Culture and social change
Subtitle: transforming society through the power of ideas
By: edited by Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian A. Oldmeadow
Series: Advances in culture psychology
Publisher: Information Age Pub.; Information Age Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlotte, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781617357572; 9781617357589; 9781617357596
Subjects: Culture; Social change; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Series editor preface : semiotic freedom for the social sciences: inquiry in a new key / Jaan Valsiner; title: Introduction : changing times, changing science / Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian Oldmeadow; title: Collective action in context; title: The psychology of collective action: crowds and change / John Drury, Steve Reicher, and Clifford Scott; title: Commentary : collectives may protest, but how do authorities respond? / Flora Cornish; title: Change we can believe in : the role of social identity, cognitive; title: Alternatives, and leadership in group mobilization and transformation / Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam; title: Commentary : change non-westerners can believe in / Fathali Moghaddam, Zach Warren, and Rhea Vance-Cheng; title: Communicating change; title: Metaphor and stories in discourse about personal and social change / David Ritchie; title: Commentary : the earth, olympus, and the commuter bus / Carlos Cornejo; title: Balancing stability and change : a neo-diffusionist perspective on cultural dynamics of socially transformative ideas / Yoshihisa Kashima, Boyka Bratanova, and Kim Peters; title: Commentary : the meeting of ideas: diffusion, dialogical interaction, and social change / Brady Wagoner; title: Scientific controversies and the struggle for symbolic power / Eric Jensen; title: Commentary : the struggle for scientific consensus: communicating climate science around cop-15 / Rick Holliman; title: Societies in transition; title: Mediating social change in authoritarian and democratic states : irony, hybridity, and corporate censorship / Eric Jensen; title: Commentary: subversively funny : critical humor in art / Lisa Sayles; title: Assessing social change through social capital : local leadership and social-political change in bolivia / Martin Mendoza; title: Commentary: social influence and social change : states and strategies of social capital / Gordon Sammut and Mohammad Sartawi; title: Changing fields, changing habitusus : the field of public service in post-soviet ukraine / Anastasia Ryabchuk; title: Commentary: dependent independence : a mechanism for conciliating determinism and freedom / Maaris Raudsepp; title: Conclusion : a cyclical model of social change / Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, and Julian Oldmeadow; title: About the authors.