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Risikobeteiligung und Verantwortung als notwendige Machtkorrektive: Nachdenkliches zum Gesellschaftsrecht sowie zu Banken- und Umweltkrisen (essentials)
by Wolfgang MarotzkeIn diesem essential werden Asymmetrien von Herrschaft und Risikobeteiligung näher beleuchtet und bewertet. Der Autor Wolfgang Marotzke befasst sich mit grundlegenden gesellschaftsrechtlichen Fragen, mit den Ursachen von Banken- und Finanzmarktkrisen sowie mit der Eingehung von Umweltrisiken zulasten künftiger Generationen. Das Buch gibt eine Fülle von Denkanstößen zu Schlüsselfragen unserer Gesellschaft und erörtert die Möglichkeiten des Rechtssystems, steuernd einzugreifen.
Risiko und Soziale Arbeit: Diskurse, Spannungsfelder, Konsequenzen
by Hanspeter Hongler Samuel KellerDie BeiträgerInnen des vorliegenden Sammelbandes setzen sich mit unterschiedlichen Spannungsfeldern und Widersprüchen des Themas Risiko und Soziale Arbeit auseinander. Dabei vermischen sich strukturelle Risikofaktoren mit individuellen Gefährdungslagen, politische Unwägbarkeiten mit einer oft sozialarbeitskritischen Öffentlichkeit, Wünsche nach professioneller und organisationaler Absicherung mit persönlicher Risikobereitschaft und (post)heroischem Risikomanagement.
Risiko und Gesellschaft: Grundlagen und Ergebnisse interdisziplinärer Risikoforschung
by Gotthard BechmannWar die Risiko-Forschung am Anfang auf die Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnung eines Unfallgeschehens oder auf die Fragen der Risikoakzeptanz beschränkt, so zeigte sich bald, daß im Zeitalter der Großtechnologien Fragen der gesellschaftlichen, moralischen und politischen Implikationen von technischen Unfällen und Katastrophen nicht mehr auszuweichen ist. Das Buch dokumentiert die Ausweitung der Risikoforschung von einem naturwissenschaftlichen Ansatz der probabilistischen Risikoanalyse über stärker ökonomisch orientierte Untersuchungen bis hin zu psychologischen und soziologischen Fragestellungen, die die Frage nach der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz neuer Technologien in das Zentrum ihrer Forschung stellen.
Risiko-Psychologie im Projektmanagement: Strategien für erfolgreiches Risiko- und Krisenmanagement in Projekten (essentials)
by Christoph LüttgeNichts im Leben und im Projektmanagement geht genau nach Plan. Immer wieder machen uns äußere Ereignisse und Entwicklungen einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Deshalb ist die nüchterne Analyse von Risiken und die Vorbereitung auf entsprechende Krisen ein Schlüsselelement erfolgreichen Projektmanagements. Dem stehen jedoch psychologische Faktoren entgegen. Welche Faktoren dies sind und woher diese kommen und wie man damit umgeht, darauf gibt es Antworten in diesem Buch und dem inkludierten Online Kurs.
Risiko im Management: 100 Fehler, Irrtümer, Verzerrungen und wie man sie vermeidet
by Christian GlaserIn diesem Buch geht es um die Schaffung des Bewusstseins für verzerrte und fehlerhafte Wahrnehmungen, Beurteilungen und Interpretationen von risikorelevanten Sachverhalten. Es ist bewusst so geschrieben, dass es sowohl für Entscheidungsträger als auch für Spezialisten gleichsam erhellend sein kann. Die häufigsten Fehler im (Risiko-)Management sind sehr vielschichtig, denn sie hängen sehr eng mit der konkreten Branche, den vorhandenen Ressourcen und auch der Aufbau- und Ablauforganisation zusammen. Nichtsdestotrotz zeigt sich bei einem Vergleich einzelner Unternehmen aus unterschiedlichen Branchen und unterschiedlicher Größe, dass immer wieder die gleichen oder zumindest sehr ähnliche Problemfelder auftreten. Dies sind neben den operativen und methodischen Problemen der Modelle und Tools insbesondere der Umgang und die Verarbeitung der Informationen. Speziell die sogenannten „Biases“, also die systematischen Fehler und Verzerrungen bei der Informationsverarbeitung, sollten Entscheidern bewusst sein, bevor sie strategische und unternehmensweite Entscheidungen treffen. Einen sehr großen Einfluss auf die Erstellung des Buches hatten hierbei neben meiner jahrelangen Tätigkeit im Bereich Risikomanagement und den unterschiedlichsten Lessons Learned von Krisen und Krisenberichten anderer Unternehmen insbesondere die Werke von Nassim Taleb sowie von Daniel Kahneman und Richard Thaler. Dem erstgenannten Autor gelang im Zuge der Finanzmarktkrise ein bahnbrechender Erfolg mit seiner Beschreibung der schwarzen Schwäne. Anhand sehr anschaulicher Beispiele war es für jedermann verständlich, dass nicht nur Kleinigkeiten an den Modellen falsch waren, sondern dass viele Modelle grundlegend falsch waren und es mehr bedurfte als nur eines „Facelifts“.
