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Author : C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107606142
The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.
Author : Jason Maxwell
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780823282470
The Two Cultures of English examines the academic discipline of English in the final decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium. During this period, longstanding organizational patterns within the discipline were disrupted. With the introduction of French theory into the American academy in the 1960s and 1970s, both literary studies and composition studies experienced a significant reorientation. The introduction of theory into English studies not only intensified existing tensions between those in literature and those in composition but also produced commonalities among colleagues that had not previously existed. As a result, the various fields within English began to share an increasing number of investments at the same time that institutional conflicts between them became more intense than ever before. Through careful reconsiderations of some of the key figures who shaped and were shaped by this new landscape—including Michel Foucault, Kenneth Burke, Paul de Man, Fredric Jameson, James Berlin, Susan Miller, John Guillory, and Bruno Latour—the book offers a more comprehensive map of the discipline than is usually understood from the perspective of either literature or composition alone. Possessing a clear view of the entire discipline is essential today as the contemporary corporate university pushes English studies to abandon its liberal arts tradition and embrace a more vocational curriculum. This book provides important conceptual tools for responding to and resisting in this environment.
Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780375704109
From one of today's most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society--a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual lines. One side originated in the tradition of republican virtue, the other in the counterculture of the late 1960s. Himmelfarb argues that, while the latter generated the dominant culture of today-particularly in universities, journalism, television, and film--a "dissident culture" continues to promote the values of family, a civil society, sexual morality, privacy, and patriotism. Proposing democratic remedies for our moral and cultural diseases, Himmelfarb concludes that it is a tribute to Americans that we remain "one nation" even as we are divided into "two cultures."
Author : Gary Goertz,James Mahoney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691149714
Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. In A Tale of Two Cultures, Gary Goertz and James Mahoney demonstrate that these two paradigms constitute different cultures, each internally coherent yet marked by contrasting norms, practices, and toolkits. They identify and discuss major differences between these two traditions that touch nearly every aspect of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection. Although focused on the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, Goertz and Mahoney also seek to promote toleration, exchange, and learning by enabling scholars to think beyond their own culture and see an alternative scientific worldview. This book is written in an easily accessible style and features a host of real-world examples to illustrate methodological points.
Author : Guy Ortolano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107402700
Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two cultures', the arts and sciences. Yet why did a topic that had long been discussed inspire such ferocious controversy at this particular moment? This book answers that question by recasting this dispute as an ideological conflict between competing visions of Britain's past, present, and future. It then connects the controversy to simultaneous arguments about the mission of the university, the methodology of social history, the reasons for 'national decline', and the fate of the former empire. By excavating the political stakes of the 'two cultures' controversy, this book explains the workings of cultural politics during the 1960s more generally, while also revising the meaning of a term that continues to be evoked to this day.
Author : Shen Chen,Thi Thuy Le
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351027168
The importance of integrating the teaching and learning of language and culture has been widely recognised and emphasized. However, how to teach English as an International Language (EIL) and cultures in an integrative way in non-native English speaking countries remains problematic and has largely failed to enable language learners to meet local and global communication demands. Developing students’ intercultural competence is one of the key missions of teaching cultures. This book examines a range of well-established models and paradigms from both English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. Exploring questions of why, what, and how to best teach cultures, the authors propose an integrated model to suit non-native English contexts in the Asia Pacific. The chapters deal with other critical issues such as the relationship between language and power, the importance of power relations in communication, the relationship between teaching cultures and national interests, and balancing tradition and change in the era of globalisation. The book will be valuable to academics and students of foreign language education, particularly those teaching English as an international language in non-native English countries.
Author : Maryam Qudrat Aseel
Publisher : Capital Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1931868700
"Exceptionally useful are (Aseel's) reflections on what it has meant to be a Muslim in America after September 11 . . . A fascinating multicultural coming-of-age story."--"Booklist."
Author : C. P. Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107394582
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures – the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other – has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife. The importance of science and technology in policy run largely by non-scientists, the future for education and research, and the problem of fragmentation threatening hopes for a common culture are just some of the subjects discussed.
Author : F. R. Leavis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107617353
The first annotated edition of Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow, introduced by a leading twenty-first-century critic.
Author : Eddie Ronowicz,Colin Yallop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441164643
An introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies, especially those that may influence effective communication with members of these societies or be the source of false perceptions/stereotypes of their behaviour.
Author : Ofelia García,Ricardo Otheguy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110848328
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Gary Westfahl,George Slusser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786442973
Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities. The essays show how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of combining scientific and humanistic perspectives; how writers influenced by Gernsback's ideas, like Isaac Asimov, illustrated the ways that literature could interact with science and assist in its progress; and how more recent writers offer critiques of science and its practitioners.
Author : Philomena Essed
Publisher : Hunter House Publishers
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39076001476089
"The first group of [U.S.] interviews presented here took place in the Bay Area in California, in 1981. The experiences of these women should not be considered fully representative of the broader American situation. This area is traditionally considered "tolerant" and "mild" in terms of racism. In the 1960s, it was one of the most important centers of black resistance"--Page 145.
Author : Paul Avtar Singh Ghuman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853592021
"This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the issues and concerns of the second-generation Asian young people living in Britain and Canada. It is based on extensive fieldwork data collected through an attitude scale, a questionnaire and interviews with young people. Also a large number of parents, teachers and a small number of community leaders were interviewed to place the discussion in a broader framework. Verbatim extracts are used liberally to give the reader both the flavour and tone of responses. What emerges is an optimistic picture. The young people in the study are developing a bicultural outlook to reconcile the differing values of school and home. The majority of them are at ease with both cultures - the Indo-Canadians more so than the British Asians."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : William Luis
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826513956
Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers' origins and influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Piri Thomas, among others. While engaging in close readings of the texts, Luis places them in a broader social, historical, political, and racial perspective to expose the tension between text and context. As a group, Latino Caribbeans write an ethnic literature in English that is born of their struggle to forge an identity separate from both the influences of their parents' culture and those of the United States. For these writers, their parents' country of origin is a distant memory. They have developed a culture of resistance and a language that mediates between their parents' identity and the culture that they themselves live in. Latino Caribbeans are engaged in a metaphorical dance with Anglo Americans as the dominant culture. Just as that dance represents a coming together of separate influences to make a unique art form, so do both Hispanic and North American cultures combine to bring a new literature into being. This new body of literature helps us to understand not only the adjustments Latino Caribbean cultures have had to make within the larger U.S. environment but also how the dominant culture has been affected by their presence.