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Lee, Jin-kyung. "Visualizing and Invisibilizing the Subempire: Labor, Humanitarianism, and Popular Culture across South Korea and Southeast and South Asia." Journal of Korean Studies 23, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21581665-4339071.
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Abstract This article examines five South Korean TV programs, The Age of Global Success, Love in Asia, Asia Hunter, KOICA’s Dream, and Saving Mrs. Go Bongshil, all of which belong to varied and hybrid genres such as news magazine, serialized documentary, reality show, and television drama. Due to its partially elevated status as a middlebrow medium and its ability to combine multiple functions such as entertainment, information, education, and social engineering, South Korean television is a more socially influential popular medium than its Western counterparts. I argue that South Korean popular culture, as represented by these television programs, produces, circulates, and promotes the meanings of respective nation-states (e.g., South Korea, Vietnam, Sri Lanka) and of Asia as a bloc in relation to the region’s ongoing economic and cultural globalization. The following five aspects of South Korea’s relationship to the less developed parts of Asia emerge in the popular culture of the television medium: Southeast Asian and other Asian migrant/immigrant/off-shore labor for South Korea, and the distinct ways in which some are made visible and others invisible; popular cultural imaginings of a pan-Korean regional-global network; popular cultural production of a pan-Asian imaginary; South Korean humanitarianism and its subimperializing dimensions; and dissemination of popular culture within and outside South Korea—that is, the emergence of popular culture as a significant instrument of imaging South Korea as a subempire. I conclude by offering a couple of broad speculations on the changing and varied meanings of subempire for contemporary South Korea.
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Vargas, Neide César, Adriana Ilha da Silva, and Rafael Venturini. "HISTÓRICO E ATUALIDADE DA POLÍTICA DE SAÚDE NA REPÚBLICA POPULAR DA CHINA (RPC)." Revista Políticas Públicas 19, no. 2 (June 16, 2016): 575. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2178-2865.v19n2p575-585.
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A China, em virtude da cultura, do regime político e da economia peculiares, apresenta um sistema de saúde com diferenças marcantes em relação àquele das nações ocidentais e capitalistas, o que pode ser obliterado em uma abordagem meramente quantitativa do mesmo. Tendo em conta tais aspectos, este artigo procura traçar um panorama do desenvolvimento do sistema de saúde da RPC ao longo das três grandes etapas da história recente do país, a era de Mao Zedong (1949-1976), a de Deng Xiaoping (1978-1994) e o período atual. Palavras-chave: Política de Saúde na China, economia planificada, reformas do Estado em economias emergentes.HISTORY AND CURRENT HEALTH POLICY IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINAAbstract: China, due to its special culture, political regime and economy, presents a health system with remarkable differences from those of Western and capitalist nations, which can be obliterated in an exclusively quantitative approach of this system. Taking into account these aspects, this article attempts to undertake an overview of the development of the health system in the PRC during the three main stages of the country’s recent history, namely the era of Mao Zedong (1949-1976), the era of Deng Xiaoping (1978-1994) and the current period.Key words: Chinese health policy, planned economy, State reforms in emergent economies.
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Darku, Esther Naa Dodua, and Wilson Akpan. "Selling culture: a buy local campaigns in the Ghanaian and South African textile and clothing industries." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 14, no. 4 (July 14, 2020): 643–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-09-2019-0088.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the paradoxes of buy local campaigns. These are popular strategies for marketing products in domestic markets aimed at supporting the local economy. Their scope can be national, regional, community or sectoral (such as agriculture, tourism, clothing or textiles). Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the paradoxes associated with these campaigns, using two cases and a mixed methods study of buy local campaigns in the Ghanaian and South African textiles and clothing industries. Findings The study found that both economic and cultural streams of the two campaigns have different outcomes and that the dominance of one aspect does not directly influence the other. Practical implications The use of buy local campaigns by countries as an intervention for reclaiming domestic market spaces can produce contradictory outcomes concurrently in the same campaign. Originality/value The author concludes with a brief discussion, which spells out the anatomy of buy local campaigns and the usefulness of the different aspects of these campaigns.
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Božilović, Nikola. "Cultural antinomies of the contemporary Serbian society: Premodern mentality vs. Postmodern identity." Sinteze, no. 17 (2020): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/sinteze9-25124.
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Globalization has permeated all aspects of social life (economic, political, cultural) and affected the daily life of people. Postindustrial society and postmodern culture have made a significant impact on the transformation of identities, which have truly become liquid - multidimensional, discontinuous, decentralized, fragmented, unstable and inconstant. Parallel with this, new tendencies in culture have almost completely narrowed the boundary between high and popular creativity, thus challenging the status of the established, until then recognized values. These changes have also become evident in the contemporary Serbian society, which is obsessed by preserving the tradition and long-developed identities. By chance, that society has had one foot in the postmodern information world, with the other stuck in the quagmire of old habits and misconceptions inherited from the period of premodern social awareness. By analysing crucial value aspects (traditionalism, conformism, authoritarianism and nationalism), the author of this paper attempts to provide an explanation (which is the basic precondition for the resolution) of the ambivalent and, seemingly, inescapable situation in which the culture of Serbian society finds itself.
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CHU, YIN-WAH. "Studies of Japanese Society and Culture: Sociology and Cognate Disciplines in Hong Kong." Japanese Journal of Political Science 13, no. 2 (May 1, 2012): 201–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109912000047.
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AbstractThis paper reviews the studies of Japanese society and culture undertaken by Hong Kong-based sociologists and scholars in related disciplines. It presents information on research projects funded by the Research Grants Council, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) journal articles, authored and edited books, book chapters, non-SSCI and non-A&HCI journal articles, as well as master and doctoral theses written by scholars and graduate students associated with Hong Kong's major universities. It is found that the main topics of research are Japan's capitalist development and corporate growth, meanings and social ramifications of traditional and popular culture, education, gender, and marriage, as well as aspects of work and employment, whereas the major research methods include document analysis, ethnography, and in-depth interviews. The limited amount of research and the preoccupation with economic development and popular culture reflect in part Hong Kong's unique political conditions and the government's indifference to the pursuit of social and political policy analysis. In recent years, the growth of academic exchanges between scholars in Hong Kong, Japan, and other East Asian regions and the heightened emphasis by university administrators on academic research will hopefully bring about advancements in such academic endeavors.
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McLeod, Ken. "Vaporwave." Journal of Popular Music Studies 30, no. 4 (December 2018): 123–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2018.300409.
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This article investigates various aspects of the popular online music genre known as vaporwave in order to understand how it functions as a form of socio-economic critique while problematizing aspects of identity. It begins by discussing some of the prominent features and objectives of vaporwave. Although there is much ambiguity in the overall attitude and message of vaporwave, its main unifying ideology is the re-configuration of pop music from the 1970s and ‘80s in order to critique and parody consumerism and corporate culture. With an analysis of one of the most well-known examples of vaporwave, Macintosh Plus’ Floral Shoppe (2011), the article explores the relationship of vaporwave to techno-Orientalism and the genre’s recent pernicious co-option by the conservative alt-right movement in the forms of Fashwave and Trumpwave.
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Hidayat, Debra, and Z. Hidayat. "Anime as Japanese Intercultural Communication: A Study of the Weeaboo Community of Indonesian Generation Z and Y." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 22, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2020.3.310.
