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Eileen R. Meehan 《Society》2008,45(4):338-341
Tourism has long figured in municipal and state-wide plans for economic development and revitalization. Such plans often articulate
themes subsequently used to organize tours, advertising campaigns, and merchandising. In the 1990s, some residents of Roswell,
New Mexico, tried to build tourism using typical southwestern themes. Others capitalized on Roswell’s unique association with
an alleged crash of an extraterrestrial craft. Early support from the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) facilitated the
success of Roswell’s UFO-based tourism. In 2007, NMTD launched its own alien-based advertising campaign promoting New Mexico
as a tourist destination.
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Eileen R. MeehanEmail: |
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Based on examples of socialist heroes from East German schoolbooks and teaching guides designed for elementary school, this
essay examines the role of state ideology in primary education. It assesses the German curriculum of the now-defunct German
Democratic Republic (GDR) and illuminates distinctions between civic education and political propaganda. It also shows how
the curricular emphasis on socialist virtue helped to form “the socialist personality.”
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John RoddenEmail: |
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Dean MacCannell 《Society》2008,45(4):334-337
Critics of the concept fail to note that staged authenticity is not authenticity but its opposite or negation. This error is illustrated referencing Ed Bruner’s reading of The Tourist in his recent book Culture on Tour.
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Dean MacCannellEmail: |
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Marc D. Guerra 《Society》2009,46(4):333-340
This essay examines the viability of a publically held, articulated, and enacted bioethic in America's democratic regime.
The essay takes the writings of several thinkers associated with the President's Council on Bioethics as its point of departure.
The essay draws attention to some of the enduring moral, political, religious, and intellectual currents inherent in American
civil society that will continue to provide both resources for and obstacles to any publicly held bioethic in America.
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Marc D. GuerraEmail: |
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Marc Bühlmann Wolfgang Merkel Lisa Müller Bernhard Weßels 《Politische Vierteljahresschrift》2008,49(1):114-122
Ohne Zusammenfassung
* Die vier Autor(inn)en arbeiten in einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt des NCCR Democracy (vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds
finanziertes National Centre of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century) und des WZB an einem „Demokratiebarometer“ für die 30 OECD-Staaten, das die Ignoranz der 0-Varianz bei Polity und Freedom House aufkl?ren will.
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Marc Bühlmann (Corresponding author)Email: |
Wolfgang MerkelEmail: |
Lisa MüllerEmail: |
Bernhard We?elsEmail: |
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Frederick Turner 《Society》2008,45(2):143-145
In response to Eugene Goodheart’s essay “Neo-Darwinism and Religion”, this essay criticizes both sides of the debate for their
posing of false dichotomies. Atheist neodarwinists are illogical in arguing that the necessary chance emergence of physical
constants that could produce a universe with intelligent life disproves the existence of God, since the same chance emergence
would also necessarily produce a universe corresponding to traditional definitions of God. Religious anti-evolutionists are
wrong in rejecting evolutionary accounts of the emergence of human religious instincts, since that emergence is a strong argument
for the reality of what those instincts seem designed to register. Finally, Goodheart, as a humanities scholar, is somewhat
blind to the distinguished history of writers, artists and scholars who found the highest spiritual inspiration in natural
science.
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Frederick TurnerEmail: |
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Frank Furedi 《Society》2009,46(3):235-236
This essay questions Callahan’s criticism of people’s aspiration to extend their life. It argues that ideas about life are
subject to historical variations and the question at issue is whether society can give meaning to aging. It also questions
the claim that the radical extension of human life will jeopardize the welfare of future generations. It suggests that the
application of the precautionary principle to the question of aging avoid facing up to question how society should value the
old.
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Frank FurediEmail: |
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Wilfred M. McClay 《Society》2008,45(5):403-405
Whatever else the 2008 presidential election may result in, we can be sure that it will only contribute further to the steadily
declining role of political parties in American politics, and the myriad negative consequences arising from that decline.
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Wilfred M. McClayEmail: |
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Eric Cohen 《Society》2009,46(3):221-223
Daniel Callahan’s essay raises big and important questions about how the biotechnological project to extend life and defeat
aging may bring many undesirable consequences. At worst, it will usher in a new age of extended debility, with able minds
trapped for decades in enfeebled bodies or able bodies lingering for decades with enfeebled minds. At best, our future success
at extending vigorous life will create serious disruptions of the social order. But the essay fails to illuminate, more fully,
the nature of death as a human problem, or to establish the basis for setting limits on the worst excesses of the bio-immortality
project.
