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Conformity and Resistance in America

Author : Jacek Gutorow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conformity and Resistance in America written by Jacek Gutorow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conformity and Resistance in America, a collection of thirty six essays from various fields of the U.S. studies, addresses the American culture as a space of fruitful tensions between the generally acknowledged canons and the projects that have questioned and subverted its very foundations and archives. The book seeks to give justice to those areas of American culture that traditionally used to be treated as marginal and negligible but which in fact have added up to its uniqueness. This includes various areas of American cultural and literary studies, gender and minority studies, themes of diasporic communities, multi-ethnic and multicultural society, problems of global economy and of competing worldwide ideologies. The papers included in this book try to answer pressing questions of the American identity in the post-9/11 world, and do so by pointing to the recent â oehumanities crisisâ as well as revealing moments of heterogeneity and discontinuity in the making of any culture. Contrary to Samuel Huntingtonâ (TM)s dictum telling us of the inevitable â oeclash of civilizations, â the following essays concentrate on what Edward W. Said called â oehumanismâ (TM)s sphereâ â " the sphere of antagonizing discourses and narratives which challenge rather than confirm the bases of their legitimacy. Wavering between conformity and resistance, the essays propose possible formulas for the new American identity as it strives to define and project itself into the new century.

Beyond Conformity Or Rebellion

Author : Gary Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226742069
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Conformity Or Rebellion written by Gary Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-07-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In this new study of high school-aged youth in the early 70's, the author reveals subtle yet significant changes in the style of deviance in adolescent culture. The argument is made that a new peer-group pluralism emerged from the 60's which is characterized by a deviance defined less by persistent violations of the law than by disengagement from traditional images of success and civic responsiblity. This work is based on an ethnographic study of six communities located in a midwestern agricultural and industrial state. This study will be of interest to individuals involved in the fields of adolescence, education, delinquency and deviance, community life, and the texture of life and values among high school youth.

Conformity, Resistance, and Self-determination

Author : Richard Flacks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conformity, Resistance, and Self-determination written by Richard Flacks and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Conformity and Resistance

Author : M. Chauí
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230109001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Between Conformity and Resistance written by M. Chauí and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980's, Marilena Chauí's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chauí's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.

The Failed Individual

Author : Katharina Motyl
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593437163
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Failed Individual written by Katharina Motyl and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheitern ist in Mode: Immer offener wird in den USA über den Konkurs der eigenen Firma und (überwundene) Lebenskrisen gesprochen. Auch in der Wissenschaft hat das Thema Konjunktur. Dieser Band untersucht das individuelle Scheitern interdisziplinär. Was verstehen wir unter einem "gescheiterten Individuum ", welche sozioökonomischen und technologischen Faktoren tragen dazu bei? Wie wird das Scheitern kulturell verhandelt, und inwiefern kann man es als Widerstand gegen gesellschaftliche Normen umdeuten?

The Failed Individual

Author : Katharina Motyl
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 359350782X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Failed Individual written by Katharina Motyl and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? The Failed Individual brings together a variety of disciplinary approaches to explore how people fail in the United States and the West at large, whether economically, politically, socially, culturally, or physically. How do we understand individual failure, especially in the context of the zero-sum game of international capitalism? And what new spaces of resistance, or even pleasure, might failure open up for people and society?

The Americanization Syndrome

Author : Robert A. Carlson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780709948155
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Americanization Syndrome written by Robert A. Carlson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1987 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conformity: a tale

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Conformity: a tale written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity

Author : Joanna Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137514795
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity written by Joanna Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fondness for the rhetoric of academic freedom remains, it is increasingly criticised as an outdated and elitist concept by students and lecturers alike and called into question by a number of political and intellectual trends such as feminism, critical theory and identity politics. This provocative and compelling book traces the demise of academic freedom within the context of changing ideas about the purpose of the university and the nature of knowledge. The book argues that a challenge to this culture of conformity and censorship and a defence of academic free speech are needed for critique to be possible and for the intellectual project of evaluating existing knowledge and proposing new knowledge to be meaningful. This book is that challenge and a passionate call to arms for the power of academic thought today.

Contesting Conformity

Author : Jennie C. Ikuta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190087846
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Conformity written by Jennie C. Ikuta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-conformity in American public life -- Countering conformity through intellectual freedom in Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Contesting conformity through individuality in Mill's On liberty -- Refusing conformity through creativity in Nietzsche.

Conformity and Deviation

Author : Irwin August Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258375997
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Conformity and Deviation written by Irwin August Berg and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing Authors Include Robert R. Blake, Jane Srygley Mouton, Donald T. Campbell, And Many Others.

