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Book Voicing Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Efrén Pérez
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-10-25
  • ISBN : 0691215138
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Voicing Politics written by Efrén Pérez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why your political beliefs are influenced by the language you speak Voicing Politics brings together the latest findings from psychology and political science to reveal how the linguistic peculiarities of different languages can have meaningful consequences for political attitudes and beliefs around the world. Efrén Pérez and Margit Tavits demonstrate that different languages can make mental content more or less accessible and thereby shift political opinions and preferences in predictable directions. They rigorously test this hypothesis using carefully crafted experiments and rich cross-national survey data, showing how language shapes mass opinion in domains such as gender equality, LGBTQ rights, environmental conservation, ethnic relations, and candidate evaluations. Voicing Politics traces how these patterns emerge in polities spanning the globe, shedding essential light on how simple linguistic quirks can affect our political views. This incisive book calls on scholars of political behavior to take linguistic nuances more seriously and charts new directions for researchers across diverse fields. It explains how a stronger grasp of linguistic effects on political cognition can help us better understand how people form political attitudes and why political outcomes vary across nations and regions.

Book The Political Voices of Generation Z

Download or read book The Political Voices of Generation Z written by Laurie L Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores political expression of members of Generation Z old enough to vote in 2018 and 2020 on issues and movements including MeToo, Supreme Court nominations, March for Our Lives, immigration and family separation, and Black Lives Matter. Since generational dividing lines blur, we study 18 to 25-year-olds, capturing the oldest members of Generation Z along with the youngest Millennials. They share similarities both in their place in the life cycle and experiences of potentially defining events. Through examining some movements led by young adults and others led by older generations, as well as issues with varying salience, core theories are tested in multiple contexts, showing that when young adults protest or post about movements they align with, they become mobilized to participate in other ways, too, including contacting elected officials, which heightens the likelihood of their voices being heard in the halls of power.Perfect for students and courses in a variety of departments at all levels, the book is also aimed at readers curious about contemporary events and emerging political actors.

Book Voices of Modernity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Bauman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-07-03
  • ISBN : 9780521008976
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Voices of Modernity written by Richard Bauman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.

Book Exit  Voice  and Loyalty

Download or read book Exit Voice and Loyalty written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.” The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role. The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, “having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of ‘unhappy’ top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little.”

Book Gender Politics and MTV

Download or read book Gender Politics and MTV written by Lisa A. Lewis and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner, Tina: Madonna: Benatar, Pat: Lauper, Cindy.

Book Survival  June   July 2023

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  • Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-06-09
  • ISBN : 1003803806
  • Pages : 123 pages

Download or read book Survival June July 2023 written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue Hannah Aries, Bastian Giegerich and Tim Lawrenson assess that Europe’s defence industry will struggle to meet increased production needs In 2007, the late Ronald Steel judged that while the Iraq War had weakened the United States, it would not profoundly affect US foreign policy (from the archive) Dana H. Allin reflects on Ronald Steel’s legacy and prospects for the ‘extended American Century’ Liana Fix argues that the West should formulate security guarantees for Ukraine in parallel with its counter-offensive Daniel Sobelman assesses that the Yemen-based Houthi rebel movement is emulating Hizbullah And seven more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column. Editor: Dr Dana Allin Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson Associate Editor: Carolyn West Editorial Assistant: Charlie Zawadzki

Book The Unheavenly Chorus

Download or read book The Unheavenly Chorus written by Kay Lehman Schlozman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why American democracy favors the affluent and educated Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most comprehensive and systematic examination of political voice in America ever undertaken—and its findings are sobering. The Unheavenly Chorus is the first book to look at the political participation of individual citizens alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests—membership associations such as unions, professional associations, trade associations, and citizens groups, as well as organizations like corporations, hospitals, and universities. Drawing on numerous in-depth surveys of members of the public as well as the largest database of interest organizations ever created—representing more than thirty-five thousand organizations over a twenty-five-year period—this book conclusively demonstrates that American democracy is marred by deeply ingrained and persistent class-based political inequality. The well educated and affluent are active in many ways to make their voices heard, while the less advantaged are not. This book reveals how the political voices of organized interests are even less representative than those of individuals, how political advantage is handed down across generations, how recruitment to political activity perpetuates and exaggerates existing biases, how political voice on the Internet replicates these inequalities—and more. In a true democracy, the preferences and needs of all citizens deserve equal consideration. Yet equal consideration is only possible with equal citizen voice. The Unheavenly Chorus reveals how far we really are from the democratic ideal and how hard it would be to attain it.

