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Book Review: Undervalued Dissent: Informal Worker’s Politics in India, by Manjusha Nair
Asian Journal of Social Science. 2018. Vol. 46. No. 4-5. P. 571-573.
This is a book review.
Research target:
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Priority areas:
sociology
Language:
English
Kononenko R. V., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология 2012 № 4(20) С. 152-166
В статье народная культура рассматривается как многозначный феномен, который становится полем властных отношений. Обсуждаются различные социокультурные и политические контексты, где происходит возрождение народной культуры, которая может использоваться в целях интеграции, а может выступать контраргументом социальной и политической идентификации. Анализируются специфические для каждого из контекстов ценностно-символические и структурные характеристики. С применением идей социологии профессий и интервью ...
Added: March 6, 2013
Осипов А. Г., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2012 Т. 21 № 4 С. 111-113
Статья посвящена феномену периодических или постоянных общественных форумов, которые призваны представлять определенные этнические группы и которые формируются путем массовых выборов с открытым доступом. «Съезды народов» (далее – СН) связаны с темами нетерриториальной автономии, «участия» и представительства. В статье делается попытка объяснить разрыв между формальным значением и формальной легитимностью СН, с одной стороны, и ограниченной ролью, ...
Added: April 2, 2013
Gofman A. B., Simonova O. A., Kozlova M. A. et al., М. : Университетская книга, 2016
We discuss the theoretical and applied aspects of coexistence, interaction and confrontation between "modern" and "traditional" forms of social cohesion. We demonstrate the adaptive potential of different types of cohesion in the context of socio-cultural transformations. Drawing on empirical material we analyse the mechanisms and factors of integration and fragmentation at different levels of the ...
Added: February 21, 2017
Koltsova O., Selivanova G., / Высшая школа экономики. Series SOC "Sociology". 2015. No. 67.
This research investigates to which extent activity of a social movement on a social networking site is related to participation in the offline collective action. We use the data from 17 online groups representing the branches of the movement for Fair Elections in 17 districts of St.Petersburg, Russia, and compare their online parameters to real ...
Added: January 22, 2016
Roy Chowdhury A., South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies 2018 Vol. 41 No. 1 P. 194-211
Added: January 2, 2018
Rotmistrov A., Социологические исследования 2010 № 8 С. 46-53
Classificating (including historical dimension) the concepts of the social movement, identifying important common features of the social movement, the wording of the generalized definition. ...
Added: November 16, 2012
Filippov A. F., Социология власти 2013 № 1-2 С. 269-285
The article is an extensive review of the book "From the societal to the public ." It examines the key provisions of the papers included in the book and a critical analysis of the results that appear to be the most controversial. Attempts are made to answer the question whether there was a uniform and ...
Added: January 31, 2014
Uldanov A., Kolozaridi P., Социологический журнал 2015 Т. 21 № 3 С. 105-128
Interrelation of the Internet and social movements is one of the core problems for both research domains. This theme is growing more and more demanded and rapidly developing. However the research field is quite heterogeneous and its theoretical and methodological groundings might be not evident. The scholars use a diverse terminological range that hampers the ...
Added: October 13, 2015
Sabucedo J. M., Dono M., Grigoryev D. et al., Plos One 2019 Vol. 14 No. 6 P. 1-17
Current predictive models of collective action have devoted little attention to personal values, such as morals or ideology. The present research addresses this issue by incorporating a new axiological path in a novel predictive model of collective action, named AICAM. The axiological path is formed by two constructs: ideology and moral obligation. The model has ...
Added: June 1, 2019
Baysha O., Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018
Miscommunicating Social Change analyzes the discourses of three social movements and the alternative media associated with them, revealing that the Enlightenment narrative, though widely critiqued in academia, remains the dominant way of conceptualizing social change in the name of democratization in the post-Soviet terrain. The main argument of this book is that the “progressive” imaginary, which ...
Added: August 27, 2018
Yefanov A., Коммуникология 2018 Т. 6 № 3 С. 34-40
The article substantiates the phenomenon of media piarisation. The emphasis is on television and the Internet as multifunctional platforms for implementing PR technologies. There are two directions of media piarisation: political and ideological. It is emphasized, that two of these vectors do not exclude, but rather complement each other, having a number of common points ...
