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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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Counter‐culture and consumer society

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present three different ways of framing counterculture: authentic counterculture, the mediation of counterculture and counterculture as difference, and the implications of the aestheticization of social space for counter-cultural theory and practice.
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Art as an Institution

TL;DR: Art is usually classified as a social institution, yet those who emphasize activities essential for the maintenance of society regard art as of secondary importance, while those who give priority to cultural values place art and religion in a "higher" sphere.
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WMD, WMD, WMD: Securitisation through ritualised incantation of ambiguous phrases

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that audience acceptance consists not in persuasion so much as in joining the securitising actors in a ritualised chanting of ambiguous phrases (WMD, rogue states, ethnic cleansing) and demonstrate that the audience participates in the performance in the manner in which a crowd at a rock concert sings along with the artists.
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The development of computer science: a sociocultural perspective

TL;DR: It is argued that understanding of how computer science works is an important part of the knowledge of an educated computer scientist.
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Against Naive Romanticism: from celebration to the critical analysis of experience

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that we must move from celebration to critical reflection on experience, defined as the illumination of power dynamics and uncovering of hegemonic assumptions about practice.
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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.