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  • However for cultural theorists such as Jencks the flaneur is essentially an analytical device or contrivance to explore the project of modernity itself and its legacy in the emerging 21st century.

    'Life of a Bluestocking' now showing at Apartment Bluestocking 2008

  • However for cultural theorists such as Jencks the flaneur is essentially an analytical device or contrivance to explore the project of modernity itself and its legacy in the emerging 21st century.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Bluestocking 2008

  • A different rule, known as "Jencks" from the statute that created it, requires the prosecution to provide more detailed notes from agents at the time they testify.

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2008

  • A different rule, known as "Jencks," requires the prosecution to provide more detailed notes from agents at the time they testify.

    Sunlight Foundation Transparency Ecosystem 2008

  • Not surprisingly, we lack detailed statistical evidence on when and how sexual behavior itself changed, but sociologists David Harding and Christopher Jencks have painstakingly pieced together survey data from a variety of sources on when and how norms changed, and specifically on the question of whether premarital sex was right or wrong.2

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • According to Charles Jencks, the man who applied the term "postmodernism" or Post-Modernism, as he likes to write it to architecture, it never went away, and he has published a book, The Story of Post-Modernism, to prove it.

    PoMo power: the return of postmodernism 2011

  • Yet we are all, as Farrell and Jencks say, postmodernists now.

    PoMo power: the return of postmodernism 2011

  • For Jencks, postmodernism is about many things, especially plurality, complexity and the ability of buildings to symbolise almost anything, from the order of the cosmos to a hot dog.

    PoMo power: the return of postmodernism 2011

  • But there are not many studies of the matter, though there are some good ones e.g., see: Jencks & Phillips, Eds., The Black-White Test Score Gap, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.

    James Gee: A Test: Why Was the Black-White Gap Closing When It was Closing? James Gee 2011

  • But there are not many studies of the matter, though there are some good ones e.g., see: Jencks & Phillips, Eds., The Black-White Test Score Gap, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.

    James Gee: A Test: Why Was the Black-White Gap Closing When It was Closing? James Gee 2011

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