Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c)

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University of Arkansas Press, 2001 - 428 من الصفحات
 

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Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma after a Half Century Critics and Anticritics
15
The Yellow Peril Mystique Origins and Vicissitudes of a Racist Discourse
59
The Chinese Question and Americas Labor Historians A Wrong Turn in a Quest for a Usable Past
105
The Lost Tribes of Israel as a Problem in History and Sociology
153
Postmodernism and the Construction of Ethnocultural Identity The JewishIndian Theory and the Lost Tribes of Israel
183
Social Reality as Theater Dramas Narratives and the Postmodern Challenge
201
Cinematic Ideologies and Societal Dystopias Filmmaking in the United States Japan Germany and the Soviet Union 19001996
215
Community A Theoretical Perspective on Its Dilemmas Contradictions and Possible Future
247
Notes
273
Index
411
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الصفحة 48 - Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.
الصفحة 16 - American Dilemma," referred to in the title of this book, is the ever-raging conflict between, on the one hand, the valuations preserved on the general plane which we shall call the "American Creed," where the American thinks, talks, and acts under the influence of high national and Christian precepts, and, on the other hand, the valuations on specific planes of individual and group living, where personal and local interests; economic, social, and sexual jealousies; con's Ibid, p.

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