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Two Hundred Years of American Educational Thought

By: Henry J. Perkinson

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Two Hundred Years of American Educational Thought

By: Henry J. Perkinson

A penetrating analysis of the theories of those educators who have shaped and determined the structure, the policies and the practices of American education. Originally published in 1976 by Longman.

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University Press of America

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0819161241

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9780819161246

Getting Better

Television and Moral Progress

By: Bryan Green

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Television and Moral Progress

By: Bryan Green

Ever since the fifties, when television became ascendent in American popular culture, it has become commonplace to bemoan its "bad" effects. Little or nothing, however, has been said about its "good" effects. With this observation, Henry Perkinson introduces his provocative and original analysis of television and culture. Rejecting the determinism inherent in most studies of the effects of television ("We are what we watch"), he insists that it is people that actively change culture, media having no agency to do so. Nevertheless, he argues that television did facilitate the changes we have made in our culture over the past thirty years.Perkinson describes how television helped us become critical of our existing culture, especially of the relationships that were commonly accepted between men and women, blacks and whites, politicians and voters, employers and employees, and between people and the environment. These criticisms have brought about dramatic changes in our social, political, and economic arrangements, as well as changes in our intellectual outlook. Since these changes came about through our efforts to eliminate or reduce discrimination, suffering, and injustice, Perkinson argues that our culture has become more moral in the age of television.In what amounts to a history of recent social change in America, Getting Better examines the role television has played in the rise of feminism, the black protest movement, the presidential elections, the Vietnam War, Watergate, environmentalism, religious fundamentalism, and the New Age movement. This book will be essential reading for students of communications and American culture, and for anyone who wants to make sense of the transformations of American life from the 1950s to the present. Even those who do not agree that things are "getting better" will find that Perkinson's analysis helps to make things more coherent.

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Routledge

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1351310542

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9781351310543

Getting Better

Television & Moral Progress

By: Henry J. Perkinson

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Television & Moral Progress

By: Henry J. Perkinson

Ever since the 1950s, when television became ascendent in American popular culture, it has become commonplace to bemoan its "bad" effects. Little or nothing, however, has been said about its "good" effects. With this observation, Henry Perkinson introduces his provocative and original analysis of television and culture. Rejecting the determinism inherent in most studies of the effects of television ("we are what we watch"), he insists that it is people that actively change culture, media having no agency to do so. Nevertheless, he argues that television did facilitate the changes we have made in our culture over the past thirty years. In the new epilogue, Henry Perkinson discusses the current state of television and the changes that have occurred in the first half of this decade. He examines how reporters have become not just messengers of information but the message itself. They become the focus of stories as they search for the scandalous side of all issues and persons. Perkinson also shows how America continues to be driven by moralist politics, launched and sustained by television.

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326

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Transaction Pub

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1560008644

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Messianism Against Christology

Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, and Empire

By: J. Perkinson

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Messianism Against Christology

Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, and Empire

By: J. Perkinson

The book is a collection of essays exploring questions of freedom, justice, representation and identity as these arise in various historical moments both inside and outside of normative christological discourse about Jesus. The basic thesis is that messianic talk about Jesus in 1st century Palestinian through the imperial cult after Constantine.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349461687

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