1. The Centre Of Contemporary Cultural Studies

Dick Hebdige, a member of the CCCS, subjected Punk specifically, and the subcultural milieu more generally, to a form of historical, neo--Marxist, semiotic analyses inspired by the work of Roland Barthes that typifies the work of the CCCS....

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2. The Return Of The Patient: Aids And The Azt Trials

It has oft been argued that the most important sociological effect of modern medicine has been “the disappearance of the patient” from the medical world. Steadily increasing confidence in the exclusive expertise of doctors and scientists...

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3. The Lie Detector Test - How Accurate?

How accurate is the lie detector test? The answer to that depends on who you ask. Various studies show results all over the board. In a recent Department of Defense Polygraph Institute study, one experiment found that less than 37% of test takers...

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4. The Demise Of The Expert And The Ascendance Of The Layman

In the age of Web 2.0, authoritative expertise is slowly waning. The layman reasserts herself as a fount of collective mob "wisdom". Information - unsorted, raw, sometimes wrong - substitutes for structured, meaningful knowledge....

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5. The Coming World Of Collaboration

Howard Rheingold, author of Street Mobs and invited lecturer at California’s renowned TED conference explains the phenomena of collaboration and its evolutionary effect on creating new forms of wealth and perhaps reforms to traditional...

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