Gain and Loss in the Circle of Life In Richard Powers’ novel‚ Gain‚ he intertwines two fictional stories to analyze the growth of large corporation in America and the deterioration of the individual as a potential result. He tells the story of the rise of a family soap making business‚ J. Clare and Sons‚ into a large-scale corporation over a span of 150 years. As a second story line‚ he incorporates the end of the life of Laura Bodey‚ a divorced real estate agent with ovarian cancer living in Lacewood
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Reviewer: Social Science II I. Adam Smith Concepts: 1. Theory of Moral Sentiments- Man is motivated by his self-interest; the approbation and acceptance of his fellow man‚ being chief. Alongside with this‚ are two natural sentiments of man: sympathy and imagination. These he uses to feel along with another who suffers. Man can place himself in the position of an impartial spectator who has no bias for or against himself or others and this causes him to have sympathy‚ imagining himself
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because she lives such a structured life. She is always worrying about something happening in the future and never really takes time to enjoy the present or even reflect much on the past. The last concept we talked about on Thursday was the iron cage. Weber said that if you base your life on beliefs then you will put yourself in a cage that you cannot get out of. Paige has the belief that appearance is everything and because of that she is not always living a free life. She dresses and acts a certain
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culture‚ language and rituals. More importantly‚ it presents the question of “what religion is” and if it can be given a definite definition. ‘Anthropological Study of Religion’ focuses on the social scientists that risen religion and its anthropology. Max Muller‚ William Robertson Smith‚ Edward Burnett Tylor‚ and James G. Frazer were among the social scientists whose research helped
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Theory of Stein Rokkan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shaw‚ M. 2000. Theory of the Global State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Slaughter‚ A.-M. 2004. A New World Order. Princeton‚ NJ: Princeton University Press. Weber‚ M. 1948. Politics as a vocation. In Essays from Max Weber. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Janice Gross Stein’s “The Cult of Efficiency‚” read at a CBC Massey Lecture in 2001‚ attempts to define the concept of efficiency and how it has impacted our society in the past and present. Stein effectively applies this concept to many different sectors of our culture through examples and analysis of how it is delivered. Her thesis summarizes the overall ideas of her article‚ however it was not easily found in her introduction as it was not stated until the end of the fifth paragraph. The full
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In the article “McDonaldization of Society” the author‚ George Ritzer‚ discusses Rationalization which is a concept which was coined by the German sociologist Max Webber in the 19th century. Rationalization has 5 distinct dimensions which are efficiency‚ control‚ dehumanization‚ quantity over quality‚ and predictability. Moreover‚ Ritzer claims that society has become so focused on being efficient which means finding the easiest and fastest way to achieve a goal‚ an example of that dimension provided
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The Social Theory of W.E.B Du Bois Aaron Josuah Cabahug Sociology 102 4/21/2013 Abby Mosher The Social Theory of W.E.B Du Bois Karl Marx‚ Max Weber‚ and Emile Durkheim are widely recognized as the trinity of sociological theory. While these three sociologists were trailblazing social theorists who enhanced the study of human behavior and its relationship to social institutions‚ other‚ more contemporary scholars were just as innovative - one of those scholars being W. E. B. Du Bois. W. E
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Bureaucracies are out and post-Bureaucracies are in. Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement using examples to support your argument. Organizations can be defined as either bureaucracies or post-bureaucracies‚ depending on four different characteristics. A bureaucratic organization is based around specialization and life-time careers‚ formal rules‚ an authoritative hierarchy‚ and the idea of impersonality. On the other hand a post-bureaucratic organization is centred on the idea
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collectors in tribal organizations through highly royal and clerical power structures to industrial structures and today’s post-industrial structures. As pointed out by L. B. Mohr‚ the early theorists of organizational structure‚ Taylor‚ Fayol‚ and Weber "saw the importance of structure for effectiveness and efficiency and assumed without the slightest question that whatever structure was needed‚ people could fashion accordingly. Organizational structure was considered a matter of choice...When in
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