scholarly journals Design as an agent of change: Practice-oriented initiatives on Design Teaching

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najla Mouchrek ◽  
Lia Krucken
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Strategies For Change ◽  
Agent Of Change

The paper analyzes the role of Design as an agent of social transformation in face of complex challenges. Intentionally embracing reality’s complexity and centering on human values, the Design approach is suited to develop alternative perspectives and radically different strategies for change. The paper explores Design teaching focusing on social change and transition to sustainability, presenting three initiatives and reflecting about methods and impacts of the application of Design for transition. The analysis points to the need of a critical vision in Design research and teaching and the importance to systematize and teach methods and tools to support the interplay among diverse social actors.

scholarly journals Theorizing media, communication and social change: towards a processual approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj ◽  
James Stanyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Conceptual Language ◽  
Processual Approach

Debates about the role of media and communication in social change are central to our discipline, yet advances in this field are hampered by disciplinary fragmentation, a lack of shared conceptual language and limited understanding of long-term shifts in the field. To address this, we first develop a typology that distinguishes between approaches that foreground the role of media and communication as an agent of change, and approaches that treat media and communication as an environment for change. We then use this typology to identify key trends in the field since 1951, including the sharp downturn in work focusing on economic aspects of change after 1985, the decline of grand narratives of social change since 2000 and the parallel return to media effects. We conclude by outlining the key traits of a processual approach to social change, which has the capacity to offer the basis for shared language in the field. This language can enable us to think of media, communication and social change across its varied temporal and social planes, and link together the processes involved in the reproduction of status quo with fundamental changes to social order.

scholarly journals Strategic Alliance or Hegemonic Strategy? Conservatism Among the Dispossessed

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Apple
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Strategic Alliance ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
Balance Of Forces ◽  
Strategic Support

This article examines a growing phenomenon—the growth of seemingly conservative sentiments among disenfranchised groups. I take as a prime example of such growth the strategic support of neo-liberal and neo-conservative policies by an African American activist group, the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO). At the core of my analysis is a concern about what is at stake for all of us if rightist multiculturalism succeeds in redefining what and whose knowledge is of most worth and what our social and educational policies are meant to do. I argue that no matter what one's position is on the wisdom of BAEO's strategic actions, the entire case provides a crucial example of the politics of disarticulation and re-articulation, on the ways in which social movements and alliances are formed and re-formed out of the material and ideological conditions of daily life, and of the politics of discursive re-appropriation. Thus, an analysis of such movements is important both in terms of the balance of forces and power involved in specific educational reforms, but also in terms of more general issues concerning the processes of social transformation and agency. A critical but sympathetic understanding of groups such as BAEO may enable us to avoid the essentialism and reductionism that enters into critical sociological work on the role of struggles over state policies. Further, it can provide a more nuanced sense of social actors and the possibilities and limits of strategic alliances in a time of conservative modernization.

The Role of Law in Social Transformation: Is a Jurisprudence of Insurgency Possible?.

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 97-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brickey ◽  
Elizabeth Comack
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Contemporary Marxist theorizing on law has produced a number of different ways of conceptualizing the class character of law within a capitalist society. The main focus of these approaches has largely been on the role of law in maintaining and reproducing an unequal, exploitative system. As a consequence, the issue, even the possibility of using law as a mechanism for securing substantial social change has been downplayed and, in some cases, precluded.The purpose of this paper is to argue for a rethinking of law, especially in terms of its potential as an agent for social transformation. The discussion will be divided into two main sections. The first involves theoretical considerations. Problems encountered with existing approaches to law vis-à-vis their implications for change will be examined and the direction in which a theoretical reformulation might proceed will be outlined. The second involves practical considerations. Here the focus will be on the kinds of legal strategies and particular forms and conditions of law that could be extended or developed in order to move in the direction of a socialist society.

scholarly journals PERAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM TERHADAP PERUBAHAN SOSIAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftahul Huda
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Life Education ◽  
And Function ◽  
Agent Of Change

