Democracy and Civic Culture

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Sabetti
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The State ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article attempts to take stock of the state of research on democracy and culture by providing answers to several sets of questions. It seeks to improve the understanding of the relationship between culture and action, and between political culture and democratic outcomes. The article begins by exploring the way the literature has dealt with the possible meaning of culture and political culture and their relationship to action. It also suggests why there has been little contribution to democracy derived from political culture research, and identifies how the efforts to rethink how and why the subject matter is approached in certain ways led many analysts to break out of established epistemological demarcations. This eventually led to the reinvigorated tools of investigation and research on democracy and civic culture. The article concludes with a discussion on the implications of improved tools of investigation for future research.

scholarly journals Liderança e Comportamento Organizacional: uma Relação Intrínseca na Gestão

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (37) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Francisco Sousa da Silva ◽  
Maika Rodrigues Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

O presente artigo tem como objetivo discutir sobre comportamento organizacional e liderança, bem como a relação existente entre as duas temáticas. A metodologia utilizada foi de cunho bibliográfico, fundamentada em livros e artigos científicos já publicados sobre o tema em questão. Para tanto, foi abordado o comportamento organizacional, seus modelos, habilidades e competências, bem como as teorias mais conhecidas sobre a temática em questão. Inicialmente, foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico. Ao abordar a temática: Comportamento Organizacional e Liderança é impreterível abordar as relações de pessoas, no ambiente organizacional, uma vez que esse é composto por pessoas, dando-lhe vida e personalidade própria, porém a maneira por meio da qual as pessoas se comportam, tomam decisões, trabalham, varia de diferentes formas, sendo que tal variação vai depender, em sua maioria, das políticas e diretrizes das organizações na maneira como lidar com as pessoas em suas atividades. Para mobilizar e utilizar toda a capacidade das pessoas, em suas atividades, as organizações têm buscado modificar seus conceitos, alterando suas práticas gerenciais, investindo diretamente nas pessoas, que entendem dos produtos e serviços, em vez de focar somente nos clientes. Do exposto se conclui que os estilos de liderança possuem estreita relação com o comportamento organizacional, conclui-se ainda que a figura do líder é fundamental dentro desses arranjos do comportamento organizacional, liderando as pessoas, as equipes para que essas possam desenvolver suas atividades em consonância com os interesses da organização.Palavras-chave: Comportamento Organizacional. Liderança. Relações Interpessoais.Abstract This article aims to discuss organizational behavior and leadership, as well as the relationship between the two themes. The methodology used was bibliographic, based on books and scientific articles already published on the subject in question. For this, the organizational behavior, its models, skills and competences, as well as the most well-known theories on the subject matter were approached. When addressing the theme: Organizational Behavior and Leadership, it is imperative to approach the people’s relationships in the organizational environment, since it is composed of people, giving it life and personality, but the way people behave, take decisions, work, varies in different ways, and such variation will depend, for the most part, on the policies and guidelines of the organizations on how to deal with people in their activities. In order to mobilize and utilize all the people’s capacity in their activities, organizations have sought to modify their concepts, changing their managerial practices, investing directly in the people who understand the products and services instead of focusing only on the clients.From the foregoing, it is  concluded that leadership styles are closely related to organizational behavior, it is also concluded that the leader is fundamental within these arrangements of organizational behavior, leading people, and the teams so that they can develop their activities in line with the interests of the organization.Keywords: Organizational Behavior. Leadership. Interpersonal Relationships.

Anti-immigration attitudes and the opposition to European integration: A critical assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cigdem Kentmen-Cin ◽  
Cengiz Erisen
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Immigration Attitudes ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this overview is to critically examine the state of research on the relationship between anti-immigrant attitudes and attitudes toward European integration. We argue that the two most commonly used measures of anti-immigrant attitudes do not fully capture perceived threats from immigrants and opinion about different immigrant groups. Future research should pay more attention to two particular issues: first, scholars could employ methodological techniques that capture the underlying constructs associated with attitudes and public opinion; second, researchers could differentiate between groups within the overall immigrant population. This overview identifies themes in the literature while drawing attention to the need for more research on the behavioral underpinnings of anti-immigrant attitudes and public opinion on European integration.

scholarly journals La polonité des Hauts-de-France telle qu’inscrite sur les étendards. Une étude d’objets jusque-là négligés alors que riches d’informations

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-285
Author(s):  
Maryla Laurent ◽  
Iwona H. Pugacewicz
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research

The authors have considered the topic, rarely mentioned in the scientific literature, which are the inscriptions and symbols placed on polonical banners. A three-volume dissertation by Monika Salmon-Siama, entitled Vexillological heritage of the Polish immigration in northern France (1919-2018), turned out to be a contributing factor to this kind of scientific digression. In the introduction, they analyzed the state of research on Polish emigration, settled in northern France, indicating the main reasons for their poor representativeness in comparison with the entire emigre history of the Polish diaspora. Referring to the proper vexological studies, they brought closer the richness of sources that we deal with in the discussed region, and then showed the complexity of this type of bibliological-semiotic research. Taking up the subject matter from the Westphalian-French borderline, inevitably, after M. Salmon Siama, they showed aesthetic and axiological values, including patriotic values, a group of symbols and inscriptions discussed, and in turn showed the durability of the Polish immigrant identity of subsequent generations living in northern France. The article is also an attempt to show the reader the diversity and richness of organizational and social life over almost a century, introduces the mentality and customs of the Polish Diaspora, and shows the underestimated role of the Polish banner.  

