Dick Flacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 321363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dick Flacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dick |
| FAMILY NAME | Flacks |
| SIGNATURE | FLACKS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Information Technology and Participatory Democracy: Some Considerations
Please read the following in light of the following biographical context: I was one of the several dozen students who met together at Port Huron, Michigan in June 1962 to found the Students for a Democratic Society and draft the Port Huron Statement. That experience marked me for life. For me, the phrase ‘participatory democracy’, despite its awkwardness, encapsulates what’s essential for defining the good society and for criticizing established …
Working Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song
Ken Burns’s recently released epic documentary Country Music was constructed on the observation that this major stream of American popular culture originated with and was propelled by working class
Music and Movements: The Tradition Continues
A questão da relevância nos estudos dos movimentos sociais
A colaboração entre Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow e Doug McAdam traduziu-se num quadro conceptual que hoje domina os estudos dos movimentos sociais. O trabalho destes autores teve a utilidade de dirigir a atenção para as determinações estruturais das acções de protesto, ao acentuar as oportunidades externas, as ameaças e os constrangimentos que explicam a emergência e evolução dos movimentos. Sucede, no entanto, que os estudos dos movimentos socia…
Patriotism and Progressivism
Many Americans believe that the left is “anti-patriotic” (and even anti-American) whereas the political right truly expresses the American spirit and reveres its symbols. Particularly since the late 1960s-when the movement against U.S. intervention in Vietnam gained momentum-the terms “progressive” and “patriotism” have rarely been used in the same sentence, at least in the mainstream media. It has become conventional wisdom that conservatives wa…
Thinking about strategy in a dark time
The Sociology Liberation Movement: Some Legacies and Lessons
Making History vs. Making Life: Dilemmas of an American Left
The Sociology Liberation Movement: Some Legacies and Lessons
A questão da relevância nos estudos dos movimentos sociais
A colaboração entre Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow e Doug McAdam traduziu-se num quadro conceptual que hoje domina os estudos dos movimentos sociais. O trabalho destes autores teve a utilidade de dirigir a atenção para as determinações estruturais das acções de protesto, ao acentuar as oportunidades externas, as ameaças e os constrangimentos que explicam a emergência e evolução dos movimentos. Sucede, no entanto, que os estudos dos movimentos socia…
Patriotism and Progressivism
Many Americans believe that the left is “anti-patriotic” (and even anti-American) whereas the political right truly expresses the American spirit and reveres its symbols. Particularly since the late 1960s-when the movement against U.S. intervention in Vietnam gained momentum-the terms “progressive” and “patriotism” have rarely been used in the same sentence, at least in the mainstream media. It has become conventional wisdom that conservatives wa…
Making History vs. Making Life: Dilemmas of an American Left
Thinking about strategy in a dark time
Making History vs. Making Life: Dilemmas of an American Left
The Sociology Liberation Movement: Some Legacies and Lessons
Thinking about strategy in a dark time
Patriotism and Progressivism
Many Americans believe that the left is “anti-patriotic” (and even anti-American) whereas the political right truly expresses the American spirit and reveres its symbols. Particularly since the late 1960s-when the movement against U.S. intervention in Vietnam gained momentum-the terms “progressive” and “patriotism” have rarely been used in the same sentence, at least in the mainstream media. It has become conventional wisdom that conservatives wa…
A questão da relevância nos estudos dos movimentos sociais
A colaboração entre Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow e Doug McAdam traduziu-se num quadro conceptual que hoje domina os estudos dos movimentos sociais. O trabalho destes autores teve a utilidade de dirigir a atenção para as determinações estruturais das acções de protesto, ao acentuar as oportunidades externas, as ameaças e os constrangimentos que explicam a emergência e evolução dos movimentos. Sucede, no entanto, que os estudos dos movimentos socia…
Music and Movements: The Tradition Continues
Working Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song
Ken Burns’s recently released epic documentary Country Music was constructed on the observation that this major stream of American popular culture originated with and was propelled by working class
Information Technology and Participatory Democracy: Some Considerations
Please read the following in light of the following biographical context: I was one of the several dozen students who met together at Port Huron, Michigan in June 1962 to found the Students for a Democratic Society and draft the Port Huron Statement. That experience marked me for life. For me, the phrase ‘participatory democracy’, despite its awkwardness, encapsulates what’s essential for defining the good society and for criticizing established …
Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)