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Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor) racial differences in IQ cultural bias in IQ tests and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy such as Affirmative Action. 'Jensenism' the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless Intelligence Race and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions. | Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

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Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of civil society in contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival models including those found in the work of scholars such as John Rawls Jurgen Habermas Michael Walzer Benjamin Barber and Nancy Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. According to his idealization groups of citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility tolerance curiosity and moderation. Moreover their regard for the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative democracy and their regard for democratic virtues principles and practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages that it faces a variety of barriers and that it cannot be realized without luck. | Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

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The Stranger

The Stranger

This book explores the concept of the stranger as a ‘modern’ social form identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel’s influential essay ‘The Stranger’ questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as ‘strange’ and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised both chronologically and thematically the book begins with Simmel’s major essays on the stranger and culminates with an analysis of Zygmunt Bauman’s thought on the subject with each chapter introducing an idea or key theme initially discussed by Simmel before exploring the development of the theme in the work of others including Schütz Derrida and Levinas. The stranger is an enduring concept across many disciplines and is central to contemporary debates about refugees asylum the nature of inclusion and exclusion and the struggle for recognition. As such this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences.

GBP 24.99
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Theology and Civil Society

Theology and Civil Society

From food banks to migrant welcome committees and community organisers to internet based campaigners civil society is central to the North Atlantic social landscape. Theology and Civil Society advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a theologically informed re-imagining of our shared social life. Prefaced by a foreword by the Rev. Dr Rowan Williams this book explores contemporary manifestations of the kind of collective action observed in civil society since the 1800s. It then examines civil society as the sum of modern associations which mediate our relationships to the market and the state but which cannot be identified fully with either the market or the state. Finally three different perspectives on civil society are presented using insights from theologians such as John Milbank and Georg Hegel. This is a pertinent topic for contemporary society and it is explored expertly here by an international panel of contributors. As such it is an important volume for any scholar of Theology and Religious Studies and their interactions with Sociology and Politics.

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Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist society. Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm E. P. Thompson Raymond Williams Henri Lefebvre Georg Lukács Lucien Goldmann Günther Anders M. N. Roy Angela Davis C. L. R. James Rosa Luxemburg Eve Mitchell and Cedric J. Robinson the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism racism and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory this book will be useful for courses in media and communication studies cultural studies Internet research sociology philosophy political science and economics. This is the first of five Communication and Society volumes each one outlining a particular aspect of the foundations of a critical theory of communication in society. | Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind this volume covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects with pieces on subjectivity humanity identity gender universality the particular the body forms visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary the visual the performative and the oral contexts tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts considering the power and limits of human rights literature rhetoric and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani Jonathan E. Abel Elizabeth S. Anker Arturo Arias Ariella Azoulay Ralph Bauer Anna Bernard Brenda Carr Vellino Eleni Coundouriotis James Dawes Erik Doxtader Marc D. Falkoff Keith P. Feldman Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Audrey J. Golden Mark Goodale Barbara Harlow Wendy S. Hesford Peter Hitchcock David Holloway Christine Hong Madelaine Hron Meg Jensen Luz Angélica Kirschner Susan Maslan Julie Avril Minich Alexandra Schultheis Moore Greg Mullins Laura T. Murphy Hanna Musiol Makau Mutua Zoe Norridge David Palumbo-Liu Crystal Parikh Katrina M. Powell Claudia Sadowski-Smith Mark Sanders Karen-Magrethe Simonsen Joseph R. Slaughter Sharon Sliwinski Sidonie Smith Domna C. Stanton Sarah G. Waisvisz Belinda Walzer Ban Wang Julia Watson Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.

