While each personʹs definition of sustainability is seen to be the most relevant‚ the question is a universal one and common to all. Whether our definition of sustainability is anthropocentric‚ biocentric‚ egocentric‚ ecocentric‚ econocentric‚ sociocentric‚ worldcentric or perhaps simply personally eccentric‚ they are all valid. Collected here is a retrospective look at over one hundred perspectives from an evolving list of thousands of definitions of sustainability‚ reflecting the different
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Anthropology 1A03 Exam Review Week 7 Monday October 18-Thursday October 21 “Expressive Culture” (Miller Text Chapter 11) Expressive Culture October 18: Expressive Culture is: Behaviour and beliefs related to art‚ leisure‚ and play. - linked to other cultural domains such as: Exchange: pot latching art and dance‚ Bodily modification. Decorations‚ tattoos Religion: clothing‚ practices‚ etc. What is Art? Art is application of imagination‚ skill and style to matters movement‚ and sound
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BSAD 6203 Organizational Behavior Spring 2014 Type your answers on the answer sheet provided. Spread your points among the chapters as indicated. You MUST answer the required essays for a total of 30 points. Essays that are offered within the chapters are italicized‚ related to the textbook‚ worth 6 points‚ and should be ½ page in length. All other questions are worth 2 points each for a total of 70 points. The entire exam is worth 100 points. Required Essays: 3 at 10 pts each Prepare
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Social Networks 30 (2008) 330–342 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Social Networks journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/socnet Tastes‚ ties‚ and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com Kevin Lewis a‚∗ ‚ Jason Kaufman a ‚ Marco Gonzalez a ‚ Andreas Wimmer b ‚ Nicholas Christakis a a b Department of Sociology‚ Harvard University‚ United States Department of Sociology‚ University of California‚ Los Angeles‚ United States a r t i c l e Keywords: Internet
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Paper for 2005 Methods issue #4 The Humanistic Psychologist ‘Reflexive embodied empathy’: a phenomenology of participant-researcher intersubjectivity By: Linda Finlay Acknowledgements: My grateful thanks go to Scott Churchill for reminding me to return to Husserl’s work on intersubjectivity to better anchor my concept of ‘reflexive embodied empathy’. I am also indebted to Maree Burns who first drew my attention to the idea of embodied reflexivity. Address for correspondence:
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Pragmatics 16:2/3.329-360 (2006) International Pragmatics Association SPONTANEOUS AND NON-SPONTANEOUS TURN-TAKING Maite Taboada Abstract Turn-taking is usually considered to follow a simple set of rules‚ enacted through a perhaps more complicated system of signals. The most significant aspect of the turn-taking process is that‚ in most cases‚ it proceeds in a very smooth fashion. Speakers signal to each other that they wish to either yield or take the turn through syntactic‚ pragmatic‚ and prosodic
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What is a Group Definitions of the word group vary‚ but many stress one key consideration: relationships among the members. Thus‚ “a group is a collection of individuals who have relations to one another” (Cartwright & Zander‚ 1968‚ p. 46); “a group is a social unit which consists of a number of individuals who stand in (more or less) definite status and role relationships to one another” (Sherif & Sherif‚ 1956‚ p. 144); and a group is “a bounded set of patterned relations among members”
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Cross-Cultural Issues in Consumer Behavior SHARON SHAVITT University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign ANGELA Y. LEE Northwestern University CARLOS J. TORELLI University of Minnesota ne of the most difficult choices that multinational corporations face is deciding whether to run the same marketing campaign globally or to customize it to the local taste in different countries. In many cases‚ companies develop their marketing strategy in one country and then do "disaster checking" as
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Perception 31 Learning and reinforcement 43 Values‚ Attitudes and Interest 53 Motivation 62 Team Building 75 Conflict 89 Personality Personality is a concept that we use continuously in our day-to-day routine‚ when dealing with people. We talk about people as having a good personality or a bad personality or arrogant and aggressive personality. Personality can be reflected in a person’s temperament and is a key factor influencing individual behaviour in
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Chapter 1 Definition of Sociology – The study of social behaviour and relationships. Explains why members of some groups behave differently than members of other groups. Modern development of sociology is due to the: • Industrial Revolution and French revolution Both lead to changes and growth of trade and cities as well as a new organization of work. Early Sociologists Auguste Comte – credited by some as the “founder” of sociology. Sociologists would be “priests” to guide society
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