The Value Of Comparison

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374220

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The Value of Comparison by Peter van der Veer Pdf

In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand societies. This capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide and marginalize difference.

Author : Matei Candea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108474603

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Comparison in Anthropology by Matei Candea Pdf

Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

Author : Oliver Freiberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190929121

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Considering Comparison by Oliver Freiberger Pdf

The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies. All the technical terms that scholars of religion use on a daily basis, such as ritual, hagiography, shrine, authority, fundamentalism, hybridity, and, of course, religion, are comparative terms. Yet comparison has been subject to criticism, including postcolonialist and postmodernist critiques. Older approaches are said to have used comparison primarily to confirm preconceptions about religion. More recently, comparison has been criticized as an act of abstraction that does injustice to the particular, neglects differences, and establishes a mostly Western power of definition over the rest of the world. In this book, Oliver Freiberger takes a closer look at how comparison works. Revisiting critical debates and examining reflections in other disciplines, including comparative history, sociology, comparative theology, and anthropology, Freiberger proposes a model of comparison that is based on a thorough epistemological analysis and that takes both the scholar's situatedness and his or her agency seriously. Examining numerous examples of comparative studies, Considering Comparison develops a methodological framework for conducting and evaluating such studies. Freiberger suggests a comparative approach - which he calls discourse comparison - that confronts the omnipresent risks of decontextualization, essentialization, and universalization. This book makes a case for comparison, arguing that it is indispensable for a deeper analytical understanding of what we call religion. The book is intended to enrich the practice of both aspiring and seasoned comparativists, stimulate much-needed further discussions about comparative methodology, and encourage more scholars to produce responsible comparative studies.

Author : Richard G. Fox,Andre Gingrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134509287

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Anthropology, by Comparison by Richard G. Fox,Andre Gingrich Pdf

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For the most part, comparison as theory and method has been a casualty of the critique of 'grand theory' and of a growing mistrust of objectivist, hard-science methodology in the social sciences. Today it is time for anthropology to resume its central task of exploring humankind through comparison, using its newfound critical self-awareness under changing global conditions. In Anthropology By Comparision, an international group of prominent anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explore the value of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. While rejecting older, universalist comparative methods, these scholars take a fresh look at various subaltern and neglected approaches to comparison from their own national traditions. They then present new approaches that are especially relevant to the globalized world of the twenty-first century. Every student and practitioner of anthropology and the social sciences will find this thought-provoking volume essential reading. Anthropology, by Comparison is a call to creative reflection on the past and productive action in the present, a challenge to anthropologists to revitalize their unique contribution to human understanding. Anthropology, by Comparison is an indispensable overview of anthropology's roots - and its future - with regard to the comparative study of humankind.

Author : Leah Darrow
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718090739

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The Other Side of Beauty by Leah Darrow Pdf

“Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like.” —Jennifer Fulwiler, host of The Jennifer Fulwiler Show and author of Something Other than God Do you feel like you’re never good enough? Like you should be living a more Instagram-worthy life? Are you exhausted by the impossible quest for physical beauty but still yearn for the validation of being chosen, valued, and deemed beautiful? Drawing on her experience on America’s Next Top Model and her work as a fashion model, Leah Darrow exposes the lies we are told about our worth being tied to our appearance and instead invites us to look again at the real meaning of beauty. She shows how we can reclaim true and lasting beauty—the kind that doesn’t depend on self-doubt, exploitation, or comparison—when we reflect God’s glory and embrace our value as he made us to be: strong, brave, and free. Only when we learn to see ourselves as God does can we leave behind our culture’s definitions and demands and find joy in The Other Side of Beauty.

Author : Helge Dedek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108841726

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A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence by Helge Dedek Pdf

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn's work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

Author : John R. Vacca
Publisher : Syngress
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780124200470

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Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure Protection by John R. Vacca Pdf

This book serves as a security practitioner’s guide to today’s most crucial issues in cyber security and IT infrastructure. It offers in-depth coverage of theory, technology, and practice as they relate to established technologies as well as recent advancements. It explores practical solutions to a wide range of cyber-physical and IT infrastructure protection issues. Composed of 11 chapters contributed by leading experts in their fields, this highly useful book covers disaster recovery, biometrics, homeland security, cyber warfare, cyber security, national infrastructure security, access controls, vulnerability assessments and audits, cryptography, and operational and organizational security, as well as an extensive glossary of security terms and acronyms. Written with instructors and students in mind, this book includes methods of analysis and problem-solving techniques through hands-on exercises and worked examples as well as questions and answers and the ability to implement practical solutions through real-life case studies. For example, the new format includes the following pedagogical elements: • Checklists throughout each chapter to gauge understanding • Chapter Review Questions/Exercises and Case Studies • Ancillaries: Solutions Manual; slide package; figure files This format will be attractive to universities and career schools as well as federal and state agencies, corporate security training programs, ASIS certification, etc. Chapters by leaders in the field on theory and practice of cyber security and IT infrastructure protection, allowing the reader to develop a new level of technical expertise Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of cyber security issues allows the reader to remain current and fully informed from multiple viewpoints Presents methods of analysis and problem-solving techniques, enhancing the reader's grasp of the material and ability to implement practical solutions

Author : Francis Yin Yee Lau,Craig Kuziemsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 1550586017

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Handbook of EHealth Evaluation by Francis Yin Yee Lau,Craig Kuziemsky Pdf

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Author : Christina Elde Mølstad,Daniel Pettersson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429877025

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New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education by Christina Elde Mølstad,Daniel Pettersson Pdf

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education discusses contemporary trends and activities related to comparisons and quantifications. It aims to help scholars to conduct empirically based research on how comparisons and quantifications are instituted in practice at different levels in the educational system. The book furthers discussions on policy by looking at the kinds of activities that comparisons and quantifications lead to at an international, regional and national level. Most of the book’s chapters are based on empirical research conducted in different research projects. The book thus brings all these projects together and discusses them as activities promoted by the reasoning of comparisons and quantifications. New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, curriculum research and policy studies. It will also appeal to those in the fields of teacher education, including student teachers.