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Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf The Being of Art and the Art of Being

Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf The Being of Art and the Art of Being

This volume analyses Virginia Woolf’s novels through a philosophical lens providing an interpretive overview of her works through Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic ontology. The text argues that interpretation itself is the central subject matter of Woolf’s novels: in order to understand these novels in all of their complexity and depth it is both useful and helpful to comprehend the interpretive pillars that inform these narratives. Indeed interpretation became a central theme during the Modernist movement and Woolf’s novels took part in this conversation. For his part Gadamer was in important voice in these discussions dedicating his life’s work to the concept of interpretation. Gadamer focused on the universality of interpretation arguing that it is inescapable and irrevocably bound up with existence. In many ways Woolf’s novels represent an enactment of Gadamer’s philosophy as they emphasize the radical questionability of the world—what this interpretive imperative requires of its participants and the potential yield that may result. On the other end Gadamer’s philosophy acquires a concrete praxis when applied to Woolf’s novels. His philosophy hinges on the universality of interpretation as it manifests itself in daily existence; the literary text and its interpretation participate in this universality and is shaped by it. | Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf The Being of Art and the Art of Being

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Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange

Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange

This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and higher education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries regions universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the academic discipline of ‘European Studies’ as currently taught across a number of countries in the Asia Pacific. For this purpose this book presents a range of theoretical explanations drawn from notions such as the global knowledge village intercultural dialogue regional integration foreign policy analysis and international education. The author offers a unique in-depth investigation of a range of EU policies and agendas towards Asia scrutinizing a number of contemporary centers curricula and exchange initiatives in the field of European Studies in Asia and analyzing over-arching themes such as human rights and further sheds light on the long history of the exchange of ideas and knowledge between East and West surveying the function of educational and intellectual exchange as a developing foreign policy tool of the European Union in Asia. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between Europe and Asia within Politics International Relations Asia-Pacific Studies European Studies Education Law and Human Rights. Dr Georg Wiessala is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston UK. | Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange

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Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides Empedocles and Xenophanes and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressively taken on the existential burden of our post-theological age. Tompsett argues that Stevens’ poetry attempts to ‘play’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of the language and form of Stevens’ poems Tompsett uncovers the mythology his poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics. ’ | Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

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Hermeneutic Shakespeare

Hermeneutic Shakespeare

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into the foundations theories and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Central to this research this volume investigates fundamental questions including: what is philosophical hermeneutics why philosophical hermeneutics what do literary and cultural hermeneutics do and in what ways can literary and cultural hermeneutics benefit the interpretation of Shakespearean plays? Hermeneutic Shakespeare guides the reader through two main discussions. Beginning with the understanding of Philosophical Hermeneutics and the general principles of literary and cultural hermeneutics the volume includes philosophers such as Friedrich Ast Daniel Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey as well as Ludwig Wittgenstein Martin Heidegger Hans-Georg Gadamer and more recently Steven Connor. Part Two of this volume applies universal principles of philosophical hermeneutics to explicate the historical philosophical acquired and applied literary interpretations through the critical practices of Shakespeare’s plays or their adaptations including Henry V The Merchant of Venice Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors. Aimed at scholars and students alike this volume aims to contribute to contemporary understanding of Shakespeare and literature hermeneutics. Chapters 2 5 and 6 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Funded by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

GBP 120.00
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Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas theories and insights from sociology’s founding authors with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Georg Simmel Jane Addams W. E. B. Du Bois Erving Goffman Michel Foucault Morris Janowitz Norbert Elias Cornelis Lammers Arlie Russell Hochschild Cynthia Enloe and Bruno Latour and each essay discusses their ideas and theories in relation to topics that are of concern in and around the military today. Military studies are taken in a broad sense here so the volume encompasses a wide range of issues including civil-military relations military-political affairs performance and outcomes of military operations and organizational arrangements including technology and the composition performance and well-being of personnel. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices not necessarily in the usual functional way of innovating (i. e. faster more precise etc. ) but in a broader way. This book will be of great interest to students of sociology military studies civil-military relations war and conflict studies and IR in general. | Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

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Post-Truth Society A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

