...strong cultures achieve higher results because employees sustain focus both on what to do and how to do it. Organizational culture is reflected in the use of symbols, artifacts, rites and rituals, language communication, stories and legends. According to Jex, Symbols and artifacts are objects or aspects of the organizational environment that convey some greater meaning. In most organizations, symbols provide us with information on the nature of the culture. An example of a symbol would be an employee obtaining the largest or “Corner office” and example of an artifact would be the Business suit or corporate attire, however, the suit and tie seems to be giving way to a more casual look in many organizations. Another example of how organizational culture manifests itself is in rites and rituals. According to Jex, Rites as described as “relatively elaborate, dramatic, planned sets of activities that consolidate various forms of cultural expressions into one event, which is carried out through social interactions. It was noted that, rites of passage are typically conducted in order to socialize individuals. Essentially, taking individuals from organizational outsiders to full-fledged organizational members. An example of a rite of passage would be the military's use of basic training Rituals are similar to rites in that they are also enacted through...
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...Rites of Passage – Amish and Jewish Cultures Student Name ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor Date Rites of Passage – Amish and Jewish Cultures Many cultures in the world have traditional rites of passage that may seem strange to others. According to Crapo, rites of passages are “ceremonies… [undergone] whenever a member of society undergoes an important change in the status within the lifecycle of the group” (Crapo, 2013, p181). Rites of passage ceremonies are powerful and moving in beliefs that bring each person into his or her own path in life. Both Amish and Jewish cultures hold strong traditional and religious beliefs that are incorporated into every day activities. Traditional rites of passage can be special moments in any individual’s lifecycle, particularly when puberty or adulthood rituals occur. For many centuries the Amish have largely remained separated from the English. The Amish community refers to anyone outside of the Amish culture as English. Most Amish communities do not rely on the use of electricity, television, motorized vehicles and tractors. Women and men in the Amish culture live their lives with humility and submission to God, as well as, their parents and to the community and control their desires and reject luxurious and worldly pleasures (Films Media Group, 2005). The Amish do not believe in baptizing the younger individuals in the community. Rather they believe in allowing the young the opportunity to make...
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...Confucius was a strong advocate for rites- he believed that they served to create a civilized society and a form of structure that was difficult to attain simply through laws. The concept of li, one that encompasses ideas of ritual propriety, filial piety and proper social conduct serve to reinforce the importance of this belief. To be Confucian indubitably entails participating in ancestor worship, a ritualized commemoration and sacrifice to one’s deceased relatives. Through purification, food offerings, divinations and prayers, it was believed that the living would benefit from the blessings of their ancestors. This essay will examine elements of the seasonal sacrifice performed in class with respect to Confucian ideals- it is of the view...
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...Rites of Passage Danielle Gialluca ANT 101 Elizabeth Spott November 17, 2014 There are milestones, and rites of passage all over the world, in all different cultures and societies. Some of them are non-religious centered, like a child’s first birthday. While others are more intricate and not as widely celebrated, such as female circumcision, which is more of a religious, and cultural practice. In areas in Africa, one tribe may practice one specific rite of passage, while the neighboring tribe may have something completely different. The fact that there are rites of passage all over the world is a uniting factor in communities far and wide. In this paper, the Jewish Bar Mitzvah is celebration of the passing from a child to young adulthood, while in Toraja community, the people have specific stages to go through after someone draws their final breath, while both are very important rites in their respective communities, both based on religion. The Jewish religion has several different rites of passage, as do most religions. The Jewish Religion is one that has been practiced since before Jesus Christ. Most people hear that someone is Jewish and they immediately think of Hanukah, and the menorah. But there is much more to this ancient, yet still practiced religion. It is a religion that is practiced throughout the globe, with several different types depending on the internal beliefs on specific things, but one thing that is common is their rites of passage, different...
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...work, to make enough money to take flight lessons. He first found out about his initial fondness for flying when he tried a flight simulator. His family had always liked flying and one of his family members worked as a weather observer. They knew the FBO, someone who manages the airport, who offered a job at the airport. Then by the time he was thirteen and old enough to get his temporary license, he was then able for the first time to fly solo. After the flight simulator and his temporary license he continued to pursue his flying dreams and got a full pilot’s license by the time he was sixteen. He had a flight instructor that flew with him whenever he had enough money to fly. This story in particular is a specific rite of passage that my dad experienced. This rite of passage was a life lesson to pursue dreams, which is exactly what my dad did in this situation. This story is another example of a step up the staircase and towards the future gaining more responsibility and becoming more...
