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SOCIAL TERM: Βιομηχανική Κοινωνία / Industrial Society
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
RELATED TERMS: Καπιταλισμός/Capitalism
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Επαγωγή / Induction
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Methodological
SOCIAL TERM: Εκβιομηχάνιση / Industrialization
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
RELATED TERMS: Καπιταλισμός/Capitalism
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Ερμηνευτικές πλαισιώσεις της αδικίας / Injustice frames
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
RELATED TERMS: Πλαίσιο/Frame
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): «Students of social movements with different orientations share an emphasis on the importance of a strong injustice component in the political consciousness that supports collective action. The main challenge on this point comes from those who accept that a sense of grievance is necessary but argue that it is so ubiquitous that it lacks any explanatory value. But the view that grievances have little explanatory value, since it is so easy for leaders or organizations to link more elaborate world views with the sufferings of the “lower orders,” has not prevailed. Most contemporary analysts treat it as no simple matter to explain how the indignities of daily life are sometimes transformed into a shared grievance with a focused target of collective action. […] A sense of injustice is not merely an abstract intellectual judgment about what is fair but is what psychologists call a “hot cognition” (Zajonc, R.B. 1980. “Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences”. American Psychologist 35: 151–175). The heat is intimately related to beliefs about what acts or conditions have caused people to suffer undeserved hardship […] if one attributes undeserved suffering to malicious or selfish acts by clearly identifiable persons or groups, the emotional component of an injustice frame will almost certainly be there […] More specifically, an injustice frame requires that motivated human actors carry some of the onus for bringing about harm and suffering. These actors may be corporations, government agencies, or specifiable groups rather than individuals. They may be presented as malicious, but selfishness, greed, negligence, and indifference may be sufficient to produce indignation» (Gamson 2013: 319).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις
REFERENCE: Gamson, David. 2013. “Injustice frames.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Edited by Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 319-320.
SOCIAL TERM: Λειτουργικοί δεσμοί / Instrumental ties
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
RELATED TERMS: Εκφραστικοί δεσμοί/Expressive ties
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): «Instrumental ties are social links formed when we cooperate with other people to achieve some goal. Occasionally, this may mean working with our enemies. More often, we simply cooperate with others to reach some end without endowing the relationship with any larger significance.» (Hughes and Kroehler 2009: 98).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις
REFERENCE:
REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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