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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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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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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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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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Lenn E. Goodman 《Society》2009,46(1):29-37
Against the background of prophetic and rabbinic thought and action, where ideas of God and the good allowed morality and
spirituality to inform one another, Goodman considers the role of public intellectuals today. He cites the expanding electronic
media for lengthening the reach and broadening the franchise but narrowing the gaze and the audience of those intellectuals
who seek a public role and warns against oversimplification, shrillness, and the hazards of the echo chamber, where pigeonholing
and niche marketing shrink one’s audience to the already convinced.
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Lenn E. GoodmanEmail: |
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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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Carole J. Wilson 《Political Behavior》2008,30(2):161-183
This paper brings to political science a new decision-making model based on research in consumer behavior. Individuals do
not necessarily make choices from the universe of alternatives; rather, they choose from a “consideration set,” a notion derived
from both utility maximization and information processing theories. Here I apply a model of heterogeneous consideration sets
to voting in the 2000 Mexican national election. I argue that the sub-national variation in the strength of Mexican parties
leads to heterogeneous consideration sets, resulting in individuals with identical issue preferences and personal attributes
making different voting decisions. Application of this model provides both interesting substantive conclusions about vote
choice in Mexico and a more general theoretical innovation regarding vote choice.
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Carole J. WilsonEmail: |
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George Crowder 《Society》2008,45(3):247-252
I agree with Roger Sandall’s opposition to the ‘culture cult’ in broad outline, but wish to register three reservations. First,
he is too sweeping in apparently attacking the whole of ‘multiculturalism’, and unfair in condemning claims on the basis of
the motives allegedly behind them. Second, his relativist interpretation of Berlin and Herder needs qualification, since their
work also contains the idea of value pluralism, which should be distinguished from relativism. Third, the political implications
of pluralism support a commitment to liberal universalism and liberal multiculturalism, which may not be far removed from
Sandall’s own position.
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George CrowderEmail: |
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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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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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Russell Jacoby 《Society》2009,46(1):38-44
Over twenty years ago my book The Last Intellectuals put into circulation the phrase “public intellectual.” The term unexpectedly enjoyed great success. It encapsulated a new
division between a professional or academic intellectual focused on his or her specialty and an intellectual orientated to
a larger public. The former tend to disappear into the university, while they latter write for the educated public. In the
twenty years since its publication, my book has been sharply challenged. Moreover the emergence of African-American and women
intellectuals, and well as new developments such as Internet, have possibly undermined my thesis. Yet these phenomena amount
to revisions, not refutations, of my thesis. Moreover the role of intellectuals in France and Germany suggest that the same
process of academization is taking place in other advanced industrial nations. What is called for is not nostalgia or its
opposite, a celebration of everything that happens, but a consideration of the real shifts that affect the lives and work
of intellectuals.
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Russell JacobyEmail: |
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Will H. Corral 《Society》2009,46(2):119-123
Any settling of scores about the state and role of intellectuals in the west has to factor in the function of Latin American
writers and the subset of pseudo-intellectuals called “Latin Americanists” of the second half of the twentieth century. The
score is not even, since the university-bound misrepresent the actual development of intellectual thought in the southern
hemisphere. The ideas and ubiquity of Mario Vargas Llosa are a necessary point of departure to calibrate properly the real
importance of those views.
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Will H. CorralEmail: |
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Amitai Etzioni 《Society》2009,46(4):319-323
Amidst the rekindled interest in regulating the market that has emerged since the 2008 financial crisis, most attention has
been paid to the debate between those who call for more regulation of the private sector in order to protect the public good,
and those who claim that such regulations would do further damage to the economy by unduly constraining business. This essay
seeks to refocus the debate about regulation by examining an alternative criticism––the theory of regulatory capture––which
argues that regulations are routinely and predictably 'captured' and manipulated to serve the interests of those who are supposed
to be subject to them, or the bureaucrats and legislators who write or control them. Ample evidence suggests that regulatory
capture is indeed widespread and takes a variety of forms, which are reviewed here. Rather than debating whether more or less
regulations are needed, the paper suggests that what is needed is a way to make regulations stronger––more capture-proof.
It closes with a major policy change that would help accomplish this goal.
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Amitai EtzioniEmail: |
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Kurt Beurmann 《Human Rights Review》2008,9(1):41-54
The emotions surrounding the question of Kosovo’s future owe their intensity to the long history of human rights abuses in
the province. The years 1945–1966 and 1987–1999, in particular, saw harsh repression of local Albanians and a systematic favoring
of local Serbs. Since June 1999, the province has been under international supervision, and, in this period, Serbs complain
that they have been the victims of repeated acts of violence at the hands of Albanians. This article provides an overview
of human rights abuses since 1945 and closes with a brief assessment of the international plan presented by UN mediator Martti
Ahtisaari in February 2007.
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Kurt BeurmannEmail: |
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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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Peter Augustine Lawler 《Society》2009,46(3):227-231
Callahan is wrong to be pro-death, but he’s right to say that to live well—or for society to have a real future—we have to
care about more than mere life. Futile attempts to stop the pursuit of extreme personal prolongevity are contrary to our rights-based
way of life. It’s also contrary to human love and dignity to regard the old as a threat.
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Peter Augustine LawlerEmail: |
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Erik Cohen 《Society》2008,45(4):330-333
Tourism, a domain of considerable importance in the contemporary world, has long been overlooked by social scientists, but
has recently become a field attracting a growing body of research. In sociology, the relation between tourism and modernity
at first constituted the issue of principal interest, the discourse focusing on the extent to which modern Western tourists
seek authentic experiences on their trip. The article discusses the changes in the terms of the discourse, contingent upon
the growing similarity of the world in the wake of globalization, the emergence of the “post-tourist,” and the diversification
in the composition of tourists, with the growth in the number of travelers from non-Western countries. The question of the
limits of the future expansion of the tourist system is raised in conclusion.
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Erik CohenEmail: |
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This paper presents recent events including the Danish cartoon crisis occasion—a re-examination of John Stuart Mill’s argument
for freedom of expression. Despite the appeal of liberalism, Mill’s philosophy had from the start been subject to intense
criticism. The rise of political Islam opens a new phase in the debate; the difficulties pointed out by Mill’s critics are
indicative of the obstacles that liberalism still faces.
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Thomas E. SchneiderEmail: |
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Dennis T. Avery 《Society》2007,44(6):137-143
High-yield farming—more agricultural output per acre of farmland—has been a boon to mankind and to nature. If today’s agricultural
efficiency was the same as in the 1950s, the world would need three times the cropland to produce today’s food supply. That
would mean that 15-16 million mi2 of forest would have been destroyed—all the global forest area available today. Rising population and increased affluence
will require a tripling of agricultural efficiency in the next 50 years if we are to protect wildlife at the same time. More
investment in agricultural research and education will be required, but this is what produced the previous green revolution.
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Dennis T. AveryEmail: |