Structuration

specific case study of a global corporation, as Coca Cola Co., guided the intellectual exploration of the foundations of the field and its main concepts, as commodification, fetishism, coding and decoding, mass production, cultural industries, structuration and marketing, and distinction, among others. The book of Vincent Mosco on the Political Economy of Communication was the trunk from which we entangled basic readings on, for instance, Marx, Bourdieu, Adorno and Horkheimer, Williamson, and…

is to be read so that the monster can reveal and warn society about something (Cohen 4). Many of his theses focus on the idea of an “us” versus “them” mentality. For instance, he writes that monsters are hybrids who don’t fit in any “systematic structuration” (Cohen 6). Cohen continues to add that monsters “dwell at the gate of difference” in his fourth thesis. Ultimately, that’s his whole argument for what makes up a monster. If a creature or being doesn’t follow societal norms, then they are…

Modern society places the responsibility for the comprehensive development of an individual on the education system - specially designed public social institution with an organized system of relationships and social norms that meet the basic needs of society and the requirements of the socialized individual. The education system is individual for each country. While Canadian schools are known worldwide for its academic excellence and exceptional programs to learn English or French as a second…

The ‘Double standard of ageing’ is the idea that women are compared in a harsher way to men as they get older. Sontag noted in her article the ‘double standard of ageing’ 1972 that the relations between men and women are based on hypocrisy as men do not face the same pressures as women during the ageing process. The relationship between gender and age is generally understudied and has only started coming to the fore of sociological studies in recent years. Subsequently there are much more…

The constructivist turn in IR marks a shift from the material determinants of international politics to ideational factors, such as beliefs, ideas, and norms. The two dominant theoretical schools in IR, neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism (NLI), share several key assumptions regarding the anarchic nature of the international system, states are self-interested, rational actors, driven by material interests in power/survival (neorealists) or security (NLI). In addition, neorealism and NLI…

music’, in Leppert, R. and McClary, S. Music and society: the politics of composition, performance and reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 133–155 Glevarec, H. and Pinet, M. (2009) ‘La “tablature” des goûts musicaux: un modèle de structuration des préférences et des jugements’. Revue française de sociologie, vol.50/3, pp.599-640 Grossberg, L. (1992) ‘Is There a Fan in the House? The Affective Sensibility of Fandom’ in Lewis, L.A. The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular…

This dissertation is about accountability in decision-making processes for routine and non-routine settings. The study identifies two research problems linked to each other. The first research problem is the disconnect in the public administration’s literature of the micro (individual) and macro (societal) levels of accountability (Dubnick, 2014) and the conceptualization of accountability primarily for routine contexts. The second research problem is a practical problem related to the…

MODULE NAME: SOCIAL THEORY MODULE CODE: SSR400 ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: Social Theory: Critical theory, modernity, postmodernity and feminist theory. 1. Background and introduction In the history of humanity, there has always been a desire to understand what, how and most importantly why certain things do exist? Urry argues that “Sociology is made up of a multiplicity of perspectives that are not unified by a common idea of what society is” (2002: 223). The study of social theory wants to address and…