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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: In this paper, the authors used social movement concepts to explain the success and failure of actors in a network of relationships trying to influence policies on environmental issues in a small city in the US.
Abstract: This study uses social movement concepts to explain the success and failure of actors in a network of relationships trying to influence policies on environmental issues in a small city Results show that strategies to take action and mobilize others in a network of interorganizational relationships can vary depending on the social context, which consists of the political opportunity structure defined by government regulators, whether the actor faces opposition, and the actor's position in the network Decisions to engage in strategies to try to influence government regulators directly, to use a broker to reach agreements with the opposition, or to form a coalition with actors in other organizations to influence government decision makers are affected by this social context Results also show that even peripheral actors, usually assumed to be powerless in network studies, can influence policy if they use a direct-contact strategy and the political opportunity structure is favorable
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the different kinds of disadvantage which underpin social exclusion and analyse social exclusion as the product of institutional processes, group dynamics and social practices, and draw attention to the positive role that social policy can play in counteracting the adverse implications of exclusion as well as to its negative role in reproducing them.
Abstract: Summaries Although the concept of social exclusion has its origins in northern social policy discourses, it can add value to attempts to think about social policy in the context of development if it can provide a unifying framework for analysing the social implications of economic disadvantage and the economic implications of social disadvantage. This article develops one possible version of such a framework. It identifies the different kinds of disadvantage which underpin social exclusion, and goes on to analyse social exclusion as the product of institutional processes, group dynamics and social practices. It concludes by drawing attention to the positive role that social policy can play in counteracting the adverse implications of exclusion as well as to its negative role in reproducing them.
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TL;DR: The adolescent re-orientation model is expanded to include other developmental periods and human and animal based approaches to social behavior are combined.
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