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Social change

About: Social change is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 61197 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1797013 citations.


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TL;DR: Brown, Cheatham, and Taylor as mentioned in this paper examined the period through student affairs research on Black undergraduate students at white institutions such as Harvard and Yale, focusing on an area in which Black students have had to deal directly with a system largely run by Whites for Whites (Sedlacek & Brooks, 1976).
Abstract: From the 1960s to 1980s people in the United States have witnessed a broad sweep of social change in the country With issues pertaining to Blacks, people have seen a complex mixture of overt repression, social consciousness, legal changes, backlash, assassinations, political interest, disinterest, and neglect Higher education has gone about its business during this turbulence There are many ways in which student affairs professionals might try to understand what Black students have experienced during the last 20 years The purpose of this article is to examine this period through student affairs research on Black undergraduate students at White institutions Such an article accomplishes several purposes First, it allows for a focus on an area in which Black students have had to deal directly with a system largely run by Whites for Whites (Sedlacek & Brooks, 1976) Second, it allows one to step back and get a perspective on where student affairs has been and where it to be going Third, it puts an emphasis on empirical research rather than commentary, wishful thinking, or frustration An index of the maturity of the student personnel profession may be found in its success in providing systematic knowledge on which to base its development The May 1986 issue of the Journal of College Student Personnel, with articles by Brown, Cheatham, and Taylor, provided a lively discussion of how student affairs professionals can learn about Black students on White campuses Should student affairs professionals go to the literature and see what the research says (Brown, 1986; Cheatham,

359 citations

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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, a social constructionist approach for constructing religion, self-and society is presented, and the vagaries of religious pluralism are discussed, as well as social theory and religious movements.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Religion: a social constructionist approach 2. Secularisation 3. The vagaries of religious pluralism 4. Globalisation and religion 5. Social theory and religious movements 6. Constructing religion, self and society.

359 citations

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01 Oct 1965

358 citations

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TL;DR: The results suggest that the changing sociocultural environment for women affected their personalities, most likely beginning in childhood, and that women's assertiveness varies with their status and roles.
Abstract: Across two meta-analyses, American women's assertiveness rose and fell with their social status from 1931 to 1993. College women and high school girls' self-reports on assertiveness and dominance scales increased from 1931 to 1945, decreased from 1946 to 1967, and increased from 1968 to 1993, explaining about 14% of the variance in the trait. Women's scores have increased enough that many recent samples show no sex differences in assertiveness. Correlations with social indicators (e.g., women's educational attainment, women's median age at first marriage) confirm that women's assertiveness varies with their status and roles. Social change is thus internalized in the form of a personality trait. Men's scores do not demonstrate a significant birth cohort effect overall. The results suggest that the changing sociocultural environment for women affected their personalities, most likely beginning in childhood.

357 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023115
2022303
20211,155
20201,678
20191,734
20181,858