Papers by Phillip Y Freiberg
In the modern social sciences, the concept of trust is considered an essential element of the soc... more In the modern social sciences, the concept of trust is considered an essential element of the socio-cultural potential of each given society. The credibility (trustworthiness) of the media is a set of ideas and attitudes of the audience that allow government institutions to increase or maintain their social resources, at the time of the rise of information through the Internet is rising in Russia, and the overall propensity to trust by the Russian society is falling. Overall trust in general and trust in mass media, in particular, are of interest to researchers from various fields of science: sociology, social psychology, economics, political science, public administration, and philosophy, and in each of fields scientists have already made a considerable contribution to understanding the various aspects of this phenomenon and although given the increasing relevance of the issue of trust in modern society, this object has great research potential. The goal of this work was to establish a causational relationship between the level of trustworthiness (social capital) of the political power (via its administration and mass media) and the level of trust in its messages by Moscow undergraduate students. Quantitative data analysis was performed using the survey responses from 401 undergraduate students in Moscow’s ten universities. The sample was constructed in proportion to the structure of the population of Moscow undergraduate students. The findings suggest that the current Russian Government’s approach to increasing the level of competence of government and MSM is insufficient, greatly offset by the presence of alternative sources of information in cyberspace (collectively referred to as AIM in this work). Specifically, the values of Government and MSM 2205149484 NIDA iThesis 5810131006 dissertation / recv: 01112564 14:01:41 / seq: 13 iv directly influence the level of trust in the MSM news. This research identified various elements of social capital that influence the level of trust in MSM news as well as the Propensity to Trust, an innate quality highly specific to each respondent. This research demonstrated a link between elements of the Social Capital of government and public institutions and levels of trust in State MSM. At the same time, it became evident that lower levels of values of the Russian government and State MSM lowered the overall trust in state MSM news. Alternative Internet Media, on the other hand, having a higher level of values draws more and more audiences from the traditional MSM, which certainly indicated people’s attitudes, not least of which is trust. At the same time, this work demonstrated that people's innate Propensity to Trust also influences their level of trust in Russian State MSM. In the revised hypothesis, it was hypothesized that Propensity to Trust can be altered over time, which brings us back to the old debate of Nature vs nurture, which involves the extent to which particular aspects of behavior (Propensity to Trust) are a product of either inherited (i.e., genetic) or acquired (i.e., learned) influences, such as social conditioning
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Teaching Philosophy, 1996
What is this thing called Science? Alan Chalmers was born in Bristol, England in 1939. He graduat... more What is this thing called Science? Alan Chalmers was born in Bristol, England in 1939. He graduated in physics at the University of Bristol in 1961, and received an MSc at the University of Manchester in 1964. He taught physics and the ...
Journal of Business Ethics, 2007
Corruption is a serious economic, social, political and moral blight, especially in many emerging... more Corruption is a serious economic, social, political and moral blight, especially in many emerging countries. It is a problem that affects companies in particular, especially in international commerce, finance and technology transfer. And it is becoming an international phenomenon in scope, substance and consequences. That is why, in recent years, there has been a proliferation of international efforts to tackle the problem of corruption. One such international cooperative initiative is the United Nations Convention against Corruption, signed in 2003, which came into force in December 2005. This is the first truly global instrument to prevent and combat corruption, built on a broad international consensus. The purpose of this article is to explain the origin and content of the Convention, what it adds to existing international instruments for combating corruption, and its strengths and weaknesses, mainly from the point of view of companies.
... 9 Page 14. Page 15. THE TEMPLAR REVELATION Page 16. Page 17. ... In his unfinished Adoration ... more ... 9 Page 14. Page 15. THE TEMPLAR REVELATION Page 16. Page 17. ... In his unfinished Adoration of the Magi (which was begun in 1481) an anonymous bystander makes this ges-ture close to a mound of earth out of which grows a carob tree. ...
