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Personhood and Citizenship
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This article is published in Theory, Culture & Society.The article was published on 1986-02-01. It has received 44 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personhood & Citizenship.read more
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Citizenship and identity: living in diasporas in post-war Europe?
TL;DR: In this paper, a more productive perspective is achieved by focusing our analytical providence on the proliferating sites of making and enacting citizenship, by elaborating two paradoxes underlying the contemporary formations of citizenship: a) the increasing decoupling of rights and identities, the two main components of citizenship; b) the tendency towards particularistic claims in public spheres and their legitimation through universalistic discourses of personhood.
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It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the performance of display in waiting work in Smoky Joe's restaurant in the southeast of England and found that such workplace geographies help to constitute the character of an employment.
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Perspectives on Consumer Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, three accounts of consumer culture are discussed: the production of consumption, the mode of consumption and the emotional and aesthetic pleasures, the desires and dreams generated within particular sites of consumption.
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Social explanation and socialization: on Bourdieu and the structure, disposition, practice scheme
TL;DR: The authors argued that realist sociology might find in Bourdieu's approach, notwithstanding specific theoretical and conceptual weaknesses, a framework strong enough to sustain the multilevel explanations of inequality/difference necessary in the sociology of education.
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Lost and Found: The Sociological Ambivalence Toward Childhood
TL;DR: The authors identify three possible sources of this sociological ambivalence: the fact that much work does not fully differentiate children from childhood, the notion of childhood as a social construct, and the construction of childhood in some of the literature is incommensurate with the social policies designed to protect or empower children.
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The Role and the Person
TL;DR: The concept of role-person merger as discussed by the authors was proposed as a more behavioral approach to understand the social construction of personality than has been taken previously, and three principles concerning appearance, effect, and consistency provided the basis for a series of propositions concerning interactive determinants of merger.
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The real self: from institution to impulse.
TL;DR: It is proposed that people variously recognize their real selves either in feelings and actions of an institutional and volitional nature, such as ambition, morality, and altruism, or in the experience of impulse, suchAs undisciplined desire and the wish to make intimake revelations to other people.
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Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique
TL;DR: Seyman and Topping as discussed by the authors discuss the impact of new media on journalism and assess the state of online journalism, concluding that "Audiences Redefined, Boundaries Removed, Relationships Reinvented".
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Consumer Culture: an Introduction
TL;DR: The first special issue of TCS brings together a collection of papers which illustrate the intention of publishing theoretically informed analyses of both substantive cultural processes and everyday popular culture as discussed by the authors, including studies of some of the major institutions, representational forms and experience of consumerism (the department store, advertising, spectator sport, women's magazines, the comic strip and popular music).