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The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights: Facing off in Cincinnati

In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to the inclusion of "sexual orientation" in the city's newly enacted Human Rights Ordinance just one year earlier. Using qualitative data, Kimberly Dugan captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in conflict over Issue 3 by focusing on cultural factors relevant to movement mobilization, strategies, and success.

The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights: Facing off in Cincinnati

In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to the inclusion of "sexual orientation" in the city's newly enacted Human Rights Ordinance just one year earlier. Using qualitative data, Kimberly Dugan captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in conflict over Issue 3 by focusing on cultural factors relevant to movement mobilization, strategies, and success.

Struggles Before Brown: Early Civil Rights Protests and Their Significance Today

There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil rights protests seldom considered significant, but that help us understand the beginnings of the civil rights struggle before it became a mass movement. She brings to light many important but largely forgotten events, such as the often overlooked 1950s Oklahoma sit-in protests that provided a model for the better-known Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. This book's significance lies in its challenge to perspectives that dominate scholarship on the civil rights movement. The broader concepts illustrated-including agency, culture, social structure, and situations-throughout this book open up substantially more of the complexity of the civil rights struggle. This book employs a methodology for analyzing not just the civil rights movement but other social movements and, indeed, social change in general.

Struggles Before Brown: Early Civil Rights Protests and Their Significance Today

There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil rights protests seldom considered significant, but that help us understand the beginnings of the civil rights struggle before it became a mass movement. She brings to light many important but largely forgotten events, such as the often overlooked 1950s Oklahoma sit-in protests that provided a model for the better-known Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. This book's significance lies in its challenge to perspectives that dominate scholarship on the civil rights movement. The broader concepts illustrated-including agency, culture, social structure, and situations-throughout this book open up substantially more of the complexity of the civil rights struggle. This book employs a methodology for analyzing not just the civil rights movement but other social movements and, indeed, social change in general.

Struggles for an Alternative Globalization: An Ethnography of Counterpower in Southern France

Through an anthropological study of a highly influential movement of French 'alterglobalization' activists, this book offers an ethnographic window onto the global movement against corporate capitalism and the neoliberal policies of the WTO. Based on extensive fieldwork on the Larzac plateau in rural southern France, it explores the politics of protest in which activists engage. It examines their resistance to various forms of power, their organization of struggle, their attempts to live out their ideals in daily life, and their challenges to conventional understandings of politics, democracy, economics, morality and globalization. By subjecting power and resistance to ethnographic study rather than adopting them as abstract categories of analysis, this volume makes an important contribution to theoretical debates on globalization, domination and resistance. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists and scholars of social movements, but also to sociologists and political scientists, as well as to activists themselves.

Struggles for an Alternative Globalization: An Ethnography of Counterpower in Southern France

Through an anthropological study of a highly influential movement of French 'alterglobalization' activists, this book offers an ethnographic window onto the global movement against corporate capitalism and the neoliberal policies of the WTO. Based on extensive fieldwork on the Larzac plateau in rural southern France, it explores the politics of protest in which activists engage. It examines their resistance to various forms of power, their organization of struggle, their attempts to live out their ideals in daily life, and their challenges to conventional understandings of politics, democracy, economics, morality and globalization. By subjecting power and resistance to ethnographic study rather than adopting them as abstract categories of analysis, this volume makes an important contribution to theoretical debates on globalization, domination and resistance. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists and scholars of social movements, but also to sociologists and political scientists, as well as to activists themselves.

Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection

This book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous introduction to the global social movement for ‘climate justice’ and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic climate change.Deploying relational understandings of nature-society, space, and power, Brandon Derman shows that climate change has been co-produced with social inequality. Mismatching levels of responsibility and vulnerability, and institutions that emerged in tandem with those disproportionalities compose the terrain on which NGOs and social movements now contest climate injustice in a wide-ranging “politics of connection.” Case-based chapters explore the defining commitments of affected and allied communities, and how they have shaped specific struggles mobilizing human rights, international treaties, transnational activist forums, national and local constituencies, and broad-based demonstrations. Derman synthesizes these cases and similar efforts across the globe to identify and explore crosscutting themes in climate justice politics as well as the opportunities and dilemmas facing advocates and activists, and those who would ally with them going forward. How should we understand campaigns for climate justice? What do these initiatives share, and what differentiates them? What, in fact, does “climate justice” mean in these contexts? And what do the framing and progression of such efforts in different settings suggest about the broader conditions that produce and sustain climate injustice, how those conditions could be unmade, and what might take their place? Struggles for Climate Justice approaches these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as scholars of geography, social movements, environmental politics, policy, and socio-legal studies.

Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism

This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural processes, and it expands the narrow notions of women’s rights, particularly notions of property rights over bodies, towards an analysis of the political economy of social reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant. This volume will be of interest to scholars with interests in reproductive justice, anti-gender politics, and religious fundamentalism.

Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America

This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more.

Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America

This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more.

Struggles for Survival: Institutional and Organizational Changes in Japan's High-Tech Industries

How did Japanese companies, technology-supporting organizations, and governments reformulate organizational strategies, industrial structures, and institutions to revive Japanese high-tech industries (semiconductor, telecommunications, and biotechnology) in the 1990s? This book takes a comprehensive look at the question by integrating the fields of institutional economics and corporate strategy, an approach that will be of significant interest theoretically and empirically to scholars, professionals, and graduate students. Complex interactions among diverse technology-related actors are presented, focusing on co-evolution among market changes induced by technology innovation, macro-level institutional arrangements for innovation, and corporate strategies for survival. Insights are provided on diverse types of institutional arrangements, technology innovation policies, and management practices for companies and technology organizations.

Struggles In (Elderly) Care: A Feminist View

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existing tensions at the individual, national, and transnational level. Dahl argues that in order to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects us to new sites of contestation.Dahl approaches these issues from a post-structuralist and radical feminist position, while drawing from feminist sociology, feminist political science, nursing philosophy and feminist history. In particular, Struggles In (Elderly) Care highlights how the predominantly feminist theorization of care has been dominated by a sociological bias that could be improved using insights from political science concerning concepts of power and struggle, and the importance of the state and governance.This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, gerontology, nursing, and feminist studies.

Struggles in Southern Africa for Survival and Equality

A fascinating account which discusses the indigenous peoples at the Cape at the time of the Dutch colonisers' arrival through to the years of apartheid. This includes the colonial conquest of Zambia expanding upon the role played by venture capital and the demands of manufacturing capitalism in the colonisation of large parts of Africa. The place of women in both colonial settler society and indigenous society is also dealt with. Through all the chapters runs the thread of the lives of the common people, and how their interactions are circumscribed by social conditions.

The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students: The Burden of Hyperdocumentation (PDF)

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author’s journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students. In interlacing both personal experiences with findings from her empirical qualitative research, Chang explores practical and theoretical pedagogical, curricular, and policy-related discussions around issues that impact undocumented immigrants while provide compelling rich narrative vignettes. Collectively, these findings support the argument that undocumented students can cultivate an empowering self-identity by performing the role of infallible cultural citizen.

Struktur und Dynamik – Un/Gleichzeitigkeiten im Geschlechterverhältnis (Geschlecht und Gesellschaft #73)

Die gegenwärtige widersprüchliche Dynamik in der Veränderung von Geschlechterverhältnissen ist in ihrer Komplexität nur schwer zu greifen: Anzeichen für einen Bruch mit überkommenen Geschlechterkonzeptionen stehen neben Hinweisen auf (Re)Traditionalisierungstendenzen. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes diskutieren diese Entwicklungen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und entlang unterschiedlicher gesellschaftlicher Bereiche. Sie sind das Resultat eines längeren Arbeitsprozesses der beteiligten Autorinnen, dessen Ergebnisse sie hier zur Diskussion stellen.