scholarly journals Poetics and e-literature

2020 ◽  
Vol nr specjalny 1(2020) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Winiecka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The State ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Form ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Relationship

Following the development of e-literature and the state of research on the subject both in Poland and abroad, the author attempts to outline research perspectives for e-poetics. This discipline, barely over twenty years old, concerns the study of literary texts that are created with the use of digital technologies. Hypertextual works available online and via digital carriers are characterized by intermediality and interactivity, and they differ from printed literature in that computers are indispensable tools for their creation, existence and reception. What are the consequences of this change of medium for literature, its structure, the process of communication with the reader and the interpretative possibilities? How can one describe the relationship between the old and the new form of a literary text? Finally, why is it important to introduce research on electronic literature into academic education?

Sexual Selection, Mate Choice, and Competition for Mates

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ingo Schlupp
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Survival And Reproduction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Well over a century ago Charles Darwin redefined biology and introduced the theory of natural selection. One of the problems he encountered was the existence of traits, mainly in males, that seemed to defy the principles of natural selection: they did not aid its bearers in survival and were often outright detrimental. Darwin solved this conundrum by introducing sexual selection. Unlike natural selection where all individuals compete with each other for survival and reproduction, in sexual selection individuals within each sex compete with each other for reproduction. In the original formulation of the principle, Darwin recognized two mechanisms for this. Males would compete with each other for access to females, and females would choose mating partners of their preference. In this opening chapter I want to introduce the topics to be covered in the book, define some basic terms that we will need to understand the subject matter, and define the questions to be asked. My aim for this book is to summarize our growing, yet still comparatively limited empirical knowledge and theory, and to provide suggestions for future research. What interests me most is the relationship between the four forms of sexual selection and their consequences.

scholarly journals Simplicity and Complexity in Creoles and Pidgins: What’s the Metric?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

This review article is a response to the way the editors of and contributors to Simplicity and Complexity in Creoles and Pidgins respond to McWhorter’s (2001) claim that creoles have the world’s simplest grammars. Although I agree with the contributors that creoles are not as simple as they may look to some, I express several concerns about the ways they (fail to) raise and/or address some fundamental issues regarding the subject matter. These include discussing what the notions simplicity and complexity really mean as they are applied to languages and whether linguistics has yet developed the necessary metric(s) for assessing complexity without biasing the issues in favor of or against particular types of languages. My arguments are intended to prompt linguists to think harder over how we can contribute to the scholarship on complexity as related to emergence, thinking of languages as emergent multi-modular phenomena, internally and externally interactive, always in the state of flux, and in search of (transient) equilibrium.

Studies of Islam, Economics, and Governance

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-70
Author(s):  
Florence Eid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Islamic Values

IntroductionThis paper is a report on the state of research in two areas of Islamicstudies: Islam and economics and Islam and governance. I researched andwrote it as part of my internship at the Ford Foundation during the summerof 1992. On Discourse. The study of Islam in the United States has moved far beyondthe traditional historical and philological methods. This is perhapsbest explained by the development of analytically rigorous social sciencemethods that have contributed to a better balance between the humanisticconcerns of the more traditional approaches and efforts at systematizingthe study of Islam and classifying it across boundaries of communities,religions, even epochs. This is said to have s t a d with the developmentof irenic attitudes towards Islam, which changed the direction of westemorientalist writings from indifference (at best) and often open hostility toand contempt of Islamic values (however they were understood) to phenomenologicalworks by scholars who saw the study of Islam as somethingto be taken seriously and for its own sake, which is best exemplifiedby Clifford Geertz's Islam Observed.The work of Edward Said contested this evolution, and the publicationof his Orientalism has been described as "a stick of dynamite"' that,despite its impact in mobilizing a reevaluation of the field, was unwarrantedin its pessimism. In any case, the field has continued to evolve,with the most powerful force moving it being the subject itself. Thephenomenological/orientalist approach, if we can point to one today, ...

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Preyer
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers’ knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. One illustration of the trend is the publication of Lepore and Stone’s ...

The Trafficking Panic in Late Imperial Austria

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Wingfield
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reform Organizations ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores a variety of issues central to the turn-of-the-century Austrian panic over trafficking. They include anti-Semitism, Jews as protagonists and victims, and mass migration in an urbanizing world, as well as why particular Austrian cities were associated with the trade in women. The chapter analyzes the government’s domestic and international efforts to combat trafficking, as well as the role bourgeois reform organizations played. It explores the relationship between the trafficker and the trafficked, arguing that these women and girls were not simply victims, but sometimes willing participants, or something in between, in order to sketch a more nuanced picture of turn-of-the-century “white slaving.” The term “trafficker” is employed to reflect the way sources (the state, journalists, reform groups) viewed the issue, not because it can be proved that the problem was as widespread as they claimed.

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