why do we laugh and cry?
... Society's system of values The majority of individual and collective values are dictated by particular interests and tastes. But in society the different particular interests and tastes compensate one another, so that what comes up to the surface consists of only the most general appreciations. This ...
... Society's system of values The majority of individual and collective values are dictated by particular interests and tastes. But in society the different particular interests and tastes compensate one another, so that what comes up to the surface consists of only the most general appreciations. This ...
Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis
... being-in-the-world, rather than being uniquely defined by tribe, nation or race—and Achille Mbembe’s theory of Afropolitanism—a global aesthetic creolization or pluralization of African modes of being-in-the-world. Although Orlando observes that the two dystopic utopian narratives remain “caught in ...
... being-in-the-world, rather than being uniquely defined by tribe, nation or race—and Achille Mbembe’s theory of Afropolitanism—a global aesthetic creolization or pluralization of African modes of being-in-the-world. Although Orlando observes that the two dystopic utopian narratives remain “caught in ...
Visions of Culture : an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
... contributions to anthropology, and I apologize to them, their students, and their posthumous advocates. Second, I have not considered scholars whose works were important during their lifetimes but have since become marginal to major currents in the field (see, for example, Ackerman [1987:1–4] on Sir ...
... contributions to anthropology, and I apologize to them, their students, and their posthumous advocates. Second, I have not considered scholars whose works were important during their lifetimes but have since become marginal to major currents in the field (see, for example, Ackerman [1987:1–4] on Sir ...
Continuity, Change and the Circulation of Social Practices
... Andreas Reckwitz (2002a: 249) defines them as ‘bodily activities, forms of mental activities, “things” and their use, a background knowledge in the form of understanding, know-how, states of emotion and motivational knowledge’. With the aim of bringing clarity to the constituent elements of practice ...
... Andreas Reckwitz (2002a: 249) defines them as ‘bodily activities, forms of mental activities, “things” and their use, a background knowledge in the form of understanding, know-how, states of emotion and motivational knowledge’. With the aim of bringing clarity to the constituent elements of practice ...
The Frankfurt School and its Critics (Tom Botto..
... In this sense the Institute formed part of a wider movement of thought which has come to be known as ‘Western Marxism’, characterized on one side by diverse, predominantly philosophical and Hegelian reinterpretations of Marxist theory in relation to the advanced capitalist societies, and on the othe ...
... In this sense the Institute formed part of a wider movement of thought which has come to be known as ‘Western Marxism’, characterized on one side by diverse, predominantly philosophical and Hegelian reinterpretations of Marxist theory in relation to the advanced capitalist societies, and on the othe ...
John Dewey on the Public Responsibility of Intellectuals
... Intellectuals, though, are the master engineers of cultural symbol systems: they, through their education, best understand the history and power of those systems. For the most part, however, either they are employed by the moneyed corporate interests—for example, the majority of professional artists ...
... Intellectuals, though, are the master engineers of cultural symbol systems: they, through their education, best understand the history and power of those systems. For the most part, however, either they are employed by the moneyed corporate interests—for example, the majority of professional artists ...
On Ethnographic Intent - Indiana University Bloomington
... group act and believe they should act, does not exist until someone acting in the role of ethnographer puts it there. 19 Each member of a group has a personal version (theory, if you prefer) of how things work in that particular group, and thus of its culture or, more helpfully, its micro-culture ...
... group act and believe they should act, does not exist until someone acting in the role of ethnographer puts it there. 19 Each member of a group has a personal version (theory, if you prefer) of how things work in that particular group, and thus of its culture or, more helpfully, its micro-culture ...
Revisiting the Concepts of Mass Communication, the Audience
... Such an approach to the concept of mass communication highlights the changing nature of the media audience. And while scholars have devoted a substantial amount of attention to the ways that the new media environment is recasting the notion of the audience (see, e.g., Cover, 2006; Livingstone, 1999, ...
... Such an approach to the concept of mass communication highlights the changing nature of the media audience. And while scholars have devoted a substantial amount of attention to the ways that the new media environment is recasting the notion of the audience (see, e.g., Cover, 2006; Livingstone, 1999, ...
