False Rumor (Fake) and Truth News Spread During A Social Crisis

A financial crisis can somehow imply an aspect of social crisis but a social crisis usually reflects the crisis of the society per se, and therefore the historical and cultural background as well as the legal and financial system therefrom. In the case of Asia, the context should add another storyline of the reception and integration of western ideas, including, inter alia, justification of taxation and its implication on government intervention. This paper examines such elements in the form of dialogue with historical accounts of traditional Chinese thoughts.

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Career or culture? : a study of the relation of vocation & culture in education

10.26686/wgtn.17061158 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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John William Money

Keyword(s):

Vocational Education ◽

Present Situation ◽

Social Crisis ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Educational Relation ◽

Do So

At the commencement of a lecture entitled 'Cultural Aspects of Vocational Education' Sir Fred Clarke said: 'The more I have thought about the implications of the topic under discussion, the more do i realize how momentous and far reaching-they are. I now feel that in this innocent-looking title the whole crisis of our times is involved.'<br>The judgement explains the raison d'etre of this thesis, viz., that the problem of relating vocation and culture in education has implications which are 'momentous and far-reaching' for the present day social crisis.<br>The statement indicates the aim of the dissertation: this is to trace the historical growth of the educational relation of vocation and culture in order to perceive more clearly the present situation and its widespread implications. To do so is to see more clearly, in one special field, something of the problems the educator is faced with in a world which everywhere cries out for reconstruction.

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Better politics: Narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics

Building Better Societies ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447332022.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Keith Jacobs

Keyword(s):

Moral Outrage ◽

Social Crisis ◽

Subject Positions ◽

Starting Point ◽

Political Struggles ◽

Politics Of Resistance ◽

The Subject

This chapter calls for a truthful understanding of politics that admits the complex and sometimes very contradictory subject positions that people adhere to. There is always a temptation to disengage from contemporary political struggles and instead expend time postulating what a ‘postneoliberal’ future might entail. In examining neoliberalism, the politics of resistance, and prosocial forms of engagement, the chapter argues that a useful starting point is to interrogate the subject positions people adopt to understand the contemporary political era. Often these rely on a depiction of an economic and social crisis accentuated by neoliberalism, a sense of moral outrage, and the attribution of culpability on to those who are considered responsible.

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