Rothenbuhler's book was first published in 1998 and represents a canonical work in the field of communication research and media studies. This is important work in the field of communication sciences and social sciences in general. It brings a new perspective to the understanding of communication and culture, because it questions the concept of communication as transmission of information and presents a cultural turn in the study and understanding of communication as a ritual act. Rothenbuhler shows the close link between culture and communication, when analyzing the ritual aspect of communication in such diverse social institutions such as family traditions, for example, weddings, funerals, as well as in the media rituals, ceremonies and events, state ceremonies, organizational communication and micro-social rituals, which we constantly perform in everyday life. In all the above mentioned cases, we can talk about a symbolic social action which integrates individuals into the social order and represents both an instrument of consensus and power mechanism. Precisely due to the "ritual turn" in the understanding of communication Rothenbuhler's work is already known as canonical and representative in the field of media and communication studies. The author presents all the major theoretical approaches that have had an impact on the cultural turn in the study of communication, but at the same time introduces a number of practical case studies to highlight the ubiquity of ritual in communication in all spheres of social life.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 286429184This symposium of the Theory and Research in Education journal brings together seven of the most important contributions in the field of equal opportunities and social (in) equality. These articles examine some of the foundational questions about the process of competing for advanced social positions as well as the legitimacy of inequality, which is the result of this process.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 3019863This work by Bauman, one of the leading figures of contemporary social scientists and public intellectuals, presents the key phase of the author's "moral period" where he questions modern presumptions of morality and ethics in the context of contemporary plural societies. As in his other works, dealing with politics, consumerism, social exclusion, sociology in his opus remains the main tool of social change. As he himself points out, postmodernism provides critical sociology with an opportunity to get rid of classic illusions of modernity, such as universality, rationality and neutrality. At the same time, Bauman escapes the grid of moral relativism and the challenges of "grand narratives".
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COBISS.SI-ID: 284584448This book is considered to be a ground-breaking study which throws a different light on philosophy and political theory of the social contract. The new perspective is provided by including feminist epistemology, deemed an irrevokable aspect of any social analysis. The author provided a new foreword to the Slovene translation in which she reflects on changes between modern and postmodern sexual contract. A main challenge, as explicated also in the editorial introduction, is connected to globalization and feminization of migration.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 284530688This article introduces the thematic section of Two Homelands celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Will Kymlicka%s Liberalism, Community and Culture, one of the seminal books on multiculturalism and contemporary political theory in general. It contextualizes this symposium [thematic section] by identifying some of the assumptions that the then-existing liberal conceptions of justice were based upon when addressing issues related to cultural diversity. At the same time, it summarizes the argument for cultural rights advanced by Kymlicka in Liberalism, Community and Culture. It then presents the papers that are part of this symposium [thematic section] and their contribution to the understanding the liberal conception of multiculturalism has had on all subsequent theorizing over cultural diversity and civic equality. 5400 aDediščina knjige Liberalism, Community, and CultuaThis article introduces the thematic section of Two Homelands celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Will Kymlicka%s Liberalism, Community and Culture, one of the seminal books on multiculturalism and contemporary political theory in general. It contextualizes this symposium [thematic section] by identifying some of the assumptions that the then-existing liberal conceptions of justice were based upon when addressing issues related to cultural diversity. At the same time, it summarizes the argument for cultural rights advanced by Kymlicka in Liberalism, Community and Culture. It then presents the papers that are part of this symposium [thematic section] and their contribution to the understanding the liberal conception of multiculturalism has had on all subsequent theorizing over cultural diversity and civic equality.
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