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Transparency in Global Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Transparency in Global Change

An examination of the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society, Transparency in Global Change discusses the reasons for the recent increase in public desire for transparency and the byproducts this transparency can produce.

Social Mindscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Social Mindscapes

Why do we eat sardines, but never goldfish; ducks, but never parrots? Why does adding cheese make a hamburger a cheeseburger whereas adding ketchup does not make it a ketchupburger? By the same token, how do we determine which things said at a meeting should be included in the minutes and which ought to be considered off the record and officially disregarded? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that cognitive science cannot answer these questions, since it addresses cognition on only two levels: the individual and the universal. To fill the gap between the Romantic vision of the solitary thinker whose thoughts are the product of unique experience, and the cogn...

Reality Construction in Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Reality Construction in Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Social Change in Contemporary China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Social Change in Contemporary China

Social Change in Contemporary China offers a wide-ranging examination of Chinese institutional change in areas of education, religion, health care, economics, labor, family, and local communities in the post-Mao era. Based on the pioneering work of sociologist C. K. Yang (1911–1999), and his institutional diffusion theory, the essays analyze and develop the theory as it applies to both public and private institutions. The interrelationship of these institutions composes what Yang termed the Chinese “system,” and affects nearly every aspect of life. Yang examined the influence of external factors on each institution, such as the influence of Westernization and Communism on family, and t...

The Experimenting Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Experimenting Society

Offers a collection of essays probing, evaluating, and augmenting the work of Donald T. Campbell on experimental societies. A basic assumption is that Campbell's perspective supplies a useful way to address increasingly complex and seemingly unmanageable problems facing the US and other postindustrial countries. Of interest to policy studies scholars, sociologists, and social scientists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-12-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this book, first published in 1998, world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship analyse the problems associated with coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets. It examines challenging marketplace solutions to problems in the economics of information; economic modelling of investments in information resources at academic institutions; the economics of resource sharing, consortia, and document delivery; and measuring the costs and benefits of distance learning.

Sociology for Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Sociology for Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-03-09
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies is the offi cial annual of The Hong Kong Sociological Association. It publishes articles of original research that addresses theoretical, methodological, or substantive issues of sociological signifi cance about social transformations in Chinese societies. The focus is mainly on Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the Mainland, Singapore, and Chinese overseas.

Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Presents a collection of critical essays about Marquez's, "One hundred years of solitude."

Project Summaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Project Summaries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Realizing Social Science Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Realizing Social Science Knowledge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Physica

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