Risiko Gesundheit: Über Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der Gesundheitsgesellschaft
by Bettina Paul Henning Schmidt-SemischGesundheit bezeichnet einen der zentralen Werte in unserer gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft: Sowohl das öffentliche wie auch das persönliche Interesse an Gesundheit hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten deutlich zugenommen. Dabei werden immer mehr Probleme einer medizinischen Lösung zugeführt und immer mehr Verhaltensweisen (falsche Ernährung, Rauchen, Bewegungsmangel etc.) als gesundheitsschädlich bezeichnet und bekämpft: Hinter jedem Zipperlein wird die Manifestation, zumindest aber der Beginn einer ernst zu nehmenden Krankheit vermutet, immer öfter werden eigentlich gesunde Prozesse (etwa Alterung) problematisiert und medizinalisiert und jede noch so lustvolle Tätigkeit wird vor dem Hintergrund ihrer immanenten Gesundheitsrisiken taxiert. Jede Entscheidung, die wir treffen, so wird suggeriert, ist zugleich eine Gesundheitsentscheidung.
Risiken der Berufswahl: Wahrnehmungen und Handlungsorientierungen bei der Wahl einer Erstausbildung
by Andrea AltepostAndrea Altepost führt Theorieelemente aus der Berufswahl- und Risikoforschung zusammen und generiert ein Modell, das anhand empirischer Daten aus einer Auszubildendenbefragung in Strukturgleichungsmodellen überprüft wird. Mit Einführung einer breiten Risikoperspektive und der Integration von Theorieansätzen werden hier gleich zwei Forschungsdesiderata adressiert. Die Wahl einer Erstausbildung findet vor dem Hintergrund erheblicher Planungs- und Antizipationsunsicherheit diverser tangierter Kontextbereiche statt. Risikobezogene Wahrnehmungen und Handlungsorientierungen, so eine Kernthese des Buches, spielen daher eine wesentliche Rolle in der Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheit durch die Berufswahl.
The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers
by Amber AthertonUncover the fascinating history of virtual communities and how we connect to each other online. The Rise of Virtual Communities, explores the earliest online community platforms, mapping the technological evolutions, and the individuals, that have shaped the culture of the internet.Read in-depth interviews with the visionary founders of iconic online platforms, and uncover the history of virtual communities and how the industry has developed over time. Featuring never-before told stories, this exploration introduces new ideas and predictions for the future, explaining how we got here and challenging what we think we may know about building online communities.Readers will: Learn what a virtual community is and how it has become an integral part of modern society Review key insights into building virtual communities and platforms from the founders and pioneers who created them See what the current developments and the potential challenges are related to the future of virtual communitiesWho is this for:Community managers, company founders and those who want to know more about the origins and future of virtual communities.interviews Include:Randy Farmer & Chip Morningstar – Lucasfilm Games ‘Habitat’ and creators of the modern AvatarHoward Rheingold - Community expert and member of the WELLStacy Horn - Founder of Echo NYCJim Bumgardner - Founder of The PalacePhilip Rosedale - Founder of Second LifeSampo Karjalainen - Co-founder of Habbo HotelLance Priebe - Co-Founder of Club Penguin Angelo Sotira - Co-Founder of Deviant Art Caterina Fake - Co-Founder of FlickrAlexis Ohanian- Founder of Reddit Kevin Rose – Co-Founder of Digg & PROOF CollectiveJason Citron - Founder of Discord Trevor McFedries - Founder of FWB & Brud Cherie Hu - Founder of Water & MusicMichelle Kennedy - Founder of Peanut
The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
by Bradley Campbell Jason ManningThe Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump.
