Movement intellectuals engaging the grassroots: A strategy perspective on the Black Consciousness Movement:
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This article argued that the Black Consciousness Movement (BCMSA) is better understood not by focusing on the objective status of its leadership, but by drawing upon interviews and framing theory.Abstract:
Drawing upon activist interviews and framing theory this article proposes that the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) is better understood not by focusing on the objective status of its leadership ...read more
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Why Men Rebel
TL;DR: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States as discussed by the authors.
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Why meaning-making matters: the case of the UK Government's COVID-19 response.
TL;DR: Through analysis of the UK government's management of the COVID-19 outbreak, this paper offers an empirical demonstration of the principle of culture’s relative autonomy by showing how the outcome of meaning-making struggles had impacts on political legitimacy, public behaviour, and control over the spread of the virus.
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Lessons of Struggle: South African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990.Anthony W. Marx
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Strategies of public intellectual engagement
TL;DR: The authors explore the different meanings that the polysemic term "strategy" can hold in relation to "strategies" in public intellectual engagement, and present a special section on public intellectual involvement.
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Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy*:
TL;DR: A theory of cultural pragmatics that transcends this division, bringing meaning structures, contingency, power, and materiality together in a new way, is presented in this paper, where the materiality of practices should be replaced by the more multidimensional concept of performances.
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Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory
Jeff Goodwin,James M. Jasper +1 more
TL;DR: The authors recommend social movement analysis that rejects invariant modeling, is wary of conceptual stretching, and recognizes the diverse ways that culture and agency, including emotions and strategizing, shape collective action.
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The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
TL;DR: In this paper, Jeffrey C. Alexander jos od svog cetverotomnog djela “Teorijska logika u sociologiji” razvija originalnu i utjecajnu teorískoistraživacku tradiciju, rijetko prelazivsi nacionalne granice Sjedinjenih Americkih Država.
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How culture works
TL;DR: Culture is not something imposed on or done to a person; it is constitutive of the person as discussed by the authors, i.e., it is the precondition and the condition of human-ness.