Social Movements And Symbolic Power
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Social Movements And Symbolic Power
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Author : J. Girling
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-01-29
Social Movements And Symbolic Power written by J. Girling and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-29 with Social Science categories.
The important theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine, discussed in this book, seek to explain and resolve the 'crisis of democracy'. They start from a critique of structural inequality in political, economic and social fields - so much in contrast to democratic principles. But their theoretical perspectives and social conclusions diverge. Bourdieu insists on the radical overthrow of dominant institutions and their control of knowledge ('symbolic power'). Touraine advocates reformist cooperation as well as contestation between social movements and political institutions. Their different approaches provide compelling insights into the 'democratic deficit' of modern society, that is, inability to overcome the widespread discrimination affecting women, the weaknesses of the environmental movement, persisting educational inequalities and the precarious nature of work in a global economy.
Symbolic Power Politics And Intellectuals
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Author : David L. Swartz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Symbolic Power Politics And Intellectuals written by David L. Swartz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Social Science categories.
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.
Slow Anti Americanism
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Author : Edward Schatz
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Slow Anti Americanism written by Edward Schatz and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Political Science categories.
Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes political. In turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. Most treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond.
The Problems Of Protest And The Persistence Of Domination
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Author : Chris Samuel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Problems Of Protest And The Persistence Of Domination written by Chris Samuel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
The Problems of Protest and the Persistence of Domination: Social Movement Theory and Bourdieu's Economy of Practice is a normative intervention into social movement theory and debates about social movement goals, strategies and tactics. The project asks: what normative implications derive from incorporating Pierre Bourdieu's sociological framework into social movement research? My core arguments are that Bourdieu's framework has the potential to sensitize activists and analysts to the tension between conformity and failure and that escaping radical/reformist debates requires working through this tension. The dissertation intervenes in social movement theory from within the critical theory tradition by refusing to separate empirical and normative questions. I develop my argument using two strategies. First, I undertake a close reading of Bourdieu's most important works and the debates they have provoked. Second I apply the conceptual tools this close reading offers to reconsider the logic behind two key social movement theory concepts: collective identity and repertoires of contention. Following a general introduction and literature review, I undertake a close consideration of habitus and an argument for how attention to the suffering produced by symbolic power constitutes grounds for normative justice claims. I then consider how collective identity formation in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer mobilization indicates the presence of symbolic violence, primarily in the form of epistemic violence. Next I argue that the nature of neoliberal symbolic power creates political antinomies for representation and affinity-based segments of the alterglobalization movement. Finally I argue that Bourdieu needs to be balanced by Nietzsche and that an orientation toward 'overcoming' offers a way out of the tension between conformity and failure. My findings point to the need for more sophisticated instruments for understanding the relationship between objective interests and subjective perception, impositions of, and challenges to, 'logical consensus', and strategies for counter-training and other mechanisms to support activists in resisting symbolic violence.
The Rhetoric Of Social Movements
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Author : Nathan Crick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-22
The Rhetoric Of Social Movements written by Nathan Crick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection provides an accessible yet rigorous survey of the rhetorical study of historical and contemporary social movements and promotes the study of relations between strategy, symbolic action, and social assemblage. Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field, The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media suggests a framework for the study of social movements grounded in a methodology of "slow inquiry" and the interconnectedness of these imminent phenomena. Chapters address the rhetorical tactics that social movements use to gain attention and challenge power; the centrality of traditional and new media in social movements; the operations of power in movement organization, leadership, and local and global networking; and emerging contents and environments for social movements in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is framed by case studies (drawn from movements across the world, ranging from Black Lives Matter and Occupy to Greek anarchism and indigenous land protests) that ground conceptual characteristics of social movements in their continuously unfolding reality, furnishing readers with both practical and theoretical insights. The Rhetoric of Social Movements will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of rhetoric, communication, media studies, cultural studies, social protest and activism, and political science.
Social Theory And Social Movements
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Author : Jochen Roose
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Social Theory And Social Movements written by Jochen Roose and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Social Science categories.
Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement research through the lens of different social theories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: What can these theories learn from the analysis of social movements? From this double vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as well as rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizational neo-institutionalism.
Rethinking Social Movements
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Author : Jeff Goodwin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004
Rethinking Social Movements written by Jeff Goodwin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition.. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides--as well as the efforts to bridge them--closely parallel those in the social sciences at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for social science as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Globalizations And Social Movements
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Author : John Guidry
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2000-12-22
Globalizations And Social Movements written by John Guidry and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-22 with Political Science categories.
DIVExplores how globalization affects social movements in different countries /div
Intro To Social Movements
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Author : John Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973-06-25
Intro To Social Movements written by John Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-06-25 with History categories.
Power In Movement
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Author : Sidney Tarrow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-13
Power In Movement written by Sidney Tarrow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-13 with History categories.
Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.