Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 17
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2012
Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133165
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Otherness in Contemporary Political Theory
Novitsky, David - 2011
Acknowledgement of the importance of identity to politics and widespread concern about responding adequately to marginalized groups have made otherness a salient concept in contemporary political thought. Yet, there has not appeared in the literature any attempt to clarify the distinctive forms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129534
Cover Image
Melting-Pot Idealism : Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Race, and Women
Moon, Rose - 2011
fusion of biology and sociology in Tocqueville's work on race and slavery as incompatible with his resolution that America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129603
Cover Image
Alexis De Tocqueville's Ancient Modern Liberty
Forde, Steven - 2011
Tocqueville's discovery of a muscular, participatory citizenship in the United States is well known, as is his argument that such citizenship is vital to the success of democracy. This has been a source of both self-congratulation and anxiety among Americans, the anxiety stemming from worries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129620
Cover Image
A Case for Activist Ethnography in Political Science
Forrest, Michael - 2011
Recently, political scientists have marshaled an impressive methodological discussion of political ethnography. However, this discussion has yielded little debate about the potential for an activist turn in political ethnography. In order to promote such a turn, this paper takes on four tasks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129739
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466888