The British Journal of Sociology, 1990
This paper proposes the theoretical lens of governmentality (Barry, Osborne, & Rose, 1996; Bu... more This paper proposes the theoretical lens of governmentality (Barry, Osborne, & Rose, 1996; Burchell, Gordon, & Miller, 1991; Dean, 1999; Foucault, 1991; Rose, 1999) for making sense of the historical, political and ethical constitution of the learning advisor in Australian higher education. To begin, the paper draws on Lewis Carroll\u27s Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there as a narrative tactic to demonstrate how the space of learning advising can be understood as a most curious place to dwell. Rather than stepping into the looking glass to discover this world of strangeness, I suggest that we must step out of the looking glass to turn and see - clearly, darkly - how strangeness is already part of our professional lifeworld with its spatial contortions, its temporal reversals, and its illogical diversions. I then suggest that if we venture to examine ourselves through the lens of governmentality we can begin to see how learning advising is merely a figment of the liberal imagination - an effect of the dynamic interaction of power, knowledge and ethics in liberal society. Through this lens, learning advising can be understood as a discursively complex, relational, polysemic and contested space in the academy that is ontologically vulnerable to political thought and action, and epistemologically and axiomatically vulnerable to its ebb and flow. To elaborate, I suggest that learning advising is a relational space because its intelligibility is an effect of the convergence of historical circumstance, political reasoning, and perceived social and economic crises that reconfigure the university as an apparatus of government, and reconstitute the higher education student as the object of government. I argue that it is in this three way moral relationship with the university and the student that the learning advisor is politically and ethically constituted. I go on to suggest that the historical proliferation of these configurations and constitutions have layered and folded through this space multiple truths that intersect (polysemic) and compete (contested) for domination causing its inhabitants speak with an ontological stammering (Lather, 2003). The final part of the paper suggests that agency in this space is not simply a matter of attempting to ground one\u27s identity, politics and agency in the notion of a foundational subject or teleological notions of progress, but to learn to dwell ethically and tactically in the complexity of the space willed to us by history (de Certeau, 1988; Readings, 1997). Dwelling, I suggest, requires us to live poetically, with a \u27commitment to thought\u27 (Foucault, 1997; Readings, 1997) and a healthy skepticism for all things that resemble reification (Fendler, 1999), as a provocation to ever more critical and creative practice (Gitlin, 2008)
Are we facing a new political reality when virtual online personalities (trolls) from one country... more Are we facing a new political reality when virtual online personalities (trolls) from one country can influence the elections of another country?
Journal of Public Administration and Governance
In the modern social sciences, the concept of confidence or trust is considered an essential elem... more In the modern social sciences, the concept of confidence or trust is considered an essential element of the socio-cultural potential of each given society. Trust in the institutions of the socio-political system is the basis and condition for its effectiveness and is the central element of its [the system] legitimation. Many researchers view trust in the media from the point of view of public confidence in the authorities, which is formed by providing the media with this or that information.Trust is based on a cognitive process that discriminates among persons and institutions that are trustworthy, distrusted, and unknown. Therefore, the concept of trustworthiness is central to understanding and predicting trust levels.In this work, we viewed trust as a manifestation of social capital. At the same time, trust antecedents are trustworthiness and propensity to trust.Proceeding from the resource approach, the credibility (trustworthiness) of the media is a set of ideas and attitudes of...
Essential English for Foreign Students Book 1 Teacher Book, 1957
Teacher Book
Рецензия на книгу В. Сомерсета Моэма «Джентльмен в салоне», издательство «Белая орхидея», 1995. b... more Рецензия на книгу В. Сомерсета Моэма «Джентльмен в салоне», издательство «Белая орхидея», 1995. by Kenneth Champeon, Nov 29, 2006
Are we facing a new political reality when virtual online personalities (trolls) from one country... more Are we facing a new political reality when virtual online personalities (trolls) from one country can influence the elections of another country?
Abstract
The epidemic of obesity so prevalent in the West due to commercialization of food indust... more Abstract
The epidemic of obesity so prevalent in the West due to commercialization of food industry is expanding globally as more and more countries abandon traditional food choices (swayed by clever marketing and addictive ingredients) in favour of those offered by the globalization culture.
The reality of our globalizing world is that more and more people across the world are swayed to abandon their traditional foods choices prepared at home in favour of Western food prepared by multinationals corporations. Nevertheless just like in the West bad choices will to a certain extent be always protected by the democratic institutions, so the only possible solutions in the long run is the avenue of changing public c perception towards unhealthy food and its impact on the long term health, i.e. epidemic of diabetes.
Therefore the goal of this paper is to examine what West (USA) is doing to combat the obesity epidemic at the policy level and compare it with what developing nations ( Thailand classified as middle income country ) should undertake at the policy levels.
The Gilded Age that has propelled the United States from an agrarian former colony torn by a bloo... more The Gilded Age that has propelled the United States from an agrarian former colony torn by a bloody civil war, into an industrial empire, has also sharply divided the country. It has divided the country into those with the capital (finance and means of production) and the proletariat (hired labor) at the mercy of the relentless capitalism that saw no human value in people beyond the immediate profit. Socialist Morris Hillquit wrote that at that time there began the era of money kings, of unparalleled luxury and grandeur, and at the same time the era of abject poverty (Prat, 1976).
