Woman in American Society Today

Thought ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-120
Author(s):  
John P. Leary ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

Latin American Society Today

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Benza ◽  
Gabriel Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Society ◽  
Latin American Society ◽  
Society Today

scholarly journals The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1059-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Classroom Experience ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Court Literature ◽  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

While modern readers willingly acknowledge the virtues of informing themselves about the ways the cultural contexts of fiction of various times and places differ from their own and the ramifications this may have for interpretation, we tend to assume that the emotions depicted in the fiction of other cultures are essentially the same as those we find in our own hearts. Scholars of literature exert considerable effort to help readers understand such things as contemporary political systems, kinship structures, marriage practices, and norms of etiquette, but we have not wondered whether the smiles, tears, and frowns of characters of other times and places reflect the same feelings as our own. Love, hate, jealousy, anger, joy, and sadness are popularly taken to be universal human emotions. However, classroom experience teaching classical Japanese literature and close readings of texts have led me to the conclusion that there are subtle but significant differences between the nature of love as depicted in premodern Japanese literature and love as we expect to find it in American society today.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Ethan Schrum
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
Robert Nisbet ◽  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

The epilogue treats critics of American modernity and the instrumental university, especially the sociologist Robert Nisbet, a University of California faculty member (and sometime administrator) at Berkeley and Riverside from 1939 to 1972 who knew Clark Kerr. Nisbet lashed out at organized research in his 1971 book The Degradation of the Academic Dogma, where he coined the term “academic capitalism.” The most unfortunate consequence of the ORU’s rise to prominence, Nisbet believed, was that it separated research from teaching, thus tearing asunder what he conceived as a coherent fabric of academic practice. Nisbet’s thought provides a helpful framework for assessing the instrumental university’s legacy for higher education and American society today.

Conclusion

Paper Trails ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Cameron Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Us ◽  
Postal Network ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
American Geography ◽  
Society Today

This concluding chapter offers an overview of the US Post and the wider federal government from the early 1900s to the present. Both the US Post and the American state became more centralized and bureaucratic during the 20th century, but elements of the agency model and the challenges of American geography have continued to shape governance through the present. Today, the federal government’s “indirect” workforce outnumbers its “direct” workforce of salaried employees, while the US Postal Service’s ongoing fiscal crisis has seen the re-emergence of elements of the 19th-century postal network and its localized, semi-privatized workforce. The book concludes with lessons that the 19th-century postal system holds for understanding the kind of structural power wielded by technology companies and other large-scale forces that shape American society today.

scholarly journals Civic Religion in the Context of Ukrainian and Russian Political Realities

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Iryna Bogachevska
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
American Society ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Made In ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The notion of "civil religion" today in public opinion and socio-humanitarian research is increasingly called complex processes of social transformation involving religious factors that take place in the post-Soviet space, in particular in its "traditionally Orthodox" segment. If in the twentieth century. most of the scientific reflections on the phenomenon of civic religion were made in the context of American society, today the turbulent processes of building national states in the post-Soviet territories have led to a shift in the scientific interest in this issue in Eastern European realities.

scholarly journals Devising a new approach to capitalism at home

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaori O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Society ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Baby Boomer Cohort

In this paper I argue that if anthropology is to secure its future, it has to return to one of its historic projects, that of seeking to understand our own society. As Boas (1904: 522) put it, anthropology must study human culture in all the variety of its forms, past and present-including the society in which we ourselves live. In our society today, nothing is more central to everyday life than capitalism, its workings and its products. I describe my own doctoral research in which the concept of capitalism as a cultural system, as developed by Sahlins (1976, 1996, 1998) and by Mintz (1986), is used to undertake a cultural analysis of the relationship between products, corporations and society. In doing so, I point to ways in which anthropology can provide unique insights into commerce. My work focuses on a single producer, product and cohort of consumers-the elite American corporation E. I. du Pont de Nemours (Dupont), the man-made fibre Lycra, and the so-called 'baby boomers', born in Britain and America between 1946 and 1964. By examining the history of this corporation, its invention and marketing of the fibre, and the significant role played by Lycra in the material life of this specific cohort, I was able to trace changes in social values through changes in products, gaining insights not easily obtained by direct observation or conscious explanation. By concentrating on the baby boomer cohort of consumers born between 1946 and 1964, I was able to explore changing attitudes to age in Anglo-American society, where the aging of the population is an urgent concern.

Critical Dialogue

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-813
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Low Income ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Domestic Security ◽  
Security Operations ◽  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

In her timely and provocative book, Kathleen Arnold examines the super-exploitation and disenfranchisement of the “new working class”—low-income immigrants, African Americans, and women workers—and utilizes these phenomena as a catalyst for sharpening our critical understanding of American governance in our globalizing conditions. She contends that the neoliberal state is deploying deregulation and massive policing interventions simultaneously. The latter range from the exposure of welfare mothers to the rigors of workfare to the war on drugs, post-9/11 domestic security operations, mean-spirited attacks on the homeless, and the crackdown on illegal immigration. Arnold proposes a sobering diagnosis that is loosely based upon Giorgio Agamben's theory of bare life: As the state operates outside the law on a frequent and even systematic basis to reduce these target groups to a subhuman status, we are witnessing the triumph of prerogative power in American society today.

scholarly journals The Clash of Culture in Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Lexicon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naya Fauzia Dzikrina ◽  
Achmad Munjid
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Experience Effects ◽  
Immigrant Experience ◽  
American Society ◽  
Society Today

This research aims to examine the portrayal of cultural clash in Neil Gaiman’s novel, American Gods. More specifically, this research aims to identify what cultures are clashing and why they clash, and also to understand how the situation of cultural clash affects the lives and attitudes of the characters. This research also explores how the novel relates to cases of cultural clash happening in the current American society. This research is conducted using the framework of several sociological theories to understand the different forms of effects of cultural clash. The main issue presented in the novel is the conflict between the old gods, who represent society’s traditional beliefs, and the new gods, who represent the shift of culture in modern America. This conflict symbolizes how the two ideals, tradition and modernity, are competing in the American society today. The challenges the old gods face can also be seen as a portrayal of the immigrant experience, where they experience effects of cultural clash also commonly experienced by immigrants: cultural displacement, identity crisis, and conflict. The main finding of this research is that a person or group who experiences cultural clash will face a struggle where they must compromise or negotiate their cultural identity in order to be part of their current community. This is done as a way to survive and thrive in their environment.

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