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...Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebration According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the definition of rite is, “a ceremonial, religious act.” In addition, a rite of passage is a ceremony that transitions someone from one stage of life to another. A bar or bat mitzvah is a cerimony where young jewish teens transition from childhood to adulthood. 14,704,500 people have been recorded to be Jewish since 2016 (CNN). Judaism is a monotheistic religion developed in Israel around 4000 years ago. The jewish law is rooted in the first five books of thenJewish Bible or the Torah. In the Torah, it states that Abraham is the father of Judaism (Britannica). Most of the time jews go to synagogues to practice their religion. In some special occasions, any experienced member of the congregation can guide a service. The person who usually leads the service is called a Rabbi or a Cantor. Rabbis are Jewish spiritual experts, educated at yeshivas, religious seminaries. Rabbis translate the Bible and present the importance of Jewish law. As a jewish child begins to come of age, he or she begins to make the decision of whether or not they would like to celebrate their Bar or Bat mitzvah. For a young jewish girl the celebration would occur at the age 12 and it is called a bat mitzvah. For a young jewish boy the celebration would happen at the age of 13 and it would be referred to a bar...
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...both definitions have provided a number of pros and cons to each, which in turn have led to my preference of one over the other. In examining the similarities between Durkheim and Geertz’s definitions of religion, one must observe that both authors conceptualize religion as specific to the group of people that it is present in, with limited applications outside of the group. At the heart of Emile Durkheim’s definition of religion is the concept that religion is central to society and that “religion is an eminently social thing” (DURKHEIM 2008: 39). Embedded in this idea of religion as a social entity is the concept of religion as socially-specific; as applicable only to the specific group it exists in. He goes on to claim that beliefs and rites composing a religion are “always shared by a definite group that professes them” (43). In defining religion, Clifford Geertz also makes the claim that religion is specific to a particular group, though his definition is based on the idea of cultural specificity. Geertz says that religion is an “extrinsic source of information…that [lies] outside the boundaries….of common understandings...
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...act was put into place as a standard law used to protect a patient’s personal health and medical records nationwide. This act was created to help health care workers to keep better control of a patient’s personal information. HIPPA has a privacy rule that concerns an individual’s health plans; the rule helps to provide health care workers information that would be needed to transmit an individual’s vision, health, prescription, and any other type of medical information safely. This essay will discuss how Rite Aid pharmacy informs customers of how his or her personal information is disclosed and how he or she is protected against violations of their rights, ensuring customers that his or her information will continue to remain to stay protected and that the HIPPA privacy laws are continued to be followed. As well as the law suit that arose where Rite Aid agreed to pay $1 million dollars to settle a HIPAA privacy case (Physicians Billing Associates International, 2006). The Rite Aid pharmacy recently put out an updated article concerning patient privacy. The notice...
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...Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates. The graduation ceremony is a cultural tradition that is considered a rite of passage. The ceremony marks a transition from one stage in a student's life to another. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as grandaunts. The date of graduation is often called graduation day. The graduation itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. In case of study and education graduation is the meaning of getting a higher degree of three years after 10+2 from a university or college, but that degree must come under the degree of graduation. Quite apart from that though, the graduation ceremony fulfills an essential human function as a ritual of transition, in this case marking the move from student to worker. The whole idea of graduation is believed to have started in the 12th Century, introduced by scholastic monks who wore robes during the entire graduation ceremony. It has kept on evolving ever since. Gill, L. (2012, January 15). Convocation and its importance. Graduation. Retrieved August 7, 2012. Scholars, especially anthropologists, consider graduation to be a rite of passage. A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change from one stage of life to the next in a person’s life. The pomp and ceremony of the graduation ceremony can lend itself to accusations of irrelevance and elitism. Such criticisms I think...
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...Elements of Religious Traditions Deborah C. Washington REL/133 January 2, 2013 Professor John Wadhams Elements of Religious Traditions In the original version of the movie Car Wash, Richard Pryor played a preacher. He said, “you’ve gotta believe in something, why not believe in me”, then the Pointer Sister began to sing a song called “You’ve Gotta Believe”. Believing in some type god is practiced in eastern and western cultures. There are several basic components of religious traditions and their relationship to the sacred. The three basic components are sacramental, prophetic, and mystic orientation. The sacramental orientation highlights resonating rituals and ceremonies regularly and correctly as the path to salvation; in Christianity (Baptist), the first Sunday of every month is set aside for the Lord’s Supper. Prophetic orientation stresses that contact with the sacred is ensured by proper belief and by adherence to moral rules (Molly, 2010). Catholics confess their sins for attending Mass. The priest speaks on behalf of the sinner to God. The mystical orientation seeks union with a reality greater than oneself, such as with God, the process of nature, the universe, or reality as a whole (Molly, 2010). In the Baptist Church there is a worship and praise usually in the beginning of the service. People who are Buddhist chant. Some Christianity denominations fast, depriving themselves of food in order to get closer to their god. Muslims pray five times...
