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 | | His discussion of the kingdom and democracy, of the importance of a collective effort, of the critical role of science as both epistemology and methodology, of advocacy in behalf of the common person, and of the necessity to work in behalf of social change all are consonant with the tenets of the social gospel. | | | The elimination of social and economic injustice, particularly among the working classes; the democratization of political institutions; and the evolutionary movement of all creation toward a new society based on the concepts of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man were themes integral to the social gospel. | | | The social gospel sought to address problems of industrialization and urbanization by focusing on the social as well as the individual aspects of religion. |
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http://www.iupui.edu/~adulted/mwr2p/prior/fisher.htm
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| | The Medieval Social Hierarchy, Imagined and Real |
| | Conversely, anyone attempting to change social relationships, or doing things that resulted in a threat to change them, was acting contrary to the will of God, and in an unloving, or "hateful" manner. | | | Any attempt to change social relationships was, by definition, bad, because a violation of "God's love," an attempt to create an "ungodly" state of affairs. | | | In the Middle Ages the notions or ideas that legitimated the social order were religious ones (religious values are not insignificant today, but they are not as important as "secular" ideas such as "democracy", and so on). |
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http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/mel/sochierarchy.html
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| | Conservatism Defined - Source for Political Terminology Analysis and Defintions |
| | Social conservatives and (especially) institutional conservatives are generally opposed to sudden and radical change, almost as much so when that change comes from the right as from the left. | | | Social conservatives emphasize traditional views of institutions such as the family and church. | | | In religious life, social conservatives are likely to reject any reinterpretation or modification of what they see as traditional beliefs in areas of morality and biblical scholarship. |
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http://www.politicsdefined.com/content/conservativism.htm
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| | The Global Social Change Research Project |
| | This page can be a place to share syllabi, for example, among people who teach classes on social change. | | | These sites are not all about social change, but are interesting to visit. | | | Social Change is also an affiliate of the International Relations |
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http://gsociology.icaap.org
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| | The Social Gospel ~ Stan Cox |
| | While we refer to the kingdom as the rule of the Christ, and the spiritual relationship with Him as the head; the "social gospel" apologist advocates the change of such a perception to that of a kingdom on earth. | | | Advocates of the "Social Gospel" philosophy fail to recognize the true purpose of the gospel of Christ. | | | Those who were carried away in the institutional digression of the 1950's have mostly embraced the "social gospel" philosophy as valid and appropriate. |
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http://www.watchmanmag.com/0306/030615.htm
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| | Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel |
| | Theologically, the "Social Gospel" represented an American liberal reading of both Christianity and modernity: it was idealistic, pragmatic, reformist rather than revolutionary, and confident in the possibilities for social change offered by a modernity infused with Christian concern. | | | The "Social Gospel" movement was a largely Protestant movement that began in the late C19th and had its heyday between 1900 and 1920. | | | The "Social Gospel" was distinguished from other initiatives on behalf of the poor by its social-political activism. |
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http://www.etss.edu/hts/hts5/notes10.htm
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| | Change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the rise of industrialisation and capitalism, the importance attached to innovation grew, and social and political upheavals and pressures often forced change by violent revolution (as in North America in the late 18th century and in later imitators). | | | In ancient Greek philosophy, while Heraclitus saw change as ever-present and all-encompassing, Parmenides virtually denied its existence. | | | This article is about the meaning of change in terms of flux and variation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change
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| | Sanctions may be associated with social facts, for example as in religion, where resistance may result in disapproval from others or from spiritual leaders. | | | That is, it is not the religious doctrines themselves but the different social organization of the two religions. | | | But if this is the factor related to suicide, then it is the social organization that is the cause of the difference, not religion in itself. |
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http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/o26f99.htm
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| | Talk given at Duke at Roundtable |
| | But what people say about their pasts as well as of their current situations does reveal a great deal about them and their social worlds. | | | A social world devoid of those surprises, of the ambiguities and uncertainties entailed in the course of affairs, as Radcliffe -Brown or Levi-Strauss would have characterized it, may have seemed systematic and orderly but it would lost the critical elements of human experience. | | | One change was in the status and influence of the mirs, the individuals who represented the local inhabitants in their relations to the government. |
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http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~canfrobt/wedding
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| | BBC Evolution Weekend: Darwin - the Man And His Legacy |
| | the early twentieth century saw a backlash against Victorian Darwinism, although many aspects of the ideology of progress were adapted to the modern scientific and social environment. | | | Social Metaphors Thomas Malthus' principle of population-expansion convinced him there must be a "struggle for existence" in which the fittest variants survive and breed. | | | Why was there such a rapid change in scientific and public opinion? |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/leghist/bowler.htm