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691128153

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The Modern Spirit of Asia by Peter van der Veer Pdf

A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and India The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western concepts of spirituality, secularity, religion, and magic were used to translate the traditions of India and China. He traces how modern Western notions of religion and magic were incorporated into the respective nation-building projects of Chinese and Indian nationalist intellectuals, yet how modernity in China and India is by no means uniform. While religion is a centerpiece of Indian nationalism, it is viewed in China as an obstacle to progress that must be marginalized and controlled. The Modern Spirit of Asia moves deftly from Kandinsky's understanding of spirituality in art to Indian yoga and Chinese qi gong, from modern theories of secularism to histories of Christian conversion, from Orientalist constructions of religion to Chinese campaigns against magic and superstition, and from Muslim Kashmir to Muslim Xinjiang. Van der Veer, an outspoken proponent of the importance of comparative studies of religion and society, eloquently makes his case in this groundbreaking examination of the spiritual and the secular in China and India.

Author : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Radicalism
ISBN : IND:30000080736907

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The Radical Review by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker Pdf

Author : James Y. Shah,Wendi L. Gardner
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462515110

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Handbook of Motivation Science by James Y. Shah,Wendi L. Gardner Pdf

Integrating significant advances in motivation science that have occurred over the last two decades, this volume thoroughly examines the ways in which motivation interacts with social, developmental, and emotional processes, as well as personality more generally. The Handbook comprises 39 clearly written chapters from leaders in the field. Cutting-edge theory and research is presented on core psychological motives, such as the need for esteem, security, consistency, and achievement; motivational systems that arise to address these fundamental needs; the process and consequences of goal pursuit, including the role of individual differences and contextual moderators; and implications for personal well-being and interpersonal and intergroup relations.

Author : H. Cölfen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540487036

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Analytical Ultracentrifugation V by H. Cölfen Pdf

The basis for this volume is the 11th Symposium on Analytical Ultracentrifugation held in March 25-26, 1999 at the University of Potsdam, Germany. This book presents a comprehensive collection of 33 contributions from leading scientists in this field including: Technical and methodological innovations.- Innovations in data analysis.- Hydrodynamics/Modelling.- Synthetic polymers, colloids and supramolecular systems.- Biological systems.- Interacting systems and assemblies. In contrast to the increasing significance of analytical ultracentrifugation, related modern books are very rare. Therefore, this volume will be a helpful source of information to anyone who wants to catch up with the most recent developments and results related to this important analytical method.

Author : Tatiana Soto J.
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783836608725

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Methods for Assessing Brand Value by Tatiana Soto J. Pdf

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: In today s highly competitive business environment, companies have recognised the increasing importance of brands as one of their most important assets. However, now the discussion is how to measure the value of such an important asset and what makes this valuation important. The purpose of this thesis is the critical comparison between two well-known brand valuation methods in order to choose the one that reflects the monetary value of a brand best possible. For this purpose, the methods are first analysed in relation to their compliance with the requirements for brand valuation methods. Secondly, the extent to which the methods can be applied for the different valuation purposes is also analysed. The two selected methods are the Interbrand model (from Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux) and the Brand Equity Evaluator model (from BBDO Consulting). Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: List of AbbreviationsIV List of FiguresV List of TablesVI 1.Introduction1 1.1Background1 1.2Purpose and Structure of the Thesis3 2.Foundation of Brand Valuation6 2.1Importance and Definition of Brand6 2.1.1Importance of Brand6 2.1.2Brand Definition8 2.1.3Brands as Intangible Assets and Generators of Value11 2.2Definition of Brand Value14 2.2.1Financial Approach15 2.2.2Behavioural Approach17 2.2.3Combined financial/behavioural Approach19 3.Selection of the Comparison Criteria for Brand Valuation Methods21 3.1Requirements for Brand Valuation Methods22 3.1.1Methodical Requirements22 3.1.2Covering Content Requirements23 3.1.3Relevance of Result Requirements24 3.2Scopes of Application of Brand Valuation26 3.2.1Internal Scope of Application27 3.2.2External Scope of Application30 4.Methods for Assessing the Brand Value37 4.1Classification of the Methods38 4.1.1Financial-oriented Methods39 4.1.2Behavioural-oriented Methods41 4.1.3Combined financial/behavioural Methods42 4.2Theoretical and Methodological Description of the Methods43 4.2.1Interbrand Brand Value Approach (from Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux)43 4.2.1.1Theoretical Foundation44 4.2.1.2Methodological Description46 4.2.2Brand Equity Evaluator Approach (from BBDO)51 4.2.2.1Theoretical Foundation52 4.2.2.2Methodological Description54 5.Critical Comparison of the Interbrand Model and the Brand Equity Evaluator Model59 5.1Contrast of the Theory and Methodology of the Valuation Models59 5.2Compliance with the Requirements for Brand Valuation Methods62 5.2.1Interbrand [...]

Author : John Boswell,Jack Corbett,R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108472852

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The Art and Craft of Comparison by John Boswell,Jack Corbett,R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

A call to arms for researchers to embrace their comparative intuition and combine in-depth stories with general lessons from their research.