Social change

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

Comparing Household Structure Over Time and Between Cultures

Abstract: Because of the importance of the family and household in all societies and at all historical periods, it is essential to be able to make comparisons between varieties of domestic groups. If we wish to comment on the extent to which the household is affected by social change and especially by the process of modernization, industrialization, social mobilization, or whatever that vague but ubiquitous phenomenon is called, it must be clear what would consitute such change. This means knowing how domestic group structure differs from country to country as well as from period to period.

Early Social Cognition: Understanding Others in the First Months of Life.

Abstract: Contents: Preface. Part I: Origins of Social Cognition. P. Rochat, T. Striano, Social-Cognitive Development in the First Year. E.M. Blass, The Ontogeny of Human Infant Face Recognition: Orogustatory, Visual, and Social Influences. D.N. Stern, Vitality Contours: The Temporal Contour of Feelings as a Basic Unit for Constructing the Infant's Social Experience. M. Lewis, Social Cognition and the Self. Part II: Early Sensitivity to Social Contingencies. G. Gergely, J.S. Watson, Early Socio-Emotional Development: Contingency Perception and the Social-Biofeedback Model. A.E. Bigelow, Infants' Sensitivity to Imperfect Contingency in Social Interaction. D. Muir, S. Hains, Young Infants' Perception of Adult Intentionality: Adult Contingency and Eye Direction. J. Nadel, H. Tremblay-Leveau, Early Perception of Social Contingencies and Interpersonal Intentionality: Dyadic and Triadic Paradigms. Part III: Early Monitoring of Others. D.A. Baldwin, J.A. Baird, Action Analysis: A Gateway to Intentional Inference. C. Moore, Gaze Following and the Control of Attention. D. Poulin-Dubois, Infants' Distinction Between Animate and Inanimate Objects: The Origins of Naive Psychology. L.B. Adamson, C.L. Russell, Emotion Regulation and the Emergence of Joint Attention. Part IV: Commentary. M. Tomasello, Social Cognition Before the Revolution.

Theorizing social movements

Abstract: Preface Introduction: Social Movements in Latin America Chapter I: Theories of Social Movements Chapter II: The Sociology of Social Movements Chapter III: The Politics of Social Movements Chapter IV: Social Movements and Democratic Transitions Bibliography

Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

Abstract: After decades of stagnation, the size of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean recently expanded by 50 percent from 103 million people in 2003 to 152 million (or 30 percent of the continent's population) in 2009. Over the same period, as household incomes grew and inequality edged downward in most countries, the proportion of people in poverty fell markedly: from 44 percent to 30 percent. As a result, the middle class and the poor now account for roughly the same share of Latin America's population. This is in stark contrast to the situation prevailing (for a long period) until about 10 years ago, when the share of the poor hovered around 2.5 times that of the middle class. This study investigates the nature, determinants, and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. Such large changes in the size and composition of social classes must, by definition, imply substantial economic mobility of some form. A large number of people who were poor in the late 1990s are now no longer poor. Others who were not yet middle class have now joined its ranks. But social and economic mobility does not mean the same thing to different people or in different contexts. This report discusses the relevant concepts and documents the facts about mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades, both within and between generations. In addition, it investigates the rise of the Latin American middle class over the past 10-15 years and explores the size, nature, and composition of this pivotal new social group. More speculatively, it also asks how the rising middle class may reshape the region's social contract.