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Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin. Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage. 1998. 274 pp.

New careers programs, along with offering expansion of services, need to be recognized as having the potential to curtail social action and deflect social reform

Hope is an emotion that has been implicated in social change efforts, yet little research has examined whether feeling hopeful actually motivates support for social change. Study 1 (N = 274) confirmed that hope is associated with greater support for social change in two countries with different political contexts. Study 2 (N = 165) revealed that hope predicts support for social change over and above other emotions often investigated in collective action research. Study 3 (N = 100) replicated this finding using a hope scale and showed the effect occurs independent of positive mood. Study 4 (N = 58) demonstrated experimentally that hope motivates support for social change. In all four studies, the effect of hope was mediated by perceived efficacy to achieve social equality. This research confirms the motivating potential of hope and illustrates the power of this emotion in generating social change.

On 1 September 1967, the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech entitled 'The role of the behavioral scientist in the civil rights movement' to the American Psychological Association (APA, 1999; King, 1968). With eloquence and passion, Martin Luther King championed the civil rights struggle and spoke to the interests of his audience. He stressed how behavioural scientists could and should support the civil rights movement. King's eloquent and passionate speech is still relevant today – explaining how psychologists and other mental health professionals could help address today's pressing social issues.

Community radio is a powerful tool for self-expression, alternative discourse, and democratizing media access. What is less established, though, is the role of community radio in the construction and expression of a mediatized identity. Drawing on research conducted at 2 community radio stations in India, this article considers mediatized identity formation and expression as facets of social change, and explores the role of community radio in these processes. This research found that community radio facilitates the articulation and expression of both community identity and individual identity among producers and volunteers. These processes can have significant benefits from a social change perspective in terms of both local knowledge sharing and empowering women. There are, however, significant gaps and silences in terms of how marginalized groups are able to access the same benefits. Participation in community radio allows certain groups to express identity in an increasingly globalized and homogenous media landscape.

AbstractThis article aims to demonstrate the value of time as a variable in the study of causes of crime, and considers its usefulness in assessing the relative importance of personal attribute and social pressure hypotheses. Historical reviews of changes both in certain aspects of childrearing and in popular views of their likely consequences for the adult life of the child show an association between these changes, and changes in research findings about causes of crime. Findings seem to have reflected contemporary popular views of the importance of childhood experience, and as these changed so too did research findings. Two interpretations are discussed. First, have investigators been so much influenced by contemporary opinions that their work has been biased, either in selection of measures or in interpretation and analysis of findings? Second, perhaps histori‐cal reviews show that society's definition of "criminal," both in the definition of law‐breaking and in the description of the individual, is rooted in its own contemporary culture. Implications of these two possible interpretations for present criminological research are discussed.

"Jesus Dub is Robert Beckford's exploration of the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. Beckford shows how Dub, one of the central features of dancehall culture, can be mobilised as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme. Engaging with the social and cultural heritage which informs Christian African Caribbean culture, including the influence of slavery, Revival Christianity and working-class Jamaican life; Black theology; and music ranging from post-war Sound System to American Hip Hop, Jesus Dub is an exploration of how throughout history, music and faith have been transformed in response to racialised oppression

1. Introduction: Mapping The Emergence Of #Metoo, Bianca Fileborn & Rachel Loney-Howes -- Part 1. The Politics of Speaking out and Consciousness-Raising -- 2. The Politics Of The Personal: The Evolution Of Anti-Rape Activism From Second-Wave Feminism To #Metoo, Rachel Loney-Howes -- 3. Digital Feminist Activism: #Metoo And The Everyday Experiences Of Challenging Rape Culture, Kaitlynn Mendes & Jessica Ringrose -- 4. Online Feminist Activism As Performative Consciousness-Raising: A #Metoo Case Study, Jessamy Gleeson & Breanan Turner -- 5. You Say #Metoo, I Say #Mitu: China's Online Campaigns Against Sexual Abuse, Jing Zeng -- 6. A Thousand And One Stories: Myth And The #Metoo Movement, Mary Anne Franks.-Part 2. Whose Bodies Matter? #MeToo and the Politics of Inclusion -- 7. From 'Metoo' To 'Too Far'? Contesting The Boundaries Of Sexual Violence In Contemporary Activism, Bianca Fileborn & Nickie D. Phillips -- 8. This Black Body Is Not Yours For The Taking, Tess Ryan -- 9. Beyond The Bright Lights: Are Minoritized Women Outside The Spotlight Able To Say #Metoo?, Neha Kagal, Leah Cowan & Huda Jawad -- 10. 'It's Not Just Men And Women': LGBTQIA People And #Metoo, Jess Ison -- Part 3. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: #MeToo, the Entertainment Industry and Media Reporting -- 11. #Metoo And The Reasons To Be Cautious, Lauren Rosewarne -- 12. Substitution Activism: The Impact Of #Metoo In Argentina, María Cecilia Garibotti & Cecilia Marcela Hopp -- 13. Shitty Media Men, Bridget Haire, Christy E. Newman & Bianca Fileborn -- 14. Journalist Guidelines And Media Reporting In The Wake Of #Metoo, Kathryn Royal -- 15. 'It's A Reckoning That Is Long Overdue': Reconfiguring The Work Of Popular Sex Advice After #Metoo, Christy E. Newman & Bridget Haire -- Part 4. Ethical Possibilities and the Future of Anti-sexual Violence Activism -- 16. Consent Lies Destroy Lives: Pleasure As The Sweetest Taboo, Cyndi Darnell -- 17. #Metoo As Sex Panic, Heidi Matthews -- 18. Men, Masculinities, And #Metoo: Mapping Men's Responses To Anti-Rape Advocacy And Inspiring Their Support For Change, Michael Flood -- 19. Understanding Anger: Ethical Responsiveness And The Cultural Production Of Celebrity Masculinities, Rob Cover -- 20. Online Justice In The Circuit Of Capital: #Metoo, Marketization And The Deformation Of Sexual Ethics, Michael Salter -- 21. Conclusion: 'A New Day Is On The Horizon'?, Rachel Loney-Howes & Bianca Fileborn

