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Television, Individualism, and Social Capital

PS: Political Science & Politics, 1998
Students of political culture and political theory (Pool 1990; Postman 1985; Merelman 1984, 1989, 1991; Habermas 1975) hypothesize that values associated with individualism have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, with distressing consequences for politics and governance.
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Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia

Work, Employment and Society, 2019
This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital’s control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and assesses labour agency in response to these.
A. Veen, T. Barratt, Caleb Goods
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From Individual Resource to Social Capital

Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences, 2019
From the perspective of individual resource and social capital, this paper aims to explain how employees' political skill affect their job satisfaction and turnover intention, through the mediating role of popularity. Using a sample of 237 dyad surveys from supervisors and employees in the Yangtze River Delta of China, we found that: 1) political skill
Yi Li, Mengqiu Ma
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From Capital Circulation to the Competition of Individual Capitals

2016
This chapter examines how the completed account of capital turnover provides the basis for the competitive process of individual capitals. The insufficiencies of Marx’s turn from capital circulation to the competition of individual capitals are highlighted so as to facilitate a proper transition.
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Sovereign individuals of capitalism

2015
In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of modern capitalism. They confront a central assumption of western culture: Namely, that the individual is sovereign, and that capitalism above all other economic forms depends on individualism.
Abercrombie, Nicholas, Hill, Stephen, Turner, Bryan S.   +2 more
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DETERMINANTS OF INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT

2004
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/04.
Shideler, David W., Shideler, David W.
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Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism

Contemporary Sociology, 1987
Gregor McLennan, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S. Turner   +3 more
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Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context

, 2018
M. Clarke
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On Human Capital and Individual Capabilities

Review of Income and Wealth, 2001
Starting out from a simple conceptual framework running from initial individual abilities to skills produced in school to the utilization of these skills in the labor market, this paper surveys empirical studies in labor economics, economics of education and occupational psychology to assess the empirical strength of the links between these sets of ...
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Individual Consumption in Capitalism. An Exercise in the Logic of Capital

Acta Sociologica, 1978
This is a systematic analysis of the apparent contradictions of private consumption - growing discrepancy between productive potential and actual needs, the degenerating quality of consumption and so on - within the frame of Marx's critique of political economy.
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