Work of art and philosophy: Franz Kafka, a reading based on Theodor Adorno by Pedro Savi Neto

“…This is a theoretical research conducted from rereading the thought of the philosopher Theodor Adorno, a member of the first generation of the Frankfurt School, with emphasis on the character of social criticism of his thinking in dialectical movement by reading Franz Kafka, making use of works of both authors, with special attention to direct references of the philosopher about the writer’s work, using up eventually commentators. …”
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Doris Lessing’s Fiction: Literature as Commitment by Ester Gendusa

“…Indeed, in giving a voice to those who would tend to be silenced, Lessing turned writing into a privileged site of corrosive social criticism in which she stigmatised numerous forms of oppression, including those that the establishment obscures or secretly condones. …”
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Criminal Investigation and Canadian National Identity in Murdoch Mysteries by Erin Sheley

“…Second, I show how Murdoch Mysteries attempts to serve as social criticism concerning socio-legal issues still relevant to Canadian society in the present day. …”
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Menilik laut Bali dalam sajak Malam Pengantin di Pesisir Serangan karya Wayan Sunarta by Eirenne Pridari Sinsya Dewi, Ida Bagus Gede Dharma Putra

“…This poem, created by Wayan Sunarta, tries to express environmental criticism firmly through the choice of diction. The social criticism in this poem describes two interesting things to study, namely Serangan Beach with its naturalness and Serangan Beach with its modernity. …”
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Privilege, check! - An activity for foreign language teaching to promote critical awareness by Svenja Dehler

“…Initial results of the analysis and discussion show that the learners are beginning to deal with issues of social justice, express social criticism and train their empathy. In addition, a critical awareness of global issues among the learners manifested itself in the results. …”
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DRAMATISME DALAM STRATEGI PENUANGAN GAGASAN MELALUI STREET ART KOMUNITAS VISUAL GRAFIS by Muhammad Bayu Widagdo

“…This study reveals that the motivation behind the idea of pouring through the activities of street art which they do, the other to have the support of people in their community environment, support from the community, as well as social criticism as a reflection of the circumstances surrounding them. …”
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Comments in the VKontakte Social Network as a Discourse Practice of Student Youth by Evgenia N. Rogova, Leonid S. Yanitskiy

“…The main discussion topics differed in values, judgments, emotional tone, creativity, and self-expression: academic process, life management, relationships (friendship, love, and family), health, existential issues (social role and future), and social criticism. The functions involved identification, information, affiliation, psychotherapy, and creativity. …”

Loyalty, conscience and tense communion : Jonathan Edwards meets Martha Nussbaum by Hordern, J

“…Whereas the affections of Edwards’s sense of the heart are shown to be epistemologically over-realised and in unsustainable tension with the political implications of his contested social ontology, Nussbaum’s cognitivist theory of emotions improves on Edwards’s by providing a basis for social criticism of religious convictions, but is then found incompatible with her own commitment to a Rawlsian overlapping consensus. …”

The Wet Fire: Representation of Hafez's Hypocrisy in Statements with Two Opposing Meanings by Kavoos Hasanli

“…Some of these are so poetically ambiguous that their affective dimension overrides the social critical dimension. Hence, the question is if the use of statements with two opposing meanings is only a poetic device or a tool for social criticism. 3. …”
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Britten et l’art de la parabole by Gilles Couderc

“…Through the adoption of the model of tragedy and oratorio with Britten’s own tragic heroes and tragic imagery, through the rhetoric of musical devices and forms and through social criticism and his indictment of Bible-thumping and dogmatic intellectuals, Britten the educator strives at raising the consciousness of his audience so as to better spread his humanistic message.…”
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Über Dichter, Proletarier und Apachen by Raulet, Gérard

“…They betray their breakthrough either by a purely private social criticism (Julien Green), by a kind of “infantile disease” of commitment (Malraux), or by a mere “cry of indignation” (Céline), which at least has the merit of reintroducing the voice of the Lumpenproletariat into the realm of the novel without mobilizing the “mimicry” of belonging to the proletariat. …”
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Analysis Of Form And Presentation On The Song “Bingung” By Iksan Skuter by Lingga Nusantara Putra, Mochammad Usman Wafa

“…Iksan Skuter is a musician who likes to voice songs with the theme of social criticism. In this paper, the writer focuses on one song by Iksan Skuter, namely the song titled Bingung. …”
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El Compromiso Ético en el Teatro Guineoecuatoriano: Pretérito Imperfecto y Los Hombres Domésticos de Tomás Ávila Laurel como modelos by Eman Khalifa

“…Whatever the literary genre and the plot, his works are always charged with social criticism with a thread of irony.…”
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Inversion and Interconversion: A Comparative Study on the Negative Dimension of Adorno’s Inverse Theology and Pre-Qin Daoist Thought by Feng Tao

“…Finally, negativity is the essence of social criticism and redemption. Both Adorno and the pre-Qin Daoists were in the midst of social collapse. …”
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Zen as self-help by Josephine Selander

“…The study suggests, lastly, that these methods in emotion management, formulated by Horney and Fromm, had complex links to social criticism, where the function of the techniques slithered from embracing emotions as an act of individual autonomy to instead controlling emotions to learn loving. …”
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Le Lesotho Highland Water Project, ou le retour de la grande hydraulique en Afrique australe by David Blanchon

“…According to the 1986 treaty between Lesotho and South Africa, a chain of major dams should have been constructed in the high mountains of the landlocked kingdom in order to transfer water via tunnels to the water-stressed metropolitan region of Gauteng.The project aroused fierce environmental and social criticism, but the construction process went on after the end of apartheid. …”
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Resepsi Tafsir Q.S. Al-Mujādilah di Tik-Tok sebagai Upaya Edukasi dan Pembelaan Hak-hak Perempuan by Althaf Husein Muzakky, Faisal Haitomi, Maula Sari

“…The results of this study indicate that tik-tok with the FYP algorithm has full power as social criticism to form a contextual religious understanding, conflict resolution, the study of Islamic issues and gender are packaged freshly as a new face that Islam is friendly to rights women.…”
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Las implicaciones sociales de la (des)cortesía en el lenguaje narrativo de los autores del premio Nobel by Manar Elhalwany

“…In both novels it is clear the use of linguistic formulas that violates the pragmatic politeness in order to achieve a deep and thorough social criticism of the Egyptian and Peruvian reality in the time of the fifties and sixties. …”
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Change of the Concept of the University: From Enlightenment Ideals to the Development of Entrepreneurship by Maja Bosanac, Jovana Milutinović

“…It is concluded that in modern circumstances, the university is facing the challenge of finding a balance between preserving institutional autonomy, independent social criticism, and academic freedom of professors and students, on the one hand, and connecting with the world of work to become a relevant factor in economic development. …”
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KALIMAT KARIKATUR PADA SURAT KABAR AL-MISRIYYU AL-YAUMA EDISI JUNI-SEPTEMBER 2012 ANALISIS:PRAGMATIK by , ALMAIDAH YANTHI, , Prof. Dr. Syamsul Hadi, S.U., M.A.

“…Usage correct language in caricature interconnected with usage of type and kinds of speech act correctly, and appropriated sentence modus that reader can understand idea, and messages of social criticism which will be submitted by caricaturist. …”