scholarly journals Which? craft in Post-War Britain: The Consumers' Association and the Politics of Affluence

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Black
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
The People ◽  
Retail Prices ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Resale Price ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
Post Industrial

Consumption has recently acquired key importance in re-interpreting post-war British politics. Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska has argued the Conservative construction of a popular alliance in opposition to rationing and controls was crucial to their electoral recovery after 1945 and in securing an advantage among women voters. A wealth of evidence indicates Labour, by contrast, had scant purchase on affluence in the later 1950s. It was not only, as Amy Black and Stephen Brooke would have it, “Labour's befuddlement at the problem of women and gender,” but that it was ambivalent, if not hostile, towards the goods, lifestyles and values associated with consumerism and the people obtaining and exhibiting them. Other factors blur differentiation between the parties. Both were affiliated to the world of production—through their business and trade union links. Richard Findley has contended the Conservative abolition of resale price maintenance (RPM, whereby manufacturers fixed retail prices) in 1964, aroused electorally deleterious opposition from manufacturers and backbenchers. And while Labour consumerists were rare commodities, as is argued here, Labour revisionism made an important contribution to the Consumers' Association (CA).This focus on consumerism corrects the neglect of it by narratives like political consensus or historians' consuming passion with production and work. It arises from rethinking Britain's much vaunted “decline” as, for example, the transition to a post-industrial society. In Matthew Hilton's hands how the consumer “interest” was variously articulated and gendered becomes a means to unlock modern citizenship and the configuration of private and public spheres.

scholarly journals IN THE TRAJECTORY OF ECONOMIC REFORMS: SCIENCE AND SCIENCE POLICY IN THE YEARS OF THE “KHRUSHCHEV’S DECADE”

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Evgeny G. Vodichev ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
General Line ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Technical Complex ◽  
Science In Society ◽  
Post Industrial

The paper is devoted to the problems of the USSR scientific and technology (S&T) policy during the “Khrushchev’s decade”, presented as part of the macroeconomic policy. The analysis is carried out in the context of economic reforms and experiments implemented in the country. The main components of S&T policy are revealed, the evolution of its structure and content in comparison with the first post-war decade is shown. In the analysis of S&T policy, the main attention is paid to the reflection of the status of science as a driver of economic development in the context of global challenges and the formation of new techno-economic paradigms. The emphasis on the applied function of research and development (R&D) proclaimed in the framework of S&T policy is presented as a reflection of the traditional for the USSR interpretations of the place and role of science in society under new conditions of scientific and technological revolution as a Soviet counter-thesis to the concepts of post-industrial society. The connection of decision-making mechanisms in the field of S&T policy with general line of Khrushchev’s populism, and the emerging practice of “bureaucratic bargaining” is outlined. The basic trends of approaches to planning in science and coordination in the field of R&D are identified, the directions of organisational restructuring in the governing of the scientific and technical complex are shown. It is concluded that S&T policy in the mid-1950s — 1960s remained a function of economic policy, that a unified S&T policy in the country under N. S. Khrushchev had not been formed. At the same time, the return on innovation remained at a low level.

scholarly journals Abay’s «Tolyk Adam» ın the Age of Globalization

Al-Farabi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Dametay Syzdykova ◽  
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Aisulu Tashimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Moral Person ◽  
The People ◽  
Post Industrial

The article attempts to identify the conceptual philosophical ideas of the great thinker Abai in the conditions of the modernizing Kazakh society, in the age of globalization and information technologies, to reveal the ideological potential of Abai's creativity in solving the problems of spiritual development of Kazakhstan. In the era of globalization and post-industrial society, it is important to form spiritual values of a person, therefore, without claiming to cover all aspects of Abay's work, namely, on the material of the work «Words of Edification», the authors investigated the nature and essence of the philosophical and ideological ideas of the great thinker to understand the concept of «tolyk adam». This concept of «tolyk adam» will contribute to the formation of national identity and spiritual development of the people as an intellectual nation. Abai criticized traditions that did not correspond to high morals. The great thinker founded a new worldview, new spiritual values, which are fundamentally different from everything that was in the traditional culture of the Kazakhs. Abay developed a new ideal of a perfect person, «tolyk adam», who strives for knowledge, is a highly moral person, recognizes freedom of choice and responsibility. The moral code of the great humanist: «Adam bol», which means the ability to navigate in this world and the ability to choose and take responsibility, these words of Abai should become a reference point for generations.

scholarly journals DANIEL BELL ABOUT THE «FLUIDITY» OF AUTHORITIES IN THE AGE OF POSTINDUSTRIALISM

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Hanna Sashchuk
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
The People ◽  
New Information ◽  
Political Units ◽  
High Level ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

