Scholarship for Social Change: Reflections of an Accidental Academic.
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DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12440
Abstract: In this article, I describe how I stumbled my way into an academic career doing research to promote social change toward greater equity and inclusion. I reflect on how my path has been informed by… read more here.
Keywords: reflections accidental; accidental academic; change; social change ... See more keywords
Organizing a transnational solidarity for social change through participatory practices: The case of People Powered-Global Hub for Participatory Democracy.
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DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12593
Abstract: In the context of global democratic crises and pervasive neoliberal policies, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a critical role in promoting democratic processes and advancing social change on local, national, and transnational scales. However, such… read more here.
Keywords: people powered; solidarity social; social change; participatory democracy ... See more keywords
Individual Differences in the Resistance to Social Change and Acceptance of Inequality Predict System Legitimacy Differently Depending on the Social Structure
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DOI: 10.1002/per.2100
Abstract: We propose that individual differences in the resistance to social change and the acceptance of inequality can have divergent effects on legitimacy depending on the context. This possibility was tested in a sample of 27… read more here.
Keywords: differences resistance; individual differences; resistance social; acceptance inequality ... See more keywords
A mathematical model of unintended consequences: Fisher’s geometric model and social evolution
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DOI: 10.1007/s10818-020-09304-6
Abstract: Biological change and social change are similar. Both involve attempts to alter complex arrangements that have been pieced together through long periods of time. And both run the risk of unintended consequences. In biology, an… read more here.
Keywords: evolution; change; unintended consequences; model ... See more keywords
“Bringing the migrant back in”: mobility, conflict, and social change in contemporary society
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-017-9292-4
Abstract: Dominant social theories have rarely placed migration at the center of our understanding of society and social change. Classical theories in the Western tradition have been more preoccupied with the impact of economic and political… read more here.
Keywords: conflict; mobility; migration; social change ... See more keywords
Gastronomy as a real agent of social change
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgfs.2020.100240
Abstract: Abstract The study of social entrepreneurship has rapidly evolved in the last years, with a significant number of articles published. Based on a review of the existing literature in the theoretical framework of social entrepreneurship,… read more here.
Keywords: social change; gastronomy; gastronomy real; social entrepreneurship ... See more keywords
Communicating across, within and between, cultures: Toward inclusion and social change
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2016.10.015
Abstract: Abstract In this article, I provide some reflections on the theme of this special issue and the recent World Public Relations Forum, “Communication across cultures”. In doing so, I was initially tempted to respond with… read more here.
Keywords: across within; inclusion; within cultures; social change ... See more keywords
“Two heads are better than one”: A continuum of social change in sport management
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DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2020.02.005
Abstract: ABSTRACT Since the initiation of the first academic sport management program approximately 50 years ago, the efforts of countless scholars have enabled sport management to attain a strong position as an academic field. However, work… read more here.
Keywords: sport management; continuum; management; social change ... See more keywords
Are we living in a time of particularly rapid social change? And how might we know?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120856
Abstract: Abstract In an editorial for this journal a decade ago, then-Editor-in-Chief Fred Phillips asserted that social change was proceeding at hyper-speed and, moreover, that it had consequently come to outpace technological change. This paper submits… read more here.
Keywords: change; rapid social; social change; time particularly ... See more keywords
Social change and anti-mafia movements: the ‘Addiopizzo’ variable
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DOI: 10.1017/mit.2019.32
Abstract: This article presents the results of a piece of research into extortion in the city of Palermo between 2004 and 2015. Highlighting the importance of the territorial context among the factors that explain the mafia… read more here.
Keywords: mafia; anti mafia; change anti; social change ... See more keywords
Language policy and social change: A critical examination of the implementation of an English-only language policy in a Danish company
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047404518000398
Abstract: Abstract The article examines the introduction of English as a corporate language in a Danish consultancy company from a critical angle. Based on analyses of language policy documents and interviews with language policy makers in… read more here.
Keywords: policy; company; language policy; social change ... See more keywords