Many Americans have watched the comedy ‘Idiocracy’ in which a U.S. army Corporal Bauers awakens a... more Many Americans have watched the comedy ‘Idiocracy’ in which a U.S. army Corporal Bauers awakens after 500 years of hibernation to find himself in the United States inhabited by utter ‘idiots’. Even more people across the world have watched ‘The Matrix’ in which Tomas Anderson is met by some Morpheus, who tells him about the true nature of the reality, waking him up to the battle between the humanity and the machines. Both of these scenarios present a rather pessimistic future - a dystopia. It is my opinion that many Americans have completely forgotten that 129 years ago there was an immensely popular utopian novel
The rapid growth of big capital during the American Gilded Age, its increasing control over the e... more The rapid growth of big capital during the American Gilded Age, its increasing control over the economy, intensified all the inherent contradictions of capitalism and primarily the relations between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Morris Hillquit a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America wrote that at that time there began the era of money kings, of unparalleled luxury and grandeur, and at the same time the era of abject poverty (Prat, 1976). Representatives of big business began to have a huge impact on American society and on the political development of the United States. The strengthening of the business was socially – Darwinistic in nature, people lived according the principle "survival of the fittest" (Werth, 2011).
Evaluating the development of the United States on the world stage at the beginning of the twenti... more Evaluating the development of the United States on the world stage at the beginning of the twentieth century we can conclude that America was driven by economic, military and moral impulses that led to expansionism. At that America became a classical expansionist country, being one of the states to increase its territory four times in a relatively short historical period. From the very founding of the United States, its political leaders had shown an instinct for expansion. The first US President, George Washington, called the new country "a rising empire” in 1783 (Immerman, 2010).
Uploads
Papers by Phillip Y Freiberg
The epidemic of obesity so prevalent in the West due to commercialization of food industry is expanding globally as more and more countries abandon traditional food choices (swayed by clever marketing and addictive ingredients) in favour of those offered by the globalization culture.
The reality of our globalizing world is that more and more people across the world are swayed to abandon their traditional foods choices prepared at home in favour of Western food prepared by multinationals corporations. Nevertheless just like in the West bad choices will to a certain extent be always protected by the democratic institutions, so the only possible solutions in the long run is the avenue of changing public c perception towards unhealthy food and its impact on the long term health, i.e. epidemic of diabetes.
Therefore the goal of this paper is to examine what West (USA) is doing to combat the obesity epidemic at the policy level and compare it with what developing nations ( Thailand classified as middle income country ) should undertake at the policy levels.
The epidemic of obesity so prevalent in the West due to commercialization of food industry is expanding globally as more and more countries abandon traditional food choices (swayed by clever marketing and addictive ingredients) in favour of those offered by the globalization culture.
The reality of our globalizing world is that more and more people across the world are swayed to abandon their traditional foods choices prepared at home in favour of Western food prepared by multinationals corporations. Nevertheless just like in the West bad choices will to a certain extent be always protected by the democratic institutions, so the only possible solutions in the long run is the avenue of changing public c perception towards unhealthy food and its impact on the long term health, i.e. epidemic of diabetes.
Therefore the goal of this paper is to examine what West (USA) is doing to combat the obesity epidemic at the policy level and compare it with what developing nations ( Thailand classified as middle income country ) should undertake at the policy levels.
The study of Internet linguistics can be effectively done through four main perspectives; sociolinguistics, education, stylistics and applied.
Deep-rooted moral inferiority of Gene Forester had pushed him towards an action that he could not rationally explain to others and especially to himself; an action that ultimately ended the life of an innocent person-Finny, whose suffering and eventually death, have awakened Gene to the realization of that deep enemy within, which he had to bury along with his best friend in order to become a better human- an adult.
In this novel there is a lot of reasoning by the protagonist: we see his throwing, pangs of conscience, and memories that will haunt him all his life, will drive him forward, and make him ask endless questions. If there is any moral in this book, then it is hidden infinitely deep. On the surface of the novel lies only the school atmosphere, however, the backdrop of the second world war for this novel is not coincidental, neither is its title. Only the war with its one hundred million dead could awaken the German people from the slumber they were in; from the hypnotic speeches by Hitler filled with hatred towards the enemy-all those with non-Aryan genes. Similarly only Finny’s fall and untimely death (set in motion by Gene’s unexplainable impulse) had the power to wake Gene up to the introspection of his actions, to the realization of the hatred that nested in his soul, that he was not aware of, or tried to ignore all his life before Devon.
In the novel the character of Phineas, although distinct from the protagonist could be considered as Gene’s alter ego, a philosophical construct described by Cicero as "a second self, a trusted friend" or “twinship or alter ego transference” described by Heinz Kohut. It is nevertheless difficult to define this novel only as a “subtle psychological novel about growing up,” as it leaves behind more questions than answers. Gene tells a story about his life, but detachedly, without giving his assessment, as if it was a newsreel and not the summer that turned his life upside down. Thus, the novel encourages the reader to consider the story's many intricacies by not addressing the issue of Finny’s fall conclusively. Because we are unable to ascertain the truth about the fall from Gene’s narration, we are free to hypothesize that it was the unconscious, evil part of Gene that killed Finny out of hatred for Finny’s goodness, innocence, and for his inability to be envious. At the same time, the conscious part of Gene was not aware of why he has caused Finny to fall and ultimately to die. But causing harm (and ultimately death) to the innocent creature whom he envied and hated deep within, he set up the destruction of his old self, the evil within, the personal enemy. On the battlefield, soldiers are told to hate the enemy behind the Maginot Lines, but Gene’s soul was unable to bear the burden of Finny’s suffering and death and host the demons inside himself at the same time. Finny’s funeral was Gene’s own funeral, the funeral of his selfishness, his carelessness, his childhood, and innocence. With Finny’s death, we can conclusively declare that Gene’s old self was destroyed through the soul-shattering realization of Finny’s goodness and his own evil. Thus a new person was born, like the self-resurrecting phoenix.
