Group Action (Sociology)
- "Climate Future Could Be Decided In The Courts." YaleGlobal Online (2015). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
- Larkin, Paul J., Jr. "Public choice theory and occupational licensing." Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Winter 2016: 291+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
- Hiatt, Shon R., Jake B. Grandy, and Brandon H. Lee. "Organizational responses to public and private politics: an analysis of climate change activists and U.S. oil and gas firms." Organization Science 26.6 (2015): 1769+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Feb. 2016
- Bixler, Robert D., J. Joy James, and Carin E. Vadala. "Environmental socialization incidents with implications for the expanded role of interpretive naturalists in providing natural history experiences." Journal of Interpretation Research 16.1 (2011): 35+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
For group action I wanted to add cases where historically there is evidence of group action taking place. In most activism movements there is group action involved. There are women’s activists and there are moments in history where people take action in the environmental sense like the first earth day in 1970 where a large number of people suddenly worked together and marched to realize that they are not alone in this want for environmental change. I also wanted to focus on how group action can be achieved through certain organizations and how they can shift a demographics point of view to take action. I also wanted to focuses on the practice of group action within law making and how it takes group action within the judicial system to later create a new ideal for society due to the implication of law.
- Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 38: 159-179 (Volume publication date August 2012)
First published online as a Review in Advance on April 5, 2012
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145518
"Groups constitute social order, just as groups are themselves constituted by that order." The focus of small groups has been key in understanding people in sociology, but as time has gone on the focus on the interactions and webbing of each group has been vital in understanding how a each small group can create a society or capital of people to create a structure for these small groups to exists in.
Add a section that focuses on examples of group action in America, the First Earth Day is a huge example of it and is seen as turning point for group action in modern society. Prior to 1970 group action had a lot to do with a groups, morals, belief systems, etc. But After 1970 it was realized that group action can also be about political change where a group of people with a belief gather people together with the same belief to make change. The 1970's Earth Day did just that. Many people who were worried about the earth in different ways didn't know that everyone else felt that way as well. Until the organizer of Earth Day rallied the country together and took a giant group action towards the earths health.
Infrastructure
- Qi, Wei, Yong Liang, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen. "Joint planning of energy storage and transmission for wind energy generation." Operations Research Nov.-Dec. 2015: 1280+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
- Tarr, Joel A. "Confronting infrastructure." The Wilson Quarterly 17.2 (1993): 152+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
- Ben-Shahar, Omri, and Kyle Logue. "The unintended effects of government-subsidized weather insurance: these programs are a boon to the wealthy and encourage development in disaster-prone areas." Regulation 38.3 (2015): 24+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
For this article I want to add information on what infrastructural systems are like in different parts of the world on not just America. I also want to add cases of major infrastructural failure; I feel this may not be a good choice, especially for the Wikipedia space. I also wanted to add information on different types of infrastructure, it would focuses on major governmental projects, everyday architectural infrastructure, as well as energy infrastructure, which is how energy and resources are shared within metropolitan and towns all over the world. I am also on the hunt for information on maintenance and the average life span of modern day infrastructures. I also want to add info about old infrastructure, like the coliseums and Greek buildings like the pantheon and Parthenon.
High Society (Social Class)
- Vicdan, Handan, and A. Fuat Fırat. "Evolving Desire To Experience The Social ‘Other’: Insights From The High-Society Bazaar." Journal Of Consumer Culture 15.2 (2015): 248-276. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Feb. 2016
- Starr, Roger. "'Old money': the Making of America's Upper Class." Commentary 86.2 (1988): 71+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
- Riley, Naomi Schaefer. "The left's guide to the class divide: a new book on the split between rich and poor America has found favor among liberals who resist the solution." Commentary 139.5 (2015): 36+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
- Nishi, Akihiro, et al. "Inequality and visibility of wealth in experimental social networks." Nature 526.7573 (2015): 426+. Academic OneFile. Web. 2 Mar. 2016.
For this article, I wanted to add more information. I wanted to add information on cases where members of high society have received better treatment than those from lower society. I also wanted to create a portion that focuses on what high society is made up of and how it affects America, in the sense that they are big decision makers and have more say in what happens in the world naturally through higher rank. I also wanted to focuses on this history of the high society in America and where it rests today. Much of the old money that was made in America has carried generations today and allows them to continue to be in high society. I want to ad facts about some examples of high society families that have roots deep in American past. I also wanted to look and add information that focuses on what it means socially to be part of high society, how their culture is and how they carry themselves. How high society interacts and connects to lower society and what role they play in lower societies life.
- High society and leisure class go hand in hand. High society is a group of people that attend certain event, parties, and auctions based on their social class. The flashiness of the high society has changed but it still exists arguable among celebrities.
- High society is less visible due to the crave of privacy where-as in the 19th century pages were published with high societies addresses and the events the attended. All eyes on them.
Grossman, Jonathan H. "The Labor of the Leisured in Emma: Class, Manners, and Austen." Studies in Family Planning 30.3 (1999): 143. Student Resources in Context. Web. 2 Mar. 2016.
- This source helps in a way by understanding the labour put on those in the leisure class, or high society. They are brought into a way of life with sometimes little choice. Arranged marriages, specific manners, and certain social expectations that aren't brought onto the lower class.
For High Society there are very little facts beyond what it was in the 19th Century. I kept digging and digging for days to maybe find it in accordance with todays wealth or maybe high society exists among celebrities. It does not. Technically high society is something of the past, high society was something was a group of people legitimately labeled as high society. It mainly existed in America and no where else. There are people like socialites but that still doesn't count as high society. I thought maybe I could find evidence of high Society in the Great Britain but I also had no such luck with that. :(