Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing ValuesSome periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements. |
Contents
Adaptation in Human Communities | 3 |
Critical Communities and Movements | 22 |
The Acceptance of New Cultural Values | 54 |
The Creation of Solidarity | 95 |
Political Engagement | 134 |
Diffusion of Change in Society | 165 |
Political and Social Alliances | 200 |
Advancing Our Understanding of Curtural Change | 239 |
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