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Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities
by Thomas DeGlomaA rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of President Trump’s first impeachment, an anonymous group of hackers compromised more than 77 million Sony accounts, and best-selling author Elena Ferrante resolutely continued to hide her real name and identity. In Anonymous, Thomas DeGloma draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of anonymity. He asks a number of pressing questions about the social conditions and effects of anonymity. What is anonymity, and why, under various circumstances, do individuals act anonymously? How do individuals accomplish anonymity? How do they use it, and, in some situations, how is it imposed on them? To answer these questions, DeGloma tackles anonymity thematically, dedicating each chapter to a distinct type of anonymous action, including ones he dubs protective, subversive, institutional, and ascribed. Ultimately, he argues that anonymity and pseudonymity are best understood as performances in which people obscure personal identities as they make meaning for various audiences. As they bring anonymity and pseudonymity to life, DeGloma shows, people work to define the world around them to achieve different goals and objectives.
The Anonymous Elect: Market Research Through Online Access Panels
by Andrei PostoacaThe Anonymous Elect is the book that restores market research to its original condition and bestows it its full interdisciplinary rights. It asks questions that address market researchers and sociologists as well as psychologists, linguists and specialists in marketing and communication: Is there a language of online panel communication? What does this language say about the relationship between the online researcher and the online respondent? To what extent has the online medium increased the self-awareness of today’s respondents to research studies? A memorable experiment in writing, Andrei Postoaca’s exploration of online access panels is a book about interviewing and being interviewed, addressing and being addressed. By shifting the two voices involved in the online panel communication, the author approaches market research not only by way of facts, figures and plain statistical evidence but also by way of interpretation of the rhetoric of the online surveying act.
Another Country – Growing Up In ’50s Ireland: Memoirs of a Dublin Childhood
by Gene KerriganFrom First Communions to CIÉ Mystery Tours – the heartwarming story of award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan’s childhood in Dublin in the ’50sIn his highly addictive style, Gene Kerrigan effortlessly reconstructs the Ireland of the 1950s and early ’60s in which he grew up. An adult world of absolute moral certainties, casual cruelties and mass emigration; for children an age of innocence, but an innocence hemmed in by fear and guilt.In this brilliant and humorous memoir, Kerrigan tells of a world that now seems as distant as another country. Into the details of school, street and family life, of Christmas, First Communion, school violence, CIE Mystery Tours and the arrival of television are woven the political background of the day and recollections of the impact of major figures: Michael O Hehir, Seán Lemass, Eamon ‘Dev’ De Valera, JFK, not to mention Hector Grey, Shane, Davy Crockett and Audie Murphy.It’s a compelling, touching and often very funny account of a happy childhood in a country that was itself far from happy.
Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Political Theologies)
by Agata Bielik-RobsonBeginning from the notion of finite life, Another Finitude takes this staple subject from post-Heideggerian philosophy and opposes it to the onto-theological concept of infinity, represented by an eternal absolute. Although critical of Heidegger and his definition of finitude as 'being-towards-death', this book does not revert to the ontological idea of infinity secured in the sacred image of immortality. But it also does not want to give up on infinity altogether; the infinite is transposed, so it can become a necessary moment of the finite life. A theological framework for the new elaboration of the concept of finitude is crucial; but instead of following the Lutheran formula, Agata Bielik-Robson turns to the sources of Judaism. Taking inspiration from the Jewish idea of torat hayim, the principle of finite life, which found the best expression in the biblical sentence: love strong as death; love emerges as the alternative marker of finitude, allowing to us redefine it in an affirmative way. By tracing the avatars of love in the group of 20th-century thinkers, or 'messianic vitalists'–Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Arendt, Derrida, and (deeply revised) Freud–the book attempts to demonstrate the possibility of such affirmation. Love becomes the new 'infinite-in-the-finite'; love in all its forms, from the original libidinal endowment of the human psyche to the last metamorphoses of agape, the Greco-Christian divine love.
Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Political Theologies)
by Agata Bielik-RobsonBeginning from the notion of finite life, Another Finitude takes this staple subject from post-Heideggerian philosophy and opposes it to the onto-theological concept of infinity, represented by an eternal absolute. Although critical of Heidegger and his definition of finitude as 'being-towards-death', this book does not revert to the ontological idea of infinity secured in the sacred image of immortality. But it also does not want to give up on infinity altogether; the infinite is transposed, so it can become a necessary moment of the finite life. A theological framework for the new elaboration of the concept of finitude is crucial; but instead of following the Lutheran formula, Agata Bielik-Robson turns to the sources of Judaism. Taking inspiration from the Jewish idea of torat hayim, the principle of finite life, which found the best expression in the biblical sentence: love strong as death; love emerges as the alternative marker of finitude, allowing to us redefine it in an affirmative way. By tracing the avatars of love in the group of 20th-century thinkers, or 'messianic vitalists'–Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Arendt, Derrida, and (deeply revised) Freud–the book attempts to demonstrate the possibility of such affirmation. Love becomes the new 'infinite-in-the-finite'; love in all its forms, from the original libidinal endowment of the human psyche to the last metamorphoses of agape, the Greco-Christian divine love.
Another Invisible Hand: The Transformation of Social Structure (China Perspectives)
by Li PeilinThere have been two “hands” exerting influence on China’s resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation). This book focuses on a third factor, “another invisible hand,” which is social structure transformation. This two part study explores the process of China's social structure transformation while conducting a theoretical examination of its characteristics. The first part presents a theoretical analysis of the nature of social structure transformation and its economic consequences, both in general and within the Chinese context. The second part examines the transformation of urban and rural societies in contemporary China from different perspectives; including state-owned enterprises, laid-off urban workers, rural migrants, and rural industrialization. The book is written for scholars, researchers and students across the social sciences and area studies, including Sociology, Urban studies, Rural studies, Contemporary China studies and all those who are interested in economic development in China.
Another Invisible Hand: The Transformation of Social Structure (China Perspectives)
by Li PeilinThere have been two “hands” exerting influence on China’s resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), and the other intangible (market regulation). This book focuses on a third factor, “another invisible hand,” which is social structure transformation. This two part study explores the process of China's social structure transformation while conducting a theoretical examination of its characteristics. The first part presents a theoretical analysis of the nature of social structure transformation and its economic consequences, both in general and within the Chinese context. The second part examines the transformation of urban and rural societies in contemporary China from different perspectives; including state-owned enterprises, laid-off urban workers, rural migrants, and rural industrialization. The book is written for scholars, researchers and students across the social sciences and area studies, including Sociology, Urban studies, Rural studies, Contemporary China studies and all those who are interested in economic development in China.
Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the '60s
by Richard GoldsteinIn 1961, Richard Goldstein saw Bob Dylan perform for the first time at Carnegie Hall. Rock music was in its infancy, and revolution was in the air. Criticism of the genre didn't yet exist but, as it began to change music and politics for ever, the serious discussion of rock became a thriving institution. Aged just twenty-two in 1966, and the first rock critic in New York, Goldstein became a pivotal figure in the industry. Forging close relationships with huge names – Jim Morrison, Brian Wilson and Janis Joplin to name just three – his life became a whirlwind of politics, sex and rock and roll. Another Little Piece of My Heart is an unparalleled document of rock and revolution.
Another Music: Polemics and Pleasures
by John McCormickAs the essays in this book attest, in a time of specialization John McCormick chose diversification, a choice determined by a life spent in many occupations and many countries. After his five years in the U. S. Navy in the Second World War, the academy beckoned by way of the G. I. Bill, graduate training, and a career in teaching. Prosperity in the American university at the time meant setting up as a "Wordsworth man," a "Keats man," or a "Dr. Johnson man": all chilling to the author. He chose self-exile in which he disguised himself as an "Americanist" saleable in Europe, and lectured happily in comparative studies: literature, history, and philosophy. Thus the broad range of this volume, both in subject matter and in the span of time it covers. The essays are divided into three sections. First are general and personal essays on a variety of topics, followed by work on individual writers, and third, writings on criticism and theory. A section on Santayana reflects his eight years of research for Santayana's biography. The writings on Spain and toreo (bullfighting) result from another long-held interest, together with the author's attempt to alter some of the romantic nonsense about the running of the bulls in Pamplona, too often the entire substance of what the general public knows about Spain. McCormick has long been convinced that without knowledge of bullfighting, the foreigner cannot comprehend arcane and wonderful aspects of the Spanish character. The coda, "Another Music," is an old man's attempt to solve the mysterious algebra of how the world turns now, and how the young appear to the aged. While the volume is diverse in its range of writers--from Whitman in America to Santayana in Europe, taken as a collectivity, these essays provide a sense of the grandeur as well as the decadent in twentieth century politics and aesthetics alike. Written with the literary taste and political non-conformity that still characterizes McCormick, the volume is a treat for the specialist (perhaps) and for the generalist (certainly).
