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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: In Mexico's national ecosystem services (PES) programs, efficiency criteria have clashed with antipoverty goals and an enduring developmental-state legacy as discussed by the authors, and a hybrid of market-like mechanisms, state regulations, and subsidies.
Abstract: Prominent advocates of payments for ecosystem services (PES) contend that markets in biodiversity, carbon storage, and hydrological services can produce both conservation and sustainable development. In Mexico's national PES programs, however, conceived as models of market-based management, efficiency criteria have clashed with antipoverty goals and an enduring developmental-state legacy. Like other projects for commodification of nature, Mexico's PES is a hybrid of market-like mechanisms, state regulations, and subsidies. It has been further reshaped by social movements mobilized in opposition to neoliberal restructuring. These activists see ecosystem services as coproduced by nature and campesino communities. Rejecting the position of World Bank economists, they insist that the values of ecosystems derive less from the market prices of their services than from their contributions to peasant livelihoods, biodiversity, and social benefits that cannot be quantified or sold. These divergent conceptualizatio...
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: This book discusses the media industry and society in a Changing Global Culture, and the role of media organizations and professionals in this changing environment.
Abstract: List of Exhibits Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Media/Society 1. Media and the Social World The Importance of Media The Rise of Mass Media Media and Society A Sociology of Media A Model of Media and the Social World Applying the Model: A Civil Rights Movement Conclusion Part II. Production: The Media Industry and the Social World 2. The Economics of the Media Industry Changing Patterns of Ownership Consequences of Conglomeration and Integration The Effects of Concentration Mass Media for Profit The Impact of Advertising Conclusion 3. Political Influence on Media The Case of "Pirate Radio" Common Features of Media Regulation Debates The "First Freedom" The "Public Interest" and the Regulation Debate Regulating Media Content and Distribution Informal Political, Social, and Economic Pressure Conclusion 4. Media Organizations and Professionals The Limits of Economic and Political Constraints Decision Making for Profit: Imitation, Hits, and Stars The Organization of Media Work The Rise of User-Generated Content Occupational Roles and Professional Socialization Norms on the Internet, New Media, and New Organizations Conclusion Part III. Content: Media Representations of the Social World 5. Media and Ideology What Is Ideology? Theoretical Roots of Ideological Analysis News Media and the Limits of Debate Movies, the Military, and Masculinity Television, Popularity, and Ideology Rap Music as Ideological Critique? Advertising and Consumer Culture Advertising and the Globalization of Culture Conclusion 6. Social Inequality and Media Representation Comparing Media Content and the "Real" World The Significance of Content Race, Ethnicity, and Media Content: Inclusion, Roles, and Control Gender and Media Content Class and the Media Sexual Orientation: Out of the Closet and Into the Media? Conclusion Part IV. Audiences: Meaning and Influence 7. Media Influence and the Political World Media and Political Elites Media and Individual Citizens Media and Social Movements The Internet and Political News Politics and Entertainment Media Global Media, Global Politics Conclusion 8. Active Audiences and the Construction of Meaning The Active Audience Meanings: Agency and Structure Decoding Media and Social Position The Social Context of Media Use Active Audiences and Interpretive "Resistance" The Pleasures of Media Conclusion 9. Media Technology The Nature of Media Technology Technological Determinism and Its Limits The Social Construction of Media Technologies How Media Technology Matters New Media Technology and Social Forces The Threat to Privacy: The Expansion of Behavioral Targeting In Search of an Audience: The Long Tail and the Fragmentation of Media Using New Technologies Conclusion Part V. Globalization and the Future 10. Media in a Changing Global Culture What Is Globalization? The Global Media Industry Global Media Content Global Media Consumption: Limits of the "Global Village" Regulating Global Media Afterword: The Ubiquity of Change and the Future of Media Appendix: Selected Media-Related Internet Resources References Index About the Authors
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TL;DR: Herman as mentioned in this paper explored the political and cultural significance of psychology in post-World War II America and found that psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy.
