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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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The media book

TL;DR: Theory in media research tools for studying the media the moving image media industries the analysis of popular culture representation, identity and the media advertising and theMedia interactive electronic media.
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Enjoying militarism: Political/personal dilemmas in studying U.S. police paramilitary units

TL;DR: The authors make sense of an irony experienced while conducting field research, by linking it to broader social, political, and cultural processes, and explain the irony necessitates a theoretical and epistemological discussion of the relationship between the dualities of agency/structure, micro/macro, and personal/political.
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Liberalism - what's in a name?

TL;DR: The second part of the title What's in a Name? as mentioned in this paper is taken from a moment in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet when Juliet briefly imagines that Romeo could be separated from his name, that he could be appreciated for what he is rather than for what his is called: ‘Tis but thy name’, she laments, ‘that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague’.
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Beyond the Prison-House of Language: Discourse as a Sociological Concept

TL;DR: The key concept in the argument about journalism emerging in the course of the 19th century is that of discourse as mentioned in this paper, which is the notion of discourse in the context of the sociology of the media.
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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.