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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"social freedom"”.
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BIVALENT SOCIAL FREEDOM: A DEFENCE
… blocked by a naturally occuring landslide. Many social and political philosophers have tried to capture this pre-theoretical judgment at a more abstract level through the formulation of a concept of freedom that refers specifically to the social or interpersonal relation of prevention, a concept …
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The Self and Social Freedom: A Paradigm of Leisure (Interaction Theory, Self-Expression)
Leisure is characterized by perceived freedom from the constraining aspects of social role obligations. It is a distinctive relationship between the individual and the social milieu which allows a form of self-expression often inhibited in other social contexts. This view is strongly supported by …
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Recognition, Normative Reconstruction and Economic Justice: National and Transnational Perspectives
… from Struggle for Recognition to the Idea of Socialism. Against this backdrop I then go beyond Honneth and outline and defend a mixed-view for the domestic level that combines elements from the Freedom’s Right and Recognition and Redistribution. I come up with a weak interpretation of social …
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Growing up in Portuguese-Canadian families: an oral history of adolescence in Vancouver, 1962-1980
… as children or adolescents from a variety of social and economic backgrounds in the Azores and Continental Portugal and one was born in Vancouver. This thesis examines aspects of their adolescence in the family, at school, at work, in friendship and courtship, as well as at church. Their lives …
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Migrant Surveillance and State Power: Electronic Tagging of Asylum-Seekers in the UK
… an individual’s physical, psychological, and social freedom. This study focuses on the experiences of asylum-seekers who have been electronically tagged— their struggles and their methods of resistance. The electronic tag administers a mandatory curfew on asylum-seekers, administered by a …
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A Polanyian tack: political implications
Intellectual freedom justifies social freedom and is justified as the pursuit of truth. I argue that intellectual freedom is the creative exercise of Polanyian tacit knowing. Polanyian tacit knowing is discovery, a way to new truth. Intellectual freedom, imagined is (1) negative or primarily …
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Šeimų, turinčių vaikų, socialinės apsaugos problemos ir perspektyvos Lietuvoje /
… been one of the most important and strongest social units in society. So far, there is a strong focus on family well-being. In order to create and maintain a social system, which effectively ensure a stable family life, both, at the international and national level, is done at a lot of the …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… and French crime films within the context of social and technological modernity related to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of communicative technology, early innovations in transportation and the increased accessibility and openness of the modern city. More …
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Africa's recent oil boom : are the same mistakes being made again? Investigating the effect of the recent surge in oil prices upon the prospects of long term development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… I have also measured levels of political and social freedom to determine whether the political environment is one that has improved from the previous price hike period. My empirical findings display two clear results. Firstly, the political environment has improved significantly from the …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and disrupt the body as a category on which to base nobility. Although my texts emerge from different social and historical circumstances, the clothing they depict represents similar social transactions of class, gender and honour in …
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Women and subjugation: An evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa
… evaluate women fiction writers’ perspectives on social, economic and political subjugation of women and how they employ persuasive tools in their writing to persuade the readers. The study was primarily a qualitative, desktop research where a total of five novels were purposefully selected and …
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Coercion
In difficult times, political, social or economic, it is usually the case that opportunities for politicians, bureaucrats and men of power to exploit their fellow men and to threaten their liberties increase. No apology, therefore, is required to justify a re-examination of the nature of coercion, …
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THE PROBLEM OF WORK IN AXEL HONNETH'S CRITICAL THEORY
… che l’analisi di Axel Honneth del lavoro sociale mediato dal mercato basata sulla teoria del riconoscimento, per quanto ancora valida e resiliente, richieda tuttavia un ulteriore perfezionamento. Obiettivo della tesi è quello di contribuire a questo scopo. In primo luogo, la tesi articola …