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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: In this paper, a case study of the Northern Wheatbelt of Western Australia is presented, where the authors examine the links between sport and social capital in a rural region and consider the ways in which sport acts as a vehicle for the creation and expression of social capital.

289 citations

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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The focus of Goal 3 of the Millennium Development Goals endorsed by world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 and of this report prepared by the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality is discussed in this article.
Abstract: How can the global community achieve the goal of gender equality and the empowerment of women? This question is the focus of Goal 3 of the Millennium Development Goals endorsed by world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 and of this report prepared by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. The report argues that there are many practical steps that can reduce inequalities based on gender inequalities that constrain the potential to reduce poverty and achieve high levels of well-being in societies around the world. There are also many positive actions that can be taken to empower women. Without leadership and political will however the world will fall short of taking these practical steps--and meeting the goal. Because gender inequality is deeply rooted in entrenched attitudes societal institutions and market forces political commitment at the highest international and national levels is essential to institute the policies that can trigger social change and to allocate the resources necessary to achieve gender equality and womens empowerment. Many decades of organizing and advocacy by womens organizations and networks across the world have resulted in global recognition of the contributions that women make to economic development and of the costs to societies of persistent inequalities between women and men. The success of those efforts is evident in the promises countries have made over the past two decades through international forums. The inclusion of gender equality and womens empowerment as the third Millennium Development Goal is a reminder that many of those promises have not been kept while simultaneously offering yet another international policy opportunity to implement them. (excerpt)

288 citations

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08 Dec 2003
TL;DR: A.A. Singhal, D.S. Sharma, M.J. Menard, T.T. Shongwe, S.S., A. Aghi, R.Aghi et al. as mentioned in this paper, T. Tufte, Soap Operas and Sense-making: Mediations and Audience Ethnography, N. Y. Yaser, The Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation's Entertainment Education Campaign.
Abstract: Contents: Preface. Part I: History and Theory. A. Singhal, E.M. Rogers, The Status of Entertainment-Education Worldwide. D. Poindexter, A History of Entertainment-Education, 1958-2000. P.T. Poitrow, E. de Fossard, Entertainment-Education as a Public Health Intervention. M. Sabido, The Origins of Entertainment-Education. A. Bandura, Social Cognitive Theory for Personal and Social Change by Enabling Media. W.J. Brown, B.P. Fraser, Celebrity Identification in Entertainment-Education. S. Sood, T. Menard, K. Witte, The Theory Behind Entertainment-Education. Part II: Research and Implementation. S. Usdin, A. Singhal, T. Shongwe, S. Goldstein, A. Shabalala, No Short Cuts in Entertainment-Education: Designing Soul City Step-by-Step. W.N. Ryerson, N. Teffera, Organizing a Comprehensive National Plan for Entertainment-Education in Ethiopia. B.S. Greenberg, C.T. Salmon, D. Patel, V. Beck, G. Cole, Evolution of an E-E Research Agenda. V. Beck, Working With Daytime and Prime-Time Television Shows in the United States to Promote Health. M. Bouman, Entertainment-Education Television Drama in the Netherlands. M.J. Cody, S. Fernandes, H. Wilkin, Entertainment-Education Programs of the BBC and BBC World Service Trust. A.C. La Pastina, D.S. Patel, M. Schiavo, Social Merchandizing in Brazilian Telenovelas. E.M. Rogers, Delivering Entertainment-Education Health Messages Through the Internet to Hard-to-Reach U.S. Audiences in the Southwest. Part III: Entertainment-Education Interventions and Their Outcomes. R.A. Abdulla, Entertainment-Education in the Middle East: Lessons From the Egyptian Oral Rehydration Campaign. Y. Yaser, The Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation's Entertainment-Education Campaign. N. McKee, M. Aghi, R. Carnegie, N. Shahzadi, Cartoons and Comic Books for Changing Social Norms: Meena, the South Asian Girl. A. Singhal, D. Sharma, M.J. Papa, K. Witte, Air Cover and Ground Mobilization: Integrating Entertainment-Education Broadcasts With Community Listening and Service Delivery in India. A. Singhal, Entertainment-Education Through Participatory Theater: Freirean Strategies for Empowering the Oppressed. T. Tufte, Soap Operas and Sense-Making: Mediations and Audience Ethnography. J.D. Storey, T.L. Jacobson, Entertainment-Education and Participation: Applying Habermas to a Population Program in Nepal. Epilogue.

288 citations

Reference EntryDOI
29 Feb 2012
TL;DR: The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international academic project studying human values, beliefs, norms, self-descriptions, and other elements of national culture, as well as political attitudes and opinions across the globe as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international academic project studying human values, beliefs, norms, self-descriptions, and other elements of national culture, as well as political attitudes and opinions, across the globe. The scholars who lead the project are mainly interested in the relationships between economic development, cultural change, and political life on all continents. The WVS data have also been widely used by cross-cultural psychologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. Keywords: cultural diversity; economic development; globalization; social change; value

288 citations

Book
01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this paper, a shift from an integrationist to an agenda-setting approach will entail and notes that this approach will require: 1) women to play a proactive leadership role and to clearly articulate a core agenda 2) the strategic positioning of gender concerns in a period of change 3) strengthening women groups and networks 4) using a new communication strategy to expand support 5) developing contextspecific concepts and analytical tools and 6) building institutional capacities of aid recipients.
Abstract: The first part of this essay on mainstreaming women in development outlines the hard-won achievements of the womens movement in the past 20 years and acknowledges that the movement has failed to gain its fundamental objectives of transforming social and gender relations and creating a just and equal world. Considering the central question of why progress has been so elusive for women the essay notes that the agenda the movement articulated challenged male power and privilege and called for investment in women that would require reallocation of existing resources or finding additional sources of revenue. Because women are differentiated by class race and nation it is difficult to shape women into a powerful political constituency. Thus the womens movement should adopt an agenda-setting approach and take a consistent stand on a core agenda. The next part of the essay describes some of the changes that a shift from an integrationist to an agenda-setting approach will entail and notes that this approach will require: 1) women to play a proactive leadership role and to clearly articulate a core agenda 2) the strategic positioning of gender concerns in a period of change 3) strengthening womens groups and networks 4) using a new communication strategy to expand support 5) developing context-specific concepts and analytical tools and 6) building institutional capacities of aid recipients. The final section of essay notes that agenda-setting will raise awareness of the need to promote the equitable sharing of responsibilities in institutions such as families communities national governments and global institutions.

288 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