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The article considers reasons for radical mass forms of social protest in the context of the ‘Malthusian trap’ and structural-demographic theory of Jack Goldstone, which have become popular in the last two decades.
E E Shults
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Protest music has historically been a central part of American social change movements. Although some protest music is used solely to bring attention to the evils of an oppressive group, another purpose it may serve is to foster positive self-definition ...
Olivia Sadler
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Unruly Women and Carnivalesque Countercontrol: Offensive Humor in Mediated Social Protest
At the Women’s March in January 2018, many protest posters featured offensive jokes at the expense of Trump’s body and behavior. Such posters were shared widely online, much to the amusement of the movement’s supporters. Through a close analysis of posts
Anne Graefer +2 more
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The rise of the Internet and social media has allowed individuals with different backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to communicate with one another in an open and largely unstructured way.
John D. Gallacher +2 more
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Los Fuegos De Baradero. Un Estudio Sociológico Sobre Acciones De Protesta En La Argentina Reciente
This article aims to reflect on certain protest actions in recent Argentina. Through a socio-anthropological approach, emphasis is placed on the analysis of certain episodes of social protest, reflecting on the particular forms that social protest and ...
Evangelina Caravaca
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Transforming the 2019-2020 Protest Agenda on Social Network Sites
Social network sites have taken a strong position in the space of socio-political communication. In the modern world, the necessity to analyze events occurring in the virtual space for a relevant reaction to events occurring in reality, is generally ...
Alexey Belyakov +4 more
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Modern Teenager: Protest Demonstration and Attitude Towards Extremism
The paper explores teenagers’ attitude towards protest demonstration and exremism. The analysis is based on the data of a questionnaire survey carried out by the staff of the Centre of Sociology of Education (Institute of Education Management of the ...
Fedotova A.V.
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Social media censorship in times of political unrest: a social simulation experiment with the UK riots [PDF]
Following the 2011 wave of political unrest, extending from the Arab Spring to the UK riots, the formation of a large consensus around Internet censorship is underway.
Casilli, Antonio A., Tubaro, Paola
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Humour and Social Protest: An Introduction [PDF]
In the introduction to this volume, the author explains why social historians should study the relationship between humour and social protest in the past. The following questions are of interest. Under what conditions did laughter serve the cause of the protesters? How did humour strengthen social protest?
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The People Demand Social Justice: The Social Protest in Israel as an Agoral Gathering
The summer of 2011 has seen the first mass-scale social protest in Israel in its 70 years of existence. This social wave that shook the country, showed unique characteristics a-typical of most social and political uprisings, that go largely unexplained ...
Leehu Zysberg
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