One dimensional man
About: This article is published in Philosophical Books.The article was published on 1965-05-01. It has received 2842 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the development of the discourse on Fordism and post-Fordism and its transition into a broader rubric about globalization, and analyze dimensions of neoliberal globalization.
Abstract: This paper has two parts. First, we discuss the development of the discourse on Fordism and post-Fordism and its transition into a broader rubric about globalization. In the second part, we analyze dimensions of neoliberal globalization. Throughout the paper we elaborate and illustrate a socio-cultural approach to "economic" matters regime analysis that challenges the neoclassical and neoliberal paradigms which dominate among American policy elites and which the United States exports globally through its political and economic power. Our main focus is on the American role in and hegemonic ideological vision of neoliberal globalization.
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...In his view, progressive modernization had more than a century to go before it would lose impetus (Mills 1961,165-76; Marcuse 1964; Parsons 1971, 86-7, 112-14, 129, 140-3)....
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TL;DR: DiMaggio and Hirsch describe the cycle from creation to consumption through which art is produced using an organizational model which could be applied to most culture-producing milieux.
Abstract: DiMaggio and Hirsch describe the cycle from creation to consumption through which art is produced Using an organizational model which could be applied to most culture-producing milieux, they focus on three levels of analysis: interpersonal, interorganizational, and total system
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...Although they vary in the extent of their pessimism, Marcuse (1964), Enzensberger (1974), and Gramsci (1971) all argue that modern culture expresses different aspects of the &dquo;cultural hegemony&dquo; of the ruling class....
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TL;DR: In this article, the core meaning of critical research is explored by drawing on pertinent literature in social theory and cultural analysis and cautions that only continuous, unconditional, self-reflective criticism provides a navigational path between barbarism and enlightenment.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the core meaning of critical research.Design/methodology/approach – It begins by noting the frequent divergence between “Real” history (which always marches to its own beat) and academic reflection that often fails to follow the beat of a progressive drum. Indeed, rather than facilitating a productive historical movement, scholarship may, at times, window‐dress brutality. These questions are examined by drawing on pertinent literature in social theory and cultural analysis. This work cautions that only continuous, unconditional, self‐reflective criticism provides a navigational path between barbarism and enlightenment. It proposes harnessing our full repository of critical scholarship to renew ever‐relevant forms of praxis (This is not the same notion of “practical” that involves berating workers in suits and white shirts.)Findings – Unfortunately, an examination of contemporary progressive accounting literature exposes fundamental departures from these st...
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TL;DR: The term technology assessment (TA) is the most common collective designation of the systematic methods used to scientifically investigate the conditions for and the consequences of technology and technicising and to denote their societal evaluation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Publisher Summary The term “Technology Assessment” (TA) is the most common collective designation of the systematic methods used to scientifically investigate the conditions for and the consequences of technology and technicising and to denote their societal evaluation. At first sight, entirely heterogeneous activities are subsumed under this name, such as the predicting of the consequences of technology, the communicating of risk, promoting innovation, improving the legitimacy of decisions on technology through increased participation, mediating in technological conflicts, and observing sustainability. The problem met in defining TA consists in the fact that it is not a priori clear what the common denominator of such heterogeneous efforts should be. No consensual, unambiguous and selective definition of TA has yet been provided. As the emergence and development of TA are closely connected with specific situations arising at the interface between technology and society, these same situations form the central background to the introducing and clarifying of TA.
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TL;DR: The authors locates a category of online discourse termed the "vernacular web" which emerges in specific network locations as a communal invocation of alternate authority and imagines those invocations as located communication processes, providing the theoretical language necessary for speaking about the complex hybridity of new communication technologies.
Abstract: Through the example of a specific blog, this article locates a category of online discourse termed the “vernacular web.” Because the definitive trait of the vernacular is its distinction from the institutional, the vernacular web emerges in specific network locations as a communal invocation of alternate authority. Imagining those invocations as located communication processes, the concept of a vernacular web provides the theoretical language necessary for speaking about the complex hybridity that new communication technologies make possible.
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...…recognized that mass media often serves the interests of institutions instead of communities (Adorno and horkheimer [1947] 2002; habermas [1962] 1992; marcuse 1964; marx [1845] 1998; see also Arato and gebhardt 1990). richard m. Dorson famously appealed to a sense of authenticity by coining the…...
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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.
Abstract: The problem of false consciousness and its relationship to the social structure of tourist establishments is analyzed. Accounts of travelers are examined in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction. It is 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. It is also found that tourist settings are arrenged to produce the impression that a back region has been entered even when this is not the case. In tourist settings, between the front and the back there is a series of special spaces designed to accommodate tourists and to support their beliefs in the authenticity of their experiences. Goffman's front-back dichotomy is shown to be ideal poles of a continuum, or a variable.
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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.
Abstract: Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in a multi-national corporation Catherine Casey changes this. She knows 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. These events affect what people do everyday, and they are altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. This valuable book is not only a critical analysis of the transformations occurring in the world of work, but an exploration of the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self.
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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.
Abstract: What is critical urban theory? While this phrase is often used in a descriptive sense, to characterize the tradition of post‐1968 leftist or radical urban studies, I argue that it also has determinate social–theoretical content. To this end, building on the work of several Frankfurt School social philosophers, this paper interprets critical 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. On this basis, a brief concluding section considers the status of urban questions within critical social theory. In the early 21st century, I argue, each of the four key elements within critical social theory requires sustained engagement with contemporary patterns of capitalist urbanization. Under conditions of increasingly generalized, worldwide urbanization, the project of critical social theory and that of critical urban theory have been intertwined a...
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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.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature. Image refers to the overall idea or conceptualization, capturing how researchers relate to — and shape — a phenomenon. Seven images are suggested: self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers. These refer to how the individual is metaphorically understood in terms of identity, that is, how the researcher (research text) captures the individual producing a sense of self. The article aims to facilitate orientation — or encourage productive confusion — within the field, encourage reflexivity and sharpen analytic choices through awareness of options for how to conceptualize self-identity constructions.
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