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Contemporary society
About: Contemporary society is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3991 publications have been published within this topic receiving 91755 citations.
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TL;DR: The Dynamics of Full Employment as discussed by the authors provides an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary approach to the dynamics of full employment and views the labour market not only as an economic institution, but also as a social one.
Abstract: Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary approach to the dynamics of full employment and views the labour market not only as an economic institution, but as a social one.
179 citations
TL;DR: This article examined how advertising appropriates a dominant anticonsumerist political ideology to promote consumption within China's social and political transition and showed how advertising reconfigures both key political symbolism and communist propaganda strategies through a semiotic analysis of advertisements.
Abstract: China's ideological transition from a communist country toward a consumer society provides an unprecedented context in which to explore the rise of consumerism in a contemporary society. We examine how advertising appropriates a dominant anticonsumerist political ideology to promote consumption within China's social and political transition. We show how advertising reconfigures both key political symbolism and communist propaganda strategies through a semiotic analysis of advertisements in the People's Daily . Our structural framework of ideological transition extends Barthes's myth model and examines ideological transition in advertising from the macroperspective of political ideology. This framework goes beyond the transfer of cultural meanings and can help to explain ideological shifts in other societies.
176 citations
TL;DR: Although the concepts of "media culture" and "consumer culture" have been commonly used as labels for contemporary society, they have rarely been explicitly compared as discussed by the authors, nor have there been any seriou...
Abstract: Although the concepts of ‘media culture’ and ‘consumer culture’ have been commonly used as labels for contemporary society, they have rarely been explicitly compared. Nor have there been any seriou...
175 citations
15 Apr 2008
172 citations