Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative
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Sociology http://soc.sagepub.com/ The Embodiment of Caste : Oppression‚ Protest and Change Hugo Gorringe and Irene Rafanell Sociology 2007 41: 97 DOI: 10.1177/0038038507074721 The online version of this article can be found at: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/41/1/97 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: British Sociological Association Additional services and information for Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He can be considered a proponent of neo-Marxist theory and of critical medical anthropology. His greatest influences include the work of French social theorists Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. In his research‚ Bourgeois relied on the participant-observation method‚ meaning that he chooses to live and integrate himself in the society he studies. To write his book “In Search of Respect”‚ Bourgeois was living with his family next to a
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aggressiveness waits for some provocation or puts itself at the service of some other purpose‚ whose goal might also have been reached by milder measures. --Sigmund Freud‚ Civilization and its Discontents The name is the end of discourse. --Michel Foucault‚ "The Quadrilateral of Language" What kind of disquieting play on words is it that can make the analyst a promoter of anality? --Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari‚ "A Recapitulation of the Three Syntheses" Symbolically ... this hotly contested
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told‚ and are wallow in the politics and philosophy of the academic Left. They’re frequently female and often lesbian. They’re wordy followers of Marx and the Three Stooges of French Post-Modernist "thought": Jacques Lacan‚ Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Their idea of art is Andres Serrano’s "Pi@@ Christ" and Chris Ofili’s elephant dung/Virgin Mary masterwork. They talk about sex incessantly but understand it not‚ they try to lasso it with a rope fashioned out of gassy political rhetoric. (To
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My roommate had a dilemma in the evening before he left the dormitory to catch a morning flight: whether to wash and then pack clean bed sheets‚ but not sleep comfortably on his own bed; or not launder them‚ sleep well‚ and stuff the dirty bedclothes into a box and store it over the vacation. Our female friend heard us trying to find a solution to the dilemma and suggested that we could share my bed for one night‚ and the problem would‚ thus‚ be solved. Surprised by her queer suggestion‚ we were
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The nineteenth century has led to the creation of innovations that have had a significant impact on the current wellbeing of civilization such as antibiotics‚ the printing press‚ and the telegraph. Although these all pertain to the advancements of technology‚ steam engines have not only been considered an advancement to technology‚ but have changed the view of transportation entirely. Transportation rapidly became the focal point in all areas embodying civilization‚ including but not limited to‚
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Long Essay George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair‚ and he was famous for his personnel vendetta against totalitarian regimes and in particular the Stalinist brand of communism. In his novel‚ 1984‚ Orwell has produced a brilliant social critique on totalitarianism and a future dystopia‚ that has made the world pause and think about our past‚ present and future‚ as the situation of 1984 always remains menacingly possible. The story is set in a futuristic 1984 London‚ where a common
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Jurisprudence- legal philosophy: is the study and theory of law Hope to gain a deeper understanding of law‚ natural law‚ civil law‚ and law of nations Positivism: is the study of philosophy of science based on the view that in the social as well as natural sciences data derived from sensory experience‚ and logical and mathematical treatments of data that come from all authoritative knowledge Natural law is a system of law that is determined by nature Volksgeist: Gottfried Herder used
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Ethno–Racial Identity Configurations in American Narratives. Cross–Cultural Encounters Instructor: Dana Mihăilescu (dmihailes@yahoo.com) This course investigates different stances of ethno-racial identity configurations and cross-cultural encounters in American literature throughout time‚ focusing on the relations between collective and individual memory and trauma‚ mainstream and minority tensions‚ as well as ethno-racial and ethical dilemmas. The course looks at identity as a contextually based-fluid
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