scholarly journals A Model of How Shifting Intelligence Drives Social Movements

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Noah F. G. Evers ◽  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Social World ◽  
Practical Intelligence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

Based on the theory of social change, cultural evolution, and human development, we propose a mechanism whereby increased danger in society causes predictable shifts in valued forms of intelligence: 1. Practical intelligence rises in value relative to abstract intelligence; and 2. social intelligence shifts from measuring how well individuals can negotiate the social world to achieve their personal aims to measuring how well they can do so to achieve group aims. We document these shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic and argue that they led to an increase in the size and strength of social movements.

Charismatiques et Socio-politiques dans l'Eglise catholique au Quebec

1978 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Reny ◽  
Jean Paul Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship

This article presents some characteristics of the charismatic and socio-political movements which can be observed in Catho licism in Québec. The authors situate the emergence of these phenomena within the historical and social context of the country since 1960. They thus elucidete the close relationship which exists between the social change and the change in the expression of beliefs. The links which charismatic and socio-political movements appear to have with the cultural evolution of Quebec are such that the authors consider these phenomena as at least as important as the official endeavours of the religious organisation to restore a certain functionality to religion in this society.

The Importance of the Act of Reading

1983 ◽  
Vol 165 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Freire
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The question of the importance of reading is addressed by considering the ways in which experience itself is read through the interaction of the self and the world. Through examining memories of childhood, it is possible to view objects and experiences as texts, words, and letters and to see the growing awareness of the world as a kind of reading through which the self learns and changes. The actual act of reading literary texts is seen as part of a wider process of human development and growth based on understanding both one's own experience and the social world. Learning to read must be seen as one aspect of the act of knowing and as a creative act. Reading the world thus precedes reading the word and writing a new text must be seen as one means of transforming the world.

scholarly journals The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: The case of Sisters Uncut

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 985-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armine Ishkanian ◽  
Anita Peña Saavedra
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Transformative Politics ◽  
Do So

Considering contemporary movements as sites of struggle between attempts at inclusiveness and enduring tendencies to exclude and reproduce power hierarchies, this article examines how movement actors confront and tackle inequalities within their organisational spaces. Drawing on an in-depth study, which relied on Participatory Action Research methods, of the intersectional feminist anti-austerity group Sisters Uncut, the article analyses how actors collectively define and translate intersectionality into practice and the challenges they face in enacting this form of politics, which the authors call intersectional prefiguration. The authors consider intersectional prefiguration as a form of radical democratic politics which acknowledges relations of domination and seeks to transform them within both movements and society. The article discusses how enacting intersectional prefiguration is predicated on actors developing a collective identity, embracing a commitment to organise intersectionally, and adopting specific methodologies through which to do so. The findings have relevance to scholars of social movements and intersectionality and can help advance our understandings of the ways in which movements, prefigurative and otherwise, drive social change and transformative politics and the challenges they face in this process.

Postmodernism and Sociology: From the Epistemological to the Empirical

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rekha Mirchandani
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Time Space ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Postmodern Ethics ◽  
Do So

This article investigates the place of postmodernism in sociology today by making a distinction between its epistemological and empirical forms. During the 1980s and early 1990s, sociologists exposited, appropriated, and normalized an epistemological postmodernism that thematizes the tentative, reflective, and possibly shifting nature of knowledge. More recently, however, sociologists have recognized the potential of a postmodern theory that turns its attention to empirical concerns. Empirical postmodernists challenge classical modern concepts to develop research programs based on new concepts like time-space reorganization, risk society, consumer capitalism, and postmodern ethics. But they do so with an appreciation for the uncertainty of the social world, ourselves, our concepts, and our commitment to our concepts that results from the encounter with postmodern epistemology. Ultimately, this article suggests that understanding postmodernism as a combination of these two moments can lead to a sociology whose epistemological modesty and empirical sensitivity encourage a deeper and broader approach to the contemporary social world.

The Case of Black Millennials

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-485
Author(s):  
Shaonta’ E. Allen ◽  
Ifeyinwa F. Davis ◽  
Maretta McDonald ◽  
Candice C. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Presidential Session

Sociologists have queried over the utility and effectiveness of generational analysis for some time. Here, the authors contend that intragenerational analyses are needed to critically and comprehensively make sense of the social world. Drawing on four presentations during the presidential session titled, “#NextGenBlackSoc: New Directions in the Sociology of Black Millennials,” the authors use Black Millennials as a case to illustrate how racializing generational studies can strengthen sociological research in four particular subdisciplines: Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Religion, Gender and Sexuality, and Family. They ultimately argue new analytic approaches are necessary to produce significant research on individuals and groups with complex intersectional identities and the particularities of their social experiences.

Reconceptualising Occupational Therapy

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 524-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Pollard ◽  
Auldeen Alsop ◽  
Frank Kronenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Conference ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Marginal Status ◽  
Do So

This opinion piece describes central issues arising from discussions at a recent conference exploring the implications of global poverty for the occupational therapy profession. The connection between poverty, disability and the marginalisation that these problems produce presents an opportunity for occupational therapists to realise their potential for facilitating social change. To do so, however, entails some reconceptualising of the profession. In some areas of intervention, the struggle to obtain a clear definition for occupational therapy has both arisen from and contributed to a marginal status, linked to difficulties in developing capacity for research. The social questions around occupation suggest both challenges and opportunities for the profession.

scholarly journals Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathleen O'Grady ◽  
Thom Scott-Phillips ◽  
Suilin Lavelle ◽  
Kenny Smith
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Social World ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
Classic Result ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Objects ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Do So

Data from a range of different experimental paradigms -- in particular (but not only) the dot perspective task -- have been interpreted as evidence that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals. Results from other studies, however, have cast doubt on this interpretation, and some researchers have suggested that phenomena that seem like perspective-taking might instead be the products of simpler behavioural rules. The issue remains unsettled in significant part because different schools of thought, with different theoretical perspectives, implement the experimental tasks in subtly different ways, making direct comparisons difficult. Here, we explore the possibility that subtle differences in experimental method explain otherwise irreconcilable findings in the literature. Across five experiments we show that the classic result in the dot perspective task is not automatic (it is not purely stimulus-driven), but nor is it exclusively the product of simple behavioural rules that do not involve mentalizing. Instead, participants do compute the perspectives of other individuals rapidly, unconsciously and involuntarily, but only when attentional systems prompt them to do so (just as, for instance, the visual system puts external objects into focus only as and when required). This finding prompts us to clearly distinguish spontaneity from automaticity. Spontaneous perspective-taking may be a computationally efficient means of navigating the social world.

scholarly journals We Have Come Too Far Not To Go Further

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moana Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
The Social

Moana Jackson is a renowned lawyer, consitutional thinker, and has worked internationally advancing the rights of Indigenous people. He delivered a keynote address at the Social Movements, Resistance, and Social Change conference in 2016, and this year, gave his time to be interviewed by two members of the conference organising committee, Dylan Taylor and Amanda Thomas.  

scholarly journals Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Boris Holzer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

This chapter uses a systems theory perspective to examine how the globalization processes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affected social contacts, societal groups, and social change. It looks at developments and changes that took place in the nineteenth century that point to both continuities and ruptures with earlier epochs and their further consolidation and elaboration throughout the twentieth century. It also discusses a sociological perspective on a 'long twentieth century' and discernible transformations of the social world, which provided the foundation for a global modernity and popularized the aspiration towards it. The chapter implies an interest in fundamental sociological concepts, namely communication, differentiation, and evolution. It investigates the integral part of a long-term transformation that is developed by fundamental or societal revolution.

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