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Harmony and Discord in Africa: Memories of Childhood in Southern Rhodesia
by Mark Huleatt-JamesIn 1949, newlyweds Tom and Angela Huleatt-James left war-torn Europe for a new life in Africa. Fleeing the grey skies of post-war Britain, they were attracted to the idea of farming in Southern Rhodesia and determined to work there for a better future.In this book, their son Mark tells the story of their adventures in Africa and his childhood and education in Southern Rhodesia. This was the time when European hegemony in the area was at its zenith. The difficult years of the Great Depression and World War II were over and an agricultural and commodities boom was under way. Europeans in Southern Rhodesia felt confident and increasingly prosperous. Against a backdrop of the history of the country and the culture of its indigenous peoples, Mark Huleatt-James details his memories of being a young child in this period – from a love of wildlife to the social life enjoyed by Europeans at the time. The education he received at Ruzawi and Peterhouse schools set him on the path to a long and successful legal career. Notwithstanding calls for independence and gradually growing unrest, the family continued to farm their land and to play their part in the colonial community.Providing a unique portrait of the final years of empire in Africa, this book is an enlightening and entertaining read.
The Harms of Hate for Gypsies and Travellers: A Critical Hate Studies Perspective (Palgrave Hate Studies)
by Zoë JamesGypsies and Travellers have often been overlooked as victims of hate crime and discrimination. This book redresses that exclusion by shining a light on the harms of hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers in the UK. In doing so James explores how hate permeates all aspects of their lives and identifies the hate crimes, incidents, and speech that they are subject to. It goes on to explore how hate against Gypsies and Travellers occurs as discrimination, social exclusion and criminalisation and how that hate is embedded within the language and practice of neoliberal capitalism. This book provides new insights to critical criminology and ways of understanding hate by using the critical hate studies perspective to gain a full appreciation of the harms of hate. As a consequence of this, the book is able to do justice to Gypsies' and Travellers' experiences of hate by extrapolating how harms manifest and the impact they have on Gypsies’ and Travellers’ social and personal identities. The book explains and acknowledges how hate harms imbue Gypsies' and Travellers' daily lives, including common events of serious abuse and assault, regular ill-treatment in provision of services, and everyday micro-aggressions. It argues hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers can only be fully recognised through an analysis of the neoliberal capitalist context within which it occurs and the harmful subjective experience it engenders. The author’s expertise in this area, having carried out research with Gypsies and Travellers for 25 years, underpins the book with excellent empirical knowledge and research-informed discussion.
Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development
by S. Khan S. Kazmi Z. RifaqatThis book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide and facilitate collective action for attaining poverty alleviation in particular and enhancing community well-being in general.
Harnessing the Potential of Digital Post-Millennials in the Future Workplace (Management for Professionals)
by Alan OkrosThis book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role: the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future. To do so, leaders need to sort through a myriad of forecasts, predictions and weak indicators of change to make timely decisions. This volume addresses the most critical factor for future success: people and, specifically, harnessing the potential the current youth cohort will bring when they join the full-time workforce. Drawing on multi-disciplinary analyses by 37 researchers, the book presents an integrative assessment of the characteristics that those in the current youth cohort are likely to bring to the workplace. The focus is on those born after 2005 with an examination of the implications of this cohort being raised from birth immersed in an increasingly omnipresent digital environment which extends far beyond social media. The authors see the coming ‘digital tsunami’ as creating disruptive effects across major elements of our economy and even society however optimistically conclude that the digital environment and the development of 21st Century skills in schools will equip the next generation with essential competencies, attitudes, social skills and work goals. The key to harnessing the potential of this generation will be to modify current human resources and workplace practices which will mean sweeping away much of the ‘boomer’ legacy that this cohort has imprinted on organizations. To assist leaders, the book goes beyond presenting a rich portrait of who these youth may become by providing practical recommendations for the changes that need to start now in order to position the organization to benefit from what they will bring. As the astute strategic leader knows: objects in the future can be closer than they appear.