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| | Social conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Social change is generally regarded as suspect, while social values based on tradition are generally regarded as tried, tested and true. | | | Social conservatism is a belief in traditional or natural law-based morality and social mores and the desire to preserve these in present day society, often through civil law or regulation. | | | It may be, for instance, socially conservative to promote "traditional" marriage in a Protestant, mainstream Mormon, or Catholic community, but socially conservative to promote polygamy in a devoutly Muslim or fundamentalist Mormon community. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservativism
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| | Social movements of the former kind do not want to change the existing values of society (in other words, the basis of social order); they want to change only norms of society (in other words, to preserve the basic features of the society but to change some social mechanisms). | | | Such a social movement will be under the great influence of the personal characteristics of its leaders and activists. | | | That is why almost all social movements in the USSR have anti-bureaucratic characteristics (except those which defend the existing social order). |
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http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/russian/mamay.html
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| | Serge Moscovici. Social Representations Theory and Social Constructionism |
| | Those who do leave aside the part about social communications, thus the part in which the communication process appears basically as a process of change of the representations in the course of political and ideological struggles in which psychoanalysis was at stake, with the cultural change it meant. | | | Because the social representation of knowledge retains "truth" and "falseness", f.i. | | | When my book about psychoanalysis is mentioned, it is only mentioned as a study about social representations. |
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http://psyberlink.flogiston.ru/internet/bits/mosc1.htm
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| | Breaking the Spell of Dharma: Case for Indian Enlightenment by Meera Nanda July 2001 EPW Bombay |
| | These changes in social manner were the outward signs of a fundamental change in temper that questioned the validity and methodology of the knowledge of the natural world inscribed in myth, theology and inherited traditions. | | | The ìsocial harmonyî of varna dharma is now a part of the official platform of the BJP, even as it reluctantly gives in to the demands for affirmative action [BJP Election Manifesto 1998, see also, Jafferlot 1998]. | | | Social inequities have to be recognised but should not be allowed to trivialise, as they often are in ëradicalí discourse, the importance of the recognition of the principle of the equality of natural reason. |
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http://www.sacw.net/DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/MeeraNandaJuly2001.html
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A Resolution to the Paradox of Emancipation and the Agency-Structure Dichotomy1 |
| | Thus, the simple act of studying social power implies that one must be prepared to challenge the status quo, “contaminate” (Richardson, 1994) the environment under observation, and stimulate the potential for social change (McGettigan 1999, 2001a). | | | When I say that social actors can redefine reality, I do not mean that they can wish the world away whenever they choose. | | | Thus, the capacity to redefine reality implies that it is possible for social scientists to identify and analyze exercises of the third face of power from within the coercive context of empirical social reality. |
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http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/content/vol003.002/mcgettigan.html
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| | ISAR - Review: Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought |
| | In fact, Bannister himself gives numerous examples of Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, and Nietzsche being called upon to support socialism, capitalism, Christianity, and nationalism by various defenders of the faiths. | | | While Hofstader saw social Darwinists everywhere, Bannister refuses to see them anywhere. | | | Social conservatives, according to these historians, argued that any amelioration of the struggle for existence would only result in the survival of the unfit and the demise of civilization. |
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http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/archives/mehler/social.htm
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| | Social Marketing: The Next Frontier For Social Conservatives -- 12/11/2002 |
| | Some of the biggest proponents of social marketing are those who consider "positive" social change to be promoting the use of condoms and birth control or other issues that represent the agenda of social liberalism. | | | Social conservatives need to think more about how we can better reach and influence the people who need to hear our message, but will not receive it if they do not belong to a conservative Christian church or an Orthodox synagogue. | | | The use of social marketing could prove effective in giving us a more comprehensive, concerted communications effort that enables more people discover the wisdom behind our message and will even persuade them to incorporate its tenets into their lives. |
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200212\COM20021211c.html
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| | Psychiatry and the Human Condition |
| | This means that most problems of life related to the social realm - especially around the question of competition for mates - and this lay behind the power struggles, disagreement, discussions and violence. | | | It is no easier to persuade someone to change their political allegiance than it is to persuade someone with persecutory delusions that their beliefs are unfounded. | | | In terms of their general social situation modern humans are faced with a wide range of new problems - although we console ourselves that for the bulk of the population life is much better in an industrial mercantile society than in a warrior-dominated medieval peasantry. |
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http://neuroscientist.com/bgcharlton/psychhuman.html
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| | qualitative change in itself, as well as in the social personality, in the economic base structure, and in the cultural superstructure of traditional, capitalist, and socialist societies. | | | There is the original, genuine, dialectical enlightenment, which intends to transform the negative facts of the present social and historical life form in direction of alternative Future III - a society, in which not only the sacred and the profane, but also personal autonomy and universal, i.e. | | | We shall analyze particular political-revolutionary and - counter-revolutionary movements, and the role religion played, or is still playing in them, directly or indirectly. |
