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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 wrong way: an alternative critique of the Camino de Santiago.
TL;DR: This article explored the themes of authenticity, social pressure, and pilgrimage as a tourist product within the context of the Camino de Santiago, uncovering the challenges of the modern pilgrim and detecting how escapism may not address the root of one's dissatisfaction.
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Latin America and the Olympic ideal of progress: an athlete's perspective.
TL;DR: The Olympic Games have long been about much more than sport as mentioned in this paper, and although Baron de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, may have started out with a series of ideals, the games soon proved to be an opportunity to demonstrate ethnic superiority and differential levels of national development.
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The Czechs: Jobs and work
TL;DR: The Czech population attaches great importance to work in their lives, both as a source of income and as a sphere of realization of their human potential as discussed by the authors, and three general factors in the aspects of work are identified: an "instrumental and trade-off" factor (good pay and good job security; generous holidays, good working hours and not too much pressure; pleasant people to work with and good working conditions); social factor (an interesting job, a useful job; a responsible job; meeting interesting people; and a self-fulfilment' factor (chances
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Rethinking the Zapatistas: Frantz Fanon and Resistance to Neoliberalism:
TL;DR: In this paper, the Zapatista revolution in Mexico has been analyzed as a 'post-modern' revolution, and an alternative theoretical framework from which to understand the significance of the Zapata revolution is developed.
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The Toxification of Population Discourse. A Genealogical Study
TL;DR: In the 1970s and 1980s, reducing human numbers was embraced as integral to radical social transformation as discussed by the authors. Subsequently such neoMalthusian prescriptions became so toxic, they disappeared from the...