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2023
Chapter four evaluates social change in revolutionary Egypt along three class lines: peasants and workers, or lower-class Egyptians, the middle-class, and upper-class Egyptians. It investigates pre- and postrevolutionary transitions among these social classes and throughout the period 1952–1970.
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Chapter four evaluates social change in revolutionary Egypt along three class lines: peasants and workers, or lower-class Egyptians, the middle-class, and upper-class Egyptians. It investigates pre- and postrevolutionary transitions among these social classes and throughout the period 1952–1970.
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Initiation Society, Learned Society and Knowledge Society
Diogenes, 2003AbstractKnowledge is a social institution, a social activity, as well as the product of that social activity. All known societies incorporate several modes of hierarchical knowledge. Three styles of knowledge co-exist in the transitional societies of the third world in general and of contemporary Africa in particular (even though in each of the latter,
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Civil Society, Information Society, Islamic Society
1998The concept of civil society, as a intellectual framework for describing development in modern European and other industrial societies, has been the dominant discourse in philosophical and sociological thought from the 19th century onwards (Keane 1988a and 1988b).
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Modern societies as knowledge societies
2001New social realities require a new perspective. In advanced societies, the capacity of the individual to say no has increased considerably. At the same time, the ability of the large social institutions that have significantly shaped the nature of the twentieth century to get things done has diminished in the past couple of decades.
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, 1996 This paper aims to explain the significant variations in the social contracts which can be observed across nations. It shows in particular how countries with similar technologies and preferences, as well as equally democratic political systems, can sustain very different avrage and marginal tax rates.
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INFORMATION SOCIETY, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
eLearning and Software for Education, 2019In the decades of the seventeenth and 20th century, the predominant phrase was Computer Science, with ideas and trends that targeted an informational society. Gradually the concept of Information Society has gained ground and has become a reality since the explosion of the Internet, the main vector of this society.
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2018
Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the combination of screens and the internet.
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Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the combination of screens and the internet.
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2009
Abstract Historically the concept of ‘civil society’ has been an almost purely western concept, tied to the political emancipation of European citizens from former ‘feudalistic’ ties, monarchy, and the state during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Abstract Historically the concept of ‘civil society’ has been an almost purely western concept, tied to the political emancipation of European citizens from former ‘feudalistic’ ties, monarchy, and the state during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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When the term “globalization” gained prominence in social scientific discourse in the 1990s, its vagueness was widely deplored. Critics regarded globalization as a fad whose provenance from management discourse invalidated any conceptual aspirations. To others, the end of the Cold War and the emergence of instant worldwide communication gave credence ...
Anja Weiß, Boris Holzer
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Anja Weiß, Boris Holzer
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British Dental Journal, 1994
Readers will probably be aware of the two friendly societies associated with the dental profession, the Dentists' Provident Society Ltd. and the Dentists' and General Mutual Benefit Society, which offer permanent sickness cover to their members. They may not be aware, however, that these societies are part of a wider movement which at one time offered ...
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Readers will probably be aware of the two friendly societies associated with the dental profession, the Dentists' Provident Society Ltd. and the Dentists' and General Mutual Benefit Society, which offer permanent sickness cover to their members. They may not be aware, however, that these societies are part of a wider movement which at one time offered ...
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