intellectuality and politics have a very close and historical linkage with each other. this article beside the redefinition of intellectuality concept, want to study relationship between these two concept through the six periods of west civilization history: 1) greek-roman period until 5th century, 2) first period of christianity from 5th to 11th centuries, 3) second period of christianity from...

the islamic fundamentalism which turned into a major social course in many arab countries in 1980s, has inspired a wide spectrum of theoretical analyses. in this article we have attempted to evaluate this course by the method of discoursive analyse. despite many dissimilarities that differentiate islamic fundamentalism from other political , and even religious reformist, movements regarding met...

nations to totalitarian regimes, the exterminations of class and race, the world wars and revolutions, and also the apparent cultural degeneration of elites in democratic countries, whose members accommodated themselves one way or another to the power of these external regimes and to the movements that instigated them, to the geopolitical claims of the regimes over territory and the dogmatic cl...

Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, for the past 20 years, Taiwan has been riding on the global wave of democratization. In place of single-party dominance by the Kuomintang (KMT) over 50 years, a genuine system of party politics and contested elections gradually took root, with the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) victory in the 2000 presidential election as the climax. Past scholars...

Discussions of chronic poverty emphasize the extent to which poverty endures because of the social relationships and structures within which particular social groups are embedded. In this sense chronic poverty is a socio-political relationship rather than a condition of assetless-ness. Understood as such, processes of social mobilization become central to any discussion of chronic poverty becau...

Nineteen eighty-nine marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of Herbert Marcuse's influential critique of "advanced industrial society," One Dimensional Man. Of the many books that Marcuse was to write during the 1960's and 70's, One Dimensional Man was the first o address the central concerns of the then emerging student and New Left movements. Ironically, a book that: analyzed the prof...

THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to compare the experiences of Australian and Canadian unions during die 20th century. This comparison reveals many more similarities than differences. The similarities are best understood within a framework developed by Ross Martin. He identifies five types of national trade union movements based on the relationship between unions, the state, and political parties: part...

Despite widespread political conspiracy theories about Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, a majority of partisans continue to distance themselves from such beliefs. Even so, the ideological biases that drive conspiratorial thinking may be hard to overcome. In this study, we examine the unintentional endorsement of conspiratorial beliefs as revealed in movement dynamics. We track the cu...

In this article the emergent paradigm of media ecologies is distinguished from the ‘actually existing’ media ecology emerging out of the work of McLuhan, Postman and the media ecology association. The appearance of Fuller’s book was understandably unsettling for members of the latter and certainly marks at least a profound rupture in the media ecological paradigm if not a total break. The artic...