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Unequal Societies. [PDF]

open access: possible, 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, 2019
In 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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Screen Society

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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Civil Society

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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World Society/Network Society

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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Friendly societies

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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Society

International Journal of Gynecological Pathology, 2021
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Harmful societies

2015
This book is the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology and seeks to address these omissions. In doing so, it provides a platform for future debates, in this series and beyond.
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Society Awards [Society News]

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2013
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Swiss Society

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 2013
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