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One dimensional man
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Social facts and the sociological imagination: the contributions of sociology to psychiatric epidemiology
TL;DR: It is concluded that two major contributions of sociology to psychiatric epidemiology are the concepts and data related to the social fact, and the possibilities offered by the sociological imagination.
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(Dis)Like Facebook? Dialectical and Critical Perspectives on Social Media
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of web 2.0 and assess to what extent social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons and a commons-based information society.
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W. H. R. Rivers Prize Essay (1986): Western Minds, Foreign Bodies
TL;DR: This essay argues that the effectiveness of health development projects is lessened if they are planned on the basis of this orthodox biomedical orientation and suggests that the practice of viewing Third World health development in terms of biomedical ideology inhibits consideration of the influences of both the political and physical environments on the distribution of sickness.
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Theory of Social Systems Delimitation: A Preliminary Statement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a model for social systems analysis and design which considers the market as one among many enclaves of society, each of them possessing its own substantive characteristics and requirements.
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The role of communication and symbolism in interest group competition: The case of the Siskiyou national forest, 1983–1992
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze a highly polarized policy conflict to illustrate the significant role that symbolism and communication play in determining the nature and outcome of interest group competition and propose that communication and effective use of symbols are indeed crucial and often overlooked aspects of the political competition between interest groups.
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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
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
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.