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| Appeals of Civilizational Approach |
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-invokes richness of history
-gives political analysis new proufndity
-mirrors common beliefs that are simplistic
-simplifies explanation of global violence
-plays to bipolar notion that world is divided between single Western world and non-Western many |
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| liabilities of civ approach |
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-assumes Cs always clash
-assumes Cs always cohorent and cohesive
-assumes Cs are basically religion-based
-assumes people can be categorized according to one civilizational system
-relies onnotions of cultural predestination |
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-human diversity almost universal
-identity partially matter of choice
-global identities cut across each other
-borders between Cs unstable and moving
-religions themselves are hybrids |
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| conservative, one path, born with certain identity |
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| liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity |
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| conservative, one path, born with certain identity |
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| liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity |
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| liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity |
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-response to modernism/secularism
-back to literal belief in "ancient meaning" or scriptural texts |
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-used to push political (right) agenda
-christian right is not christian fundamentalism |
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-created mainly by political not religious figures
-change from reformist to radical agenda result of transition from colonialism to post-colonialism |
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-reformulated "jihad" from struggle over self to struggle over society and state
-islam has the right to force to end slavery and realize human freedom
-political islam needs to be placed in context of Cold War
-radical political tendencies does not equal political tendencies
-terrorism= modern political movement for power |
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| 60's attack on bureaucracy |
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-dismantled govt and corp bureaucracies
-instead of producing community, produced fragmentation |
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| three challenges after 60's attack on bureaucracy |
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time- short term relationships
talent- how to measure and maintain accomplishment
loss- how to let go of past and re-group |
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-high technology
-global finance
-new service firms of 3,000+ |
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Weber
-civil society modeled as a military system operating like an army where everyone has a place and function |
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-consumption influences progressive politics
-need to keep up |
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| military social capitalism |
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-organized around incremental time
-lives turned into narratives with stages
-individual agency associated with ability to plan
-globalization deconstructs the militarization of social time
-relationships replaced by transaction (George Soros) |
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-hierarchy, chain of command
-power pyramidal
-life=iron cage, but provides home, security |
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-powershifts: managerial to shareholder
-capital becomes impatient: long to short term gain
-new technologies of communication and manufacturing emerge |
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| MP3 institutional architecture |
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casualization: programmed to play selectively
delayering: utilize only a few functions
non-linear sequencing: in any order
-centralize power panoptically
-winner takes all
-produces anxiety rahter than dread
-inequality widens |
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-global labor supply: race to the bottom
-automation: machines
-management of ageing: prejudice against age |
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| talent is linked with personal worht and creative or intelligent means superior |
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-emphasizes SAT knowledge and problem solving
-accentuates ability to think "outside of the box"
-cuts links to experience, precedent, sensate impressions |
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| basic object on which minor changes imposed to convert it into a new brand |
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| to sell a standardized thing, magnify the value of minor differences so that surface is what counts |
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-abetted by Atlantic Slave Trade
-places people "outside" history/civilization
-construes the outsider as genetically inferior
-reinforces ideas of human evolution, survival of the fittest, Social Darwinism |
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emotional quality
found among aunts, grandmothers
unconditional tenderness |
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-another kind of male
-shuns authority, power, order
-bored by rules
-thinks most humans are responsible
-allows wife to get away with no housework |
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| ashmahan-singing princess |
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-self-indulgent
-turns her back on arab culture
-adventure, romance, bliss |
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