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Modernity and Society
Through globalization, modernity makes the world homogenous. Two primary components of a society are its culture and its social structure. Society is a large grou** of people that shares the same geographica...
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Globalization and the Third and Fourth Industrial Revolution
This chapter gives a recap of the first and second industrial revolution briefly before it begins with the third industrial revolution and IR 4.0. Globalization as a part of IR 4.0 and how it changed the moder...
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Introduction to Cross Cultural Communication
Communication is the key to social integration since it enables people to share ideas, express their feelings and effectively contribute to discussions and debates. In most cases, language poses a barrier to c...
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Understanding Science, Technology & Modernity and the Emergence of Modern Science and Technology
Science and technology studies are the study of how social, political and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn affect society, politics and culture. I...
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Feminism & Gender Equality: An Ongoing Debate
This chapter will discuss the types of feminism and its traditional views, changing of gender relations, waves of feminism, #MeToo movement and the nature of Stockholm syndrome. The goal of this discussion is ...
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Engineering Ethics
The engineers recognize that the greatest merit is the work and exercise their profession committed to serving society, attending to the welfare and progress of the majority. By transforming nature for the ben...
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Modernity and Modernism
Modernity and modernism both share the common stem word “modern”. Modern refers to all things new and in present as opposed to old and antiquated things and practices as well as anything which is in vogue and ...
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Greek Philosophy
In this chapter we will learn of the most prominent philosophers in world history and their many that have inspired and resonated through countless people throughout time. We begin with what can be called th...
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Theories of Modernity
Social theory by definition is used to make distinctions and generalizations among different types of societies, and to analyze modernity as it has emerged in the past few centuries. Social theory as it is rec...
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The First and Second Industrial Revolution
This chapter deals with the first and second Industrial Revolution and Emergence of Modern Science and Technology. The Industrial Revolution was a fundamental change in the way goods were produced, from human ...
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Study of Band Structure Properties of Pnictide LaO1−xF x FeAs (x = 0, 0.2) Superconducting Compound
This paper reports on the band structure properties and changes in band structure of fluorine-doped LaO1−x F x FeAs (x = 0, 0.2) compound, measured using X-ray photoemission spe...
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Study of Mixed Valent Alloys Sm1−x ScXS by X-Ray Absorption Technique
Sm in SmS is divalent and the compound is a black-coloured Semiconductor. Measurements of its lattice parameter (1), magnetic susceptibility (2) and L111 X-ray absorption measurements (3) suggest that its cationi...
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XANES and EXAFS study of some metal-metalloid glasses
XANES and EXAFS techniques are proving very popular in the study of local environment in disordered systems. Results of such studies in a large number of metal (Fe, Co, Ni, etc)-metalloid (B, Si, C, etc) glass...
