A Simple Intervention to Reduce Framing Effects in Perceptions of Global Climate Change Eric P. S. Baumer, Francesca Polletta, Nicole Pierski & Geri K. Gay To cite this article: Eric P. S. Baumer, Francesca Polletta, Nicole Pierski & Geri K. Gay (2015): A Simple Intervention to Reduce Framing Effects in Perceptions of Global Climate Change, Environmental Communication, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.201...

In contrast to the antistructuralist and antipositivist agenda that has animated the “narrative turn” in the social sciences since the 1980s, a more uniquely sociological approach has studied stories in the interactional, institutional, and political contexts of their telling. Scholars working in this vein have seen narrative as powerful, but as variably so, and they have focused on the ways in...

Participatory democracy refers to an organizational form in which decision making is decentralized, nonhierarchical, and consensus oriented. It can be contrasted with bureaucracy, in which decision making is centralized, hierarchical, and based on a formal division of labor, as well as with majority vote. Participatory democratic organizations have been a prominent feature of many progressive m...

American South in the spring of 1960 transformed the struggle for racial equality. Sociological investigation began within months of the f irst protest (Laue [1966] 1989; Oppenheimer 1963; Searles and Williams 1962; Wehr 1960), and the sit-ins have become an exemplary case in the literature on social movements (Killian 1984; McAdam 1982, 1983; McAdam and Sewell 2001; Morris 1981, 1984; Oberscha...

this article, being in the modern field of sociology of emotions, studies the leadership of emotions during the islamic revolution by imam khomeini. inspired by the views of flam, king, polletta, jaspers & goodwin, this paper examines the requirements of transformation of counter-mobilizing emotions to the mobilizing ones that lead to the active protest against status quo, through emotional lib...

Under what conditions do individuals feel free to express their emotions? To what degree are actors constrained by the social domain in which their emotions are activat-ed? To what extent are they bound by the hierarchical position that they occupy or by their status as a function of their gender, race, or class? Questions such as these are central to the sociology of emotion and illustrate how...

As members of the Dissertation Committee, we certify that we have read the disser-tation prepared by Benjamin Pittman-Polletta entitled Factorization in Unitary Loop Groups and Reduced Words in Affine Weyl Groups and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent up...

Last year (2015) commemorated the 50th anniversary of Norman Geschwind’s seminal papers in Brain on “Disconnexion syndromes in animals and man” (Geschwind, 1965a, 1965b). In the past 50 years, huge advances have occurred in the tools and technologies available for the in vivo assessment of both structural and functional connectivity in the human brain, including diffusion imaging for examining ...

Studies of emotion and activism have often attempted to uncover ‘the emotions most relevant to politics’ (Goodwin et al., 2001). This suggests that only certain feelings are productive for activism, while other emotions have less relevance for activist theory and practice. In this paper I ask if the notion of politically ‘relevant’ emotions helps perpetuate a distinction between what is conside...

Participatory democratic practices are often seen as caught between two ideals: inclusiveness and efficiency. On the one hand, they meant to provide “democratic deepening” by using inclusive processes giving everyone a voice; on other expected deliver good results (Gilman, 2012). But can have both at once? Can deliberation be more than an “endless meeting” (Polletta, 2004)? And positive epistem...