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Culture and social change : transforming society through the power of ideas

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social transitions to capitalism, among others contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behavior and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change.

Source: Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology)

DOI: 10.82444/warw.33661042

Authors: Brady Wagoner, Eric Jensen, Julian A. Oldmeadow

Institutions: Aalborg University, University of Warwick, University of Copenhagen

Language: English

Topic: Social and Cultural Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2166701893

FWCI: 15.84

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Cited by: 69

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