The article analyze the position of one of the most respected researchers of post-industrialism, Daniel Bell, on the impact of new information technologies on “politics-power” relations. The following two features of the influence of information and knowledge on the political sphere of public life are clarified: “Situs as Political Units» and «Rightful Meritocracy.” According to D. Bell, there are three analyzed current models of power: 1) the previous model of power, which is based on property, and besides it is inherited; 2) a model of government, the basis of which is knowledge acquired through education; and 3) a model of power, the source of which is a political office obtained through an organizational apparatus. The concept of the rightful meritocracy of D. Bell was analyzed, it’s meaning in the idea that the power belong to the most gifted. He believed that a capitalist society іs gradually transforming into a society in which gifted people will be promoted to senior positions, including political. He defined a certain “merit formula”: “Intelligence + Achievements = Merit”. D. Bell argued, that people with such merits should take up leadership positions in politics, business, science and other activities. In post-industrial society, the principle of “achievement” is relevant, there is a thought, that power is achieved through the personal virtues of the people, their high level of education and skills. In such society, there are almost no senior positions available to people without qualifications. In conclusion, we can say that the politician, from the point of view of D. Bell, is a highly skilled specialist which have the necessary management skills. Post-industrial society implies the emergence of a new intellectual class, whose representatives can at political level act as consultants, experts or technocrats.

Postfeminist Gothic

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Gina Wisker
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Glass Bottle ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post Industrial

This essay first moves rapidly through arguments about the end of feminism to refute optimistic blinkered versions, arguing that postfeminist Gothic consistently problematises complacencies about rights, cultures and bodies. Instead it offers flexible notions of ‘becoming’ woman, gives voice and body to the Other and radicalises representations of gender and gender-based identities, particularly in relation to (the horror of) heteronormativity (Halberstam 2007). Postfeminist Gothic emphasises contestation, through the haunting, continuation and morphing of familiar Gothic concerns and the figures which articulate them, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers and mermaids. It focuses on Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger (2009) and The Paying Guests (2014); Angela Carter’s ‘The Loves of Lady Purple’ (1974); Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘The Glass Bottle Trick’ (2000); and variants of postfeminist Gothic in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005–8; 2008–12) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). These postfeminist Gothic texts further arguments on Otherising, bodies, history and cultures in post-industrial society.

Rock-Culture as a Method of Entering into Post-Industrial Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4-2) ◽  
pp. 394-411
Author(s):  
Sergey Dyukin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Normative Attitude

Rock-music and rock-culture, which is formed on its basis, are methods of entering into culture of post-industrial society described by D. Bell, E. Toffler, F. Fukuyama and others. The correlation between rock-culture and post-industrial culture is established in the aspects of values, rules, practices and identities. In rock culture we can see the formation of the following values: creativity, initiative and individualism. Independence of creativity becomes an ethic imperative. It is more important than techniques and professionalism, which are characteristic of industrial culture. Exaggerated prevalence of innovation over playing tradition strengthens the status and role of the author striving for the permanent re-creation of his own image and style. Another quality, which helps rock culture penetrate into postindustrial society, is assimilation of daily routine by creative activity. This factor initiates consciousness emancipation and breakdown of hierarchical social structures. Rock-culture, as well as post-industrial society, experiences decentralization, de-synchronization and de-standardization. Such social-cultural disorder correlates with marginalization of rock-culture. It forms amateurism as a normative attitude that is opposed to professionalism. Finally the above-mentioned changes entail the collapse of the existing “big” identities, which are substituted by “small group” identities in rock-culture characterized by small potential for internalization. This change of identities, their overlapping triggers the formation of mental plurality, tolerance to mutually exclusive values, normative settings, practices and symbols. Mental pluralism allows a person to change quickly life strategies, respond to external challenges. The stable boundaries between private and public, between art and everyday life are being destroyed in the rock-culture. At the same time, the author highlights the fact that within rock culture entering post-industrial culture is carried out by non-linear way, with expenses and contradictions.

scholarly journals Women and gender stereotyping in media from the point of view of structuration theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Awanis Akalili ◽  
Indah Olivia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Gender Stereotyping ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Movements

This research is a thought process on social structure that is not understood as the consequence of human repetitive action. This has become folkways, causing gender stereotyping of women even more perpetuated by media's various narrations. This research aims to describe gender stereotyping of women in Indonesian television media. This was done by analyzing the broadcasting shows by using Gidden's theory of structuration. This descriptive research is a literary study that includes books, journals, researches and websites as the data. The collected data then analyzed by using Giddens' structuration theory. This article began with the review on structuration theory. Next is a review on structuration theory from the point of view of commmunication study. The gender stereotyping of women case in the media was then broken down and analyzed by using structuration theory. The result showed that the agent's action and the structure are inseparable, in harmony with Gidden's concept of duality. In fact, many women have put up a fight against this gender stereotyping through social-feminist movements. On the other hand, they actually do follow the existing structure both unconsciously and consciously. This structure, however, is still growing among the people of modern society.

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