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One dimensional man
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The State, civil society and the collapse of Soviet communism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the reasons for the collapse of Soviet power and the likely prospects and rationales for the survival of the central government in the former Soviet Union and conclude that the idea of civil society as opposed to the authoritarian state cannot be sustained in the new conditions.
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`I'm ashamed to admit it but I have watched Dallas': the moral hierarchy of television programmes:
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The Nuclearization of Language: Nuclear Allergy as Political Metaphor*
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of metaphor in structuring political reality for manipulative purposes is explored and four conclusions are drawn: 1. the metaphor played an important role in structural political reality; 2. labelling opponents as 'allergic' undermined the democratic discourse; 3. analyzing the inner workings of a metaphor can expose its manipulative power; 4. peace researchers, educators and activists need to exercise care in the use of metaphors and help to promulgate countermetaphors useful for denuclearization.
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Avoiding the Ghetto through hope and fear: an analysis of immanent technology using ideal types
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical and methodological framework for engaging the emerging geoweb as part of a longer tradition of research into society and technology, using a close reading of Microsoft's Pedestrian Route Production patent, dubbed the “avoid ghetto GPS”, is used to construct two ideal type futures, one hopeful and one frightening.
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The Concept of Role and What to Do With It
TL;DR: Role is part of the furniture in the social sciences as mentioned in this paper and it is taken for granted that anyone should raise doubts, or what offence could possibly be takcn at so helpful and so obvious an idea.
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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
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
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.