Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691160580
- eISBN:
- 9781400852581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691160580.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This introductory chapter describes the corpus of folk and fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm had passed on to the German people. It then asks what legacy means in this context, more specifically in ...
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This introductory chapter describes the corpus of folk and fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm had passed on to the German people. It then asks what legacy means in this context, more specifically in how the Brothers Grimm had attempted to pass on a wealth of cultural legacy and memory which have, in the process, become so universally international. The Brothers were aware from the very beginning that they were bequeathing their collected tales to a growing literate Germanic public; they endeavored to make these people more aware of popular culture in the German principalities. By doing this—bequeathing a legacy that was not really theirs to bequeath—they helped to create a new tradition of folklore that had a nationalist tinge to it.Less
This introductory chapter describes the corpus of folk and fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm had passed on to the German people. It then asks what legacy means in this context, more specifically in how the Brothers Grimm had attempted to pass on a wealth of cultural legacy and memory which have, in the process, become so universally international. The Brothers were aware from the very beginning that they were bequeathing their collected tales to a growing literate Germanic public; they endeavored to make these people more aware of popular culture in the German principalities. By doing this—bequeathing a legacy that was not really theirs to bequeath—they helped to create a new tradition of folklore that had a nationalist tinge to it.
Carola M. Frege
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199208067
- eISBN:
- 9780191709159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208067.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR
This chapter provides a theoretical framework to analyse the ‘cultural embeddedness’ of national research patterns and its implications for the future of employment research. The underlying ...
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This chapter provides a theoretical framework to analyse the ‘cultural embeddedness’ of national research patterns and its implications for the future of employment research. The underlying theoretical assumption is that employment research, as any other social science, is not just determined by its subject matter (e.g., employment institutions and practices) but is socially constructed. The book emphasizes that social science disciplines or fields of study are not universal or determined by an invisible scientific law but shaped by specific socio-historical contexts. Thus, this book perceives social sciences as being continuously re-invented by strategic (academic) actors and structural conditions which are influenced by cultural legacies. In particular, the longitudinal perspective of this book allows us to analyse how preexisting social, political, and intellectual conditions of the 19th century shaped the emergent national traditions of employment research and its academic organization. The trajectories or path dependencies of employment research, which arguably still have an impact on research today, will be discussed on the basis of three different dimensions, substantive, institutional, and ideational: the subject field of academic inquiry (labour movement histories); scientific knowledge institutions (social science traditions); and the underlying intellectual traditions (industrial democracy discourse).Less
This chapter provides a theoretical framework to analyse the ‘cultural embeddedness’ of national research patterns and its implications for the future of employment research. The underlying theoretical assumption is that employment research, as any other social science, is not just determined by its subject matter (e.g., employment institutions and practices) but is socially constructed. The book emphasizes that social science disciplines or fields of study are not universal or determined by an invisible scientific law but shaped by specific socio-historical contexts. Thus, this book perceives social sciences as being continuously re-invented by strategic (academic) actors and structural conditions which are influenced by cultural legacies. In particular, the longitudinal perspective of this book allows us to analyse how preexisting social, political, and intellectual conditions of the 19th century shaped the emergent national traditions of employment research and its academic organization. The trajectories or path dependencies of employment research, which arguably still have an impact on research today, will be discussed on the basis of three different dimensions, substantive, institutional, and ideational: the subject field of academic inquiry (labour movement histories); scientific knowledge institutions (social science traditions); and the underlying intellectual traditions (industrial democracy discourse).
Pippa Norris
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198296614
- eISBN:
- 9780191600227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198296614.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter is the third of four on the question of legitimacy in the EU, and deals with the political institutions of the EU and its policy processes. The first section elaborates on these aspects ...
