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Social change
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how geography affects the different types of networks underlying social movements, and stress the contributions of place-based relations in social movements and assess how activist places connect to form social movement space.
Abstract: This essay examines how geography affects the different types of networks underlying social movements. The principal argument of the paper is that networks forged in particular places and at great distances play distinctive yet complementary functions in broad-based social movements. Not only does the articulation of these different types of networks result in complementary roles, but it also introduces key relational dynamics affecting the stability of the entire social movement. The purpose of the paper is therefore threefold: to provide a conceptual framework for interpreting the complex geographies of contemporary social movement networks, to stress the contributions of place-based relations in social movements and to assess how activist places connect to form ‘social movement space’.
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10 Sep 1991
TL;DR: In this paper, leading social theorists address the broad-ranging issues facing society at the end of the 20th century, as our social environment changes from being based on primary units such as families and ethnicities and our physical environment becomes increasingly man-made.
Abstract: In this volume, leading social theorists address the broad-ranging issues facing society at the end of the 20th century, as our social environment changes from being based on primary units such as families and ethnicities and our physical environment becomes increasingly man-made. Examining recent changes in technology and social organization, the authors show how social theory can inform the construction of social organization and help provide avenues of future social development.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine research prospects in social entrepreneurial leadership and its relevance to mainstream entrepreneurship research and propose useful cross-fertilization opportunities for social change and development.
Abstract: Social entrepreneurial leaders are persons who create and manage innovative entrepreneurial organizations or ventures whose primary mission is the social change and development of their client group. The social enterprise’s activities and its client group’s activities can primarily be either economic or non‐economic, but the mission is social change and development. This paper examines research prospects in social entrepreneurial leadership and its relevance to mainstream entrepreneurship research and proposes useful cross‐ fertilization opportunities.
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TL;DR: The Social Change and the Family in Taiwan as discussed by the authors provides an in-depth analysis of the complex changes in family relations in a society undergoing revolutionary social and economic transformation, and explores the patterns and causes of change in education, work, income, leisure time, marriage, living arrangements, and interactions among extended kin.
Abstract: Until the 1940s, social life in Taiwan was generally organized through the family—marriages were arranged by parents, for example, and senior males held authority. In the following years, as Taiwan evolved rapidly from an agrarian to an industrialized society, individual decisions became less dependent on the family and more influenced by outside forces. Social Change and the Family in Taiwan provides an in-depth analysis of the complex changes in family relations in a society undergoing revolutionary social and economic transformation. This interdisciplinary study explores the patterns and causes of change in education, work, income, leisure time, marriage, living arrangements, and interactions among extended kin. Theoretical chapters enunciate a theory of family and social change centered on the life course and modes of social organization. Other chapters look at the shift from arranged marriages toward love matches, as well as changes in dating practices, premarital sex, fertility, and divorce. Contributions to the book are made by Jui-Shan Chang, Ming-Cheng Chang, Deborah S. Freedman, Ronald Freedman, Thomas E. Fricke, Albert Hermalin, Mei-Lin Lee, Paul K. C. Liu, Hui-Sheng Lin, Te-Hsiung Sun, Arland Thornton, Maxine Weinstein, and Li-Shou Yang.
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