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We can consider values as culturally objectified, abstract ideas of phenomena. Such ideas are of lasting significance to the satisfaction of needs of political subjects. These ideas are a subjective reflection of the objective needs of social subjects; they express the subject's attitude toward its own needs. Therefore, it seems right to call values ideas of needs. All values, whether they are ideas (models) of activities, or ideas of social relations, or abstract ideas, or specific objects which are needs in themselves, are according to this approach, ideas of needs. The last are ideas of needs in the strictest sense of the word. Therefore, they may be called primary values, for they serve an essential motivating function. The remaining types of ideas (of activities, of the desired type of social relations, and so on) also result from a recognition of certain needs (Karwat, 198). From Almond and Verba's pioneering study in the early 1960s to Inglehart's work into the 1990s, the theory and methodology of this set of approaches to social culture study have served to emphasize certain aspects of social actuality and to obscure others, generating partial (in both senses) explanation that is, at best, only weakly circumstantial, and, at worst, contrived. The purpose is to summarize and analyze the features of social culture study that have left it so vulnerable to criticism - and indeed, that have led numerous social scientists to rebuff the concept outright. Here I present, initially, a debate of practical problems, and then a debate on the conjectural problems of social culture approaches.

The changing role of technology in the virtual workplace has been accompanied by a proliferation of research activity focusing initially on the technical aspects and, more recently, on the social and political aspects of the diffusion process, including power and politics. This paper builds on the work of Kling and Markus on power and politics in IT, extending it to e‐mail and more specifically, to the use of e‐mail for petty tyranny. Reviews the literature on petty tyranny and its implications to IT and e‐mail. Presents a case study in which e‐mail was used by a department chair to manipulate, control, and coerce employees. The discussion links the events in the case with the literature on petty tyranny. In conclusion, demonstrates that e‐mail features make it amenable to political abuse and elaborates on the more general, theoretical, practical and ethical implications from this research.

The great gig in the sky : exploring popular music and death / Barbara Lebrun and Catherine Strong -- Death and taboo. The afterlife of the people's singer : bodily matters in a Dutch sing-along culture / Irene Stengs ; I don't preach premature suicide : the biopolitics of GG Allin / Ben Dumbauld ; Difference that exceeded understanding : remembering Michael Jackson (redux) / Susan Fast -- Mediating the dead. Mediation, generational memory and the dead music icon / Andy Bennett ; From death to birth : suicide and stardom in the musical biopic / Penny Spirou ; Social sorrow : tweeting the mourning of Whitney Houston / Taylor Cole Miller -- The labouring dead. Laneways of the dead : memorialising musicians in Melbourne / Catherine Strong ; Three faces of musical motherhood in death : Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer / Paula Hearsum ; Enshrined : ushering Fela Kuti into the Western rock canon / Abigail Gardner ; Post-mortem Elvis : from cultural icon to transproperty / June M. Madeley and Daniel Downes -- Resurrections. Performing beyond the grave : the posthumous duet / Shelley Brunt ; There's a spectre haunting hip-hop : Tupac Shakur, holograms in concert and the future of live performance / Gina Arnold ; Post-mortem sampling in hip-hop recordings and the rap lament / Justin A. Williams

Les îles ont longtemps été étudiées comme de simples lieux périphériques, inscrits dans le prolongement de logiques continentales ; des espaces dépourvus de sens en dehors du prisme des puissances métropolitaines. A travers le champ des études insulaires, il s'agit désormais de croiser les différentes expériences insulaires, de poser les contextes de développement et d'étudier les configurations et les temporalités spécifiques des îles. Étudier les îles nécessite de prendre la mesure de ces territoires -loin de toute vision monolithique-, d'analyser leur espace au regard des réalités sociale et politique, de cerner leur poids économique et leur contexte de développement, des héritages de l'histoire à la prise en compte de leur voisinage géographique. Il s'agit de prendre en considération les logiques exogènes qui font l'île et d'interroger les dynamiques internes. Le sujet d'étude est l'île, l'objet «île », l'île dans la gestion de son espace, la définition de son projet territorial, le positionnement de l'île dans son environnement respectif et les opportunités et stratégies dans l'économie mondialisée. La richesse des enseignements des territoires et des sociétés insulaires débordent le simple cadre spatial de l'île qui peut être entendue comme une synecdoque, un microcosme commode et raisonnable du continent. ; peer-reviewed

