‘A Radical causation’: Coleridge's Lyrics and Collective Guilt

Romanticism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany Pladek
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Ideal Form ◽  
Ethical Work ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Meaningful Relationships

This paper argues that the early lyrics of Samuel Taylor Coleridge explore the ethical work of collective guilt, a feeling with enormous Romantic and contemporary significance. Coleridge's lyrics formally model collective guilt while making a cautious case for its social value. By reading ‘Fears in Solitude’ and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through recent work in social psychology and the philosophy of ethics, I show how Coleridge creates causalities of feeling, affirming meaningful relationships of responsibility that go beyond personal guilt. I conclude that Romantic lyric offers an ideal form not only for illustrating how collective guilt works as a ‘structure of feeling’, but also for examining the emotion's potential to create positive social change.

Nascent Social Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-238
Author(s):  
Cristina López-Cózar-Navarro ◽  
Tiziana Priede-Bergamini
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Different Sources

In the past few decades a new way of responding to social and environmental problems has emerge: the social entrepreneurship. It is presented as a special type of venture, in which the creation of social value prevails over the maximization of profits. Thus, the main objective of these type of venture is to serve the community and to search for a positive social change. In this chapter, in addition to presenting the concept of social entrepreneurship within the so-called third sector and its various approaches, the main legal forms are also presented, from the cooperatives to the newest initiatives carried out in different countries. Likewise, the different sources of funding that can used by social entrepreneurs, especially business angels and crowdfunding, are detailed. Finally, new trends such as the bottom of the pyramid and the positive social change are addressed within social entrepreneurship.

Nascent Social Entrepreneurship

2018 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Cristina López-Cózar-Navarro ◽  
Tiziana Priede-Bergamini
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Different Sources

In the past few decades a new way of responding to social and environmental problems has emerge: the social entrepreneurship. It is presented as a special type of venture, in which the creation of social value prevails over the maximization of profits. Thus, the main objective of these type of venture is to serve the community and to search for a positive social change. In this chapter, in addition to presenting the concept of social entrepreneurship within the so-called third sector and its various approaches, the main legal forms are also presented, from the cooperatives to the newest initiatives carried out in different countries. Likewise, the different sources of funding that can used by social entrepreneurs, especially business angels and crowdfunding, are detailed. Finally, new trends such as the bottom of the pyramid and the positive social change are addressed within social entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals The Discussion of Social Entrepreneurship: Review of the Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 05095
Author(s):  
Nur Suriaty Daud@Fhiri ◽  
Siti Intan Diyana Ishak ◽  
Suhairimi Abdullah ◽  
A. A. Azmi ◽  
Aida Shakila Ishak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Business Research ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Commercial Entrepreneurship

The purpose of this article is to explore the various discussion of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship provides a unique opportunity and assumptions to question, challenge and rethink from different perspective of management and business research. This article offers a comparative analysis of commercial entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship using a prevailing analytical model from commercial entrepreneurship. The analysis highlights key differences and similarities between commercial entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. This article also presents a framework on how to approach the social entrepreneurial process more effectively and systematically. Social entrepreneurship is a process of creating value by combining resources in new concepts. These process are intended primarily to get the opportunities to create social value by stimulating social change or achieve social needs. When viewed as a process, social entrepreneurship involves the offering of products and services but can also refer to the creation of new organizations. This article focuses and analyses the literature finding of social entrepreneurship.

Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 104225872110497
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Bailey ◽  
G. T. Lumpkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
Positive Social Change

Entrepreneurship is an innovative solution for many businesses, communities, governments, nonprofits, and social innovators to address societal issues, such as poverty and social injustice. Civic wealth creation (CWC) is one type of entrepreneurial change process that engages diverse stakeholders to enact positive social change (PSC). However, resistance to change and low stakeholder engagement often impede efforts to achieve desired outcomes. Because stakeholder theory holds that stakeholders with joint interests create new value when they interact, we propose a stakeholder engagement framework that uses the awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement (ADKAR) change methodology to enhance CWC stakeholders’ propensity to participate in the entrepreneurial change processes that create PSC.

Reimagining the cartographic nation: In praise of risk taking

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110445
Author(s):  
Valentina Carraro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Eve Sedgwick ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Normative Dimension

I read Rossetto and Lo Presti's article, ‘Reimagining the National Map’, as an invitation to develop what I call, following Eve Sedgwick, a reparative study of national cartographies. In this commentary, I enthusiastically support their call but also argue for the need to move from an appreciation of maps’ fundamental instability to a more daring engagement with the normative dimension of national mapping. Like many scholars working from a post-representational perspective, Rossetto and Lo Presti associate the fundamental dynamism and contingency of maps with (potential) positive social change and, more specifically, the development of multicultural national imaginaries. I suggest that these associations deserve further scrutiny and argue that change and ‘everydayness’ may offer a starting point, but not a basis for progressive national mappings. Finally, drawing on the thought-provoking examples presented by Rossetto and Lo Presti, I reflect on what principles and practices could guide a progressive national cartography of Italy in 2021.

Compassionate Reasoning, the Mind, and Moral Choice

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-130
Author(s):  
Marc Gopin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Extensive Training ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Obedience To Authority

The ethical schools of thought are essential to decision-making for peacebuilding and positive social change. The directives emerging from ethical schools often contradict each other, but Compassionate Reasoning can help resolve these contradictions and guide people in a more coherent direction of thinking and acting. The cultivation of compassion is shown to be a glue that bonds schools of ethics into one enterprise of moral reasoning as seen through several lenses. People who reason together are more adept at problem solving than when reasoning alone, but only if they have cultivated caring and compassionate relationships as a group. Moral reasoning in fierce competition with others, by contrast, retards the discovery of solutions to thorny problems. Compassionate Reasoning encourages collective reasoning rather than isolated and selfish reasoning. Excessive obedience to authority is also one of the most dangerous aspects of the human lower brain. A critical antidote is extensive training in taking the perspectives of others through Compassionate Reasoning.

Forgiving, forgetting and reframing

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-161
Author(s):  
John Lippitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Per Se

This chapter addresses two issues. First, forgiving is often connected with—but distinguished from—forgetting. The chapter returns to Kierkegaard’s typically overlooked distinction between forgetting per se and ‘forgetting in forgiveness’. Like Kierkegaard, Jeffrey Blustein is unusual in taking the idea of forgetting in forgiveness seriously. However, through a dialogue with Blustein, it is argued that ‘forgetting’ is not the best way of capturing the position for which both he and Kierkegaard are trying to make space. The discussion also draws on Blustein to start to explore what might make the disposition of ‘forgivingness’ a virtue. The second issue is the important question of cognitive biases. Through a discussion of some recent work in social psychology and behavioural ethics, the role such biases might play in blocking our ability to forgive is considered, as is how important transcending them might be to the process of ‘reframing’ the wrongdoer.

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