<p>Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peran peran pendidikan Islam terhadap perubahan social yang terjadi dalam struktur dan fungsi masyarakat. Pendekatan dalam peneltian ini adalah penelitian  kepustakaan.   Pendidikan merupakan sistem  dan cara meningkatkan  kualitas hidup manusia dalam segala aspek kehidupan manusia. Bagaimana agar pendidikan itu tidak hanya hanyut oleh dinamika perubahan, tetapi ia mampu memerankan dirinya sebagai agen perubahan itu sendiri. Islam sebagai agama rahmat bagi seluruh alam, tentu sangat memperhatikan keadaan masyarakat. Hal ini terlihat dari bukti sejarah, bagaimana Nabi Muhammad SAW membangun  masyarakat Arab. Kemudian terus berkembang hingga Islam tersebar ke seluruh penjuru dunia. Hasil dari kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa Islam membangun masyarakat melalui pendidikan, karena proses pendidikan merupakan salah satu cara yang efektif dalam membangun umat. Dalam pendidikan Islam selalu memperhatikan dua sudut pandang dalam segala aspek, seperti aspek lahiriyah dan bathiniyah, aspek individual dan sosial, duniawi dan ukhrowi, yaitu terbentuknya  insan kamil.</p><p>Kata kunci: peran, pendidikan Islam, perubahan sosial.</p><p><em>THE ROLE OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION TOWARDS SOCIAL CHANGE. This study aims to find out the role of Islamic education towards social change that occurred in the structure and function of the community. This study uses library research. Education  is a system and way to improve the quality of human life in all aspects of human life. Education  as an aspect of life that cannot be separated from the community. How to make the education that not only strewn by the dynamics  change, but it was able to portray as an agent of change itself. Islam as a religion of mercy for all of nature certainly pays more attention to the circumstances of the community. This  is apparent from the evidence of history, how the Prophet Muhammad  built the Arabic community. Then continue to evolve until Islam spreads into all over the world. The result oh this articel show that Islam built the community  through education, because the process of education is one of the effective ways in building people. In Islamic education always pays attention to two viewpoints in all aspects, such as lahiriyah and bathiniyah aspects, individual  and social aspects, worldly and hereafter, i.e. the formation of ‘insan kamil’ or perfect human.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: role, Islamic education, social change.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Revolution and the Virgin Mary: Popular Religion and Social Change in Nicaragua

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Linkogle
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Festival

This article is concerned with analysing the role of popular religion in social transformation in Nicaragua from 1979 to the present, focusing in particular on popular religious practices, as spaces in which gender, political and religious identities are shaped and contested. It explores the elements of Nicaraguan popular religion that were constitutive of a religious and often gendered ‘common sense’ which fostered identification with specific political projects. My aim is two-fold. Firstly, I am concerned to examine some general issues around popular religion in Latin America and its relationship to the practice and pronouncements of the Catholic church. To this end, I begin my analysis of popular religion in Nicaragua with an exploration of some of the general themes which dominate considerations of popular culture and popular religion. I next examine how the issue of popular Catholicism has been taken up both by the ‘official’ church, particularly in the wake of Vatican II, and by liberation theologians. This discussion leads to a more specific focus on popular religion in Latin America. Secondly, I explore ‘Marianism’ and the Nicaraguan popular religious festival La Purísima. Here I focus on the competing gender discourses which are worked through different representations of ‘the Virgin Mary’. These competing discourses are often also linked to different versions of an ‘ideal’ society. Finally the article concludes by outlining how an analysis of popular religious practices can inform a sociological understanding of contradictory processes of social change.

scholarly journals Motivations, Results and the Role of Technology in Participatory Design Research during 2000’s – a Review in the Field of Architecture and Urban Planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teija Vainio
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Future Research Directions

Abstract This study analyses motivations, results and technology of the participatory design approach. It is a review based on 32 papers, presenting recent studies on participatory design in architecture and urban planning during the time period from 2000 to 2014. As a result, the main motivations, outcomes and the role of technology are emphasised and discussed. Furthermore, recommendations for future research directions for participatory design research in the field of urban planning are also provided.

scholarly journals Miasto jako dobro wspólne czy suma prywatnych własności? O polskiej kwestii miejskiej w kontekście działalności ruchów miejskich

2020 ◽  
pp. 477-492
Author(s):  
Paweł Kubicki
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The article discusses two ideas of the city in the Polish public discourse: the city as a commons and its antithesis – the city as the sum of private property. In the first part of the article, the author analyses the processes in which both ideas were developed. In the second part of the article the author analyses the role of Polish urban social movements, which are one of the few social actors that discussed the idea of the city as a commons when Polish public discourse was dominated by neoliberal dogmas in which the city was reduced to the sum of private property. In conclusion, according to Victor Turner’s concept of social change, the author analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reception of both ideas in Polish public discourse.

