Organizational behavior- it is made out of two words “organization” and “behavior.” What is an organization? Organization as two or more individuals who are interacting with each other within a deliberately structured set up and working in an interdependent way to achieve some common objective/s. Organizations play a major role in pur lives. We possibly cannot think of a single moment in our lives when we are not depending on rganizations in some form or the other. Right from the public transport
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Meaning‚ Nature and Scope of Social Research Meaning and Definition According to the Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary of Current English‚ research is “a careful investigation or enquiry specially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge”. Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of English Language defines research as “diligent and systematic enquiry or investigation in to a subject in order to discover or revise facts‚ theories‚ applications‚ etc.” Thus‚ in common parlance
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INTODUCTION India is witnessing construction of very interesting projects in all sectors of Infrastructure. High rise structures‚ under construction‚ include residential/commercial blocks up to a height of 320 m and RC chimneys for thermal power stations extending upwards up to 275m. Majority of the structures are in structural concrete. The functional demands of such high rise structures include the use of durable materials. High Strength Concrete‚ Self–compacting Concrete are gaining widespread
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society; belonging in the same category as family‚ economy‚ media‚ politics‚ education‚ and religion (Donnelly‚ 1996). Like many of the aforementioned spheres of our lives‚ sport is a social construction‚ providing a window into the sociocultural context of which we live (Allport‚ 1985). Being a “social construction” we must attempt to understand sport by approaching it as a social fact‚ therefore sociologically‚ as opposed to how we would with objects or events in the biophysical world – through science
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Databases | Database Construction and Management 1. What is a database? A database is one or more large structured sets of persistent data‚ usually associated with software (database management system) to update and query the data. A simple database might be a single file containing many records‚ each of which contains the same set of fields where each field is a certain fixed width - From FOLDOC A database is a collection of data elements (facts) stored in a computer in a systematic way
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illness. He and his people cleared the Malaria and the Yellow fever. One by one‚ house by house‚ water was cleaned and killed the mosquitoes. Later‚ Stevens had abandoned the project with Goethals taking charge in engineering. He focused on the Rocky Mountains‚ although it was filled with danger. From his discoveries the project of the Canal continued. Equally important‚ the building of the Canal finished in 1914. Unfortunately‚ president Theodore Roosevelt had died in 1921. He had defended the idea
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Table of Contents Background information …………………………………………… 3 Problem Statement …………………………………………… 3 Objectives …………………………………………….... 4 Justification …………………………………………… 4 Scope …………………………………………… 5 Risks and Mitigation ……………………………………………… 5 Budget ……………………………………………… 5 Expected Duration …………………………………………… 6 References ……………………………………………… 6 Project Name: Online Railway Reservations Background Information The railway corporation has its headquarters at the county’s capital and has a
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PLEASURE PRINCIPLES: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GAMBLING AND SEX ADDICTION TREATMENT A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Sociology by M. Kelly James B.A.‚ University of Memphis‚ 1988 M.A.‚ University of Memphis‚ 1991 August 2002 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Although many people have helped me accomplish this goal
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Assess the view that the concept of childhood is socially constructed . Social construction is an idea that something is not naturally on the way but is constructed and defined by society . Sociologists always argue that human behaviour ‚ perception is constructed by the norms ‚ values ‚ belief within the society . This mean that different society may have different interpretation on something . For example ‚ men wearing skirts in England is often seen as deviant behaviour ‚ but it would not be
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The Scopes Trial was the Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools. A statute was passed (Mar.‚ 1925) in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories contrary to accepted interpretation of the biblical account of human creation. John T. Scopes‚ a biology teacher‚ was tried (July‚ 1925) for teaching Darwinism in a Dayton‚ Tenn.‚ public school. Clarence Darrow was one of Scopes’s attorneys. Darrow argued that academic freedom was being violated
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