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Social movement
About: Social movement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23103 publications have been published within this topic receiving 653076 citations. The topic is also known as: movement & syndical movement.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that social movement theory provides an explanatory approach well-suited to forms of coordinated collective action in a post-industrial economy, and illustrate the argument by comparing the emerging media industry to the emergence of a national social movement, and everyday workings of the network economy of Silicon Valley to the routine mobilization of local movement activity.
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how sexuality has been framed by the law, within social movements, or has been the site for patrolled caste, ethnic or gender identities, and analyze cinematic, televisual and literary representations of sexuality.
Abstract: Has there been a "conspiracy of silence" regarding sexuality in India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship? This study analyzes this assumption in order to thematize a crucial field. Prefaced by a detailed introductory overview, the essays use diverse perspectives to develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy. From unravelling the "Kamasutra" (the text) to investigating Kamasutra (the condom), the volume includes essays on how sexuality has been framed by the law, within social movements, or has been the site for patrolled caste, ethnic or gender identities. Other essays analyze cinematic, televisual and literary representations of sexuality.
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TL;DR: Proposing a social movement perspective on MNCs' responsiveness to social issues in emerging markets, this work identifies the mechanisms by which online activists grab firms' attention and force them to become more socially responsive.
Abstract: A significant gap exists in our understanding of what explains the varying responses of multinational corporations MNCs to social issues in emerging markets. Arguably, in a setting where both market institutions and regulations and norms of corporate social responsibility are underdeveloped, it is more difficult for corporations to take actions beyond those that serve their immediate economic interests. Proposing a social movement perspective on MNCs' responsiveness to social issues in emerging markets, we identify the mechanisms by which online activists grab firms' attention and force them to become more socially responsive. A perception of organizational vulnerability and a home-country institutional logic that is consistent with the demands of the online campaign provide political opportunity structures that hasten the corporate response but affect the magnitude of firm response differently. We test our framework in the empirical context of corporate philanthropic action following the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province in China, which triggered an online campaign that questioned MNCs' donations to the disaster relief effort. Our study contributes to the literature on heterogeneous organizational responses to social movements, a better understanding of the antecedents for MNCs' social responsiveness in emerging markets, and research on MNCs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the characteristics of urban social relations that make cities fertile ground for mobilization, and point to the disjunctures between the geographies and spatialities of social relations in the city, and the spatiality of many systemic processes.
Abstract: Recent anti-systemic social movements have illustrated the central role of cities in social movement mobilization. We not only highlight the characteristics of urban social relations that make cities fertile ground for mobilization, but also point to the disjunctures between the geographies and spatialities of social relations in the city, and the geographies and spatialities of many systemic processes. Struggles for a more just society must consider the broad geographies and spatialities of oppression, which we illustrate with a brief analysis of the Occupy movement. Finally, we introduce the next five articles in this special issue, all illustrating the importance of the geographies and spatialities of urban social struggle.
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TL;DR: The authors used historical analysis of the inclusiveness of Labor Department affirmative action regulations for African-Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, and white ethnics to understand variations in social movement success.
Abstract: Using historical analysis of the inclusiveness of Labor Department affirmative action regulations for African‐Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, and white ethnics, this article shows that understanding variations in social movement success requires understanding policy‐elite perceptions of the meanings of social movements and the groups they represent. Variation in perceived meanings along dimensions of definition, morality, or threat helps explain the speed of group inclusion, the amount of mobilization needed, and possiblity for failure. Ethnoracial minorities benefited from perceptions of definitional and moral similarity to blacks, but elites perceived women as different definitionally and white ethnics as different definitionally and morally. Policy‐elite perceptions create obstacles for some groups, forcing them to struggle longer and harder for the same policy outcome.
127 citations