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Socio-Economic Formations in the Context of the Systemic Genesis of Humankind: a Cybernetic View
Современные информационные технологии и IT-образование, 2021 The sequence of historically changing socio-economic formations (SEF) is considered, – from the standpoint of informatics-cybernetic modeling of the development process of the self-controlling hierarchical-network system of Humankind, – as a natural ...
Sergey Grinchenko
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Over the last 20 years, collaborative efforts have emerged with the intention of going beyond the pure capitalist economy, seeking to generate transformative community‐based changes that guarantee blue equity, fair distribution and well‐being.
Sílvia Gómez, Alfons Garrido
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Media TheoryThe discussion on Neo-feudalism, in scholarship and politics, the way Neo-feudalism is conceptualized and contested, reflects deeper problematic cultural and political dynamics.
Korinna Patelis
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On the Meaning of the PRC’s Development Since 1949
SAGE Open, 2013 The purpose of this article is to search for answers to the following four questions: First, what is the social meaning of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) development prior to 1978?
Ernest G. Raiklin
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu +4 more
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Why the distribution of wealth matters: Industrial feudalism and social democracy
PSL Quarterly Review, 2022 This paper explains how growing inequality of wealth and asset inflation inhibits social mobility and the functioning of the labour market, whose efficiency is a key feature of macroeconomic theory and labour economics.
Hanna Szymborska, Jan Toporowski
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