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Marco Serena - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • on the possibility of democratic redistribution in a two Class Society
    Social Science Research Network, 2019
    Co-Authors: Marco Serena
    Abstract:

    We analyse a standard pivotal-voter model under majority rule, with two rival groups of players, each preferring one of two public policies and simultaneously deciding whether to cast a costly vote, as in Palfrey and Rosenthal (1983). We allow the benefit of the favorite public policy to differ across groups and impose an intuitive refinement, namely that voting probabilities are continuous in the cost of voting to pin down a unique equilibrium. The unique cost-continuous equilibrium depends on a key threshold that compares the sizes of the two groups.

Francisco Nocete - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Space as coercion: The transition to the state in the social formations of La Campiña, upper Guadalquivir Valley, Spain, ca. 1900-1600 B.C.
    Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 1994
    Co-Authors: Francisco Nocete
    Abstract:

    Abstract The institutionalized use of Class coercion, which implies the existence of the state, cannot be understood spatially in terms of the adaptive advantages of man's relationship with the environment. Such an approach is based upon the acceptance of a functionalist view of culture, which, in turn, is one of the bases of integration theory. One example of this erroneous approach has been the development of the chiefdom model and its application to archaeology. The territory acquired by a Society is never a reflection of that Society: rather it should be viewed as the basis of that Society and a consequence of its existence. For this reason, in order to analyze the process of the transition to a Class Society, archaeological evaluations of territoriality must consider the processes by which coercion and inequality develop in space. This alternative approach is applied to the social formations in the region of La Campina in the Upper Guadalquivir basin, centralsouthern Spain, between the 19th and the 17th centuries B.C.

James R Dalby - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Social Class and television audiences in the 1990s (Chapter 8)
    2017
    Co-Authors: James R Dalby
    Abstract:

    TV dramas produced in the 1990s – which have often been unfavourably compared with those from the so-called ‘golden age’ due to their supposedly audience pleasing and derivative focus on ratings after 1980s deregulation – still have an important part to play in studies of social Class in UK TV drama. While more traditional themes of social Class in programming, such as working-Class perspectives and social-realist approaches, waned in the 1990s, the fact that commissioning became increasingly audience-led at this time allows an insight into some of the prevailing goals, aspirations and self-image of Class-Society in the post-Thatcher era.

  • Social Class and television audiences in the 1990s
    Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain, 2017
    Co-Authors: James R Dalby
    Abstract:

    TV dramas produced in the 1990s – which have often been unfavourably compared with those from the so-called ‘Golden Age’ due to their supposedly audience-pleasing and derivative focus on ratings after 1980s deregulation – still have an important part to play in studies of social Class in UK TV drama. While more traditional themes of social Class in programming, such as working-Class perspectives and social-realist approaches, waned in the 1990s, the fact that commissioning became increasingly audience-led at this time allows an insight into some of the prevailing goals, aspirations and self-image of Class-Society in the post-Thatcher era.

Marjaliisa Keinanen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • religious ritual contested anti religious activities and women s ritual practice in rural soviet karelia
    Scripta, 2003
    Co-Authors: Marjaliisa Keinanen
    Abstract:

    After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to establish a new atheistic order which would eradicate from the public consciousness all vestiges of "religious prejudices", which were regarded as a residue from the imperial era and an instrument used to exploit the masses. Even though it was generally held that religion would automatically disappear from socialist Society when its material precondition, the Class Society, was abolished, the regime made concentrated efforts to speed up the process by means of virulent anti-religious propaganda. The ultimate goal was to wipe out the persistent remains of the bourgeois system of values. No force was to be used since it was feared this would merely offend the religious sentiments of the people and strengthen their adherence to religion. Theoretically, the ultimate goal was to be achieved through education and information, but in practice, anti-religious activities were at times quite brutal. These attacks were successful in curtailing the activities of religious institutions in Karelia, but did not bring to an end the religious practices of lay people, which were continued, in one form or another, throughout the entire Soviet period. One fundamental reason for the survival of religious rituals, both Christian and indigenous, was the fact that they were so deeply embedded in people's consciousness and intimately integrated with their everyday lives. Every important phase and turn in human life was sanctified by rituals. The goal of the present paper is to examine what forms anti-religious attacks took in Soviet Karelia and how people reacted to them. The focus is on the attacks against the very fundaments of the ritual complex of the church and, by extension, on the effects of these attacks on the indigenous ritual complex, which co-existed in parallel with that of the "official" religious institutions.

Earl Wysong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the new Class Society goodbye american dream
    2002
    Co-Authors: Robert Perrucci, Earl Wysong
    Abstract:

    Class in America Separate Realities: The Dream and the Iceberg The Global Economy and the Privileged Class The Invisible Class Empire The Information Industry Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming The Pacification of Everyday Life Class in the Twenty-first Century: Consolidation and Resistance.

  • the new Class Society
    1999
    Co-Authors: Steven J Rosenthal, Robert Perrucci, Earl Wysong
    Abstract:

    This provocative book refocuses our attention on Class interests that are rapidly polarizing American Society. It redefines the terms of Class analysis by arguing that the distribution of resources critical to Class membership is shaped by large organizational structures and processes located in the economic, political, and cultural arenas. The authors show why, in the 21st century, Class membership will be based on access to a new mix of critical resources: income, investment capital, credentialed skills verified by elite schools, and social connections to organizational leaders. Visit our website for sample chapters!