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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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Deciphering Markets and Money: A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions
TL;DR: Gronow as discussed by the authors analyzed the specific social conditions of an economic order based on money and the equal exchange of commodities and showed that markets would collapse without market devices that are either procedural, consisting of technical standards and measuring instruments, or aesthetic, relying on the judgements of taste, or both.
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Freedom in Times of Struggle: Positive Liberty, Again
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the limitations of the traditional negative notion of freedom and sketch the core components of a positive alternative, which they argue is necessary to capture the dominance of the language of freedom in contexts of resistance and struggle in the actual, nonideal, world.
Creative cities: the challenge of “humanization” in the city development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a regenerative model for small cities, which can offer interesting practices of urbanization at the human scale, in achieving benefits for a more balanced regional order and also for the regeneration of central cities, i.e. big cities.
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The nature of future myths: environmental discourse in science fiction film, 1950-1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of culture in defining nature and the relationship with nature is analyzed and interpreted in terms of implications for change in the societal relationship with natur, with a focus on the relationship between nature and technology.
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Social facts and the sociological imagination: the contributions of sociology to psychiatric epidemiology
TL;DR: It is concluded that two major contributions of sociology to psychiatric epidemiology are the concepts and data related to the social fact, and the possibilities offered by the sociological imagination.