In the twenty-first century the United States is caught in a moment of cultural adjustment that reflects the barrage of ideological, material, and social dilemmas that emerged in the past century. This thesis engages with a variety of theories and concepts that emerged during this time in an attempt to explore the potential effects of what Wade Clark Roof refers to as "reflexive spirituality," characterized by anti-institutional, highly subjective and constantly re-evaluated and re-contextualized ideas of religious truth for the individual in juxtaposition with her/his community. By applying contemporary media studies, civil religion studies, and Gramsci's theories of hegemony and common sense to the NBC sitcom "My Name is Earl," this study explores the influence of media, capitalism and hegemony in forming a reflexively spiritual individual's identity, and concludes that in the contemporary age this individual is better equipped to self-consciously and critically engage with questions of social influence, which may ultimately lead to alterations in commonsensical notions of social values and status.
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機譯:在二十一世紀,美國陷入了文化調(diào)整的時刻,這反映了上個世紀出現(xiàn)的意識形態(tài),物質(zhì)和社會困境的大爆發(fā)。本論文涉及這段時期出現(xiàn)的各種理論和概念,以試圖探究韋德·克拉克·羅格(Wade Clark Roof)所謂的“反身靈性”的潛在影響,其特征是反制度,高度主觀,不斷重新評估和重新將個人與他/他的社區(qū)并置在一起的宗教真理觀念。通過將當代媒體研究,民間宗教研究以及葛蘭西霸權(quán)和常識理論應(yīng)用于NBC情景喜劇“我的名字是伯爵”,這項研究探索了媒體,資本主義和霸權(quán)在形成反身精神個體身份方面的影響,并得出結(jié)論在當今時代,這個人有能力更好地自我意識和批判性地參與社會影響問題,這最終可能導(dǎo)致對社會價值觀念和地位的常識觀念的改變。
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