Humanities The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture‚ using methods that are primarily analytical‚ critical‚ or speculative‚ and having a significant historical element‚ as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The humanities include ancient and modern languages‚ literature‚ philosophy‚ religion‚ and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also sometimes regarded as social sciences include history
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MASS COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY‚ 2000‚ 3(1)‚ 3–37 Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century Thomas E. Ruggiero Communications Department University of Texas at El Paso Some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous social science theory. In this article‚ I argue just the opposite‚ and any attempt to speculate on the future direction of mass communication theory must seriously include the uses and gratifications approach. In this article
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Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood University of Chicago In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual‚ racial‚ class‚ and national difference within feminist
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Media Laws and Ethics – MCM 610 LAW VU LESSON 01 A law is basically a body of principles or rules which are the basis of a society and are abide by the society. No system in a society can exist without a law. Human life needs a proper rule of conduct or principle at every step. It is also important for a successful society. If it will not happen then there will b anarchy and disturbance in a society and it will not exist for long. There are various definitions of law. Some of them are as
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PSY3051 Perception and Personality Exam Notes Lecture one What is perception? * Largely unconscious‚ automatic process‚ based on unavailable neural events‚ together with unconscious inferences from specific cues. * Cognitive‚ implicit * Can require conscious effort to interpret sensory data when things are not clear * Ambiguous‚ incomplete * Perception is a complex nervous system operation * Perception starts with an environmental stimulus acting on a stimulus receptor
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news from the Nordic Africa Institute from the Nordic Africa Institute numBer 3 novemBer 2007 from the contents china and Africa Fantu Cheru theme: AfricAn Agriculture Agriculture and the World Bank Atakilte Beyene Property rights Kjell Havnevik Tor A. Benjaminsen & Espen Sjaastad inequality and climate change contents to our reAders AfricAn Agriculture 1 3 november 2007 Carin Norberg African agriculture and the World Bank: development or impoverishment? Atakilte
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0- JOHN STEINER AND GEORGE STEINER SIX PRIMARY SOURCES OF ETHICS: 6 1- Religion: 6 2- Genetic Inheritance: 8 3- Philosophical Systems: 8 4- Cultural Experience: 8 5- The Legal System: 9 6- Codes of Conduct: 9 2.0- EXPLANATION OF THE SOURCES OF ETHICS: 10 2.1- RELIGION: 10 Teaching business ethics 12 2.11- Impact Of Religiosity: 13 2.12- Ethics Of Islam: 14 Nature of Islamic Ethics 17 The Human-Environment Relationship: 20 The Sustainable
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H EALTH C ARE E THICS H EALTH C ARE E THICS A C ATHOLIC T HEOLOGICAL A NALYSIS F IFTH E DITION Benedict M. Ashley‚ O.P. Jean K. deBlois‚ C.S.J. Kevin D. O’Rourke‚ O.P. Georgetown University Press Washington‚ D.C. As of January 1‚ 2007‚ 13-digit ISBN numbers will replace the current 10-digit system. Paperback: 978-1-58901-116-8 Georgetown University Press‚ Washington‚ D.C. © 2006 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized
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Social Innovation Centre Marketing Ethics: A Review of the Field _______________ N. Craig SMITH Patrick E. MURPHY 2013/08/AL/ISIC Marketing Ethics: A Review of the Field N. Craig Smith* Patrick E. Murphy** This paper is published in the book: Marketing Ethics‚ N. Craig Smith and Patrick E. Murphy‚ (London: Sage‚ 2012). * The INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD‚ Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau cedex‚ France. Email: craig.smith@insead
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Ifa Theology; volume 1 Inner Peace the Yoruba Concept of Ori By Awo Falokun Fatunmbi Egbe Ifa Ogunti Ode Remo Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Ori The Ifa Concept Ara The Ifa Concept Ori – Inu The Ifa Concept Egbe The Ifa Concept Ipako The Ifa Concept Ile The Ifa Concept of Consciousness of the Physical Body of the Inner Self of Emotional Guidance of Balance Between Head and Heart of the Extended Family 2 Acknowledgements I want to thank those who taught
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