Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: how did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?
This is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the…
A study of the Australian ruling class and of how class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically.
Immer mehr Bürger in Deutschland sind vom wirtschaftlichen Reichtum des Landes ausgeschlossen. Nicht nur Arbeitslose oder Rentner, auch viele Menschen, die sich in einer Endlosspirale von Billigjobs und Zeitarbeit befinden. Früher konnten sie sich nicht nur der sozialstaatlichen…
The three essays, independently written and richly armored with tables, figures, and appendices, do not present a common front on Morocco (though at times they tend at least stylistically to appropriate the field). They are all based on intensive anthropological fieldwork in and…
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment an…
"Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinki…
