Liquidated:An Ethnography of Wall Street – Ch. 3 How is shareholder value constructed? How were leveraged buyouts supposed to save Wall Street institutions? On what ground could you be critical of this thinking? In Chapter 3 of Liquidated‚ Ho talks about the historiographies of Wall Street and the shareholder value revolution and it’s equivocal affects on various Wall Street players in the 1990’s. Ho introduces the issue of shareholder value by defining it as a concept that has become a part
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on the views of the participants. Phenomenological research develops from psychology and philosophy. With this research design‚ the researcher is sharing personal experiences from the participants about a phenomenon that has happened to them. Ethnography is a design from sociology and anthropology where the researcher looks at the different patterns of the participants in a specific cultural group over a longer period to gain a better insight of behaviors and patterns that
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The documentary Through These Eyes is an exploration of the forgotten U.S. educational program implemented in the Kennedy-era. Leading intellectual‚ educational‚ and ethnography experts at the time‚ were charged with the task of devising an educational program which would invoke peace in the adults of the future. To do so‚ they came up with Man: A Course of Study or MACOS‚ a film based‚ year-long social sciences course for 5th grade students. Despite the program being created in good faith and containing
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systems. But yet‚ some of these legacy systems are not replaced when companies adopt ERP solutions while in-house systems still continue to be developed. This research employs symbolic interactionism as the informing theoretical perspective in an ethnography study of a large government authority in Singapore. Our findings surprisingly indicate that the IS professionals supporting the systems tend to attach rather negative symbols to their SAP system‚ while viewing their legacy system and in-house software
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THIRD DOING RESEARCH in the REAL WORLD EDITION DAVID E. GRAY 2 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES CHAPTER INTRODUCTION Chapter outline ●● Inductive and deductive reasoning 16 ●● Research methodologies 29 ●● Epistemological and ontological perspectives 19 ●● Selecting research approaches and strategies 34 ●● Theoretical perspectives 21 Keywords ●● Inductive ●● Objectivism ●● Deductive ●● Constructivism ●● Epistemology ●● Subjectivism ●● Ontology
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Quantitative and qualitative research Introduction: Research designs are plans and the procedures for research that span the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methods of data collection and analysis. There are two main designs: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative and qualitative approaches should not be viewed as polar opposites or dichotomies; instead‚ they represent different ends on a continuum. Definition of quantitative research: ▪ In the social sciences
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Response Paper: Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes As an ethnography‚ Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes presents a description and explanation of the way of life of people in Alto do Cruzeiro which is a shantytown of Northeast Brazil. It is revealed that mothers in Alto do Cruzeiro were indifferent to the deaths of their children which is puzzling. The article provides readers an anthropological enquiry of the mother-infant relationship in the shantytown and leads to more
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effective drugs‚ TB "ceased to bother the wealthy" (2000: 185). Against this forgetfulness‚ Farmer urged anthropologists to listen to the voices of the poor and to record their stories of deprivation and discrimination. But he also said that ethnography was insufficient to grapple with the problem. A comprehensive perspective on
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Qualitative and Quantitative Articles on Home Hemodialysis Elizabeth Hetherington Northeastern University Receiving hemodialysis in the in-patient or outpatient setting
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that respect and value differences‚ and skills for working in diverse settings.[ ] As teacher educators‚ we hope that cultural diversity classes will help out students become aware of their own beliefs and become more culturally diverse." (The Ethnography Project p1) Cultural diversity‚ it’s a phrase we have all heard at sometime or another but what does I mean for teachers and the way they go about designing lesson plans‚ delivering lectures‚ grading and any other aspect of teaching that comes
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