The Question Of Culture
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Author | : Kevin N. Laland |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-02-16 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780674031265 |
Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from “Culture? Of course!” to “Culture? Of course not!” The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.
Author | : Randy Grieser |
Publisher | : Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 198861709X |
Unfortunately, far too many people don’t like where they work. Some organizations are unhealthy and full of disrespectful behavior. Other workplaces are simply uninspiring. For various reasons, countless people feel trapped, indifferent, or bored at work. The authors of this book believe that people should be able to like where they work. When employees like the places they work, it’s not only good for their mental health and well-being, it’s also good for their organizations – both financially and otherwise. When a workplace culture is purposely created to be respectful and inspiring, employees are happier, more productive, and more engaged. By exploring six key elements that make up a healthy workplace culture, The Culture Question answers two fundamental questions: “How does your organization’s culture impact how much people like where they work?” and “What can you do to make it better?” Discover how to create a workplace where people like to work by focusing on these six elements of healthy workplace culture: Communicating Your Purpose and Values. Employees are inspired when they work in organizations whose purpose and values resonate with them. Providing Meaningful Work. Most employees want to work on projects that inspire them, align with what they are good at, and allow them to grow. Focusing Your Leadership Team on People. How leaders relate to their employees plays a major role in how everyone feels about their workplace. Building Meaningful Relationships. When employees like the people they work with and for, they are more satisfied and more engaged in their work. Creating Peak Performing Teams. People are energized when they work together effectively because teams achieve things that no one person could do on their own. Practicing Constructive Conflict Management. When leaders don’t handle conflict promptly and well, it quickly sours the workplace. This book includes survey feedback from over 2,400 leaders and employees and resources for putting these ideas into action.
Author | : Malik Bennabi |
Publisher | : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 9839154397 |
In his book on culture, Bennabi's aim is not to discover new data, nor provide hair-splitting descriptions of what may constitute culture, nor is he interested in reproducing what Clifford Geerts justly called "the conceptual morass" that has developed around this concept. Unlike most Arab academic writers of his time, he does not parrot Western theories of culture. Rather, he is in search of what would constitute the essence of a culture that would enable human beings to visualize it as a way of life and a program for action, equipping them with the means of living together meaningfully and in harmony with their environment.
Author | : Charles Zerner |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-04-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822328131 |
DIVA collection of ethnographic studies into the nature of power, language, and cultural politics within the context of Southeast Asian environments./div
Author | : Frederick Errington |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004-11-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226217451 |
Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there. To understand the creation of such a startling place, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz explore the perspectives of the diverse participants that had a hand in its creation. In examining these views, they also consider those of Yali, a local Papua New Guinean political leader. Significantly, Yali features not only in the story of RSL, but also in Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning world history Guns, Germs, and Steel—a history probed through its contrast with RSL's. The authors' disagreement with Diamond stems, not from the generality of his focus and the specificity of theirs, but from a difference in view about how history is made—and from an insistence that those with power be held accountable for affecting history.
Author | : Professor Pierre Bourdieu |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1993-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781446236840 |
The works of Pierre Bourdieu occupy a central place in the current development of world sociology. This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste; the intrinsic reflexivity of social science; and the role of language in society and social sciences.
Author | : Angelika Bammer |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1994-12-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780253116321 |
Cultural displacement -- physical dislocation from one's native culture or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture -- is one of the most formative experiences of our century. These essays examine the impact of this experience on contemporary notions of cultural identity from the perspectives of anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and psychology.
Author | : D. Bruster |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137051566 |
The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' to 'culture'. Put briefly, earlier critics tended to focus on literary texts, strictly conceived: plays, poems, prose fictions, essays. Since the mid-1980s, however, it has been just as likely for critics to speak of the 'culture' of early modern England, even when they do so in conjunction with analysis of literary texts. This 'cultural turn' has clearly enriched the way in which we read the texts of early modern England, but the interdisciplinary practices involved have frequently led critics to make claims about materials - and about the 'culture' these materials appear to embody - that exceed those materials' representativeness. Shakespeare and the Question of Culture addresses the central issue of 'culture' in early modern studies through both literary history and disciplinary critique. Douglas Bruster argues that the 'culture' literary critiques investigate through the works of Shakespeare and other writers is largely a literary culture, and he examines what this necessary limitation of the scope of 'cultural studies' means for the discipline of early modern studies.
Author | : Natália Ayo Schmiedecke |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2022-01-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1793622868 |
Focusing on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73), Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government situates the discourses and artistic production linked to the Chilean New Song movement, in order to demonstrate that the musicians were part of the committed intelligentsia. Thus, they actively participated in the discussion and proposal of ways to integrate culture in the revolutionary process, playing an important political and cultural role. The analysis is mainly based on the government-friendly press and on records released between 1970 and 1973, verifying how the main trends observed in the cultural debate were expressed in the movement; the extent to which the positions defended by the musicians have been in tune with governmental purposes; and if they have in fact influenced the cultural policies debated and pursued by Popular Unity.
Author | : Philip Connell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199282050 |
Drawing upon a wide range of source material, this study reassesses the idea that the Romantic defence of spiritual and humanistic culture developed as a reaction to the perceived individualistic, philistine values of the science of political economy.