Culture As A System

Author : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351972710

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Culture as a System by David B. Kronenfeld Pdf

A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content that produces the behavior? Is it to be viewed as a coherent whole or only a collection of disparate parts? Culture is shared, but how totally? How is culture learned and maintained over time, and how does it change? In Meaning and Significance in Human Engagement, Kronenfeld adopts a cognitive approach to culture to offer answers to these questions. Combining insights from cognitive psychology and linguistic anthropology with research on collective knowledge systems, he offers an understanding of culture as a phenomenon produced and shaped by a combination of conditions, constraints and logic. Engagingly written, it is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology of culture, philosophy, and computational cognitive science.

Author : Frederick Buell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0801848342

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National Culture and the New Global System by Frederick Buell Pdf

"The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order," writes Frederick Buell, "but its hold on our imagination and faith is passing fast. In its place, a startlingly different model—the notion that the world is somehow interconnected into a single system—has emerged, expressing the perception that global relationships constitute not three separate worlds but a single network." In the wake of disillusionment with anticolonial nationalism, and in response to a wide variety of economic, political, demographic, and technological changes, Buell argues, we have come increasingly to view the world as complexly interconnected. In National Culture and the New Global System he considers how the notion of national culture has been conceived—and reconceived—in the postwar period. For much of the period, the "three world" theory provided economic, political, and cultural models for mapping a world of nation-states. More recently, new notions of interconnectedness have been developed, ones that have had profound—and sometimes startling—effects on cultural production and theory. Surveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.

Author : Lex Sisney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781300785637

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Organizational Physics - The Science of Growing a Business by Lex Sisney Pdf

There are hidden laws at work in every aspect of your business. Understand them, and you can create extraordinary growth. Ignore them, and you run the risk of becoming another statistic. It's become almost cliche: 8 out of every 10 new ventures fail. Of the ones that succeed, how many truly thrive-for the long run? And of those that thrive, how many continually overcome their growth hurdles ... and ultimately scale, with meaning, purpose, and profitability? The answer, sadly, is not many. Author Lex Sisney is on a mission to change that picture. After more than a decade spent leading and coaching high-growth technology companies, Lex discovered that the companies that thrive do so in accordance with 6 Laws - universal principles that govern the success or failure of every individual, team, and organization.

Author : Dominic Boyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226068900

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Spirit and System by Dominic Boyer Pdf

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Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465093564

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The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz Pdf

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 1452901538

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Culture, Globalization and the World System by Anthony D. King Pdf

Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028935380

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Culture, Globalization, and the World-system by Anthony D. King Pdf

The transformations in global communications and political economy are causing changes in the categories on which cultures are based - race, gender, ethnicity, class and nation. The essays in this text address these issues.

Author : Nathan J. Keirns,Heather Griffiths,Eric Strayer,Susan Cody-Rydzewski,Gail Scaramuzzo,Tommy Sadler,Sally Vyain,Jeff D. Bry,Faye Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Sociology
ISBN : 1947172905

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Introduction to Sociology 2e by Nathan J. Keirns,Heather Griffiths,Eric Strayer,Susan Cody-Rydzewski,Gail Scaramuzzo,Tommy Sadler,Sally Vyain,Jeff D. Bry,Faye Jones Pdf

"Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book's conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today's students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface."--Website of text.

Author : Randall Powers,Dr Donte Vaughn
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544526121

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From CULTURE to CULTURE by Randall Powers,Dr Donte Vaughn Pdf

Company culture (noun) kuhm-puh-nee kuhl-cher: The values leaders and employees share, language they use, behaviors they display, and connections they have that establish how they engage and interact in the workplace. Company culture influences the roles and responsibilities of every employee within the organization, from executive leadership down to the front lines. A strong, healthy company culture drives productivity and raises profitability, and disengaged employees cost companies billions, yet many executives rarely associate their culture with their bottom line. Today, employee engagement stakes are higher than ever because executives have to consider the impact their company culture has on external stakeholders as well. Investors, consumers, and even the government are now interested in whether the organizations they do business with have values that align with theirs and demonstrate behaviors that match those values. Executive leadership must define company culture and understand how to implement it and, ultimately, measure and improve it. In From CULTURE to CULTURE, Dr. Donte Vaughn and Randall Powers introduce their culture performance management methodology and present a behavior-driven system to operationalize company culture and increase employee engagement.

