... values are losing out to consumerist values. Economic worth has displaced self-worth as the measure by which we value one another. As America settles into its nightly routine of television viewing, Africa follows suit in sheer mimicry, and corporate profiteers are quick to substitute the lure of material...

...This chapter is concerned with two distinct but related questions: Does Deleuzian philosophy offer an account of moral norms (i.e., a theory of normativity)? Does Deleuzian philosophy offer an account of moral values (i.e., a theory of the good)? These are important questions for at least two...

... masculinity, and the ways in which they marginalise alternative representations and images of the male. However, even though the world of sport seems to reinforce the traditional masculine values such as aggressiveness, strength, success and stoicism, sports stars such as David Beckham, Andre Agassi and Gavin...

... distinctive cultural values that coloured Dundee's social fabric in the later nineteenth century. What determined whether an individual would be honoured in the form of a permanent memorial had less to do with actual achievement and rather more with society's later estimation of what an individual had...

...: the possibility of legislation and public policy on the basis of religious values. modernity traditional Islam formalism ijtihad reasoning Prophet reason shari‘a understanding Akhbaris Hanbalis Salafis Wahabis Qur’an reformist Islam rulings discrimination jihad war language non Muslims women’s...

... approach to human rights, categorisation of the orders of the public sphere as compared with religious and secular values, and particulars of the challenges of religion and secularism. Among the most important examples of the challenges between Läcité (secularism) and religiosity...

...This chapter examines media values that influence how mental distress is represented in television drama. It is less concerned with the correlations between fiction and accuracy, instead focusing on the wider questions of how and why fictional characters with mental health problems are introduced...

... sympathy with her in terms of her feelings, interests, values, principles or actions. The chapter also discusses Aristotle's argument that the friend must be a separate self. friendship and art philia polis Aristotle Cooper J Derrida J primary friendship virtue modern friendship Stern Gillet S...

.... The chapter carefully scrutinises moral and ethical values as well. Jen Gish Wolff Geoffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Origins Richard Mark Udall Brady Moody Rick Language acquisition Twain Mark Innocence Nabokov Vladimir Hyams Peter James Henry Malamud Bernard Eden Garden of Hoffman Eva Lee Chang rae...

... perennial favourites sing of friendship, love, peace, and happiness, hidden amongst these banal vehicles of propaganda are occasional gems that confront, both lyrically and musically, the dominant Christmas values. Furthermore, the relations between musical signifiers and some of the ‘alternative’ versions...

... with Scottish values, such as literacy and education, the form of church organisation and so on. It also observes that at the same time, a varying terminology of ‘Scottish’, ‘English’, and ‘British’ was deployed in different contexts, raising the question of the nature of these terms and their inter...

... their masculinity by avoiding it. These sagas thus use the male condition as a construct to portray the conflict between competitive values and cooperative values at the heart of saga society. The fact that the authors remain silent on a solution to this conflict may suggest that they saw it as an inevitable...

... magazines framed these to fit traditional middle-class values. Through a critical textual analysis, this chapter explores how the creators of Seventeen and the Weekly’s teen segments managed concerns of advertisers and parents, approached sensitive topics like sex and morality, and, increasingly, balanced...

..., censorship. Tracing the history of twentieth-century American propaganda from Edward Bernays through the policies and rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the chapter concludes with an exploration of various American propaganda exercises, such as the Shared Values...

... of Scott's fiction was shaped by Tory scepticism, not Tory loyalism. The chapter then studies the process of disembedding, which is influenced by Scott's Scottish identity and paternalism, and shows how he includes established social values in his fiction, along with conventional gestures and patterns...

... not happen, individuals and groups responded to COVID according to their pre-COVID beliefs and values. Life did not conform to either Hollywood’s happy ending or its zombie apocalypse. AIDS HIV China COVID 19 pandemic disease movies government and military HIV AIDS scientific and technological...

...This chapter introduces a theory of revolution, Hierarchical Dissonance in Values, and also addresses the question of why during the Arab Spring crisis of 2011 some countries underwent reforms and others attempted revolutions through the author’s dynamic interactive ruler/ruled Pendulum Model where...

...This chapter concluded that the Hierarchical Dissonance in Values hypothesis in combination with the Pendulum Model contributed to a new generation theory of revolution as the case studies of Reform in the monarchies of Morocco and Jordan, and Revolution in the republics of Tunisia and Egypt...

... differently in relation to different kinds of men, but lords had to negotiate with their men at the limits of that power. It observes that the societal values that defined good lordship, the nature of service by a range of men, and the dynamics of the lord's affinity contributed to the power of individual...

..., language and religion, diasporic families are perceived as a threat to the social cohesion of Western host societies. At the same time, many diasporic family films reflect a nostalgic longing for the traditional family, imagined in terms of extended kinship ties and superior family values. Almanya...