The paper reviews and argues for the importance of insights from the transdisciplinary ‘complexity theory’ for Sociology. Complexity theory addresses issues that lie at the heart of classic Sociological theory. These include: the tension between general theory and explanation of specific phenomena; emergence, that is, the relationship between microand macro-levels of analysis; and the concept o...

The cultural and philosophical heritage of modernism underpinning general marketing management theory imparts profound implications for organisations operating in professional sport. This theoretical paper uses the context of China’s professional football industry to argue that marketing may benefit from a more postmodern approach to marketing management. INTRODUCTION The aim of this theoretica...

tech-noir cinema emerged as the combination of noir film and science-fiction genre in 1980s. noir film, which was one of the main currents of american cinema in 1940s, was influenced by detective fiction of american literature and expressionist cinema of germany in plot and form respectively. in 1970s and 1980s, because of artistic and social currents, there was a ground to return to noir; so n...

Possible Tasks of Psychiatry in Diagnosing Emotionality and Problems of Society. Regarding the questions of social emotions and problems of society it appears meaningful to discriminate the different sociological levels of understanding: the microsocial level, the meso-level and the macro-field of politics. The social problems and emotional situations are coined presently by the concepts of “po...

A danger that postmodernism faces is that it is branded as irrelevant to practicing managers – those who daily influence the lives of others. Part of the accusation of irrelevance derives from attacks on postmodern thinking that see it as propounding a sense of purposelessness and antipathy to action. It is possible to see such accusations as being based on a reading of Lyotard’s (1984) demolit...

This article examines a postmodern construct of masculinity in which male identity is based on consumption, a traditional role for women, rather than production. Data for this qualitative content analysis were drawn from a sample of Men’s Health magazine. Analysis of the front covers, stories and features, an advice column, and advertisements reveals a construct that I identify as “branded masc...

Can we burn the signs and journey without maps? In other words, can we travel from representational theories, through Baudrillard's critique of representation, to forms of theory that are somehow nonrepresentational? In this paper I hijack and go beyond Baudrillard's concepts of the precession and orders of simulacra to illustrate two main things: first, how the history of geographical thought ...

The cultural and philosophical heritage of modernism underpinning general marketing management theory imparts profound implications for organisations operating in professional sport. This theoretical paper uses the context of China’s professional football industry to argue that marketing may benefit from a more postmodern approach to marketing management. INTRODUCTION The aim of this theoretica...

In her article "Intersubjectivity and Intermediality in the Work of Serra" Rocío von Jungenfeld examines the intersubjective space in which artworks are conceived and the cross boundaries of media in order to construct a general understanding of intersubjective perception in visual and plastic arts and an understanding of the processes that determine works of art, reflective perception, and int...

COLLECTING FULL-TEXT CD-ROMs FOR a humanities library requires an examination of literary research and the way literature is taught. Radical changes in both theory and technology expanded the sorts of texts literary scholars study. They also revived and reinvented textual scholarship and editorial reconstructions. This means a CD-ROM is worth purchasing if it provides material about the histori...