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SPECIAL ISSUE ON "COMMUNITY"
This issue consists of a five part article on the idea and structure of community. The first section describes the dillemmas posed by one version or another of what has come to be called "communitarianism". The second section reviews why some of the major sociological theories of community prove wanting. The third section provides a minimalist definition of community as a familiar geographical environment. That definition covers all of the phenomena we would care to think of as communities. The fourth section shows that the minimalist definition provides the psychological properties that are associated with more complicated definitions of community. The fifth section shows that social life consists of other social structures than communities, even if we would continue to treat universities, for example, as a community because it is in some ways analagous to a community. The fifth section also shows why the more accurate description of community provided in this issue is of some service to an idea of human freedom.
The purpose of this e-journal is to use in tandem the techniques of literary criticism and social structural analysis to illuminate American politics and the various institutions in American society and sometimes matters more global, like religion or war, by turning an eye on the events and objects and performances that are considered art and entertainment, those defined broadly enough to include whatever is covered in newspapers and other media. Another concern is to pick up the texture of social life, both in the United States and in general, through the analysis of those events, objects and performances that are to be found in everyday life. |
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The Political Ticker
Republican Meanness
- September 6, 2010
The Mosque
- August 21, 2010
Afghanistan, At The Moment
- July 1, 2010
Madison's No. 46
- June 21, 2010
Tea Party Populism
- June 20, 2010
Tony Hayward in the Dock
- June 18, 2010
Previous Political Tickers
P. S. to "Obama's Gulf"
-June 16, 2010
Obama's Gulf
-June 15, 2010
Breaking News: Gulf Spill and Palestine Flotilla
-May 31, 2010
Obama's Katrina
-May 28, 2010
Elena Kagan
-May 11, 2010
Oil and Immigration
-May 5, 2010
Bishop Tutu and the Tea Party
-May 3, 2010
The Unappreciated Obama
-March 29, 2010
After Health Care Reform
-March 23, 2010
What is Khalid Sheik Mohammed?
-March 7, 2010
The Blair House Summit
-February 26, 2010
The Coakley Debacle
-January 21, 2010
What Obama Should Have Said
-January 8, 2010
Obama's Transparancy
-October 28, 2009
The Finance Committee Health Bill
-October 16, 2009
Health Care Reform So Far
-July 28, 2009
As to Louis Gates, Jr.
-July 25, 2009
The Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
-July 16, 2009
Health Policy Politics
-June 15, 2009
Why Obama Chose Sotomayor
-May 27, 2009
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The Cultural Ticker
The Arrogant Church
- May 1, 2010
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
- April 25, 2010
"The Pacific"
- April 7, 2010
Bees
- March 26, 2010
"The Hurt Locker" and "Precious"
- March 17, 2010
The Academy Awards, 2010
- March 10, 2010
Previous Cultural Tickers
Jane Austen
-February 28, 2010
Headline News Journalism
-February 1, 2010
Haitan Religion
-January 25, 2010
A Bus Trip
-January 23, 2010
A Conversation with a Cab Driver
-December 1, 2009
A Kitty Genovese Experience
-November 13, 2009
Five Hundred Years From Now
-August 26, 2009
Zucker on Michael Jackson
-July 15, 2009
Michael Jackson and Popular Culture
-July 8, 2009
Abortion as a Life Style Decison
-June 16, 2009
"Holocaust" as in "Museum"
-June 11, 2009
The New Yorker and Susan Boyle
-June 2, 2009
Betty Page Was No Hero
-March 26, 2009
Zimmerman
-March 4, 2009
The 2009 Oscars
-February 23, 2009
"The Reader": The Movie
-February 17, 2009
The Obama Inauguration Moment
-January 21, 2009
Rosie's Variety Show
-December 16, 2008
The Enormity of Obama's Election
-November 13, 2008
The Profession of Business
-October 25, 2008
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| A new issue of “w. end ave.: an e-journal of culture and politics” is
published once every three weeks or so. It is edited, owned, and where not indicated as otherwise,
written by Martin Wenglinsky. The rights to all materials published
here are copyright © 2008 by Martin Wenglinsky
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