are we having fun yet? leisure and consumption in the post
... In exposing these connections and contradictions, it is easier to read consumption's signs in the resulting material landscape than it is to understand the human agents who give it form and purpose. Far from being mere dupes, consumers play an active and creative role, shaping, altering and sometime ...
... In exposing these connections and contradictions, it is easier to read consumption's signs in the resulting material landscape than it is to understand the human agents who give it form and purpose. Far from being mere dupes, consumers play an active and creative role, shaping, altering and sometime ...
Max Weber=s writings on science and the meaning of intellectual
... course, is that this element of politics is not eliminated, but rather rarefied in the form of ...
... course, is that this element of politics is not eliminated, but rather rarefied in the form of ...
Ernest Gellner`s Legacy
... market form of production over centralized and socially oriented ways of running the economy, and, on the other hand, by the yearning for ‘meaning’, social coherence, the fusion of value and fact, the absorption of the individual in a supportive and loving community, which in turn blends into the na ...
... market form of production over centralized and socially oriented ways of running the economy, and, on the other hand, by the yearning for ‘meaning’, social coherence, the fusion of value and fact, the absorption of the individual in a supportive and loving community, which in turn blends into the na ...
Cosmopolitanism and Pancultural Universals: Our Common
... universals consist of a relationship between two characteristics in such a way that whenever one specific feature (which itself is not a universal) exists in a society, another related feature is also to be found (but not vice versa). A simple example of this type of universal is that all languages ...
... universals consist of a relationship between two characteristics in such a way that whenever one specific feature (which itself is not a universal) exists in a society, another related feature is also to be found (but not vice versa). A simple example of this type of universal is that all languages ...
Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization
... Chapter One maps the connections that already exist between hybridity and communication, and sets the stage for new links to be established throughout the book. After describing the rise to prominence of the notion of hybridity in academic and popular discourses, I give a brief etymological exposé ...
... Chapter One maps the connections that already exist between hybridity and communication, and sets the stage for new links to be established throughout the book. After describing the rise to prominence of the notion of hybridity in academic and popular discourses, I give a brief etymological exposé ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... participatory exercise which yields materials for which analytic protocols are often devised after the fact.” The second remark is by Sherry Ortner, who describes ethnography as “the attempt to understand another life world using the self – or as much of it as possible – as the instrument of knowing ...
... participatory exercise which yields materials for which analytic protocols are often devised after the fact.” The second remark is by Sherry Ortner, who describes ethnography as “the attempt to understand another life world using the self – or as much of it as possible – as the instrument of knowing ...
Understanding Organizational Culture
... patterns, structures and practices, etc. all of which may be made targets to study. Of course, culture is not unique in this way. Actually, most if not all significant concepts in organization studies and social science tend to be accompanied with a variety of different meanings and definitions (Pal ...
... patterns, structures and practices, etc. all of which may be made targets to study. Of course, culture is not unique in this way. Actually, most if not all significant concepts in organization studies and social science tend to be accompanied with a variety of different meanings and definitions (Pal ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork
... their fieldwork as a married couple working as partners (as did we), the portrayals of the culture they subsequently offered differ from one another in striking ways. In her best-selling book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), Mead famously concluded that Mountain Arapesh cult ...
... their fieldwork as a married couple working as partners (as did we), the portrayals of the culture they subsequently offered differ from one another in striking ways. In her best-selling book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), Mead famously concluded that Mountain Arapesh cult ...
Material Culture and Other Things Post-disciplinary
... archaeology, in which the world was mapped in time and space in search for origins and diffusion. The archaeology of the first half of the 20th century had hardly any impact on other disciplines, with the exception of perhaps Gordon Childe. Freud continued to be inspired from prehistory in his devel ...
... archaeology, in which the world was mapped in time and space in search for origins and diffusion. The archaeology of the first half of the 20th century had hardly any impact on other disciplines, with the exception of perhaps Gordon Childe. Freud continued to be inspired from prehistory in his devel ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Margaret Mead and
... time. His travels took him on pathways and past battlegrounds that elicited from his Arapesh companions stories of great alliances, rivalries, and the politics of adultery that provoked men to war. There was nothing comparable in Mead's experience that testified to this precolonial Arapesh culture ...
