scholarly journals Making Rebels: The New Zealand Socialist Party, 1901-1913

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark Dunick
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
National Organisation

<p>The New Zealand Socialist Party (NZSP) was the first radical socialist party in this country. The decade in which it existed was a time of rapid social change. The NZSP began in 1901 as a reaction against the Liberal Party which dominated New Zealand politics at the time. In its first five years the party had two main branches in Wellington and Christchurch, but it grew rapidly after 1907 with the expansion of industrial unionism. The NZSP was overshadowed by the Federation of Labour and never developed a coherent national organisation. As the working class began to organise nationally to challenge the Massey Government, the NZSP failed to adapt to the new political situation and dissolved in 1913.  The party began as a group of marginal outsiders, but as society changed and class became an important political factor, the NZSP played an important role in spreading new ideas and educating a generation of socialists. When the NZSP ended in 1913 the ideas it had promoted were widely accepted among New Zealand’s organised working class.</p>

scholarly journals Making Rebels: The New Zealand Socialist Party, 1901-1913

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark Dunick
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
National Organisation

<p>The New Zealand Socialist Party (NZSP) was the first radical socialist party in this country. The decade in which it existed was a time of rapid social change. The NZSP began in 1901 as a reaction against the Liberal Party which dominated New Zealand politics at the time. In its first five years the party had two main branches in Wellington and Christchurch, but it grew rapidly after 1907 with the expansion of industrial unionism. The NZSP was overshadowed by the Federation of Labour and never developed a coherent national organisation. As the working class began to organise nationally to challenge the Massey Government, the NZSP failed to adapt to the new political situation and dissolved in 1913.  The party began as a group of marginal outsiders, but as society changed and class became an important political factor, the NZSP played an important role in spreading new ideas and educating a generation of socialists. When the NZSP ended in 1913 the ideas it had promoted were widely accepted among New Zealand’s organised working class.</p>

Politics of Tradition

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Fer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
Island States ◽  
Bodily Movements

This chapter shows how the histories of Polynesian island nations are very much bound up with Christianity. The growth of charismatic movements in Polynesia, against a backdrop of rapid social change and transnational circulations between the island states and strong diasporic communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, has resulted in a type of “nonconformist liberation.” Polynesian youth are drawn to the more individuated understanding of moral consciousness, as well as the new possibilities for bodily movements and cultural expression such as dance. Thus, local culture, the chapter suggests, might in fact have a positive moral valency for contemporary Christians.

scholarly journals Elaborating Funds of Knowledge: Community-Oriented Practices in International Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis C. Moll
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
New Ideas

This article discusses a sociocultural approach we have developed, which we refer to as funds of knowledge. The emphasis of the funds of knowledge work has been to develop both theory and methods through which educators can approach and document the funds of knowledge of families and re-present them on the bases of the knowledge, resources, and strengths they possess, thus challenging deficit orientations that are so dominant, in particular, in the education of working-class children. In this article, I present a translocation view of funds of knowledge and what we can learn theoretically and methodologically from this body of work. I review four studies conducted in different countries and sociocultural contexts. In each context, the researchers reorient the concept of funds of knowledge to address issues germane to their settings. The four studies from New Zealand, Spain, Australia, and Uganda used funds of knowledge to generate new ideas and positionalities regarding work with teachers, students, and families. None of the projects simply replicated the original studies conducted in the United States. The four studies documented empirically and represent pedagogically families and students as resourceful and helped educators arrange environments that are academically sound and strongly oriented to building on such resources for learning.

Transitions, local culture and human dignity

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ani Wierenga
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Rapid Social Change

Rural towns are made up of people who want to be here, people who need to be here and people who want to get out. This article focuses on the narratives of working-class young men who want to stay in their home town. For these individuals, rapid social change is presenting one complex series of challenges, while contemporary social policies are presenting yet another. I argue that entrenched ways of thinking about social problems are compounded by ‘silos’ within research traditions. In the context of this study, when research enquiries about young people’s transitions are informed by their narratives about identity, their explanations of cultural practices and resources and an understanding of the role of cultures of trust, shifts in understanding become possible. Acknowledging the ways in which these distinct areas of study are integrally related brings new sociological insights, methodological possibilities, alongside implications for policy and practice.

Pendidikan Islam dan Humanitas

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-355
Author(s):  
Mohammad Liwa Irrubai
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Educational Objectives ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Human Problem

Today, the human problem in social life concerning education is growing more complex; many new ideas emerge as the level of human intellectuality grows. This paper will reveal the current issue of education in Indonesia and discuss ideas from the concept of liberal education. The basic issue of education criticized by liberal education is that education today focuses more on the needs of society than the educational objectives themselves. Education as a tool to transfer science, values, and agents of social change is seen as one alternative solution in the framework of improving people's lives. The education in which values are embodied is one of the efforts offered by genuine liberal education, aimed at giving us the habits, ideas and techniques necessary to continue our own education. Humans have the ability to learn continuously throughout life so that we can prepare ourselves to study and again as long as we are alive.

The History of ‘the Reading Public’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Collini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Victorian Periodicals

This chapter argues that accounts of ‘the reading public’ are always fundamentally historical, usually involving stories of ‘growth’ or ‘decline’. It examines Q. D. Leavis’s Fiction and the Reading Public, which builds a relentlessly pessimistic critique of the debased standards of the present out of a highly selective account of literature and its publics since the Elizabethan period. It goes on to exhibit the complicated analysis of the role of previous publics in F. R. Leavis’s revisionist literary history, including his ambivalent admiration for the great Victorian periodicals. And it shows how Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy carries an almost buried interpretation of social change from the nineteenth century onwards, constantly contrasting the vibrant and healthy forms of entertainment built up in old working-class communities with the slick, commercialized reading matter introduced by post-1945 prosperity.

scholarly journals Emotions in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reflexive emotionalisation in a colonised context

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092199530
Author(s):  
Mary Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
Feeling Rules

Reflexive emotionalisation means increased thinking about and acting on emotional experiences in response to major changes to social life, such as those accompanying colonisation. This article explains and develops this novel concept, assessing its usefulness through an exploratory assessment of reflexive emotionalisation in the formation of Aotearoa New Zealand as a colonised settler state. It is argued that as cultures met and sought to coexist, emotions were vital. Focusing on reflexive emotionalisation in Aotearoa reveals how differences in feeling rules were navigated, sometimes in violent ways, as power shifted towards the colonisers. Feelings of belonging are important in that ongoing process of reflexive emotionalisation, the elucidation of which provides a new understanding of social change and settler state formation that avoids casting colonised peoples as passive objects of ‘progress’ brought by colonisers.

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