Culture Moves

Author : Thomas R. Rochon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691186719

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Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements. Rochon develops this theory by drawing from such sources as survey research, content analysis of the mass media, and historical accounts. He focuses mainly on contemporary issues in the United States--such as feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism--but also discusses cases ranging from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery. He explores the cultural niches--typically universities and research institutes--where new ideas and values evolve and then traces how these ideas play out in society through movements that may have little formal structure. Attention in the media, he argues, is often a deciding move in the contest over public opinion. This book will fundamentally revise how we understand the process of social change and what the prospects are for particular culture moves in the future.

Author : Thomas R. Rochon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0691070334

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In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements.

Author : Herman Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520241442

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Cultural Moves by Herman Gray Pdf

"Examines the importance of culture in the push for black political power and social recognition and argues the key black cultural practices have been notable in reconfiguring the shape and texture of social and cultural life in the U.S. Drawing on examples from jazz, television, and academia, Gray highlights cultural strategies for inclusion in the dominant culture as well as cultural tactics that move beyond the quest for mere recognition by challenging, disrupting, and unsettling dominant cultural representations and institutions. In the end, Gray challenges the conventional wisdom about the centrality of representation and politics in black cultural production"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Michael Bull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134516995

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Sound Moves by Michael Bull Pdf

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the twenty-first century. This book, in using the example of the Apple iPod, investigates the way in which we use sound to construct key areas of our daily lives. The author argues that the Apple iPod acts as an urban Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives. Through our use of such mobile and largely sound based devices, the book demonstrates how and why the spaces of the city are being transformed right in front of our ears.

Author : Lisa Johnson
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839458082

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Moves - Spaces - Places by Lisa Johnson Pdf

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and home are to be found in movement. This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors by following the intricate mental and physical trajectories of their deep-rooted yearning to return home.

Author : Pascale Rihouet
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 1909400831

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Art Moves by Pascale Rihouet Pdf

Preface -- Introduction -- Civic glamour on the move -- Candles --The flamboyance of death --The sovereign's progress -- Crisis processions and the power of banners --The extraordinary relic transfer of 1609 -- Epilogue -- Appendices.

Author : Dana Goodyear
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101632062

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Anything That Moves by Dana Goodyear Pdf

The popular New Yorker writer combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain. Dana Goodyear’s narrative debut is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture. At once an uproarious behind-the-scenes adventure and a serious attempt to understand the implications of an emergent new cuisine, it introduces a cast of compelling and unexpected characters—from Los Angeles Times critic Jonathan Gold, to a high-end Las Vegas purveyor of rare and exotic ingredients, to the traffickers and promoters of raw milk and other forbidden products, to the hottest chefs who rely on them—all of whom, along with today’s diners, are changing the face of American eating. Ultimately, Goodyear looks at what we eat, and tells us who we are. As she places all of this within a vivid historical and cultural framework, she shows how these gathering culinary trends may eventually shape the way all Americans dine. What emerges is a picture of America at a moment of transition, designing the future as it reimagines the past.

Author : AnjaliGera Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351573993

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Bhangra Moves by AnjaliGera Roy Pdf

Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. This is derived from a Punjabi harvest dance of the same name. This book looks at Bhangra's global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian subcontinent, to contribute to the understanding of emerging South Asian cultural practices such as Bhangra or Bollywood in multi-ethnic societies. It seeks to trace Bhangra's moves from Punjab and its 'return back' to look at the forces that initiate and regulate global flows of local texts and to ask how their producers and consumers redirect them to produce new definitions of culture, identity and nation. The critical importance of this book lies in understanding the difference between the present globalizing wave and previous trans-local movements. Gera Roy contrasts the frames of cultural imperialism with those of cultural invasion to show how Indian cultures have constantly reinvented themselves by cross-pollinating with 'invading' cultures such as Hellenic, Persian, Arabic and many others in the past. By looking at Bhangra's flows to and from India, the book revises the relation between culture, space and identity and challenges boundaries. It weighs both the uses and costs of visibility provided by global networks to marginalized groups in diverse localities and explores whether collaborations between Bhangra practitioners, largely of working class origin, give ordinary people any control over the circulation of culture in the global village. Finally, the book considers whether cultural practices can alter hierarchies and power structures in the real world.

