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Social theory
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TL;DR: In this article, the urban as a socio-spatial unit of collective consumption and as a cultural form of the urban question are discussed. But the focus is not on the specificity of urban spaces, but on the spatial unit of consumption.
Abstract: Preface 1. Social theory, capitalism and the urban question 2. The urban as an ecological community 3. The urban as a cultural form 4. The urban as a socio-spatial system 5. The urban as ideology 6. The urban as a spatial unit of collective consumption 7. Political economy and the urban question, With John Lloyd 8. On the specificity of the urban
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12 Dec 1998
TL;DR: The Crisis of Social Ageing and the Development of Critical Gerontology Constructing Old Age Growing Old in a Postmodern World and Exclusion and Resistance in the Sociology of Ageing.
Abstract: Introduction The Crisis of Social Ageing PART ONE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES The Development of Critical Gerontology Constructing Old Age Growing Old in a Postmodern World PART TWO: SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS The Social Construction of Retirement Financing Old Age The Sociology of Generations Conflict or Consensus? PART THREE: NEW AGENDAS Old Age Sociological and Historical Perspectives Reconstructing Old Age Policy Options Conclusion Exclusion and Resistance in the Sociology of Ageing
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TL;DR: A variety of examples informed the conceptualization of "new social movements" as mentioned in this paper, which emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or "identity" concerns rather than narrowly economic goals, and were new even by comparison with conventional liberalism with its assumption of fixed individual identities and interests.
Abstract: Sometime After 1968, analysts and participants began to speak of “new social movements” that worked outside formal institutional channels and emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or “identity” concerns rather than narrowly economic goals. A variety of examples informed the conceptualization. Alberto Melucci (1988: 247), for instance, cited feminism, the ecology movement or “greens,” the peace movement, and the youth movement. Others added the gay movement, the animal rights movement, and the antiabortion and prochoice movements. These movements were allegedly new in issues, tactics, and constituencies. Above all, they were new by contrast to the labor movement, which was the paradigmatic “old” social movement, and to Marxism and socialism, which asserted that class was the central issue in politics and that a single political economic transformation would solve the whole range of social ills. They were new even by comparison with conventional liberalism with its assumption of fixed individual identities and interests. The new social movements thus challenged the conventional division of politics into left and right and broadened the definition of politics to include issues that had been considered outside the domain of political action (Scott 1990).
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed research conducted on social comparison processes in the classroom since Festinger proposed his theory of social comparison and concluded that upward comparisons not only lead pupils to perform better but also evoke negative affect and lower academic self-concept.
Abstract: This article reviews research conducted on social comparison processes in the classroom since Festinger proposed his theory of social comparison. It covers the theoretical framework of social comparison theory, and it is organized around the following themes: motives for social comparison, dimensions of social comparison, direction of social comparison, and consequences of social comparison. The overall picture is an emerging one in which pupils prefer to compare their performances upward—specifically, with pupils who perform better than themselves but who resemble themselves on related and unrelated attributes. Although the magnitude of the effects of social comparison in the classroom is not examined, the review suggests that such upward comparisons not only lead pupils to perform better but evoke negative affect and lower academic self-concept. Topics discussed include inconsistencies (especially with regard to the direction of comparison and the motives underlying social comparison in the classroom), ...
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TL;DR: This paper examined the ways in which youth of color played an active role in debates that erupted on Twitter following the tragic deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014, showing that these debates on social media represent a larger struggle over discourse on race and racism across the nation.
Abstract: This article demonstrates the ways in which youth of color played an active role in debates that erupted on Twitter following the tragic deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014. These debates on social media represent a larger struggle over discourse on race and racism across the nation. Drawing from critical theory and race theory, and engaging in the relatively new practice of using Twitter as a source of data for sociological analysis, this article examines Twitter as an emerging public sphere and studies the hashtags “#AllLivesMatter” and “#BlackLivesMatter” as contested signs that represent dominant ideologies. This article consists of a qualitative textual analysis of a selection of Twitter posts from December 3 to 7, 2014, following the nonindictments of officers in the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The debates on Twitter reveal various strategies that youth of color employed to shape the national discourse about race in the wake of these high-profile tragedies.
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