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Acculturation today does not only occur due to direct physical interaction between two different cultural groups, but rather, it is due more to online interaction. Cultural interaction also raises the imitation of the visual aspects of popular commodities, such as films being cultural products. This study aims to explore subcultures and identity communication built and maintained in the weeaboo fandom community outside of Japan. It also analyzes the daily experiences of individuals in interacting within the community and outside of it. This study uses a qualitative phenomenological approach through detailed observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of community interactions on social media. Because weeaboo’s scope is anime fans in various countries other than Japan, the sources and participants of this study were drawn mainly from Indonesia. The results showed that the weeaboo subculture arose between millennials and generation Z anime lovers. These cohorts began to recognize anime and form communities from childhood with those with the same habits, so similar characters and preferences emerge. Acculturation occurs in contiguity between two primary cultures where a new culture is born. In the context of anime, there is acculturation between Japanese culture (home culture) with the culture of a different country, as anime fans in the community do their routines and habits differently from the anime home country (Japan) in the host country (outside Japan). This study found that the weeaboo subculture of Indonesian Generation Z and Y is shaped by acculturation in intercultural communication such as in language, expressions, fashion, accessories, make-up, hairstyle, cuisine, group attitudes, values, and natural and cultural preferences of Japanese destinations. Based on the findings, further research can continue to analyze other aspects that are affected by the weeaboo community, such as international relations, economic aspects, and the Japanese tourism industry.
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Rusli, Hazrul Mazran, and Muhammad Abdullah. "Purpose and Function in The Context of Folk Literature and Malay Joke Stories." Idealogy Journal 7, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/idealogy.v7i2.368.
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Folk literature initially existed among the people. In general, it refers to folk literature from the past, which has become the heritage of a society. Folk literature is part of the cultural life of ancient societies. For example, in the old Malay society, folklore is an important form of entertainment for the villagers. People's jokes are a form of stories that are popular among the people, which become an important entertainment in the society. In the Malay community, there are also various other types of folk stories such as animal stories, funny stories, comforting stories and stories of experiences. Malay joke stories are also an expression of a society's culture through speech that is directly related to various aspects of culture, such as religion and belief, law, economic activities, family systems, and the order of social values of the society. This research is attentions on two main aspects which are purpose and function such as definition, meaning and general characteristics. This research provides an understanding and structure, in addition to important documentation of Malay history and literature, especially in Malaysia.
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Tatiana, Fisiuk. "CLUB NIGHT PARTY AS A MODERN CULTURE AND RECREATIONAL PROGRAM: HISTORICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECT." Proceedings of Altai State Academy of Culture and Arts, no. 1 (2021): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32340/2414-9101-2021-1-34-41.
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Historical pre-conditions for appearance of the first themed nights that are considered in modern theory as a form of group leisure activities took shape even in the Ancient World. By the end of the 18th century, club nights became a popular form of guest communication. Events of the revolutionary October of 1917 entailed root political, economic, ideological and cultural changes that reflected among others in approaches to organization of mass and group leisure practices of the new Soviet state's citizens. The author discloses her view on a themed night which she suppose was one of the most popular mass form of artistic propaganda till the end of the 1980s. The article outlines the author's version of “themed night” concept definition, describes typical structure of a themed night; also, the article think of today's trends in managing population's leisure activity that a director of cultural and recreational programs should take into account in the context of implementation of technologies of preparation of modern club themed nights.
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Manaienko, Iryna, Anastasiia Ivanova, and Anastasiia Burtova. "Economic Analysis of Macroeconomic Trends: China and India." Modern Economics 26, no. 1 (June 20, 2021): 89–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.31521/modecon.v26(2021)-13.
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Abstract. Introduction. Nowadays the world is on the cusp of major changes. The eastern market is becoming much more popular, important and powerful for the international community. India and China are already openly fighting for world domination through the dynamic growth of their own economic and military potential. It should be noted that, it was important for a detailed analysis of the economies of these eastern countries not only to process statistics, but also to take into account traditions and culture. Purpose. The main idea of this article is to understand clearly the aspects of further development of the world economy and to identify economic risks and trends, analyzing the following macroeconomic indicators of eastern giants’ countries. Results. A detailed analysis of the dynamics of GDP’s changes over the past 5 years was conducted and once again emphasized the power of these national economics that has only grown in recent decades. The importance of initiatives and innovations, creating by the eastern neighbors for the world community, was highlighted through a determination of the role of India and China in the integration international associations and study of the attracted investments. The interdependence of the world’s market and the eastern market of India and China was considered, a detailed breakdown of exports and imports of goods and services was carried out and that gives us the opportunity to identify the most important and most powerful groups of goods for today. Conclusions. The study identified similar aspects of the development of emerging economies such as India and China, which were supported by reports from objective sources of statistical information. Determining the macroeconomic situation of the next national economies allowed us to explain how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the action plan of the studied countries, to find weaknesses of strong enough economies, and also to make certain predictions about the future world market.
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Skoczylas-Tworek, Agnieszka. "Whistleblowing as a Mechanism of Fraud Risk Management in Economic Practice." Financial Internet Quarterly 16, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 96–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fiqf-2020-0020.
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Abstract The phenomenon of fraud and abuse remains relevant, as evidenced not only by studies published in this area, but also by the measures taken by economic operators to reduce it. Whistleblowing is an increasingly common tool for detecting fraudulent activities. It involves informing the organization’s management or external entities of any ethically, fraudulently or corruptly motivated irregularities. The level of interest in whistleblowing among Polish market entities is relatively low, mainly due to the lack of appropriate organizational culture, which is influenced by both internal and external factors within which the company operates. An important barrier in the implementation of whistleblowing in economic structures are both the ethical and sociological aspects and the low level of trust of potential whistleblowers towards their personal security for disclosing information about the signs of a prohibited act. Therefore, this tool is not very popular due to the lack of safeguards under national law, as well as internal regulations of entities using it. The aim of the publication is to verify the extent to which the whistleblowing tool is used to counteract the risk of abuse by economic entities listed on the Polish Stock Exchange, covered by the WIG 30 Index.
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Tuğal, Cihan. "“Serbest meslek sahibi”: Neoliberal subjectivity among İstanbul's popular sectors." New Perspectives on Turkey 46 (2012): 65–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600001515.
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AbstractSome of the literature on neoliberal subjectivity tends to attribute omnipotence and impeccable consistency to neoliberalism. Other recent literature, by contrast, has emphasized how actually existing neoliberal subjectivity combines liberal and non-liberal elements, some of the latter emanating from local culture. However, even this revisionist scholarship holds that the non-liberal elements only lead to a smoother functioning of neoliberalism. A focus on informal workers and small merchants in a squatter district in İstanbul reveals that neoliberal subjectivity harbors contradictory orientations that might actually undermine some aspects of neoliberalism. The mixture of self-reliance, individual responsibility (condensed in an emphasis on hard work and pious patience), and entrepreneurial spirit with extra-market survival techniques, as well as non-liberal orientations toward legal property, land and money, and desire of redistribution (as well as state protection against big capital) all exhibit how marketization is restricted, twisted, and perhaps endangered, even within the process of neoliberalization.
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Rydsjö, Celia Aijmer, and AnnKatrin Jonsson. "Making It News: Money and Marketing in the Expatriate Modernist Little Magazine in Europe." Journal of European Periodical Studies 1, no. 1 (July 5, 2016): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/jeps.v1i1.2578.
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This article deals with practical and economic aspects of expatriate little magazine production and should be seen as furthering the understanding of the economic and promotional underpinnings of modernist cultural expression in the 1920s and 30s. In particular, the article indicates to what extent literary ambitions and idealistic actions associated with the editing of a little magazine on the European continent intermingled with material and promotional concerns. Moreover, by focusing on expatriate little magazines, the article emphasizes the significance of geographical location for both practical and marketing purposes. Marketing ambitions blended with tactics for gaining legitimacy, and promotional language provided a valuable tool for advancing sales as well as cultural credibility. One important way of catering to economic interests while upholding literary ambitions was to incorporate the magazines into the flow of news, suggesting an affinity with publication types dedicated to hot topics, large readerships, and the journalistic virtue of presence on the scene. Designating the little magazine and its literary content as news therefore complicates and troubles the boundary between elitist and popular culture.
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Freeman, Elizabeth. "Cistercian Nuns in Medieval England: Unofficial Meets Official." Studies in Church History 42 (2006): 110–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400003880.
