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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Financial Responsibility of Hospitalized Patients Who Left Against Medical Advice: Medical Urban Legend? [PDF]
, 2012 Gabrielle Schaefer +6 more
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Мегаполис как источник страхов в перспективе массовой литературы (антология „Мифы мегаполиса”)
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2019 The anthology Myths of Megapolis (Mify megapolisa), published in 2007, due to the variety of the presented short stories shows various perspectives of the metropolis’ life and the fears of its citizens.
Joanna Radosz
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 This paper represents an analysis of a group of urban legends from US universities, gathered from a number of web sites and in certain cases compared with analogous examples from Serbia.
Jana Baćević
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Ghosts Stories, Radical Placemaking: Understanding Storytelling on College Campuses
Social SciencesAs Villanova University students navigate campus life, ghost stories tied to specific buildings, paths, and rituals circulate as grassroots spatial narratives.
Adriano Duque, Aymane Ahajjam
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Leggende di “sequestro” e di “espianto degli organi”. Uno studio tra Italia e Camerun
EtnoAntropologia, 2021 The survey presents ethnographic data on some conspiracy legends regarding COVID19 recorded in two different grounds: Cameroon and Italy. The authors focus on these legends with particular attention on the content and the intertextuality of the narration.
Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Lia Giancristofaro
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The Third Force in Folklore Studies: Gary Alan Fine's Sociological Approach
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2006 This paper attempts to offer a critical overview of the theoretical and methodological contribution of micro-sociologist and social psychologist Gary Alan Fine to folklore studies. It begins with a discussion of both the major and most questioned points
Dragana Antonijević
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