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This chapter is the third of four on the question of legitimacy in the EU, and deals with the political institutions of the EU and its policy processes. The first section elaborates on these aspects of legitimacy or regime support, and presents a conceptual framework. The second examines cross‐national variations and variations over time in regime support, including public satisfaction with the basic principles, decision‐making processes, and institutional arrangements of the EU. The third section analyses alternative explanations for these variations in regime support, including the role of (political) cultural legacies, social background, and policy performance‐ and leadership‐based factors. The conclusion considers the implications of this analysis for understanding the future of the EU.Less
This chapter is the third of four on the question of legitimacy in the EU, and deals with the political institutions of the EU and its policy processes. The first section elaborates on these aspects of legitimacy or regime support, and presents a conceptual framework. The second examines cross‐national variations and variations over time in regime support, including public satisfaction with the basic principles, decision‐making processes, and institutional arrangements of the EU. The third section analyses alternative explanations for these variations in regime support, including the role of (political) cultural legacies, social background, and policy performance‐ and leadership‐based factors. The conclusion considers the implications of this analysis for understanding the future of the EU.
Anna Wierzbicka
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195174748
- eISBN:
- 9780199788514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195174748.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
This chapter discusses the concept of “Anglo English” as a shared core of American English, British English, Australian English, and other long established varieties of English. The chapter uses some ...
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This chapter discusses the concept of “Anglo English” as a shared core of American English, British English, Australian English, and other long established varieties of English. The chapter uses some examples from Australian English to show both “Australia's British inheritance” and the cultural distinctiveness of some Australian-English words, concepts, and cultural norms. It also introduces a framework for studying and describing meaning: the NSM theory of semantics, based on a mini-vocabulary of sixty five universal human concepts. These concepts, which can be identified through simple words such as do, happen, want, know, and feel, provide a basis for a “natural semantic metalanguage” (NSM) for the description and comparison of meanings.Less
This chapter discusses the concept of “Anglo English” as a shared core of American English, British English, Australian English, and other long established varieties of English. The chapter uses some examples from Australian English to show both “Australia's British inheritance” and the cultural distinctiveness of some Australian-English words, concepts, and cultural norms. It also introduces a framework for studying and describing meaning: the NSM theory of semantics, based on a mini-vocabulary of sixty five universal human concepts. These concepts, which can be identified through simple words such as do, happen, want, know, and feel, provide a basis for a “natural semantic metalanguage” (NSM) for the description and comparison of meanings.
Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691160580
- eISBN:
- 9781400852581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691160580.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This concluding chapter examines the explorations of Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), the great philosopher of hope, and Theodor Adorno (1903–69), the foremost critical thinker of the Frankfurt School, ...
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This concluding chapter examines the explorations of Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), the great philosopher of hope, and Theodor Adorno (1903–69), the foremost critical thinker of the Frankfurt School, concerning the profound ramifications of the fairy tale. In doing so they made a significant contribution to the Grimms' cultural legacy. The chapter reveals that, not long after Bloch escaped the dystopian realm of East Germany in 1961, he held a radio discussion with Adorno about the contradictions of utopian longing. Both displayed an unusual interest in fairy tales and were very familiar with the Grimms' tales, which they considered to be utopian.Less
This concluding chapter examines the explorations of Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), the great philosopher of hope, and Theodor Adorno (1903–69), the foremost critical thinker of the Frankfurt School, concerning the profound ramifications of the fairy tale. In doing so they made a significant contribution to the Grimms' cultural legacy. The chapter reveals that, not long after Bloch escaped the dystopian realm of East Germany in 1961, he held a radio discussion with Adorno about the contradictions of utopian longing. Both displayed an unusual interest in fairy tales and were very familiar with the Grimms' tales, which they considered to be utopian.
Hwa-Jen Liu
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816689514
- eISBN:
- 9781452952420
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689514.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter 4 elaborates different sets of organizational and cultural legacies that labor and environmental movements as early risers leave, and how latecomer movements both borrowed and reacted to the ...
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Chapter 4 elaborates different sets of organizational and cultural legacies that labor and environmental movements as early risers leave, and how latecomer movements both borrowed and reacted to the “early-riser templates” in their organizational and cultural strategies.Less
Chapter 4 elaborates different sets of organizational and cultural legacies that labor and environmental movements as early risers leave, and how latecomer movements both borrowed and reacted to the “early-riser templates” in their organizational and cultural strategies.
