Culture And Social Change

Author : Mohan Dutta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030264703

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Communication, Culture and Social Change by Mohan Dutta Pdf

Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting the assumptions that form the basis of development. This turn to culture offered radical possibilities for decolonizing social change but in response, necolonial development institutions incorporated culture into their strategic framework while simultaneously deploying political and economic power to silence transformative threads. This rise of “culture as development” corresponded with the global rise of neo-liberal governmentality, incorporating culture as a tool for globally reproducing the logic of capital. Using examples of transformative social change interventions, this book emphasizes the role of culture as a site for resisting capitalism and imagining rights-based, sustainable and socialist futures. In particular, it attends to culture as the basis for socialist organizing in activist and party politics. In doing so, Culture, Participation and Social Change offers a framework of inter-linkage between Marxist analyses of capital and cultural analyses of colonialism. It concludes with an anti-colonial framework that re-imagines the academe as a site of activist interventions.

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio,Kimberly Yost
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785368974

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Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change by Kristin M.S. Bezio,Kimberly Yost Pdf

The newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online gaming. As technology expands access to cultural production, popular culture continues to play an important role as an egalitarian vehicle for promoting ideological dissent and social change. The chapters in this book examine works and creators of popular culture – from literature to film and music to digital culture – in order to address the ways in which popular culture shapes and is shaped by leaders around the globe as they strive to change their social systems for the better.

Author : Brady Wagoner,Eric Jensen,Julian A. Oldmeadow
Publisher : IAP
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781617357596

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Culture and Social Change by Brady Wagoner,Eric Jensen,Julian A. Oldmeadow Pdf

This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social transitions to capitalism, among others contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behavior and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change.

Author : Keith Gildart,Anna Gough-Yates,Sian Lincoln,Bill Osgerby,Lucy Robinson,John Street,Peter Webb,Matthew Worley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137529114

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Youth Culture and Social Change by Keith Gildart,Anna Gough-Yates,Sian Lincoln,Bill Osgerby,Lucy Robinson,John Street,Peter Webb,Matthew Worley Pdf

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book’s themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture.

Author : Kate Fitch,Judy Motion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351788243

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Popular Culture and Social Change by Kate Fitch,Judy Motion Pdf

Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations argues the complicated and contradictory relationship between public relations, popular culture and social change is a neglected theoretical project. Its diverse chapters identify ways in which public relations influences the production of popular culture and how alternative, often community-driven conceptualisations of public relations work can be harnessed for social change and in pursuit of social justice. This book opens up critical scholarship on public relations in that it moves beyond corporate understandings and perspectives to explore alternative and eclectic communicative cultures, in part to consider a more optimistic conceptualisation of public relations as a resource for progressive social change. Fitch and Motion began with an interest in identifying the ways in which public relations both draws on and influences the production of popular culture by creating, promoting and amplifying particular narratives and images. The chapters in this book consider how public relations creates popular cultures that are deeply compromised and commercialised, but at the same time can be harnessed to advocate for social change in supporting, reproducing, challenging or resisting the status quo. Drawing on critical and sociocultural perspectives, this book is an important resource for researchers, educators and students exploring public relations theory, strategic communication and promotional culture. It investigates the entanglement of public relations, popular culture and social change in different social, cultural and political contexts – from fashion and fortune telling to race activism and aesthetic labour – in order to better understand the (often subterranean) societal influence of public relations activity.

Author : William F. Ogburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UCAL:B3988810

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Social Change with Respect to Cultural and Original Nature by William F. Ogburn Pdf

Author : Bruce E. Wexler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262265140

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Brain and Culture by Bruce E. Wexler Pdf

Research shows that between birth and early adulthood the brain requires sensory stimulation to develop physically. The nature of the stimulation shapes the connections among neurons that create the neuronal networks necessary for thought and behavior. By changing the cultural environment, each generation shapes the brains of the next. By early adulthood, the neuroplasticity of the brain is greatly reduced, and this leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between the individual and the environment: during the first part of life, the brain and mind shape themselves to the major recurring features of their environment; by early adulthood, the individual attempts to make the environment conform to the established internal structures of the brain and mind. In Brain and Culture, Bruce Wexler explores the social implications of the close and changing neurobiological relationship between the individual and the environment, with particular attention to the difficulties individuals face in adulthood when the environment changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between existing internal structure and external reality. These difficulties are evident in bereavement, the meeting of different cultures, the experience of immigrants (in which children of immigrant families are more successful than their parents at the necessary internal transformations), and the phenomenon of interethnic violence. Integrating recent neurobiological research with major experimental findings in cognitive and developmental psychology—with illuminating references to psychoanalysis, literature, anthropology, history, and politics—Wexler presents a wealth of detail to support his arguments. The groundbreaking connections he makes allow for reconceptualization of the effect of cultural change on the brain and provide a new biological base from which to consider such social issues as "culture wars" and ethnic violence.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Mohan J. Dutta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136848810

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Communicating Social Change by Mohan J. Dutta Pdf

Communicating Social Change describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politics, and examines the communicative processes, strategies and tactics through which social change interventions are constituted in response to the challenges.