Harnessing the Power of Failure: Using Storytelling and Systems Engineering to Enhance Organizational Learning
by John Steven Newman Stephen M. WanderFailure informs more generously and reliably than success. Failure is the best indicator of what’s working and what’s not in any complex system or enterprise. All failures will inevitably reveal latent defects and/or failure modes that are invariably buried within the people, processes, materials, design, manufacturing, and management that comprise the complex system. In this new framework from former NASA aerospace professionals, Newman and Wander employ a unique system failure case study (SFCS) paradigm, originally developed to stimulate systems thinking and lessons learning at NASA, that combines storytelling and systems engineering designed to enhance organizational learning. The authors employ the SFCS approach to explore a vast array of failure events in multiple sectors of transportation, industry, aerospace, construction, and critical infrastructure. They provide an Integrated Analysis seeking trends, patterns, and universally applicable insights that readers can use to recognize areas of potential vulnerability within their own activities. The authors then identify specific actions within the span of control of enterprise leaders, project managers, process owners and operators which can be implemented to manage risk in high consequence, high risk activities.
Harnessing the Power of Failure: Using Storytelling and Systems Engineering to Enhance Organizational Learning
by John Steven Newman Stephen M. WanderFailure informs more generously and reliably than success. Failure is the best indicator of what’s working and what’s not in any complex system or enterprise. All failures will inevitably reveal latent defects and/or failure modes that are invariably buried within the people, processes, materials, design, manufacturing, and management that comprise the complex system. In this new framework from former NASA aerospace professionals, Newman and Wander employ a unique system failure case study (SFCS) paradigm, originally developed to stimulate systems thinking and lessons learning at NASA, that combines storytelling and systems engineering designed to enhance organizational learning. The authors employ the SFCS approach to explore a vast array of failure events in multiple sectors of transportation, industry, aerospace, construction, and critical infrastructure. They provide an Integrated Analysis seeking trends, patterns, and universally applicable insights that readers can use to recognize areas of potential vulnerability within their own activities. The authors then identify specific actions within the span of control of enterprise leaders, project managers, process owners and operators which can be implemented to manage risk in high consequence, high risk activities.
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse (Palgrave Historical Studies In The Criminal Corpse And Its Afterlife Ser.)
by Sarah Tarlow Emma Battell LowmanPalgrave Historical Studies In The Criminal Corpse And Its Afterlife Ser.
Harold Garfinkel: Parsons' Primer (Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology)
Harold Garfinkel was one of the most important American sociologists. A student of Talcott Parsons who also worked with Alfred Schutz and Kenneth Burke, he sought to craft an empirical and theoretical approach that would combine Parsons’ focus on social systems of interaction with the focus on practices in their course of Burke and Schutz. This previously unpublished manuscript titled Parsons Primer in which Garfinkel explains Parsons’ position on systems of social interaction and how it relates to Garfinkel’s own position is an important missing piece of Garfinkel’s argument. The original manuscript from 1962/63 has been edited and a new introduction written for it by Anne W. Rawls and Jason Turowetz.
Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
by Michael R. Hill Susan Hoecker-DrysdaleThe Essays in this volume explore the work of Harriet Martineau from a sociological perspective, highlighting her theoretical contributions in the areas of the sociology of labor, gender and political economy. The contributors each offer a contextual, theoretical and methodological assessment of her work beginning with the opportunities and challenges of utilizing Martineau pedagogically in the sociology classroom.
Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
by Helena Znaniecka Lopata Michael R. Hill Susan Hoecker-DrysdaleThe Essays in this volume explore the work of Harriet Martineau from a sociological perspective, highlighting her theoretical contributions in the areas of the sociology of labor, gender and political economy. The contributors each offer a contextual, theoretical and methodological assessment of her work beginning with the opportunities and challenges of utilizing Martineau pedagogically in the sociology classroom.
Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation
by Anthony GierzynskiWithout a doubt the Harry Potter series has had a powerful effect on the Millennial Generation. Millions of children grew up immersed in the world of the boy wizard—reading the books, dressing up in costume to attend midnight book release parties, watching the movies, and even creating and competing in Quidditch tournaments. Beyond what we know of the popularity of the series, however, nothing has been published on the question of the Harry Potter effect on the politics of its young readers—now voting adults. Looking to engage his students in exploring the connections between political opinion and popular culture, Anthony Gierzynski conducted a national survey of more than 1,100 college students and examined these connections as well as Millennial politics. Harry Potter and the Millennials tells the fascinating story of how the team designed the study and gathered results, explains what conclusions can and cannot be drawn, and reveals the challenges social scientists face in studying political science, sociology, and mass communication. Specifically, the evidence indicates that Harry Potter fans are more open to diversity and are more politically tolerant than nonfans; fans are also less authoritarian, less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture, more politically active, and more likely to have had a negative view of the Bush administration. Furthermore, these differences do not disappear when controlling for other important predictors of these perspectives, lending support to the argument that the series indeed had an independent effect on its audience. In this clear and cogent account, Gierzynski demonstrates how social scientists develop and design research questions and studies. An appendix of questions and resulting data, including graphs and diagrams, will appeal especially to instructors seeking to explain the nuances of political socialization. Gierzynski’s captivating analysis of media’s impact on political views, combined with the enjoyable Potter story details, makes for an irresistible project that social scientists can use to work a little magic in their classrooms.
