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Starhawk Re/Claims A View Of The World, Denice J. Szafran
Starhawk Re/Claims A View Of The World, Denice J. Szafran
Denice J Szafran, Ph.D.
From the turmoil and turbulence of society in the United States in the mid-20th century arose many movements and groups labeled “counter-cultural.” One such group, Reclaiming Collective, allegedly began as a feminist and alternative religious venture, but through the influence and leadership of its founder, Starhawk, it has taken on the additional role of attempting to alter the society from which it sprang. Culture change is complex and has far-ranging effects. I examine the possible reasons for the birth of Reclaiming through: the theories of cultural materialism and Weberian theories on religion; apply theories of intentional community and invented tradition; …
Book Review 6 Stop Whining, Start Living By Laura Schlessinger, William C. Mcpeck
Book Review 6 Stop Whining, Start Living By Laura Schlessinger, William C. Mcpeck
William C. McPeck
This is my personal review of Stop Whining, Start Living by Laura Schlessinger and published by Harper in 2008.
Adaptive Responsibilities: Non-Linear Interactions Across Social Sectors. Cases From Cross Sector Partnerships, Maria May Seitanidi
Adaptive Responsibilities: Non-Linear Interactions Across Social Sectors. Cases From Cross Sector Partnerships, Maria May Seitanidi
Maria May Seitanidi
This paper presents an instance of failed large scale social innovation from a cross sector social partnership even though the partnership seemed to succeed in its narrow mission. The mechanisms that led to less than complete success can shed light on the reasons behind the failure of social change mechanisms. The case study presented is between a non-profit organization and a business. It demonstrates that when the strategic intent of the social actors is prescriptive, it imprisons the possibilities for fundamental change. This limitation is due to the pre-defined relatively narrow responsibilities associated with different individual or social agents. The …
Reclaiming The Concept Of Culture: A Review Of Recent Thoughts On Cultural Invention And Cultural Change, Denice J. Szafran
Reclaiming The Concept Of Culture: A Review Of Recent Thoughts On Cultural Invention And Cultural Change, Denice J. Szafran
Denice J Szafran, Ph.D.
Defining culture as the capacity for humans to symbolically classify, codify, and communicate their common experiences, Boas' "genius of a people" (Bunzl 2004), has yielded to popular understandings of culture as a bounded entity that exists discretely in the world. These latter notions are constructs arising from the imposition of Western cultural notions on examined societies. The concept of culture, once the exclusive tool of anthropological investigations and explanations, finds itself arrogated by "everybody everywhere," facing devaluation of its meaning and rendering it ineffective as an analytical tool, (Marcus 2008) yet reclaiming the more nebulous meanings of the term culture …