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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Social Pathologies"”.
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Academic perceptions of educational technology: towards communicative rationality in the higher education institution
… were categorised as examples of Habermasian social pathologies (anomie, alienation, disintegration and social instability) rooted in concerns about an increasingly powerful HEI systemworld. When discussing Educational Technology, participants expressed socio-cultural concerns more readily …
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From Alienation to Self-Realization: Pathologies of Late Modernity, Work, and the Successful Life
… self-realization of late-modern subjects: (i) social pathologies, which, I argue, contemporary political philosophy is unable to adequately diagnose and (ii) the tyranny of work, which remains peripheral to modern political theory. Both of these factors impede the ability of subjects to …
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THE SEASONALITY OF PATHOLOGY: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
… seasonal periodicity of a number of different social pathologies, including suicide, mortality resulting from disease, the onset of physical illness, and criminal behavior. Using time-series data from the United States, for 132 consecutive months between 1965-1975, it is found that virtually …
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What are the Factors that Support Sustainable Communities? A Case Study of an Inner-City Flats Complex.
… To find out to what extent do people in a social housing complex have a sense of agency and identify positively with the complex. These flats have just been rejuvenated and appear to be very stable and settled. However as this is the object of investigation and not a prior given this …
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To Settle the Settler: Pathologies of Colonialism in New Zealand History Films 1925 - 2005
Social pathologies are thoroughly intertwined with colonial history. From the colonial project‘s drive to categorise and treat indigenous disorders, to postcolonial theorists‘ attempts to understand the psychological effects of (de)colonisation, psychology has provided a lens through which to …
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Livelihoods, capabilities and insurgent citizenship in and around a rainforest metropolis : from violent urbanism to a new rurality?
… the poor, who bear a disproportionate share of social pathologies including violence, poor health and inadequate access to healthcare and social rights. This uneven distribution of injustices has been theorized as “differentiated citizenship.” These injustices impinge on the wellbeing of the …