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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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#QuarantineChallenge2k20: Leisure in the Time of the Pandemic

TL;DR: The authors examines constraints on leisure imposed by the global pandemic, how people responded to them, and the lessons it taught us about the place of leisur in the world, and how to adapt to such constraints.

Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum.

TL;DR: A. N. Whitehead as discussed by the authors discusses the notion of becoming as a process and the difficulty of remembering the past in the context of the future of time and the possibility of forgetting the past.
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“Hearts with one purpose alone”? Thinking personal sustainability in social movements

TL;DR: The authors argue that emotional sustainability is only one aspect of personal sustainability in social movements, and use the example of WB Yeats' response to the 1916 Easter Rising to highlight the importance of locating this in place, time and culture.
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Developments in the Sociology of Culture

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the contributions of mainline sociology, in the analysis of effects, institutions and formations, and relate the emphasis on effects, the selectively smaller emphasis on institutions and the relative neglect of formations to theoretical and methodological assumptions in orthodox sociology, and propose an approach based on recognition of ''the materiality of signs'' and the consequent recognition of cultural technologies as forms of historical and social relationship and practice.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism

TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory

Neil Brenner
- 01 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies

Mats Alvesson
- 19 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.