Author : Greg Urban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816638411

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Metaculture by Greg Urban Pdf

Author : Thomas R. Rochon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Culture
ISBN : OCLC:1319330255

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Culture Moves by Thomas R. Rochon Pdf

Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements. Rochon develops this theory by drawing from such sources as survey research, content analysis of the mass media, and historical accounts. He focuses mainly on contemporary issues in the United States, such as feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism, but also discusses cases ranging from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery.

Author : John Edward White
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532665394

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Factors Behind the Ukrainian Evangelical Missionary Surge from 1989 to 1999 by John Edward White Pdf

Throughout its history, the Soviet Union was one of the most closed places in the world to missionary work. As perestroika came in the late 1980s and the Soviet Union fell in 1991, a spiritual vacuum formed as massive numbers of people became interested in Christianity. An unprecedented freedom allowed evangelicals to engage in missionary work. Much has been written about foreign evangelical missionary work during this period, but virtually nothing has been written about nationals doing ministry. This book examines the remarkable surge in Ukrainian evangelical missionary work from 1989 to 1999. Both Baptists and Pentecostals engaged in a wave of missions, flowing from Ukraine to the end of the earth: Siberia. What were these pioneering missionaries like? What motivated them? What enabled them to do what had been forbidden for so long? What legacy did they leave for us today? What can we learn from their example for future missions? This book also looks at how a surge in missions takes place, analyzing the factors behind the Ukrainian evangelical missionary surge by looking at different models for change. Here we consider: what steps can we take to help bring about new missionary surges?

Author : John H. Berthrong
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 079141857X

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All Under Heaven by John H. Berthrong Pdf

This book is a study of comparative philosophy and theology. The themes are the critical issues arising from the modern interpretation of Confucian doctrine as they confront the Christian beliefs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : A.R. Moreira,Kimberlee K. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400901773

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Computer and Information Science Applications in Bioprocess Engineering by A.R. Moreira,Kimberlee K. Wallace Pdf

Biotechnology has been labelled as one of the key technologies of the last two decades of the 20th Century, offering boundless solutions to problems ranging from food and agricultural production to pharmaceutical and medical applications, as well as environmental and bioremediation problems. Biological processes, however, are complex and the prevailing mechanisms are either unknown or poorly understood. This means that adequate techniques for data acquisition and analysis, leading to appropriate modeling and simulation packages that can be superimposed on the engineering principles, need to be routine tools for future biotechnologists. The present volume presents a masterly summary of the most recent work in the field, covering: instrumentation systems; enzyme technology; environmental biotechnology; food applications; and metabolic engineering.

Author : DICK
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780077130626

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EBOOK: INTRO TO ORGANIZATIONAL

Author : Jason Stahl
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469627878

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Right Moves by Jason Stahl Pdf

From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the public alike and were instrumental in promulgating conservative ideas. Yet, in spite of the formative influence these institutions have had on the media and public opinion, little has been written about their history. Here, Jason Stahl offers the first sustained investigation of the rise and historical development of the conservative think tank as a source of political and cultural power in the United States. What we now know as conservative think tanks--research and public-relations institutions populated by conservative intellectuals--emerged in the postwar period as places for theorizing and "selling" public policies and ideologies to both lawmakers and the public at large. Stahl traces the progression of think tanks from their outsider status against a backdrop of New Deal and Great Society liberalism to their current prominence as a counterweight to progressive political institutions and thought. By examining the rise of the conservative think tank, Stahl makes invaluable contributions to our historical understanding of conservatism, public-policy formation, and capitalism.