{"title":"Modes of Authority and Social Character Research","authors":"D. Burston","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5129","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between prevailing patterns of authority and social character formation was once a major topic for theory and research, but has fallen into relative neglect of late. This paper elucidates Fromm's three modes of authority, their psychoanalytic and sociological antecedents, their intrinsic strengths and limitations, and their possible application to contemporary sociological issues.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121956418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ideology as Response: Cultural and Political Process in the Sanctuary Movement","authors":"C. Greer","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5145","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the ideology of the Sanctuary Movement on behalf of Sakadoran and Guatemalan refugees displaced by domestic turmoil and war. This movement coalesced in the United States in the 1980s out of disparate efforts to assist particular refugees. Three interpretations of the role ideology are assessed: ideology as a resource for pursuing interests; ideology as a value system informing grievances; and ideology as socially constructedframes realigned through discourse. It is found that core aspects of the ideology of the Sanctuary Movement emerged as individuals and church congregations came to terms with the needs and actions of those they helped and the U.S. government's opposition. Much of the ideology of the Sanctuary Movement was worked out by participants as they acted after the movement was underway. Analysis of ideology as a response is essential to relate the Sanctuary Movement to both the broader political culture and the politicalprocess with which it engaged.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114202267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizen-State Interaction and Technical Controversy: The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program","authors":"Robert Futrell","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5148","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the development and transformation of a local collective campaign opposing the U.S. Army's Chemical Weapons Stockpile Disposal Program into a social movement with national and international dimensions. The author examines the ways in which the actions of both citizens and the Army have been shaped by officials, policies and organizations at multiple levels of the State. Contrary to the emphasis on extra-institutional actions noted in many studies of movements and collective action, he shows that the social, political and scientific context of technical controversies with the State may place constraints upon and opportunities for action to be directed and sustained through institutional channels. Specifically, he explains the effects of political opportunities, target vulnerabilities and specialized resources on the development and transformation of claims-making forms of action, organizational structure and the expressed aims of the groups involved. He ends with suggestions for practical distinctions and refinements in the concepts used in the analysis","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114315844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System-Integration and its Discontents: A Reconsideration on what Sociology can Learn from Psychoanalysis","authors":"G. Dahl","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5135","url":null,"abstract":"Sociology and psychoanalysis have one common insight - that they can conceptualize the objective, symbolically general forms of human interaction. However, they can never grasp the private experience, feelings and unconscious meanings of the individual as they really are. In psychoanalysis this is most outspoken - the real and imaginary spheres in which we all live are to a great extent outside the symbolical. Thus, the author thinks sociology in general, and critical sociology and the sociology of knowledge in particular have something to learn from psychoanalysis. His point in this article is simply to reconsider what sociology can learn from psychoanalysis. In doing so, he is not trying to construct a new synthesis. This article treats three basic features : how sociology and psychoanalysis share basic assumptions on sociability; how they both have interacted with the modernization of society; finally how his discussion can be related to the difficult project of a critical theory","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126424976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Men of 1989: On the German \"New Right\"","authors":"G. Dahl","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131290404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist Cross-cultural Research: Observations from a Research Project in Germany","authors":"M. Adler","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5142","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research indicates that the rapid imposition of West German structures (policy, economy, culture) on East Germany caused economic hardships and personal insecurities which leave many East German women feeling vulnerable. This essay depicts the experiences involved in conducting an ethnographic study to examine the situation of women East and West of the former German border. Secondary analysis, survey research, observation and interviews with women's representatives show significant differences in the actual and perceived consequences of unification for women's lives in East and West. The feminist nature of the research and the complex structure of German bureaucracy were often impediments to the progress of this study. Recommendations for researchers planning to do cross-national studies on women an discussed","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114979244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HISPANIC MIGRANT LABORER HOMELESSNESS IN NEBRASKA: EXAMINING AGRICULTURAL RESTRUCTURING AS ONE PATH TO HOMELESSNESS*","authors":"S. Gaber, R. Cantarero","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5141","url":null,"abstract":"Research on homelessness in the U.S. has proliferated over the past decade. Although this research has greatly increased our knowledge of homelessness, few studies have explored the paths to homelessness in rural, agricultural settings. Through a survey of 114 male homeless persons in Lincoln, Nebraska, the authors surmise the existence of a homeless sub-population, which makes up a large proportion of the homeless in Nebraska, and perhaps other similar rural agricultural States : Hispanic migrant laborers. They elaborate on a theoretical construct composed of agricultural structural changes and Nebraska geographic particularities that facilitate homelessness in this sub-population","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121670673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH AMISH EYES: PERSPECTIVES OF AN ANARCHIST PROTEST MOVEMENT*","authors":"T. Foster","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5128","url":null,"abstract":"America's Old Order Amish have managed to avoid some of the most serious social problems facing the larger society. This paper identifies the countercultural and anarchistic elements of Amish society and outlines its resemblance to social movements and to other separationist/pacifist societies of the past. Also explored are Amish attitudes toward materialism, technology, art, deviant behavior and non-violent resistance and how these attitudes shape internal social behaiiors as well as interactions with outsiders. Finally, brief consideration is given to the question of how the study of the Amish might inform students of the larger culture and other","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130516259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carl Schmitt : The Hobbesian of the 20th century ?","authors":"Jacob Als Thomsen","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5137","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. porte son attention sur l'oeuvre de C. Schmitt et plus particulierement sur sa philosophie politique. Il s'efforce de mesurer l'influence de T. Hobbes sur sa pensee politique. Il examine l'interpretation de la philosophie politique de Hobbes proposee par C. Schmitt. Il estime que bien que membre du parti nazi Schmitt etait davantage partisan, sur le plan de l'organisation politique, d'un liberalisme bourgeois autoritaire que de la conception nazie du pouvoir proprement dite. Il analyse de facon critique l'interpretation de l'oeuvre de Schmitt proposee par G. Schwab qui a contribue a faire connaitre Hobbes en Allemagne au debut du siecle puis celle de J. P. McCormick. Il souligne que ce dernier a su mettre en evidence le role du mythe et de la peur dans la pensee politique de Schmitt","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114202048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE SOCIAL STRUCTURING OF POSTINDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: CITIZEN POSITIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS","authors":"D. Kowalewski","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5121","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. etudie l'evolution de la vie politique et sociale dans le cadre des societes post-industrielles. Il met en relief la perte d'influence des partis politiques et des syndicats traditionnels. Il souligne le developpement de nouveaux mouvements sociaux. Il s'interesse plus particulierement aux mouvements ecologistes. Il examine les differentes theories qui analysent la vie politique au sein des societes post-industrielles. Il presente un certain nombre de donnees collectees aux Etats-Unis concernant les opinions en matiere de protection de l'environnement et notamment les attitudes vis-a-vis de la gestion des ressources naturelles, des risques lies a la pollution ou bien au developpement industriel, technologique, economique","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116808683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}