Research into East Germany's 1989 collapse often uses models developed for Western social movements which emphasize social movement organizations and activists. This approach may neglect important aspects of the social organization of everyday life in repressive contexts and how these affect social movement processes. Unlike the West, East Germany built social life around state-sponsored groups, called collectives, and these had a marked effect on the development of the opposition. Research presented here, based on interviews and archival documents, shows how collective discussions, although never oppositional in the fullest sense, facilitated grievance construction and an awareness of common political exclusion. Over the course of time, especially after Gorbachev's reforms, these practices laid the groundwork for mobilization in the relative absence of an opposition movement. Without understanding the concealed social movement processes operating within collective groups, the state's sudden, and peaceful, collapse is not easily explained. (Mobilization / FUB)

"Employing a novel combination of theoretical insights into International Relations and Historical Sociology, this book investigates the nature of modern social change in Iran. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that there is a previously neglected international dimension to social change that, when analytically incorporated, sheds a new light on the specificities of Iran's distinctive experience of modernity. This hitherto under-theorized international dimension is manifest in the formation of hybrid patterns of development that have taken both modern and traditional forms. It is, Kamran Matin argues, the tension-prone and unstable nature of these hybrid forms that mark Iranian modernity and which fuelled the socio-political dynamics of the 1979 revolution and the rise of political Islam. Challenging solely comparative approaches to the Iranian revolution that explain it away either as a deviation from, or a reaction to, modernity on the grounds of its religious form, this book offers an alternative approach to the Iranian revolution, modern Iran and political Islam"--

Today's world is characterized by a set of overarching trends that often come under the rubric of social change. In this innovative volume, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen bring together, for the first time, international experts in the field to examine how changes in our social world impact on our individual development. Divided into four parts, the book explores the major socio-political and technological changes that have taken place around the world - from post- from the rapid upheavals in 1990s Europe to the gradual changes in parts of East Asia - and explains how these developments

The purpose of this study was to examine parents' perceived social change and its relations with adolescents' reports of childrearing attitudes in urban and rural China. The participants were high school students and their parents in a Northern region of China. Parents completed a measure of perceived social change, and the adolescents completed a measure of childrearing attitudes including parental warmth, control, and encouragement of independence. The results indicated that urban parents had higher scores than rural parents on major dimensions of perceived social change including work-related opportunities, self-improvement in work, and high-tech experiences. Urban adolescents reported lower parental control and higher parental encouragement of independence than rural adolescents. In addition, parents' reports of opportunities and prospects were positively associated with adolescents' reports of parental warmth and encouragement of independence in childrearing across the urban and rural groups, suggesting that parents who perceived more challenges and opportunities to pursue self-advancement and personal career goals were more likely to support the use of warm and sensitive parenting and to encourage their children to develop independent behaviors. The results indicated the implications of social change for socialization and adolescent development in Chinese context.

One of the most significant social changes over the past 25 years in Tamil Nadu is the entry of women into the local political bodies of Gram Panchayat and Panchayat Samithi through a 33 % reservation system. Simultaneously, women are now to a large extent organised in Self-Help Groups, through which at least some of them can access loans either for small entrepreneurship or simply for smaller emergency/consumption loans. An important background to this is the increased participation of women in the non-agricultural labour market. In this article we report from a 25 year panel study of 213 agrarian households in six villages in Karur and Tiruchirapalli districts.

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through economic integration, technology, communication, and political transformation, the sphere of the family is a fundamental arena where globalizing processes become realized. For most individuals, family in whatever configuration, still remains the primary arrangement that meets certain social, emotional, and economic needs. It is within families that decisions about work, care, movement, and identity are negotiated, contested, and resolved. Globalization has profound implications for how families assess the choices and challenges that accompany this process. Families are integrated into the global economy through formal and informal work, through production and consumption, and through their relationship with nation-states. Moreover, ever growing communication and information technologies allow families and individuals to have access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles, identities, and ideologies even among those who may never be able to access them. Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexities and social significance inherent in globalization, most analyses remain top-down, focused on the global economy, corporate strategies, and political streams. This limited perspective on globalization has had profound implications for understanding social life. The impact of globalization on gender ideologies, work-family relationships, conceptualizations of children, youth, and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream approaches, creating false impressions that dichotomize globalization as a separate process from the social order. Moreover, most approaches to globalization and social phenomena emphasize the Western experience. These inaccurate assumptions have profound implications for families, and for the globalization process itself. In order to create and implement programs and policies that can harness globalization for the good of mankind, and that could reverse some of the deleterious effects that have affected the world's most vulnerable populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and families a primary focus.