Harry Potter und die Widersprüche der Kulturindustrie: Eine ideologiekritische Analyse (Pädagogik)
by Melanie BabenhauserheideJ.K. Rowlings erfolgreiche Romanreihe um den Charakter Harry Potter hat weltweit die Fans begeistert und ist in die Bildungserfahrungen einer ganzen Generation eingegangen. Inwiefern bestätigen und überschreiten die Romane dabei gesellschaftliche Herrschaftsverhältnisse? Während die Reihe bislang oft als entweder affirmativ oder emanzipatorisch verstanden wurde, betrachtet diese erste umfassende Reflexion aus der Perspektive der Kritischen Theorie Adornos die ideologischen Widersprüche anhand der Themen Ökonomie, Tod, Diskriminierung, Recht, schulische Autorität und Kulturindustrie, die sich um das Querschnittsthema ›Erwachsenwerden‹ gruppieren. Die Konflikte, die die enthaltenen Widersprüche auf Seiten der Fans provozieren, enthüllen eine Dialektik der Kulturindustrie in Bezug auf (Halb-)Bildung heute.
Harvard Project Manager: Projektmanagement auf dem PC (Software Trainer Aufbaustufe)
by Thore Rudzki
Harvard Project Manager 3.0: Projektmanagement auf dem PC
by Thore RudzkiDie Planung von Projekten ist nichts Neues - und auch die Netzplantechnik gibt es schon seit Jahrzehnten. Durch die Entwicklung immer leistungsfähi gerer Personal Computer ist es aber erst möglich geworden, die sehr rechen intensive Netzplanung auch direkt mit dem PC durchzuführen. Die Projektarbeit gerät zunehmend unter Zeitdruck, die Produkte müssen im mer schneller entwickelt und auf den Markt gebracht werden. Um Kosten zu begrenzen, sollten die vorhandenen Resourcen optimal ausgelastet sein. Eng pässe und unvorhergesehene Zwischenfälle dürfen keine wesentlichen Verzö gerungen verursachen, die entsprechenden Planungs korrekturen haben schnellstmöglich zu erfolgen. Für derartige, höchste Anforderungen an die Qualität der Planung reichen die bisherigen, meist manuellen Methoden nicht mehr aus. Die Anzahl der gleichzeitig zu berücksichtigenden Variablen ist so groß geworden, daß diese Aufgabe nur noch vom Computer zu bewältigen ist. Besonders auch deshalb, weil diese Berechnungen nicht nur einmal, sondern regelmäßig nach dem Er halt jedweder neuer Projektdaten erfolgen müssen. Der Markt für Netzplanungs-Programme bietet einige Produkte, die auch für anspruchsvollere Aufgaben geeignet sind. Mit ihnen können gleichzeitig meh rere große Projekte und eine Vielzahl von Mitarbeitern effektiv verwaltet und geführt werden. Neben dieser theoretischen Leistungsfähigkeit gibt es aber noch das Qualitätsmerkmal der Benutzer-Freundlichkeit, ohne die sich ein Programm nur selten wirklich ausnutzen und erfolgreich einsetzen läßt. Die praktische Leistungsfähigkeit wird somit nur . durch ein Optimum beider Eigenschaften erreicht.
Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?: Looking Over the Long Run
by Luis Bértola Jeffrey WilliamsonThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How can we create societies that are more equal in terms of income distribution, gender equality and opportunities? How can we remedy the social divide that is making Latin America one of the most unequal regions on earth? What are the roles played by market forces, institutions and ideology in terms of inequality?In this book, a group of global experts gathered by the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL), part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), show readers how various types of inequality, such as economical, educational, racial and gender inequality have been practiced in countries like Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and many others through the centuries.Presenting new ideas, new evidence, and new methods, the book subsequently analyzes how to move forward with second-generation reforms that lay the foundations for more egalitarian societies. As such, it offers a valuable and insightful guide for development economists, historians and Latin American specialists alike, as well as students, educators, policymakers and all citizens with an interest in development, inequality and the Latin American region.
