This paper argues that there are essential features of capitalist modes of production, consumption, and waste dispersal in interaction with the environment and its built-in systemic features that contradict long-term sustainable development. These features include: (a) contradictions in the origin and meaning of sustainability; (b) the central role of the productivity ethic in capitalism and it...

National culture needs to be grown and preserved positive, civilized superior regional cultural values so as strengthen the identity of nation's/national culture. In order for process socio-cultural change run smoothly, it is hoped that there will a wise responsible attitude in making decision can used new breakthrough filter resilience nation's Indonesian an integration highly respected its di...

The widespread uptake of the Anthropocene concept over past two decades has seen a concomitant rise in cultural forms that trade on nostalgia for Paleolithic life. Mud running, CrossFit, and Paleo diet exemplify this trend, with hunter-gatherer at center their popular prescriptions healthy living. In article, we identify these practices as embodying anxieties well its historical racial elisions...

In recent years, urban governance has become Increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth. Such an entrepreneurial stance contrasts with the managerial practices of earlier decades which primarily focussed on the local provision of services, facilities and benefits to urban populations. This paper explores the...

Following the collapse of socialism in the late 1980s, Central and Eastern European countries initiated attempts to adopt capitalist economic frameworks and promote entrepreneurship. However, persistent economic difficulties and high levels of unemployment have led to dissatisfaction with political parties favoring capitalism. We integrate identity, institutional, and social movement theories t...

Young African Americans have not participated as long as their white counterparts in the media culture industry (Nightingale 1993). In truth, it is difficult to discern a substantive relationship between black youth and the mass media prior to the 1960s. The initial exclusion of blacks from popular media culture is attributable to two main factors: 1) a lack of discretionary income on the part ...

Smolík Josef, Youth and the Cult of Youth? [Młodzież i kult młodości?]. Kultura – Społeczeństwo – Edukacja nr 1(5) 2014, Poznań 2014, pp. 203-212, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISBN 978-83-232-2821-9. ISSN 2300-0422. This text deals with one of the neglected topics of contemporary social pedagogy which extends to developmental psychology and sociology. This topic is so-called cult of youth ...