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Rodney Fopp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social constructionism and housing studies a critical reflection
Urban Policy and Research, 2008Co-Authors: Rodney FoppAbstract:The article aims to outline briefly the Australian research that has adopted the Social constructionist approach which, in turn, arose in the context of the inadequacies of the positivism used to examine so-called ‘Social problems’. This positivism took for granted the dominant understandings, definitions, causes and the discourse of the ‘Social problem’. Social Constructionists maintain that humans are actors and participants who create their Social world, with the consequence that perspectives, definitions, explanations of causation and discourses are constructed by them. In this way powerful housing ideas, policies and practices can be undermined as merely constructions of a time and place and for special interests. Yet in its extreme or ‘strong’ form this position is not without difficulties and, after briefly analysing several of them, the article examines a more moderate or ‘weak’ form of Social constructionism which is now more generally adopted and which addresses to some extent the problems of th...
Robert D Benford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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you could be the hundredth monkey collective action frames and vocabularies of motive within the nuclear disarmament movement
Sociological Quarterly, 1993Co-Authors: Robert D BenfordAbstract:Building on recent developments by Social Constructionists, this paper seeks to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of micromobilization processes associated with Social movement recruitment and participation. Data derived from a fouryear field study of the nuclear disarmament movement are employed to identify and elaborate four generic vocabularies of motive that emerge via interaction among activists, rank and file supporters, recruits and significant others: vocabularies of (1) severity, (2) urgency, (3) efficacy and (4) propriety. These vocabularies of motive provide movement actors with compelling rationales to take action on behalf of the movement and/or its organizations. The data suggest that peace movement groups cultivate the imputation and avowal of these motives as a means of stimulating collective action. Several implications for future research are offered which draw upon the insights of resource mobilization theory and Social constructionism.
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you could be the hundredth monkey collective action frames and vocabularies of motive within the nuclear disarmament movement
Sociological Quarterly, 1993Co-Authors: Robert D BenfordAbstract:Building on recent developments by Social Constructionists, this paper seeks to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of micromobilization processes associated with Social movement recrui...
Mary Pattillomccoy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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church culture as a strategy of action in the black community
American Sociological Review, 1998Co-Authors: Mary PattillomccoyAbstract:Culture consists of rhetorical, interactional, and material tools that are organized into strategies of action. Social movement theory is beginning to recognize the role of culture in facilitating or frustrating collective organizing. I use Social constructionism as an analytical approach to bridge Social movement and cultural theory. Social Constructionists ask how Social action is constructed, rather than what issues or ideas are being constructed. Using data from more than three years of ethnographic research in Groveland, an African American neighborhood in Chicago, I find that the black church provides a cultural blueprint for civic life in the neighborhood. Prayer, call-and-response interaction, and Christian imagery are important parts of the cultural tool kit of Groveland's black residents, and these cultural practices invigorate activism. Particular theological foundations of black Christianity -especially its collective ethos and the notion of God as active in earthly affairs- support the content of secular activism. Black church culture constitutes the taken-for-granted practices that put civic efforts into action.
Colin Goodrich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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making place identity construction and community formation through sense of place in westland new zealand
Society & Natural Resources, 2009Co-Authors: Kaylene Sampson, Colin GoodrichAbstract:How do “community” and the attributes of landscape and setting shape personal identity and the way in which individuals develop an attachment to place? An exploration of the relationship between these ideas within two New Zealand West Coast rural communities revealed the need for a more inclusive conceptual understanding of “sense of place.” By drawing upon the seemingly mutually exclusive scholarly contributions of both Social Constructionists and environmental reductionists, we make a case for the inclusion of both approaches within the understanding of localized identity and its relationship with place. We argue that communities carry with them a specificity that binds them to particular locales, while locales provide a set of parameters, or boundaries, to the possibilities of what can be symbolically drawn upon. In this way identity is still culturally reproduced (constructed) but it draws upon particularized attributes within particularized landscapes.
Kaylene Sampson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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making place identity construction and community formation through sense of place in westland new zealand
Society & Natural Resources, 2009Co-Authors: Kaylene Sampson, Colin GoodrichAbstract:How do “community” and the attributes of landscape and setting shape personal identity and the way in which individuals develop an attachment to place? An exploration of the relationship between these ideas within two New Zealand West Coast rural communities revealed the need for a more inclusive conceptual understanding of “sense of place.” By drawing upon the seemingly mutually exclusive scholarly contributions of both Social Constructionists and environmental reductionists, we make a case for the inclusion of both approaches within the understanding of localized identity and its relationship with place. We argue that communities carry with them a specificity that binds them to particular locales, while locales provide a set of parameters, or boundaries, to the possibilities of what can be symbolically drawn upon. In this way identity is still culturally reproduced (constructed) but it draws upon particularized attributes within particularized landscapes.