Reform of APEC - The Australian APEC Study Centre
... APEC has remained relevant and vital despite efforts by trade officials to contend it has been more influential in global trade affairs than is the case. This is because of the dynamic influence of the Leader’s Summit. APEC’s economic focus however remains on international trade and that is now outd ...
... APEC has remained relevant and vital despite efforts by trade officials to contend it has been more influential in global trade affairs than is the case. This is because of the dynamic influence of the Leader’s Summit. APEC’s economic focus however remains on international trade and that is now outd ...
how culture is transmitted through mass media and how this
... setting approach one of the most critically debated approaches is more concerned about how media constitutes a forum or bulletin board in which society’s central issues are aired for consideration. The scholars like McLuhan and Katz were very optimistic about the relationship between anthropology an ...
... setting approach one of the most critically debated approaches is more concerned about how media constitutes a forum or bulletin board in which society’s central issues are aired for consideration. The scholars like McLuhan and Katz were very optimistic about the relationship between anthropology an ...
Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a
... average sleeping time decreased by two hours since the nineteenth century and by 30 minutes since the 1970s9), and even our neighbors seem to move in and out of their flats more frequently. But even if we can prove these changes are not accidental but follow a systematic pattern, is there anything t ...
... average sleeping time decreased by two hours since the nineteenth century and by 30 minutes since the 1970s9), and even our neighbors seem to move in and out of their flats more frequently. But even if we can prove these changes are not accidental but follow a systematic pattern, is there anything t ...
From Vernacular Gardens to a Social
... phisticated rulers.The simple question was:What can architects learn from folk design that designers ignore? The same perspective could be adopted with regard to gardens. A large crop of new ideas could be expected since gardens studies had been mostly given to the study of design in self-consciousl ...
... phisticated rulers.The simple question was:What can architects learn from folk design that designers ignore? The same perspective could be adopted with regard to gardens. A large crop of new ideas could be expected since gardens studies had been mostly given to the study of design in self-consciousl ...
Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and
... theories in terms of evidence. “If empirical observations are framed as deductive consequences of a general theory and these observations can be shown to be true, then the theory is confirmed and remains in contention for truth” (ibidem, 643). Hence, as Iseda remarks, models may be confirmed but thi ...
... theories in terms of evidence. “If empirical observations are framed as deductive consequences of a general theory and these observations can be shown to be true, then the theory is confirmed and remains in contention for truth” (ibidem, 643). Hence, as Iseda remarks, models may be confirmed but thi ...
Apples and Oranges:Synthesis without a common denominator
... thinking, such as about commensurability of social issues. In the evaluation of complex issues, judgment comes from many independent sources, through many technical means, using multiple criteria embedded in different value systems. Social complexity refers to multi-domain and multi-level judgements ...
... thinking, such as about commensurability of social issues. In the evaluation of complex issues, judgment comes from many independent sources, through many technical means, using multiple criteria embedded in different value systems. Social complexity refers to multi-domain and multi-level judgements ...
Print this article - Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational
... of incarceration. The convict-ship is an open-air prison. Detention, reclusion, imprisonment for a minor offence are in a sense merely different names for one and the same punishment” (Foucault, 1995:115). We want to note that how ideas and thoughts are organised in written and spoken language in th ...
... of incarceration. The convict-ship is an open-air prison. Detention, reclusion, imprisonment for a minor offence are in a sense merely different names for one and the same punishment” (Foucault, 1995:115). We want to note that how ideas and thoughts are organised in written and spoken language in th ...
Clientelism, Income Inequality, and Social Preferences: an
... linked with regional, rural and urban brokers, who establish relations with voters. Even though clientelism may appear in a developed country, it is frequently associated with poverty, income inequality and underdevelopment. Some questions arise after recognizing this fact: what causes clientelism? ...
... linked with regional, rural and urban brokers, who establish relations with voters. Even though clientelism may appear in a developed country, it is frequently associated with poverty, income inequality and underdevelopment. Some questions arise after recognizing this fact: what causes clientelism? ...
Time and the Biological Consequences of Globalization
... emphasis away from the production process and toward the complex interaction of production, labor, and exchange in relationship to processes of circulation. When discussing capitalist circulation, Marx equivocates between the concept of “average time” and the recognition of variation in the speed of ...
... emphasis away from the production process and toward the complex interaction of production, labor, and exchange in relationship to processes of circulation. When discussing capitalist circulation, Marx equivocates between the concept of “average time” and the recognition of variation in the speed of ...
A Guidebook to the Green Economy
... for Rio+20 were challenging. This was partly due to the fact that the concept was quite new and there was a lack of an internationally agreed definition or universal principles for green economy. Importantly, when the concept was first adopted as a theme for Rio+20, there was also a lack of clar ...
... for Rio+20 were challenging. This was partly due to the fact that the concept was quite new and there was a lack of an internationally agreed definition or universal principles for green economy. Importantly, when the concept was first adopted as a theme for Rio+20, there was also a lack of clar ...
Politics and Social Movements in an Hegemonic World
... “dominant thinking” that would redeem our societies from all their problems. The persuasive efficacy of this position, one of the most outstanding features of the victory of neoliberalism, rested less on its weak structure as regards arguments and much more on the enormous influence that was derived ...
... “dominant thinking” that would redeem our societies from all their problems. The persuasive efficacy of this position, one of the most outstanding features of the victory of neoliberalism, rested less on its weak structure as regards arguments and much more on the enormous influence that was derived ...
- Verve Agency
... in this volume with the work of Colin Leys, is to increased democratic justice and democratic practice. Colin Leys’s work is unique in its simultaneous emphasis on the sharpest critical theoretical clarity and the most detailed empirical focus. The body of scholarship developed by Colin Leys include ...
... in this volume with the work of Colin Leys, is to increased democratic justice and democratic practice. Colin Leys’s work is unique in its simultaneous emphasis on the sharpest critical theoretical clarity and the most detailed empirical focus. The body of scholarship developed by Colin Leys include ...
Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in
... to run regression yielding, that the number of associations increased significantly faster in the second half of the 19th century in the treated province Rhineland compared to its neighbor Westphalia. As this paper is one of the rare papers using additionally social capital data from the 19th centur ...
... to run regression yielding, that the number of associations increased significantly faster in the second half of the 19th century in the treated province Rhineland compared to its neighbor Westphalia. As this paper is one of the rare papers using additionally social capital data from the 19th centur ...
BNP paper4.2
... Why do some people in the majority denigrate or dislike minorities defined by ethnicity, race, religion, or foreign birth? Why in some does this animosity dominate other political issues, leading them to vote for—or even join—parties of the extreme right? According to an enduring sociological theor ...
... Why do some people in the majority denigrate or dislike minorities defined by ethnicity, race, religion, or foreign birth? Why in some does this animosity dominate other political issues, leading them to vote for—or even join—parties of the extreme right? According to an enduring sociological theor ...
