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Book Synopsis Social Power Constructs by : Tanya D. Whitehead
Download or read book Social Power Constructs written by Tanya D. Whitehead and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Power analysis is a useful lens through which system relationships can be examined and better understood. The use of a multidimensional model of social power reveals the dynamics of power and the hidden rules of social arrangements underlying the relationships between groups and systems. This highly engaging text guides the reader through an explanation of the dimensions and standards of social power; then the reader is provided with three recent examples of experiences of people with disabilities which are analyzed through a multi-dimensional model of social power. In case after case it becomes clear that systemic constraints have developed not by chance, but by design. True reform is possible because all organizations are dependent upon the acceptance and acquiescence of the individuals within the system. Control over the delicate balance of power belongs to all who are contained within the entire system, and those with a lessor share of power may shift the balance of power, if they act in concert. This guide was written for those who are dismayed by the lack of social justice in the world around them, and who want to understand the hidden rules protecting the status quo.
Download or read book Power written by Steven Lukes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, the updates and reflections from the second edition and two groundbreaking new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. The new material includes a development of Lukes's theory of power and presents empirical cases to exemplify this. Including a refreshed introduction, this third edition brings a book that has consolidated its reputation as a classic work and a major reference point within Social and Political Theory to a whole new audience. It can be used on modules across the Social and Political Sciences dealing with the concept of power and its manifestation in the world. It is also essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the history of Social and Political Thought. New to this Edition: - A revised and refreshed introduction - Two new chapters on 'Domination and Consent' and 'Exploring the Third Dimension'
Book Synopsis Social Power Analysis: by : Dr. Tanya D. Whitehead
Download or read book Social Power Analysis: written by Dr. Tanya D. Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Power analysis is a useful lens through which system relationships can be examined and better understood. The use of a multidimensional model of social power reveals the dynamics of power and the hidden rules of social arrangements underlying the relationships between groups and systems. This highly engaging text guides the reader through an explanation of the dimensions and standards of social power; then the reader is provided with three recent examples of world events which are analyzed through a multi-dimensional model of social power. In case after case it becomes clear that systemic constraints have developed not by chance, but by design. True reform is possible because all organizations are dependent upon the acceptance and acquiescence of the individuals within the system. Control over the delicate balance of power belongs to all who are contained within the entire system, and those with a lessor share of power may shift the balance of power, if they act in concert. This guide was written for those who are dismayed by the lack of social justice in the world around them, and who want to understand the hidden rules protecting the status quo.
Book Synopsis Towards a Multidimensional Model of Power by : Michael Bourne
Download or read book Towards a Multidimensional Model of Power written by Michael Bourne and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation investigates the organizational basis of standard setting at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The data come from texts constructed over the course of Phase II of the IASB's Business Combinations Project (2002-2007). Consideration is also given to secondary source material, including the extensive literature on accounting standard setting. Theoretically, the dissertation follows from Steven Lukes's multidimensional model on power (1974; 2005), which provides a robust basis for analyzing actors involved in overt conflicts, the issues they mobilize or avoid, and the systemic forces that shape their preferences. The dissertation makes a theoretical contribution by applying Lukes's model to expert-based standard setting at the IASB. To this end, the works of Harry Collins (e.g., 1975, 1985; 1992, 2000, 2001, 2010) are applied. Initial consideration is given to the association between the convergence project and developments in the transnational regulatory space. The analysis reveals that the IASB's efforts to promulgate International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) have been made in conjunction with economic globalization, the financialization of the market economy, and mounting American hegemony over global commerce. Consideration is subsequently given to the discursive construction of the IASB's organization. The argument is advanced that the stated configuration of the IASB's organization is intended to demonstrate to external authorities and the public that the IASB adheres to high standards of input, throughput, and output legitimacy. However, I suggest that the IASB exhibits a democratic deficit, which is conceived as the board falling short of fulfilling these standards.The ensuing empirical-theoretical work turns to an investigation on how multiple dimensions of power bore on the secretariat and the board's project for amending International Financial Reporting Standard 3 (IFRS 3, "Business Combinations"). Against the backdrop of the project, I argue that the IASB's mode of standard setting resembles what I conceive as "regulatory elitism," whereby the IASB reserved the right to adopt all proposals initially outlined in exposure draft 3 (2005) in the final version of IFRS 3 (2008) despite an overwhelming majority of constituents submitting comment letters to the IASB encouraging it to rescind the proposals. Of particular significance, accounting experts--conceived as senior accountants, auditors, financial executives, analysts, and so forth--rejected the proposals because the IASB failed to