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Late twentieth-century scholarship on the Cistercian monastic order was dominated by the distinction between elite and popular. The terminology was specific to the Cistercian debate -namely, ‘ideals’ versus ‘reality’ rather than ‘elite’ versus ‘popular’ – but the logic of a high Cistercian culture and a low Cistercian culture is one that students of any elite/popular debate will find familiar. The indispensable modern survey of Cistercian history, published in 1977, is the key promoter of this argument, with its title presenting an eloquent statement of its thesis:The Cistercians: Ideals and Reality. Although the focus of current investigations into elite and popular religion is undoubtedly the extent to which both varieties of religion are legitimate cultural forces which influence and depend on each other, the Cistercian argument was formulated in a much more hierarchical way and clearly saw the elite Cistercian life as the more legitimate of the two monastic expressions. The argument is that members of the Cistercian order exhibited a more or less ideal form of corporate religious life during the first one hundred years of the order’s existence, but that after the late twelfth century the order gradually lost its purity. Two aspects of popular life infiltrated the enclosed world of the cloister: first, the grubby realities of economics; and, second, interactions with women, generally meaning interactions with the increasing numbers of Cistercian nunneries.
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Рябова, Татьяна, Tatyana Ryabova, Елена Эртман, and Elena Ertman. "SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF FREE INDEPENDENT TOURISM." Servis Plus 10, no. 3 (August 31, 2016): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/21117.
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According to the main changes which take place in the field of organization of tourism nowadays, the free
independent tourism should be considered as one of the most perspective directions of development not only
of touristic area but also of area of hospitality, culture and leisure. Because of active development of free
independent tourism the following positions have a special significance: the substantiation of methodological
approaches to definite its essence; to study of backgrounds of becoming and development of this kind of tourism
in Russia and abroad; to study not only the social and cultural aspects of free independent tourism as a
popular kind of personal activity in leisure but also to disclose its specific features. The disclosing of essence
and specifics of free independent tourism is very productive, at least, in two areas. On the one side, the free
independent tourism represents the dynamics of consumer behavior in the changing economic conditions and
leads to the greater independence from the touristic firms. On the other side, this kind of touristic activity has to
be considered not only in the system of forms and directions of human leisure activity, but also as an instrument
of satisfaction of wide spectrum of leisure needs and personal interest, and as a method of its enculturation.
The characterization of basic features of free independent tourism, the definition of its essence and function
in the context of social and cultural human activity disclose the new perspectives for all-round systemic study
of conditions of functioning of this kind of tourism and its further development. The free independent tourism
will evolve steadily and rapidly as one of kind of leisure industry, which is directed to satisfy and to develop the
personal needs for spiritual and cultural development, cognition, communication and recreation. The social
and cultural content is a qualitative characteristic of free independent tourism and the most important method
which allows joining the tourists with culture, to develop and to generate their new spiritual needs.
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Ogilvie, Sheilagh. "“So that Every Subject Knows How to Behave”: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia." Comparative Studies in Society and History 48, no. 1 (January 2006): 38–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750600003x.
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“Social disciplining” is the name that has been given to attempts by the authorities throughout early modern Europe to regulate people's private lives.1 In explicit contrast to “social control,” the informal mechanisms by which people have always sought to put pressure on one another in traditional societies, “social disciplining” was a set of formal, legislative strategies through which the emerging early modern state sought to “civilize” and “rationalize” its subjects' behavior in order to facilitate well-ordered government and a capitalist modernization of the economy.2 Whether viewed favorably as an essential stage in a beneficent “civilizing process” or more critically as an arbitrary coercion of popular culture in the interests of elites, social disciplining is increasingly regarded as central to most aspects of political, economic, religious, social, and cultural change in Europe between the medieval and the modern periods.3
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Alam, Lukis. "Popular Piety and the Muslim Middle Class Bourgeoisie in Indonesia." Al-Albab 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.24260/alalbab.v7i2.1039.
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This paper discusses the passion of Islamization of the New Order, at the same time the mainstream of this power is based on economic development that provides opportunities for the growth of the Muslim middle class. Patronage model used by the New Order gives an indication that the power built by this regime wants to instill a strong influence in society. At the same time, the New Order is depoliticizing the political attitudes of Muslims. This has implications for the marginalization of the interests of Muslims on the national stage. In this study will also be affirmed the influence of the New Order's power on the presence of the Muslim middle class. On the one hand their birth was the result of the economic development that the New Order echoed. On a different aspect, the presence of the middle class gives strong legitimacy that they are part of the dominating class structure in a country. Also will be reviewed about middle-class interference with the trend of Islamic populism that actually occurred in the era of the 80s, but re-spread after post-reform. Popular Islamic culture becomes a trend that spread through various media such as, internet, magazines, newspapers and so forth. This has received considerable response from middle-class Muslims and led to commodification. Religion facilitates to interact with modernity. Materialistic and hedonistic interests intersect with obedience in the practice of religion. On the one hand, the mode of consumption of the Muslim middle class changes with the adaptation of piety values in the public sphere.
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Fehér, Euridiké. "A földhasználat és a kultúra kapcsolata, avagy a kultúramarketing és a kultúrafogyasztás kialakulásának állomásai." Jelenkori Társadalmi és Gazdasági Folyamatok 7, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2012): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/jtgf.2012.1-2.7-13.
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Agriculture and farming created special traditions which have transformed into popular costums and believes during centuries and changing nations' cultural consumption remarkably. The change and spread of our culture itself and culture consumption is not only an ethnical and sociological question but also an economic one. This is the reason why I think it is important to define the culture in the aspect of the economy as due to it we can form different culture consuming groups. I denominate three of the most important directions and dimensions according to the bibliography processed until now. These are the following: traditional, autonomous and heteronomous cultural dimensions. The first step of my research is to expound the possible consumers of these dimensions mentioned above, the permeability between dimensions or their exclusivity if there is any. At the end of the day I would like to show the new challenges and possible solutions of culture marketing considering the categories defined by me in the meantime.
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Buhr, Renee L., Victor Shadurski, and Steven Hoffman. "Belarus: an emerging civic nation?" Nationalities Papers 39, no. 3 (May 2011): 425–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2011.565319.
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Early commentators on the newly independent Belarusian state of the 1990s indicated that there was something lacking in Belarusian identity. The people did not seem to respond powerfully to the new symbols of the state, use of the national language intermingled with Russian, and economic concerns appeared to trump popular concerns with promoting Belarusian language or culture. Other former Soviet states were embracing ethnic national ideals, and as such, many assumed that Belarus should follow a similar path. However, as an examination of the history of the Belarusian territory demonstrates, a national ideal based on ethnicity was problematic in Belarusian society, and as such, the ethnic notions of Belarusian identity forwarded by some Belarusian elites failed to appeal to the masses. Instead, Belarus seems better suited to a more inclusive civic identity than an exclusive ethnic one. This research examines the nature of contemporary Belarusian identity, with particular attention to the civic versus ethnic aspects of that identity. We argue that although Belarusian identity is obviously in flux and subject to heavy debate, it is currently demonstrating more civic aspects than ethnic ones. This finding is based on original survey data obtained in Belarus in 2009 and 2010.
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Holbrook, Morris B., and Robert M. Schindler. "Age, Sex, and Attitude toward the past as Predictors of Consumers’ Aesthetic Tastes for Cultural Products." Journal of Marketing Research 31, no. 3 (August 1994): 412–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224379403100309.
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New data pertaining to tastes for popular culture support and extend the previous finding that consumers tend to form enduring preferences during a sensitive period in their lives. A psychographic measure of the consumer's attitude toward the past is shown to moderate this tendency, and differences between male and female respondents suggest that the experience of strong positive feelings plays a causal role. These findings can guide the marketer in designing aesthetic aspects of products or promotional stimuli and may increase the practicality of using cohort analysis for predictions of consumer demand.
