Essays about: "Critique"
Showing result 41 - 45 of 592 essays containing the word Critique.
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41. Navigating the Growth Paradox in an Incumbent Business Context : Managerial Implications from a Degrowth Perspective
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Our study investigates how the organizational growth paradox is perceived and managed by incumbent firms from a degrowth perspective. There is a growing critique against the growth paradigm, an increasing support for its abandonment. Scholars are calling for a paradigm shift towards a post-growth economy. READ MORE
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42. Societal critique in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist : A Ricouerian Analysis
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This essay investigates social critique and commentary in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, applying a Ricoeurian hermeneutics in order to determine whether the novel simultaneously affirms certain viewpoints while subtly undermining these. If such cases can be found, the analysis will then endeavor to determine how this serves to influence the reader’s perception of the various social issue presented in the novel. READ MORE
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43. ”The shrieking of nothing is killing me” : Representations of society of the spectacle and hyperreality in David Bowie’s lyrics
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This text explores how the lyrics of David Bowie can be applied as supporting the critique against hyperreality and society of the spectacle, as articulated by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. This is done by focusing on three questions: 1) what elements in Bowie’s lyrics support Debord and Baudrillard, 2) how can these elements function to portray Bowie as primarily a sociologist and secondly an artist, and 3) what are the benefits of using fiction (in this case lyrics) as empirical material? From a theoretical framework building on Debord’s society of the spectacle and Baudrillard’s focus on hyperreality, I will apply a two-folded methodology of sociology through literature and socio-poetics. READ MORE
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44. Digitalizing Football Referee Note-Taking
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronikAbstract : Football is the world’s biggest sport, and every match requires a referee who is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the Laws of the Game. In Sweden, an area for improvement for referees is the user experience of the administration tool used to collect data about matches. READ MORE
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45. A Defense of Helene Landemore’s Argument for the Epistemic Superiority of Democratic Deliberation
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : In this essay I investigate whether political deliberation in an assembly of 300 people that is randomly selected from the entire population (democratic deliberation) is epistemically superior to political deliberation in an assembly of the same size where individuals have been selected based on certain criteria (non-democratic deliberation). I present Helene Landemore’s argument in favor of the epistemic superiority of democratic deliberation and consider Aaron Ancell’s critique of this argument. READ MORE