Valery Tishkov
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520238879
- eISBN:
- 9780520930209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520238879.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how violent conflict has reshaped the Chechen identity. The Chechens profess a self-image centered on a rigid set of cultural characteristics, and war affects such images ...
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This chapter examines how violent conflict has reshaped the Chechen identity. The Chechens profess a self-image centered on a rigid set of cultural characteristics, and war affects such images comprehensively. In part, war encourages the emergence of uncritical self-perceptions, self-proclamations, external borrowings, and fantasies reflecting the absurdity of violence and the impasse confronting efforts to explain it with rational arguments. These fantasies around group identity constitute a message to the outside world about a suffering human collective. It is only since the late 1980s that the local ideologues have been fundamentally emending the historical myth of the Chechens and, in the process, current Chechen identity. In this construction of new Chechen identity, two rival trends can be observed. One includes as many historic communities as possible in the Chechen entity in order to widen its geographic span and deepen its cultural legacy. The other, born out of competition for resources and power, focuses on narrower group boundaries based on locality and clan ties.Less
This chapter examines how violent conflict has reshaped the Chechen identity. The Chechens profess a self-image centered on a rigid set of cultural characteristics, and war affects such images comprehensively. In part, war encourages the emergence of uncritical self-perceptions, self-proclamations, external borrowings, and fantasies reflecting the absurdity of violence and the impasse confronting efforts to explain it with rational arguments. These fantasies around group identity constitute a message to the outside world about a suffering human collective. It is only since the late 1980s that the local ideologues have been fundamentally emending the historical myth of the Chechens and, in the process, current Chechen identity. In this construction of new Chechen identity, two rival trends can be observed. One includes as many historic communities as possible in the Chechen entity in order to widen its geographic span and deepen its cultural legacy. The other, born out of competition for resources and power, focuses on narrower group boundaries based on locality and clan ties.
Garth Fowden
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520236653
- eISBN:
- 9780520929609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520236653.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter starts from the assumption that the portraits of six great rulers, with their careful labeling in both Arabic and Greek, will have attracted the particular attention of Quṣayr 'Amra's ...
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This chapter starts from the assumption that the portraits of six great rulers, with their careful labeling in both Arabic and Greek, will have attracted the particular attention of Quṣayr 'Amra's visitors and stimulated a variety of reactions. The six kings are symbolic figures who stand for the whole political and cultural heritage of the world the Arabs had now inherited. Their names (or titles) are painted above their heads in blueish-white letters on a blue background, the Greek version on top, the Arabic underneath. The kings are shown presenting their respects to the figures in the dynastic icon on the endwall, to which Caesar, on the left of the panel, stands closest. The obverse of Quṣayr 'Amra's sensitivity to the cultural legacy of the pre-Islamic world is a certain ambiguity about Islam itself.Less
This chapter starts from the assumption that the portraits of six great rulers, with their careful labeling in both Arabic and Greek, will have attracted the particular attention of Quṣayr 'Amra's visitors and stimulated a variety of reactions. The six kings are symbolic figures who stand for the whole political and cultural heritage of the world the Arabs had now inherited. Their names (or titles) are painted above their heads in blueish-white letters on a blue background, the Greek version on top, the Arabic underneath. The kings are shown presenting their respects to the figures in the dynastic icon on the endwall, to which Caesar, on the left of the panel, stands closest. The obverse of Quṣayr 'Amra's sensitivity to the cultural legacy of the pre-Islamic world is a certain ambiguity about Islam itself.
Christian McCrea
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325826
- eISBN:
- 9781800342446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325826.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores the cultural impact of David Lynch's Dune. It considers the actual box office numbers to assess the damage of the so-called bomb. It also revisits some of the strange collection ...
