Most culture change fizzles in theory. We make it real. Every solution is built by behavioural scientists to link values with action and drive tangible performance outcomes. It’s change that’s measured, managedand meant to last. Only 56% of employees believe DEI is a good thing. Why? Be...
PART ONE CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES 01-Barker_4e-4300-Ch-01 (Part 1).indd 1 11/11/2011 7:54:45 PM 01-Barker_4e-4300-Ch-01 (Part 1).indd 2 11/11/2011 7:54:45 PM AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES 1 Given the title of this book – Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice –...
The Origin of Social-Technical Theory *Up through the 1940s, coal mining in the UK was largely pick and shovel work aided by drills and, sometimes, explosives. A work crew typically consisted of three to half a dozen men (and they were all men) who were task organized to strip the coa...
conflictdominationreificationAgon Culture: Competition, Conflict and the Problem of Domination is a book in the tradition of the Frankfurt School's critical theory. It takes a critical look at one of the key concepts in sociopolitical thought 鈥 agon (conflict) 鈥 through a reworking of Adorno...
When the right denounces 'cancel culture' and 'wokeness', this is routinely articulated as part of a chain of equivalences that turns signifiers like 'critical theory', 'critical race theory', 'gender theory', 'cultural Marxism', 'the Frankfurt School', 'postmodernism', 'social constructionism...
This is culture theory as an open question. I think we should all have models. And one of the points of culture culture is precisely to compare and contrast these models. There is a ton of work here. Let a 1000 models bloom.
Literary Theory and Criticism Rhizome comes from the Greek rhizoma . Rhizome is often taken as being synonymous with “root”; in botany, a rhizome is a plant structure that grows underground and has both roots (commonly, the part that grows down into the ground) and shoots (commonly, the ...
Mazrui, Ali (1996) “Perspective: The Muse of Modernity and the Quest for. Development” in Philip Altbach and Salah Hassan (eds) “The Muse of Modernity: Essays on Culture as Development in Africa”: Africa World Press Inc Merton, Robert (1957) “Social Theory and Social Structure”: ...
A common theory is that during this crisis, there was some kind of revolt among the Israelite underclass, perhaps lead by a figure like Moses, and that after generations of oral history this transformed from them being slaves of Egypt in Israel to them being slaves in Egypt itself. ...
To address these weakness, Jewish and Christian theologians who embrace the pain-is-punishment theory supplement it by explaining that “original sin”—Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden—brought about God’s wrath not only upon themselves, but corrupted the whole planet, causing...