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22. On Cynicism, Evil, and the Discovery of Communication in the 1940s.

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Abstract

Discusses United States communication research as it emerged in the 1940s, the successor to propaganda analysis and tributary of modernization theory. Places it in the broader context mid-century American and European social thought. Compares these developments to the work of Hannah Arendt and of Emmanuel Levinas on the sense of difference and nonclosure so important for postmodernism. (SR)

Published
1996

23. History against Itself.

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Abstract

Contends that the results of a survey of historians indicate a profession divided within itself. Maintains that cultural diversity was considered one of the "best" and "worst" attributes of contemporary U.S. society. Discusses the concept of progress and its current historical interpretations. (CFR)

Published
1994

30. On cynicism, evil, and the discovery of communication in the 1940s

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
Communication -- Research, Propaganda analysis -- Study and teaching, Mass media -- Research, Sociology and social work
Abstract

Communication research replaced cynicism associated with the propaganda analysis of the 1930s as a framework of behavioural analysis. Empirical studies in the 1940s confirmed the limited power of propaganda. The studies emphasized the role of people as the crucial actors in the communication process. Themes like primary group pluralism, and national loyalty became central to the field of communication research. By mid-1950s mass communication emerged as the crucial platform for building loyalties to the modern state.

Published
1996

31. The Coming Community

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
The Coming Community (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Literature/writing
Published
1996

32. Nations without Nationalism

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
Nations Without Nationalism (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Literature/writing
Published
1996

33. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Literature/writing
Published
1996

36. What It Means to Be an American

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
What It Means to Be an American (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Literature/writing
Published
1996

39. Passionate kisses?

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
Sociological jurisprudence -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Published
1994

47. A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Family and marriage, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

Kenneth Cmiel, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 249. Kenneth Cmiel has written a very important book in which he describes the evolution of the Chicago Nursery and Half [...]

Published
1998

48. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Subjects
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
Published
1996

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