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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explanation and analysis of Islamization of science and its implications for education [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی, 2007
In the past few centuries, globe has gone through many changes. The outstanding appearance of these developments is the industrial revolution of 17th century. The modernity as an idea has progressed in the same period of time.
doaj  

The Positioning Of Iran And Iranians In The Origins Of Western Civilization

open access: yes, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how a select sample of college-level history textbooks position Iran and Iranians in the origins of Western Civilization. Western Civilization history marginalizes, misrepresents, misappropriates,
Vasseghi, Sheda
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How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
wiley   +1 more source

How the Catholic Church built Western civilization

open access: yes, 2005
Western civilization has given us the miracles of modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of the rule of law, a unique sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, a philosophy grounded in ...
Woods, Thomas E.
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Terrorist Attacks on Western Civilization

open access: yes
This special issue of Public Choice is designed to afford leading scholars the opportunity to apply the principles of public choice, law and economics, and the economics of religion in analyzing the nature and consequences of the early twenty-first ...
Charles Rowley
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Towards Sustainable Urbanization and Zero–Carbon Urban Life: A Case Study of BRICS Countries Between 1992 and 2020

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban factors play a critical role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. In this regard, this study aims to examine the impact of urbanization and its components (e.g., urban population growth [UPG], population in the largest city [ULC], population in urban agglomerations [UPA] of more than 1 million, and ...
Korkmaz Yildirim, Tunahan Haciimamoglu
wiley   +1 more source

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