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Lee, Hyunseok. "The Korean Socio-Political Context of the 1970s in Robot Taekwon V (1976)." Animation 15, no. 2 (July 2020): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746847720933800.
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As one of the masterpieces of early South Korean animation, the film Robot Taekwon V has instilled hopes and dreams in a younger generation of Koreans since the late 1970s when it was released, while critics have cited Robot Taekwon V as being influenced by American pop culture, particularly the Disney animation style, and have accused it of plagiarizing the designs of the popular Japanese animation Mazinger Z. In the 1970s, the Korean government actively promoted economic development for the ‘modernization of the country’ under the military regime’s inculcation of anti-communism. Robot Taekwon V was produced with the intent of being an anti-communist tool and, further, it sought the nationalism of postwar South Korea and promoted the country’s confidence in the future that eventually resulted in rapid economic development. This socio-political context is portrayed both in the form of a ‘gigantic robot’ and in the use of non-Korean appearances for Korean characters. Considering these aspects, the author examines how Robot Taekwon V navigates the intricacies of the postwar ideological framework, manages foreign cultural influences and suggests transnationalism through its character design and narrative.
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Garcia-Gavilanes, Ruth, Daniele Quercia, and Alejandro Jaimes. "Cultural Dimensions in Twitter: Time, Individualism and Power." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 7, no. 1 (August 3, 2021): 195–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14419.
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Previous studies have established the link between one's actions (e.g., engaging with others vs. minding one's own business) and one's national culture (e.g., collectivist vs. individualistic), and such actions have been shown to be important as they are collectively affiliated with a country's economic outcomes (e.g., Gross Domestic Product). Hitherto there has not been any systematic study of whether one's action on Twitter (e.g., deciding when to post messages) is linked to one's culture (e.g., country's Pace of Life). To fix that, we build different network snapshots starting from 55,000 seed users on Twitter, and we do so for 10 weeks across 30 countries (after filtering those with low penetration rates) for a total of 2.34 M profiles. Based on Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions and Levine's Pace of Life theory, we consider three behavioral patterns on Twitter (i.e., temporal predictability of tweets, engaging with others, and supporting others who are less popular) and associate them with three different dimensions derived from the two theories: Pace of Life, Individualism and Power Distance. We find the following strong correlations: activity predictability negatively correlates with Pace of Life (r=-0.62), tweets with mentions negatively correlates with Individualism (r = -0.55), and power (e.g, Twitter popularity) imbalance in relationships (between, for example, two users mentioning each other) is correlated with Power Distance (r=0.62). These three cultural dimensions matter because they are associated with a country's socio-economic aspects - with GDP per capita, income inequality, and education expenditure.
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Dvorakova, Antonie. "Relational individuality among Native American academics: Popular dichotomies reconsidered." Culture & Psychology 25, no. 1 (March 15, 2018): 75–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x18763799.
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An interdisciplinary qualitative study working with 40 Native American academics, who were selected for their specific diverse backgrounds, focused on selected aspects of subjective experiencing they generally had in common. Participants experienced the socio-cultural contexts of mainstream academia and tribal communities as incongruent and based on conflicting values associated with the conceptualizations of individualism versus relationality and communal cooperation. Viewing these seemingly dichotomous concepts from the perspective of Native American tribal world views, however, enabled meaningful integration of these concepts. The innovative relational individuality conceptualization allows for appreciation of uniqueness and self-improvement efforts without adherence to the mainstream principle of competitive individualism. At the core of the involved conceptualization of relationality, with preference for communal cooperation, is the experience of one’s embeddedness in personal relationships and one’s involvement within groups as a valuable member, which cannot be explained by either the necessity of socio-economic and ecological factors or the imperative of conformity to collective conventions. The extent to which the independence–interdependence and individualism–collectivism dichotomies apply to this case is limited. The discussed relational individuality conceptualization, facilitated by Native American tribal world views and culturally specific narratives, extend the repertoire of thus far recognized mechanisms that underlie the existing cultural variation.
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Huggins, Mike. "Nineteenth-Century Racehorse Stables in their Rural Setting: A Social and Economic Study." Rural History 7, no. 2 (October 1996): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300000133.
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Scattered across the face of rural Britain at any one time during the nineteenth century were up to 200 training stables for thoroughbred racehorses. These provided the underpinning for the popular sport of horseracing and were also both a significant source of rural employment and a contribution to rural culture. Despite a growing recognition by rural historians that rural communities are composed of interlocking parts and linked social structures, and a regular focus on the parish, village, estate or farm, these microcommunities have remained largely ignored and undocumented. Equally, sports historians have concentrated largely on sports players to the exclusion of ancilliary staff. This article breaks new ground therefore in giving a more rounded picture of an important aspect of horseracing in its rural setting, beginning by examining the social and economic organisation of stable life and its power relationships, before showing the contribution of the stables firstly to the local economies, and secondly to the cultural life of the local communities in which they were set.
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Potter, Pitman B. "Riding the Tiger: Legitimacy and Legal Culture in Post-Mao China." China Quarterly 138 (June 1994): 325–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000035785.
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Efforts at legal reform in China under the banner of the socialist legal system (shehui zhuyi fazhi) represent an attempt by the post-Mao regime to rest legitimacy in part on an ideology of formal law that complements the regime's efforts at economic reform. While the Party has not abandoned its reliance on the conceit that it represents the forces of historical revolution, the establishment of the socialist legal system is aimed to some extent at addressing a more immediate challenge of retaining legitimacy in the eyes of a populace for whom abstract notions of historical determinacy have little meaning. Proponents of reform have linked these abstract and practical aspects of legitimacy by asserting that legal reform is a requirement of the specific stage of historical development in which China now finds itself.
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Ayuningtyas, Winda Eka Pahla, and Munjid Achmad. "UNDERSTANDING THE AMERICAN DREAM FROM KARDASHIAN FAMILY THROUGH KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIAN REALITY SHOW." CrossOver 1, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 28–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/crossover.v1i2.3973.
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This study explains the relationship between the Kardashians and the American dream that has been championed by Americans to date. It is hypothesized that the more popular culture develops in our lives, the more it will affect the development of our culture. This can be seen from reality shows as a kind of popular culture that many people love. To find out how big the influence is, this study uses the Kardashians as an object to see how they and their reality show influence the community. By using textual analysis and utilizing materialism and capitalism as the theory, this research is expected to reveal the impact of the Kardashians on the development of the American dream. This study takes several texts from the reality show and analyzes them according to the theory used. Then, it is found that technological progress and economic growth, including commercial TV, expose Americans to materialism. The Kardashians commodified it into a captivating moneymaker that reality TV viewers aspire and inspire to consume. In addition, the materialism that they display on reality TV shows also thrives in viewers' minds from which they take advantage by commodifying every aspect of their lives as a form of product to sell so that viewers buy what they advertise. Keywords: American Dream, Keeping Up with The Kardashian, Materialism, Capitalism.
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Waddington, Keir. "“We Don't Want Any German Sausages Here!” Food, Fear, and the German Nation in Victorian and Edwardian Britain." Journal of British Studies 52, no. 4 (October 2013): 1017–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2013.178.
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AbstractThis essay brings together aspects of the history of science, food, and culture, and applies them to the study of Anglo-German relations and perceptions by examining how between 1850 and 1914 the German sausage was used as a metaphor for the German nation. The essay shows how the concerns that became attached to German sausages not only provide a way of understanding Britain's interaction with Germany but also reveal further dimensions to popular anti-German sentiment. Alarm about what went into German sausages formed part of a growing strand of popular opposition to Germany, which drew on increasing insecurity about Britain's position on the world stage and the perceived economic threat that Germany and German immigrants presented. Such sentiment was translated into how Germans were caricatured and onto material objects—in this case, the “deadly mysteries” that were feared to go into German sausages. Cultural and gastronomic stereotypes overlapped in a discourse that linked Germany and Germans to their national diet and aggressive nature, as well as associated German sausages with fears about diseased meat, adulteration, and the risks that eating them entailed. The result was that the German sausage was used as a staple for satirical comic representations of Germany, as representative of dishonesty in food production, and as a xenophobic slur. Around the German sausage, anti-German sentiment and questions of food safety merged and became mutually reinforcing.
