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Book Personal Competition  Its Place in the Social Order and Effect Upon Individuals  with Some Considerations on Success

Download or read book Personal Competition Its Place in the Social Order and Effect Upon Individuals with Some Considerations on Success written by Charles Horton Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to the Science of Sociology

Download or read book Introduction to the Science of Sociology written by Robert Ezra Park and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Competition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefan Arora-Jonsson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0192898019
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Competition written by Stefan Arora-Jonsson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The spread of competition into all areas of society is one of the master trends of modern society. Yet, social scientists have played a surprisingly modest role in the analysis of its implications as the discussion of competition has largely been confined to the narrow context of economic markets. This book opens up competition for the study of social scientists. The central message of the book is that competition seems ubiquitous but it should not be taken for granted or be naturalized as an inevitable aspect of human existence. Its emergence, maintenance, and change are based on institutions and organizational efforts, and a central challenge for social science is to learn more about these processes and their outcomes. With the use of a novel definition of competition, more fundamental questions can be addressed than merely whether or not competition works. How is competition constructed--and by whom? Which institutional and organizational foundations need to be considered? Which behaviours result from competition? What are its consequences? Can competition be removed? And, how do these factors vary with the object of competition--be it money, attention, status, or other scarce and desired objects? The chapters in the book investigate these and more questions in studies of competition among and within schools, universities, multinational corporations, auditors, waste-disposal firms, and fashion designers and users. The chapters are written by scholars from several social science fields: management, organization studies, sociology, anthropology, and education"--Publisher's website.

Book Uncertainty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrik Aspers
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-07-17
  • ISBN : 0197752764
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Uncertainty written by Patrik Aspers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing uncertainty, and the trade-offs involved in reducing forms of uncertainty while leaving open opportunities for others. People may have access to unique and private knowledge that reduces their uncertainty when making decisions. Publicly available knowledge is central for building a society that enables communication based on shared ideas and understanding, instead of falling into bubbles, echo chambers, and private truths. Examples include institutions, laws, standards, evaluation, competition, and ranking. The book addresses how these reduce uncertainty and how these ways are created. Examining what people can and in fact do to reduce uncertainty, Aspers addresses the existential dimension of uncertainty, the collective efforts and socially produced outcomes that lead to reduced uncertainty, and the social order that results.

Book Education for Character

Download or read book Education for Character written by Frank Chapman Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences

Download or read book Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

Download or read book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism written by Martijn Konings and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.

Book An Introduction to Social Psychology

Download or read book An Introduction to Social Psychology written by Luther Lee Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present Introduction to Social Psychology represents an attempt at a more synthetic type of treatment of the field than has ordinarily been given. It seems to the writer that the time has arrived when "schools" of social psychology may properly be regarded as obsolete and the subject as a whole may be presented systematically. In a sense social psychology overlaps a very large portion of social science and of psychology and education. In this respect it is central to all psychological and social science disciplines. This fact necessarily renders the content of social psychology voluminous. It is no longer possible to treat this subject adequately in small compass. The text-books which have so far appeared, although for the most part excellent from their several viewpoints, are nevertheless but partial treatments. So notably true is this that there exists a marked controversy as to what properly constitutes social psychology. In Part I of this volume an attempt has been made to bring this controversy into relief for the purpose of enabling the reader to see the subject as a whole. Originally the writer intended to publish this volume in five parts to make the synthetic treatment more pronounced. But the length of the volume as thus planned was prohibitive and it was decided to change the plan somewhat. The synthetic character of the treatment has been retained, but the detailed presentation of the process of the development of personality and of self and social consciousness has been reserved for a second volume. The present volume treats the subject from the standpoint of the more objective factors which integrate the personality and its responses in a social environment. Throughout it has been the intention of the writer, not only to make the treatment complete in itself, but to keep the presentation on such a level that the volume can be used successfully as a second book in social theory, following directly upon the introductory course in sociology in departments sociology. If the approach to the social sciences is a psychological one, the organization of this volume should make it available as an introduction to the first course in sociology, economics, politics, and more advanced courses in history and literature, in those departments which care to use it in this way. That social psychology will ultimately be regarded as a necessary introduction to the several social sciences and the literatures can scarcely be doubted. While the present volume is intended for undergraduate students, it is hoped that it may also be used profitably in more advanced courses in combination with the more extended treatment of the subjective aspects of personality development later to be published"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Book The Economic Journal

Download or read book The Economic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers that appeal to a broad and global readership in all fields of economics.

Book Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Download or read book Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science written by American Academy of Political and Social Science and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Contest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfie Kohn
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780395631256
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book No Contest written by Alfie Kohn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that competition is inherently destructive and that competitive behavior is culturally induced, counter-productive, and causes anxiety, selfishness, self-doubt, and poor communication.

Book History of the Theory of Sovereignty Since Rousseau

Download or read book History of the Theory of Sovereignty Since Rousseau written by Charles Edward Merriam and published by New York, Columbia U. P. This book was released on 1900 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction

Download or read book Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction written by Karl Mannheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980. This is Volume II of Mannheim's collected works, translated by Edward Shils and includes recent developments in the author's thinking since 1935 when it was originally written.

Book Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society

Download or read book Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by N.Y. : Macmillan, 1913 [c1909]. This book was released on 1913 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of American Social Science

Download or read book The Origins of American Social Science written by Dorothy Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how American social science modelled itself on natural science and liberal politics.

Book Co operation at Home and Abroad

Download or read book Co operation at Home and Abroad written by Charles Ryle Fay and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: