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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: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:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEvery year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked worldwide into conditions amounting to slavery. Among them, many thousands are young women and girls lured, abducted, or sold into forced prostitution and...
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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: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: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: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:Monthly Review (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe concept of a 'modernity' epoch, created by capitalism and lasting from the 1700s to the 1970s, and a successive era of 'postmodernity,' ushered in by information technology, is disputed. Capitalism has become...
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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,...
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From:Social Research (Vol. 79, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Standing in the middle of nowhere and everywhere...." --Naguib Mahfouz, Autumn Quail EGYPT'S CURRENT STATE RESEMBLES A SURREALIST PAINTING. IT IS difficult to decipher its components, challenging to comprehend...
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From:Multicultural Education (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Photovoice research, developed by Caroline Wang and Mary Ann Burris in 1994, is a research design that utilizes photography and discussion as tools for social change (Wang, 1994). As a methodology, it...
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From:American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe issue of initiating change not only involves the elimination of old programs or the creation of new ones, but also the capacity to undergo transition period within the existing systems. The successful achievement of...
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From:Journal of Family History (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWithin a framework provided by recent Polish scholarship on modernizing social change, women, and the family, the author of this article attempts to answer three basic questions: (a) Are changes in the structure of the...