This article reviews historical transformations in the mainstream theoretical endeavors to address the ideational/cognitive aspects of social action. The review is a historically contextualized examination of changes in relevant mainstream social theories of ‘ideation’ or ‘cognition’ in...

This paper attempts to show the emergence of a new ideological trend within the global field of resistance against the corporate-led globalization. This ideological trend, coined here the alter-globalization trend, is ideal-typically constructed in terms of its associated mode of social thought....