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One dimensional man
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Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists
TL;DR: The demarcation of science from other intellectual activities is an analytic problem for philosophers and sociologists and is examined as a practical problem for scientists in this article, where a set of characteristics available for ideological attribution to science reflect ambivalences or strains within the institution: science can be made to look empirical or theoretical, pure or applied.
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Corporate social and environmental reporting
Rob Gray,Reza Kouhy,Simon Lavers +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the corporate social reporting literature, its major theoretical preoccupations and empirical conclusions, attempts to re-examine the theoretical tensions that exist between “classical” political economy interpretations of social disclosure and those from more “bourgeois” perspectives.
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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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Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the rise of the modern cultural engineering paradigm of branding, premised upon a consumer culture that granted marketers cultural authority, and describe the current post-postmodern consumer culture, which is premised on the pursuit of personal sovereignty through brands.
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Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of states that are essentially by-products of rationality, bias, and ideology, including sour grapes, as well as byproducts of belief, bias and ideology.
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Arabic Culture As A Defensive Strategy: Tunisian Education As An Example
TL;DR: In this paper, the status of education, and by extension Arabic language, in Post-independent Tunisia, was investigated using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of Cultural Reproduction, and Antonio Gramsci's theories of Cultural Hegemony.
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Acquisition Centrality, Locus of Control and the Influence of Religion in Everyday Life: The Case of Urban Consumer Class of Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences of materialistic value-orientation (i.e., acquisition centrality) on the effect of the sense of control on religious experiences of the urban consumer class of Bangladesh are investigated.
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The Sociality of Post-Truth: Neoliberal Culture and its Rationality
TL;DR: Brown as mentioned in this paper unpacks with meticulous depth how the current neoliberal condition valorizes private venture by eroding trust in the meaning of the social and argues that being right has nothing to do with the objective truthfulness of the Leader's statements which cannot be disproved by facts, but only by future success or failure.
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Critical Theory of Society or Self-Critical Society
Matthew David,Iain M. Wilkinson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical comparative reading of Ulrich Beck and Herbert Marcuse is presented, with a focus on the imminent and spontaneous possibilities for radical social change within the sub-political space.
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Desperately Seeking Singularity in Franny and Zooey
TL;DR: It is felt that something precious and existential, something fragile and unique about our singularity, will be lost irretrievably when we find out that we are just like everybody else as mentioned in this paper.