... time. His travels took him on pathways and past battlegrounds that elicited from his Arapesh companions stories of great alliances, rivalries, and the politics of adultery that provoked men to war. There was nothing comparable in Mead's experience that testified to this precolonial Arapesh culture ...
Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives
... 9.5 Internal and external politics in the Ulithi chiefdom 9.6 The Qemant in the Ethiopian state 9.7 Honor and feud in Albania 9.8 Contemporary culture controversies: is war inevitable? 10.1 The ambiguous ancestors of the Ju/hoansi 10.2 The gods of Ulithi 10.3 Contemporary cultural controversies: “ci ...
... 9.5 Internal and external politics in the Ulithi chiefdom 9.6 The Qemant in the Ethiopian state 9.7 Honor and feud in Albania 9.8 Contemporary culture controversies: is war inevitable? 10.1 The ambiguous ancestors of the Ju/hoansi 10.2 The gods of Ulithi 10.3 Contemporary cultural controversies: “ci ...
Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization
... criticism with a perspective more cognizant of African diasporic aesthetics, but to look also at the way repetitive musical devices contribute to an understanding of global musical circulation.1I am interested in the way riffs, repetition, and their composite grooves circulate within and between gen ...
... criticism with a perspective more cognizant of African diasporic aesthetics, but to look also at the way repetitive musical devices contribute to an understanding of global musical circulation.1I am interested in the way riffs, repetition, and their composite grooves circulate within and between gen ...
SOMETHING ELSE Forthcoming in Common Knowledge, Vol. 13
... what is universally right and wrong, and there is very little about which they are irresolute. Then there is the territory of the skeptical postmodernists, who have read all “objective” accounts of ethnographic realities corrosively, have questioned the existence of identifiable cultural groups, and ...
... what is universally right and wrong, and there is very little about which they are irresolute. Then there is the territory of the skeptical postmodernists, who have read all “objective” accounts of ethnographic realities corrosively, have questioned the existence of identifiable cultural groups, and ...
COMMUNICATION, CONTEXTS AND CULTURE A communicative
... other person to know that there is „x“; but it may also be another act of working or another communicative action: I want the other person to do „y“, or I want the other person to answer my question. Similarly to Habermas, Schütz and Luckmann thereby presuppose some kind of orientation towards under ...
... other person to know that there is „x“; but it may also be another act of working or another communicative action: I want the other person to do „y“, or I want the other person to answer my question. Similarly to Habermas, Schütz and Luckmann thereby presuppose some kind of orientation towards under ...
The Hofstede model
... cultures, one’s social status must be clear so that others can show proper respect. Global brands serve that purpose. Luxury articles, some alcoholic beverages and fashion items typically appeal to social status needs. The contrast individualism/collectivism can be defined as ‘people looking after t ...
... cultures, one’s social status must be clear so that others can show proper respect. Global brands serve that purpose. Luxury articles, some alcoholic beverages and fashion items typically appeal to social status needs. The contrast individualism/collectivism can be defined as ‘people looking after t ...
Max Weber`s Theories
... According to Weber, rationalisation creates three spheres of value as the differentiated zones of Science, Art and Law. iv[4] This fundamental disunity of reason constitutes the danger of modernity. This danger arises not simply from the creation of separate institutional entities but through the sp ...
... According to Weber, rationalisation creates three spheres of value as the differentiated zones of Science, Art and Law. iv[4] This fundamental disunity of reason constitutes the danger of modernity. This danger arises not simply from the creation of separate institutional entities but through the sp ...
ANTHROPOlOgy - UTP Publishing
... anthropology texts available. It is pithy and covers all of the critical areas one would expect in an introductory class. The text itself, rich with ethnographic examples, will certainly inspire classroom debates, and discussion questions and classroom activity suggestions are well formulated, encou ...