On the affective ambivalence of living with cultural diversity
... because my approach will be mainly – though in an empirically informed way – phenomenological: the theoretical focus is on those aspects of the experience of living with diversity that can be generalized for the reason that they are structured by the human condition itself. At first glance, it would ...
... because my approach will be mainly – though in an empirically informed way – phenomenological: the theoretical focus is on those aspects of the experience of living with diversity that can be generalized for the reason that they are structured by the human condition itself. At first glance, it would ...
Nonverbal Communication and Culture
... provided a rich practical research environment in which to test (through training) the ideas previously developed in ICC study. Starting in the 1970s specialized ICC courses, societies and journals were established, signaling the fieldʹs reception of a first paradigm. In the late 1970s ICC scholars ...
... provided a rich practical research environment in which to test (through training) the ideas previously developed in ICC study. Starting in the 1970s specialized ICC courses, societies and journals were established, signaling the fieldʹs reception of a first paradigm. In the late 1970s ICC scholars ...
Theorising Media as Practice - incomplete without surface noise
... and cultural sectors is valid in its own right, as a contribution to policy debates and to the analysis of the wider economy, as well as being vital to our understanding of the pressures that limit participation in those sectors on various scales and also limit the range of outputs they produce. Her ...
... and cultural sectors is valid in its own right, as a contribution to policy debates and to the analysis of the wider economy, as well as being vital to our understanding of the pressures that limit participation in those sectors on various scales and also limit the range of outputs they produce. Her ...
Full text - Studia mythologica Slavica
... to explain in English4. Even the ads that are made in the way which allows for translation, sometimes don’t appear to be as good as they should. Music is another problematic aspect of culture used in advertising. “A people’s music is inseparable from their lives, and songs represent an important par ...
... to explain in English4. Even the ads that are made in the way which allows for translation, sometimes don’t appear to be as good as they should. Music is another problematic aspect of culture used in advertising. “A people’s music is inseparable from their lives, and songs represent an important par ...
Critical Discourse Analysis
... The information on which people interpret the world around them comes from a wide range of sources. It comes from personal interactions with others, from their knowledge and experience, cultural conventions and precedents in their social world; it comes from their exposure to institutional and non-i ...
... The information on which people interpret the world around them comes from a wide range of sources. It comes from personal interactions with others, from their knowledge and experience, cultural conventions and precedents in their social world; it comes from their exposure to institutional and non-i ...
Full article
... of social scientific analysis of the globalized world predominantly seems to denote disruption, disembedding and disassociation of people, objects and capital from their social and territorial contexts. In her influential article on ‘the global situation’, Anna Tsing directs our attention to the cha ...
... of social scientific analysis of the globalized world predominantly seems to denote disruption, disembedding and disassociation of people, objects and capital from their social and territorial contexts. In her influential article on ‘the global situation’, Anna Tsing directs our attention to the cha ...
Current Research Journal of Economic Theory 2(1): 27-31, 2010 ISSN: 2042-485X
... style that manifested in the leadership creed who often time get into political offices for their personal aggrandizement. Nigeria, which is perceived to be the giant of Africa, is even more hit by this crisis of leadership this is bec ause of her inability to live to her bidding to maintaining such ...
... style that manifested in the leadership creed who often time get into political offices for their personal aggrandizement. Nigeria, which is perceived to be the giant of Africa, is even more hit by this crisis of leadership this is bec ause of her inability to live to her bidding to maintaining such ...
America is morally exceptional because, while many other countries
... rated God's importance in their life at the maximum of 10 on a 10-point scale, and 60% attended church at least once a month (Baker, 2005). The same proportion of Americans (40%) attended church in a given week in March 2003 as had in a given week of March 1939. In both 1947 and 2001, 94% of America ...
... rated God's importance in their life at the maximum of 10 on a 10-point scale, and 60% attended church at least once a month (Baker, 2005). The same proportion of Americans (40%) attended church in a given week in March 2003 as had in a given week of March 1939. In both 1947 and 2001, 94% of America ...
galaxia 17.indd - Revistas Eletrônicas da PUC-SP
... Peirce called Firstness. It cannot be anything except a possibility, in the same sense that “redness, before anything in the universe was yet red, was nevertheless a positive qualitative possibility” (Peirce, 1.25). Thirdness, in turn, is the category of regularity in experience, of general principl ...
