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Bonnie and Clyde’s crime wave: social banditry, social change, and political geography
This article discusses Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s 1932 to 1934 crime wave, using Hobsbawm’s concept of social banditry. The article examines...
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Model for Promoting Corporate Social Performance Measurement and Social Change: Elaboration from Causal Analysis Between the Both
The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of corporate social performance measurement on social change with regard to their typologies, in...
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Social Change and Environmental Social Work
This chapter outlines the concept, characteristics, and processes underneath the actions pertaining to environmental social work (ESW). The...
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Decolonizing Global Social Change
The understanding of global social change demands the renewal of the theoretical framework of sociological interpretation through a Critical Theory...
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Theorizing in the Cohort Mode: On Ryder’s Processual Account of Social Change
The classic 1965 article by the Canadian-American demographer Norman Burston Ryder on the cohort concept has inspired generations of social...
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Property and Social Change
Property is a social relationship that not only provides the links between the economic, legal, and political spheres of all human communities, but...
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Agents of Change: The Role LEAD Plays in Identity Formation, Community Engagement, and Social Justice Advocacy
Higher education institutions have a role to equip students with skills for community engagement and civic participation through a variety of...
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Climate change impacts and threats on basic livelihood resources, food security and social stability in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is facing one of the world's most serious humanitarian and environmental crises, with food insecurity, conflict, instability, and climate...
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Low Pay for Social Workers is a Human Rights Violation, and Social Work Professors Must Help to Change It
Despite an unending commitment to social justice and equality, social work remains among the lowest paid professions in the United States (U.S.)....
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The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America
Using data from the Latinobarómetro (Latin Barometer) survey of 2017 to analyze the effect of social network site usage on climate change awareness...
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Narratives of social change: cultural perceptions and responses to globalization and rural urbanization in Pakistan
People respond to social change in diverse ways that are shaped by socioeconomic conditions, ideologies, and other local and global factors. The...
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Extractivism and Global Social Change
This chapter focuses on the concept of extractivism as an analytical device to understand multiple aspects of global social change. This review...
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Chinese social value change and its relevant factors: an age-period-cohort effect analysis
Using data from the World Values Survey (1990–2012), this article attempts to describe and analyze the changing trends in public values during social...
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Activism, Social Movements, and Social Change: An Incessant Societal Process
Rather than understanding social movements and social change in terms of a cause-effect relationship, this chapter contends that social movements...
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Social Work, Climate Change, and Colonialism
The preponderance of accepted science is that climate change is well underway. That has led to vibrant socio-political arguments on the implications...
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Social Change as Revolutionary Zeal
This comparative research study examines the protests, social unrest, and the revolutionary political conditions in the field during the closing...
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Heroes as Harbingers of Social Change: Gender, Race, and Hero Choice in the USA and Britain
Acknowledging the importance of heroes in the framing of political identities and building on the expanding interdisciplinary scholarship, this paper...
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Social Change in the Gulf Region Multidisciplinary Perspectives
This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to...
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Impact of Social Change on Nigeria’s Cultural and Medical Practices
Social change is constant worldwide. Social change is currently a global phenomenon that impacts on multitude of cultures. In this chapter, we will...
