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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809533603321

Autore

Wagoner Brady

Titolo

Culture and Social Change [[electronic resource] ] : Transforming Society through the Power of Ideas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlotte, : IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014

ISBN

1-61735-759-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Collana

Advances in Cultural Psychology : Constructing Human Development

Altri autori (Persone)

JensenEric

OldmeadowJulian A

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Culture - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Culture and Social Change""; ""Transforming Society Through the Power of Ideas""; ""A volume in Advances in Culture Psychology""; ""Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, University Worcester""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. Introduction: Changing Times, Changing Science""; ""Part i: COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CONTEXT""; ""2. The Psychology of Collective Action: Crowds and Change""; ""3. Commentary: Collectives May Protest, But How Do Authorities Respond?""; ""4. Change We Can Believe in: The Role of Social Identity, Cognitive Alternatives, and Leadership in Group Mobilization and Transformation""

""5. Commentary: Change Non-Westerners Can Believe In""""part ii: COMMUNICATING CHANGE""; ""6. Metaphor and Stories in Discourse About Personal and Social Change""; ""7. Commentary: The Earth, Olympus, and the Commuter Bus""; ""8. Balancing Stability and Change: A Neo-Diffusionist Perspective on Cultural Dynamics of Socially Transformative Ideas""; ""9. Commentary: The Meeting of Ideas: Diffusion, Dialogical Interaction, and Social Change""; ""10. Scientific Controversies and the Struggle for Symbolic Power""

""11. Commentary: The Struggle for Scientific Consensus: Communicating Climate Science Around COP-15""""part iii: SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION""; ""12. Mediating Social Change in Authoritarian and Democratic States: Irony, Hybridity, and Corporate Censorship""; ""13. Commentary: Subversively Funny: Critical Humor in Art""; ""14. Assessing Social Change Through Social Capital: Local Leadership and



Social Political Change in Bolivia""; ""15. Commentary: Social Influence and Social Change: States and Strategies of Social Capital""

""16. Changing Fields, Changing Habitusus: The Field of Public Service in Post-Soviet Ukraine""""17. Commentary: Dependent Independence: A Mechanism for Conciliating Determinism and Freedom""; ""18. Conclusion: Cycles of Social Change""; ""Advances in Culture Psychology""; ""Culture and Social Change""; ""Transforming Society Through the Power of Ideas""; ""edited by""; ""Brady Wagoner""; ""Aalborg University""; ""Eric Jensen""; ""University of Warwick""; ""and""; ""Julian A. Oldmeadow""; ""University of York""; ""Information Age Publishing, Inc.""

""Changing Times, Changing Science""