One dimensional man
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01 Dec 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make sense of the apparent paradox of the successful representation of management as a technical practice coexisting with a lack of success in management sustaining a project of professionalization.
Abstract: This paper attempts to make sense of the apparent paradox of the successful representation of management as a technical practice coexisting with a lack of success in management sustaining a project of professionalization. The success of the former has, for many occupations, been the key to the latter, especially when allied with university licensing. The main issues and debates relating to management as a technical practice, management as a profession, and the role of the management academy are outlined. This leads to an alternative interpretation of their relation, in which the representation of management as a technical practice is envisaged not as a failed professionalization of management but rather as a successful responsibilization of managers.
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TL;DR: The concept of alienation has been extensively analyzed outside tourism studies to understand human existence within society as mentioned in this paper, however, it has been scarcely researched within tourism studies and, as is argued in this paper, alienation adds theoretical depth to the sociological study of tourism and resituates discussions on authenticity within the context of capitalist relations of production, consumerism, and existentialism.
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TL;DR: The ideology of industrialism is critically assesses in light of Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis, and it is postulated that it is not industrialism, but the assumedly transcended category of capitalism that is the cause of the social and structural iatrogeneses.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the epistemic constraint of impartiality utilizing Rawls' notion of a'veil of ignorance' as a heuristic device is used to elevate a more normatively preferable value, ''ideal environmental sustainability,'' to the level of being the primary filtering value through which other competing values are evaluated, prioritized, and implemented.
Abstract: There is a systemic condition inherent in contemporary markets that compel managers not to pursue more morally preferable initiatives if those initiatives will require actions that conflict with profit maximization. Normative arguments for implementing morally preferable practices within the existing system fail because they are insufficient to counter-act the systemic conditions affecting decision-making that is focused on maximizing profit as the primary operational value. To overcome this constraint we must elevate a more normatively preferable value, ‚ideal environmental sustainability,’ to the level of being the primary filtering value through which other competing values are evaluated, prioritized, and implemented. In order for this to occur in practice, a change must be made relative to the laws, rules, and regulations that define and guide the market. This can be done by suitably defining the epistemic constraint of impartiality utilizing Rawls’ notion of a ‚veil of ignorance’ as a heuristic device.
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TL;DR: Singaporeans were industrialized, militarized, disciplined by a system of punishment and reward, and administered according to a technocratic rationality seeking to eliminate 'irrational' desires and the chaos of erotic instincts.
Abstract: At least two significant obstacles today prevent Singapore from progressing economically: a population unable to reproduce itself; and a people that generally lack creativity and entrepreneurship. Both are unintended consequences of earlier authoritarian policies of a paternalistic and patriarchal postcolonial government. Singaporeans were industrialized, militarized, disciplined by a system of punishment and reward, and administered according to a technocratic rationality seeking to eliminate ‘irrational’ desires and the chaos of erotic instincts. Subsequently, an Asian values campaign helped to form a conservative, censorious and electorally significant moral majority. Today, Singaporean society is described as sexually repressed and repressive. Singapore’s ‘new economy’, however, requires not only a large enough workforce, but also a stimulating, non-repressive climate conducive to imagination, innovation and adventure, one that can also attract and retain globally mobile talent. This article explores ...
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...Over the decades, strictly regulated and prosperous Singapore has become a textbook example of an advanced industrial society of the kind that Herbert Marcuse (1964) famously described as repressed and ‘onedimensional’....
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