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Fullwood, Natalie. "Winner of the 2011 ASMI PG essay prize: Popular Italian cinema, the media, and the economic miracle: rethinkingcommedia all'italiana." Modern Italy 18, no. 1 (February 2013): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2012.752892.
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This article seeks to reposition the popular cinematic genrecommedia all'italianawithin the context of the rapid expansion of the media industries which accompanied Italy's postwar economic miracle. The article looks at three distinct aspects of the relationship betweencommedia all'italianaand other media. First, it outlines the important role played by the media during the boom in disseminating images of consumer lifestyles, and highlights the way in whichcommedia all'italianaparticipated in this process. Second, through a discussion of media appearances by Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi, the article emphasises the extent to which theircommedia all'italianastar personas were constructed and circulated in a multimedia context. Finally, it examines how the genre represented other media, focusing in particular on the representation of gender in advertising scenes. Through close readings ofcommedia all'italianaadvertising scenes, the article notes points of continuity with and difference from advertising imagery that was circulating at the time. The article argues that in order to further our understanding ofcommedia all'italianaand its relationship to Italian society, it is essential to understand the genre's relationship to other media production of the period, which both influenced the comedies' representations and was influenced by them in turn.
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Cai, Liexu. "A comparative study of the Confucius Institute in the United Kingdom and the British Council in China." Citizenship, Social and Economics Education 18, no. 1 (April 2019): 44–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047173419845531.
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Since the first Confucius Institute was set up by the Chinese government for the promotion of Chinese language and culture overseas in 2004, the development of Confucius Institutes has become exponentially increasing. Currently, there are 29 Confucius Institutes in the United Kingdom among over 500 Confucius Institutes abroad; meanwhile, the activities of the British Council in China also became popular as one of the central paradigms for educational communication between China and the United Kingdom. Although there have been several studies on Confucius Institutes and British Council, respectively, little research exists about them from the international comparative perspective, with regard to both of them being cultural institutes abroad and the establishment of Confucius Institutes benefitting from the United Kingdom’s experience in promoting its national languages and culture. This article aims to discover the general similarities and differences between Confucius Institutes and the British Council in three aspects: the organisation structures and culture diffusion models, the language teaching and learning resources and activities, and the cooperation that the two institutes have with the other organisations.
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Munby, Jonathan. "Manhattan Melodrama's “Art of the Weak”: Telling History from the Other Side in the 1930s Talking Gangster Film." Journal of American Studies 30, no. 1 (April 1996): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800024348.
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Ever since gangsters first appeared on the American screen (officially with D. W. Griffith's Musketeers of Pig Alley, in 1912) they have been involved in a prolonged battle with the forces of “legitimate” culture. Having fought their fights from the wrong side of the street gangsters have continually drawn attention to the line which separates legitimate from illegitimate Americans. This has raised problems in accounting for the gangster genre's significance. In stigmatizing the ethnic urban poor as criminal, the gangster genre betrays its origins in a nativist discourse which sought to cast “hyphenated” Americans as “un-American” and in need of “ Americanization. ” Yet, as perhaps the most powerful vehicle for the nationalization and popularization of ethnic urban American life, the gangster genre overturned many aspects of its iniquitous origin, playing an important part in the re-writing of American history from the perspective (and, as I shall demonstrate, quite literally in the voice) of the ethnic urban lower class.This contradiction is characteristic of the dynamic and changing role American popular culture artifacts play in the mediation of the nation's history. Regardless of the poetic and ideological licence gangster fictions take with the very real socio-historical problems of the ethnic urban poor, the central conflict which informs these narratives remains the question of social, economic, and cultural exclusion.
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Jepson, Paul, Richard J. Ladle, and Sujatnika. "Assessing market-based conservation governance approaches: a socio-economic profile of Indonesian markets for wild birds." Oryx 45, no. 4 (October 2011): 482–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003060531100038x.
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AbstractOne of the most difficult situations for conservation is where state capacity to regulate is weak, major corporate organizations are absent, and the population does not have a strong culture of wildlife conservation. All these apply to the hugely popular urban Indonesian pastime of keeping wild songbirds, thought to be responsible for rolling local extinctions of several native species. In such situations the introduction of a voluntary, market-based approach could interact with regulation to create new and more effective approaches to reducing the negative conservation impacts of the associated trade. Here we assess the potential of such an approach through an in-depth analysis of the socio-economic and cultural aspects of bird keeping. We project that overall the pastime contributes USD 78.8 million to the economies of the six cities surveyed, supporting a range of associated small-scale rural and urban livelihoods relating to the production of cages and collection of live bird food. Finally, we describe five general bird-breeding models with the capacity to scale up the production of captive-bred birds that may substitute for wild-caught conspecifics. Based on this information we argue that a market-based policy instrument that is capable of shifting bird-keeping trends from wild-caught birds to captive-bred alternatives would align easily with macro-policy agendas in Indonesia relating to pro-poor growth and the creation of more and better jobs. Such a policy instrument could provide exciting opportunities for conservationists to engage the interest and support of non-conservation sectors in Indonesia in efforts to conserve diminishing populations of wild birds.
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Gonzales, Michael J. "Imagining Mexico in 1921: Visions of the Revolutionary State and Society in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 25, no. 2 (2009): 247–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/msem.2009.25.2.247.
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In September of 1921, the government of Alvaro Obregóón organized a lavish commemoration of the centennial of Agustíín de Iturbide's ouster of Spanish authority and the creation of Mexico. The occasion gave the administration the opportunity to present its image of the revolutionary state and society within the context of historical memory and public policy. The official program promoted economic and social programs rooted in nineteenth-century liberalism, as well as a new cultural vision that portrayed contemporary indigenous culture as integral to Mexican national identity. The occasion also gave conservatives the opportunity to present a counternarrative of Mexican history in newspaper articles and editorials that championed Iturbide, the Catholic Church, and Mexico's Spanish heritage. The organization of cultural and sporting events also showcased traditional and popular culture. En Septiembre de 1921, el gobierno de Alvaro Obregóón organizóó una celebracióón para conmemorar el centenario de la expulsióón de la monarquíía españñola por parte de Agustíín de Iturbide y del nacimiento del Estado mexicano. La ocasióón permitióó al réégimen presentar su imagen como Estado revolucionario dentro del contexto de la memoria históórica y políítica púública. La agenda oficial promovíía programas econóómicos y sociales basados en el liberalismo del siglo diecinueve, y en una políítica nueva que presentaba a las culturas indíígenas contemporááneas como parte integral de la identidad mexicana. La celebracióón tambiéén dio a los conservadores la oportunidad de presentar una interpretacióón de la historia mexicana que iba en contra de la oficial. ÉÉsta fue presentada en artíículos y editoriales de perióódicos que celebraban a Iturbide, la iglesia catóólica y la herencia españñola en Mééxico. La organizacióón de eventos culturales y deportivos tambiéén revelóó aspectos centrales de la cultura tradicional y popular.
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IT., Suraiya, Syamsul Rijal, and Zaenuddin Hudi Prasojo. "Sufism and Religious Practices in Modern Lifestyle." Religió: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama 9, no. 1 (March 20, 2019): 01–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/religio.v9i1.1231.
