Public relations and business responses to the civil rights movement

Russell, Karen Miller; Lamme, Margot Opdycke

doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.09.008

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“…The understanding of public relations in this article is in line with what Lamme and Russell (2009, p. 335) call the strategic intent to work for profit (including fund raising), recruitment (including volunteers), legitimacy, agitation, advocacy and to reduce fear (Russel and Lamme, 2013). Three elementary principles of public relation should still be in place: (1) public attention, (2) competition in society and (3) a public sphere.…”

Section: Methodological and Theoretical Premisessupporting

confidence: 56%

“…The uniforms also show who they are representing (the state), and the public and opinion will know how the police treat people with deviating opinions, which can also be seen as an invitation to debate in the public sphere on the role of the police, and could help to reduce the suspicion of corruption in government, making room for PR activities (cf. Bentele, 2015;Lamme and Russel, 2009;Russel and Lamme, 2013).…”

Section: Historical Accounts For Trust In Scandinaviamentioning

confidence: 99%

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How trust was maintained in Scandinavia through the first crisis of modernity

Dahlen

Skirbekk

2021

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PurposeThe aim of this article is to explain why there is a higher degree of trust in some countries compared to others – and which are the main historical factors that explain these differences. The main focus is on how governments relate to and communicate with its citizens in the times of crises.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based on comparative historical sociology with a modernity perspective with a special focus on Norway and Scandinavia. The authors do a parallel demonstration of history to confirm and expand the theories that could explain the high level of trust in these countries. The authors also bring in the Spanish experience in order to testify how governmental reactions affected the different levels of trust.FindingsScandinavian governments allowed open communication between different social classes on difficult and important issues, in contrast to Spain in the same period. These two factors therefore expand the understanding of the development of trust: (1) The establishment of the nation state as the organising concept and all-encompassing container of the other institutions (democracy, parliamentarism, trade unions, etc.); (2) The open hand strategy in dealing with deviant opinions, based on democratic compromises and a policing of consent ideology.Originality/valueThe article combines the understanding of the first crisis of modernity and the development of trust and contain a comparative analysis of the development of trust in four different countries. The investigation thus clarifies the correlation between specific historical factors and the levels of trust.

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Section: Methodological and Theoretical Premisessupporting

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Section: Historical Accounts For Trust In Scandinaviamentioning

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How trust was maintained in Scandinavia through the first crisis of modernity

Dahlen

Skirbekk

2021

CCIJ

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“…Grunig's (1986) examination of activist publics perhaps the first foundational piece. L. A. Grunig looked broadly across many cases of contemporary activism, rather than focusing on historical case studies as other scholars have done (e.g., Bourland-Davis, Thompson, & Brooks 2010;Hon, 1997;Lamme, 2003;Perkins, 2005;Russell & Lamme, 2013;Straughan, 2004). L. A. Grunig's original work was developed later within the framework of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABCs) Excellence study, which provided positive and normative theory about how organizations manage relationships with publics, including activist groups (L. A.…”

Section: Digital Media Advocacy and Mobilization Of Publicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Social Advocacy in the Justice for Trayvon Campaign

Hon

2015

Journal of Public Relations Research

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This study examined the digital media ecosystem that developed during the Justice for Trayvon campaign prior to the arrest of Trayvon Martin's killer, George Zimmerman. Research literature in public relations, social advocacy, and digital communication, as well as content relevant to the campaign in Lexis=Nexis and on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, were used to develop a theoretical model of digital social advocacy within the context of public relations management.

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“…. than to lower class black employees" (Russell and Lamme, 2013). Ultimately, Congress intervened by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which included the establishment of the EEOC to enforce laws against workplace discrimination.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Social progress and corporate culture

Gorton¹,

Zentefis

2022

Industrial and Corporate Change

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Social progress through improved treatment of minority groups (e.g., forbidding racial or sexual harassment) may or may not spread to corporate cultures through competition. We provide a theory of corporate culture, and we show that emergent, progressive corporate cultures can displace existing, regressive ones when the prevailing wage gap is large between majority and minority groups. The model provides testable predictions on racial and gender wage gaps across firms.

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Public relations and business responses to the civil rights movement

Cited by 16 publications

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How trust was maintained in Scandinavia through the first crisis of modernity

How trust was maintained in Scandinavia through the first crisis of modernity

Digital Social Advocacy in the Justice for Trayvon Campaign

Social progress and corporate culture

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