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| | Consciousness, Character, and Capitalist Development |
| | Most vital in the process of decay was the decomposition of the spiritual and social, the political and ideological, powers of the Roman Catholic Church. | | | Thus, in 16th century England, two social earthquakes in the two most traditional-bound areas of social existence: Reformation in religion, and upheaval in land tenure in agriculture. | | | This meant that consciousness (and the perception and thought connecting with it) became increasingly a matter of attentiveness to the quantitative aspects of social existence, with an attendant narrowing of life aims and a vitiation of the quality of life. |
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http://www.dougdowd.org/NewFiles/cons/cccd.htm
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| | SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY |
| | A member of society must always be ready to change functions to accommodate a break in social equilibrium. | | | Social harmony is simply established of its own accord. | | | These rules are strongest for the public cult, or public practice of religion, as opposed to an individual's private practice of religion (which DH contends is still influenced by social religion) (347). |
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http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/PRELIMS/Theory/durkheim.html
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| | Asia Society: Publications - The Asian Economic Crisis |
| | Mar'ie Muhammad, whose job was to monitor disbursements, said the change of the disbursement system in September 1998 from a centralized to a block grant system, under which provincial administrations are given managerial responsibility over the aid, caused a slowdown in disbursement. | | | Social stability in 1999 remains in doubt, especially since students from Java, Lampung, and Bali pledged in the first week of the new year that they would continue to use demonstrations as a way to maintain pressure on the government. | | | Unlike the crisis-hit countries of Southeast Asia, in Korea the social crisis is primarily one of unemployment, not poverty. |
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| | Macrohistory and the Future |
| | Macrohistory is the study of the histories of social systems, along separate trajectories, through space and time, in search of patterns, even laws of social change. | | | But moving away from the nation-state analysis, it is the social movements who could be the new leaders: the environmental movements, the women's movements and the various spiritual movements. | | | There is the million year time of the cosmos which is useful for spiritual theory but not for social macrohistory. |
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| | BSocialDarwinism33 |
| | Many mistakes and consequences of Social Darwinism were contrary to the Christian Scriptures. | | | Finally, the Social Gospel movement and other reform organizations were gaining popularity. | | | Social Darwinists were wrong in ignoring the importance of cooperation and of environment and opportunity. |
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http://www.adam.com.au/bstett/BSocialDarwinism33.htm
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| | Quest - Character Proposal Guidelines |
| | Characters who are acquiring Status after character creation need to explain the change in the character's social standing: | | | If your character doesn't seem to fit a template, then explain the basis for your Status: your rank in society, or whatever else justifies your social standing. | | | Characters of these ranks would have vast social influence, and realistically they should have powers far beyond the reach of a mere 10 to 30 points. |
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http://www.quest.org/cg/characterguidelines.shtml
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| | Australian Political Quiz |
| | A belief in a command economy and conservative social values. | | | A belief in a free-market economy and conservative social values. | | | Conservativism has not been included on the political grid as it is not really a political philosophy but is rather a belief that the rate of change should be slow, or that institutions that existed yesterday should be preserved. |
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| | Methodist Mission Christchurch: Social commentary |
| | A theological argument for placing a higher value on community development and community organising approaches to social change than on social service delivery. | | | Made on behalf of the standing committee for social services of the Conference of the Methodist Church of NZ (May 2000). | | | Submitted on behalf of the Christchurch Council of Christian Social Services. |
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| | The Virtual Library |
| | The end of social promotion hasn't completely addressed the needs of all students, but the changes overall have rekindled parent's faith in the system, and this might be the most important change. | | | Not only is "social promotion" ineffective, it's downright detrimental towards students' progress. | | | This article will not only give you a good understanding of just how difficult it is to end social promotion, but you should also realize that the way to end social promotion is hidden in the dilapidated nature of school districts. |
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| | Apostates and New Religious Movements |
| | Contemporary religious bodies, operating in a context of rapid social change and changing perceptions of religious and spiritual belief, are likely to be particularly susceptible to the disparagement and misrepresentation which occurs through the circulation and repetition of the accounts of apostates. | | | [Bryan Wilson, The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, p.19.] | | | 179-215.] The apostate typically represents himself having been introduced to his former allegiance at a time when he was especially vulnerable -- depressed, isolated, lacking social or financial support, alienated from his family, or some other such circumstance. |
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| | Massey University - Anthropology |
| | Social (or cultural) anthropologists seek to understand and communicate cultural difference and the many ways people maintain and change culture in response to new political and economic contexts. | | | Students of social anthropology gain a deeper understanding of cultural variation and cultural change and are better able to understand their own culture as one among many possible ways of being human. | | | The range of topics studied by social anthropologists is also immense - from systems of healing to the creation of national identity; from cultures of resistance to poetry and sexuality; from work to religion. |
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http://anthropology.massey.ac.nz
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