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Eric CohenEmail: |
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David Popenoe 《Society》2009,46(5):429-436
Non-marital cohabitation has become widespread in modern, Western nations. It has led to dramatic declines in marriage rates
and contributed to high levels of unwed births and lone-parent families, thus negatively affecting child wellbeing.
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David PopenoeEmail: |
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The authors comment on an earlier aritice in Society by Eugene Goodheart and offer a novel hypothesis about the origins of
religion.
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Lionel Tiger (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This meditative essay by a writer and professor reflects on the milestone of reaching 50 years of age. The author relates
his own experiences and those of his elder literary friends and colleagues who have felt comparable anxieties and coped with
similar challenges toward aging and death. He records their own milestones on life’s journey as well as their insightful and
often quite hopeful, if not always cheery, responses. Several of them, like the author, admit that turning 50 has entailed
for them a coming to terms with the impossibility of realizing some immortality projects.
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John RoddenEmail: |
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Renée C. Fox Victor M. Lidz Helen E. Sheehan Barrett P. Brenton Heike Thiel de Bocanegra 《Society》2009,46(4):308-318
Based on first-hand qualitative research, this article describes and analyzes the significant role that a local, New York
City-based social service agency played in responding to 9/11; the sources of its notable ability to provide assistance to
individuals and families affected by this terrorist attack; and the structural strains and unanticipated divisions within
the agency that the heroism of its fervid engagement nevertheless engendered.
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Renée C. FoxEmail: |
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Helen Hershkoff 《Human Rights Review》2009,10(2):157-181
The practice of using courts to foster social change, once confined to the USA, has emerged as a worldwide phenomenon. Foreign
practice reflects indigenous forms but faces criticisms similar to that in the USA: that it is ineffective, antidemocratic,
and counterproductive. The essay meets these criticisms, first, by recasting US public law litigation as a form of politics
that challenges the status quo by forging alliances, changing discursive frames, and disciplining private and public decision
making. Looking abroad, the essay emphasizes public law litigation as a meditative institution that facilitates political
action and aids in regulatory enforcement where administrative mechanisms are weak or regulation requires ongoing elaboration.
Finally, the essay suggests that criticisms of public law litigation tend to neglect three factors: the actual and not assumed
comparative advantages of different institutional actors, the role of temporal conditions in affecting social change, and
the ubiquity of complex, not dichotomous, relations.
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Helen HershkoffEmail: |
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A consensus now exists that secularization theory can no longer explain the worldwide persistence and spread of modern religious
movements, with the exception of western and central Europe as well as intellectuals in general. This essay examines how these
new religious forces have taken root in economic development and how that development has been shaped by those same forces.
An assessment is made of Max Weber’s famous thesis in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. The article concludes with five major observations about religion and development in the modern world.
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Peter L. BergerEmail: |
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Cheryl Boudreau 《Political Behavior》2009,31(2):287-306
Many scholars lament citizens’ lack of political sophistication, while others emphasize that information shortcuts can substitute
for sophistication and help citizens with their political choices. In this paper, I use experiments to assess whether and
under what conditions institutions can substitute for sophistication and enable even unsophisticated citizens to make informed
decisions. The results of my experiments demonstrate that institutions, such as a penalty for lying or a threat of verification,
can help both sophisticated and unsophisticated citizens to make more informed decisions. Further, my results suggest that
institutions may, under certain conditions, level the playing field between sophisticated and unsophisticated citizens.
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Cheryl BoudreauEmail: |
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Laura Ymayo Tartakoff 《Society》2008,45(4):363-367
A law school dean, a university president, a scholarly judge, and the head of the Foreign Ministry division in charge of Chile’s
frontiers agree: The Constitution of 1980 was the initial turning point in Chile’s transition from autocracy to pluralism.
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Laura Ymayo TartakoffEmail: |
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In the 1940s, leading public intellectuals established a commission to reform the American press. Many of them initially favored
heavy regulation of newspapers and other media. Though the men failed to change the press, their report lives on in schools
of journalism.
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Stephen BatesEmail: |