Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing ValuesPrinceton University Press, 05.06.2018 - 280 Seiten Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements. |
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... behavior . Chapter 2 will define the role of critical communities and movements in creating and spreading new cul- tural perspectives . In chapter 3 we will distinguish three variations on the process of cultural change and examine in ...
... behaviors of the people who compose it . When we think of the sources of adaptation in human communities , we are likely to think in the first instance of government . In doing so , we view politics as the locus of what Karl Deutsch ...
... behavior . Karl- Werner Brand ( 1990 ) cites periods of " general cultural crisis , " such as the 1830s , the end of the nineteenth century , and the 1960s . These are times of widespread rejection of mainstream culture and ...
... behavioral constraints , resulting in the reformulation of culture . One cannot conceive of working - class consciousness , an AFL - CIO , or a Na- tional Labor Relations Board in an agrarian society . As E. P. Thompson ( 1967 : 97 ) ...
... behaviors . In summary , cultural changes are responsive to changes in the economic and social environment , but they are not simply a function of them . The agents of cultural change work in the context of an institutional and techno ...