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Along with scientific development and technological growth which have created a lot of convenience to mankind there have also raised a deep cynicism towards the religious and spiritual aspects of life. Value crisis of humanity marked by the crisis of spirituality increased. Many societies are facing deep crisis. This condition makes the world vulnerable to violence and conflicts. Therefore, modern world society has been challenged to to be more attentive than before to deal with religious and spiritual values. This paper asserts that religion continues to be an important since it combines both personal and public character. Social problems faced by the modern world society such as cultural diversity, environmental preservation, economic equity, and conflict resolution are theologically reflected within the teaching of Islam. Sufism as a form of Islamic spiritualities offers some applicable answers for this phenomenon. In addition, characteristic of Sufism (mysticism) is commonly well known in almost all religions. Sufism cherishes from the private sphere into a popular Islamic culture. This research would like to see how the phenomenon of spiritual movement in the dimension of Sufism has a real powerful to improve social problem of the modern world.
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Zhang, Wenxin. "Inspiration from the Development of Japanese Magical Girl Animation." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 4 (November 17, 2022): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v4i.2738.
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With the worldwide popularity of magical girls portrayed in Japanese magical girl anime, such as Card Captor Sakura and Maiden Warriors, magical girls have become a cultural symbol and have developed into an industry. The daily magical girl anime has not only become popular in Japan and around the world, successfully exporting elements of Japanese culture, but has also become commercially successful, making huge economic profits for those involved in the industry through the sale of derivatives and other means.Chinese cultural industry workers have also imitated Japanese magical girl anime but without success. This study will explore the reasons for the popularity of Japanese magical girl culture in Japan and China from three aspects: industry development history, narrative characteristics, and cultural connotation, and further analyze the reasons for the unsuccessful local magical girl anime in China, in the hope of providing references for the future development of China's local anime industry and the future transnational cultural export of Chinese cultural industry. From the perspective of industrial development, the success of Japanese magical girl animation comes from both the innovation of content and technological means in line with the development of the times and from the investment of resources and cooperation in each link of the complete industrial chain. Meanwhile, successful cultural export needs to consider how to weaken the negative impact of cultural depreciation on viewers' cultural identity and how to make reasonable use of cultural differences to arouse viewers' interest through the sense of strangeness.
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Richardson, James L. "Motivating at Risk African Americans and Hispanics Through the Study of New Media Technology." HETS Online Journal 1, no. 2 (November 8, 2022): 36–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.55420/2693.9193.v1.n2.89.
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The rising number of African Americans and Hispanics turning away from higher education is creating a problem that threatens many aspects of American society. Educators can help reverse this destructive trend by creating New Media based curricula that addresses the motivational factors impeding the academic success of these students. The recent advances in personal computing, as well as the rise of the Internet and global networks offer educators an unprecedented opportunity to reengage and motivate many of these students by teaching them to develop digital content that is technically advanced, economically viable, and which stays true to their core values. This new approach, which makes use of interactive technology, can bridge the gap and make it possible for many disenfranchised African American and Hispanic students to view academia in a more positive light.
The rising number of African Americans and Hispanics turning away from college and higher education is creating a problem that threatens many aspects of American society. It has been shown that increasing numbers of these students, many without sufficient economic and socio-political influence, can lead to increased levels of poverty, criminal behavior, incarceration (James, 2004), and greater family instability. However at the same time that some of these “at risk” students are turning away from higher education, new media centric areas of our economy and popular culture are experiencing incredible growth with this same demographic (Smith, 2010).
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Vishnevsky, Valentine, and Oleksandr Grechishkin. "Foreseeing the industrial future: aspects of the theory." Economy of Industry 4, no. 100 (December 1, 2022): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/econindustry2022.04.005.
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The importance of foreseeing the industrial future is due to the special importance of modern industry for national competitiveness, innovation and employment, as well as the fundamental shifts taking place in the world in connection with the deployment of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. New industrialization opens up fundamentally new development opportunities associated with the integration of digital and material technologies, but at the same time creates new threats and risks for life safety, employment, environment, etc. Therefore, it is so important to engage in systematic research in this area, which should be based on an appropriate theoretical foundation. Forecasting activities in an industry are represented by various types of practices aimed at predicting the future. It has been established that the initial premise of this activity is the principle of continuity of development, the meaning of which lies in the fact that for a certain time certain aspects of the culture and institutional structure of society remain without significant changes, maintaining their continuity. In this regard, it becomes possible to identify common – and, therefore, rather long – factors (causes) and trends (consequences), that have already manifested themselves in the present and are likely to continue their action in the future. Based on the knowledge of these factors and trends, it is possible to define the patterns of future development. It was revealed that the main methods for studying the future of the economy in general and industry in particular are strategic foresighting and long-term forecasting. Both of these methods combine in that they are designed to explore the long aspects of development and establish what might happen rather than what decisions to make. And their difference lies in the fact that foresight is engaged in the construction of predominantly qualitative images of the future, the creation of anticipatory alternative scenarios for the development of events, while forecasting is usually quantitative in nature, characterizes the future, based on the regularities characteristic of a given object sphere. Both foresight and forecasting are based on the use of economic and mathematical modelling tools. But in the case of forecasting, the results of calculations are usually interpreted as information about what is expected (within confidence intervals), and in the case of foresighting, as information about possible scenarios for the development of events designed to identify new opportunities and threats to development. Given the current state of geopolitical turbulence and strategic uncertainty, in the near future in Ukraine, strategic foresight may become the most popular tool for studying the industrial future.
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Handayana, Sri, and Muhamad Rezi. "MTQ ; Antara Seni Membaca Alquran dan Politik Akomodasionis Pemerintah terhadap Umat Islam." ISLAM TRANSFORMATIF : Journal of Islamic Studies 2, no. 2 (December 27, 2018): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.30983/it.v2i2.747.
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<p><em>MTQ is a manifestation of Islamic culture and is constantly evolving. MTQ is also one of the government policies related to Muslims and even seems to </em><em>accommodate</em><em> the interests of Muslims. The author believes that MTQ can be investigated from various aspects. If viewed from a religious perspective, MTQ is one way to improve spiritual life. If viewed from an economic standpoint, MTQ can support economic development through exhibitions or bazaars held in the main arena. Whereas if it is highlighted with the political glasses of MTQ, perhaps on the one hand the government is accommodating towards Muslims. This paper attempts to describe MTQ and its ins and outs, then also attempts to analyze MTQ as a form of aesthetic reception of the Qur'an and the political dimension of MTQ. The effort to express the Koran aesthetically has actually emerged since the time of the Prophet Muhammad. One of the most popular stories is about the Islamic story of Umar ibn Khattab after hearing the reading of several verses of the Qur'an by his younger sister named Fatimah with her husband named Sa'id bin Zayd. Therefore MTQ is an opportunity to develop the art of reading the Qur'an, and an event to foster awareness to read and study the Qur'an.</em></p>
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Yang, C., G. Lawson, and J. Sim. "Digitisation of Scenic and Historic Interest Areas in China." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-5/W3 (August 12, 2015): 363–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-5-w3-363-2015.
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Digital documents have become the major information source for heritage conservation practice. More heritage managers today use electronic maps and digital information systems to facilitate management and conservation of cultural heritage. However, the social aspects of digital heritage have not been sufficiently recognised. The aim of this paper is to examine China’s ‘Digital Scenic Area’ project, a national program started in 2004, to reveal the political and economic powers behind digital heritage practice. It was found that this project was only conducted within the most popular tourist destinations in China. Tourism information was the main object but information about landscape cultures were neglected in this project. This project also demonstrated that digital management was more like a political or economic symbol rather than a tool for heritage conservation. However, using digital technologies are still considered by the local government as a highly objective way of heritage management. Selected as a typical Scenic Area in China, Slender West Lake in Yangzhou was investigated to identify heritage stakeholder’s attitudes toward digital management and the request from local management practice.
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Stryhul, M. V., O. A. Khomeriki, Yu I. Yakovenko, A. K. Yakovenko, and Yu V. Romanenko. "The culture of aviation security through the prism of sociological analysis." E3S Web of Conferences 258 (2021): 07002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125807002.
