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Changing Society (change + society)
Selected AbstractsThe Transformation of the Educational Semantic within a Changing Society: A Study of the Westernization of Modern Chinese Education1JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 4 2009MEIYAO WU In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the process of westernization of Chinese education , of the Chinese educational "system", was marked by ongoing conflicts between traditional Chinese and modern western culture. This paper looks at the process by which, within the larger context of the "world-society," educational thought was constituted or reconstituted (regenerated) in modern China, thus taking on a more hybrid form. My analysis is guided by a Luhmannian approach which focuses on the distinction between the educational system and its environment, and on the changing concept of "education" throughout an important period in the history of modern China. I will try to analyze the historical description of the distinction between traditional Chinese and modern Western educational ideas. [source] Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space, edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong WuJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2006Mark Henderson No abstract is available for this article. [source] Employment Relations in a Changing Society , Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm , Edited by Luis Enrique Alonso and Miguel Martínez LucioBRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2006Enrique Fernández Macias No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Diffusion of Rights: From Law on the Books to Organizational Rights PracticesLAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, Issue 3 2006Jeb Barnes How does law change society? To gain new leverage on this long-standing question, this article draws on two lines of research that often ignore each other: political science research on the mobilization of law, and sociological research on the diffusion of organizational practices. Our insights stem from six case studies of diverse organizations' responses to the accommodation provisions in the Americans with Disabilities Act and related state laws. We found that different modes of exposure to the law combined with organizational attributes to produce distinct "rights practices",styles of standard operating procedures and informal routines that reflect the understanding of legal requirements within an organization. The diversity of the organizational responses challenges simple dichotomies between compliance/noncompliance, change through deterrence/change through norms, and mobilization/nonmobilization, and it underscores the importance of combining political science and sociological perspectives on law and social change. [source] | ||||||||||