Isomorphism

Finally, let me briefly discuss about the theoretical implication of the cosmopolitan publics that I have employed to analyze the Japanese experience of the global Sixties movement. As discussed, the concept was to capture cultural and communicational aspect of the social movements that cuts across the national border. If resituating this concept within the literature of global and transnational sociology, first of all, it was intended to focus on the aspects that have been neglected in the…

everyone is unique. While being an individual is great in a context of growing up at what point do people stop being their own individual and begin to bind on to the similar ideas of one another. Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell use institutional isomorphism to explain why businesses, that evolve in different ways, end up with such similar organizational structures (Conley, 2015, p 179); however, what if that context applies to high school students? Being raised in an area where everyone seems to…

Identity played an important role in the movements goals being reached. The goals of the movement, here being the granting of domestic partner benefits within the workplace which were challenging of the larger culture. The larger culture was against this policy which was reinforced by many anti-gay movements and legislations. The collective use of identity was used as a strategy in recruitment here. Social movements used this collective identity to effect cultural and structural change within…

Have you ever heard a certain word and you are immediately brought back to a certain memory? Maybe you hear the word “summer” and you can almost feel the sun beating on your skin and smell the fresh ocean air. Maybe it’s a negative memory. Maybe you hear the word “Valentine’s day,” and instantly drown in thoughts of heartbreak and can feel the regret of overindulging in chocolate and wine in your stomach. For me, it’s the word “kolache,” and it is not a good experience. You are probably…

Sahlins made a highly profound statement in an earlier portion of the book “in the void left in our understanding of ourselves by biology lays the whole of anthropology.” Now we are left to seek the validity of this statement. In Sahlins text The Use and Abuse of Sociobiology, he argues that certain elements of human nature and civilization cannot be reduced to biological principles; moreover the importance of anthropology as a science is its significant contribution to understanding the variety…

This approach emphasises on structures, relationships, and processes of IT organization to be used toward development and control of IT/IS resources internally (Korac-Kakabadse, 2001). This field concerns with the adoption of best practice of IT function, providing an extensive predefined process and a more uncompromising, transparent framework, referring to a set of processes that management must do (Korhonen et.al., 2009). Researchers who study IT governance as a compliance process would…

Everything You Need to Know About Perry the Platypus When portrayed as a secret agent, Povenmire starts with a similar bread loaf square design, but draws it standing up vertically and places a fedora on the top of his head, which is combined with the square torso. A special variation is the rollable, foldaway or crushable Fedora (rollable and crushable is not the same) with a certain or open crown (open crown Fedoras can be bashed and shaped in many variations). Special Fedoras have a…

Under the influence of Charles Darwin, the psychology school of functionalism focused on how consciousness adapts to different environments and how the mind contributes to human change and survival. While structuralist was trying to divide the units of the mind, the functionalist had a completely different idea on what, why, and how we should study the mind. According to the functionalist William James, elements of the mind are both constantly changing and connected to one another, therefore,…

deliberative class. This class excludes labor and includes only ideal members. They decide what work needs to be done. They direct when and where to act in the city. Socrates does not distinguish the parts of the corresponding person’s soul, but isomorphism between the accounts of the constitutions allows us to apply the distinctions in the ideal city to the analogous account of the soul. The deliberative class is analogous to the rational part of the soul and the market-class is analogous to…

manages its human resources. However, there are some generalizations made from these body of research. For example, one such generalization is that there are some human resource management/industrial relations issues that tend to exhibit more local isomorphism (i.e., resemble the practices of host environment) such as wage determination, training, number of hours to work, among others. Meanwhile, the argument is that there are some HR/IR issues that tend to be more regulated…