Is social polarization bad for the planet? A theoretical inquiry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alban Verchere
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Social Polarization

Social Polarization

1994 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Rutkevich
Keyword(s):  
Social Polarization

Understanding Globalized Digital Labor in the Information Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime F. Cárdenas-García ◽  
Bruno Soria De Mesa ◽  
Diego Romero Castro
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Digital Workplace ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Good For

Abstract The development of globalized digital labor brings to mind a labor process that seems to have changed dramatically from that of the industrial age. The toil of low-wage manual labor inside extensive buildings with smokestacks prevalent in the industrial age seems to have evolved into well-paid, enjoyable, meaningful labor in elegant buildings in tune with spacious vegetation-filled campuses. At the same time, social polarization is increasing with the threat of minimum-wage service labor and labor-replacing robots seeming to be the order of the day. The bottom line that drives this process seems to be the same as always, i.e. what benefits the capitalist owner is what is good for the digital workplace. This article seeks to identify and demystify the fundamental elements of digital labor in the globalized information age.

Creative Financing and Housing Prices: On a Theoretical Inquiry Into the Capitalization Issue

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dale-Johnson ◽  
M. Chapman Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Housing Prices ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry

War neurosis: A cultural historical and theoretical inquiry.

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-121
Author(s):  
Katherine N. Boone ◽  
Frank C. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
War Neurosis ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry

Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Huskey ◽  
Justin Robert Keene ◽  
Shelby Wilcox ◽  
Xuanjun (Jason) Gong ◽  
Robyn Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Imaging Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Brain Network ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Individual Ability ◽  
High Control ◽  
Flow Experiences

Abstract Flow is thought to occur when both task difficulty and individual ability are high. Flow experiences are highly rewarding and are associated with well-being. Importantly, media use can be a source of flow. Communication scholars have a long history of theoretical inquiry into how flow biases media selection, how different media content results in flow, and how flow influences media processing and effects. However, the neurobiological basis of flow during media use is not well understood, limiting our explanatory capacity to specify how media contribute to flow or well-being. Here, we show that flow is associated with a flexible and modular brain-network topology, which may offer an explanation for why flow is simultaneously perceived as high-control and effortless, even when the task difficulty is high. Our study tests core predictions derived from synchronization theory, and our results provide qualified support for the theory while also suggesting important theoretical updates.

Anatomy of a Violent Protest Wave: Understanding the Mechanisms of Escalation and De-Escalation in Far-Right and Anti-Fascist Street Clashes

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Leanne C. Serbulo
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
State Security ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract With the rise of right-wing populist ideologies and ensuing social polarization, political violence has become more widespread. Between 2017 and 2019, far-right extremists and anti-fascists engaged in more than twenty violent protest clashes in Portland, Oregon, USA. Through a protest event analysis of those clashes supplemented with a case study of the protest wave, this paper explores how the mechanisms of radicalization and de-radicalization operate when two violent protest movements collide and interact with state security forces. The three-way interaction among a movement, counter-movement, and the police can produce unanticipated outcomes. For example, rather than de-escalating the situation, police underbidding resulted in an increase in violence between the two movements. Understanding how the mechanisms of radicalization and de-radicalization function in a movement/counter-movement protest cycle can provide insight into the ways in which a movement’s strategy and their adversaries’ responses to it can increase or decrease levels of violence.

“Boil them Hearts”

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Jason Redden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Coastal British Columbia ◽  
Academic Study

This paper addresses the academic conversation on Protestant missions to the Indigenous peoples of coastal British Columbia during the second half of the nineteenth century through a consideration of the role of revivalist piety in the conversion of some of the better known Indigenous Methodist evangelists identified in the scholarly literature. The paper introduces the work of existing scholars critically illuminating the reasons (religious convergence and/or the want of symbolic and material resources) typically given for Indigenous, namely, Ts’msyen, conversion. It also introduces Methodist revivalist piety and its instantiation in British Columbia. And, finally, it offers a critical exploration of revivalist piety and its role in conversion as set within a broader theoretical inquiry into the academic study of ritual and religion.

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