Author : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0367594781

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Culture as a System by David B. Kronenfeld Pdf

Kronenfeld proposes a cognitive approach to culture, wherein cognition refers to knowledge--but not just verbal or conscious knowledge. Cultural cognition is the shared pragmatic knowledge that includes our behavioral as well as conceptual knowledge--our knowledge of how to engage each other (whether via cooperation or competition) or how to avo

Author : Gordon Sato
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781468429046

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Tissue Culture of the Nervous System by Gordon Sato Pdf

The impetus for compiling this book was the recent development of culture strains of neuroblastoma and glial cells and the immediate and enthusiastic way they have been taken up as model systems. After the first sudden rush of activity, it seems appropriate to pause, to assess progress, and to contemplate the future contributions that may be possible using these culture techniques. Long before the advent of established strains, cultures of nervous tissue had already contributed to neurobiology. Ross Harrison, in 1906, in a single experimental series, established tissue culture as a promising new technique in cell biology and settled the Golgi-Cajal controversy as to whether axonic processes originated as outgrowths from the cell body or were formed first in the intercellular spaces and were later connected to the cell body. Harrison observed process growth from nerve cells in cultures, thus settling the matter in favor of Cajal. Of great importance to neurobiology is the discovery by Rita Levi-Montalcini of nerve growth factor. Cultures of spinal ganglia played a major role in the discovery, isolation, and characterization of the factor (Levi-Montalcini et ai. , 1954). In my opinion, this discovery, although very well known, has not yet been adequately recognized for its germinal influence on neurobiology and embryology. Progress since the advent of clonal cultures has been more modest. I would like to cite two pieces of work which emphasize the technical ad vantages of these cultures.

Author : Richard H. Zimmerman,Robert J. Griesbach,Freddi A. Hammerschlag,R.H. Lawson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400944442

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Tissue culture as a plant production system for horticultural crops by Richard H. Zimmerman,Robert J. Griesbach,Freddi A. Hammerschlag,R.H. Lawson Pdf

In 1980, a conference on tissue culture of fruit crops was held at Beltsville to summarize the current status of this technology and to stimulate interest in it among research scientists, students, and commercial producers in the U. S. Interest in that conference and the proceedings from it far exceeded the expectations of the organizing committee. Since that time, micropropagation of fruit crops in the U. S. has increased significantly, but still lags far behind applications to production of ornamental plants. Within the past two years, a number of new laboratories have been established and some of the existing laboratories have expanded to a size far larger than any previously anticipated. Creation of new laboratories capable of producing more than 400,000 plants per week will test the ingenuity of laboratory managers and the skills of marketing departments. In recent years, numerous symposia have been held on various aspects of biotechnology and genetic engineering. Although micro propagation is the key to providing large numbers of genetically engineered plants, it is a topic that has been relegated to a minor position, or ignored completely, at such meetings. Accordingly, the time seemed propitious for a conference devoted solely to all aspects of micropropagation as applicable to horticultural crops.

Author : Duong Tan Nhut,Kiem Tran Thanh Van,B. Van Le,Trevor A. Thorpe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401735223

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Thin Cell Layer Culture System: Regeneration and Transformation Applications by Duong Tan Nhut,Kiem Tran Thanh Van,B. Van Le,Trevor A. Thorpe Pdf

Scientists within the field of plant biotechnology are in a constant search for techniques that can, in the simplest manner possible, answer the genetic and biochemical questions that underlie developmental processes. Thin Cell Layer Culture System not only takes an in-depth look at a technique that has had so much success in attempting, through various practical models and systems, to answer these issues, but also represents a celebration of almost 30 years of research that has covered a massive scope of plant species and areas of study. The initial studies conducted on tobacco thin cell layers (TCLs) - proving that organogenesis can be strictly controlled in vitro - allowed plant research to benefit from this finding, expanding this knowledge in a practical and applied manner into the biotechnological fields of tissue culture and micropropagation, cell and organ genetics and biochemistry. The chapters in this book tell the enigmatic tale of TCLs. An historical perspective opens the scene for an inquiry into the possible cellular, biochemical and genetic processes that allow for the controlled development of a TCL into any organ type. The success of the system is further demonstrated in both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous species, covering successful organogenesis and in vitro flowering in species within ornamental, leguminous and wood crops, cereals and grasses. Methodologies are outlined in detail, as is the rationale behind the TCL-organogenesis-developmental sequel. The TCL method, shown to be superior to many conventional micropropagation systems, has also shown to be vital in the recovery of transgenic plants. This book is an essential part of every plant, cell and developmental biologist, geneticist and tissue culturalist's shelf as it addresses the primary issue of any plant: the cell, the tissue, and their subsequent development into a highly organized system.

Author : Inga-Britt Krause
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367105217

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Culture and System in Family Therapy by Inga-Britt Krause Pdf

Starting with the MacPherson Report and its pronouncements on racism in Britain and in particular 'institutionalised racism', Dr Krause focuses in this important book on the practice of family therapy and draws on her expertise as both anthropologist and systemic family psychotherapist to formulate a cogent critical evaluation of the field. At the heart of her book, furnished with very useful clinical material is a concern to identify the necessary conditions for an 'anti-discriminatory, non-ethnocentric and ethical way of working cross-culturally'. In illuminating the way in which underlying and frequently unexamined assumptions serve to perpetuate institutionally discriminatory outcomes, the author outlines a model for the development of a culturally sensitised, questioning, and self-reflexive practice. This book will serve as an individual reference-point for all those concerned to avoid and eliminate institutional discrimination.

Author : Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174423585

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Society, Culture, and Personality by Pitirim A. Sorokin Pdf