Urban Gravity: a Model for Intercity Telecommunication Flows

We analyze the anonymous communication patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. Grouping customers by billing address, we build a social network of cities, that consists of communications between 571 cities in Belgium. We show that inter-city communication intensity is characterized by a gravity model: the communication intensity between two cities is proportional to the product of their sizes divided by the square of their distance

Thinking the unthinkable: Imagining an ‘un-American,’ Girl-friendly, Women- and Trans-Inclusive Alternative for Baseball

The purpose of this article is twofold: to capture the injustice inherent in the gendered bifurcation of baseball and softball via the prism of critical feminist sport studies; and to begin to imagine a girl-friendly/women-and trans-inclusive future for baseball that is less fertile for cooptation into post-911 United States security state discourses. In this article I link the "unthinkability" of the occupational segregation of baseball in North America to the dominance of the ideology of the two sex system and European disasporic morality. To illustrate the extent of this occupational segregation via the gendered bifurcation of baseball and softball, I draw on feminist sport studies to examine the exemplars or "texts" of three Canadian brother/sister baseball softball duos: Jason Bay and Lauren Bay Regula; Brett and Danielle Lawrie; and Mathew and Katie Reyes

The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory

In the last century and a half, U.S. industry has seen the emergence of several different management models. We propose a theory of this evolution based on three nested and interacting processes. First, we identify several successive waves of technological revolution, each of which prompted a corresponding wave of change in the dominant organizational paradigm. Second, nested within these waves, each of these organizational paradigms emerged through two successive cycles—a primary cycle that generated a new management model making the prior organizational paradigm obsolete, and a secondary cycle that generated another model that mitigated the dysfunctions of the primary cycle’s model. Third, nested within each cycle is a problem-solving process in which each model’s development passed through four main phases: (1) identification of a widespread organizational and management problem, (2) creation of innovative managerial concepts that offer various solutions to this problem, (3) emergence and theorization of a new model from among these concepts, and (4) dissemination and diffusion of this model. By linking new models’ emergence to specific technological revolutions, we can explain changes in their contents. By integrating a dialectical account of the paired cycles with an account of the waves of paradigm change, we can see how apparently competing models are better understood as complementary pairs in a common paradigm. And by unpacking each model’s phases of development, we can identify the roles played by various actors and management concepts in driving change in the models’ contents and see the agency behind these structural changes

SOCIETY ; THE BASIC

xxix, 524 hlm ; 21 x 28 c

Sociology : a global introduction

Görme engelli bireyler için oluşturulmuştur. Created for visually impaired individuals.Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.Part One: Introducing Sociology1 The Sociological Imagination2 Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Globally3 Studying the Social: An Introduction to Sociological MethodPart Two: The Foundations of Society: From Macro to Micro4 Societies5 Culture6 Groups, Organisations and the Rise of the Network Society7 Micro-sociology: The Social Construction of Everyday LifePart Three: The Unequal World: Difference, Division and Social Stratification8 Inequality, Social Divisions and Social Stratification9 Global Poverty/Global Inequality10 Class, Poverty and Welfare: The Case of the UK11 Racism, Ethnicities and Migration12 The Gender Order and Sexualities13 Age Stratification, Children and Later Life14 Disabilities, Care and the Humanitarian SocietyPart Four: Social Structures, Social Practices and Social Institutions15 Economies, Work and Consumption16 Power, Governance and Social Movements17 Control, Crime and Deviance18 Families, Personal Life and Living Together19 Religion and belief20 Education21 Health, Medicine and Well-being22 Communication and the New Media23 Science, Cyberspace and the Risk SocietyPart Five: Social Change and the Twenty-First Century24 Populations, Cities and the Space of Things to Come25 Social Change and the Environment26 Living in the Twenty-First CenturyPart Six: Resources for Critical Thinking: Creating Sociological Imaginations1 Films2 Novels3 Art and sociology4 Time and space5 Websites6 YouTube7 Key social thinkers8 World statistics9 Big debates of our time10 Abbreviations and acronyms11 Glossary12 References

Sociology

xxxv, 708 p. : il.; 28 c

Sociology

xxvii, 708 p.; 27 cm