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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 …
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Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2012
Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
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Decentralisation on Fallow and Fertile Ground: Preparing the Population for Democratic Self-Governance
Krishna, Anirudh - eSocialSciences - 2006
Decentralizing authority to democratically elected local government is advised for reasons of efficiency and good governance, but equity may suffer if elites capture decision making at the local level. What safeguards can help promote equitable and participatory decentralization? This question...
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Gujjar protest and Reservation Politics
ACHR, Asian Centre for Human Rights - eSocialSciences - 2008
Successive governmental commissions have held that Gujjars do not meet the criteria for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes. The Gujjar protest has ramifications beyond the States where they live. If the Centre attempts to find a solution only for the Gujjars, it will open the Pandora box. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699298
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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...
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Why Are We Opposed to Reservations?
Varman, Rahul - eSocialSciences - 2006
When an Ambani becomes a CEO, when a Gandhi becomes a minister, we do not say it is against merit, when a professor whose son is not able to qualify JEE, is still able to send her child abroad for higher studies, we do not say it is reservation, when only Valmikis do all the cleaning work at...
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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...
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Affirmative Action: Diverging Perspectives
Negi, Prashant - eSocialSciences - 2006
The debate, on affirmative action seems to be focusing on the meaning and relevance of merit and efficiency. It is being conveniently forgotten that merit is a cognitive ability, the power to perceive and to grasp the social reality. Further, merit is being juxtaposed with an individual’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250145
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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. …
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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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