Has Sociology Progressed?: Reflections of an Accidental Academic
by Colin CampbellLooking back over the last 60 years of sociology in the UK, this book addresses the question of progress in the discipline. Campbell's critical and autobiographical reflections offer fresh insights into the history of sociology, and engages with the notion of academic reputation, how it is measured, and what it can tell us about scholarly progress. Has Sociology Progressed? will be of special interest to all sociologists and would-be sociologists interested in the past, present and future of their discipline, as well as scholars contemplating academic progress and motivation in general.
Has the Luck Run Out?: What we can do to redefine Australia's future
by David FaganWhy are Australians anxious and pessimistic?Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia?Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many? Has the luck really run out for the lucky country?And what can we do to get it back? Every generation believes its forebears have messed up the planet. That's how we evolve.But the mood in Australia at the moment, for all ages, seems one of gloom. People are angry. Distrustful. And not just because we are losing Prime Ministers faster than we are losing wickets!Sport, business, education, banking, farming, religion, trade unions, charities and hospitals have all lost their way through a series of scandals that we must learn from. And disillusion with our leaders is at its peak. Policy has been replaced by politicking.Commentator, author and former newspaper editor David Fagan asks the questions we all want answered as he traces the not-so-gentle decline of important Australian institutions. Through analysis and interviews with experts he explores what has defined Australia in the past and how we want to be defined in the future. Peeling back the rot that has contaminated almost everything Australians believe in, he asks: are we still the economically, socially and culturally strong country that most aspire to? Should we be alarmed? Or has the laconic Australian drifted from believing 'she'll be right' to being a 'bloody knocker'?Has the Luck Run Out? shines a spotlight on the mistakes we have made, our national disillusion and looks to what can be done to re-set the mood of the times. And, more importantly, what we have to do to set things right.
The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg: A Study in the Sociology of Religion
by Solomon PollThe Hasidim of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn separate themselves not only from non-Jews and unreligious Jews but also from religious Orthodox Jews whose religious ideology, intensity, and frequency of traditional religious behavior do not meet Hasidic standards. These Hasidim create a sociological wall between themselves and other Jews whom they do not consider traditionally religious. This being the case, how is it the Hasidim are able to survive, indeed thrive, well into the twenty-first century while maintaining their social isolation and avoiding assimilation into the American culture, especially living amongst the cultural and ethnic diversity and temptations of New York City? The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg explores and explains this sociological phenomenon.Poll explains some main tenets on the which the Hasidim of Williamsburg have come to rely: making secular activities sacred; incorporating modern devices into their lives to promote and advance their own religious observance; separating themselves, using daily activities including the clothes they wear, the food they eat, the places they gather, and even the language they speak among themselves; and by incorporating American values into their lives while simultaneously casting aspersions on and demonizing all those who do not follow their exact way of life.Until now the Hasidim have successfully achieved social isolation while also continuing to thrive as a group. They have created a well-functioning community with social controls and little or no deviation. However, as the outside society continues to advance and the Hasidim, themselves, further incorporate the very American ideals of hard work, economic success, progress, prosperity, and profit into their own community value system, will their social controls remain effective or become weakened?
The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg: A Study in the Sociology of Religion
by Solomon PollThe Hasidim of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn separate themselves not only from non-Jews and unreligious Jews but also from religious Orthodox Jews whose religious ideology, intensity, and frequency of traditional religious behavior do not meet Hasidic standards. These Hasidim create a sociological wall between themselves and other Jews whom they do not consider traditionally religious. This being the case, how is it the Hasidim are able to survive, indeed thrive, well into the twenty-first century while maintaining their social isolation and avoiding assimilation into the American culture, especially living amongst the cultural and ethnic diversity and temptations of New York City? The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg explores and explains this sociological phenomenon.Poll explains some main tenets on the which the Hasidim of Williamsburg have come to rely: making secular activities sacred; incorporating modern devices into their lives to promote and advance their own religious observance; separating themselves, using daily activities including the clothes they wear, the food they eat, the places they gather, and even the language they speak among themselves; and by incorporating American values into their lives while simultaneously casting aspersions on and demonizing all those who do not follow their exact way of life.Until now the Hasidim have successfully achieved social isolation while also continuing to thrive as a group. They have created a well-functioning community with social controls and little or no deviation. However, as the outside society continues to advance and the Hasidim, themselves, further incorporate the very American ideals of hard work, economic success, progress, prosperity, and profit into their own community value system, will their social controls remain effective or become weakened?
