Nowadays we can not escape from socializing with others. Every day we need other people in the world of work, households, and share daily activities, that is why we are so dependent on a phone technol
... depicted in the pages of crime thrillers is a far cry from the life attorneys actually lead in the real world . If you want to be an attorney you must have a law degree and you will also have to test ...
...omy that has turned the whole city into one giant casino and emerged as the entertainment capital of the world . Then economists also point out that there is the satisfaction of people who always wante...
...me and its appeal is easy to understand. Once a player understands the basic rules they can cash in on a world with almost literally a never ending amount of possibilities. This simplicity, coupled wi...
...l society does not have to entail a traditionalistic hierarchy as opposed to a modern (egalitarian) life world . If civil society can take many forms, then it can also be a target of democratization. T...
... distinctions used for purposes of perspicuous representation, analysis and critical praxis. In the real world their boundaries are blurred, indeed they even flow into each other, and are not separabl...
...d here several times--to the effect that the fundamental characteristic of our life is that we live in a world of irresolvable moral claims, that we're all constantly facing incompatible claims. T...
...ssibility that our associative relationships as well as our identity as citizens makes possible. It is a world evoked, at points, by the anti-Federalists in debates over the ratification of the United...
...ndid book, Whose Keeper?, Social Science and Moral Obligation ( Berkeley, 1989), which explores the real world of social democracy, especially in Scandinavia. Finally, the third assault is at the hand...
...have to do with one's sense of what kinds of beliefs, desires, and actions license what in one's world . (Compare all the questions: "Can somebody else get away with calling you those name...
...on in modern society, "producing" the disintegration of shared social values in the "life world " ( Habermas, Lebenswelt). This is ultimately enforced by the growing mobilities in s...
...aditional nation-state. Yet, the internationalization of capital is a result of the high dynamics of the world market after World War II in terms of growth rates of world trade, of foreign investment,...
...rous. This idea challenges the notion that has dominated U.S. national economic policy since the end of World War II--and the discipline of economics since the early nineteenth century -- that a nati...
...apitalism and of national supremacy. The former Soviet Union had become one of the few countries in the world where the partition between the classes, the ruling class of the Communist Party and the ...
...d States. In the course of this debate it became fashionable among conservative politicians all over the world to conjure up the ruinous consequences of the welfare state for the freedom of the indivi...
...operation as "social control," political disenfranchisement, or "colonization of the life-world " and its results as unjust or problematic for the proper functioning of capitalism. ...
...ely in the Democratic Party, but it has been always a social democracy developed within the encompassing world of laissez faire. The great exception to that, or rather the great alternative to laisse...
The political world has been changing radically since the Central European revolution of 1989. Instead of traditional bi-polar conflict, we now have the potential for multi-polar political conflict. S
...air," would seem an appropriate metaphor for the last four years, save for one aspect of the modern world : national consciousness. Apart from circumstances in which nationalism served anti-imperi...
Bush's new world order is a new world disorder, and for the time being, no restoration of stability is visible or even conceivable. It is against this background that we see the present rise of et
...ifference that defines the gap between what Hunter calls the progressive and the orthodox outlook on the world . For the orthodox--whether rabbis in Brooklyn, Catholic anti-abortion activists, or Prote...
Other than the time between the two World Wars, democracy has been a remarkable success after World War II. From 1918 through 1939, after the progression of democratic tendencies in the beginning of t
...tin America, for instance). As they consider the economic and social costs of their integration into the world market, the peoples of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have good reason to be ...
...he path of the Western European societies. The latter had to some extent revised the welfare state after World War II to include human rights and citizenry, almost as though they were once again takin...
...viet Union and eastern Europe has suddenly put an end to half a century of cold war. The division of the world in two opposing blocs is over. The nuclear danger looks much less imposing and real. The ...