Another Music: Polemics and Pleasures
by John McCormickAs the essays in this book attest, in a time of specialization John McCormick chose diversification, a choice determined by a life spent in many occupations and many countries. After his five years in the U. S. Navy in the Second World War, the academy beckoned by way of the G. I. Bill, graduate training, and a career in teaching. Prosperity in the American university at the time meant setting up as a "Wordsworth man," a "Keats man," or a "Dr. Johnson man": all chilling to the author. He chose self-exile in which he disguised himself as an "Americanist" saleable in Europe, and lectured happily in comparative studies: literature, history, and philosophy. Thus the broad range of this volume, both in subject matter and in the span of time it covers. The essays are divided into three sections. First are general and personal essays on a variety of topics, followed by work on individual writers, and third, writings on criticism and theory. A section on Santayana reflects his eight years of research for Santayana's biography. The writings on Spain and toreo (bullfighting) result from another long-held interest, together with the author's attempt to alter some of the romantic nonsense about the running of the bulls in Pamplona, too often the entire substance of what the general public knows about Spain. McCormick has long been convinced that without knowledge of bullfighting, the foreigner cannot comprehend arcane and wonderful aspects of the Spanish character. The coda, "Another Music," is an old man's attempt to solve the mysterious algebra of how the world turns now, and how the young appear to the aged. While the volume is diverse in its range of writers--from Whitman in America to Santayana in Europe, taken as a collectivity, these essays provide a sense of the grandeur as well as the decadent in twentieth century politics and aesthetics alike. Written with the literary taste and political non-conformity that still characterizes McCormick, the volume is a treat for the specialist (perhaps) and for the generalist (certainly).
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
by Yanis VaroufakisWhat would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratised. In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters - a libertarian ex-banker, a Marxist-feminist and a maverick technologist - we see the genesis of a world without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are owned equally by all staff, basic income is guaranteed, global imbalances and climate change cancel each other out, and housing is socialised.Is a liberal socialism feasible? Can prosperity grow without costing the Earth? Are we able to build the good society, despite our flaws?As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show that there is an alternative to capitalism, while also confronting us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?
Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family
by Ronne HartfieldIn her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of mixed race with ease and harmony for generations. Her moving family history is filled with such stories, told in beautifully crafted and unsentimental prose. Spanning most of the twentieth century, Hartfield's book celebrates the special occasion of being born and reared in a household where miscegenation was the rule rather than the exception—where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. Hartfield begins with the early life of her mother, Day Shepherd. Born to a wealthy British plantation owner and the mixed-race daughter of a former slave, Day negotiates the complicated circumstances of plantation life in the border country of Louisiana and Mississippi and, as she enters womanhood, the quadroon and octoroon societies of New Orleans. Equally a tale of the Great Migration, Another Way Home traces Day's journey to Bronzeville, the epicenter of black Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Here, through the eyes of Day and, ultimately, her daughter, we witness the bustling city streets and vibrant middle-class culture of this iconic black neighborhood. We also relive crucial moments in African American history as they are experienced by the author's family and others in Chicago's South Side black community, from the race riots of 1919 and the Great Depression to the murder of Emmett Till and the dawn of the civil rights movement. Throughout her book, Hartfield portrays mixed-race Americans navigating the challenges of their lives with resilience and grace, making Another Way Home an intimate and compelling encounter with one family's response to our racially charged culture.
Anpacken – Projektmanagement in Gesundheitsberufen (Top im Gesundheitsjob)
by Simone SchmidtOb es um das Implementieren eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems geht, eine Patientenbefragung zur Kundenzufriedenheit oder die Einführung einer neuen Pflegeplanungssoftware – das Buch hilft dabei, Projekte im Gesundheitswesen zu planen, umzusetzen und dabei Risiken und Fehler möglichst zu vermeiden. Mithilfe eines professionellen Projektmanagements lassen sich nicht nur der Ressourceneinsatz effektiv lenken, sondern auch die Qualität und die Arbeitszufriedenheit steigern. Mit Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen und vielen Praxisbeispielen.
