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Discourse and social change

, 1992
Approaches to discourse analysis Michel Foucault and the analysis of discourse a social theory of discourse intertextuality text analysis - constructing social relations and "the self", constructing social reality discourse and social change in ...
N. Fairclough
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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach

, 1979
In this paper we present a "routine activity approach" for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. Rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach we concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory ...
Lawrence E. Cohen, M. Felson
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Social Change in a Material World

, 2019
Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book ...
T. Schatzki
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Norm Perception as a Vehicle for Social Change

, 2016
How can we change social norms, the standards describing typical or desirable behavior? Because individuals’ perceptions of norms guide their personal behavior, influencing these perceptions is one way to create social change.
Margaret E. Tankard, E. Paluck
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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change. The Jossey-Bass Education Series.

, 1995
Introduction: A Quest for Meaning Part One: Creating Possibilities 1. Seeking Contexts 2. Imagination, Breakthroughs, and the Unexpected 3. Imagination, Community, and the School 4. Consciousness and the Public Space 5.
M. Greene
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Time, human agency, and social change: perspectives on the life course

, 1994
The life course has emerged over the past 30 years as a major research paradigm. Distinctive themes include the relation between human lives and a changing society, the timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, and human agency.
G. Elder
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Participatory Visual Methodologies: Social Change, Community and Policy

, 2017
Participatory Visual Methodologies: Social Change, Community, and Policy by Claudia Mitchell, Naydene De Lange, and Relebohile Moletsane (2017) offers practitioners a thorough synopsis of participatory visual methods of research and provides an abundance
C. Mitchell, N. Lange, R. Moletsane
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Champions for social change: Photovoice ethics in practice and ‘false hopes’ for policy and social change

Global Public Health, 2016
Photovoice methodology is growing in popularity in the health, education and social sciences as a research tool based on the core values of community-based participatory research. Most photovoice projects state a claim to the third goal of photovoice: to
G. Johnston
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Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe

, 2016
1. Introduction 2. Studying political participation 3. Generations and social change 4. The evolution of political participation in Western Europe 5. Generations and formal political participation in Western Europe 6.
M. Grasso
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Research Note - Role of Social Media in Social Change: An Analysis of Collective Sense Making During the 2011 Egypt Revolution

Information systems research, 2015
This study explores the role of social media in social change by analyzing Twitter data collected during the 2011 Egypt Revolution. Particular attention is paid to the notion of collective sense making, which is considered a critical aspect for the ...
Onook Oh, Chanyong Eom, H. Rao
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