scholarly journals The 2001 Southam Lecture: Reflections on Harold Innis's "Minerva's Owl"

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Standard Theory ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Rational Organization ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: The thinking of Harold Innis on the relationship of communication to the rise and fall of historical forms of social organization has been little exploited in the context of contemporary organizational dynamics. In this essay, I use Innis' distinction between the vernacular and writing as an explanatory device to examine current trends in organization. Many of the patterns Innis pointed to can equally be found in the formation and disappearance of large organizations in our time, even though the time scale is radically compressed compared to his historical analyses. In one respect, however, a new pattern is emerging in the postmodern organization, where the "vernacular" is that of the writers, not the written, with paradoxical implications for the standard theory of rational organization, enunciated by Weber and others. Résumé: La pensée d'Harold Innis sur le rapport de la communication à la montée et la baisse de formes historiques d'organisation sociale n'a pas beaucoup été exploitée dans le contexte de dynamiques organisationnelles contemporaines. Dans cet article, j'utilise la distinction d'Innis entre « vernaculaire » et « écriture » pour expliquer des tendances courantes en organisation. En effet, on peut retrouver, dans la formation et la disparition de grandes organisations aujourd'hui, plusieurs des tendances qu'Innis a repérées, quoique leur durée est comprimée de manière radicale par rapport aux analyses historiques d'Innis. À un égard, cependant, une nouvelle tendance est en train d'émerger dans l'organisation postmoderne, où le « vernaculaire » est l'apanage de ceux qui écrivent plutôt que de l'écriture en soi, ce qui a une portée paradoxale sur la théorie conventionnelle de l'organisation rationnelle telle qu'énoncée par Weber et d'autres.

scholarly journals Organizational and Developmental Dynamics of Project Review Teams in Technology Environment

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Wilbon
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Large Organization ◽  
Review Team ◽  
Developmental Dynamics ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is the result of a week long participant observation of a technical project review team within a large organization. A detailed log was maintained during the study and the results were analyzed to understand the relationship of the observations to prior research in organizational dynamics. Some of the existing literature implies that the current research on organizational development may be applicable to entities of various sizes. In some cases the observations from this research fell within the framework of the existing theories. However, alterations must be made to the current theories to apply specifically to small work groups who have specific missions and limited working time frames. Understanding the dynamics of these "suborganization" may lead to more effective management and result in a higher quality work product.

Small trenches. Archaeology and the postcolonial gaze

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Audrey Horning
Keyword(s):  
Potential Significance ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The comments of Nicholas Sarkozy provide a powerful and forceful opening to Dr Richard's article and remind us of the potential significance of academic considerations of colonial legacies in the contemporary world. Dr Richard argues strongly against static conceptualizations of pre-‘Atlantic-era’ Africa and seeks to recast Africans not as victims, but as active ‘producers of history and culture’ (p. 26). In so doing he aligns himself with current trends in critical scholarship on colonial encounters in the Atlantic worlds of the last four centuries, scholarship that overtly criticizes dichotomous understandings of such encounters in favour of approaches that emphasize ambiguity (e.g. Hall 2000; Silliman 2001; 2009; Stahl 2007). Dr Richard's introductory suggestion that we should formulate ‘new questions instead of supplying different answers to the quandaries of an earlier generation of historians’ (p. 3) is clearly applicable to studies of colonial arenas beyond West Africa. In all parts of the world touched by European colonialism (including, of course, Europe itself) the ways in which scholars approach their subjects are very much conditioned by more widely held cultural memories, whatever the relationship of those memories may be to whatever may have occurred in the past.

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF MEGALOPOLIS MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
SERGEY POPKOV ◽  
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KIRILL PURTOV ◽  
VLADIMIR SMIRNOV ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Interdisciplinary Science ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article is of theoretical and methodological nature and allows you to look at the methodological problems of managing a modern metropolis from various theoretical-economic and conceptual-philosophical perspectives. The authors consider various approaches to understanding the specifics of the urban environment and global social shifts connected with an increase of the concentration of the population of various countries within large megalopolises and a shrinkage of economic space; they also analyze the socio-economic, cultural and worldview aspects predetermined by these tendencies. A distinctive feature is a systematic view of the processes taking place in megalopolises under the influence of modern trends in informatization and digitalization of social development. The article considers the megalopolis as an object of scientific knowledge, assesses the relationship of urban studies, as an extremely important modern interdisciplinary science with other sciences, which makes it possible to understand the internal laws of the development of large cities, and presents the current trends and contradictions of their development.

