Culture and social change : transforming society through the power of ideas

Culture and social change : transforming society through the power of ideas / edited by Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian A. Oldmeadow.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wagoner, Brady, 1980-, Jensen, Eric, 1981-, Oldmeadow, Julian A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2012.
Series:Advances in Cultural Psychology : Constructing Human Development.
Subjects:
Culture > Psychological aspects.
Social change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Culture > Psychological aspects
Social change
Kultur
Sozialer Wandel
Kulturwandel
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Change.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor preface : semiotic freedom for the social sciences: inquiry in a new key / Jaan Valsiner
  • Introduction : changing times, changing science / Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian Oldmeadow
  • Collective action in context
  • The psychology of collective action: crowds and change / John Drury, Steve Reicher, and Clifford Scott
  • Commentary : collectives may protest, but how do authorities respond? / Flora Cornish
  • Change we can believe in : the role of social identity, cognitive
  • Alternatives, and leadership in group mobilization and transformation / Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam
  • Commentary : change non-westerners can believe in / Fathali Moghaddam, Zach Warren, and Rhea Vance-Cheng
  • Communicating change
  • Metaphor and stories in discourse about personal and social change / David Ritchie
  • Commentary : the earth, olympus, and the commuter bus / Carlos Cornejo
  • Balancing stability and change : a neo-diffusionist perspective on cultural dynamics of socially transformative ideas / Yoshihisa Kashima, Boyka Bratanova, and Kim Peters
  • Commentary : the meeting of ideas: diffusion, dialogical interaction, and social change / Brady Wagoner
  • Scientific controversies and the struggle for symbolic power / Eric Jensen
  • Commentary : the struggle for scientific consensus: communicating climate science around cop-15 / Rick Holliman
  • Societies in transition
  • Mediating social change in authoritarian and democratic states : irony, hybridity, and corporate censorship / Eric Jensen
  • Commentary: subversively funny : critical humor in art / Lisa Sayles
  • Assessing social change through social capital : local leadership and social-political change in bolivia / Martin Mendoza
  • Commentary: social influence and social change : states and strategies of social capital / Gordon Sammut and Mohammad Sartawi
  • Changing fields, changing habitusus : the field of public service in post-soviet ukraine / Anastasia Ryabchuk
  • Commentary: dependent independence : a mechanism for conciliating determinism and freedom / Maaris Raudsepp
  • Conclusion : a cyclical model of social change / Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian Oldmeadow
  • About the authors.

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