Rise of the Spectacular: America in the 1950s
by John HanniganIn this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), his acclaimed book about the post-industrial city as a site of theming, branding and simulated spaces, sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as ‘the tranquillized decade’, America at mid-century hosted an escalating proliferation and conjunction of ‘spectacular’ events, spaces, and technologies. Spectacularization was collectively defined by five features. It reflected and legitimated a dramatic increase in scale from the local/regional to the national. It was mediated by the increasingly popular medium of television. It exploited middle-class tension between comfortable conformity and desire for safe adventure. It celebrated technological progress, boosterism and military power. It was orchestrated and marketed by a constellation, sometimes a coalition, of entrepreneurs and dream merchants, most prominently Walt Disney. In this wide-ranging odyssey across mid-century America, Hannigan visits leisure parks (Cypress Gardens), parades (Tournament of Roses), mega-events (Squaw Valley Olympics, Century 21 Exposition), architectural styles (desert modernism), innovations (underwater photography, circular film projection) and everyday wonders (chemistry sets). Collectively, these fashioned the ‘spectacular gaze’, a prism through which Americans in the 1950s were acculturated to and conscripted into a vision of a progressive, technology-based future. Rise of the Spectacular will appeal to architects, landscape designers, geographers, sociologists, historians, and leisure/tourism researchers, as well as non-academic readers who are by a fascinating era in history.
Rise of the Spectacular: America in the 1950s
by John HanniganIn this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), his acclaimed book about the post-industrial city as a site of theming, branding and simulated spaces, sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as ‘the tranquillized decade’, America at mid-century hosted an escalating proliferation and conjunction of ‘spectacular’ events, spaces, and technologies. Spectacularization was collectively defined by five features. It reflected and legitimated a dramatic increase in scale from the local/regional to the national. It was mediated by the increasingly popular medium of television. It exploited middle-class tension between comfortable conformity and desire for safe adventure. It celebrated technological progress, boosterism and military power. It was orchestrated and marketed by a constellation, sometimes a coalition, of entrepreneurs and dream merchants, most prominently Walt Disney. In this wide-ranging odyssey across mid-century America, Hannigan visits leisure parks (Cypress Gardens), parades (Tournament of Roses), mega-events (Squaw Valley Olympics, Century 21 Exposition), architectural styles (desert modernism), innovations (underwater photography, circular film projection) and everyday wonders (chemistry sets). Collectively, these fashioned the ‘spectacular gaze’, a prism through which Americans in the 1950s were acculturated to and conscripted into a vision of a progressive, technology-based future. Rise of the Spectacular will appeal to architects, landscape designers, geographers, sociologists, historians, and leisure/tourism researchers, as well as non-academic readers who are by a fascinating era in history.
The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Access is the New Ownership
by Kevin GovenderIs access the alternative to ownership?In 2011, the sharing economy was dubbed by Time magazine as one of the ‘Ten ideas that will change the world’ and it has been widely hailed as a major growth sector, by sources ranging from Fortune magazine, to the World Economic Forum, to former President Obama.The sharing economy is a new economic model that focuses on access to assets or resources, instead of ownership. It has exploded in popularity over recent years and has disrupted a significant number of mature industries such as accommodation, automotive, and entertainment. The total value of the global sharing economy is estimated to grow from $14 billion in 2014 to $335 billion by 2025.With limited resources, the desire to become more environmentally conscious, the high cost and burdens of ownership, and a rapidly growing population, living increasingly in densely populated cities, consumers are faced with greater challenges and opportunities to fill their consumption needs.People are experiencing a significant value shift with a desire to reconnect with products and services in a more meaningful way, are becoming more cost and environmentally conscious, and are prioritising experience over ownership. An organisation’s ability to reimagine and reinvent its business model to offer unique opportunities for humanising technology and developing innovative sharing platforms, such as Uber and Airbnb, would be a game changer for them.While the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19 pandemic are influencing and changing consumer behaviour, organisations are facing a dilemma that is affecting the future of their profitability, existence, and sustainability.In The Rise of the Sharing Economy, Kevin Govender shares his insights and expertise on the evolution of the sharing economy, consumer behaviour, and alternative business models, and empowers consumers to rediscover and realise the enormous benefits of access over ownership, and the potential savings in time, money, space and the opportunity. Access is a cultural and socio-economic phenomenon that is transforming businesses, consumers, the way we live, work, learn, consume, commute and play.Access is the new ownership.
