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Showing 1 to 20 of 528 for “"social movements"”.
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Social movements as networks of communication episodes
Social movements (SMs) are common, yet complex phenomenon of study, generating eclectic and even conflicting perspectives on what actually constitutes a SM. This notion points towards the need of an inclusive framework that attempts to talk with rather than past conflicting perspectives. The …
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Ideology and normative belief in new social movements
… on goal-oriented protest participation, like new social movements. The main goal of this paper is to find factor solutions for the movements to establish patterns concerning overall attitudes towards new social movements. Causal models will be developed for Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France …
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Urban social movements in metropolitan Cape Town South Africa
… the relations of power that inform urban social movements, locally, regionally and nationally. I did not only observe neighborhood social life, but neighborhood-based protests. Through a close observation of social practices in different neighborhoods I have managed to document the …
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Social Movements and Corporate Social Disclosure: Evidence from Jordan
… countries. The study also examined the impact of social movements on employee and community disclosure. The current study provides a fresh perspective by bridging the gap between prior literature at the nexus of social movement and organisation analysis and prior literature on employee and …
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Crisis Management by Social Movements: Learning from Indian Microfinance
… Microfinance was in crisis. </p><p> How a social movement such as microfinance responds to a crisis is an understudied topic in social movement literature. By contrast, crisis management is an extensively analyzed topic in business literature. This thesis aims to develop five broad crisis …
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Struggles for Recognition: Analyzing Democratization Effects of Social Movements
… objective of this work is to examine a model of social movement processes. The three traditional processes of social movements are incorporated into one model in order to allow a comparative discussion of the regime process encountered, identity and claim formulations used, and the shifts in the …
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Urban social movements in Metropolitan Cape Town, South Africa
… the relations of power that inform urban social movements, locally, regionally and nationally. I did not only observe neighborhood social life, but neighborhood-based protests.
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Exploring the pattern of Islamic social movements : four case studies
This thesis is a study of Iranian-Islamic social movements. Iran has witnessed four major social movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Except for the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 which attracted a great deal of sociological attention, and the Constitutional Revolution which has …
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Social Movements at the Fossil Fuel Frontier in South Africa
… biggest fossil fuel emitter, I analyse social struggles over new fossil fuel projects. South Africa’s government shows a determination to fast-track fossil fuel developments throughout the country in an effort to grow the economy and create jobs. Fossil fuel extraction in South Africa …
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Political Parties and Social Movements: Mobilizing and Representing Civil Society
… that emerged in Europe since 1945 have roots in social movements, but unlike older mainstream parties with movement origins they did not adopt an electoral-professional party model focused on pursuing the median voter. Neither have they retained their organizational connections to movements, thus …
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Social Movements and Resistance to Neoliberalism in America, 1979-2000
… another, to resist them. It examines a range of social movements that organised in opposition to neoliberalism in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, a period that has thus far received insufficient scholarly attention. It charts the emergence of a transnational network of movement actors, …
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Investigating the Impact of Social Movements on African-American Business Success
… that seem to coincide with periods of social change in the United States. This two-part study explored the effects of social movements on the trajectory of entrepreneurial firms. Study one delved into the business histories of six prominent African-American beauty industry entrepreneurs …
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A Revolutionary Perspective on Social Movements: Fundamentalism in the Islamic World
… surge in the number of Islamic fundamentalist movements, and there has not been a concise reason as to why. The main objective of this research is to determine the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, and, in so showing that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is inherently a social movement. To …
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Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: Perspectives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… with cause lawyers involved in efforts for social change in post-Katrina New Orleans to develop a richer understanding of their roles within social movements and how they conceive of and negotiate the core tensions in their work. I investigate the lawyers' roles within social movements …
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New social movements, Claus Offe, and environmental groups in British Columbia
New Social Movement Theory characterizes post 1960's protest movements such as the peace, environment and women's movement as being distinctively different from older movements such as the workers movement. The salient differences are in the social bases from which the movements draw their …
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Education work: Canadian schools and the emergence of indigenous social movements
… and the emergence of contemporary indigenous social movements. It focuses on the ways in which schools contributed to transformations in identities and the division of labor in indigenous communities at the local scale, and, conversely, how the state transformed the division of labor for …
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Development of a robotic arm to teach autistic children social movements
… a robotic arm, autistic children can learn the movements associated with social interactions. The goals of my invention are that autistic children would safely interact with the robotic arm and mimic the robotic arm to replicate movements associated with social interactions. The results from my …
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Between bureaucracy and social movements : careers in the justice for janitors
… institutional form of American unions, and social movement unionism. But more recently, scholars have argued that the environment has shifted, leading American unions to move away from traditional policies and practices toward social movement unionism. This research examines the …
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