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1	False consciousness Meyerson, D. January 1987 (has links) No description available. 320 Marxism and false consciousness
2	The Obedient EPZ-Worker : A case study concerning female EPZ workers' barriers to empowerment in Sri Lanka Lindgren Cortés, Katarina January 2014 (has links) This study analyzes and maps barriers preventing Sri Lankan female workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) from participating in awareness raising activities by NGOs. These barriers can furthermore be discussed as preventing them from an enhanced empowerment. The gathered data is mostly based on interviews conducted during a three-week long fieldtrip in Sri Lanka. By using both a literature analysis on the field of research together with group interviews with both female EPZ workers as well as with personnel from a women’s organization in Sri Lanka the study identifies five barriers hindering the women’s participation; time and distance; lack of motivation or interest; limited knowledge of the organization; someone opposing the choice; and fear of loosing the employment. The study derives the root-causes of the barriers to the current social norms and roles, which are internalized in the young women’s mind from their background as well as through the reproduction of them in their new environment, but also to EPZs as discouraging an improvement of the women’s situation. Export Processing Zones Female factory workers Labor rights Awareness activities NGOs Empowerment False consciousness Sri Lanka
3	The Tattoo: A Mark of Subversion, Deviance, or Mainstream Self-Expression? Camacho, Jocelyn 07 August 2014 (has links) While an estimated one-third of the United States population has a tattoo, tattoos are still seen as a sign of deviance. The appearance of the first tattoos in the United States were relegated to the bodies of the lower classes and outcasts of society. Over the past few decades tattoos have migrated on to the celebrity skin of today's pop culture icons. In the past twenty years, tattoos have moved from deviant subcultures to the mainstream, and yet are still considered to be a mark of the disfavored factions of society. The dominant culture continues to regard the bearers of tattoos as social deviants, while at the same time appropriating tattoos for use as fashion statements, beauty enhancements, and mechanisms for continued oppression. While tattoos make their way from the prison cell to the pop culture runway, how are they perceived by law enforcement? Are tattoos still seen as markers of deviance or has law enforcement adopted the mainstream culture's perception and view tattoos as self-expressive artwork? Do tattoos negatively influence law enforcement's judgment where individual discretion is exercised? The purpose of this study was to examine the arrest patterns of arrestees with visible tattoos using a critical theory perspective to determine if tattoos and arrest seriousness are related. This study also examines tattoo placement and type in affecting the severity of arrest charges. The data used in this study is a random sample of 2011 Pinellas County Florida arrestees (N=3,733). Numerous logistic regression models were utilized in this analysis and resulted in no consistently significant association between tattoos (visibility, placement, or type) and severity of offense charges. This provides evidence that the use of tattoos as a marker for deviance does not appear to influence police behavior any differently than other characteristics such as race. false consciousness identity marker Michel Foucault police behavior Criminology and Criminal Justice Sociology
4	Bounderby and False Consciousness Vega Karjalainen, Fabián Andrés January 2018 (has links) No description available. Charles Dickens Hard Times Bounderby false consciousness ideology Marxism Languages and Literature Språk och litteratur
5	The “Extreme Makeover” of the American Woman: A Feminist Analysis of Cosmetic Surgery in Television Weber, Janean Rae 29 April 2005 (has links) No description available. cosmetic surgery feminism agency television Dr. 90210 The Swan cyberpunk feminine identity racial being medical discourse informed consent race gender false consciousness makeover plastic surgery theories of the body medicalization
6	The Representation of Poverty in Great Depression American Literature Austin, Cavel 01 December 2014 (has links) The objective of this thesis is to explore how American authors represented poverty across different states during the Depression Era. I have chosen to review social reform author John Steinbeck, and proletariat authors, Michael Gold, Meridel Le Sueur, and William Attaway. Before addressing the issues presented in the data collection tools (novels): The Grapes of Wrath, Jews Without Money, The Girl, and Blood on the Forge, I reviewed the fundamentals of the events leading up to the crash of the stock market, which spiraled the United States and the world at large in the greatest Depression ever known. In this thesis, I have also outlined a summary of the novels for the benefit of readers who may not have had the opportunity to read them. I have applied a Marxist literary critical analysis to the preceding novels highlighting three overarching concepts of the theory: economic power, materialism versus spirituality, and class conflict. Evolving from these concepts are the key tenets of Marxism: base, superstructure, hegemony, commodification, class conflict, and false consciousness. In the literary critical analysis, I applied these key tenets to the plot of each novel in order to underscore the ideologies of Marxist theorists with regards to the existence of class divisions and how this division creates class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariats. English Language and Literature
7	Adorno on Music and Politics Mariasin, Dalia January 2020 (has links) This study aims to discern and assess Theodor Adorno’s theories on music as an ‘art’ and how it impacts both the political and social landscape of society; more broadly, the purposes of this paper is to identify, and determine the significance of, the relationship between music and politics – that is, whether or not, and how, music can emancipate society from capitalist enslavement. In juxtaposing Adorno’s theories, the opinions of Herbert Marcuse will be discussed as well. As both theorists are considered integral to the creation and development of critical theory of the Frankfurt School, it is only logical to examine their theories and ideologies in detail to determine the role of music as an ‘art’ in the overarching scheme of political scaffolding within which society resides. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) Adorno Marcuse art music culture industry modernity Mahler capitalism Schoenberg jazz music emancipation false consciousness bourgeoisie class mass deception false needs 'dark' art mass enslavement class conflict 'autonomous' art pop music swing bands 12-tone scale 'extremes' 'high' art 'low' art modernism mass consciousness propaganda conformity anti-conformity culture liberation commercialization commodification 'commodity fetish' fetish of music technique tonality atonality 'art for art's sake' critical reflection status quo

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