Journal Social Humanity Perspective

Gendered Narratives in Climate Justice and the Role of Women’s Leadership in Environmental Movements

Arjuna Damar — 2025-11-19

It is a qualitative inquiry that examines how the central role of female leadership in shaping gendered discourses in climate justice movements is done, and how their agency and practical actions reshape environmental activism and social justice. Drawing upon extensive in-depth interviews with women leaders in a range of environmental movements, the analysis shows that they understand climate justice in terms of an intersectional approach of ecological stewardship in relation to the well-being of communities, cultural identity, and gender equality. Their stories highlight the relationship between the environmental degradation and social inequality, thus highlighting the need to have a combined and inclusive leadership to achieve sustainable solutions. Despite their irreplaceable roles, women still face institutional barriers including patriarchal marginalization, economic marginalization and restricted access to decision making spaces. Using the thematic analysis, this work determines how women transform these limitations into opportunities to take innovative and community-based climate action. Its results dispute existing technocratic, male-dominated leadership paradigms and suggests a more comprehensive approach to environmental governance with empathy, collaboration, and indigenous local expertise as its priority. This research has implications on management and policymaking, which propose gender-responsive policies that would institutionalize the leadership of women in climate governance. In the end, the work also claims that climate justice cannot be achieved without gender justice because the female leadership is not only redressing but transformational to the world environmental organizations.

Social Media Influence on Youth Identity Formation in Urban Communities

Rina Kartika — 2025-12-02

This research studies how social media affects the identity construction of persons that are found in urban community and the research question is placed in the broader disciplinary huminge of management and organizational research. The high-speed and high rate of digital platform expansion has fundamentally altered the way young people select the structures by which identity, affiliation, and self-expression are experienced, more so in the vibrantly interconnected urban environment. Quantitative research design was adopted whereby survey data were restrictively tapped to the urban youth cohorts and in the next step analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics which include correlation analysis and implementing regression model and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings suggest that social media participation poses a strong relationship among the dimensions of identities such as self-presentation, peer affiliation and internalization of values, whereas consumption patterns, online interaction and management of visibility display strong social and organizational outcome and hence a growing fact and convergence between youth that relies on brand culture, political talks and consumer behaviours. The study contributes by filling gaps in the available literature that largely are of a qualitative or Western-dominated nature, giving the advantages of an empirical source of information based on a non-Western urban environment, and thus enhancing a more globally indicative perspective of identity formation during the digital age. These implications of these results are not limited to the sociological discourse, as they also can be actively implemented into the work of a manager in a variety of fields, including youth engagement, brand strategy, human resource development, policy programs designed to provide more people with digital literacy. Overall, the paper highlights that social media is both a transformative and a contentious space in which youth identities will be constructions, fights, and commodities as the mechanism of creating and constructing them knows no end within structural forces of urbanity life today.

Reimagining Masculinity through Shifts in Male Identity in Contemporary Popular Culture

Cinta Cinta — 2025-12-03

This qualitative research paper explores the masculinity rebranding in the current popular culture, that is, how the phenomenon of masculine identities in the contemporary society is being challenged by hybrid-emotional and intersectional representations. Through exposure to media texts, social media posts, and semi-structured interviews of the youth, the study aims to identify the level to which traditional hegemonic masculinity still exists where other forms of masculinity gain more visibility. The results suggest that popular culture is becoming more reflective of men as able to express emotion, flexible in their aesthetic expression, and able to portray multiple identities, which may be undermining strict ideas of gender roles. Nevertheless, the ideals of hegemonic masculinity are still strong, especially in the genres of action movies, sports press, and gaming subcultures, which are rooted in the primordial social and company concept of being tough, dominant, and stoic. The paper highlights how the cultural industries and digital platforms can control as well as commodify masculinity where identity changes are packaged to suit consumer tastes and market rationales. These changes have far reached repercussions in the area of management and organizational research with implications especially in the field of leadership, diversity and workplace culture. Relational and inclusive models of leadership can be found in emotional openness, hybridity, and intersectional masculinities, whereas structural constraints of the persistence of hegemonic masculinity remain in the workplace to determine norms and authority. This study adds to the body of gender theory and management literature by conceptualizing masculinity as a cultural and managerial project, and highlighting the fact that continuity and change in male identities are a negotiation. The paper provides feedback on the ways that modern organizations and media producers can relate to shifting masculinities to create more inclusive and dynamic practices.