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The Role of Values in the Commitment of Young People to Various Types of Social Activity

open access: yesСоциальная психология и общество, 2022
Objective. To identify the role of values in commitment to various types of social activity.Background. The social activity of young people is the driver of the development of society.
R.M. Shamionov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Economics, 2014
Does culture, and in particular religion, exert an independent causal effect on long-term economic growth, or do culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Chen, Yuyu, Wang, Hui, Yan, Se
openaire   +2 more sources

Activating the past in the Ferguson protests: Memory work, digital activism and the politics of platforms [PDF]

open access: yesNew Media & Society, 2017
This article analyzes the Facebook page Justice for Mike Brown—set up during the 2014 Ferguson protests—in order to rethink the role of memory work within contemporary digital activism. We argue that, as a particular type of discursive practice, memory work on the page bridged personal and collective action frames.
Rik Smit   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Party activism: the permeability of the asylum protest arena in Austria [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Movement Studies, 2019
This article contributes to the growing field of studies on party-protest linkages that highlight the dynamic nature, complementarity and fuzziness of the parliamentary arena and protest arena. Taking the policy field of asylum, it investigates, first, the conditions for the permeability of the protest arena for party activism and, second, the ways in ...
Leila Hadj Abdou, Sieglinde Rosenberger
openaire   +4 more sources

Transnational dimensions in digital activism and protest

open access: yesReview of Communication, 2022
This themed issue provides an international perspective on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows, this themed issue foregrounds the interplay between the global and local in networked public spheres ...
Giuliana Sorce, Delia Dumitrica
openaire   +3 more sources

Critique, protest, activism, and the video essay

open access: yes, 2017
Video essays curated for the Spring 2017 issue of NECSUS are introduced as a way to view audiovisual film criticism and scholarship in a more explicitly social and political context.
Kevin B. Lee
core   +1 more source

Rights and responsibilities: citizenship norms and protest activity in a cross‐country analysis

open access: yes, 2021
This study investigates the effect of citizenship norms on protest activity across established and new democracies. It disentangles citizenship norms based on motivations to act, informed by citizenship theories.
Cenker-Özek, Işıl Cerem   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reasons for the Emergence and Increase of Social Movements in the Context of Internet Studies

open access: yesСоциология власти
The article is devoted to the description and classification of causes for the emergence and increase of social movements in the context of the spread of internet networks.
E. G. Tsurkan
doaj   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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