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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- Educational Systems and Selected Consequences of Patterns of Mobility and Non-mobility in Industrial Societies: A Theoretical Discussion -- Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction -- Structural Problems of Education Systems in Latin America -- Education, Urbanization, and Social Change -- Selections and Survivals: A Sociology of the Ancient Scottish Universities -- A Traditional Theme in General Sociology and its Relevance for the Study of Universities -- Some Problems of Explaining Student Militancy -- On the Contribution of Organizational Analysis to the Study of Educational Institutions -- The Informal Social System: An Example of the Limitations of Organizational Analysis -- Knowledge, Education, and Power -- Curricula and the Social Organization of Knowledge -- On the Classification and Framing of Educational Knowledge -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- I. Language/Power in the Social Sciences -- 1. Poetics, Politics, and Truth: An Invitation to Rhetorical Analysis -- 2. Text/Context: The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences -- II. Rhetoric and Truth in the Social Sciences -- 3. The Interpretation of Disciplinary Writing -- 4. No Anthro-Apologies, or Der(r)idHing a Discipline -- 5. Textual Form and Social Formation in Evans-Pritchard and Lévi-Strauss -- III. Social Science as Political Discourse -- 6. Communication, Persuasion, and The Establishment of Academic Disciplines: The Case of American Psychology -- 7. Poetics and Politics in Ethnographic Texts: A View from the Colonial Ethnography of Afghanistan -- 8. Listening for the Silences: The Rhetorics of the Research Field -- 9. The Rhetoric of Efficiency: Applied Social Science as Depoliticization -- 10. Fact, Fiction, and Factions: Scandal, Controversy, and "Filemaking" as Social Theory -- IV. Challenges for the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences -- 11. Human Needs and Control: A Foundation for Human Science and Critique -- 12. Narration, Reason, and Community -- 13. From Suspicion to Affirmation: Postmodernism and the Challenges of Rhetorical Analysis -- Index

This essay examines Nam June Paik's 1973 documentary, A Tribute to John Cage, in the context of identity politics and technological discourse surrounding video technology. In Paik's tribute, Cage is seen less as a commanding figure of the American neo-avant-garde than as the solitary sage witnessing the transformation of his aesthetic by a new generation of artists and composers. Paik had witnessed Cage's rise from "˜gadfly to guru' in the New York Downtown music scene during the 1960s, and his documentary perspective exemplifies the multifarious interpretations of Cage's aesthetic of chance, indeterminacy, and Zen Buddhism. In conjunction with his single-channel video work, Global Groove, Paik's approach to video subverted the traditional codes of commercial documentary television through fast-paced segments, commenting on the concept of televisual "˜flow' and highlighting the mechanical apparatus of television technology.

AbstractMany have argued that Japan will soon emerge as one of the world's greatest powers. During the nineteenth century, Japan had pressed for pre-eminence in Asia and beyond. Does this earlier military expansion and more recent economic dynamism indicate Japan's desire and capacity to play the role of a great power? Japan's regional economic and diplomatic activity, her prominence in such international bodies as the IMF and the World Bank, her status as a leading creditor and technological innovator, all suggest that she does. Just as Britain and the United States created and dominated international systems when they were leading creditors, perhaps Japan in its turn will become a global power.

Traditional and largely rural patterns of relationships seem to persist in Japan despite economic and political modernization. Infused within modern technology, ideology, and apparently modern organizational forms, one discerns the persistent, if not determining, influence of native values and social patterns. Following a genealogical approach, inspired by Nietzsche and Foucault, this paper goes beyond the opposition between universalist and multiculturalist models of modernization, in order to identify certain indigenous principles of social organization manifest in both "traditional" and "modern" social formations of Japan. The persistence of these basic principles, such as the 'frame orientation," and the emphasis on
wa
(harmony, peace), is traced through the historical process of Japan's modernization in various realms of social life — the economy, political life, and popular culture. e analysis recent structural shifts in Japanese society, while still affirming the principles of Japan's "alternative modernity," also implies that major changes in its basic organizing principles might be under way.