Sociological Concepts II: The Macroscopic Level of Analysis

1972 ◽  
pp. 47-71
Author(s):  
G. C. Kinloch
Keyword(s):  
Macroscopic Level ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Personality and Happiness: A National Level of Analysis

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piers Steel ◽  
◽  
Deniz Ones
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Pernicious perception: Is Prejudice Maintained in the Level of Analysis?

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Ratcliff ◽  
G. Daniel Lassiter
Keyword(s):  
Level Of Analysis

Action-State Orientation at the Team Level of Analysis

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Mohammed ◽  
Lori A. Ferzandi ◽  
Michelle M. Harrison ◽  
Jodi L. Buffington
Keyword(s):  
State Orientation ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Kornai, Schumpeter, and Economic Theory

2012 ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Maevsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Mainstream Economic ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The author claims that J. Kornai in his paper Innovation and Dynamism (Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2012. No 4) ignored the understanding of socialism as a specific type of culture and not just as an economic system. He also shows profound differences between Schumpeters theory and mainstream economic models. Evolutionary theory, he claims, may itself become mainstream if Schumpeters legacy is not interpreted straightforwardly and if evolutionary economists consider not only micro-, but also macro-level of analysis in studying macrogenerations of capital of a different age.

The Innovators

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Risman
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Gendered Expectations ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This chapter introduces the innovators and provides a portrait of them. The chapter analyzes these innovators at the individual, interactional, and macro level of the gender structure. The chapter begins at the individual level of analysis because these young people emphasize how they challenge gender by rejecting requirements to restrict their personal activities, goals, and personalities to femininity or masculinity. They refuse to live within gender stereotypes. These Millennials do not seem driven by their feminist ideological beliefs, although they do have them. Their worldviews are more taken for granted than central to their stories. Nor are they consistently challenging gender expectations for others, although they often ignore the gender expectations they face themselves. They innovate primarily in their personal lives, although they do reject gendered expectations at the interactional level and hold feminist ideological beliefs about gender equality.

The Middle East and Peaceful Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie M. Kacowicz ◽  
Galia Press-Barnathan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Arab League ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
Kurdish Question ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The Middle East is often considered a war zone, and it rarely comes to mind as a region that includes cases of peaceful change. Yet several examples of peaceful change can be identified at different levels of analysis: international, regional, interactive, and domestic. This chapter first critically examines the impact of the broader global/systemic level of analysis on the prospects for peaceful change. It then moves to examine the regional level of analysis, exploring the Kurdish question and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a central axis of change, the role of the Arab League, and the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The chapter then examines the interactive, bilateral level of analysis, exploring peaceful territorial change in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with reference to the successful Israeli-Egyptian negotiations of 1977–1979 and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process since 1993. Next, it explores the domestic level of analysis, focusing on domestic politics, the nature of ruling coalitions, and the implications of the domestic turmoil of the Arab Spring. The last section draws conclusions from each level of analysis, with implications about the prospects for peaceful change in the region.

scholarly journals Examining Political Change and Presidential Power in the US

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN DUMBRELL
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Paperback Edition ◽  
The Us ◽  
American Liberalism ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Level Of Analysis

H. W. Brands, The Strange Death of American Liberalism (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, paperback edition, 2003, £9.95). Pp. 200. ISBN 0 300 098 24 3.Michael J. Gerhardt, The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, revised and expanded paperback edition, 2003, £18.50). Pp. 406. ISBN 0 8223 3199 3.William G. Howell, Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action (Princeton NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003, cloth £29.95, paper £12.95). Pp. 239. ISBN 0 691 10269, 0 691 10270 8.Drew Noble Lanier, Of Time and Judicial Behavior: United States Supreme Court Agenda – Setting and Decision-Making, 1888–1997 (Selinsgrove PA: Susquehanna University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 2003, $42.50). Pp. 276. ISBN 1 57591 067 5.Byron E. Shafer, The Two Majorities and the Puzzle of Modern American Politics (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003, cloth $35, paper $19.95). Pp. 356. ISBN 0 7006 1235 1, 0 7006 1236 X.One does not have to be an especially sophisticated philosopher of explanatory method to appreciate that, in explaining change in human affairs, much depends on the situation of and level of analysis adopted by the would-be explainer. Do the dots connect or are they mostly what they appear to be – just dots? Reality, according to Bertrand Russell's famous aphorism, is either a bowl of connected jelly or a bucket of disconnected shot. It all depends on the observer, who, of course, is also part of the reality being considered.

Comparing Paper and Digital Procedure Formats: Different Attitudes, Quality Perceptions and Deviations

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1696-1696
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Hendricks ◽  
S. Camille Peres ◽  
Trent F. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Process Safety ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
Quality Perceptions ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Large Benefit ◽  
Paper Format ◽  
Very High ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
Roll Out

Operating procedures are an integral part of the high-risk industries such as the Oil & Gas industry. Workers need them as a tool to help complete tasks effectively, efficiently, and safely and in the intended manner (Amyotte et al, 2007). Often, the assumption in the process safety domain is that procedures are very high quality, if not perfect, and therefore workers must follow them rigidly. What is all too often the case is that workers encounter a number of issues with procedure quality (e.g., inaccurate information, outdated steps; Hendricks & Peres, under review; Sasangohar et al., 2018). These quality issues have been shown to be associated with more deviations (Hendricks & Peres, under review). Now that many in the industry are starting to move toward digital procedures (hand-held, interactive, not .pdfs), there needs to be an examination of not only these issues, but also attitudes regarding procedure compliance and utility since these are related to deviations and also procedure use (Hendricks & Peres, under review). Accordingly, this study sought to answer the question—are workers’ perceptions of quality, attitudes, and deviation behavior different based on procedure format (digital vs. paper)? Our study consisted of 32 chemical processing and logistics workers at a large, multi-national corporation. Half of the participants ( n = 16) were already using digital procedures and the other half had not experienced a digital procedure roll-out. We were able to make both within and between- subject comparisons with the data since those digital users also still used paper for other tasks. For the within-subjects level of analysis (LOA), workers had significantly poorer quality perceptions of paper format procedures than digital procedures. Although not significantly different, workers reported more deviations for paper procedures. For the between- subjects LOA, procedure quality perceptions were significantly worse for paper procedures (paper only group) when compared to digital procedures in the digital rollout group. Deviations, utility attitude, and compliance attitude were not significantly different for the two formats (better attitudes regarding utility, poorer attitudes regarding compliance, fewer deviations for digital) and the effect sizes were at or above medium. We think it is important to start this line of research in the process safety industries because if the transition to digital procedures is already occurring, we need evidence that it is justifiable by demonstrating—especially at different LOAs—that we can expect improvements in these critical procedure-related variables. We need to expand this line of research to other companies, and to multiple sites with larger samples. Indeed, one of the challenges is gaining access to such important workers, but we see a large benefit to organizations who ultimately will be investing many resources into these types of changes.

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