Anpassung an den Ruhestand: Ein empirischer Beitrag zur Alternsforschung (Beiträge zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung #33)
by Werner Priemer
Anpassung und Selbstbehauptung: Eine identitätstheoretische Studie zur Fürsorge in den Jahren 1936 bis 1956
by Christa PaulUnter der von G. H. Meads Identitätstheorie abgeleiteten Annahme, dass Identitätsbildung und soziale Integration ein Zusammenwirken von Anpassung und Selbstbehauptung voraussetzt, untersucht Christa Paul in dieser Studie ein lebensgeschichtliches Interview mit einer Frau, die in den Jahren 1936 bis 1956 fürsorgerischer Kontrolle unterstand. Dabei interpretiert die Autorin die Nicht-Anerkennung dieser Frau als Opfer des Nationalsozialismus als Endpunkt eines – sich in deren Lebenslauf verstetigenden – subjektiv erfahrenen Scheiterns von Selbstbehauptung. Die Kontextualisierung des untersuchten Einzelfalls in den Rahmen von Heimerziehung der 50er und 60er Jahre des 20. Jh. führt dazu, staatliche Anerkennung eines in Verantwortungsbereichen des Staates ausgeübten Unrechts als Bedingung zu betrachten, die Identitätsbildung und soziale Integration befördern kann.
Ansätze und Perspektiven der Institutionentheorie: Eine bibliographische und konzeptionelle Einführung
by Rainer Schmalz-BrunsDie vorliegende Arbeit ist aus dem Diskussionszusammenhang der Sektion "Politi sche Theorie und Ideengeschichte" in der DVPW hervorgegangen, die seit einigen Jah ren auf kontinuierlich stattfindenden Arbeitstagungen in fachübergreifender Perspektive das Projekt einer Theorie politischer Institutionen verfolgt hat. Dabei haben gerade die Diskussionen mit Vertretern sozialwissenschaftlicher Nachbardisziplinen schnell gezeigt, daß auch die politikwissenschaftliche Durchführung eines solchen Projekts von vorn herein durch die konzeptuellen Unschärfen belastet ist, die die Verwendung des Institu tionenbegriffs fast durchgängig begleiten. Deshalb habe ich gern die Anregung der Pro fessoren Herrnbach und Göhler aufgegriffen, die politikwissenschaftlichen Fragestellun gen in der allgemeinen sozialwissenschaftliehen Diskussion zu situieren, nach möglichen konzeptuellen Anschlüssen zu suchen und dies mit einem bibliographischen Überblick über die einschlägige Literatur zu verbinden. Herr Prof. Dr. Gerhard Göhler hat es übernommen, dieses Projekt, das dankens werter Weise von der DFG durch eine Sachbeihilfe gefördert wurde, zu betreuen. Damit hat er nicht nur für den institutionellen Rahmen der Durchführung gesorgt, sondern er hat die Arbeit über den gesamten Zeitraum interessiert und kritisch begleitet und so ent schieden zu deren Abschluß beigetragen. Der Bericht, den ich nunmehr vorlegen kann, wäre so allerdings ohne das weit über seine Verpflichtungen hinausgehende Engagement Rainer Kühns nicht entstanden. Rainer Kühn war nicht nur wesentlich an den bibliographischen Arbeiten beteiligt, son dern er hat darüber hinaus das Register erstellt und war schließlich in mühevoller Klein arbeit auch für die Herstellung einer publikationsfähigen Druckvorlage verantwortlich. Ihm ist vor allem und in erster Linie zu danken.
Anschluss der Normale der deutschen Maasse und Gewichte an die neuen Prototype des Meter und des Kilogramm (Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Normal-Aichungs-Kommision #1)
by Kaiserlichen Normal-Aichungs-Kommission
Ansichten der Gesellschaft: Frankfurter Beiträge aus Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft (Gegenwartskunde - Sonderheft #11)
by Wolfgang GlatzerDie Frankfurter Beiträge aus Soziologie und Politik bieten Analysen und Theorien zu zentralen Aspekten der Gesellschaft. Je nach Fragestellung treten Probleme der Industrie-, Informations- und Globalgesellschaft bzw. des Geschlechterverhältnisses in den Vordergrund.