Added: September 17, 2018
Albert V. A., Bulletin of Latin American Research 2021 Vol. 40 No. 1 P. 84-99
Brazil's Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST, Homeless Workers' Movement) has grown dramatically in recent years. This growth was partly provided for by the use of a large government housing programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, My House My Life), which allowed the MTST to construct housing for its members and swell its ranks with ...
Added: May 13, 2020
Lind B. E., Cross B. R., Sociological Inquiry, USA 2014
Despite the wealth of social movements scholarship analyzing media coverage, the fullrange of organizations appearing in the media alongside movements remains underexamined. To analyze this organizational complexity, we draw upon field theory and relate it to concepts fromsocial network analysis. In particular, we focus on the relationship between field stability and interactions with state-embedded actors. ...
Added: December 29, 2014
Kolozaridi P., Социологический журнал 2014 № 3
Исследования общественных движений в Интернете представляют собой одну из развивающихся тем в теории общественных движений. Также эта тема важна для понимания роли новых технологий и их политической и социальной значимости. В разных областях знания тема связи общественных движений и технологий рефлексируется с точки зрения различных исследовательских вопросах. Поле исследований складыывается гетерогенно, и мы не всегда ...
Added: October 15, 2014
Albert V. A., Davidenko M., European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 2018 Vol. 5 No. 1-2 P. 194-217
In the late 2000s, a number of analysts were optimistic about Brazil’s future. Their expectant analyses did not bear out, however, as a political and economic crisis developed just as Brazil was gearing up to host two mega-events, the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016. This paper has two aims. The ...
Added: April 5, 2018
Fröhlich C., Jacobsson K., Sociological Quarterly 2017 Vol. 58 No. 2 P. 182-201
This article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state–society relationships affect the forms that activism takes. The analysis aims ...
Added: March 11, 2017
Roy Chowdhury A., Gupta P., Economic and Political Weekly 2017 Vol. 52 No. 48 P. 58-63
Despite the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, there has been limited devolution of powers and gram sabhas have remained largely powerless. However, the movement to save Hasdeo Arand forests used these legislative provisions as an advocacy tool to ...
Added: December 1, 2017
Kononenko R. V., Karpova E. J., Anthropology of East Europe Review 2012 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 77-90
The purpose of this article is to analyze the features of a modern social movement from the perspective of social capital as a combination of knowledge, skills and social practices, existing and reproduced in social networks. First we will discuss the social and historical context of societies in the era of late socialism when the ...
Added: January 27, 2013
Economic and Political Weekly 2017 Vol. 52 No. 48 P. 58-63
Despite the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of the Forest Rights) Act, 2006, there has been limited devolution of powers and gram. However, the movement to save Hasdeo Arand hospitals used these legislative provisions as an advocacy tool to the central and state-level ...
Added: December 1, 2017
Albert V. A., Thesis Eleven 2021 Vol. 164 No. 1 P. 37-53
Brazilian society has frequently been described as polarized during the country’s recent political and economic crisis. In 2018, a wave of opposition to the centre-left Workers’ Party culminated in the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who portrays the political left as a malevolent force in Brazilian society. In this paper I explore this ...
Added: June 8, 2021
Lind B. E., American Journal of Sociology 2014
Scholarship on social movements has yet to systematically analyze the topic of attributional
similarities and differences among participants as a dynamic process. This study evaluates existent
social movement literature on this subject and builds upon it using theories within the field of
social networks and segregation. The study at hand synthesizes theories of bridging and
homophily with undercurrents from ...
Added: December 29, 2014
Makarovs K., Journal of Economic Sociology 2015 Vol. 16 No. 5 P. 111-118
Added: October 4, 2016
Fabrykant M., Вестник общественного мнения. Данные. Анализ. Дискуссии 2014 Т. 1-2 № 117 С. 115-123
Сравнительный анализ националистических движений в Беларуси и Украине
показывает, что модель Хроха остается полезным средством анализа, даже тогда, когда она не в состоянии отразить структуру и логику от-дельного случая ...
Added: October 31, 2014
Routledge, 2013
The celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provoked a debate on the outcomes of the transition process in the post-communist countries, including a debate on the functioning of civil society. This provided a good opportunity for researchers to collect new data and revise the discourse on collective action and ...
Added: September 28, 2016