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Title: Shaffwan Ahmed talks about his relationship with Detroit
Creator: Ahmed, Shaffwan, 1989-
Date: 2018-09/2019-04
Collection: i.Detroit
Description: Shaffwan Ahmed speaks about his relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Ahmed talks about his childhood best friend, what he would like to do for the community, and what he hopes the city of Detroit will become.

Title: 'Grease' and the remasculinization of America
Creator: Ray, Marcie
Date: 2015-04-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Assistant Professor Marcie Ray, of the Michigan State University College of Music, delivers a presentation entitled, "'Grease' and the remasculinization of America". Ray says that the film adaptation of the musical, "Grease," is a nostalgic look at 1950s rock and roll and, a particular masculine ideal. Ray also says that the movie spoke to a large segment of Americans who felt threatened by the rise of disco and it's associations with alternative masculinity and sexuality and that the film...
Show moreAssistant Professor Marcie Ray, of the Michigan State University College of Music, delivers a presentation entitled, "'Grease' and the remasculinization of America". Ray says that the film adaptation of the musical, "Grease," is a nostalgic look at 1950s rock and roll and, a particular masculine ideal. Ray also says that the movie spoke to a large segment of Americans who felt threatened by the rise of disco and it's associations with alternative masculinity and sexuality and that the film responds to what amounted to a moral panic about the death of rock music, because that death heralded the decline of white, middle-class, heterosexual dominance. MSU Music Librarian Mary Black Junttonen introduces Ray, as part of the MSU Libraries Colloquia Series, cosponsored by Music in American Life. Held in the MSU Main Library.
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Title: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the closing speech at the "Let Freedom Ring" ceremony commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom"
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2013-08-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Barack Obama delivers the closing speech at the "Let Freedom Ring" ceremony commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," held on August 28, 1963. Obama makes his remarks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the same spot where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. Obama reflects on King's legacy declaring, "to secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency." Obama...
Show morePresident Barack Obama delivers the closing speech at the "Let Freedom Ring" ceremony commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," held on August 28, 1963. Obama makes his remarks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the same spot where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. Obama reflects on King's legacy declaring, "to secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency." Obama says, "because they kept marching America changed." Reflecting on what has been accomplished Obama says, "we might not face the same dangers of 1963, but the fierce urgency of now remains." Fifth of five parts.
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Title: Rekindling the Afrocentric essence
Creator: Bamidele, Ololade
Date: 2001
Collection: Glendora Books Supplement
Description: Review of: Olusegun Oladipo (ed.). Remaking Africa: challenges of the twenty-first century. Ibadan: Hope Publications, 1998

Title: The impact of social change upon planning
Creator: Bloom, Laurence Jay
Date: 1975
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Substructural rates of change, and adoption and knowledge gaps in the diffusion of innovations
Creator: Galloway, John Julian, 1939-
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Social change and occupational mobility in urban Zambia
Creator: Mufune, Pempelani Oliver
Date: 1982
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Studying effect of the spatial autocorrelation on the social disorganization theory : replicating the study of Baller and his colleagues
Creator: Kim, In Gul
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The interplay between socio-cultural structures and two Muslim students' text-composing agencies : a critical realist analysis
Creator: Wheatley, Lance Aaron
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation is an exploration of how critical realism can help educational researchers think about the relationships between socio-cultural structures and the text-composing agency of youth in classrooms. By demonstrating how critical realism helps English educators understand the relationship between socio-cultural structures and two Muslim students' text--composing agencies, this work offers important theoretical, methodological and pedagogical implications. Theoretically, Archer's ...
Show moreThis dissertation is an exploration of how critical realism can help educational researchers think about the relationships between socio-cultural structures and the text-composing agency of youth in classrooms. By demonstrating how critical realism helps English educators understand the relationship between socio-cultural structures and two Muslim students' text--composing agencies, this work offers important theoretical, methodological and pedagogical implications. Theoretically, Archer's (1995) critical realist Morphogenetic theory can help scholars make sense of the interplay between structure and agency. Methodologically, Fairclough's (2003) critical realist Critical Discourse Analysis allows researchers to examine the interplay between socio-cultural structures and individuals' text-composing agency. What is unique to this work is that I put Archer's theory in conversation with Fairclough's methodology to create a general theoretical-methodological apparatus that can be used by researchers interested in questions of the ways socio-cultural structures affect text-composing agency and vice versa. Pedagogically, I show how an application of this theoretical-methodological approach illumines the interplay of Islamophobic socio-cultural structures and two Muslim students' text-composing agencies. One of the most important findings of this work is that if critical literacy scholars want students' texts to be a determining factor in positive social change, then students' texts need to be combined with the political influence of Corporate Agents (e.g. activist groups that have clear organization and a clear agenda).
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Title: De la resistencia a la revitalizacion cultural en la narrativa maya contemporanea
Creator: Moreno Mosqueda, Zenaida
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Esta disertación analiza cuatro obras de la narrativa maya contemporánea de Guatemala y Chiapas, México, publicadas entre las décadas de 1980 y 2000. Los textos elegidos para este estudio incluye las novelas El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (1985) de Luis de Lión, La otra cara: La vida de un maya (1992) y El retorno de los mayas (1998) de Gaspar Pedro González y la colección de cuentos Todo cambió (2006) de Josías López Gómez. Esta investigación estudia las transformaciones discursivas que se...
