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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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Marital Suitors Court Social Science Spin-sters: The Unwittingly Conservative Effects of Public Sociology

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the author's experience performing public sociology on same-sex marriage and gay family rights issues in order to illustrate the paradoxical and tacitly conservative conditions that structure contemporary public sociological discourse.
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Emancipatory Discourse and Liberation

TL;DR: The authors make the case that marginalized groups in society might find their voice in projects that are intentionally contextualized and publicly reflective, and enumerate some conditions under which emancipatory discourse and liberationist struggle may coincide.
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A Critical Examination of the New Sociology of Science Part 2

TL;DR: If there is no independent reality, if the entire world is a social construction, and if facts are statements of a certain kind, it stands to reason that there are no objective truth, then scientific research is not a quest for truth as mentioned in this paper.
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On the Concept of Power

TL;DR: The question of what power is has been implicitly reduced to the question of how power works as discussed by the authors, and in fact any hope of solving the latter presupposes a proper answer to the former.
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Bringing Capital Accumulation Back In: The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition – Military Contractors, Oil Companies and Middle-East "Energy Conflicts"

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative approach to the repeated occurrence of Middle East "energy conflicts" is proposed, focusing on the process of differential capital accumulation, emphasizing the quest to exceed the "normal rate of return" and to expand one's share in the overall flow of profit.
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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.