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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.
Michael S. Roth,Richard Rorty +1 more
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This article is published in History and Theory.The article was published on 1990-10-01. It has received 4209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Solidarity & Irony.read more
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Toward a Theory of Social Practices A Development in Culturalist Theorizing
TL;DR: The main characteristics of practice theory, a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others, are discussed in this paper.
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Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.
TL;DR: The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat.
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Organizational change and development
Karl E. Weick,Robert E. Quinn +1 more
TL;DR: Conceptualizations of inertia are seen to underlie the choice to view change as episodic or continuous, whereas continuous change follows the sequence freeze-rebalance-unfreeze.
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On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change
Haridimos Tsoukas,Robert Chia +1 more
TL;DR: This paper set out to offer an account of organizational change on its own terms--to treat change as the normal condition of organizational life, by drawing on the work of several organizational ethnographers.
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McQuail's mass communication theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the issues in mass communication, and propose a framework for connecting media with society through a social theory of media and society, as well as four models of communication: power and inequality, social integration and identity, social change and development, space and time, and accountability.