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975
by Michael SchudsonModern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s—well before the Internet. Michael Schudson shows how the “right to know” has defined a new era for democracy—less focus on parties and elections, more pluralism and more players, year-round monitoring of government, and a blurring line between politics and society, public and private.
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975
by Michael SchudsonModern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s—well before the Internet. Michael Schudson shows how the “right to know” has defined a new era for democracy—less focus on parties and elections, more pluralism and more players, year-round monitoring of government, and a blurring line between politics and society, public and private.
The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton (Great Minds in Finance)
by C. ReadThe third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, influencing both theory and practice, answering the question 'how do we measure risk?'
The Rise of the Network Society, With a New Preface (Information Age Series)
by Manuel CastellsThis first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe
The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age - Economy, Society And Culture (Information Age Series #12)
by Manuel CastellsThis first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe
The Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China (The Great Transformation of China)
by Hainan Su Hong Wang Fenglin ChangThis book portrays the middle class in contemporary China with plain language and precise professional knowledge in an all-round, broad and responsible way from the perspectives of income, property, profession, education, consumption, investment, physiological and behavioral characteristics, history and development. It gives, in a logical order, the reasons for stimulating the rise of the middle class in contemporary China. It emphatically describes what the middle class is and what the middle class in contemporary China looks like. It also analyzes whether the middle class can rise in China and sheds light on the basic thinking, medium and long-term goals, main measures and current work priorities for achieving full rise of the middle class in contemporary China. As China becomes the world's largest economy, the new middle class will be the Chinese people facing the world; as such, this book will be of interest to sociologists, sinologists, political scientists, and economists.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
by Michael YoungMichael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future Meritocracy. Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society.It is widespread knowledge that it is insufficient to be somebody's nephew to obtain a responsible post in business, government, teaching, or science. Experts in education and selection apply scientific principles to sift out the leaders of tomorrow. You need intelligence rating, qualification, experience, application, and a certain caliber to achieve status. In a word, one must show merit to advance in the new society of tomorrow.In a new opening essay, Young reflects on the reception of his work, and its production, in a candid and lively way. Many of the critical ambiguities surrounding its original publication are now clarified and resolved. What we have is what the Guardian of London called A brilliant essay. and what Time and Tide described as a fountain gush of new ideas. Its wit and style make it compulsively enjoyable reading from cover to cover.
The Rise of the Meritocracy (Pelican Ser.)
by Michael YoungMichael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future Meritocracy. Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society.It is widespread knowledge that it is insufficient to be somebody's nephew to obtain a responsible post in business, government, teaching, or science. Experts in education and selection apply scientific principles to sift out the leaders of tomorrow. You need intelligence rating, qualification, experience, application, and a certain caliber to achieve status. In a word, one must show merit to advance in the new society of tomorrow.In a new opening essay, Young reflects on the reception of his work, and its production, in a candid and lively way. Many of the critical ambiguities surrounding its original publication are now clarified and resolved. What we have is what the Guardian of London called A brilliant essay. and what Time and Tide described as a fountain gush of new ideas. Its wit and style make it compulsively enjoyable reading from cover to cover.
