Self Help And Civic Culture

Author : Anne B. Rodrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351149464

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Self-Help and Civic Culture by Anne B. Rodrick Pdf

First published in 2004. The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of the culture of self-improvement that was reflected in a plethora of institutes, societies and journals that sprang up across Britain with the goal of spreading knowledge and learning to a wide spectrum of society. The prophets of self-improvement believed that not only was self-improvement a laudable goal in its own right, but more importantly, it would contribute towards a general improvement in society. In an age in which direct participation in the political processes was restricted to a minority, education and self-improvement could act as an alternative force by creating a sophisticated and knowledgeable population. In other words, self-improvement was also seen as a way of creating active and responsible citizens. Focusing on the city of Birmingham, and drawing on both local and national sources, Self Help and Civic Culture explores the changing nature of self improvement and citizenship in Victorian Britain. By approaching the concept of citizenship from a new perspective, provincial identity and its relationship to wider ideas of 'Englishness' and 'Britishness', a distinct ideal of citizenship is elucidated that adds further nuance to current scholarship. By drawing together various issues of citizenship, self-improvement, class and political power, this work brings a new perspective to the on-going attempts to determine who could claim the full rights, duties, privileges and responsibilities of the larger social body, thus illuminating the relationship between culture and power in nineteenth century England.

Author : Gabriel A. Almond,Sidney Verba
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0803935587

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The Civic Culture by Gabriel A. Almond,Sidney Verba Pdf

The intellectual history of the Civic Culture concept / Gabriel A. Almond -- The structure of inference / Arend Lijphart -- The Civic Culture : a philosophic critique / Carole Pateman -- The Civic Culture from a Marxist-sociological perspective / Jerzy J. Wiatr -- Political culture in Great Britain : The decline of The Civic Culture / Dennis Kavanagh -- The United States : political culture under stress / Alan I. Abramowitz -- Changing German political culture : continuity and change / Giacomo Sani -- Political culture in Mexico : continuities and revisionist interpretations / Ann L. Craig and Wayne A. Cornelius -- On revisiting The Civic Culture : a personal postcript / Sidney Verba

Author : Gabriel Abraham Almond,Sidney Verba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400874569

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The Civic Culture by Gabriel Abraham Almond,Sidney Verba Pdf

The authors interviewed over 5,000 citizens in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Great Britain, and the U.S. to learn political attitudes in modem democratic states. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Francine Lavoie,Benjamin Gidron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317764472

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Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups by Francine Lavoie,Benjamin Gidron Pdf

Here is new information on the development of international and intercultural research on self-help groups. This book reflects the many developments which have occurred in the field over the past decade, emphasizing empirical research. Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups provides specific research findings and honed concepts to help health professionals learn more about self-help groups and work effectively with such groups. More countries and ethnic groups are now involved in the self-help movement, and this volume increases knowledge of how different cultures react to and participate in self-help mutual aid and how self-help groups can be adapted to fit different racial or ethnic populations. Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups explores the definition of self-help, the centrality of culture as a major factor explaining variability in self-help, the development of appropriate methodological tools, and the role and involvement of professionals. It brings together different traditions of research for the study of cross- and intercultural and inter- and intraorganizational aspects of self-help groups. Contributors who represent various disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social work, and nursing, discuss: a paradigm for research in self-help the development of self-help groups in Japan, Hong Kong, and the former East Germany the participation of blacks in Alcoholics Anonymous the participation of Mexican Americans in groups for parents of the mentally ill relationships between self-help groups and health professionals predictors of burnout in self-help group leaders characteristics of effective groups ways individuals change their world view through self-help participation Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups is an informative and helpful resource for self-help researchers and teachers, students, and professionals who want to be more effective in their work with self-help groups across cultural and national lines.

Author : Gabriel Abraham Almond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:243906819

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The Civic Culture by Gabriel Abraham Almond Pdf

Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981770

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Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland by Diarmid A. Finnegan Pdf

The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.

Author : Tom Hulme
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861933495

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After the Shock City by Tom Hulme Pdf

A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century

Author : Elise Boulding
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815624875

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Building a Global Civic Culture by Elise Boulding Pdf

Author : Russell J. Dalton,Christian Welzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110768272X

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The Civic Culture Transformed by Russell J. Dalton,Christian Welzel Pdf

This book reevaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly "assertive" posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance.

Author : Eva Illouz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520253735

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Saving the Modern Soul by Eva Illouz Pdf

'Saving the Modern Soul' explores the impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives & on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz examines how self-help culture has transformed emotional life & how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences.

Author : Thomas Bridges
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1565181689

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The Culture of Citizenship by Thomas Bridges Pdf

Author : Helen Nicholson,Jenny Hughes,Gemma Edwards,Cara Gray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000848236

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Theatre in Towns by Helen Nicholson,Jenny Hughes,Gemma Edwards,Cara Gray Pdf

Theatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led, professional and community theatres, this book investigates the rich and diverse ways that theatres in towns serve their locality, negotiate their civic role, participate in networks of mutual aid and exchange, and connect audiences beyond their geographical borders. With a geographical focus on post-industrial, seaside, commuter and market towns in England, the book opens questions about how theatre shapes the narratives of town life, and how localism, networks and partnerships across and between towns contribute to living sustainably. Each chapter is critically and historically informed, drawing on original research in towns, including visits to performances and many conversations with townspeople, from theatre-makers, performers, set-builders, front-of-house volunteers, to audience members and civic leaders. Theatre in Towns asks urgent questions about how the relationships between towns and theatres can be redefined in new and equitable ways in the future. Theatre in Towns brings new research to scholars and students of theatre studies, cultural geography, cultural and social policy and political sociology. It will also interest artists, policy-makers and researchers wanting to develop their own and others’ understanding of the value of active theatre cultures in towns. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Henry Jenkins,Gabriel Peters-Lazaro,Sangita Shresthova
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479891252

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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination by Henry Jenkins,Gabriel Peters-Lazaro,Sangita Shresthova Pdf

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.

Author : Luďa Klusáková et al.
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788024636450

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Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries by Luďa Klusáková et al. Pdf

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Czech and Russian towns are staged in this volume as examples of a typical European phenomenon. They appear in diverse shapes, influenced by their countries and regions in history. One of possible strategies to overcome difficulties and motivate new development uses cultural heritage as a marketable value. International team of urban historians, sociologists and historians of arts and architects joined at the European Association for Urban History conference in Lisbon in 2014 and decided to present the issue in this volume – composed of five chapters – using a variety of methods and perspectives.

Author : S. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230583078

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Media, Culture and Society in Putin's Russia by S. White Pdf

An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world's largest country after a period of far-reaching change.