Show moreEsta disertación analiza cuatro obras de la narrativa maya contemporánea de Guatemala y Chiapas, México, publicadas entre las décadas de 1980 y 2000. Los textos elegidos para este estudio incluye las novelas El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (1985) de Luis de Lión, La otra cara: La vida de un maya (1992) y El retorno de los mayas (1998) de Gaspar Pedro González y la colección de cuentos Todo cambió (2006) de Josías López Gómez. Esta investigación estudia las transformaciones discursivas que se observan en las obras literarias de estos autores indígenas. Mi objetivo principal es demostrar que dichas transformaciones expresan la transición de un discurso maya contestatario a un discurso maya de revitalización cultural. Al examinar esta transición, esta disertación propone que la narrativa maya contemporánea trata los siguientes temas políticos, literarios e históricos: (1) problematiza categorías binarias de identidad racial y étnica como mestizo/ladino e indio/indígena así como su asociación al poder que se refleja en la relación entre hegemonía y subalternidad, (2) desestabiliza las representaciones estereotípicas y homogeneizantes de los pueblos indígenas para ilustrar su diversidad cultural y (3) enfatiza la capacidad y la determinación de los mayas para preservar su cultura y su identidad. Con este objetivo en mente, la disertación define el contexto histórico, sociocultural, político y artístico que precede la reaparición de la literatura maya contemporánea. Enseguida discute y analiza su discurso contestatario y el discurso de revitalización cultural así como la forma en que se manifiestan en las obras de los autores antes mencionados. La disertación concluye con una serie de ideas y temas aún pendientes en el estudio de la identidad indígena en la literatura maya contemporánea y latinoamericana.
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Title: Planned socio-cultural change in a British Honduran fishing village
Creator: Lord, David George
Date: 1967
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Typologies of change agents based on their accuracy in estimating community adoption level of innovation
Creator: Vitor, Vicente de Paula
Date: 1968
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: An analysis of two individualistic approaches to development in India
Creator: Downie, Masuma, 1942-
Date: 1976
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Being a good person in the system we already have will not save us" : interpreting how students embody and narrate the process of social change for sustainability using an agency/structure lens
Creator: Miller, Hannah K.
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: When undergraduates studying sustainability take action to make the change they want to see in their own lives, their communities, and the world, they often meet large, seemingly ossified systems that deflate their sense of efficacy. These students enter our classes and programs with a passion to effect change. The participants in this research, for example, dedicated a semester of their undergraduate careers to move to an ecological field station to study sustainability. During this semester...
Show moreWhen undergraduates studying sustainability take action to make the change they want to see in their own lives, their communities, and the world, they often meet large, seemingly ossified systems that deflate their sense of efficacy. These students enter our classes and programs with a passion to effect change. The participants in this research, for example, dedicated a semester of their undergraduate careers to move to an ecological field station to study sustainability. During this semester, participants worked to develop solutions to local environmental problems, but met various barriers to change during this process. How do students respond to these barriers? How do we, as educators, help construct opportunities for social transformation in the face of unsustainable, unjust, and inequitable systems? Using the agency/structure dialectic as a theoretical lens, this qualitative case study examined how students (a) narrate the process of social change for sustainability at various spatial scales, and (b) embody agency to work towards change for sustainability in their local contexts. Results suggest that students’ local experiences with sustainability work (e.g., classes, community problem-solving projects) are predictive of the way they then envision the process of social change for sustainability in abstract, leading to new and revised imagined futures. Results also suggest that not all students’ agency played a central role in shaping local systems, and therefore the ways they envision social change happening were constrained by their positionalities and experiences within their local communities.Implications for environmental and sustainability education programs include a call for long-term, collective action to (a) help our students examine their own narrated dialectics in time and space, (b) ensure our students have equitable opportunities to engage in local sustainability work, (c) develop a critical consciousness in predominantly White institutions about how local dialectics privilege White American narratives, (d) rethink what “local” means for racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in rural American spaces, and (e) consider how our students’ local experiences with sustainability and working for social change impacts their learning.
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Title: Strategies evolved in a development system of planned social change in rural East Pakistan : a study of the process of institution-building and its integration in the politico-administrative structure
Creator: Muyeed, Abdul
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Social networks in community change efforts
Creator: Lawlor, Jennifer A.
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: In recent years, community change efforts have taken on new approaches to collaborating to address complex problems. Several of these approaches, systemic action research, network action research, and collective impact, use similar strategies to promote collaboration. They are discussed here as networked community change efforts (NCC). While these approaches have been implemented widely, there has been limited empirical work examining the extent to which they yield efficient networks for...
Show moreIn recent years, community change efforts have taken on new approaches to collaborating to address complex problems. Several of these approaches, systemic action research, network action research, and collective impact, use similar strategies to promote collaboration. They are discussed here as networked community change efforts (NCC). While these approaches have been implemented widely, there has been limited empirical work examining the extent to which they yield efficient networks for information sharing among stakeholders. In this analysis, I employ agent-based modeling (ABM) to examine these approaches under ideal and practical conditions. I first created an ABM to demonstrate the extent to which NCCs are efficient under ideal conditions. This model indicated that NCCs could successfully create networks to efficiently share information. Next, I conducted a qualitative content analysis of published accounts of NCCs focusing to evaluate the challenges that occur during implementation. Four key themes emerged from this analysis, suggesting that challenges in NCCs include: unsuccessful organizers, non-homophilous stakeholders, stakeholder turnover, and stakeholder power dynamics. Finally, I created a refined model, integrating the challenges from the qualitative analysis to understand efficiency under practical conditions. This model indicates that each of these problems poses a threat to creating efficient networks. In the future, stakeholders working in NCCs should consider the role these challenges might play and plan to adapt their efforts accordingly.
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