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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"postmodern society"”.
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Steel Matters: Communicative Praxis of Community Relations in a Pluralistic Postmodern Society of Information Empowerment
<p>In recent postmodern years, United States Steel Corporation has gained international recognition for successfully pioneering grassroots community relations programs that attain the mutually achievable goals of fiscal, social and ethical accountability. This paper offers two of their …
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
<p>In the postmodern condition and the commodification of cuisine, the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard is used to define the postmodern condition. Using the seven common themes found in postmodernism, a textural analysis of cultural artifacts is undertaken of the equal representation, multiplicity …
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Psychosocial factors perpetuating suicide attempt among young adults at selected Psychiatric Hospital, in Gauteng Province, South Africa
The impact of postmodern society, with its implications and absurdness have brought about several changes in every sphere of endeavour, both positive and negative. Since the aspect of human being involves spiritual, social and psychological dimensions, “this technological age” have adjusted the …
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Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms
… the Middle Ages that continues to fascinate our postmodern society. One of the most tangible ways this interest manifests itself is through our media. This project explores some of the ways that representations of the medieval past function within present-day reimaginings in the media. More …
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Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music
… In the latter case, general cultural shifts in postmodern society, indicating the evolution of more actively engaged forms of reception and participation and a related desire for greater personal expression and participation among a critical mass of people, are explored as emergent trends …
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Mnemophrenia: a science fiction film-essay on the future of cinema and artificial memories
… explores is: what would happen if in a future postmodern society the Bazinian myth of ‘total’ cinema becomes a reality? If ‘total cinema’ is pure realism and cinema can lead to artificial memories, then artificial memories and pure realism become one and films become artificial memories. …
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An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles
… that the United States is a post-industrial society, whereby the means and ends of social production are social, and the production and reproduction of knowledge are shaped by reflexivity and continuous reconceptualizations of reality, what it means to be "tolerant" has been subjected to …
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Singing the Self: Exploring the Role of Congregational Song in Identity Formation
… play a unique role in identity formation in a postmodern society. Chapter 1 introduces the argument of the dissertation. Chapter 2 charts thelandscape of contemporary self-identity by evaluating Anthony Giddens’s concept of the “reflexive self,” which liberates individuals to construct …
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The establishment and use of cross border criminal intelligence under a European Criminal Intelligence Model in a period of modernism and post modernism societal change in the EU, and issues of accountability and human rights in the dissemination of such criminal intelligence exchange
… a focus on the respective consequences if our society has changed from modern to a postmodern society. In relation to the ECIM a reflection on this aspect is of crucial importance as a shift in the societal paradigm would also question the value of a ‘grand narrative’ like the ECIM, a single, …
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Including young people: exploring citizenship and participation in areas of urban regeneration
… to include young people in ‘mainstream’ society in the form of policy initiatives to create and underpin new opportunities for young people to participate more fully within the community. The purpose of this study is twofold, firstly, it focuses on the experiences of young people living …
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… the descent into the chaos and disorder of a postmodern society. All cinematic evil can do is to connect with this sense of unease in which the 'reality of evil' cannot be represented. Instead, it draws on earlier icons and narratives of evil in a conflation of narrative and spectacle that …
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A Narrative of Charitable Acknowledgment: Reframing Interpersonal Communication in Intimate Relationships
… describes "emotivism" as the current state of society where individual preference serves as the ethical decision making compass. Emerging from Enlightenment scholarship (e.g., Hobbes, Rousseau, sociobiology), individual preferences have become main tenets in intimate interpersonal research. In …
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Lastentarhanopettajan pedagoginen vastuu hajautetussa organisaatiossa
… teacher's pedagogical responsibility in a postmodern society and to describe its evolution in the wake of the changing nature of the expertise in question of kindergarten teaching. The study analysed views regarding the pedagogical responsibility from the perspective of different teacher …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… of John Dorst concerning ethnography in a postmodern society and performance folkloristics to analyze the verbal art and performances at the rallies. Finally, I conclude with an overview of how German Volkskunde has changed after the Nazi era and discuss how the issue of folklore and …
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The Design, Implementation, and Assessment of Initial Change and Growth in a Local Voluntary Organization and its Members
… effectively pursue a shared objective. In this postmodern society, leaders of community and nonprofit organizations find they are asking themselves difficult questions about the most effective methods of fulfilling their mission and simultaneously meeting members' changing needs. Participatory …
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Understanding political and citizen participation on digital platforms for civic mobilization. Analysis of cyber-activism in Spain through Change.org
… provides an additional element that meets postmodern society concerns and gives power to citizens (Carpentier, 2012). Nevertheless, cyber-activism is also considered a movement too complex and extensive to delve into in a single article of research. For that reason, this study analyses …