World Society Divided: Divergent Trends in State Responses to Sexual Minorities and Their Reflection in Public Attitudes

Hadler, Markus; Symons, Jonathan

doi:10.1093/sf/soy019

Cited by 46 publications

(64 citation statements)

References 50 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…World society has seen massive numbers of social movement organizations, international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and intergovernmental organizations promoting human rights, democracy, environmental protection, transparency, and education itself (Boli and Thomas 1999;Meyer, Frank, et al 1997;Ramirez et al 2016;Schofer and Longhofer 2011;Smith 2007;Suárez and Bromley 2012). Much empirical work focuses on movements generally seen as progressive, but oppositional and reactionary movements also rise to prominence and are increasingly organized on a global scale (Hadler and Symons 2018).…”

Section: Empowered Mobilization and Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Proponents of global agendas tend to be more schooled than their critics (Kamens 2012; The Economist 2016). For instance, major international organizations have mobilized heavily around women’s rights and LGBT rights, and they have faced varying degrees of opposition from conservative religious and political groups in the global North and South (Hadler and Symons 2018). Individuals, organizations, and national states, acting on globalized frames, can readily find grounds for conflict rooted in issues of interest and identity organized on very large scales.…”

Section: Higher Education and The Rationalized Global Society And Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Societal Consequences of Higher Education

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The advent of mass schooling played a pivotal role in European societies of the later nineteenth century, transforming rural peasants into national citizens. The late-twentieth-century global expansion of higher education ushered in new transformations, propelling societal rationalization and organizing, and knitting the world into a more integrated society and economy. We address four key dynamics: (1) Higher education sustains the modern professions and contributes to the rationalization of society and state. (2) The supranational and universalistic orientation of higher education provides elites with shared global cultural frames and identities, facilitating globalization. (3) Consequently, tertiary education provides a foundation for major global movements and sociopolitical change around diverse issues, such as human rights and environmental protection as well as potentially contentious religious and cultural solidarities. (4) Higher education contributes to the reorganization of the economy, creating new monetarized activities and facilitating the reconceptualization of activities distant from material production as economic. In short, many features of the contemporary world arise from the growing legions of people steeped in common forms of higher education. Panel regression models of contemporary cross-national longitudinal data examine these relationships. We find higher-education enrollments are associated with key dimensions of rationalization, globalization, societal mobilization, and expansion of the service economy. Central features of modern society, often seen as natural, in fact hinge on the distinctive form of higher education that has become institutionalized worldwide.

show abstract

Section: Empowered Mobilization and Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Higher Education and The Rationalized Global Society And Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Societal Consequences of Higher Education

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The reverse also holds: individuals with low education levels that are intolerant of homosexuality are more likely to participate in states espousing political homophobia. Recent research has established international divergence in both the national regulation of sexuality and public attitudes towards it (Roberts 2018;Hadler and Symons 2018). However, it is not clear what these divergent trends in state homophobia or state recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) i rights mean for political participation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Do Opponents of Gay Rights Mobilize? Explaining Political Participation in Times of Backlash against Liberalism

Ayoub

Page

2019

Political Research Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Existing research suggests that supporters of gay rights have outmobilized their opponents, leading to policy changes in advanced industrialized democracies. At the same time, we observe the diffusion of state-sponsored homophobia in many parts of the world. The emergence of gay rights as a salient political issue in global politics leads us to ask, “Who is empowered to be politically active in various societies?” What current research misses is a comparison of levels of participation (voting and protesting) between states that make stronger and weaker appeals to homophobia. Voters face contrasting appeals from politicians in favor of and against gay rights globally. In an analysis of survey data from Europe and Latin America, we argue that the alignment between the norms of sexuality a state promotes and an individual’s personal attitudes on sexuality increases felt political efficacy. We find that individuals who are tolerant of homosexuality are more likely to participate in states with gay-friendly policies in comparison with intolerant individuals. The reverse also holds: individuals with low education levels that are intolerant of homosexuality are more likely to participate in states espousing political homophobia.

show abstract

“…These beliefs and attitudes are taken as evidence of diffusion at the individual level because they capture knowledge and awareness of global scripts, while recognizing that people may simultaneously hold multiple, contradictory beliefs and attitudes (Pierotti 2013:261-262). Several individual and national level predictors that are positively associated with attitudes aligned with global scripts include a person's education, media use, urban living, and Christian religious membership, as well as the number of transnational organizations present in their country Givens and Jorgenson 2013;Hadler 2012;Hadler and Symons 2018;Hadler et al 2012;Marquart-Pyatt 2012;Pandian 2018;Pierotti 2013;Zhou 2013; see also Roberts 2018;Wang and Schofer 2018). By transnational organizations, scholars refer either to intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) or international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs).…”

Section: Media and Attitudes About Violence Against Women Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The specific contents of such proxy predictors-that is, how global scripts flow through these mechanisms and what other messages may flow through them-is generally not examined. Moreover, the importance of competing scripts at the individual level is acknowledged, but seldom specifically theorized or measured Hadler and Symons 2018). Competing scripts may flow through the same sources of information as global scripts, thereby conflating proxy measures of exposure to global scripts.…”

Section: Media and Attitudes About Violence Against Women Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People's Moral Declarations about Men's Violence against Women

Swindle¹

2018

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Lay people around the world are aware of many global cultural scripts, but the specific pathways through which they are exposed to global and competing scripts remain abstract. I address this theoretical issue through an analysis in contemporary Malawi. I show how transnational organizations promoted media content laden with global scripts denouncing violence against women, while foreign media entertainment organizations spread and inspired content that normalized violence. Exposure to these unique media sources influenced people’s attitudes in opposite directions. Global and competing scripts both may be diffused within the same general source of information and have distinct effects.

show abstract

World Society Divided: Divergent Trends in State Responses to Sexual Minorities and Their Reflection in Public Attitudes

Cited by 46 publications

References 50 publications

The Societal Consequences of Higher Education

The Societal Consequences of Higher Education

When Do Opponents of Gay Rights Mobilize? Explaining Political Participation in Times of Backlash against Liberalism

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People's Moral Declarations about Men's Violence against Women

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About