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...social, community and work contexts. HIGHLIGHTEDREFERENT POWER Power comes from social standing. Community leaders can have power because people relate to them as reliable and/or inspirational. Trade union leaders can inspire workers to collectivise and take action. Other examples include celebrities and social media influencers. People can exert power from more than one...

...social dreaming matrix to investigate the impact of art on climate change awareness. This topic too provides a methodological test case, because aesthetic experience eludes scientific or cognitive dominated methodologies; also because climate change is so painful to face that it needs methods going beyond denial, disavowal and projection. Free association narrative...

...social life and the norms establish how people should behave, while institutional development is about changing the rules. Meanings help people make sense of their lives and values indicate what is good or bad, while institutional development brings in new values. The big players are individuals and organisations with the power to shape social life, while institutional...

...Social Policy and Criminology, reflects on political change within the UK and the global response to economic inequalities young people face...[A protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest, 2011.] A protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest, 2011. Global discontent Inequality is one of, if not the biggest, problems of our time. Unfettered global capitalism has given...