1. Define at least 5 key concepts underlying structures of cultures. Answer: Speed of messages: It is the matter of how long a message can be understood or how long does it take to understand a person. Messages interactions can be in different speeds depending upon culture. Context: The concept is different in different cultures‚ so a balance is necessary for interacting within each culture. It’s the matter of how much relevant information is in the message‚ and already understood by both
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Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward
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efficient. How did HP achieve this? Before doing the task‚ they did rethink and integrate the designs of their products‚ the process used to make and deliver those products‚ and the configuration of the entire supply network. That is to say‚ the key point is to postpone the task of differentiating a product for a specific customer until the latest possible point in supply network. To be more specific‚ Firstly‚ they designed products consisting of independent modules that can be assembled into
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FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at
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John S. Bak’s article draws attention to evidence of Foucaldian Panopticism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Bak begins by giving a brief one paragraph introduction describing Gilman’s diagnosis of “neurasthenia‚” or “nervous prostration‚” as well as the treatment she was prescribed: “Mitchell’s Rest Cure.” (Bak 39) Gilman’s own experiences are reflected throughout her composition through the narrator. Within this first paragraph‚ Bak brings up the question “is she mad at the
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Michael Dell is the founder and the chairman of one of the most successful computer companies in the world. He led the company on its way to high growth and profitability. The company was always in the forefront of the direct selling concept and currently dominates the personal computer business. Business the Dell Way‚ by Rebecca Saunders studies the leadership and entrepreneurial skills of Michael Dell and his influence over his organization ’s success. The Book brings into light an array of
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hierarchical positions in society is the concept of what it means to be a “man” during not only the ancient Greek and Roman period but as well the early Christians and Rabbinic texts. In Foucault’s book‚ The Use of Pleasure (p. 81)‚ the excerpt of moderation in the context of what “qualifies” being a man ties in with the course’s theme of gender asymmetry and how practicing ‘moderation’ geared to achieving manhood and manliness.
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Efficiency is a concept intuitively associated with business and economics‚ rather than philosophy. For most of philosophy’s history‚ efficiency remained a concept predominantly untouched‚ and was secondary to metaphysical and epistemological questions. In modern times‚ this has changed and the concept of efficiency has played an increasingly important role within the various contemporary philosophical traditions. This is no more apparent than in postmodernism. Although controversial to categorize
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Brad Wartman Professor John McGlothlin Eng-W 131 22 October 2011 Microtheme 4 The panoptic schema makes any apparatus of power more intense… It is a way of obtaining from power (Foucault 161). Foucault states that the Panopticon is set up in a way that a prisoner is forced to be self-discipline. The Panopticon is a building set up like a tower in the center with windows. “The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad…one is totally seen‚ without being ever seen; in
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Article Review Taimoor Abbasi Why do states built nuclear weapons? “Scott Douglas Sagan” Scott Douglas Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro professor of Political Science at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He also is one of the leading pessimist scholars about nuclear proliferation
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