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The aim of the article is to demonstrate the relevance of the usage of sociological knowledge for the development of aviation safety culture through the safety and security, Sociology of Safety and Sociology of Transport as an integral part of applying a systematic approach for strengthening the aviation safety. In the situation of globalization of the world, the structure of sociological knowledge in the XXI century is very branched. However, Ukraine has its own popular list of special and branch sociologies, which meets the specific challenges of the time of modernization of Ukrainian society. The goals of the industrial stage of its development stimulated the formation of Sociology of Labor, changing the focus of the goals of the economy from the basics of planning to market. That gave a powerful impact on the formation of Sociology of the Economics, the market, the individual, and so on. There were not identified the conditions, circumstances that should determine the application of the potential of sociology to comprehend any direction of human activity. Sociologists strive not to lose the integrity of reflection, as social science always gains more power, accumulating both empirical material and theoretical generalizations on significantly different aspects of social life, which can be taken into account in the development of each sociological industry. Therefore, security contains resistance to the Sociology of Safety, Sociology of Technology, Sociology of Transport, etc. Accumulation of such knowledge with necessity leads to synergistic effect and the growth of a culture of safety in aviation.
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Zielińska-Szczepkowska, Joanna. "Slow Tourism – The Fashion for Slowness or a Conscious Choice?" Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia 20, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 468–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/foli-2020-0060.
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Abstract Research background: The fast pace of life of contemporary people living in developed countries results in a search for peace and relaxation, which is reflected in new forms of tourism. One of them is slow tourism, which is at an early stage of development. A new type of tourist is emerging – one who is conscious, responsible, critical, respectful of nature, open to learning about the customs, culture and religion of local populations. Purpose: This paper analyses the changes that take place in tourism from a socio-economic perspective, characterized by withdrawing from mass tourism and a shift towards individual tourism, with particular emphasis on slow tourism. Research methodology: The paper is based on a compilation of the current literature of the subject, reports and analysis of Polish websites devoted to slow travel. It is a synthesis of economic and social aspects of slow tourism development, including the motives for taking up slow tourism by tourists and the offer of slow travel in Poland. Results: The analysis of the literature reveals a large diversity in the definition of slow tourism. A lively discussion is going on regarding the meaning of the new trend, its importance and future. In Poland, slow tourism is becoming increasingly popular, as evidenced by, among others: an increase in the number of offers for slow tourists. Novelty: This analysis contributes to deepening the knowledge on new trends in tourism – slow tourism. These considerations contribute to the author’s further research on the development of this phenomenon.
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Jakubowska-Krawczyk, Katarzyna, and Svitlana Romaniuk. "Kody kulturowe wykorzystywane w ukraińskiej sztuce zaangażowanej (na przykładzie prac A. Jermołenki i O. Komjachowa)." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 12, no. 1 (September 24, 2021): 343–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.6480.
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The socio-political experiences of recent years have contributed to the development of new trends in patriotic and engaged art in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to analyze selected works of two popular Ukrainian graphic artists: Andriy Yermolenko and Oleksandr Komjakhov. The reproductions we use come from Mystets’kyy Barbakan. Trykutnyk 92. Antolohiya (Мистецький Барбакан. Трикутник 92. Антологія), pub-lished in 2015 in Kiev, as well as from the social media, in which the artists are very active. The presented analy-sis combines cultural and literary aspects. We show the interactions between the national symbols used and ref-erences to texts of culture important for Ukrainians, and at the same time the attempts to modernize them and a combine in a way that forces verification of the current way of thinking and reworking certain forms of cul-ture anew.
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Aitbayeva, A. T., B. D. Zorzhanov, S. U. Kossanov, M. Zh Koshmagambetova, and R. K. Balgabayeva. "Effect of biological and organic fertilizers on growth processes, productivity and quality of melon fruits under Southeastern Kazakhstan." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1043, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 012048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1043/1/012048.
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Abstract In Kazakhstan, melon growing is cultivated using chemical fertilizers. Organic production is not practiced where there being no research. Our country, possessing a great high-quality variety, can be the focus of world community attention as a producer and supplier of ecological melon. Besides economic interests, changeover from traditional methods of cultivation to biological one is of great importance in ecological aspect. Unregulated and too high agrochemicals application causes a number of negative consequences, upwards from soil pollution with severe salts to poisoning caused using low-quality products. The most popular and regulated elements of biological melon cultivation in production include organic fertilizers instead of chemical ones. Therefore, our research is aimed to study bioorganic fertilizers on melon culture under Southeastern Kazakhstan. Scientific experiments were held at the experimental sites of the «Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute» LLP. We experimented using classical research methods generally adopted in melon cultivation. The findings showed that bioorganic fertilizers improve the growth parameters and quality of melon culture, and increase fruit productivity. The yield growth on the studied options for control ranged from 31.23% to 41.71%, depending on the nutritional conditions.
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Hamera, Judith. "The Labors of Michael Jackson: Virtuosity, Deindustrialization, and Dancing Work." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 4 (October 2012): 751–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.4.751.
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Michael Jackson, arguably the most notable popular-culture virtuoso of the late twentieth century, cannot be understood outside the economic moment that produced him. This essay examines relations between his virtuosity as a dancer and the trajectory of American deindustrialization in the period 1983–88. Through the trope of the human motor, Jackson's virtuosity produces nostalgia for a vanishing industrial past, while barely containing the contradictions and exclusions endemic to the industrial modernist project, especially those involving race. This trope is activated by the intersection of his movement vocabulary and his recurring invocations of hard work. Jackson's dancing in this period reveals a neglected aspect of virtuosity in dance more generally. As an allegorical presentation of idealized relations between the body and work abandoned by the relentless motility of capital, Jackson's virtuosity allows audiences to view these disappearing modes with a romantic backward glance.
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Vladimir Argudo Palomeque. "General and substantive theories of the media and audiences." Technium Social Sciences Journal 8 (May 9, 2020): 149–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v8i1.536.
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The use of new technologies as instruments of rapprochement between the public and the radio gives us a meaning of the power that the media have to announce what happens daily in society, applying techniques that allow them to be in the place where the events take place. facts and transmit them as they are, from the journalist's perception that allows him to get closer to the truth and why get closer to the truth, because the journalist must remember that one of the rules that govern this activity is the fact of asking and asking questions until to have the information that is needed and not to believe any version that the source expresses, and especially because doubt is the essence of journalism. Public participation in the media is a phenomenon that has emerged and has been promoted in recent years in Cuenca. Now not only with the use of the conventional telephone but with the application of technology such as: Internet, cell phone messages, emails and chats that have made the newscasts the most popular genre by audiences. This construction motivates the investigation of theories that support this position. In this context, we currently live in a technological culture that advances day by day and that marks in a matter of months a rapid obsolescence of much knowledge and the emergence of others. The impact of this culture is immense since it produces continuous transformations in economic, social and cultural globalization, and affects practically all aspects of personal life: work, commerce, bureaucratic management, leisure and education. For these reasons, technology urgently requires learning to live with it and authorize its undoubted benefits.
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Vikmane, Elina, and Anda Laķe. "Critical Review of Sustainability Priorities in the Heritage Sector: Evidence from Latvia’s Most Visited Museums." European Integration Studies 1, no. 15 (September 16, 2021): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.1.15.28886.