Similarly, Germany was able to see the inner demons that lived in it, that it could not deal with until the Nazis brought unimaginable suffering to the world and the German people themselves, destroying the nation, only to be reborn anew, awakened to the real world, where people with all genes are equally good; wars with fallen soldiers are maddening, and not a conspiracy theory coined by the Devon boys.
Coming-of-age often leads to crises whereby persons and nations have to eradicate the gene[1] of hatred from the depths of their souls. To do so they need to consult an oracle[2] who utters “Know Thyself”. And this SELF as we see in the ending lines of the book is the enemy that makes us regard others as enemies: for their skin color, race, sex, gender, or the incorrect genes. Thus, becoming like his ‘fallen’ friend Finny (both figuratively and literally when he Finny’s clothes on), who refused to believe in the others’ evil nature, Gene learned to see others, not as enemies, and this has brought Separate Peace to his soul, and should ultimately do the same to the world, whereby humanity would stop being at war with itself.
[1] The name Gene is primarily a gender-neutral name of English origin that means Well Born. Originally a short form of Eugene. Also a basic biological form of heredity.
[2] Phineas Derives from Phinehas, the name of two Biblical characters. It means "serpent's mouth" or "oracle" in Hebrew
During the conference attended by more than 100 young refugees Saturday, Phillip Freiberg, from Russia, illustrated the problem by posing as an employer looking to hire two refugees acting as applicants.
To have an objective and unbiased opinion of the role of new technologies in social protests within the Russian society, there needs to be an understanding of the fact that Russian protests of the middle class occurred within a ten year system of ‘managed democracy’. This period of time must be examined within the context of Russia’s thousand year history. Any study of the technology’s penetration into the society, without an exploration of the social processes taking place in such a country, will inevitably create a distorted picture.
element of the socio-cultural potential of each given society. The credibility
(trustworthiness) of the media is a set of ideas and attitudes of the audience that allow
government institutions to increase or maintain their social resources, at the time of
the rise of information through the Internet is rising in Russia, and the overall
propensity to trust by the Russian society is falling. Overall trust in general and trust
in mass media, in particular, are of interest to researchers from various fields of
science: sociology, social psychology, economics, political science, public
administration, and philosophy, and in each of fields scientists have already made a
considerable contribution to understanding the various aspects of this phenomenon
and although given the increasing relevance of the issue of trust in modern society,
this object has great research potential.
The goal of this work was to establish a causational relationship between the
level of trustworthiness (social capital) of the political power (via its administration
and mass media) and the level of trust in its messages by Moscow undergraduate
students.
Quantitative data analysis was performed using the survey responses from 401
undergraduate students in Moscow’s ten universities. The sample was constructed in
proportion to the structure of the population of Moscow undergraduate students.
The findings suggest that the current Russian Government’s approach to
increasing the level of competence of government and MSM is insufficient, greatly
offset by the presence of alternative sources of information in cyberspace (collectively
referred to as AIM in this work). Specifically, the values of Government and MSM
2205149484
NIDA iThesis 5810131006 dissertation / recv: 01112564 14:01:41 / seq: 13
iv
directly influence the level of trust in the MSM news. This research identified various
elements of social capital that influence the level of trust in MSM news as well as the
Propensity to Trust, an innate quality highly specific to each respondent.
This research demonstrated a link between elements of the Social Capital of
government and public institutions and levels of trust in State MSM. At the same
time, it became evident that lower levels of values of the Russian government and
State MSM lowered the overall trust in state MSM news. Alternative Internet Media,
on the other hand, having a higher level of values draws more and more audiences
from the traditional MSM, which certainly indicated people’s attitudes, not least of
which is trust. At the same time, this work demonstrated that people's innate
Propensity to Trust also influences their level of trust in Russian State MSM. In the
revised hypothesis, it was hypothesized that Propensity to Trust can be altered over
time, which brings us back to the old debate of Nature vs nurture, which involves the
extent to which particular aspects of behavior (Propensity to Trust) are a product of
either inherited (i.e., genetic) or acquired (i.e., learned) influences, such as social
conditioning