This article presents a reflection on some ideological problems that surround the creation of a history of electroacoustic music. The analysis of the role and evolution of a musical concept through the history of a musical tradition can show the strategies used in the creation of a historical narration. As an example of these rhetoric devices, the article briefly tracks the presence of dissonan...

Article History The paper received on: 01/01/2015 Accepted after peerreview on: 21/02/2015 Published on: 07/03/2015 Translation has a crucial role in human life. Despite the importance of the influence of ideology in translation, there is lack of research in this area. This study tries to investigate the influence of ideology on translations from English into Persian. The corpus consists of “A ...

The article reveals ideological-theoretical, methodological, and politico-ideological basic principles for an adequate analysis of the specifics modern Chinese (Sinicized) Marxism. attributive features Marxism (Marxism with (the adaptation to Context, Sinicized Marxism), as most effective version in world history correcting modernizing axiomatics Marxist-Leninist theoretical model social develo...

Text mining aims at constructing classification models and finding interesting patterns in large text collections. This paper investigates the utility of applying these techniques to media analysis, more specifically to support discourse analysis of news reports about the 2007 Kenyan elections and postelection crisis in local (Kenyan) and Western (British and US) newspapers. It illustrates how ...

Individuals are not merely passive vessels of whatever beliefs and opinions they have been exposed to; rather, they are attracted to belief systems that resonate with their own psychological needs and interests, including epistemic, existential, and relational needs to attain certainty, security, and social belongingness. Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway (2003) demonstrated that needs to ...

D about outpatient treatment of unipolar depression is characterized by tensions between science and the marketplace and by ideological differences between and within the major mental health professions. Billions of dollars are spent annually on sales and marketing of antidepressant medications; the pharmaceutical industry also funds research, but it controls whether to submit results of funded...

It is commonly hypothesized that higher cognitive abilities promote racial tolerance and a sincere commitment to racial equality. An alternative theoretical framework contends that higher cognitive abilities enable members of a dominant racial group to articulate a more refined legitimizing ideology for racial inequality. According to this perspective, ideological refinement occurs in response ...

Support for radical parties on both the left and right is on the rise, fueling intuition that both radicalisms have similar underpinnings. Indeed, existing studies show that radical left and right voters have overlapping positions and preferences. In this article, however, we focus on the differences in the voting bases of such parties. We show that radical left and right voters have sharply di...

In this article, an evolutionary perspective is applied to individual differences. Among the issues discussed are (a) the seminal contributions of Francis Galton and the subsequent ideological reaction, (b) the distal proximal continuum for understanding levels of explanation in social behavior, (c) consistent patterns of group differences in behavior (age, sex, social class,and race), (d) the ...