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics
by Benjamin AbramsAn insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which is only one of the most recent examples of an immense mobilization of citizens around a cause. In The Rise of the Masses, sociologist Benjamin Abrams addresses why and how people spontaneously protest, riot, and revolt en masse. While most uprisings of such a scale require tremendous resources and organizing, this book focuses on cases where people with no connection to organized movements take to the streets, largely of their own accord. Looking to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Black Lives Uprising, as well as the historical case of the French Revolution, Abrams lays out a theory of how and why massive mobilizations arise without the large-scale planning that usually goes into staging protests. Analyzing a breadth of historical and regional cases that provide insight into mass collective behavior, Abrams draws on first-person interviews and archival sources to argue that people organically mobilize when a movement speaks to their pre-existing dispositions and when structural and social conditions make it easier to get involved—what Abrams terms affinity-convergence theory. Shedding a light on the drivers behind large spontaneous protests, The Rise of the Masses offers a significant theory that could help predict movements to come.
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics
by Benjamin AbramsAn insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which is only one of the most recent examples of an immense mobilization of citizens around a cause. In The Rise of the Masses, sociologist Benjamin Abrams addresses why and how people spontaneously protest, riot, and revolt en masse. While most uprisings of such a scale require tremendous resources and organizing, this book focuses on cases where people with no connection to organized movements take to the streets, largely of their own accord. Looking to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Black Lives Uprising, as well as the historical case of the French Revolution, Abrams lays out a theory of how and why massive mobilizations arise without the large-scale planning that usually goes into staging protests. Analyzing a breadth of historical and regional cases that provide insight into mass collective behavior, Abrams draws on first-person interviews and archival sources to argue that people organically mobilize when a movement speaks to their pre-existing dispositions and when structural and social conditions make it easier to get involved—what Abrams terms affinity-convergence theory. Shedding a light on the drivers behind large spontaneous protests, The Rise of the Masses offers a significant theory that could help predict movements to come.
The Rise of the Joyful Economy: Artistic invention and economic growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami
by Michael HutterThis book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today’s economy. As we move from the knowledge economy to a new stage called the joyful economy, consumers shift their spending from physical objects and technical know-how to experiences of joy and disappointment. This book investigates how artistic ideas are translated into successful commercial production, and how economic growth impacts artistic invention. It examines cases of successful innovation in the creative industries ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the present. The book suggests a framework where social players move in diverse worlds of value, which leads to a stream of controversies and manias that result in the establishment of new joy products. Studies include the effect of linear perspective, as pioneered by Filippo Brunelleschi, the discovery of taste as an argument for consumption, the serial production of Pop Art and the self-commercialization of contemporary works by artists like Takashi Murakami . This theoretical and empirical study brings together the fields of cultural economics, economic sociology, management studies and cultural history. In doing so, it offers a fascinating study of how creativity has shaped and fuelled commerce.
The Rise of the Joyful Economy: Artistic invention and economic growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami
by Michael HutterThis book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today’s economy. As we move from the knowledge economy to a new stage called the joyful economy, consumers shift their spending from physical objects and technical know-how to experiences of joy and disappointment. This book investigates how artistic ideas are translated into successful commercial production, and how economic growth impacts artistic invention. It examines cases of successful innovation in the creative industries ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the present. The book suggests a framework where social players move in diverse worlds of value, which leads to a stream of controversies and manias that result in the establishment of new joy products. Studies include the effect of linear perspective, as pioneered by Filippo Brunelleschi, the discovery of taste as an argument for consumption, the serial production of Pop Art and the self-commercialization of contemporary works by artists like Takashi Murakami . This theoretical and empirical study brings together the fields of cultural economics, economic sociology, management studies and cultural history. In doing so, it offers a fascinating study of how creativity has shaped and fuelled commerce.
The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and 'Othering'
by Gabriella Lazaridis Giovanna Campani Annie BenvenisteThe results of the last European Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties across the EU. The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka, France’s Front National, Greece’s Golden Dawn, the United Kingdom Independence Party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy and the Austrian FPÖ, has been perceived as a political wave which is transforming the face of the European Parliament, and challenging at some level the hegemony of the 'big four' well-established European political forces that lead the Strasbourg’s assembly: the ALDE, EPP, S&D and Greens/ALE. As 'populism' has become a major issue in many EU countries, this collection aims to provide a critical understanding of related trends and recommend ways in which they can be challenged both in policy and praxis, by using the gender-race-ethnicity-sexual orientation intersectionality approach.This international volume combines extensive transnational comparative data analysis, as well as research at discursive, attitudinal and behavioural levels.