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Larry Ray
Other affiliations: Lancaster University
Bio: Larry Ray is an academic researcher from University of Kent. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modernity & Social theory. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 77 publications receiving 1141 citations. Previous affiliations of Larry Ray include Lancaster University.
Topics: Modernity, Social theory, Critical theory, The Holocaust, Racism
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe being taken by surprise by a theory after the fall and three types of convergence: social solidarity, modernity and post-communism, and globalization and convergence.
Abstract: PrefaceIntroduction: Being Taken By Surprise1 Theory After the Fall2 Class: Marx and Weber3 Society, Solidarity and Anomie: Durkheim4 Three Types of Convergence5 Socialism, modernity and beyond6 Globalization and Convergence7 Civil Society East and West8 Modernity, memory and postcommunism9 Concluding ThemesIndex
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TL;DR: The authors argue that much racist violence can be understood in terms of unacknowledged shame and its transformation into fury, and they use studies by Scheff and Retzinger as a framework for understanding transcripts of interviews with racist offenders from Greater Manchester, UK.
Abstract: In this article, we argue that much racist violence can be understood in terms of unacknowledged shame and its transformation into fury. We use studies by Scheff and Retzinger as a framework for understanding transcripts of interviews with racist offenders from Greater Manchester, UK. We argue that much of the interview data support the claim that unacknowledged shame can be transformed into rage against those who are seen as the sources of shame. We argue that offenders' shame is rooted in multiple disadvantages and that rage is directed against south Asians who are perceived as more successful, but illegitimately so, within a cultural context in which violence and racism are taken for granted. The article is intended to contribute both to greater understanding of the complex motivation of racist violence and to current moves to redress the cognitive bias of much contemporary social science and reassess the role of emotion in human behaviour.
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17 Aug 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, the crisis of state socialism in Islamic Jacobins State, 'Race' and Regulation, and modernity's unfinished business are discussed. But the focus of the paper is on the social movements and the Lifeworld.
Abstract: Introduction Marx, Critical Theory and Social Movements PART ONE Authority and Tradition From Praxis to Communication Communication and Evolution Social Movements and the Lifeworld PART TWO Introduction Legitimation in Peripheral States The Crisis of State Socialism Islamic Jacobins State, 'Race' and Regulation Conclusion Modernity's Unfinished Business
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TL;DR: The recent proliferation of research on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements.
Abstract: ■ Abstract The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements. This review examines the analytic utility of the framing literature for un- derstanding social movement dynamics. We first review how collective action frames have been conceptualized, including their characteristic and variable features. We then examine the literature related to framing dynamics and processes. Next we review the literature regarding various contextual factors that constrain and facilitate framing processes. We conclude with an elaboration of the consequences of framing processes for other movement processes and outcomes. We seek throughout to provide clarifi- cation of the linkages between framing concepts/processes and other conceptual and theoretical formulations relevant to social movements, such as schemas and ideology.
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TL;DR: Among the many traditions of research on "identity", two somewhat different yet strongly related strands of identity theory have developed as mentioned in this paper, reflected in the linkages of social structures with identities.
Abstract: Among the many traditions of research on "identity," two somewhat different yet strongly related strands of identity theory have developed. The first, reflected in the work of Stryker and colleagues, focuses on the linkages of social structures with identities. The second, reflected in the work of Burke and colleagues, focuses on the internal process of self-verification. In the present paper we review each of these strands and then discuss ways in which the two relate to and complement one another Each provides a context for the other: the relation of social structures to identities influences the process of self-verification, while the process of self-verification creates and sustains social structures. The paper concludes with examples of potentially useful applications of identity theory to other arenas of social psychology, and with a discussion of challenges that identity theory must meet to provide a clear understanding of the relation between self and society. The language of "identity" is ubiquitous in contemporary social science, cutting across psychoanalysis, psychology, political science, sociology, and history. The common usage of the term identity, however, belies the considerable variability in both its conceptual meanings and its theoretical role. Even when consideration is restricted to sociology and social psychology, variation is still considerable.'
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TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper presents a combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg..., which is a collection of interviews with Bourdieu.
Abstract: By Pierre Bourdieu (London: Routledge, 2010), xxx + 607 pp. £15.99 paper. A combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg...
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