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The Behavioral Equivalence of Organizational Culture
Rao, Indu - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents findings from an extensive review of literature on organizational cultural (OC) and highlights the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982517
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Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2012
Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133165
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Social Science Research Methods and Knowledge-Claims
Judge, Paramjit S - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487794
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India, Democracy and the Press
Mutti, James - eSocialSciences - 2008
The impressive growth of the Indian media is largely taking place outside of the voting classes, ensuring that the media are not playing a significant public service role. Ultimately, the author suggests that a new media model is needed, one which balances its profit motive with coverage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323705
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The Social Significance of Sports
Pike, Elizabeth C.J.; Coakley, Jay - eSocialSciences - 2010
The sociology of sport has a history of academic marginalisation: for being a sociological study of an activity … prioritised for its physical, rather than socio-cultural attributes; and for being a study of an area of life associated with â … sociology of sport slowly emerged as an area deemed worthy of serious scholarly attention. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250437
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Political Sociology of Poverty In India: Between Politics of Poverty and Poverty of Politics
Kumar, Anand - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that a) the caste system and …
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Ethics in Social Science Research: Reflections from a Student of Economics
Swaminathan, Padmini - eSocialSciences - 2006
If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The...
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India: Second NGO Shadow Report on CEDAW: Executive Summary
eSocialSciences; National Alliance of Women - 2007
The 2nd and 3rd NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW -- INDIA has just been submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee and is coming up for review in January 2007 in New York. Each of the chapters in the Reports point to the widespread practices of discrimination and social exclusion of women and provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487715
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Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory
Woolcock, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social†(or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it. The argument in this paper proceeds as follows. In recognizing that poverty is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487729
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Forgotten Youth: Disability and Development in India
Singal, Nidhi - eSocialSciences - 2008
In 2001, it is estimated that 270 million Indians belonged in the 12-24 years age group. While attention is being focused on these young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696026