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For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the ...
Guy Debord
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For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the ...
Guy Debord
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Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society
, 2018Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades.
R. Inglehart
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Uncovering the overlapping community structure of complex networks in nature and society
Nature, 2005Many complex systems in nature and society can be described in terms of networks capturing the intricate web of connections among the units they are made of.
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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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John Dewey's "The School and Society" argues that the traditional school system, characterized by passive, isolated learning focused heavily on symbolic studies, is fundamentally incompatible with the radical industrial and social revolutions of the ...
J. Dewey
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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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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
The New Social Theory Reader, 1992Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The contours of high modernity 2. The self: ontological security and existential anxiety 3. The trajectory of the self 4. Fate, risk, and security 5. The sequestration of experience 6. Tribulations of the self 7.
A. Giddens
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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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