyre, Sobrados e mucambos. We seek to understand how his work, positively received in the modernist, nationalist and anti-liberal context of the 1930s due to its revealing of the roots and ‘essence’ or ‘originality’ of Brazilian society, fell into disfavour after the Second World War when the process of massification and democratization of society led more radical sectors of the expanding middle class to lean toward socialism. In concluding, we point out how an imaginary of national belonging, in the form of common positive referents, was due in large measure to authors such as José de Alencar and Freyre.

Legacy

Stage rights! ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 190-204
Author(s):  
Naomi Paxton
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Political Campaigning ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Second World

This chapter explores the work of the Actresses' Franchise League in the 1920s and 1930s and during and after the Second World War, including the formation of the Women’s Adjustment Board and the role of the League in the Equal Pay Campaign of the 1950s. Showing the organisation to be continuously part of feminist strategies of social change before, through and after the war, this chapter explores and reflects upon the growth and diversification of the League’s areas of interest and influence, and the new generations of professional performers who became involved in the organisation. This chapter takes the story of the League up until 1958, considers the legacy of half a century of activism, political campaigning and collaboration, and details how the League has been written out of histories of theatre, and of political theatre in particular.

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