communicate what Collins and Evans call the requisite "specialist tacit knowledge" (2002, 2007) on how to apply the acquisition model in practice. Subsequent analyses of the data reveal that the secretariat and the board did not ameliorate the guidance on how to account for a business combination. I associate the IASB's inaction with two phenomena. First, I suggest that the IASB did not provide detailed procedures on how to apply the acquisition model owing to its institutional preference for fair value accounting, principles-based accounting standard setting, and converging IFRS with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. To invoke the terminology Lukes applies in his analysis of the third dimension of power (1974; 2005), mobilization of the IASB's political bias gave rise to institutional inaction. Second, my investigation on the secretariat's work and the secretariat and the boards' formal deliberations in 2006 and 2007 highlights that they failed to elucidate how to apply the model, in part because they had yet to construct the expertise on operationalizing all facets of the acquisition model. An additional level of investigation emphasizes that the secretariat at the IASB played an important role in the amendment of IFRS 3. Its work not only shaped the construction of the IASB's technical agenda but also the rationales the board invoked to justify making specific decisions, such as spurning a comprehensive analysis of concerns expressed in 37 comment letters submitted to the IASB by actors in the cooperative sector. The episode is conceived as an empirical instance of what Lukes calls "nondecision-making" (1974; 2005). Based on this and other findings, the conclusion is reached that the IASB is not a monolithic institution. That is, the development of IFRS is not the exclusive domain of 16 board members. The unseen hand of the secretariat wielded substantial influence over the IASB's amendment of IFRS 3.
Book Synopsis Power in Modernity by : Isaac Ariail Reed
Download or read book Power in Modernity written by Isaac Ariail Reed and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Isaac Reed's Power in Modernity aims to be a major contribution to social theory. It is a bold and innovative theoretical reimagining of power. Drawing on an eclectic range of ideas from across the humanities and social sciences, Reed rethinks the fundamentals of sociological theorizing of power-upsetting canonical traditions and remaking them with insights from poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and critical race studies. First, Reed conceptualizes power as having three aspects: relational, discursive, and performative. He explores these aspects in relation to three different kinds of social actors-rector, agent, and other-and their connections. In essence, Reed brings power in the actions of individuals into relation with a wide range of institutional circumstances of power while neatly finessing the outmoded agency/structure binary. The result is a framework for the analysis of power that allows us to see both its sometimes fragile and precarious character, as well as its more typical stability and durability. We also get a window onto the episodic performances of power and how they institutionalize or unravel social orders. Power in Modernity is sure to be of interest to political sociologists and social theorists especially, and it will serve sociologists and other social scientists well who are interested in how power operates across many different social situations"--
Book Synopsis Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models by : Chris Webb
Download or read book Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models written by Chris Webb and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-follow guide full of hands on examples of real-world Analysis Services cube development tasks. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive reader, there also more in-depth details of the concepts used. If you are an Analysis Services cube designer wishing to learn more advanced topic and best practices for cube design, this book is for you. You are expected to have some prior experience with Analysis Services cube development.
Book Synopsis Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education by : Zeus Leonardo
Download or read book Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education written by Zeus Leonardo and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to the main frameworks for thinking about, conducting research on, and teaching about race and racism in education. Renowned theoretician and philosopher Zeus Leonardo surveys the dominant race theories and, more specifically, focuses on those frameworks that are considered essential to cultivating a critical attitude toward race and racism. The book examines four frameworks: Critical Race Theory (CRT), Marxism, Whiteness Studies, and Cultural Studies. A critique follows each framework in order to analyze its strengths and set its limits. The last chapter offers a theory of "race ambivalence," which combines aspects of all four theories into one framework. Engaging and cutting edge, Race Frameworks is a foundational text suitable for courses in education and critical race studies.
Book Synopsis Multidimensional Models of Perception and Cognition by : F. Gregory Ashby
Download or read book Multidimensional Models of Perception and Cognition written by F. Gregory Ashby and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental representations of perceptual and cognitive stimuli vary on many dimensions. In addition, because of quantal fluctuations in the stimulus, spontaneous neural activity, and fluctuations in arousal and attentiveness, mental events are characterized by an inherent variability. During the last several years, a number of models and theories have been developed that explicitly assume the appropriate mental representation is both multidimensional and probabilistic. This new approach has the potential to revolutionize the study of perception and cognition in the same way that signal detection theory revolutionized the study of psychophysics. This unique volume is the first to critically survey this important new area of research.
Book Synopsis Power Diffusion and Democracy by : Julian Bernauer
Download or read book Power Diffusion and Democracy written by Julian Bernauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated remapping and analysis of political-institutional power diffusion in democracies.
