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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"mass society"”.
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Explaining Churn: Mass Society, Social Capital, & Community Churn
… have differential effects on a community. Mass society theory suggests that because the churn rate experienced by communities can contribute to their uprooting, fragmentation, and isolation, churn is a potent threat to the stability of our modern day communities. Social capital theory, to …
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Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television
… study of visual narrative. It criticizes Western society's videocentrism, or centering of television as the predominant medium of communicating to mass society. This method is known as videocentric criticism; Chapter one assesses the modern and postmodern condition. Philosophy from the Greek and …
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The interrelationships of nature based on Thoreau's Walden and Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis
… to the more prevalent world view of our mass society. The pervasive outlook disregards these connections and concentrates instead on isolationism. By viewing elements of the natural world as isolated entities, individuals are unable to comprehend the larger context, or environment of …
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Being political and the reconstruction of public discourse: Hannah Arendt on experience, history and the spectator
… the solitude of the<br/>individual engendered by mass society.
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Il palcoscenico della guerra di Libia. Protagonisti, retorica, nazione, 1911-1912
… in the consolidation of both state and society. The texts I examine were all published in contemporary newspapers and magazines, which span from 1910 to 1912, as they refer to events throughout the war. The facts involved in and that led to the war created the first important organic …
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A study of portraits of the artist in contemporary fiction: critical selfconsciousness as a characterising feature of twentieth-century writing
… and corporate fictions which twentieth-century mass society propagates with such unparallelled efficiency. The fictions of institutionalised literary criticism are a relatively minor but interesting example, and the selfconscious author often does battle with his critics. However his primary aim …
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China's Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949
… 1927, the party-state had strived to re-energize mass activism and dissolve proletarian political subjectivity with a rightwing program that stressed interclass and national unity. Under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership, the Guomindang put an end to the ideological ambiguity of Sun Yat-sen's national …
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Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, 1946-1962
… As economic growth began to transform Japanese society in the late fifties and early sixties, the group's earlier faith in the inherent democratic pragmatism of ordinary people gave way to promoting a more oppositional stance, embodied in the classless ideal of the citizen-activist confronting …
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Dangerous Subjects: U.S. War Narrative, Modern Citizenship, and the Making of National Security, 1890-1964
… full-bloom in the so-called consensus society of the Cold War. Because it traces developmental continuities across time, this project reorients the prevailing assessment of war narrative in established literary history. Generally speaking, scholars have discussed American war-making and …