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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 two epigraphs that preface this article (the first taken from the field of contemporary literary and philosophical theory and the second from that of the international human rights law community) point to a central, but often underexamined, conception of human rights in contemporary society as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The two epigraphs that preface this article (the first taken from the field of contemporary literary and philosophical theory and the second from that of the international human rights law community) point to a central, but often underexamined, conception of human rights in contemporary society. Where Homi Bhabha identifies the production of human subjectivity as a psycho-metaphysical process of "assuming" an image of identity,3 Rita Maran suggests that international consensus, as codified in international human rights law, constructs a juridical subjectivity based on the premise of
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TL;DR: What it means to nurse in a 'postemotional society' and what impact this dulling of the emotions has had on a profession that locates 'care' as its central defining concept is explored.
Abstract: Globalization is often seen as the final stage in the transition towards a market economy. It is argued that a side-effect of globalization is cultural homogeneity and loss of life world, or 'McDonaldization'. McDonaldization represents the rationalization of society in the quest for extreme efficiency. More recently, Mestrovic has argued that the rationalization of emotions has also occurred and that Western societies are entering a postemotional phase. In postemotional societies there has been a separation of emotion from action. The result is synthetic, manufactured emotions manipulated and standardized for mass consumption. In this paper I explore what it means to nurse in a 'postemotional society' and what impact this dulling of the emotions has had on a profession that locates 'care' as its central defining concept. My aim is to generate critical discussion of the shape and direction of contemporary society and the role of nursing within it.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a conceptual framework based on a theoretical analysis of recent literature in the fields of human resource management and organisational identity to manage intangible assets in contemporary organisations.
Abstract: Purpose – To develop a concept of managing intangible assets in contemporary organisations. Insight is given into the rise of the network organisation and the importance of talent, social capital and identity in this kind of organisation.Design/methodology/approach – This paper develops a conceptual framework based on a theoretical analysis of recent literature in the fields of human resource management and organisational identity.Findings – Organisations in contemporary society fundamentally differ from the ones dominating the twentieth century. Work nowadays is providing service(s), organising based upon a mix of people's talents, social capital and information and communication technology (ICT). Modern organisations depend on talent. Talents make the distinctive difference between an organisation and its competitors. Organising with talents requires a second‐order form of networks: (social) cohesion in the network quintessential to make it work. This can be found in the notion of “social capital”. Yet ...
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TL;DR: The authors argue that truth claims may have an uncertain provenance, but we tend to incorporate them into our belief system, act upon them, and recall them through collective memory recall through collective m...
Abstract: Contemporary societies are awash in rumor. Truth claims may have an uncertain provenance, but we tend to incorporate them into our belief system, act upon them, and recall them through collective m...
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