Book Synopsis Toward the Twenty-first Century by : Julia T. Wood
Download or read book Toward the Twenty-first Century written by Julia T. Wood and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing out of a six-year process of reflection, deliberation and writing, and involving over 100 members of the discipline, the chapters comprising this book indentify and launch reflection about primary questions that must be engaged by research and pedagogy if the field of speech communication is to remain vital in academe and the social world.
Book Synopsis Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization by : Ralph Schroeder
Download or read book Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization written by Ralph Schroeder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.
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Book Synopsis Advanced Information Systems Engineering by : Haralambos Mouratidis
Download or read book Advanced Information Systems Engineering written by Haralambos Mouratidis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2011, held in London, UK, in June 2011. The 42 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 submissions. In addtion the book contains the abstracts of 2 keynote speeches. The contributions are organized in topical sections on requirements; adaptation and evolution; model transformation; conceptual design; domain specific languages; case studies and experiences; mining and matching; business process modelling; validation and quality; and service and management.
Book Synopsis Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China by : Simon Shen
Download or read book Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China written by Simon Shen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's rise' idea on the global stage, China in the 21st century faces a mixture of old and new challenges, including terrorism, hegemonism, and authoritarianism. While Deng Xiaooping combined Taoism, an ancient Chinese philosophy, into 'Taoist diplomacy' in response to the hostile international position after the Tiananmen Incident, China's foreign policy keeps changing, and the multidimensional diplomacy adopted by China can be seen as a consistent theme in Chinese foreign policy in the 21st century. Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China attempts to examine the origins, guiding principles and sequential outcomes of China's multidimensional diplomacy in the 21st century, working under the flag of 'peaceful development,' 'harmonious international order,' and 'global responsibility.' The contributions are grouped into three sections. The first discusses the theoretical foundations of multidimensional diplomacy. The second section turns the analytical focus to China's immediate neighbors in East Asia, and at last the book will go beyond the immediate neighborhood of China to the global community. These essays explore China's dealings with the countries of Africa, the Gulf, and the South Pacific and provide other in-depth analyses on China's foreign policy towards Pakistan, Russia, and Japan. This book seeks to significantly shape the knowledge and thinking about China's global interactions in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences by : Jacob Cohen
Download or read book Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences written by Jacob Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical Power Analysis is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The Second Edition includes: * a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; * a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; * expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation.
Book Synopsis Masculinities and the Law by : Frank Rudy Cooper
Download or read book Masculinities and the Law written by Frank Rudy Cooper and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with other men to prove their masculinity. Masculinities and the Law develops a multidimensional approach. It sees categories of identity—including various forms of raced, classed, and sex-oriented masculinities—as operating simultaneously and creating different effects in different contexts. By applying multidimensional masculinities theory to law, this cutting-edge collection both expands the field of masculinities and develops new thinking about important issues in feminist and critical race theories. The topics covered include how norms of masculinity influence the behavior of policemen, firefighters, and international soldiers on television and in the real world; employment discrimination against masculine cocktail waitresses and all transgendered employees; the legal treatment of fathers in the U.S. and the ways unauthorized migrant fathers use the dangers of border crossing to boost their masculine esteem; how Title IX fails to curtail the masculinity of sport; the racist assumptions behind the prison rape debate; the surprising roots of homophobia in Jamaican dancehall music; and the contradictions of the legal debate over women veiling in Turkey. Ultimately, the book argues that multidimensional masculinities theory can change how law is interpreted and applied.
Book Synopsis New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing by : Roumen Kountchev
Download or read book New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing written by Roumen Kountchev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hierarchy and Organisation by : Thomas Diefenbach
Download or read book Hierarchy and Organisation written by Thomas Diefenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way it should be - and are neither willing nor able to think that it could be otherwise. This book raises the awareness of hierarchy, its complexity and longevity. It focuses on a single but fundamental problem of social systems such as dyads, groups, organisations and whole societies: Why and how does hierarchical social order persist over time? In order to investigate the question, author Thomas Diefenbach develops a general theory of the persistence of hierarchical social order. This theory interrogates the problem of the persistence of hierarchical social order from very different angles, in multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary ways. Even more crucially, it traces the very causes of the phenomenon, the reasons and interests behind hierarchy as well as the various mechanisms which keep it going. This is the first time such a theory is attempted. With the help of the theory developed in this book, it is possible to interrogate systematically, comprehensively and in detail how mindsets and behaviours as well as societal and organisational structures enable the continuation of hierarchy
