Anchored in Mannheim's theory, the concept of political generations captures how new movement recruits respond to shifting political contexts and become agents of change within a social movement. A key challenge when using this concept in generational analyses is to link context with agency. In this article, I make this link by focusing on the interactions between political contexts and movement agency. My study among two generations of feminist activism in Ecuador and Peru found that both cohorts interacted with two sociopolitical conditions—prevailing gender relations and notions of political action—when they were initially mobilized. These interactions took different forms for each cohort, thereby shaping their distinct understandings and practices of feminist activism, and continuing to have consequences for movement goals, strategies, and relationships overtime. For the earlier generation, which became active between the late 1970s and early 1990s, consequences meant practicing militancy to achieve goals, deploying vanguardism to execute a comprehensive strategy, and exerting autonomy to manage the actions of the powerful. I theorize the interactions between movement agency and political contexts as a mesostructure, where process and structure meet, thereby providing a more comprehensive account of the mechanism of change bringing about political generations.
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Sociological ForumEarly View Book Review Behind the Cultural Veil Brittany N. Fox-Williams, Corresponding Author Brittany N. Fox-Williams [email protected] Department of Sociology, Lehman College, City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York, 10468 USASearch for more papers by this author Brittany N. Fox-Williams, Corresponding Author Brittany N. Fox-Williams [email protected] Department of Sociology, Lehman College, City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York, 10468 USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 October 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12974Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. REFERENCES Lamont, Michèle and Virág Molnár. 2002. “The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences.” Annual Review of Sociology 28: 167–195. Rivera-McCutchen, Rosa L. 2021. Radical Care: Leading for Justice in Urban Schools. New York: Teachers College Press. Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation
社会学论坛早期书评文化面纱背后的布列塔尼·n·福克斯-威廉姆斯，通讯作者布列塔尼·n·福克斯-威廉姆斯[email protected]纽约城市大学雷曼学院社会学系，贝德福德公园大道西250号，布朗克斯区，纽约，10468 us纽约城市大学250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York, 10468 usa搜索本文作者的更多论文首次发表:2023年10月13日https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12974Read全文taboutpdf ToolsRequest permissionExport citation添加到favoritesTrack citation ShareShare给予accessShare全文accessShare全文accessShare全文accessShare请查看我们的使用条款和条件，并在下面的复选框中选择分享文章的全文版本。我已经阅读并接受了Wiley在线图书馆使用共享链接的条款和条件，请使用下面的链接与您的朋友和同事分享本文的全文版本。学习更多的知识。复制URL共享链接共享一个emailfacebooktwitterlinkedinreddit微信本文无摘要参考文献拉蒙特，米歇尔和Virág Molnár。2002. 《社会科学中的边界研究》社会学年鉴28:167-195。里维拉-麦卡琴，罗莎L. 2021。激进关怀:引领城市学校的正义。纽约:师范学院出版社。詹姆斯·c·斯科特1985。弱者的武器:农民反抗的日常形式。康涅狄格州纽黑文:耶鲁大学出版社。在问题包含之前的早期视图在线版本的记录参考信息
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Sociological ForumEarly View Editorial Last Words Karen A. Cerulo, Corresponding Author Karen A. Cerulo [email protected] Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901 USASearch for more papers by this author Karen A. Cerulo, Corresponding Author Karen A. Cerulo [email protected] Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901 USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 12 October 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12972Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation
社会学论坛早期编辑遗言Karen A. Cerulo，通讯作者Karen A. Cerulo [email protected]罗格斯大学社会学系，New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901 us可查询本文作者的更多论文，通讯作者Karen A. Cerulo [email protected]罗格斯大学社会学系，New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901 us可查询本文作者的更多论文。2023年10月12日https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12972Read全文taboutpdf ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare给予accessShare全文accessShare全文accessShare请查看我们的使用条款和条件，并勾选下面的复选框共享文章的全文版本。我已经阅读并接受了Wiley在线图书馆使用共享链接的条款和条件，请使用下面的链接与您的朋友和同事分享本文的全文版本。学习更多的知识。复制URL共享链接共享一个emailfacebooktwitterlinkedinreddit微信本文无摘要在包含问题之前的早期视图在线记录版本相关信息
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Popular attention to the multi‐million‐dollar enterprise of collegiate sports often centers on the extent to which student athletes are academically engaged. In this article, we draw on a national sample of approximately 5,000 college‐goers, employ key comparisons (i.e., high‐visibility student athletes, nonrevenue student athletes, and nonathletes), and consider background disadvantages and collegiate division levels relative to achievement (i.e., grade point average) and bachelor's degree completion. Analyses show that once background attributes and division levels are accounted for, there is little difference in achievement and attainment between high‐visibility student athletes and their nonathlete peers. There is, however, a dual advantage in 4‐year degree completion for those playing other collegiate sports—an advantage tied to their more privileged family and educational backgrounds and their participation in intercollegiate athletics itself. Our results in these regards are robust to several restrictive and analytically rigorous modeling strategies. We conclude by highlighting the implications for higher education research and its attention to inequality, educational representation, institutional processes, and student success.