In recent years social networking websites, and especially Facebook, have attracted millions of new users. For that reason, politicians seek to use this interactive space more and more intensively for their goals, most often during the period of election campaigns. This article analyzes the processes of political communication via social networking sites, and discusses the benefits and some negative aspects of these communicational activities. As well, the article presents the analysis of the use of social networking websites during the presidential campaign of 2009 in the Republic of Lithuania. It also presents the results of the municipal councils election campaign of 2011, which reveal various aspects of the use of social networking websites by the candidates. Finally, the article presents the results of the logistic regression model, which allows forecasting the use of social networking websites by politicians during elections.

In recent years social networking websites, and especially Facebook, have attracted millions of new users. For that reason, politicians seek to use this interactive space more and more intensively for their goals, most often during the period of election campaigns. This article analyzes the processes of political communication via social networking sites, and discusses the benefits and some negative aspects of these communicational activities. As well, the article presents the analysis of the use of social networking websites during the presidential campaign of 2009 in the Republic of Lithuania. It also presents the results of the municipal councils election campaign of 2011, which reveal various aspects of the use of social networking websites by the candidates. Finally, the article presents the results of the logistic regression model, which allows forecasting the use of social networking websites by politicians during elections.

In the current regulation of the Law of national education no.1/2011 is granted a special section for deviations from the university ethics, a section distinct from the section of disciplinary deviations. The common element that creates also confusion in practice between the two types of responsibilities is the similar terminology used by the legislator"disciplinary sanctions"in both section, although analyzing the administrative research procedures established in the two sections, we find a different legal regime both in terms of the activity of the two commissions of research, as well as of the documents issued following the procedures.

"More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age--there is no post-atomic--but an uncanny, quiet return of the nuclear threat that so vividly animated the Cold War era. The renewed threat of nuclear proliferation, public complacency regarding weapons stockpiles, and the lack of a single functioning long-term repository after seventy years and thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste reveals the industry's capacity for self-reinvention abetted by an ever-present capacity to forget. More than "fabulously textual," as Jacques Derrida described it, the protean, unbound, and unending materiality of the nuclear is here to stay: resistance is crucial. Toxic Immanence introduces contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives that resist and decolonize the nuclear. Contributors highlight the prevalence and irrationality of slow violence and colonial governance as elements of the contemporary nuclear age. They propose a reappraisal of Cold War era anti-nuclear art as well as pop culture representations of nuclear disaster, while decolonizing pedagogies advance the role of education in communicating and understanding the lethality of nuclear complexes. Collectively, the book develops a robust critical discourse across fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the work of the nuclear humanities with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activism. This reach across ways of knowing extends artistically: the poetry and photography included in this volume offer visions of past and present nuclear legacies. Conceived as a critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime."--

Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education explores Strauss' view of the intimate (and troubling) relation between the philosophic promotion of liberal democracy and the turn to the modern scientific-technological project of the "conquest of nature." Timothy W. Burns explicates the political reasoning behind Strauss' recommendation of reminders of genuine political greatness within democracy over and against the failure of nihilistic youth to recognize it. Elucidating what Strauss envisaged by a liberally-educated sub-political or cultural-level aristocracy--one that could elevate and sustain liberal democracy--and the roles that both philosophy and divine-law traditions should have in that education, Burns also lays out Strauss' frequent (though often tacit) engagement with the thought of Heidegger on these issues

Chapter 7: Polish Migrants in Llanelli: What Happens after the Initial Migration Period?Part III; Chapter 8: 'Migratory Drift' (or Why Migrants Nearly Always Stay Longer than Planned); Chapter 9: Polish Migrant Integration; Chapter 10: Policy Implications; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover

Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other. These twelve original essays demonstrate the complexities of violence and emotions and the myriad possibilities of their inter-relationships. They emphasize the great efforts that were made by early modern societies to control modes of violence and emotional regimes to achieve positive as well as negative effects, such as creating order, heali.