Tradition as Communication

Human Communication in the Critical Theory Tradition

By definition, criticism involves the application of principles or values in order to make judgments for the purpose of bringing about positive change. Understandably, criticism comes in a variety of forms. For example, rhetorical criticism carefully examines and judges the quality of discourse. Our subject here is critical social science, which critiques basic social structure (Littlejohn, 199...

Culture and Communication in Israel: The Transformation of Tradition

This paper is an introduction to a study of what 4,000 Israelis had to say about their leisure, culture, and communication. In a national survey conducted during the spring of 1970, we gathered data on a large variety of cultural activities. With respect to each of them, an effort was made to measure both supply and demand. Thus, we know for cultural events taking place outside the home which e...

The Latinate Tradition as a Point of Reference

The history of Persian as an imperial language, as a vehicle of cultural continuities, and as a focus of communal identity, whether of an ethnic, religious, aesthetic, or intellectual nature, is one of the great sagas of civilization. As such, it demands comparison with similar stories if we are to understand the processes at work, both in their general similarities and in their specific differ...

Placenta Medicine as a Galactogogue: Tradition or Trend?

to 50% of my homebirth clients and up to 10% of the birth center/hospital families ingested their placenta after delivery. There are approximately 20,000 live births per year in the Metro Portland area (Oregon Health Authority, 2011) and a 1.96% homebirth rate in Oregon (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). This implies that roughly 2,000 mothers per year consume their placenta in...

Beyond Tradition