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This chapter explores the cultural impact of David Lynch's Dune. It considers the actual box office numbers to assess the damage of the so-called bomb. It also revisits some of the strange collection of the merchandise and examine the series of videogames which significantly contributed to the film's enduring cultural legacy, but which all too often fall under the radar of screen media scholars. The chapter reviews Dune with the benefit of hindsight and considers its legacy and meaning for contemporary audiences. It mentions Dr. Dean Brandum, a film historian and film exhibition scholar, who analyzed the conditions by which Dune failed with audiences that seemed obscure and abstract.Less
This chapter explores the cultural impact of David Lynch's Dune. It considers the actual box office numbers to assess the damage of the so-called bomb. It also revisits some of the strange collection of the merchandise and examine the series of videogames which significantly contributed to the film's enduring cultural legacy, but which all too often fall under the radar of screen media scholars. The chapter reviews Dune with the benefit of hindsight and considers its legacy and meaning for contemporary audiences. It mentions Dr. Dean Brandum, a film historian and film exhibition scholar, who analyzed the conditions by which Dune failed with audiences that seemed obscure and abstract.
Antonio T. Tiongson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679386
- eISBN:
- 9781452948416
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679386.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter explores how Filipino youth carve a niche in hip-hop, which is considered by many as synonymous with blackness, and the implications in terms of the negotiation of racialized meaning and ...
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This chapter explores how Filipino youth carve a niche in hip-hop, which is considered by many as synonymous with blackness, and the implications in terms of the negotiation of racialized meaning and identities. Interviewing Filipino American DJs, the chapter discusses the kinds of authenticating strategies Filipino American DJs rely on. Those strategies range from efforts to highlight lived experience as the basis of their involvement in hip-hop to efforts to foreground hip-hop’s transcendent appeal. The interview provides insights into how Filipino American DJs attempt to establish cultural legacy, authenticity, and belongingness in terms other than proximity to blackness.Less
This chapter explores how Filipino youth carve a niche in hip-hop, which is considered by many as synonymous with blackness, and the implications in terms of the negotiation of racialized meaning and identities. Interviewing Filipino American DJs, the chapter discusses the kinds of authenticating strategies Filipino American DJs rely on. Those strategies range from efforts to highlight lived experience as the basis of their involvement in hip-hop to efforts to foreground hip-hop’s transcendent appeal. The interview provides insights into how Filipino American DJs attempt to establish cultural legacy, authenticity, and belongingness in terms other than proximity to blackness.
William O. Coleman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198753254
- eISBN:
- 9780191814853
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753254.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History, Public and Welfare
This chapter surveys the rival theories of Australian exceptionalism. It argues that the key theorists of exceptionalism each identified one particular province of life as yielding exceptionalism on ...
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This chapter surveys the rival theories of Australian exceptionalism. It argues that the key theorists of exceptionalism each identified one particular province of life as yielding exceptionalism on account of its supposed atrophy, or hypertrophy, in Australia relative to ‘normal’ conditions. These include the alleged slightness of vertical relations (‘egalitarianism’), the supposed thickness of horizontal ones (‘mateship’), the salience of the economic motive and the ‘talent for bureaucracy’. Why these social arenas were atrophied or hypertrophied has been commonly traced to one of two possibilities: either an enduring physical reality, or some cultural legacy of Australia’s historical origins. The chapter concludes with the contention that that a third source of explanation - inertia - is just as important in understanding Australian society.Less
This chapter surveys the rival theories of Australian exceptionalism. It argues that the key theorists of exceptionalism each identified one particular province of life as yielding exceptionalism on account of its supposed atrophy, or hypertrophy, in Australia relative to ‘normal’ conditions. These include the alleged slightness of vertical relations (‘egalitarianism’), the supposed thickness of horizontal ones (‘mateship’), the salience of the economic motive and the ‘talent for bureaucracy’. Why these social arenas were atrophied or hypertrophied has been commonly traced to one of two possibilities: either an enduring physical reality, or some cultural legacy of Australia’s historical origins. The chapter concludes with the contention that that a third source of explanation - inertia - is just as important in understanding Australian society.