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A vibrant debate about the role and participation of museums in urbanisation, industrialisation, human rights protection, technological progress, climate change and other global challenges has persisted in the field of museums ever since the boom of theoretical museology, which coincided with the development of the sustainable development concept. However, often culture is considered a part of social sustainability pillar, covering manifestations such as equity, participation, social justice etc. (Murphy, 2012; Vallace et al., 2011; Cuthill, 2010) or ignoring cultural aspects altogether (Chiu, 2004). Many voices have called to promote culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development as a necessary foundation, condition or groundwork through which understandings of social, economic, and environmental sustainability may appear (Soini & Birkeland, 2014; Hawkes, 2001). Although the potential of cultural heritage institutions such as museums towards sustainable development is outlined in relevant literature, there has been no radical shift in museum practice (Ross, 2004; Simon, 2010; Nomikou, 2015). The paper aims to propose the first-ever critical review of sustainable development priorities in Latvia’s most popular museums with a view to finding out their strategic priorities and using these findings to identify today’s specific thematic development lines relevant to the museum sector within the sustainable development framework and to apply this bottom-up principle to propose potential ways to improve the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – with specific pointers and thematic building blocks for the broad umbrella concept of sustainable development. Research objectives include (1) conducting a critical review of relevant literature to identify the role of cultural heritage within the evolution of the sustainable development concept (2) identifying the themes of sustainable development that have been communicated as strategic priorities to stakeholders by the country’s nine most visited museums and (3) using research findings to illuminate and pinpoint a specific array of themes pursuant to the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – for the system to serve as a more comprehensive and targeted tool for fostering sustainabledevelopment in the heritage sector and beyond. Qualitative content analysis has been chosen to analyse museum development strategies and their collection, research, and communication policies, that is, the museum strategic documents to be submitted by the museums seeking to receive state recognition. The study covers Latvia’s nine most popular museums, whose joint annual share of visits amounts to 50% of the country’s total rate (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2018). The study reveals substantial diversity in how Latvia’s most popular museums approach sustainable development goals while also exposing a few significant downsides. According to the findings, museum priorities include (1) heritage preservation, efforts to strengthen national identity, and information and communication technology sustainability in the context of cultural sustainability, (2) financial sustainability as well as tourism- multiplication and image-building in the context of economic sustainability, (3) eco-cultural resilience and improvements in the infrastructure for better energy efficiency as well as a degree of progress towards more sustainable transportation solutions in the context of environmental sustainability and (4) physical, intellectual, socio-economic and emotional accessibility and a focus on boosting social capital in the context of social sustainability. Adjustment of accreditation requirements to meet the sustainable development priorities, at least identified within the study, should, in the long run, raise awareness within the field, enable museums to target their efforts at addressing their downsides and finding possibilities for growth in the context of sustainable development as well as foster sustainable development in the larger field of cultural heritage sites and institutions, which, unlike its kindred sector of museums, exists outside the scope of restrictions associated with accreditation. Such adjustments will help achieve a broader input from the heritage sector towards sustainable development goals.
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Miller, Tina, and Meredith Nash. "‘I just think something like the “Bubs and Pubs” class is what men should be having’: Paternal subjectivities and preparing for first-time fatherhood in Australia and the United Kingdom." Journal of Sociology 53, no. 3 (September 23, 2016): 541–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783316667638.
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Increasingly in international research and popular media a growing interest in men and fatherhood is discernible. These changes occur as other aspects of the socio-economic world shift, necessitating the need to re-address how caring and paid work responsibilities are configured and practised. However, interest in men’s experiences as fathers has emerged in ways which reflect cultural assumptions and practices associated with dominant understandings of masculinities. Consequently, research on and evidence of changing behaviours has been culturally and geographically uneven. In this paper, two qualitative studies are drawn upon to examine how men living in Australia and the UK engage in/narrate experiences of preparation for first-time fatherhood. These studies compare men’s in-depth accounts of preparing for first-time fatherhood in cultures where understandings of masculinities overlap, but where differences are also discernible. The findings illuminate the ways in which biology, gender, temporality and histories of masculinities frame men’s preparation activities and service provision.
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McGuigan, Jim. "The Neoliberal Self." Culture Unbound 6, no. 1 (February 20, 2014): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146223.
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This article proposes an ideal type of the neoliberal self as the preferred form of life in the economic, political and cultural circumstances of present-day developed and developing capitalism. The neoliberal self combines the idealised subject(s) of classical and neoclassical economics – featuring entrepreneurship and consumer sovereignty – with the contemporary discourse of ’the taxpayer’, who is sceptical of redistributive justice, and a ’cool’ posture that derives symbolically – and ironically – from cultures of disaffection and, indeed, opposition. In effect, the transition from organised capitalism to neoliberal hegemony over the recent period has brought about a corresponding transformation in subjectivity. As an idea type, the neoliberal self cannot be found concretely in a ’pure’ form, not even represented by leading celebrity figures. The emergent characteristics of the ideal type, though not set out formally here, accentuate various aspects of personal conduct and mundane existence for illustrative and analytical purposes. Leading celebrities, most notably high-tech entrepreneurs, for instance, operate in the popular imagination as models of achievement for the aspiring young. They are seldom emulated in real life, however, even unrealistically so. Still, their famed lifestyles and heavily publicised opinions provide guidelines to appropriate conduct in a ruthlessly competitive and unequal world.
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Ponsford, Ruth. "“I don’t really care about me, as long as he gets everything he needs” – young women becoming mothers in consumer culture." Young Consumers 15, no. 3 (August 12, 2014): 251–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/yc-10-2013-00401.
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Purpose – As becoming a mother becomes increasingly embedded in the marketplace, this paper explores how a group of low-income pregnant and newly parenting young mothers engaged with expansive markets for the new mother and baby. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws on an extended period of fieldwork carried out at a Pupil Referral Unit and a Mother and Baby Unit in the city of Bristol, UK. The research took a staged and incremental approach, incorporating aspects of participant observation, activity-based focus groups and a photo elicitation exercise. Findings – This paper highlights the anxiety the young women experienced around their ability (or lack thereof) to participate in practices of childrearing consumption and details how the young women strived to provide well for their children despite their limited incomes, developing a sophisticated knowledge of markets and adopting a range of budgeting and smart shopping strategies to ensure they could acquire the “stuff” their children “needed”. Originality/value – Contrary to popular discourse, the young women emerge as careful and pragmatic consumers who plan and manage their finances carefully, and the paper acknowledges skills that are often missing from accounts of young mothers and working-class people more broadly.
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Dubiel, Monika. "The Blind Side of Art: Visual Impairment as a Resource in the Work of Mexican Artists." Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 18, no. 3 (August 31, 2022): 120–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.18.3.07.
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Disability studies is a dynamically developing discipline; however, it usually focuses on the Anglophone world. Scholars representing this field often concentrate on deconstructing popular stereotypes and revealing hidden systemic discrimination. Although more and more initiatives are taken up – such as disability pride – it seems that an affirmative approach to disability remains in the minority. This article is a proposal for going beyond the mentioned schemes. Entering the area of the Latin American culture, I try to verify whether the findings of disability studies can be confirmed there. Proposing the interpretation of dis-ability in terms of resource, I want to broaden the affirmative perspective on disability. This paper aims at a critical reflection on the creative potential of visual impairment used by blind and low-vision Mexican artists in the creative process. Driving upon the research conducted between 2020 and 2022, I argue that they use their visual impairment as a resource in their artistic activity. I distinguish four aspects of the functioning of visual impairment as a resource in artistic work: inspiration, representation, non-ocularcentric imagination, and accessibility.
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Handayani, Diah. "Political Identity, Popular Culture, and Ideological Coercion: The Discourses of Feminist Movement in the Report of Ummi Magazine." Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat: Media Pemikiran dan Dakwah Pembangunan 5, no. 1 (June 18, 2021): 185–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jpm.2021.051-08.
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This research examines the rise of Islamic populism in Indonesia and understands it as an instrument to clear a new pathway for populism movement into popular culture. Ummi magazine is one of the religious media used to be political vehicles of stablishing constituencies, especially for the Tarbiyah movement in the Soeharto era to the current tendency to popularize the Tarbiyah identity as a new lifestyle. Historically, The Tarbiyah movement in Indonesia is a social and political movement among Indonesian Muslimah students, especially activists in the Suharto period. Muslim middle class entrepreneurs launched a campaign of ‘economic jihad. This research uses a qualitative approach by interpreting and studying the data contained in Ummi Magazine. Media studies were carried out in the January 2017 to 2018 editions. The data obtained were described and associated with the magazine's transformation as an ideological medium and Muslim women's lifestyle today. 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