scholarly journals Study of psychological time dynamics at the age of youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Valentina I. Volokhova ◽  
Marina I. Koshenova ◽  
Denis M. Shabanov
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Time Dynamics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Status ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents the current trends analysis of research into the psychological time of personality in foreign and domestic psychology, justified the need to study the dynamics of psychological time at the period of youth at conditional points of bifurcation associated with the forced need to make personal choices: in early and late youth. The reasonability of investigating the relationship of psychological time with personal identity as a predictor of self-realisation or maladaptation of personality at the stage of youth is shown. The pilot study presented in this work is aimed at identifying differences in the content characteristics and structure of psychological time in early and late youth. The ascertaining experiment was conducted with two groups (the total number of participants is 50 people). Diagnostic toolkit: the technique of F. Zimbardo on the time perspective (ZTPI), adapted by A. Syrtsova, the technique Time Experience Scale by E.I. Golovakhi, A.A. Kronik, as well as the technique Identity Status according to Marcia in the modification of the questionnaire G. and R. Aminev. Methods of mathematical statistics: t-Students criterion for independent samples and Pearsons index of linear correlation. The data obtained in the pilot study made it possible to draw conclusions that 1) the meaningful characteristics of psychological time in different periods of youth are not identical, 2) the characteristics of psychological time significantly correlate with the status of personality identity, and such a relationship is more important precisely in the period of early adolescence. The obtained data provided an opportunity to clarify the further direction of research and to outline the necessary ways of psychological support of the person during his youth in the conditions of modern social reality. For the prevention of maladaptation and destructive realization of the personality in the period of youth, targeted work is proposed with the psychological time of the personality, with the adoption of the past and the planning of the future, the determination of priorities, goal setting and the formation of temporal competence.

More Than Smoke and Mirrors

Maya E Groups ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne S. Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Temporal Variability ◽  
Relative Proportion ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Room Size ◽  
Size Number ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Calendar Dates

The relationship of social organization to architectural standardization in Maya cities sheds light on urban planning and political structure–specifically changes in cultural complexity. What does variability in standardized E Group architecture tell us about diversity in Maya society, especially insofar as it concerns religion? Temporal variability in archaeoastronomical alignment patterning shows shifts from earlier Preclassic (1000 BCE-250 CE) horizon-based solar solstice/equinox calendar dates to Classic Period (250-950 CE) examples emphasizing zenith passage, possibly based on interaction with people from Teotihuacán. Data from temples and specialized architecture associated with E Groups have the potential to show how sites differed from one another regionally in the way religious institutions formed around calendar keeping and solar celebration. Trends in the construction of E Group complexes though time and across space are related to the tempo and mode of internal cultural developments, such as emerging bureaucracies, hallmarks of complexity related to occupational specialization. Building elaboration in religious precincts, such as increasing temple room size, number, and relative proportion relates to the expansion or contraction of priesthoods responsible for the seasonal festivals and other public (investiture) or private (prophecy) ceremonies in Maya centers.

Locus of Control: Implications for Special Education

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 483-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Lawrence ◽  
James F. Winschel
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Classroom Implementation ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Although there has been much research on locus of control in both education and psychology, it has had little impact on current trends in special education. This article examines the concept of locus of control, particularly in relation to its possible effect on the mainstreaming of mildly retarded children. The relationship of locus of control to achievement and the promotion of internality in children are discussed. Implications for classroom implementation and further research are suggested.

Avatar of power: Southern Kuba masquerade figures in a funerary context

Africa ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Binkley
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
South Central ◽  
The One ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power And Authority

Opening ParagraphThe relationship of masquerade performance to social organization and to the differentiation of traditional power and authority in everyday life is scarcely noted in the literature on African ritual. And yet research among two Kuba-related groups (Northern Kete and Southern Bushoong) in south-central Zaire indicate an enduring relationship, such that we can better understand the one by examining the others. The appearance of masquerade figures during initiation rituals both reinforces and validates distinctions of power in Kuba culture. Furthermore, funerals for initiated men in conjunction with masquerade performance provide a setting in which some of the activities relating to these distinctions of power are acted out.

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