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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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The Ideology of the American Dream: Two Competing Philosophies in Education, 1776-2006.

TL;DR: This article put forth two competing notions of the American dream, one radical and one conservative, as the basis for two competing public philosophies of American democracy and education, and traced the framework of these conflicting American Dreams from their inception and into our contemporary context.
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Grounding Critical Communication Studies: An Inquiry Into the Communication Theory of Karl Marx:

TL;DR: In this article, the assumption of scholars such as Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard that Marx in his analysis of capitalism did not take into account media and communication is discussed.
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One-Dimensional Fan Toward an Aesthetic of Fan Texts

TL;DR: This article explored the semiotic conditions through which texts function as objects of fandom and juxtaposed the reflective reading of fan texts based on their immediate concretization and normalization with the reflexive engagement demanded by the textual "blanks" in literary texts Iser described.
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Authenticity, communication, and critical theory

TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of authenticity in the study of communication by tracing its treatment in the literature of recent social theory, particularly Critical Theory, is discussed. And the authors conclude that the search for the authentic has been a historically grounded intellectual concern with considerations of creative practices serving to recover the authentic in contemporary life.
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Culture, needs and nursing: a critical theory approach

TL;DR: The critique of culture is brought to bear on the problem of needs and the implications for nursing are suggested in terms of the dissolution of hegemonic practices and the development of a concept of need built around the notion of 'praxis'.
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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.