Tag: social

• Recent scholarship on Weber’s ‘Time is Money’

  

  Introduction The economic survival of the fittest is a product of the modern Western spirit of Capitalism, developed to ensure its own survival, and in turn has reshaped concepts of time, the purpose of life, community and social values, and cultural systems (Weber, 1905). The values inherent under the modern Capitalist system of the West,…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  bangalore, capitalism, catadores, culture, economic survival of the fittest, elderhood, gender, global economy, gupta, kenya, mankekar, market, meiu, millar, money, polanyi, potlach, poverty, productivity, race, samburu, social, social value, status, success, surveillance, time, UK, wealth, weber, west, workspace

• The poison in the gift: The problem with debt

  

  The modern-day financial credit systems in North America and Chile closely resemble older forms of gift exchange, especially when considering the qualities inherent in all gift societies’ system of exchange. Mauss argues that all valuable objects in gift economies are due to its inherent ability to attach itself to persons, for example through identity or history (Graeber, 2001). However, Graeber affirms…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  anthropology, bloch, chile, credit, cultural anthropology, debt, domestic relations, economy, exchange, gift, graeber, greece, han, hau, hierarchy, mauss, meneley, money, mortality, parry, potlach, social, spirit, the gift, tournaments of value, yemen

• The commodification of body parts as an exploitative practice that oppresses the poor

  

  Introduction  The corporate preying on body parts, and the lucrative market that has unfolded under its commodification, created a multi-billion-dollar trade industry that threatens the lives, social relationships and economic standings of those especially ill-equipped to bear them (Sharp 2006). This paper investigates the impact of transplant tourism on the most desperate individuals of poorer countries, by looking into…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  america, black market, body, commodification, donor, ethics, harvest, isolation, kidney, medical, organ, poor, poverty, rich, sellers, sharp, social, tourism, transplant, transplant tourism

• What makes Media credible?

  

  The abundance of accessible information means that consumers have the opportunity and capability to navigate and obtain news information whenever and wherever they want (Peters and Broersma, 2013). This communication revolution has enabled billions of people to both consume and produce news information in an active and informal ideas-and-knowledge-exchange marketplace (Bertino and Matei, 2015). Though…

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  communication, control, credibility, journalism, media, power, production, reality, social, society, source, trust, truth

• Analytical Review: Give A Man A Fish by James Ferguson

  

  Analytical Review: Give A Man A Fish by James Ferguson Ferguson proposes the radical suggestion that the solution to the deprivation in southern Africa is the organization of a society that differs from contemporary liberal democratic thinking about politics and social provisioning (Ferguson 2015). Despite the many different interpretations, Ferguson agrees most with the concept…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  analytic review, brazil, chang, china, corruption, democratic, dependency, employment, enemployment, ferguson, foreign, free market, gdp, give a man a fish, grameen bank, hanlon, international development, labour, liberal, neoliberal, political science, poor, skill, social, south africa, survival, szeftel, teichman