Collective

Systems Thinking Businessdictionay.com defines an organization as a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or pursue collective goals. (Businessdictionary, 2016) The needs of an organization could be a financial, social, moral, or a combination of multiple needs. Nonetheless, a root word in word organization is, ation. Ation means the act or process of doing something. (Marriam-Webster, 2016) This root word creates an important distinction in the term, organization…

A Collective Alienation Rumors have a profound effect on human interaction, and can cause stressful isolation of certain groups. The powerful effects of rumors in post-trauma societies is revealed in the articles, Narratives of Uncertainty: The Affective Force of Child-Trafficking Rumors in Postdisaster Aceh, Indonesia by Annemarie Samuels and Gendered War and Rumors of Saddam Hussein in Uganda by Sverker Finnström. Although mere stories or potentially false statements, rumors reveal the…

were divided into four principles. One of which is the collective action principle, the idea that all politics is collective action. All politics is regarding the federal system and its policies. Furthermore, it is the common goal of all political parties to work towards creating a perfect government for the citizens of the United States. Thus, politicians use politics to work towards that common goal that favors all U.S. citizens. The collective action principle allows us to recognize the…

popular collective memory of the image of Marie Antoinette. This phrase, however, was never uttered by the French Queen yet is an imperative part of the collective stereotype of Marie Antoinette and perhaps the most prevailing way of understanding her character. A myriad of example like these can be found throughout pop culture, where cultural memory creates a perception of a historical event that is not entirely accurate or in sync with the scholarly conception of such event. Collective and…

Collective Traumatic Memory in Palestinian Resistance Poetry Marian MacCurdy, in the Mind’s Eye, defines trauma “any assault to the body or psyche that is so overwhelming … [it] is an event that that shatters belief systems about life, beliefs that help us operate in the world” (16). The phenomenon of trauma, some argue, is closely related to modernity. Freud believes that the industrial revolution helped crystallize trauma more clearly because the former provided social conditions for possible…

certain goal. This term is described as collective leadership. It is understood as individuals having or sharing the same traits, characteristics and behaving in a certain way that is common in all of them. The focus of collective leadership is the interaction of the team members to lead the team by sharing in leadership responsibilities (Hiller, 2006:388). Everyone works together and takes responsibility to benefit the organization. In this essay collective leadership will be discussed in term…

Assmann try to uncover in their works On Collective Memory (1992) and Collective Memory and Cultural Identity (1995). Halbwachs’ main thesis is that the memory of people can only function if it occurs in a collective context. He tries to uncover this by questioning how the past is represented not only in the individual’s consciousness but also in the collective consciousness and the mechanisms that it entails. From this he introduces the concept of collective memory which is used to illustrate…

The readings in this module suggest the municipal police agencies and the RCMP who police Alberta follow different processes with respect to collective bargaining. What bodies represent each police entity at the “bargaining table”? What is the acronyms and full name of each? Well, first we have the Staff Relations Representative (SRR) Program. The SRR Program is aimed at providing members of the RCMP a system provide members of the RCMP with a formal system of representation to ensure that they…

Shirley Lei A10584128 POLI 136 Magagna March, 18, 2016 The Connection Between Religion and Collective Action Throughout the course of American history, many groups have gathered together in order to implement change to systematic institutions all over the world. A major component that has united groups across the nation has been through religious organizations. Religion normally connects people through a common faith, but it can also be used in order to execute change in the world to create…

reading of this week begin with “Foundations of Sociological Thought” by Mcgee and Warms. The reading focused on some of the revolutionary minds of Sociology such as Weber, and Durkheim. A topic discussed in this reading was that of collective consciousness. Collective consciousness is the shared beliefs, ideas, attitudes and knowledge which are common in a social group (Mcgee &Warms 2012). Those that are raised together and go through…