Post-Truth Society A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means this book argues is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd. The first part of the book presents a series of ‘guides’ to this condition in the form of key thinkers and writers who can help us understand and navigate our Trickster Land. Such guides include Hermann Broch Lewis Hyde Roberto Calasso Michel Serres Sándor Márai Colin Thubron and Albert Camus. The second part goes on to discuss five main regions of Trickster Land: art thought the economy politics and society. This last central chapter of the book contrasts trickster logic with the basic foundational logic of social life presented as gift-giving by Marcel Mauss and as sociability by Georg Simmel and which is expressed here combining Heraclitus and Plato with the Gospel of John by three basic terms of ancient Greek culture as arkhé charis logos: meaningful social life originally and in its essence is animated by the power of kind benevolence. This volume will appeal to scholars of social theory anthropology and sociology with interests in political thought and contemporary culture. | Post-Truth Society A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

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Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study Margaret Seares places Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past and instead embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations. Beginning with the early non-musical writings by Mattheson Seares places them in the context of the cosmopolitan city-state of Hamburg before moving to a detailed study of his first major musical treatise Das neu-er¶ffnete Orchestre of 1713 in which he espoused his views about the musics of the past and present and in particular the characteristics of the musics of Germany Italy France and England. This latter section of the treatise Part III is edited and translated into English in the book's appendix - the first such translation available. Seares then moves on to an evaluation of the Pièces de clavecin as a work in which Mattheson reflects in musical terms the themes of modernism (in the sense of la mode) and universalism that are such a strong part of his writings of the period and a work that represents an important precursor for the keyboard suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel. | Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

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Innovations in Peace and Education Praxis Transdisciplinary Reflections and Insights

Innovations in Peace and Education Praxis Transdisciplinary Reflections and Insights

This edited collection brings together a series of conceptual explorations and practical case studies to illuminate a developing innovative praxis of transdisciplinary peace and education. Drawing on the work of the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group as well as international scholars this book responds to calls for transdisciplinary peace and education praxis and presents innovative examples of peace and education research practices peace interventions in educational settings and alternative ontologies in peace and education work. Foregrounding the concept of ‘second-order reflexivity’ the book prioritises the lived experiences and viewpoints of struggling populations regarding the worth of ‘peace’ as grounded within their contexts. Ultimately this book showcases how the practices of peace education and research can challenge the binaries of modern and postmodern approaches and provide examples of holistic transdisciplinary approaches that embrace complexity and criticality. Contributing new knowledge to peace and education this volume will be of great interest to academics post-graduate students and researchers in the field of peace education peace studies and development studies. The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. taylorfrancis. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 International license. Funded by the Gates Foundation. The Afterword of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. 0 International license. Funded by the Georg-Eckert-Institute. | Innovations in Peace and Education Praxis Transdisciplinary Reflections and Insights

GBP 120.00
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The Ethics of Interpretation From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative

The Ethics of Interpretation From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative

This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or ideological biases of interpreters but rather to discuss the underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into the process of interpretation. The author calls this intervention the ethical aspect of interpretation and argues that interpreters are neither neutral nor necessarily activists. He examines three models of interpretation all of which recognize the role that interpreters play in the process of interpretation. In these models the question of the truth or validity of interpretation is dependent upon the attitude of interpreters. These three models are: (1) the principle of charity in interpretation in the two different versions defended by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Donald Davidson; (2) the production of truth as developed by Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault; and (3) the regulative principle in interpretation as formal validity claims—as presented by Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas—and as benevolence or love as an epistemic virtue—as defended by Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher. The critical discussion of these three models which brings to the fore the different manners in which interpreters intervene in the process of interpretation as persons lays the foundations for an ethics of interpretation. The Ethics of Interpretation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in hermeneutics 19th- and 20th-century philosophy literary theory and cultural theory. | The Ethics of Interpretation From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative

GBP 120.00
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Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