The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation

Author : Narain D. Batra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442225882
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation written by Narain D. Batra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the dynamics of the aspirational society. It explores the boundaries of permissible thought--deviations and transgressions that create constant innovations. When confronted with a problem, an innovative mind struggles and brings forth something distinctive--new ideas, new inventions, and new programs based on unconventional approaches to solve the problem. But this can be done only if the culture creates large breathing spaces by leaving people alone, not as a matter of state generosity but as something fundamental in being an American. Consequently, the Constitutional mandate of “Congress shall make no law…” has encouraged fearless speech, unrestrained thought, and endless experimentation leading to newer developments in science, technology, the arts, and not least socio-political relations. Most of all, the First Freedoms liberate the mind from irrational fears and encourage an environment of divergent thinking, non-conformity, and resistance to a collective mindset. The First Freedoms encourage Americans to be iconoclastic, to be creatively crazy, to be impure, thus, enabling them to mix and re-mix ideas to design new technologies and cultural forms and platforms, anything from experimental social relations and big data explorations to electing our first black president.

The Conquest of Cool

Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226260129
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of Cool written by Thomas Frank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at advertising during the 1960s, focusing on the relationship between the counterculture movement and commerce.

Understanding and Dealing With Violence

Author : Barbara C. Wallace
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506376169
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Dealing With Violence written by Barbara C. Wallace and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are we to deal with personal and social violence? Given the global reality of daily homicide, rape, torture, and war, more individuals may be considering this question than ever before. Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence. This timely guide examines many forms of violence including International violence from war and torture School and urban violence The rape experience of women Violence against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals Hate crimes against Blacks, Latinos, and Asians Systemic violence against people with disabilities Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach offers a comprehensive theory of violence as a psychology of oppression, liberation, and identity development. Readers will understand how invisible violence may precede visible violence, and how the oppressed are transformed into oppressors. Blending scholarly and personal perspectives on ethnic cleansing, physical and sexual assault, terrorism, and police brutality, an inclusive group of contributors fuel hope that humanity can break the cycle of violence. An indispensable resource for psychologists, educators, researchers, and mental health clinicians, Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach is also an ideal primer for undergraduate and graduate students in courses on violence, peace studies, and conflict resolution.

Mestizo Nations

Author : Juan E. De Castro
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521920
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Mestizo Nations written by Juan E. De Castro and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationality in Latin America has long been entwined with questions of racial identity. Just as American-born colonial elites grounded their struggle for independence from Spain and Portugal in the history of Amerindian resistance, constructions of nationality were based on the notion of the fusion of populations heterogeneous in culture, race, and language. But this rhetorical celebration of difference was framed by a real-life pressure to assimilate into cultures always defined by Iberian American elites. In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizajeÑwhich proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elementsÑhe examines a selection of texts that represent the entire history and regional landscape of Latin American culture in its Western, indigenous, and neo-African traditions from Independence to the present. Through them, he delineates some of the ambiguities and contradictions that have beset this discourse. Among texts considered are the Indianist novel Iracema by the nineteenth-century Brazilian author JosŽ de Alencar; the Tradiciones peruanas, Peruvian Ricardo Palma's fictionalizations of national difference; and historical and sociological essays by the Peruvian Marxist JosŽ Carlos Mari‡tegui and the Brazilian intellectual Gilberto Freyre. And because questions raised by this discourse are equally relevant to postmodern concerns with national and transnational heterogeneity, De Castro also analyzes such recent examples as the Cuban dance band Los Van Van's use of Afrocentric lyrics; Richard Rodriguez's interpretations of North American reality; and points of contact and divergence between JosŽ Mar’a Arguedas's novel The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below and writings of Gloria Anzaldœa and Julia Kristeva. By updating the concept of mestizaje as a critical tool for analyzing literary text and cultural trendsÑincorporating not only race, culture, and nationality but also gender, language, and politicsÑDe Castro shows the implications of this Latin American discursive tradition for current critical debates in cultural and area studies. Mestizo Nations contains important insights for all Latin Americanists as a tool for understanding racial relations and cultural hybridization, creating not only an important commentary on Latin America but also a critique of American life in the age of multiculturalism.

Capoeira and Candomblé

Author : Floyd Merrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783964565358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Capoeira and Candomblé written by Floyd Merrell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study involves the author's practice of and reflection on the arts of Capoeira and Candomblé and culminates in the idea of an "other logic", interrelating it with the topics of post-colonial and diaspora studies.

Signs of Resistance

Author : Susan Burch
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798942
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Signs of Resistance written by Susan Burch and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates that in 19th and 20th centuries and contrary to popular belief, the Deaf community defended its use of sign language as a distinctive form of communication, thus forming a collective Deaf consciousness, identity, and political organization.