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Colonialism and Malay masculinity: Malay satire as observed in the novel Kawin-Kawin [PDF]
, 2006 This article evaluates the novel Kawin-Kawin as a satire, and as a mode for forming social criticism on Malay society. An assessment of such a genre must consider the target audience and the Islamic cultural context of the novel.
Noritah Omar,
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Altralang Journal: Ugliness, from antiquity to the present day, is a recurring concept in literature and the human sciences. It has been developed by authors such as Homer (The Odyssey), Victor Hugo (Notre-Dame de Paris), Kierkegaard (The Sickness Unto Death), Karl ...
Régis Carl MOUNZEO
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'Babylonian flats' in victorian and edwardian London [PDF]
, 2008 The first half of this paper examines the controversy associated with the building of Queen Anne's Mansions, London's first high-rise flats, erected between 1873 and 1890, and a catalyst for the introduction of height restrictions in the London Building ...
Dennis, R
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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Aristotle on Enduring Evils While Staying Happy [PDF]
, 2018 In what ways and how far does virtue shield someone against suffering evils? In other words, how do non-moral evils affect the lives of virtuous people and to what extent can someone endure evils while staying happy?
Jimenez, Marta
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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UGLY AND UGLINESS IN CLASSICAL TURKISH POETRY
Ulakbilge Dergisi, 2020 Ugliness has been a concept and image that shapes its meaning and definition through beauty. Throughout the ages, the definition of ugliness has also been made as the opposite of beauty. Ugliness, which has been defined and described as the opposite of beauty since the first examples in world literature, has changed its own image in parallel with the ...
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article introduces the concept of excluded participation to examine how inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in real time within a Danish fifth‐grade classroom. Using a micro‐sociological framework, particularly the work of Erving Goffman, the study focuses on the case of Anders, a student whose participation is symbolically recognized yet ...
Jørn Bjerre
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, But How Ugly Is Ugly?
, 2007 When monitoring a system wrt. a property defined in some temporal logic, e. g., LTL, a major concern is to settle with an adequate interpretation of observable system events; that is, models of temporal logic formulae are usually infinite streams of events, whereas at runtime only prefixes are available. This work defines a four-valued semantics for
Bauer, A, Leucker, M, Schallhart, C
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