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    at the theories of social change. There is no one way of looking at the effects of sociological change so I will be looking and explaining at two theories‚ namely the conflict theory by Karl Marx and Darendhoff and the second theory called the socio-psychological theory by theorists McClelland‚ Hagen and Weber. “Social change is the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time (Harper‚ 1993:04)”. Harper (1993:05) goes on to explain that Conflict theory The conflict

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    “mechanism that coerces by means of observation”(pp:195)‚ at the time of writing his theory‚ there was a lot that was going on around Foucault such as the disband of the soviet union in china had led to a rethinking of socialism‚ changes in term of the nature of production as well as the industrialisation all of these led to a rethinking of theory of discipline and punishment. In the book‚ Foucault offers theory of punishment in modern society‚ he offers two revolution types of punishment: the sovereign

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    Theory X and Theory Y In his 1960 book‚ The Human Side of Enterprise‚ Douglas McGregor proposed two theories by which to view employee motivation. He avoided descriptive labels and simply called the theories Theory X and Theory Y. Both of these theories begin with the premise that management’s role is to assemble the factors of production‚ including people‚ for the economic benefit of the firm. Beyond this point‚ the two theories of management diverge. Theory X Theory X assumes that the average

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    Two important personality theories are the biological theory and the humanistic theory. The biological theory is based on the premise that all people inherit their characteristics from their family. This theory basically contends that people do not have control over their behaviors because they are genetically pre-determined. The humanistic theory‚ on the other hand‚ is based on the premise that each person has free will to control their actions. This theory does not go along with the idea that behaviors

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    be achieved through either the Modernization Theory‚ a view from the Global North‚ or the Dependency Theory‚ a view from the Global South. These two approaches are diverse from each other; however there are notable similarities between them too. Both the theories lack in certain places thus fail to escape criticism‚ however the Dependency Theory looks at development in a broader aspect. To begin with‚ one of the main similarities between the theories is that they both give much attention to the

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    What are Push Theory and Pull Theory?  Pull theory: In economics‚ the demand-pull theory is the theory that inflation occurs when demand for goods and services exceed existing supplies. According to the demand pull theory‚ there is a range of effects on innovative activity driven by changes in expected demand‚ the competitive structure of markets‚ and factors which affect the valuation of new products or the ability of firms to realize economic benefits. In a marketing "pull" system‚ the consumer

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    Coale use Hofstadter’s theory as a base to extend their individual theories about conspiracy thinking I found that Mark Fenster‚ in his introduction to Conspiracy Theories‚ responds to Hofstadter in a very different way. Fenster argues that‚ while Hofstadter’s theory was the most dominant form of understanding conspiracy at his time of writing‚ it is flawed in that academics have wrongly dismissed conspiracy theories simply as something that is ‘pathological’. Conspiracy theories have played a significant

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    This paper will compare behavior theory and narrative theory. It will cover the key concepts‚ the practice process‚ and the major interventions of each theory. An application of each theory will be included. This paper also contains a practice case and a set of illustrations using both theories for this practice case. Practice Case Using Behavioral and Narrative theories Susanne Langston University of New England

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    criminological theories. For centuries‚ humans have tried to explain ‘deviant’ behaviors that are considered criminal. Social scientists have often wondered why do people commit crimes? Why are some things considered criminal and some other things are not? Why do some people continue a life of crime while other individuals desist? All of these answers gave birth to criminology and the plethora of theories regarding criminal behavior. One of these criminological theories is The Self-Control Theory‚ or The

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    marketing theory Amjad Hadjikhania‚ ‚  Peter LaPlacab‚ ‚  a Uppsala University‚ Uppsala‚ Sweden b University of Connecticut‚ Storrs‚ Connecticut‚ USA http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019850113000618 Abstract Despite the practice of B2B marketing dating back several thousand years‚ B2B marketing studies did not exist in significant numbers prior to the last three decades and we are now in the a stage of accelerated theory development. Contributions to B2B theory began at

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