More than half a century after the fall of the Third Reich Nazism its roots and its essential nature remain a central and unresolved enigma of the twentieth century. During the period of Hitler's ascendancy most attempts at explaining this unprecedented phenomenon were framed in economic often Marxist sociological terms and concepts. Peter Viereck's Metapolitics initially published in 1941 broke with this convention by indicting Hitler in terms of the Judaic-Christian ethical tradition and locating certain elements of the Nazi worldview in German romantic poetry music and social thought. Newly expanded Metapolitics remains a key work in the cultural interpretation of Nazism and totalitarianism and in the psychological interpretation of Hitler as a Wagnerite and failed artist. The term metapolitics a coinage from Richard Wagner's nationalist circle signifies an ideology resulting from five distinct strands: romanticism (embodied chiefly in the Wagnerian ethos) the pseudo-science of race Fuehrer worship vague economic socialism and the alleged supernatural and unconscious force of the Volk collectivity. Together those elements engendered an emphasis on irrationalism and hysteria and belief in a special German mission to direct the course of the world's history. Viereck analyzes nineteenth-century German thought's conflicting attitudes toward political procedures and social arrangements rooted in classical rational legalistic and Christian traditions. This edition includes an appreciation by Thomas Mann and an exchange with Jacques Barzun debating Viereck's criticism of German romanticism. Viereck's essays on the case of Albert Speer on Claus von Stauffenberg (the German officer who led the army conspiracy to assassinate Hitler) and on the poets Stefan George and Georg Heym appear here for the first time in book form. | Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

GBP 150.00
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European Studies in Asia Contours of a Discipline

European Studies in Asia Contours of a Discipline

As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers the role that Higher Education has played and continues to play in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and contemporary knowledge transfer including Higher Education is crucial to analysing and encouraging the progress of both regional integration and inter-regional cooperation. With a specific focus on international Higher Education European Studies in Asia investigates knowledge transfer and channels of learning between Europe and Asia from historical contemporary and teaching perspectives. The book examines a selection of significant historical precedents of intellectual dialogue between the two regions and in turn explores contemporary cross-regional discourses both inside and outside of the official frameworks of the European Union (EU) and the Asia-Europe Meetings (ASEM). Drawing on extensive case studies based on many of his own teaching experiences Georg Wiessala addresses key questions such as the nature and construction of the European Studies in Asia curriculum; aspects of ‘values’ co-constructed learning and adult pedagogy in the discipline of European Studies in Asia; the politics of Asian host cultures the ‘internationalization’ of Asian Higher Education and the experiences and expectations of tertiary sector students of this subject in Asia Australia and New Zealand. In doing so the author articulates a range of outcomes for the further development of Higher Education cooperation agendas between Asia and Europe in the discipline of European Studies and in related fields such as International Relations. This case study-led book makes an original and novel contribution to our understanding of European Studies in Asia. As such it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian Education Comparative Education European Studies and International Relations. | European Studies in Asia Contours of a Discipline

GBP 42.99
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Hidden Attractions of Administration The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents

Hidden Attractions of Administration The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents

The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9781003108436 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is driven not only by pressure from above but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations—those formally working for clients patients or students—to uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work despite all the complaints and laments about too many meetings or too much paperwork. There is something appealing to those compelled to participate in today’s constantly multiplying and expanding administration that defies popular framings of it as merely pressure from above. Hidden Attractions of Administration shows in detail the emotional attractiveness moral conflicts and almost magical features that administrative tasks often entail in today’s organizations supported by ethnographic studies consisting of over 200 qualitative interviews and participant observations from ten organizational settings and contexts across Sweden. The authors also question and complement explanations in administration-related research that have previously been taken for granted arguing that it is a simplification to attribute all aspects of the change to New Public Management and instead taking into account what the classic sociologist Georg Simmel called an Eigendynamik: a self-reinforcing tendency that under certain circumstances needs only a nudge in an administrative direction to get going. By applying ethnography to issues of bureaucratization and meeting cultures and by drawing on findings in emotional sociology and social anthropology this volume contributes to both the sociology of work and the study of human service organizations and will appeal to scholars and students working across both areas. | Hidden Attractions of Administration The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents

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