... anthropology texts available. It is pithy and covers all of the critical areas one would expect in an introductory class. The text itself, rich with ethnographic examples, will certainly inspire classroom debates, and discussion questions and classroom activity suggestions are well formulated, encou ...
astrologer gordon psychic rochelle
... Foundation 'Stichting MIKES INTERNATIONAL', established in The Hague, Holland. Account: Postbank rek.nr. 7528240 Registered: Stichtingenregister: S 41158447 Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken Den Haag ...
... Foundation 'Stichting MIKES INTERNATIONAL', established in The Hague, Holland. Account: Postbank rek.nr. 7528240 Registered: Stichtingenregister: S 41158447 Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken Den Haag ...
Ethnography of Nigeria - National Open University of Nigeria
... Anthropology and Ethnography on the one hand, and Ethnology and Ethnography on the other. Our emphasis is anchored on the fact that Ethnography is the raw material of Social Anthropology. It provides first-hand accounts of the culture and social life of human communities. The facts from these am the ...
... Anthropology and Ethnography on the one hand, and Ethnology and Ethnography on the other. Our emphasis is anchored on the fact that Ethnography is the raw material of Social Anthropology. It provides first-hand accounts of the culture and social life of human communities. The facts from these am the ...
Problems of Historical Causation in Emotions Research
... standards. There are far more assertions that functions prompt change, in the abstract, than illustrations of how this process occurs (Armon-Jones 1986). Further, again in the constructionist theoreti cal literature, there is an implicit debate about the nature of func tionalism. James Averill and ...
... standards. There are far more assertions that functions prompt change, in the abstract, than illustrations of how this process occurs (Armon-Jones 1986). Further, again in the constructionist theoreti cal literature, there is an implicit debate about the nature of func tionalism. James Averill and ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
... divide the sacred from profane if we are to pursue the good and protect ourselves from evil. Of course, social science has always assumed that men and women act without full understanding. Sociologists have attributed this to the force of social structures that are “larger” and more “powerful” than ...
... divide the sacred from profane if we are to pursue the good and protect ourselves from evil. Of course, social science has always assumed that men and women act without full understanding. Sociologists have attributed this to the force of social structures that are “larger” and more “powerful” than ...
10_chapter 3
... The Study of Sociology, Principles of Sociology, are dominated by the idea or values of evolutionary thought. According to Spencer throughout the progress of human society there has been social evolution from a simple, uniform or homogenous structure to a complex multiform or heterogeneous one. He w ...
... The Study of Sociology, Principles of Sociology, are dominated by the idea or values of evolutionary thought. According to Spencer throughout the progress of human society there has been social evolution from a simple, uniform or homogenous structure to a complex multiform or heterogeneous one. He w ...
MODERNISM/
... any absolute sense, than how and for whom it has functioned. There is a level of understanding, no doubt, at which 'everybody knows' what 'it' is - postmodernism, we can say, splices high with low culture, it raids and parodies past art, it questions all absolutes, it swamps reality in a culture of ...
... any absolute sense, than how and for whom it has functioned. There is a level of understanding, no doubt, at which 'everybody knows' what 'it' is - postmodernism, we can say, splices high with low culture, it raids and parodies past art, it questions all absolutes, it swamps reality in a culture of ...
Conceptualizing Mediatization: Contexts, traditions
... to communication media but to generalized symbolic media like power and money. In his edited volume Medier och kulturer, anthropologist Ulf Hannerz (1990) characterized the cultural influence of media on culture as such (that is, beyond its contents) as mediatization. These examples demonstrate that ...
... to communication media but to generalized symbolic media like power and money. In his edited volume Medier och kulturer, anthropologist Ulf Hannerz (1990) characterized the cultural influence of media on culture as such (that is, beyond its contents) as mediatization. These examples demonstrate that ...
Text and Subject Position after Althusser
... these might be denied by appeal to either Freud or conventional psychology. External objects really are perceived by speaking subjects, but those objects (and the very capacity to perceive them as entities) are, as it were, one side in the surface which has on its other side an unconscious lining, s ...
... these might be denied by appeal to either Freud or conventional psychology. External objects really are perceived by speaking subjects, but those objects (and the very capacity to perceive them as entities) are, as it were, one side in the surface which has on its other side an unconscious lining, s ...