Anspielung und Stereotyp: Eine linguistische Untersuchung des politischen Sprachgebrauchs am Beispiel der SPD
by Arnold Svensson
Anspruch und Wirklichkeit des Controlling: Eine Untersuchung jenseits des betriebswirtschaftlichen Paradigmas
by Stephanie BücherlStephanie Bücherl präsentiert eine empirische Rekonstruktion der Controlling-Praxis und greift auf eine Datenbasis zurück, die im Rahmen einer teilnehmenden Beobachtung in der Finanzzentrale eines Weltkonzerns gewonnen wurde. Der „Anspruch“ der controllinggestützten Unternehmenssteuerung an Objektivität und Rationalität wird mit der empirischen „Wirklichkeit“ konfrontiert. Die Studie erbringt den fundierten Nachweis, dass die Diskrepanz von Anspruch und Wirklichkeit nicht zufällig auftritt, sondern selbst systematisches Ergebnis der Verankerung des Controlling in organisationalen Strukturen und Prozessen ist. Die Autorin beschreibt detailliert, mit welchen Techniken und Mechanismen das Controlling den Mythos zahlenbasierter Objektivität und Rationalität aufrechterhält.
An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World
by Delayed GratificationWhat's the best book ever written?What would happen if we all stopped eating meat?What's the secret to living past 110?And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread?In An Answer For Everything, 200 of the world's most intriguing questions are settled once and for all through beautiful and brilliant infographics. The results will leave you shocked, informed and thoroughly entertained.Created by the team behind the award-winning Delayed Gratification magazine, these compelling, darkly funny data visualisations will change the way you think about ... everything
Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership
by Beverly L. Bower Mimi WolvertonAlthough much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role. This book presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership in higher education, of seven African American women. Each has been the first woman, first African American, or first African American woman in one or more of the positions of authority that she has held. Each has overcome the double bind of sexism and racism that can inhibit the professional attainment of African American women. Although they followed different paths to leadership, similarities in their experiences, values, and beliefs emerge. They also express a need to give back to those communities that nourished their growth and leadership – of which this book is a manifestation. At a time when significant turnover in college leadership is about to occur – presenting increased opportunities for women and minorities – these leaders hope that the strategies they describe, the insights they impart, the experiences they recount, and, most of all, the passion they have sustained for the betterment of and greater inclusiveness in higher education, will inspire the next generation of women to answer the leadership call.
Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership (Journeys To Leadership Ser.)
by Beverly L. Bower Mimi WolvertonAlthough much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role. This book presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership in higher education, of seven African American women. Each has been the first woman, first African American, or first African American woman in one or more of the positions of authority that she has held. Each has overcome the double bind of sexism and racism that can inhibit the professional attainment of African American women. Although they followed different paths to leadership, similarities in their experiences, values, and beliefs emerge. They also express a need to give back to those communities that nourished their growth and leadership – of which this book is a manifestation. At a time when significant turnover in college leadership is about to occur – presenting increased opportunities for women and minorities – these leaders hope that the strategies they describe, the insights they impart, the experiences they recount, and, most of all, the passion they have sustained for the betterment of and greater inclusiveness in higher education, will inspire the next generation of women to answer the leadership call.
Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life
by Massimo PigliucciHow should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science. In Answers for Aristotle, Pigliucci argues that the combination of science and philosophy first pioneered by Aristotle offers us the best possible tool for understanding the world and ourselves. As Aristotle knew, each mode of thought has the power to clarify the other: science provides facts, and philosophy helps us reflect on the values with which to assess them. But over the centuries, the two have become uncoupled, leaving us with questions—about morality, love, friendship, justice, and politics—that neither field could fully answer on its own. Pigliucci argues that only by rejoining each other can modern science and philosophy reach their full potential, while we harness them to help us reach ours. Pigliucci discusses such essential issues as how to tell right from wrong, the nature of love and friendship, and whether we can really ever know ourselves—all in service of helping us find our path to the best possible life. Combining the two most powerful intellectual traditions in history, Answers for Aristotle is a remarkable guide to discovering what really matters and why.