scholarly journals Meeting, Talk and Text: Policy and Politics in Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Essential Dynamics ◽  
Definition Of The Situation ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
Definition Of

Our prevailing accounts of the policy process are challenged by studies of practice as well as by practitioners themselves. This paper sets out an alternative, grounded in politics and sociology and informed by recent work in related disciplines. Drawing on the foundational work of Arendt and Goffman, it begins in the essential dynamics of the gathering, the encounter and the meeting. It considers the extent to which each is realised in talk, and in the production and reproduction of texts. Policy and politics seek to establish and maintain a 'definition of the situation' and what might follow from it: the purpose of the paper is to match theoretical and empirical accounts of this process with the activity and experience of its practitioners.

Czech and Slovak Society

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Musil
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
List Type ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Definition Of The Situation ◽  
Czechoslovak Society ◽  
Slovak Society ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Czech Lands ◽  
Political Economic

THIS STUDY IS ONE OF COMPARATIVE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS deliberately avoiding a sociological definition of the situation. It is assumed that two societies had existed in Czechoslovakia for some time and the difference between them, and possible analogies, are examined. There is also an assumption that the division of Czechoslovakia occurred especially because ‘Czechoslovak society’ as such had not yet been established; this was in spite of the fact that the two societies, at the time of the split, had substantially more in common than they had had at the time of Czechoslovakia's formation. There exists the view, which we want to verify, that during the decline of the federation the following factors were significant:1. The differences in economic, social, cultural and dispositional structures;2. The asynchronous and differing processes of modernization in both societies;3. The different consequences of the formation of societies of Soviet type in the Czech Lands in Slovakia;4. The differing processes for rectification of political, economic and cultural institutions in both republics after November 1989.

A note on Riesz potential

1951 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 436-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. C. Auluck ◽  
L. S. Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Fourier Expansion ◽  
Riesz Potential ◽  
Arbitrary Parameter ◽  
Electromagnetic Potentials ◽  
Longitudinal Part ◽  
Definition Of

The object of the present paper is to discuss the Fourier expansion of the Riesz potential. For this purpose a new definition of the electromagnetic potentials, depending upon an arbitrary parameter α is given. It is shown that this definition is a generalization of the Wentzel potentials in the α-plane, whereas that given by Fremberg (3) is a generalization of the Maxwell potentials. The analysis is applied to the problem of eliminating, in a straightforward way, the longitudinal part of the potential describing the electromagnetic field. The problem of the quantization of the field, based on its Fourier expansion, will be considered in another paper. The recent work of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Dyson, and the regularization process of Pauli has lifted the theory of quantum electrodynamics to a much higher level of rigour and fruitful applicability. All the same, a further study of Riesz potential seems to us of some interest in this field.

Graded Causation and Normality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Y. Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Actual Causation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Better Than

Recent work in psychology and experimental philosophy has shown that judgments of actual causation are often influenced by consideration of defaults, typicality, and normality. This chapter shows the definition of causality introduced in Chapter 2 can be extended to defaults, typicality, and normality into account. The resulting framework takes actual causation to be both graded and comparative. Thus, it allows us to say that one cause is better than another. Examples showing the power of the approach are considered.

scholarly journals On the Inversion of the Gauss Transformation

1957 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Differential Operator ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Suitable Definition ◽  
Inversion Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Gauss Transformation ◽  
Operational Methods

The inversion theory of the Gauss transformation has been the subject of recent work by several authors. If the transformation is defined by1.1,then operational methods indicate that,under a suitable definition of the differential operator.

On the axiomatic foundations of the theory of Hermitian forms

1970 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. C. Wall
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Quadratic Forms ◽  
Hermitian Form ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Hermitian Forms ◽  
Division Rings ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Simple Definition

In recent work on some topological problems (7), I was forced to adopt a complicated definition of ‘Hermitian form’ which differed from any in the literature. A recent paper by Tits(5) on quadratic forms over division rings contains a new and simple definition of these. A major objective of this paper is to formulate both these definitions in somewhat more general terms, and to show that they are equivalent.

Language: A transformative key

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-513
Author(s):  
Carolie Coffey
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Cultural Ideal ◽  
Definition Of The Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Strategies ◽  
Definition Of

ABSTRACT“If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” W.I. Thomas's insight along with the Whorfian Hypothesis provide us with a clue to the immense significance of language as the essential key to the social construction of reality. This article explores linguistic implications for transformations in language usage as applied to gender-role and the cultural ideal of equality. (Definition of the situation, Whorfian Hypothesis, nonsexist language strategies, social transformation)

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