Reconceptualizing Social Movements and Power: Towards a Social Ecological Approach

the relationship between language and social capital in ilami kurdish: a sociopragmatic approach

چکیده زبان به عنوان یک وسیله در ایجاد و بازسازی سرمایه اجتماعی در چند دهه گذشته مورد توجه بوده است. اگر چه درباره سرمایه اجتماعی و سازه های مربوط به آن زیاد نوشته شده است ولی خیلی کم بر روی اینکه چطور زبان می تواند باعث ایجاد اعتماد یا بی اعتمادی بشود مطالعه ای انجام شده است. این مطالعه به منظور تحقق دو هدف انجام گرفته است. اول تلاش خواهد شد تا یک گونه شناسی از واژگانی که مردم کرد زبان شهر ا...

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...

Towards Social Power Intelligent Agents

Social power, regardless of its pervasiveness and acknowledged impact in a multitude of human social processes remains little explored in virtual agents. To address this gap in social intelligence and consequently virtual agent believability, we introduce the cognitive processes that underlie social power intelligence. In conceptualizing these we identify three core social power components requ...

Reconceptualizing Vagueness: Legal Rules and Social Orders

Tropical Conservation and Grassroots Social Movements: Ecological Theory and Social Justice

Among the myriad political issues that are of concern to ESA, three stand out as not only important in their own right, but together take on a particular urgency. These are (1) environmental justice, (2) globalization, and (3) tropical conservation. The environmental justice movement has focused on the urgent contemporary task of documenting and struggling against political and economic decisio...