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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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The impact of the disclosure of accounting information upon aspects of industrial relations.
TL;DR: In this article, the epistemological issues in connection with the disclosure of accounting information in industrial relations contexts are explored, and the potential for the development of employee derived heterodox modes of engagement and their eventual confrontation with modern accounting orthodoxy is discussed.
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Whose Technology? Whose Modernity?: Questioning Feenberg's 'Questioning Technology'
TL;DR: Analyse critique de l'ouvrage intitule la remise en question de la technologie, en particulier la reflexion sur les technologies, ou critique des philosophies essentiallistes de la technology as discussed by the authors.
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The Social and Intellectual Contexts of the U.S. “Newsroom Studies,” and the Media Sociology of Today
TL;DR: This article provided an intellectual history of the media sociology of the 1970s and early 1980s, as epitomized by a selection of newsroom ethnographies (the "newsroom studies" that were published during this time.
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Beyond Structure: The Role of Social Accounts in Implementing Ideal Control
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how social accounts are used as one method to help to gain control of ideas, lessening management's dependence on bureaucratic structures, and exemplify the managerial use of social accounts by reviewing the text of a videotape used by one organization in its attempt to influence workers' ideas about management, unions and their own interests in order to keep the organization union free.
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Life in a northern town : call centres, labour markets and identity in post-industrial Middlesbrough
TL;DR: Call centres emerged in the 1990s as a cost-saving efficient delivery system for companies to handle customer contact through the marriage of telecommunications and new information technologies as discussed by the authors and have become popular among academics and journalists.