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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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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

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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Modernization and Popular Culture:Views from Turkey

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the relationship between modernization-popular culture and nine elements composed of critical theory, consumer culture, gender, cinema, media, high/low culture, power, art and image.
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Alterity and the Environment: Making the Case for Anti-Administration

TL;DR: This paper explore the limits of language in our relations with the other, best epitomized through our relationship with the natural world, and in particular the non-speaking animal kingdom, through Heidegger's conceptualization of dasein.
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Habermas, mass communication technology and the future of the public sphere

TL;DR: This paper focused on Habermas's analysis of the bourgeois public sphere and its inextricable relationship to mass communication technology, particularly in relation to his pioneering work, The St...
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The Medicalized Society

Carl Boggs
- 01 May 2015 - 
TL;DR: The thesis that modern American society has become increasingly medicalized is developed, reflected in the growth of a vast medical-pharmaceutical complex that is commodified, technocratic, and iatrogenic as one function of modernity in the fields of health care, drugs, food, and agriculture.
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Building (specific) citizens: Politics, curriculum, and the quest for exclusive rights to ideological production

TL;DR: For example, the authors pointed out that the role that the interjection of political interests via policy initiatives plays in the educational system and the way that related directives steer or "teach" teachers the "proper" ways to do their jobs.