Hasidic Psychology: Making Space for Others
by Mordechai RotenbergInterest in the impact of ethical systems and social or religious ideologies on socio-behavioral patterns is a longstanding theme in social science research. While interest may have begun with Max Weber and his thesis of the relationship between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, it extends far beyond this. Surprisingly, few studies have delved into the socio-behavioral patterns emanating from Jewish ethics. This book, with a new introduction by the author, fills that gap.As Hasidic Psychology makes clear, Jewish ethics are unique in many ways, especially in that they are essentially other-centered. Man's ability to affect his own future and interpersonal relations are explained according to the theory of contraction, popularized in Hasidic thought: God, by contracting Himself to evacuate space for the human world, bestowed upon man the power and responsibility to determine his own future, and even affect God's disposition.In the first part of the book, the sociological-structural concept of mono versus multiple ideal labeling is introduced. This concept refers to a social system in which diverse material and spiritual actualization patterns are structurally introduced as equal social ideals. In the second part, basic tenets of classic interaction and socialization are compared to the interpersonal perspective, and the contraction theory is explained as a process of "mutual emulation," whereby father and son affect each other. In the third part, a functional approach to deviance is developed through the Hasidic process known as "ascend via descend."
Hasidic Psychology: Making Space for Others
by Mordechai RotenbergInterest in the impact of ethical systems and social or religious ideologies on socio-behavioral patterns is a longstanding theme in social science research. While interest may have begun with Max Weber and his thesis of the relationship between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, it extends far beyond this. Surprisingly, few studies have delved into the socio-behavioral patterns emanating from Jewish ethics. This book, with a new introduction by the author, fills that gap.As Hasidic Psychology makes clear, Jewish ethics are unique in many ways, especially in that they are essentially other-centered. Man's ability to affect his own future and interpersonal relations are explained according to the theory of contraction, popularized in Hasidic thought: God, by contracting Himself to evacuate space for the human world, bestowed upon man the power and responsibility to determine his own future, and even affect God's disposition.In the first part of the book, the sociological-structural concept of mono versus multiple ideal labeling is introduced. This concept refers to a social system in which diverse material and spiritual actualization patterns are structurally introduced as equal social ideals. In the second part, basic tenets of classic interaction and socialization are compared to the interpersonal perspective, and the contraction theory is explained as a process of "mutual emulation," whereby father and son affect each other. In the third part, a functional approach to deviance is developed through the Hasidic process known as "ascend via descend."
Hässliche Wörter: Hatespeech als Prinzip der neuen Rechten
by Joachim ScharlothSeit dem Wiedererstarken rechter Parteien und Denkweisen erlebt Deutschland ein gesteigertes Maß an Ausgrenzung und gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung. Ihr Medium ist die Sprache, die Neurechte von der AfD bis hin zu Kommentatoren in den dunkelsten Ecken des Internet um ein schier unerschöpfliches Repertoire an Schimpfwörtern bereichert haben. Das Buch versammelt die häufigsten und abstrusesten Schmähwörter und gibt so einen zutiefst verstörenden Blick in die sprachlichen Abgründe neurechter Weltbilder. Es ist keine im Modus von Betroffenheit und Empörung vorgetragene Anklage gegen Hassrede, sondern eine akribische Sammlung von Schmähungen und Beleidigungen, die die neue Rechte als das entlarvt, was sie ist: eine extremistische Schmähgemeinschaft, die nicht nur Minderheiten und allem Fremden mit Hass und Hetze begegnet, sondern auch Deutschland, die Deutschen und die Institutionen der Bundesrepublik zutiefst verachtet.
Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader
by Barbara PerryCovering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection that sheds much-needed light on this growing problem.
Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader
by Barbara PerryCovering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection that sheds much-needed light on this growing problem.