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2 unusual facts about Social change


Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

2nd part of the book described how the peaceful land of Ladakh changed socially, ecologically and economically when "development" set in.

Social change

Kuhnian: The philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn argues in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions with respect to the Copernican Revolution that people are unlikely to jettison an unworkable paradigm, despite many indications that the paradigm is not functioning properly, until a better paradigm can be presented.



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Arland Thornton

In 1995 Thornton's book Social Change and the Family in Taiwan received both the William J. Goode Book Award and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the American Sociological Association.

Bob Hasegawa

After earlier studying physics at the University of Washington, Hasewaga graduated from Antioch University Seattle with areas of concentration in Labor Relations and Organizational and Social Change.

Carol Bernstein Ferry

After Ping’s death, Mrs. Bernstein Ferry continued to support organizations such as the Advocacy Institute; the Agape Foundation, which sought for non-violent social change; the Albany, NY Friends Foundation; the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal; the Westchester Rutman Special Olympics; and the Alternatives to Violence Project.

Causecast

Ryan's commitment to community engagement around social change also led him to form the Impact and Education sections of the Huffington Post with Arianna Huffington.

D. J. Coffman

On June 9, 2008 Coffman teamed with the Denver based hip-hop/rock band Flobots to produce an original webcomic that features stories based on real life accounts of their fans and inspiring social change.

Daniel Taylor

Daniel C. Taylor (born 1945), American scholar and practitioner of social change

David Braybrooke

The University of Toronto Press published a collection of his essays, Moral Objectives, Rules, and the Forms of Social Change, in 1998.

Davydd Greenwood

Davydd Greenwood, Morten Levin (1998) Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change.

Don't Tell My Mother

Whether he is spending the night in one of the most dangerous parts of São Paulo with a group of graffiti artists inspiring radical social change, dressing in drag in Dhaka or drag racing through Johannesburg, Diego reveals the heart and soul of these diverse metropolises.

From Enslavement to Obliteration

The album calls for social change, as seen in the song "Uncertainty Blurs the Vision," quoting Rudimentary Peni at the song's conclusion.

Gesellschaft der Associierten

DeNora, Tia (1991) Musical Patronage and Social Change in Beethoven's Vienna.

Hong Kong Council of Social Service

It is a program jointly sponsored by the Hong Kong Bank Foundation and Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged of Social Welfare Department, HKCSS-HSBC Social Enterprise Business Centre (SEBC) of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service is a new initiative to promote social entrepreneurship, advance social innovation, synergize social enterprises' resources, network social conscious business executives and make a positive social change.

Jogi Faqir

Like other Muslim communities in North India, they are undergoing social change, and become more orthodox.

Junie Morosi

Morosi greatly admired Cairns from having read his academic writings and she introduced Cairns to the work of Wilhelm Reich, opening his mind to the relevance of human psychology as it related to social change.

Kabilan Vairamuthu

He pursued his Masters in Communication for Social Change in the University of Queensland, Australia.

Karen Orren

In her first book, Corporate Power and Social Change (1974), she studied corporate investment in housing over a century to illuminate the range of possible authority relations between government and business and account for the prevailing form.

Look Tin Eli

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of a group of merchants who hired American architects to rebuild San Francisco's Chinatown in a stereotypical "Oriental" style in order to promote tourism and social change.

Loudsauce

Loudsauce is a San Francisco based crowd funding platform for sponsoring ads for social change founded in 2009.

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo

After leaving Companhia União Fabril, she held a job in government until 1969 which was to run Portugal's program for development and social change.

Pattern language

Since the original publications, thinking in terms of patterns and pattern languages has been applied to other fields, including software design, user interface design, classroom curriculum, and social change.

Reason

Nikolas Kompridis has proposed a widely encompassing view of reason as "that ensemble of practices that contributes to the opening and preserving of openness" in human affairs, and a focus on reason's possibilities for social change.

Red April

The author also bases a character named Edith, albeit quite loosely, on an actual Senderista martyr of the same first name (Edith Lagos), who was the daughter of a prosperous local businessman and sprung from jail in a Senderista raid on the Centro de Reclusión y Adaptación Social (CRAS) de Huamanga (Penitentiary and Social Change Center of Huamanga).

Social marketing

The next milestone in the evolution of social marketing was the publication of "Social Marketing: An Approach to Planned Social Change" in the Journal of Marketing by Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman.

Speaking of what they termed "social change campaigns", Kotler and Ned Roberto introduced the subject by writing, "A social change campaign is an organized effort conducted by one group (the change agent) which attempts to persuade others (the target adopters) to accept, modify, or abandon certain ideas, attitudes, practices or behavior."

Starr King School for the Ministry

It offers three degree programs: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in for Social Change (MASC), and Master of Arts in collaboration with the GTU, also known as the Common MA.

The Africans

The programme interviewed Africans living in Kenya, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and South Africa and focused on the everyday lives of people working for social change, democratisation and progress in their own local communities.

Understanding Power

# "Intellectuals and Social Change" (Woods Hole and Rowe, Massachusetts in 1989 and 1993–94)

Walter George Muelder

He was credited by Martin Luther King Jr., a student of his at Boston (as well as Coretta Scott King in later years), as being an important influence in Dr. King’s pilgrimage to nonviolence as a philosophy of social change.

Yareli Arizmendi

Forever committed to social change, she worked with Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino and toured with Teatro de la Esperanza to Nicaragua.

You Gotta Move

You Got to Move, a documentary about social change in the American South