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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: An ecological model of social inclusion is proposed that includes individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and socio-political factors and the potential role of self-advocacy organizations in promoting social inclusion.
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TL;DR: The sociology of social movements currently lacks a conceptual framework to understand collective attempts to construct and reconstruct definitions of power as mentioned in this paper, and this deficiency highlights a paradox: on the one hand, movement activists devote considerable time articulating their under-standing of power relations.
Abstract: The sociology of social movements currently lacks a conceptual framework to understand collective attempts to construct and reconstruct definitions of power. This defic-iency highlights a paradox. On the one hand, movement activists devote considerable time articulating their under-standing of power relations. Movement scholars, on the other hand, have generally neglected the processes by which these meanings are developed, sustained, and transformed.
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TL;DR: Recent research has shown these nonconscious influences to extend beyond the perception and interpretation of the social world to the actual guidance, over extended time periods, of one's important goal pursuits and social interactions.
Abstract: Much of social life is experienced through mental processes that are not intended and about which one is fairly oblivious. These processes are automatically triggered by features of the immediate social environment, such as the group memberships of other people, the qualities of their behavior, and features of social situations (e.g., norms, one's relative power). Recent research has shown these nonconscious influences to extend beyond the perception and interpretation of the social world to the actual guidance, over extended time periods, of one's important goal pursuits and social interactions.
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TL;DR: In the origins of sociology, "social control" served as a central concept both for relating sociology to social philosophy and for analyzing total societies as discussed by the authors. But the traditional usage of social control has persisted, the term has been redefined to mean either socialization or social repression.
Abstract: In the origins of sociology, "social control" served as a central concept both for relating sociology to social philosophy and for analyzing total societies. In its classical sense, it referred to the capacity of a social group to regulate itself. The concept supplied a basis for integration of theory and research until the 1930s. While the traditional usage of social control has persisted, the term has been redefined to mean either socialization or social repression. Either the classical meaning must be utilized or a new term must be developed to refer to the capacity of social groups to effect self-regulation if theory and research are to deal with macrosociology under advanced industrialism.
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