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Contingency Theory - Gary Itzkowitz - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Contingency Theory - Gary Itzkowitz - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A major task for social theory in the 1990s is to explain the relationship between individuals and social structures. This book makes two simple suggestions for forging a micro/macro link. First, theorists should abandon their search for universal laws governing society. Second, abandoning overarching laws does not leave postmodern mayhem as the only alternative. Following twentieth century scientific discoveries, this book argues that while micro and macro social processes remain related, they do so only as an aftermath of autonomous developments in each level. Since the two autonomous levels may emerge at odds, or in tandem, their relationship becomes contingent and unpredictable. The concept of contingency is a breakthrough for social theory. Where current micro/macro debates are merely an expanded, but veiled, regurgitation of philosophical issues debated long ago, the concept of contigency allows social theory to transcend old paradigms and explain contemporary society.

DKK 636.00
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Jewish Orthodoxy and Its Discontents - Marta F. Topel - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Jewish Orthodoxy and Its Discontents - Marta F. Topel - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this book, Marta T. Topel utilizes anthropological research to analyze both macro and micro social processes among secular and Orthodox Jews in Israel. She covers such complex issues as the tensions between the two groups and the radicalization of Israeli Jewish Orthodoxy in the last thirty years. The book also delves into micro social processes such as the long and tortured journey of Israeli religious dissidents and the role of non-governmental organizations in helping these dissidents adapt to secular society. In addition, she discusses the symbolic and ritual paraphernalia that dissidents must become familiar with in order to be successful in their new lives as secular Jews. Jewish Orthodoxy and Its Discontents approaches the phenomenon of religious dissidence within the Jewish Israeli Orthodoxy through the lens of the inverse phenomenon: religious conversion to Jewish Orthodoxy. This outlook is based on theoretical ground as both events constitute a radical change of the ideology of both the social actors and the social structures they have abandoned.

DKK 379.00
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Stockholm on the Rio Grande - David E. Vassberg - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Stockholm on the Rio Grande - David E. Vassberg - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Stockholm, Texas, was an early twentieth century Swedish colony in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The topic provides a fascinating micro-history of culture contacts, acculturation, and economic development in a frontier setting. The Swedish colony represented an island of Scandinavian culture in a predominately Hispanic area that was in the process of colonization by Anglo-Americans from the north. The story of Stockholm, Texas, is a case history of the impact on a small rural community of the mechanization and commercialization of American agriculture.

DKK 682.00
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Images Out of Africa - Virginia Garner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Images Out of Africa - Virginia Garner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century. These representatives of the Christian community diligently produced films about far-flung cultures to bolster fundraising for mission efforts around the globe. By the interwar period, a few husband-and-wife teams in Africa were making an array of films about vanishing cultures and the struggle to bring Christianity to indigenous populations. Images Out of Africa brings to light the remarkable expedition of one such team of filmmakers. In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner, working for the Africa Motion Picture Project, ambitiously began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons, introducing film into villages for the first time. This book features Virginia Garner''s recently rediscovered diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers.

DKK 415.00
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Images Out of Africa - Virginia Garner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Images Out of Africa - Virginia Garner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century. These representatives of the Christian community diligently produced films about far-flung cultures to bolster fundraising for mission efforts around the globe. By the interwar period, a few husband-and-wife teams in Africa were making an array of films about vanishing cultures and the struggle to bring Christianity to indigenous populations. Images Out of Africa brings to light the remarkable expedition of one such team of filmmakers. In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner, working for the Africa Motion Picture Project, ambitiously began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons, introducing film into villages for the first time. This book features Virginia Garner''s recently rediscovered diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers.

DKK 777.00
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Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning - Robert Parhizgar - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning - Robert Parhizgar - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Multicultural business ethics is an invisible aspect of business, but understanding it in a global context is crucial for every manager who leads within a multinational organization. This makes Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning essential reading for today''s multinational business professionals. Dr. Kamal Dean Parhizgar, respected author of Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments, and co-author Robert Reza Parhizgar bring you an informative textbook and reference source on ethics and morality in multinational business. The book also includes an instructor''s manual with helpful teaching tips and overviews on chapter content, questions, and case studies used in the text. Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning explores: —Managerial decision-making processes and ethical relativism —Micro-level approach to moral theories —Macro-level social approaches to ethical theories —The comparison of issues between home and host countries —The paradigm of multicultural ethics and business knowledge management —Moral virtues, ethical values, and corporate stakeholders'' convictions —Managerial trust, right, and duties —Ethical issues concerning econo-political ideologies —Major ethical and moral issues concerning Global Social Business Darwinism —The main theories of justice, law, and social contracts between businesses and society

DKK 919.00
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A Victorian Holocaust - Mohammad Gholi Majd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Victorian Holocaust - Mohammad Gholi Majd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837–1901) is “the secret history of the nineteenth century” about which Western history books contain nothing. The Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran took 10–12 million lives, or two-thirds of the population, and is part of this secret history. While the famines that ravaged China and India during 1876 to 1902 have received some recent scrutiny, the precursor of these cataclysmic famines, the Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran, has remained practically unknown. This study is the first monograph on the subject in the English language. This famine in Iran killed on a scale similar to the 1876–79 famine in China, which has been called the worst to afflict the human species. This study is based on British diplomatic reports and semi-official sources, European travel accounts, Persian documents and writings, British and American newspapers, and the reports by American missionaries who witnessed the famine. These sources enable one to provide a chronological and numerical account of the death and suffering as the famine spread from the southern and central regions to the rest of the country. The population statistics and rich micro-level data on famine losses in rural and urban areas indicate that during the nearly five years of famine, two-thirds of the population had perished. Not until 1910 did Iran come close to recovering its 1869 population. Soon after, Iran was plunged into the Great Famine of 1917–19, which claimed another 8–10 million, and again the 1942–43 famine and typhus epidemic that carried off an additional 4 million persons. In the seventy-five year span of 1869–1944, Iran had suffered three famines that had taken 25 million lives. Iran’s 1944 population of 10–12 million was unchanged from 11 million recorded in 1841, a perfect case of a Malthusian catastrophe. It is difficult to find another country in which a century of population growth had been wiped out by famine. Having previously described and quantified the 1917–19 and 1942–43 famines, Majd does the same for the 1869–73 famine. This book is the third of a trilogy on famines in Iran during the last 150 years.

DKK 644.00
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