Author : Paul Ransome
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847871572

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Work, Consumption and Culture by Paul Ransome Pdf

The central question in Work, Consumption and Culture is whether consumption has now displaced production as the defining factor in the lives of those in the industrialized West. This book offers a comprehensive review of the key issues in the production/consumption debate, and where it might lead in the future. Key to Paul Ransome′s argument is the hypothesis that affluence is the crucial factor in the shift away from work and towards consumption. Uniquely emphasizing the links between work, consumption and culture, rather than keeping each element separate, the author looks at: - the changing significance of work in society - the meaning, growth and significance of affluence - the growing importance of consumption as a source of identity and its implications the impact of the shift to consumption on work/life balance Work, Consumption and Culture engages the reader with its lively debating style. It is an essential introduction for sociology and cultural studies students on courses relating to consumption and the role of work in contemporary society. `This book offers a balanced account of the changing importance of work and consumption in contemporary industrial society. Clearly written, the author identifies the central role that affluence plays in the relationship between work and consumption, and in the development of social life and individual identity′ - Professor Paul Blyton, Cardiff Business School

Author : Angela McRobbie
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446200346

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The Aftermath of Feminism by Angela McRobbie Pdf

In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and 'affirmative feminism' and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the 'end' of feminism, this book argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilisation are being re-established. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so-called female freedom, appearing supportive of female success, yet tying women into new post-feminist neurotic dependencies. With a scathing critique of 'women's empowerment', McRobbie has developed a distinctive feminist analysis that she uses to examine socio-cultural phenomena embedded in contemporary women's lives: from fashion photography and the television 'make-over' genre to eating disorders, body anxiety and 'illegible rage'. A turning point in feminist theory, The Aftermath of Feminism will set a new agenda for gender studies and cultural studies.

Author : William F. Ogburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039449983

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Social Change with Respect to Cultural and Original Nature by William F. Ogburn Pdf

Author : Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz,Richard Biesanz,Karen Zubris Biesanz
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1555877370

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The Ticos by Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz,Richard Biesanz,Karen Zubris Biesanz Pdf

The authors trace the evolution of Costa Rican culture and institutions from pre-Columbian times through the late 1990s. Particularly concerned with the change wrought by the economic crisis of the 1980s, they base their portrayal on interviews with Costa Ricans; observations of many facets--from coffee plantation work to the deliberations of the Legislature; and readings of journalists, essayists, poets, historians, and others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John Clammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317687788

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Art, Culture and International Development by John Clammer Pdf

Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to development. The book shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways – as means to achieve development goals through visual, dramatic, filmic and craft-inspired ways. It advocates not so much culture and development, but rather for the development of culture. Without a cultural content to economic and social transformation the problems found in much development – up-rooting of cultures, loss of art forms, languages and modes of expression and performance – may only accelerate. Paying attention to the development of the arts as the content of development helps to amend this culturally destructive process. Finally, the book argues for the value of the arts in attaining sustainable cultures, promoting poverty alleviation, encouraging self-empowerment, stimulating creativity and the social imagination, which in turn flow back into wider processes of social transformation. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal to help foster further thinking and debate. This book is an inspiring read for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of development studies, cultural studies and sociology of development.

Author : Brian Longhurst
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335234936

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Cultural Change and Ordinary Life by Brian Longhurst Pdf

How important are the media? How is culture changing? How is ordinary life being transformed? How do we belong? This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent theories and accounts of social and cultural change. Brian Longhurst argues that our social and cultural lives are becoming increasingly audienced and performed and that activities in everyday life are changing due to the ever-growing importance and salience of the media. These changes involve people forging new ways of belonging, where among other things they seek to distinguish themselves from others. In Cultural Change and Ordinary Life, Longhurst evaluates changes in the media and ordinary life in the context of large-scale cultural change, especially with respect to globalization and hybridisation, fragmentation, spectacle and performance, and enthusing or fan-like activities. He makes the case that analysis of the media has to be brought into a more thorough dialogue with other forms of research that have looked at social processes. Cultural Change and Ordinary Life is key reading for students and researchers of sociology, media studies, cultural studies and mass communication.