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Research indicates that political progressives have lower levels of mental well‐being than political conservatives. However, while attention has been paid to why conservatives have higher levels of well‐being relatively little attention has been used to examine why progressives may have comparatively low levels of well‐being. Recent events connected to a “Great Awokening” suggest that identity politics may correlate to a decrease in well‐being particularly among young progressives and offer an explanation tied to internal elements within political progressiveness. Regression analysis with data from the Baylor Religion Survey indicates that identity political variables, but not a desire for higher government spending, are consistently negatively related to lower well‐being and mediate the ability of progressive political ideology to predict lower levels of well‐being. By paying attention to political progressives, rather than political conservatives, a nuanced approach to understanding the relationship between political ideology and well‐being begins to emerge. It is plausible that political progressives are not equally prone to lower levels of well‐being as those committed to a class‐based type of progressive activism seem to be better off than those tied to issues of identity politics.
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In this book proposal, Charles L. Bosk synthesizes 50 years of ethnographic research to consider a key question: Why have decades of patient safety initiatives to reduce preventable deaths and adverse safety events failed to make traction on either one? With his incomparable wit and dry humor, Bosk takes us through the changes to the medical system that accompany his own evolution from a doctoral student to accomplished professional. Bosk's last work prods us to think deeply about the nature of medical error, our attempts to fix it, and what it means to improve medical care.
在这本书的提案中，Charles L. Bosk综合了50年的人种学研究，考虑了一个关键问题:为什么几十年来减少可预防死亡和不良安全事件的患者安全倡议未能在任何一个方面取得进展?博斯克以他无与伦比的机智和冷幽默，带领我们经历了他自己从博士生到有成就的专业人士的演变过程中医疗系统的变化。博斯克的最后一部作品促使我们深入思考医疗差错的本质，我们修复它的尝试，以及它对改善医疗保健意味着什么。
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I offer reflections on the late Charles Bosk's book proposal as a trade book, focusing specifically on different genres in nonfiction trade publishing, and the different approaches to evidence in sociology and journalism.
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Emily Adlin Bosk, Joanna Kempner, Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong
This special issue of “The Forum” publishes Charles L. Bosk's final work—a book proposal written for a trade audience titled—The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error. Five noted scholars Carol Heimer, Carla Keirns, Mark Neuman, Julia Szymczak, and Stefan Timmermans offer commentary. Their essays touch on common themes: Bosk's humanity, his wry sense of humor, and keen ability to highlight the absurdity of the social organization of contemporary medicine alongside the sacred obligation that accompanies caring for the sick. Together, the book proposal and these five essays focus our attention on the impact Bosk's scholarship had in medicine, sociology, and the patient safety movement.
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Through Forgive and Remember, Charles Bosk made the world of surgical complications and closed‐door morbidity and morbidity conferences visible to a wide audience, helping to remake medical errors from a private into a public issue. In so doing, his work helped to motivate a generation to advocate for higher‐quality, safer health care. But Bosk's introduction to The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error also highlights how the managerial tools that advocates applied to these problems—“checklists, safety huddles, briefings and debriefings”—invariably missed deeper lessons that Bosk took from his work. Here, a former student and collaborator of Bosk's reflects on Bosk's legacy in relation to the patient safety movement he helped create and the lasting impact of his work on the culture of medical practice.
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For decades, eliminating preventable error has been presented as an audacious, responsible, even noble goal for healthcare organizations. Bosk proposed to show the folly of this aspiration. This essay moves Bosk's work forward by placing ideas about reducing error in the context of other attempts to routinize work, on the one hand, and casting doubt of the viability of such programs, on the other. Other scholars have reshaped our understanding of human behavior by revising key assumptions to make them more psychologically and sociologically realistic. Using Simon's revision of global rationality and Kahneman's revision of expected utility theory as examples, this essay takes a first stab at suggesting which assumptions of the preventable error paradigm need revising. Because we do not fully understand how we gather and process information about each other, this essay argues that we should preserve opportunities for more holistic information gathering, both by ethnographers and medical staff. Importantly, those include occasions when medical workers (not algorithms) encounter, observe, and listen to patients as full human beings (not their digital twins).
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