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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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(Dis)Like Facebook? Dialectical and Critical Perspectives on Social Media
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of web 2.0 and assess to what extent social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons and a commons-based information society.
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Theory of Social Systems Delimitation: A Preliminary Statement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a model for social systems analysis and design which considers the market as one among many enclaves of society, each of them possessing its own substantive characteristics and requirements.
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Obama's iPod: Popular Music and the Perils of Postpolitical Populism
TL;DR: The authors examined how Barack Obama used popular music over the last several years as part of a populist communication strategy and argued that thinking about the aesthetics of popular music helps us understand how populist logic functions.
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Negative and Positive Freedom: Lessons from, and to, Sociology
TL;DR: The authors argued that positive freedom as it was theorised by the classical sociologists must be distinguished from the more fashionable idea of individual self-realisation and self-identity, a notion equally susceptible to idealist constructions, and one increasingly targeted by Foucaultinspired critics.