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The Transformations of Contemporary Culture and Their Social Consequences : Archerian Studies Vol. 3

1st ed.

Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2023 [©2023]

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Englisch

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LOC-SH: Archer, Margaret S.-(Margaret Scotford) ; Sociology-Philosophy ; Archer, Margaret S -- (Margaret Scotford) ; Culture ; Sociology -- Philosophy

In Archerian Studies, we pay special attention to studies in the area of critical realism paradigm. Despite the numerous motifs which were introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer's concept, we see that some repeat here constantly.

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Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Multiculturalism in the social space: illusion or reality? -- Introduction: to understand multiculturalism -- The problem with multiculturalism -- Ethnics in the European reality -- Models of multicultural relations -- Illusion or reality? A few reflections to sum up -- Consequences of intercultural communication from the perspective of Margaret S. Archer's concept of human -- Multiculturality and intercultural communication -- Cultural communication and Margaret S. Archer's models of human -- Cultural competencies in the time of civilizational crisis: the problem of mass culture -- Conclusion -- Traces of transcendence... Contemporary religious thinking in the face of the pluralism of worldviews and intercultural relations -- Religious thinking and the traces of transcendence -- Agnosticism and atheism as traces of transcendence -- "Truth, Goodness and Beauty still survive in the minds of true atheists" -- Instead of final remarks: new openings -- Human dignity in the social context: opportunities and threats -- Human dignity as a fundamental value -- Human dignity from a sociological perspective -- Social situations threatening human dignity -- Final remarks -- Humanity in individual and social reintegration. The perspective of a linear-cyclic metamorphosis -- Introduction -- The individual and the society -- Linear-cyclical maturationalism and social metamorphosis -- Final remarks -- Human being, culture and values -- The issues of the subject, subjectification and subjectivity in the structures and functions of educational activities -- Introduction -- Mental resources as source and outcome of activity -- The morphogenesis of the act: morphogenesis of the subject -- Diachronic-synchronous model of an acting subject -- Model 1 -- Model 2 -- Conclusion.