Frankfurt School is an important school of Western Marxism and influential thought in contemporary philosophy. This paper will critically consider the from perspective cultural industry. The interdisciplinary nature also makes to have a better understanding Even if we now, can get inspirational thinking on current social structure Walter Benjamin's point view.

Sociology has been accused of neglecting the importance of material things in human life and the material aspects of social practices. Efforts to correct this have recently been made, with a growing concern to demonstrate the materiality of social organization, not least through attention to objects and the body. As a result, there have been a plethora of studies reporting the social constructi...

How does Darwin’s Darwinism relate to social Darwinism and eugenics? Likemany foes ofDarwinism, past and present, theAmerican populist and creationist William Jennings Bryan thought a straight line ran from Darwin’s theory (‘a dogma of darkness and death’) to beliefs that it is right for the strong to crowd out the weak, and that the only hope for human improvement lay in selective breeding.1 D...

Research and theorizing on goals and their effects on thought, affect and behaviour have become very popular in social psychology, as documented by many recently edited books (e.g. Frese and Sabini 1985; Gollwitzer and Bargh 1996; Halisch and Kuhl 1987; Kuhl and Beclanann 1985; Pervin 1989) and review chapters (e.g. Gollwitzer and Moskowitz 1996; Karniol and Ross 1996; Karoly 1993). The reasons...

This article presents a theoretical account relating thought speed to mood and psychological experience. Thought sequences that occur at a fast speed generally induce more positive affect than do those that occur slowly. Thought speed constitutes one aspect of mental motion. Another aspect involves thought variability, or the degree to which thoughts in a sequence either vary widely from or rev...

BACKGROUND Post-event processing (PEP) is defined as repetitive negative thinking following anxiety provoking social events. PEP is thought to maintain anxiety symptoms in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) but little is known about the specific factors that contribute to the maintenance of PEP. AIMS The current study investigated how perceptions of performance and positive metacognitive beliefs m...

Previous research in the domain of attitude change has described 2 primary dimensions of thinking that impact persuasion processes and outcomes: the extent (amount) of thinking and the direction (valence) of issue-relevant thought. The authors examined the possibility that another, more meta-cognitive aspect of thinking is also important-the degree of confidence people have in their own thought...