Social change

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

Stakeholder Influence Capacity and the Variability of Financial Returns to Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract: Should corporations serve as agents of social change? For more than 30 years, scholars have attempted to make a "business case" that demonstrates that corporations should because they can earn positive financial returns from social responsibility. However, the business case remains unproven. This paper argues that research on the business case must account for the path dependent nature of firm-stakeholder relations, and develops the construct of stakeholder influence capacity (SIC) to fill this void. SIC helps explain why the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance (CFP) vary across firms and across time, and so provides a missing link in the study of the business case. This paper distinguishes CSR from related and confounded corporate resource allocations and from corporate social performance (CSP), then incorporates SIC into a conceptual framework that illustrates how acts of CSR are transformed into CFP through stakeholder relationships. This paper also develops a set of propositions to aid future research on the contingencies that produce variable financial returns to investments in CSR.

Doing psychology critically : making a difference in diverse settings

Abstract: Preface PART 1: FOUNDATIONS Power, Well-being, oppression and liberation Theory, Research and Action PART 2: TRAINING The Making of a Subversive Teacher The Making of a Participatory Action Researcher The Making of a Critical Practitioner/Activist PART 3: APPLICATIONS Clinical and Counselling Settings: Making a Difference with Disadvantaged Clients Educational Settings: Learning a New School of Thought Health Settings: Fighting Inequality to Enhance Well-being Community Settings: Creating Capacity and Mobilizing for Change Work Settings: Working Critically Within the Status Quo PART 4: CHANGE Psychologists as Agents of Change: Getting Ready to Make a Difference Psychologists and the Process of Change: Making a Difference in Diverse Settings Psychologists and the Object of Social Change: Transforming Social Policy References

Sport and Development: An Overview, Critique, and Reconstruction

Abstract: “Development” has become both a watchword and a fascination in sporting circles worldwide. Yet sport officials, policy makers, and advocates often have relatively unsophisticated understandings of ...

Peasant men can't get wives: language change and sex roles in a bilingual community'

Abstract: Language shift from German-Hungarian bilingualism to the exclusive use of German is occurring in the community discussed. Young women are further along in the direction of this change than older people and young men. The linguistic contrast between German and Hungarian is shown to represent the social dichotomy between a newly available worker status and traditional peasant status; thus the choice of language in interaction is part of a speaker's presentation of self. Young women's stated preferences concerning this social dichotomy and their changing marriage strategies indicate that their greater use of German in interaction is one aspect of their general preference for the worker's way of life it symbolizes. Rather than simply isolating a linguistic correlate of sex, the present study suggests that women's speech choices must be explained within the context of their social position, their strategic life choices and the symbolic values of the available linguistic alternatives (language and sex roles; interactional analysis; social determinants of language shift; European bilingualism).