Social activism as a practice of forming networked social movements

Networked Learning - a social practice perspective

This paper proposes a social practice perspective on networked learning. Networked learning doesn’t privilege any particular view of learning and the paper does not claim any special status for a social practice view but it sets out a clear agenda and demarcation for this area of study. The suggestion is that social practice can provide a theoretical lens that allows researchers to examine lear...

The theory and practice of social movements

Two of the books reviewed here, those of Foweraker, and Eyerman and Jamison, approach the question of social movements from different theoretical perspectives, whilst that of Lipietz is written very much as an advocate from within the ecological movement. Both the more academic books provide a critical assessment of the theoretical developments to date, from North America and Europe, and in so ...

GENDER AS A SOCIAL STRUCTURE Theory Wrestling with Activism

modernity and social movements

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice

This article provides an overview of a research program developed over the past 20 years to explore relations between everyday practices and technology design and use. The studies highlighted reflect three interrelated lines of inquiry: (a) critical analyses of technical discourses and practices, (b) ethnographies of work and technologies-in-use, and (c) design interventions. Starting from the ...