Struktur und Ereignis in theorievergleichender Perspektive: Ein diskursives Buchprojekt

"Struktur" und "Ereignis" gelten vielfach als unverzichtbare Begriffe, die das Zustandekommen sozialer Ordnung beschreiben und erklären wollen. Zu beiden Begriffen sowie zu deren Verhältnis existieren bis heute eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Auffassungen. Diese sind - in einer Auswahl - Gegenstand der Buchbeiträge. Entlang des Duals "Struktur/Ereignis" werden von sechs Autoren und einer Autorin Konvergenzen und Divergenzen zwischen verschiedenen theoretischen Konzeptionen vergleichend herausgearbeitet. Das Ergebnis sind sieben Ausgangsbeiträge, zu denen die Autorin und alle Autoren Vernetzungsbeiträge verfaßt haben, in denen die Ausgangsbeiträge in komparativer Perspektive erörtert werden. Diese Organisation des Buches soll dazu beitragen, verschiedene Positionen in den Sozialwissenschaften befriedigender miteinander vermitteln zu können.

Struktur und Kultur einer Leadership-Organisation: Holistik, Wertschätzung, Vertrauen, Agilität und Lernen (Leadership und Angewandte Psychologie)

Der vorliegende zweite Band der Reihe Leadership und Angewandte Psychologie beleuchtet die Struktur und Kultur von modernen Leadership-Organisationen. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit theoretischen Grundlagen und auch konkreten Fallbeispielen, die verdeutlichen, wie die Erfolgsfaktoren, u.a. Holistik, Wertschätzung, Vertrauen, Agilität und Lernen einer Leadership-Organisation tatsächlich auch in der Praxis gelebt werden können.

Struktur und Semantic Map: Zur soziologischen Theorie Shmuel N. Eisenstadts (essentials)

Gerhard Preyer rekonstruiert in diesem essential den harten Kern von Shmuel N. Eisenstadts allgemeiner Soziologie, wie Eisenstadt sie in der Untersuchung der Beziehung zwischen Handeln (Kreativität) und Struktur sowie zwischen Kultur und Sozialstruktur durchgeführt hat. Preyer ordnet seine Untersuchung in dem von ihm sogenannten „semantischen Map“ als eine evolutionäre Universalie des „konstitutiven basalen Bezugsrahmens“ der Erforschung der sozio-strukturellen Evolution an. Aus Eisenstadts Sicht legen die grundlegenden semantischen Maps das zentrale Problem der menschlichen und der sozialen Existenz, die Spezifikation ihrer Lösungen und die Beziehung zu den grundlegenden Annahmen über die soziale Ordnung fest. Das Semantic Map und der Kampf um die Verteilung von Ressourcen ist der forschungsprogrammatische Bezugsrahmen seiner Reformulierung der Modernisierungstheorie, der Kritik an der klassischen Modernisierungstheorie als einer Konvergenztheorie und seiner Fassung des Problems der sozialen Ordnung. Die Studie wird mit einer Modifikation von Eisenstadts Ansatz einer mitgliedschaftstheoretischen Reinterpretation abgeschlossen.

Strukturalistische Handlungstheorie: Zum Verhältnis von soziologischer Theorie und empirischer Forschung im Werk Talcott Parsons’ (Beiträge zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung #61)

Strukturalistische Internetforschung: Netzwerkanalysen internetbasierter Kommunikationsräume

Lange wurde angenommen, im Internet sei vieles von dem möglich, was ansonsten an sozialen Barrieren scheitert. Es wurde behauptet, Strukturen würden verschwinden, ebenso soziale Ungleichheiten, der Gegensatz von Stadt und Land, von Zentrum und Peripherie. Die Autoren zeigen anhand eines empirischen Forschungsprogramms der strukturalistischen Internetforschung, dass dies nicht der Fall ist. Mit Hilfe der Netzwerkanalyse zeigen sie, dass Strukturen entweder gar nicht verschwinden oder dort, wo dies der Fall ist, schon wieder neue Strukturen entstehen. Grundlage dieser Analysen sind Chatgroups, Mailinglisten oder die Zusammenarbeit von Menschen bei Wikipedia.