Recapitulating the Just Society in a Word: “Love. Just Love.”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas K. Rademacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Nonviolent Direct Action ◽  
Just Society

In the last two decades of his life, Furfey continued to promote social change through spirituality, scholarship, and activism. He performed empirical sociological research, reflected on those findings through the lens of Catholic social teaching and ethics, and he advocated peace, racial justice and economic equality. Here, as he also reflected on his lifelong commitment to social justice from within the Christian tradition, Furfey became increasingly explicit and specific in articulating the necessary role of the Christian intellectual in bringing about social change by identifying and raising awareness about social problems as well as charting a way to redress those problems. In that respect, he reframed his longstanding argument that personalism and social legislation must go hand-in-hand. Drawing on liberation theologians’ insights, he began to talk in terms of the need for foundational structural change through nonviolent direct action. Prayer, in the form of contemplation, remained at the center of the Furfey’s technique for social reform. Indeed, as he approached the end of his life, he summarized his quest for social transformation in a single word, love.

Memories of Violence, Cultural Transformations of Cannibals, and Indigenous State-Building in Post-Conflict Mozambique

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 774-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Igreja
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
State Building ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Mass Media

AbstractThis article explores how accusations of cannibalism in post-conflict Mozambique, which were leveled in the context of individually driven and protracted struggles, albeit with cultural spinoffs, have contributed to ongoing and contested forms of social transformation in the country. The accusations were accentuated by the mobilizing effects of memories of violence and interventions of the mass media, which in turn highlighted the enduring struggle over the politics of local recognition and authority and its dynamic and broader links to state-building and legitimacy in Mozambique. This analysis traces the origins of cannibal accusations in culture and politics and, through a discussion of the biographies of concrete social actors and their open and discreet struggles, has wider repercussions for the study of the role of indigenous beliefs about, and fears of, cannibals and witches on state-building in post-conflict countries.

scholarly journals The transformative image. The power of a photograph for social change: The death of Aylan

Comunicar ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (47) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana de-Andrés-del-Campo ◽  
Eloisa Nos-Aldas ◽  
Agustín García-Matilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Ethical Debate ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Impact

This paper focuses on the role of the image as an agent for social transformation. The methodology adopted is a case study: the impact of the photograph of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old child drowned off Bodrum in an attempt to escape on a raft full of Syrian migrants. This is one of the most widely seen social photojournalism documents in recent times, and it had a huge impact on social media. The study applies an iconographic, iconological and ethical analysis to reveal the constituent parts of an image with the power for social change. In its main conclusions, this paper describes the potential for easy resignification of the digital graphic image as it symbolically transforms reality, and the power it has to generate processes of pronouncement and activism among citizens in digital environments. The results of the case study show that the value of an image for social change is achieved not only by the magnitude of the tragedy itself and the information that it registers, or by its formal aspects (iconographic), but mainly by being able to express a change of logic (iconological aspects) and to promote processes of reappropriation and denunciation. The ethical debate on dissemination shifts the problem from journalistic ethics to citizen responsibility. Este trabajo plantea el papel de la imagen como agente de transformación social. La metodología que se emplea es un estudio de caso sobre el impacto de la fotografía de Aylan Kurdi, el niño de tres años ahogado en el intento de huida en una balsa de inmigrantes sirios en Bodrum. Se trata de uno de los documentos recientes de fotoperiodismo social más difundidos transnacionalmente y con gran impacto en redes sociales. El estudio aborda diferentes niveles de análisis (iconográfico, iconológico y ético) para decapar los aspectos constitutivos de una imagen con poder de cambio social. Como principales conclusiones, esta investigación comprueba el poder de la imagen gráfica digital por su carácter de fácil reedición y resignificación en el paso de transformar simbólicamente la realidad y generar procesos de pronunciamiento y activismo en la ciudadanía a partir de entornos digitales. Los resultados del análisis del caso que se delimita muestran cómo el valor de una imagen en el cambio social no viene dado solo por la magnitud de la tragedia o el hecho que registra, ni por sus aspectos formales (iconográficos), sino por ser capaz de expresar un cambio de lógica (aspecto iconológico) y propiciar procesos de reapropiación y denuncia ciudadana. Por último, el debate ético sobre su difusión traslada el problema de la deontología periodística a la responsabilidad ciudadana.

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