Book Our Masters  Voices

Download or read book Our Masters Voices written by John Maxwell Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Writing Islam

Download or read book The Politics of Writing Islam written by Mahmut Mutman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Writing Islam provides a much-needed critique of existing forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in the West. Through critiquing ethnographic, literary, critical, psychoanalytic and theological discourses, the author reveals the problematic underlying cultural and theoretical presuppositions. Mutman demonstrates how their approach reflects the socially, politically and economically unequal relationship between the West and Islam. While offering a critical insight into concepts such as writing, power, post-colonialism, difference and otherness on a theoretical level, Mutman reveals a different perspective on Islam by emphasizing its living, everyday and embodied aspects in dynamic relation with the outside world - in contrast to the stereotyped authoritarian and backward religion characterized by an omnipotent God. Throughout, Mutman develops an approach to culture as an embodied, everyday, living and ever changing practice. He argues that Islam should be perceived precisely in this way, that is, as an open, heterogeneous, interpretive, multiple and worldly belief system within the Abrahamic tradition of ethical monotheism, and as one that is contested within as well as outside its 'own' culture.

Book Voicing Our Values

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  • Author : Bernie Horn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780615669434
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Voicing Our Values written by Bernie Horn and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our master s voices

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  • Author : John Maxwell Atkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Our master s voices written by John Maxwell Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Counter Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBTQ Equality

Download or read book Counter Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBTQ Equality written by Jae-Hee Jung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights from social psychology and the gender and politics literature, as well as discussions and campaigns in the policymaking world, suggest that exposure to counter-stereotypes about gender roles might improve people's attitudes toward gender equality and LGBTQ rights. The authors test this expectation by conducting five survey experiments (N=6,916) and a separate, follow-up experiment (N=3,600) in the US context using counter-stereotypical treatments commonly encountered in the real world. They examine both political and non-political attitudes, manipulate stereotypes about both men and women, and provide visual as well as textual stimuli. The treatments undermined stereotypes about the gender roles depicted in the counter-stereotypical exemplars. However, they failed to alter respondents' generic core beliefs about women and men and increase equitable attitudes. The results improve our understanding of how stereotypes contribute to gender and anti-LGBTQ bias.

Book Philosophy and Real Politics

Download or read book Philosophy and Real Politics written by Raymond Geuss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for change Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows people to survive and pursue their goals. To understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations. Philosophy and Real Politics both outlines a historically oriented, realistic political philosophy and criticizes liberal political philosophies based on abstract conceptions of rights and justice.

Book Diversity s Child

    Book Details:
  • Author : Efrén O. Pérez
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2021-08-05
  • ISBN : 022680013X
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Diversity s Child written by Efrén O. Pérez and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : Marable's forecast -- The elusive quest for people of color -- People of color, unite! -- The many faces of people of color -- New wine in new bottles -- I feel your pain, brother -- Galvanizing people of color -- Falling apart -- Conclusion : people of color in a diversifying world.

Book Voices Without Votes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald J. Zboray
  • Publisher : University Press of New England
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Voices Without Votes written by Ronald J. Zboray and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelatory scholarship about New England women engaging mainstream politics in the antebellum period

Book Our Masters  Voices

    Book Details:
  • Author : Visiting Professor Max Atkinson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 9781138130166
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Our Masters Voices written by Visiting Professor Max Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Our masters  voices  the language and body language of politics

Download or read book Our masters voices the language and body language of politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: