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    Social strain theory was introduced by famed sociologist‚ Robert Merton in an effort to explain how societal structures create pressure for deviant behavior. The theory hypothesis’ that all societies hold a dominant set of goals and values‚ based on the perception of hegemony in order to fit the status quo. Not only do they hold these expectations of their members‚ they also spell out the acceptable means in which their citizens are able to achieve those goals. However‚ realistically‚ not every person

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    and gouges his eyes out‚ exiling himself from Thebes. Although generally accepted as a play of fate‚ many people have made criticisms against this claim. One critic in particular‚ Kurt Fasso‚ in his criticism “Oedipus Crux‚” believes this fate was not truly Oedipus’ – he just accepts it as his own. His criticism is valid‚ for it touches on points that do in fact prove his theory‚ in a single persuading and convincing piece‚ particularly concerning the discrepancies surrounding Laius’ death and the

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    large variety of kinship systems. From this a family could be extended vertically (with upper generations) or horizontally (with brothers and sisters of those with offspring). A criticism of Murdock was that to claim something is universal‚ it only needs one exception to falsify it. Kathleen Gough falsified Murdock’s theory with her study of the Nayar Women of India. Before reaching puberty‚ Nayar women in India were married to a man according to the Talikettukalydnam rite. This three days of actual

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    Criticism of Benchmarking

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    Criticisms of Benchmarking Despite all of the positive recommendations for benchmarking cited‚ there are critics of the benchmarking proces. Wolverton (1994) states that benchmarking‚ as a cornerstone of CQI‚ is based only on current information‚ and may not give us the freedom and flexibility to see the future. In addition‚ Wolverton adds that this focus may relegate us to the role of follower‚ instead of leader. In writing about a related quality improvement technique‚ Business Process Reengineering

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    Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (“MS”) Executive summary Paul Nasr is a senior managing director (“MD) at MS in the Capital Markets (funding) area. He has 20 yrs of experience and was hired by Mack (the new boss at MS) to lead the Capital Markets (“CM”) area. Capital Markets is the link between Sales & Trading and the Investment Banking Division (“IBD”) and their main function is to raise funds. Sales &Trading area sale the products that Capital markets originate. Investment Banking and CM are interrelated

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    Morgan Stanley. The analysis will be focused on identifying the major problems‚ analyzing the situations‚ and making feasible and thorough recommendations for the board of Morgan Stanley to improve the existing situations. 2. Problem Statements. Rob Parson was a star producer in the Capital Market Services Department who had been recruited from a competitor two years ago and had generated substantial revenues since joining the firm. I would like to address more specific and surface problems for this

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    Adam S Equity Theory

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    A Role for Equity Theory in the Turnover Process: An Empirical Test1 RODGERw.GRlFFETH2 AND STEFAN GAERTNER Department of Management Georgia State Universiw The purpose o f the present study was to examine the role o f equity theory in the context of the contemporary turnover process. A model was developed and tested with 192 hospital employees using structural equation modeling (SEM)‚ which placed satisfaction and intention to quit as mediators of employee turnover. The results strongly support

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    Generic Criticism

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    Generic Criticism What is Generic Criticism? * Foss (2009) defines generic criticism as “the assumption that certain types of situations provoke similar needs and expectations” (p. 137). * According to Oliver and Duff (2012)‚ “Genre can be defines as a pattern of communication that conforms to community norms. Genres are not fixed‚ but are constantly evolving and emerging.” (p. 373) * According to Northrop Frye‚ genre studies are not just about classification‚ he believes that "the

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    NEW CRITICISM Introduction New Criticism The name New criticism came into popular use to describe this approach to understanding literature with the 1941 publication of John Crow Ransom’s The New Criticism. This contains Ransom’s personal analysis of several of his contemporaries among theories and critics. Here he calls for an ontological critic (one who will recognize that poem is a concrete entity) like Leonardo Da Vinci’s “”Mona Lisa”. In New Criticism‚ a poem can be analyzed to discover

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    Mill S Ethical Theory

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    The Idea of Mill ’s ethical theory is his Greatest Happiness Principle in that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and they are wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Unhappiness is the pain and the lack of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only desirable things.” Mill ’s view of happiness is hedonistic‚ which suggests that the only good thing in a person is pleasure and the

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