New Social Movements: “Refugees Welcome UK”

New Social Movements and the New Class in the Netherlands

The class base of the so-called new social movements is analyzed using data from the Dutch national election survey of 1986. This analysis is linked to the theory on the "new class," reconceptualized as those in the new middle class who try to defend their relative autonomy against the encroachment of the "technocrats. " The analysis shows that, although the Dutch new social movements are suppo...

modernity and social movements

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

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Welcome , New Graduate Students

Pledging went slowly at fraternities and independent living groups on the first day, but picked up slightly in the late afternoon. By midnight Wednesday morning, 233 freshmen had pledged fraternities and ILGs, said Interfraternity Council Membership Recruitment Chair Dakus S. Gunn ’01. About one-half of an estimated 350 bids were accepted by 4 p.m. yesterday, according to reports from residenti...

Mental health of Kosovan Albanian refugees in the UK.

BACKGROUND In 1999 the UK received 4346 refugees from Kosovo. AIMS To determine the prevalence of mental health problems in this group. METHOD A sample of 842 adults was surveyed. All were asked to complete self-report questionnaires (translated into Kosovan Albanian). A subset of 120 participants were later interviewed in Albanian using the Clinician Administered PTSD (post-traumatic stres...