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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn William Faulkner's Light in August (1932), a number of figures actively engaged in social change are introduced as Joanna Burden narrates to her lover Joe Christmas the history of her ancestors, and as the defrocked...
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From:The Ecumenical Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa, also known as Fedsem, an inter-denominational and non-racial seminary in apartheid South Africa, opened--in Alice, Eastern Cape, in 1963--in direct response to an...
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From:British Journal of Community Justice (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs an offender, even as an ex-offender, I always felt I was at war in some way with this society, from an early age, and it has been a long journey to get to the point where I now believe I must take on some moral...
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From:Africa (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The collapse of the mining company La Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (GECAMINES) in the 1990s forced many unemployed workers in Lubumbashi to look ar alternative means of survival. The post-GECAMINES...
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From:China Media Report Overseas (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBefore China's reform and opening up, the representation of women's image in women's magazines tend to be non-sexual (or even masculine) in general. Along with the progress of social and economic reform, the long-lost...
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From:Journal of Development Communication (Vol. 21, Issue 2)THOMAS TUFTE AND FLORENCIA ENGHEL, Youth Engaging with the World: Media, Communication and Social Change. Published by Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 341 pages. U$34.00 / Euro 23.00 Issues concerning...
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From:Oceania (Vol. 80, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor more than a century, from the 1870s to the 1980s, stockmen were important intermediaries and figures of power and influence in the construction, maintenance and renewal of the colonial order in New Caledonia. Social...
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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 116, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWar, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East edited by Steven Heydemann. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000. 379 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. Heterogeneous settings have configured the...
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From:Humanist in Canada (Issue 138) Peer-ReviewedTransforming Ourselves/ Transforming the World: An Open Conspiracy for Social Change by Brian K Murphy Fernwood Publishing, Halifax NS 1999 159pp(index) $19.95(US)sc Textbooks, for those studying social work of the...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLike many less developed countries (LDCs), South Africa has recently enacted neoliberal reforms and has thus earned high praise. For instance, The Economist (2001b) pronounced that "the government has done lots of...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that Thailand's political elites have employed three different "currencies" in their quest for legitimacy since 1932. These "currencies" are defined as: security, development, and political...
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From:International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDepartment of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol.40 (1999) pp. 407424 Mannheim (1952:283) noted that "Different generations live at the...
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From:Arena Journal (Issue 15) Peer-ReviewedThis debate grew out of the 1998 MUA wharf dispute and in particular an Arena Magazine article by John Hinkson that criticized the treatment of the dispute by Stuart Macintyre in Overland. (1) I replied to that article...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOld institutional and neoclassical economists are at odds on the definition of social evolution in the context of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The confusion over evolution appears to be a result of...
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From:ORBIS (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPost-Cold War threats to national security come in the guise of cultural conflicts especially in this era of globalization. These conflicts emanate from ethnic, religious, and civilizational differences that seem to have...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSome will recognize in my title the focus of the closing plenary session of the International Conference on the Future of Socialism, held in New York last October under the sponsorship of Monthly Review and the New York...
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From:Ethnology (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA sorcery trial held by the Maring in 1980 shows how modernization has created the possibility for cultural criticism and the creation of new forms combining indigenous and Western practices. Sorcery accusations were...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines the relevance of the concept of an 'underclass' for understanding the situation and experiences of the unemployed, focusing in particular on the long-term unemployed. It draws on survey data from six...
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From:The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 552) Peer-ReviewedThe peaceful transition of Russia into democracy is just beginning to be understood by the Russians and as well as citizens in Western countries. The history of the transition period is described. In the past seven...
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From:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 1, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA methodology for addressing structural transformation is illustrated with material from hunter-gatherer societies. A proper account of the transformation between types of social structure is in three basic steps. First,...