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One dimensional man
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Towards an emotionally conscious social theory
TL;DR: The authors suggest that classical and contemporary social theories have yet to provitatively compare themselves to the future of sociology and social theory, and suggest that they are not ready for the task of social analysis.
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The Therapy of Consumption Motivation Research and the New Italian Housewife, 1958-62
TL;DR: The transformation of the image of the housewife-consumer in Italian advertising during the 'economic miracle' of the late 1950s and early 1960s is described in this article, which argues that motivation research -an originally American market research technique with Freudian origins -was crucial in altering the ways in which advertisers and marketers related to women consumers.
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The public costs of the re-structuring of adult education : A case in point from Sweden
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take up a concrete example of education restructuring, that of adult education in Gothenburg, Sweden in recent years, which has been studied through ethnographic data.
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Technological semantics and technological practice: Lessons from an enigmatic episode in twentieth-century technology studies
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of words and their meanings in the field of technology studies, and an analysis the semantics of an idealistic international technology-related social movement that flourished briefly during the second half of the twentieth century is presented.
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Things Are the Way They Are: A Typology of Reification:
TL;DR: This paper clarified the ambiguous concept of reification through analytical descriptions of reificatory modes of experience in social context, such as the experience of social constructions and social relations, and their relation to social relations.
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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.