Fêtes et processions de Maaloula : une mise en scène des identités dans l’espace d’un village chrétien by Sylvia Chiffoleau

“…The enactment and resulting identities, marked by strong Syrian influence, emerge as a process of renewal and modernization leading to social change, global integration and to religious and secular independence. …”
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Isidingo as entertainment-education by Nadia van der Merwe

“…The producers of South African soap opera Isidingo are acutely aware of their social responsibility and therefore attempt to make a contribution towards social change and nation building. As such, Isidingo employs positive role models to transmit pro-social messages to its viewers. …”
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Engaged Scholarship and Its Discontents by Tebeje Molla

“…In the third and final section, the article emphasises the moral imperative of using research for social change and advocates for the creation of supportive ecosystems to help scholars navigate the challenges of public engagement.…”
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Violence, Politics and Religion: A Case Study of the Black Panther Party by Sergio García-Magariño, Aaron Yates

“…Drawing on newly available archival materials, we examine how Party members conceptualized their own programs, made sense of, and responded to the repressive intervention of state actors and institutions in their attempts to create social change.…”
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“Speaking Out of the Most Passionate Love” – James Baldwin and Pragmatism by Ulf Schulenberg

“…The final part demonstrates that while it would be pointless to claim that Baldwin is a radically postmetaphysical author and thus an ideal member of a literary culture, his politicized version of self-creation makes it seem legitimate to advance the argument that he is part of a left-liberal tradition of worldly pragmatism that sees the work of the strong poet or creative redescriber as contributing to political and social change.…”
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Sur les ailes du vautour. Genre, violence et « résistance » dans un récit nahua de voyage à Chiknâujtipan, le monde des morts (Mexique) by Dominique Raby

“…These particularities allow for recontextualizing the « traditional resistance » and social change dichotomy, in the context of indigenous Latin America.…”
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Surviving in Overijssel. An Analysis of Life Expectancy, 1812–1912. by Sander Wennemers, Hilde Bras

“…The rise in life expectancy is one of the main processes of social change in the 19th century. In the Netherlands, regional differences in life expectancy, and their development, were huge. …”
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Master of Arts In Literature by Kabale University

“…The programme Objectives are to acquire the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to attain professional competence in the literary scholarship; to provide critical insights for appreciation of literature, art and culture within the spheres of development and social change and to provide students’ with critical talent so as to see them operate as literary scholars.…”
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Central banks and climate change: Main issues and perspectives by Lorenzo Esposito

“…The radical economic and social change will require the mobilization of colossal resources, and hence the alignment of the financial system to this goal. …”
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A New Runway for Journalists: On the Intentions of Journalists to Start Social Enterprises by Huei-Ching Liu, Ching Yin Ip, Chaoyun Liang

“…Sharing similar characteristcs with entrepreneurs, numerous journalists have worked together to develop social enterprises, ataining social change through business approaches. The present study explores the intentons of former and current journalists to establish social enterprises, using questonnaires focused on personality traits, creatvity, and social capital. …”
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Un régime monétaire traditionnel contesté par la monnaie d’État : l’histoire du kip au Nord-Laos de 1975 à 2000 by Pierre Alary

“…Imposing a new currency is not obvious since it challenges directly the previous monetary order and the social practices it validates. Thus social change sometimes encounters strong resistance and, in Phongsaly, an isolated province north of the Republic, the state relied on taxes to disseminate its currency. …”
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SOCIAL INNOVATION: CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by Yohani Dominik dos Figueiredo, Márcia Aparecida Prim, Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini

“…As a result, it was possible to identify characteristics such as improving quality of life and well-being, social change, innovative nature, among others, which are directly linked to the constructs of sustainable development. …”
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Terminologie militante et changement social : le cas du terme femicide dans le discours de l’ONU sur la violence envers les femmes by Célia Atzeni

“…We argue that the use of the term femicide in the UN’s discourse has had a mixed impact with regard to the social changes that it was supposed to bring about.…”
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The first oases in Eastern Arabia: society and craft technology, in the 3rd millennium BC at Hili, United Arab Emirates by Sophie Méry

“…In the peninsula of Oman, the first agricultural oases appeared in the 3rd millennium and developed, bringing profound economic and social change. In the sphere of craft technology, various developments occurred, particularly in the pyro-technologies. …”
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Serions-nous tous et toutes devenu·e·s des influenceur·euse·s ? (traduit par Hélène Bourdeloie) by Christina Scharff

“…Activism, by contrast, was constructed as focused on making social change, and not driven by commercial interests. …”
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An Overview On Social Innovation Research: Guiding Future Studies by Manuela Rösing Agostini, Luciana Marques Vieira, Rosana da Rosa Portella Tondolo, Vilmar Antonio Gonçalves Tondolo

“…The antecedents showed that the SI since the first concepts presents issues related to social change and has evolved to understand the relationships between different actors, between institutions and the social context where it is inserted. …”
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Transpoiesis: the art of doing organization without becoming one by Christian Schröder

“…The concept aids in understanding how social movements build collective identities, navigate organizational dynamics, structure collective learning, and contribute to social change. Moreover, it reflects the broader shift toward network-based arrangements in contemporary organizations, an adaptation to the complexities of the digital environment.…”
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Institutions, Criminal Violence and Interdependence: The Narrow Path of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean by Rogelio Madrueño

“…The objective of this article is to examine the complexities of economic and social change from a global perspective with a focus on Latin American and the Caribbean. …”
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Book Review: Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream by Hamid Nassaj

“…The most important criticism is that the growth of extremist nationalism in the United States and Europe cannot be considered a defeat for the world because social change will generally take place in a sinusoidal, mixed-resistance path, and in the process of ups and downs. …”
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Réflexions sur une expérience interdisciplinaire dans le cadre d’une recherche exploratoire by Hélène David, Esther Cloutier, Catherine Teiger, Johanne Prévost

“…It was found that the interdisciplinary approach contributed at the level of research, in the form of general scientific spin-offs and progress in the individual disciplines, and at the level of the workplace, in the form of functional and other spin-offs affecting the dynamics of social change.…”
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