Abstract: Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most potent ideology? In this groundbreaking book - the first to fully explore the political and cultural significance of psychology in post-World War II America - Ellen Herman tells the story of Americans' love affair with the behavioral sciences. It began during wartime. The atmosphere of crisis sustained from the 1940s through the Cold War gave psychological "experts" an opportunity to prove their social theories and behavioral techniques.Psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists carved a niche within government and began shaping military, foreign, and domestic policy. Herman examines this marriage of politics and psychology, which continued through the tumultuous 1960s. Psychological professionals' influence also spread among the general public. Drawn by promises of mental health and happiness, people turned to these experts for enlightenment. Their opinions validated postwar social movements from civil rights to feminism and became the basis of a new world view. Fascinating and long overdue, this book illuminates one of the dominant forces in American society.
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TL;DR: Reese et al. as mentioned in this paper present a collection of perspectives on framing in the context of the framing of public life, focusing on the role of the media in social change in the process of social change.
Abstract: Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World. Stephen D. Reese, Oscar H. Gandy Jr., and August E. Grant, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. 399 pp. $99.95 hbk. When I conduct content analyses of transcripts, media content, and government documents with students and other faculty, I often advocate combining the study of agenda setting with the study of framing. Especially when I will not be the one doing the work. Conceptually, the pairing of issue salience with issue portrayal is a natural: just as the agenda-setting process can be studied as diffusion or social change involving institutional actors and nascent groups, through media attention, and on to the actions and nonactions of bureaucrats and elected officials, so too can framing provide a compelling and malleable lens through which to understand political jockeying and media access, issue portrayal in media, and the meanings assigned to media content by members of the public. But operationalization is another matter. Whereas the means of studying agenda setting are rather delimited (parsimony certainly accounted for part of its initial attractiveness to media scholars), approaches to framing analysis suggest a bit of a free-for-all. Especially when quantification of frames is attempted, I find the effort less than optimum in terms of what we usually learn. Even when we are trying not to, we tend to mistakenly weed out and discard the substance of frames (meanings, associations, metaphors, interests)in our pursuit of inter-coder reliability. I have found the study of framing to be more difficult and oftentimes more insightful than the study of agenda setting, and, when paired, a perfect example of the advantages of multi-method research designs. Framing Public Life is a very useful book for providing guidance about conceptual and operational alternatives and procedures concerning framing. Faced with a loose and complex paradigm of research, the editors have spent far more than the average amount of time pulling together themes across contributed chapters, carefully constructing prologues and epilogues, allowing time for contributors to react to the editors' own claims and positions about framing and the study of media, and commissioning chapters that were not originally presented at the 1997 University of South Carolina conference that served as the basis for this volume. The collection is just that: not a unified approach to framing, but rather a well-integrated and diverse set of perspectives on framing. Mapping out a citation analysis based on the references cited in these collected chapters would be interesting; I expect that while cliques of researchers focusing, for example, on social movements would be discernible, an overall network among framing scholars could be demonstrated. …
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TL;DR: McCarthy, C.McPhail and J.Crist as mentioned in this paper discuss the relationship of political opportunities to the form of collective action and the European Union as a channel of globalization of political conflicts.
Abstract: Table of Contents Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction D.della Porta & H.Kriesi PART I: NATIONAL MOBILIZATION WITHIN A GLOBALIZING WORLD Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena D.A.Snow & R.D.Benford The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany M.Marx Ferree & W.A.Gamson A Comparison of Protests against the Gulf War in Germany, France and the Netherlands R.Koopmans The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems J.D.McCarthy, C.McPhail & J.Crist PART II: MOBILIZATION BEYOND THE NATION-STATE On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: The Case of the European Union G.Marks & D.McAdam The Europeanization of Movements? Contentions Politics and the European Union, October 1983 - March 1995 D.Imig & S.Tarrow Injustice and Adversarial Frames in a Supranational Political Context: Farmer's Protest in the Netherlands and Spain B.Kandermans, M. de Weerd, J-M.Sabucedo & M.Costa Supranational Political Opportunities as a Channel of Globalization of Political Conflicts. The Case of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples F.Passy Global Politics and Transnational Social Movements Strategies: The Transnational Campaign Against International Trade in Toxic Wastes J.Smith International Campaigns in Context: Collective Action Between the Local and the Global C.Lahusen The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes, Problems D.Rucht Bibliography Index
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