More Energy and Less Work, but New Crises: How the Societal Metabolism-Labour Nexus Changes from Agrarian to Industrial Societies

Superheroes are a global phenomenon. The superhero genre has been proliferated through modern industrial societies by way of movies, television, comics, and other forms of popular media. Although virtually every nation in the world has heroic myths, the modern superhero, as marked by the inception of recent American comics heroes in 1929, is a uniquely Western invention. Superheroes are “Western” insofar as they embody and exhibit Western civic values, such as democracy, humanism, and retributive justice. These characters have been communicatively incorporated into globalization processes by means of diffusion and thereby enact aspects of cultural imperialism. Even so, superhero figures have been in high demand across many populations for their entertainment value. As superheroes have diffused in non-Western cultures, they have not only been absorbed by new cultures but also refigured and adapted. These non-Western adaptations have had a recursive influence, such as the global popularity of Japanese manga. The recursive relationship between Western superheroes and their non-Western adaptations implies superheroes are an important aspect of cultural fusion in global popular culture.

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Post-Industrial model of Society, Education and science in Philosophical concepts of Radical Pedagogy in the context of Globalization for the Sustainable Development

American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.21694/2378-7031.21015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Viktor Zinchenko ◽

Nataliia Krokhmal ◽

Оlha Horpynych ◽

Nataliia Fialko

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Self Determination ◽

Theory Theory ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Security Education ◽

Theory Of Education ◽

Socially Excluded ◽

Post Industrial ◽

Industrial Societies

Critical theory of education should be based on a critical theory of society, which is conceptually analyzes the features of actually existing industrial and post-industrial societies and their relations of domination and subordination (oppression), conflict and the prospects for progressive social change and transformative practices that make projects more complete, freer life and democratic society. Criticality theory means a way of seeing and understanding, building categories, making connections, reflection and participation in practice theory, theory of withdrawal of social practice.This term contains an element of emancipation, liberation and self-determination of the oppressed and exploited masses, recognizing that people are socially excluded from the material security, education and decision-making can share vidrefleksuvaty their situation, realize that it is unauthorized again, and realize that they must organize themselves in order to change the structure of society.

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Disappointing poverty trends: is the social investment state to blame?

Journal of European Social Policy ◽

10.1177/0958928711418857 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 21 (5) ◽

pp. 450-471 ◽

Cited By ~ 81

Author(s):

Frank Vandenbroucke ◽

Koen Vleminckx

Keyword(s):

Social Inclusion ◽

Resource Competition ◽

Social Investment ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Social ◽

Working Age ◽

Per Se ◽

Post Industrial ◽

Industrial Societies ◽

The Eu

Should we explain the disappointing outcomes of the Open Method of Co-ordination on Inclusion by methodological weaknesses or by substantive contradictions in the ‘social investment’ paradigm? To clarify the underlying concepts, we first revisit the original ‘Lisbon inspiration’ and then relate it to the idea of the ‘new welfare state’, as proposed in the literature on new risks in post-industrial societies. We then discuss two explanations for disappointing poverty trends, suggested by critical accounts of the ‘social investment state’: ‘resource competition’ and a ‘re-commodification’. We do not find these explanations convincing per se and conclude that the jury is still out on the ‘social investment state’. However, policy-makers cannot ignore the failure of employment policies to reduce the proportion of children and working-age adults living in jobless households in the EU, and they should not deny the reality of a ‘trilemma of activation’. Finally, we identify policy conditions that may facilitate the complementarity of social investment and social inclusion.

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Self and Body

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0033 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Roberta Sassatelli

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Early Modern ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

The Body ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Modern Period ◽

Specific Configuration ◽

Post Industrial ◽

Industrial Societies ◽

Late Modern

This article investigates the historical formation and specific configuration of a threefold relation crucial to contemporary society, that between the body, the self, and material culture, which, in contemporary, late modern (or post-industrial) societies, has become largely defined through consumer culture. Drawing on historiography, sociology, and anthropology, it explores how, from the early modern period, the consolidation of new consumption patterns and values has given way to particular visions of the human being as a consumer, and how, in turn, the consumer has become a cultural battlefield for the management of body and self. The article also discusses tastes, habitus, and individualization.

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Air Quality Index and the Urgency of Environmental Education in Kalimantan

Jurnal Pendidikan IPA Indonesia ◽

10.15294/jpii.v9i3.24049 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 371-383

Author(s):

N. F. Sulaeman ◽

A. Nuryadin ◽

R. Widyastuti ◽

L. Subagiyo

Keyword(s):

Air Quality ◽

Quality Index ◽

Science Curriculum ◽

Transformation Process ◽

Air Quality Index ◽

School Level ◽

On This Island ◽

Two Parameters ◽

Environmental Understanding ◽

Industrial Societies

As one of the logical consequences of the transformation process from agricultural to industrial societies, human activities contribute some pressures to our environment, especially air quality. Kalimantan Island, as the third-largest island on Earth, expected to be the world’s lungs, transboundary massive haze problems frequently occurred on this island, especially between 2011-2015. Since the fire forest started from the Indonesia side of this island, reliable information about air quality in Kalimantan-Indonesia and environmental education’s urgency toward this result becomes essential to explore. Air Quality Index (AQI) is measured by a passive sampling method with SO2 dan NO2 as pollutants’ parameters. These two parameters are recognized as a valid measurement of air pollutants, strongly affect human health, and are understandable by ordinary citizens, especially middle school level students. AQI reached 94.27, which is categorized as a good-quality index. Among the provinces, the highest AQI was reached by East and North Kalimantan with 97.63, while South Kalimantan has the lowest with 91.41. Furthermore, the NO2 parameter contributed much larger than SO2 parameters in all provinces. AQI Kalimantan tends to increase, although South Kalimantan tended to have a lower air quality index than other provinces from year to year. This result drives comprehensive support from the education sector to build environmental understanding. From an educational perspective, this result shows the urgency of enhancing science education with air quality discussion. We suggest a possible enhancement in substance and its transformation section and the Science-Environment-Technology-Society section in Science for Junior and Senior High School. The procedure of AQI measurement and the urgency of maintaining AQI are needed to be integrated into the science curriculum.

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An impact of the distance on grandparental childcare: A comparative study conducted in Russia, the United States, and Brazil

Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta Seria XXIII Antropologia) ◽

10.32521/2074-8132.2021.2.139-152 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 139-152

Author(s):

Olga Vladimirovna Semenova ◽

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Marina Lvovna Butovskaya ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

The United States ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Online Surveys ◽

R Software ◽

Grandparental Childcare ◽

Post Industrial ◽

The Impact ◽

Industrial Societies

We tested this prediction on data collected in three cultural contexts of modern post-industrial societies. Quantitative data on the frequency of grandparental involvement in childcare were collected via a set of online surveys conducted in 2019 in Russia, the United States, and Brazil (N= 1531) and analyzed in R software. The current research was also focused on the analysis of the impact of the distance between households on the frequency of kinship assistance in childcare. Results. We found significant cross-cultural universalizes: 1) the distance between households negatively affects the frequency of help; 2) the care of the maternal grandparents is significantly higher than the care of the paternal grandparents. Discussion. In this study we found that the distance between households and family kin side have stable significant impact on the grandparental help cross-culturally. At the same time, it was shown that grandparental help in childcare is significantly reduced in Brazil compared to the other two studied countries. The phenomenon of reduced kin help in Brazil is an important finding and requires further research by evolutionary psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists.

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