... Peirce called Firstness. It cannot be anything except a possibility, in the same sense that “redness, before anything in the universe was yet red, was nevertheless a positive qualitative possibility” (Peirce, 1.25). Thirdness, in turn, is the category of regularity in experience, of general principl ...
Not Knowing about Defecation
... Relating this incident to the rest of my fieldwork, as a reflexive anthropologist should do, I can see one major implication. My running away from that place and my subsequent almost continuous avoidance oflocal toilets has made me aware of a serious shortcoming in my participation in the daily life ...
... Relating this incident to the rest of my fieldwork, as a reflexive anthropologist should do, I can see one major implication. My running away from that place and my subsequent almost continuous avoidance oflocal toilets has made me aware of a serious shortcoming in my participation in the daily life ...
Text, Introductory Sociology 1301 (all classes) File
... sociology was not being taught. Durkheim felt strongly that sociology would be an important science in explaining human behavior. This interest led him to take a year’s sabbatical, and go to Germany to study under Wilhelm Wundt, the father of experimental psychology. There he learned to use the scie ...
... sociology was not being taught. Durkheim felt strongly that sociology would be an important science in explaining human behavior. This interest led him to take a year’s sabbatical, and go to Germany to study under Wilhelm Wundt, the father of experimental psychology. There he learned to use the scie ...
A Clarification of Terms: Canadian Multiculturalism
... For Kymlicka (2003), multiculturalism is a successful model with a bright future. Indeed, it is so successful that it has become a victim of its own success, having changed the way people think about society so deeply that the term ‘multiculturalism’ is no longer needed (p. 8). Chandra (2005) insist ...
... For Kymlicka (2003), multiculturalism is a successful model with a bright future. Indeed, it is so successful that it has become a victim of its own success, having changed the way people think about society so deeply that the term ‘multiculturalism’ is no longer needed (p. 8). Chandra (2005) insist ...
THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF IDEOLOGY (1940-60
... thought and Marxist revisionism. He declared flatly that the empirical analysis of class consciousness, or more accurately its absence, in capitalist societies was not the method of Marxism. If a leap forward into revolution was to be made, proletarian class consciousness would have to be volitional ...
... thought and Marxist revisionism. He declared flatly that the empirical analysis of class consciousness, or more accurately its absence, in capitalist societies was not the method of Marxism. If a leap forward into revolution was to be made, proletarian class consciousness would have to be volitional ...
Figure 2-1: Basic Components of a Moral System
... Rules such as "proprietary software should not be copied" or "software that can be used to invade the privacy of users should not be developed" are examples of rules of conduct that arise out of our social policies. A correlation between directives and social ...
... Rules such as "proprietary software should not be copied" or "software that can be used to invade the privacy of users should not be developed" are examples of rules of conduct that arise out of our social policies. A correlation between directives and social ...
From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the
... practices of piracy, journalism or religion. She concludes that “despite the massive amount of data and new forms of visibility shored up by computational media, many of these worlds remain veiled, cloaked, and difficult to decipher” (Coleman 2010: 12). Long-term ethnographic fieldwork is therefore ...
... practices of piracy, journalism or religion. She concludes that “despite the massive amount of data and new forms of visibility shored up by computational media, many of these worlds remain veiled, cloaked, and difficult to decipher” (Coleman 2010: 12). Long-term ethnographic fieldwork is therefore ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... 1. How does culture impact what is seen as “normal” in regards to sleep? In answering this question make sure to note the following as regards the norms for human sleeping patterns; the times at which people go to sleep, the length of the sleep cycle, do people engage in single or multiple periods o ...
... 1. How does culture impact what is seen as “normal” in regards to sleep? In answering this question make sure to note the following as regards the norms for human sleeping patterns; the times at which people go to sleep, the length of the sleep cycle, do people engage in single or multiple periods o ...