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Showing 1 to 20 of 412 for “"Social Movement"”.
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BITCOIN: A TECHNOLOGY-INFLUENCED SOCIAL MOVEMENT
… system. The academic study of Bitcoin by various social science disciplines and fields of law has predominantly focused on the nefarious use of cryptocurrency and the potential threat the technology could pose to national security by lessening U.S. economic influence. This thesis takes a more …
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Alternative Tourism: A Social Movement Perspective
… and tests a theoretical model drawing on social psychological and resource-mobilization perspectives of social movement theory to explain changes in social movement participation and support for activism among Earthwatch Expedition volunteers. The social psychological perspective of social …
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Social movement theory and far right organizations
<p>This research examines the organized far right movement and interviews members of four right wing organizations to understand their goals and operations. This study compares the utility of two social movement theories, Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) and New Social Movement Theory (NSMT) to …
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Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement
Building a 21st century movement capable of inspiring social and structural change requires creative education, resourceful collaboration, and civic engagement. The U.S. environmental movement is in need of strategies that bring a wide spectrum of people together, facilitate appropriate …
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Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement
Building a 21st century movement capable of inspiring social and structural change requires creative education, resourceful collaboration, and civic engagement. The U.S. environmental movement is in need of strategies that bring a wide spectrum of people together, facilitate appropriate …
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Three essays on corporate responses to social movement activism
… ‘how do firms defend themselves when targeted by social movement activists?’ and (2) ‘why do firms respond differently to activists’ demands?’ Essay 1 is a single-case study of Royal Dutch/Shell’s rhetorical responses to anti-apartheid activists’ demands for the firm to divest from, or sever its …
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European Nuclear Disarmament: a study of transnational social movement strategy
… of an attempt to help create a transnational movement against the nuclear arms race and the Cold War in the 1980s. The attempt began with the drafting and launch of the Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament in early 1980. The thesis describes and analyses the work of the British group, …
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9 to 5 : women office workers interpret a social movement.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Confronting the West: Social Movement Frames in 20th Century Iran
… 1979 received considerable attention from modern social scientists who study collective action and revolution because it allowed them to apply their different perspectives to an ongoing social event. Likewise, this work used the Iranian experience as an exemplar, focusing on a sequence of related …
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Transcendent leader centered analysis: A reconstructive approach to social movement analysis
This essay proposed a framework for social movement analysis that extends postmodern deconstructive techniques to a form of reconstruction which transcends the exploration of how language can say many different things simultaneously. By assessing the rhetoric of a movement, the leaders' view of …
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Under the Permafrost: Uncovering a Social Movement in the Soviet Union
… on the Soviet Union less is known about the social aspect of its development. This thesis examines the social aspect of environmentalism through a look at public responses to massive degradation. The instances of intense ecological ruin presented significant public health problems for …
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Radical Online Video : YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices
… mobilisations in Europe: 1. The European Social Forum in Malmoe in 2008 2. The alternative COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 3. The G20 counter-summit in London in 2009 As three distinct, yet related protest events, these cases provide significant examples of the broad social …
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Sustained Social Movement Participation: Integration of Social Identity and Attribution Theories
<p>Social movements can be an effective strategy through which to influence social change. However, setbacks and failures are often a part of the social movement process. Why then, in the face of failure do social movements persist? This pair of studies tested a proposed framework that drew from …
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Reframing futoko (school non-attendance) in Japan: a social movement perspective.
… in Japan from the perspective that futōkō is a social movement. It analyses citizens’ activism in support of futōkō students over the twenty year period from 1984. Drawing upon social movement approaches the thesis examines how futōkō citizens successfully grasped political opportunities, …
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Collective action for the rights of sex offenders: evaluating social movement organizations
… who have been convicted of a sex offense. A social movement, made up of registrants and their family members, has sprung up across the country to address the resulting consequences that have ensued from these policies. State organizations are now working towards policy change for these …
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Beauty on the Walls: Graffiti and Street Art as a Social Movement
… graffiti and street art and how they unfold as a social movement in Dublin. It discusses Marxist theories of aesthetics and popular culture. It uses interviews with graffiti and street artists, activists, writers and teachers along with visual materials and a number of case studies to identify the …
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