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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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‘State Capitalism’ in the Soviet Union

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the state capitalism in the Soviet Union and present a history of economics in the former USSR, focusing on the economic model of the state economy in the 1990s.
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Social Movements and Marginalized Rural Youth in Brazil, Egypt and Nepal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the evolving trends in the roles of youth in rural social movements, noting that such movements are critical if authorities and more dominant classes in society are to listen to powerless and propertyless rural population groups.
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Collectivity, connectivity and control: reframing mass society in the digital era

TL;DR: This work implies that mass in digitized environments is not simply a concept of nameless uniformity but one stressing the parasitic nature of networked connectivity, and suggests a connectivity made fragile by forms of remote control that are predatory on mass-self communication.
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All Aboard--Destination Unknown: A Sociological Discussion of Online Learning.

TL;DR: The emergence and growing popularity of online distance education over the past 30 years through changing sociological lenses is described, using the metaphor of a high-speed train, to encourage administrators, instructors and technicians to stop and reflect on the destination.
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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.