1. An oxymoronic concept? ..................................................................................................................... 2 2. The longing for moral community ....................................................................................................... 4 3. The normative regulation of speech ...........................................................................

The emergence of an information society, carried by information technologies such as the digital computer and the Internet, has lead to many questions in the West about the proper regulation of the production, use and transfer of information. In the West, a large part of this discussion has focused on individual rights: how to balance various rights of individuals against each other and against...

1. An oxymoronic concept? ..................................................................................................................... 2 2. The longing for moral community ....................................................................................................... 4 3. The normative regulation of speech ...........................................................................

I analyze cultural relativism as a methodological strategy to correct for ethnocentric biases in anthropological fieldwork. discuss the format debiasing norms may adopt (rules or standards) depending on whether discipline has causal interpretative outlook. Franz Boas and his school advocated an approach ethnographic fieldwork, which was implemented standard (only culturally unbiased reports are...

The world today is said to be a “global village”. However, this village is, rather than a culturally homogeneous community, a world of diverse cultures. In this globalized world, how different cultures interact with each other and with globalizing forces in general is crucial to their survival and to their reinvention. This essay is intended to provide a critical examination of various existing...

All over the world, work of some kind is (and has always been) part of most children’s lives, as may be seen from the Introduction and many articles in this special issue of Childhood. At certain times and places, and in certain forms and relations of work, the exploitation and abuse of children’s capacity for work becomes a serious social problem. It is in this sense – the abuse of children in...

The relationship between historians and film has been difficult. The first step for historians was to recognize film as a worthwhile source to study, a process which started in the 1960s. Paul Smith‘s The Historian and Film, published in 1976 (Smith, 1976) was the first publication in the English language on this topic and has been regarded as a milestone (Jackson, 1977: 713). By then, films we...