Supporting creative grassroots interventions for meaningful social change
A few models for engagement with culture and emotion – useful for courses but also as a start for grappling with the question of how to intervene in culture: Organizing: Community Coalition of South LA Digital manipulation: Google Ads for Social Engineering Inclusive entrepreneurship: JornARTleros (scroll down for English si lo quiere) Movies: Charles D. King […]
The pandemic that hit the world in March 2020 intensified and complicated inequalities, throwing established social structures into chaos and creating new opportunities for meaningful change. The CaSIG Summit on Race, Class, and Gender brought together rising experts to develop ideas to meet this pivotal moment, using the lenses of intersectionality and systems thinking among […]
The pandemic changed the cultural landscape and introduced a landslide of new mental and emotional burdens into countless lives. The CaSIG Summits on Cultural Emotions brought together over 70 rising cultural sociologists to untangle the factors impacting lives and create strategies to support new systems of belief and action. These scholars began with qualitative interviews […]
… according to the students themselves? Faculty, staff, and administrators try hard to support students but often end up disconnected from student experience. The Civic Learning Summit took the opposite approach, bringing 28 students together for 5 months to develop and execute their own proposals to help students thrive at Cal State LA. Working alongside […]
The Fall 2019 CaSIG Summits on Cultural Change brought over 150 students together to think through promising strategies to create meaningful change in the beliefs, values, and other cultural patterns that influence social structures. Along with their proposals for change, this group engaged directly in cultural change work both in person and via social media. […]