Strukturalistische Theorienkonzeption und empirische Forschung in der Psychologie: Eine Fallstudie (Lehr- und Forschungstexte Psychologie #25)

Strukturanalyse der Gegenwart (René König Schriften. Ausgabe letzter Hand #12)

Strukturfragen und Funktionsprobleme der modernen Gesellschaft sind für René König ein Leitthema, das in den unterschiedlichsten Zusammenhängen immer wieder auftaucht, wenn er sich konkreten inhaltlichen Problemfeldern der Gesellschaft in einer soziologischen Gegenwartsanalyse zuwendet Dabei hat König keine systematische Strukturanalyse der Gesellschaft betrieben, auch hat er die Gesellschaft nicht einer abstrakten strukturell-funktionalen Betrachtung unterzogen. In systematischen Beiträgen oder gelegentlich auch beiläufigen Aufsätzen zu den Themen Massengesellschaft und Zeitbewusstsein, Konsum und Ernährung, Alter, Jugend und Geschlecht, entfaltet sich vor allem im Zusammenhang von Industrialisierung und Technikentwicklung sowie unter dem übergeordneten Fokus des sozialen Wandels eine prägnante, konsistente und kontinuierliche Analyse gesellschaftlicher Strukturzusammenhänge, mit denen König "soziologische Orientierung" in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft vermitteln wollte. Zusätzlich enthält der Band Königs Beiträge zur Sozialpsychologie und Psychoanalyse.

Strukturanalyse der Gegenwart (René König Schriften. Ausgabe letzter Hand #12)

Strukturfragen und Funktionsprobleme der modernen Gesellschaft sind für René König ein Leitthema, das in den unterschiedlichsten Zusammenhängen immer wieder auftaucht, wenn er sich konkreten inhaltlichen Problemfeldern der Gesellschaft in einer soziologischen Gegenwartsanalyse zuwendet Dabei hat König keine systematische Strukturanalyse der Gesellschaft betrieben, auch hat er die Gesellschaft nicht einer abstrakten strukturell-funktionalen Betrachtung unterzogen. In systematischen Beiträgen oder gelegentlich auch beiläufigen Aufsätzen zu den Themen Massengesellschaft und Zeitbewusstsein, Konsum und Ernährung, Alter, Jugend und Geschlecht, entfaltet sich vor allem im Zusammenhang von Industrialisierung und Technikentwicklung sowie unter dem übergeordneten Fokus des sozialen Wandels eine prägnante, konsistente und kontinuierliche Analyse gesellschaftlicher Strukturzusammenhänge, mit denen König "soziologische Orientierung" in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft vermitteln wollte. Zusätzlich enthält der Band Königs Beiträge zur Sozialpsychologie und Psychoanalyse.

Strukturanalyse sozialer Netzwerke: Konzepte, Modelle, Methoden. (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)

Die Netzwerkanalyse erweitert das klassische Instrumentarium der empirischen Sozialforschung. Sie ist ein mächtiges Werkzeug zur theoriegeleiteten Analyse komplexer Beziehungsstrukturen. Der Text bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Möglichkeiten der Untersuchung interindividueller Beziehungsstrukturen, der Identifikation von Teil-Gruppen ("Cliquen" u.ä.), von Positionen und Rollen sowie der Überprüfung von Strukturhypothesen.

Strukturanalyse sozialer Netzwerke: Konzepte, Modelle, Methoden. (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)

Die Netzwerkanalyse erweitert das klassische Instrumentarium der empirischen Sozialforschung. Sie ist ein mächtiges Werkzeug zur theoriegeleiteten Analyse komplexer Beziehungsstrukturen. Der Text bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Möglichkeiten der Untersuchung interindividueller Beziehungsstrukturen, der Identifikation von Teil-Gruppen ("Cliquen" u.ä.), von Positionen und Rollen sowie der Überprüfung von Strukturhypothesen.