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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机译:在二十一世纪,美国陷入了文化调整的时刻,这反映了上个世纪出现的意识形态,物质和社会困境的大爆发。本论文涉及这段时期出现的各种理论和概念,以试图探究韦德·克拉克·罗格(Wade Clark Roof)所谓的“反身灵性”的潜在影响,其特征是反制度,高度主观,不断重新评估和重新将个人与他/他的社区并置在一起的宗教真理观念。通过将当代媒体研究,民间宗教研究以及葛兰西霸权和常识理论应用于NBC情景喜剧“我的名字是伯爵”,这项研究探索了媒体,资本主义和霸权在形成反身精神个体身份方面的影响,并得出结论在当今时代,这个人有能力更好地自我意识和批判性地参与社会影响问题,这最终可能导致对社会价值观念和地位的常识观念的改变。
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