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...The Importance of the Indigenous Vision Quest as a Rite-of-Passage Vision Quest is a term formed by 19th-century anthropologists synonymous with terms such as “vision fast”, “dream vision”, and “dream fast”. It is used to describe the Rite of Passage young males in Indigenous communities - such as the Ojibwa peoples - take to transition into adulthood. The vision quest is a very spiritual journey where partakers are said to receive communication from the spirit world or the Creator in the form of visions that provide sacred knowledge and strength (Robinson, 2018). This is done through a tremendously intense journey where participants are left in the wilderness alone with their thoughts for multiple days. They forego food and sleep in the...
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...and the United States. The Blackfoot people have fought and struggled to preserve the traditions of the past and incorporate what were once their forefather’s beliefs with European influences and traditions. Today most of the Blackfoot people live on reservations in Alberta and Montana; there they find a unique balance that allows them to live modern day lives and preserve traditions of the past. Blackfoot Indians have developed into agricultural people, abandoning their seasonal nomadic ways. In this paper I will examine how the Blackfoot people function and live in the present day; focusing on how religion and culture intertwine to form contemporary life for the Blackfoot people. The intrusiveness of Christianity will be of particular importance; specifically it’s intolerance of the Blackfoot religion. The role that the buffalo once played to the Blackfoot people completely defined them and was very important in religious ceremonies, today with the scarcity of buffalo I will examine how the Blackfoot people have coped and adapted to the loss...
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...Rite of Passage April 16, 2011 BHSH 342 Rite of Passage In middle childhood and adolescence there are many transitions that a child faces. A child changes from early childhood; venturing into public school systems and finding friendships outside of their family. Children in middle childhood are confronted with peer, academic, and sport groups. For the first time they have the opportunity to form relationships with individuals who may challenge their family’s morals and values. The child whose main focus was family will mature into an adolescent, who is more comfortable around peers than their mother and father. These common changes in a child’s life are transitions just like the biological and social transformations the body will experience. Rites of Passage A Rite of Passage is “any important act or event that serves to mark a passage from one stage of life to another” (American Dictionary, 2006). Rites of passage combine separation, initiation, and reintegration. During these steps, a child is separating themselves from a parent, friend, or past knowledge to make a deeper discovery of themselves and life. During this journey, the individual has changed and become more mature in thought and understanding. The voyage from adolescence into adulthood will be an experience of several rites of passages. A girl will begin menstruating, an occurrence stating that she is entering motherhood, and a boy will begin growing body and facial hair and broadening...
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...SOR ASSESSMENT II: RESEARCH ESSAY SOR ASSESSMENT II: RESEARCH ESSAY “Rites of passage in Christianity allow adherents to obtain deeper knowledge and beliefs about their religion” How does this statement explain the significance of baptism for the Christian community and the individual? Baptism allows adherents of Christianity to acquire a deeper understanding and resonate with the beliefs of their religion. Baptism refers to the religious rite of passage involving the application of water in association with an individual’s admission to the Christian Church. It is a significant rite practiced by a majority of Christian adherents with the exception of Quakers and followers of The Salvation Army. In many denominations, baptism is performed on young children and is accompanied by name-giving, referred to as ‘Infant Baptism’. These denominational families include Catholics, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Presbyterians and other Reformed denominations, Methodists and some Nazarenes, as well as the Moravian Church. Another form of baptism involves the initiation of adults and is referred to as ‘Believers Baptism’ practised by a minority of Christians including Protestants and followers of the Pentecostal and Baptists sect. A key concept in believer's baptism is that a credible profession of faith must be given by the recipient before baptism. The American Baptist Church, for example, declares: "We insist that baptism be administered only to those who have...
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...P. Kapur Adviser, RITES and A. K. M. Sharma General Manager, Marketing & Client Services, RITES. Prologue RITES Journal 22.1 July 2009 Indian Infrastructure : Role of RITES Introduction Much of the industrialized world is currently in the grip of recession due to the ongoing global financial crises (GFC) – allegedly triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis of USA in 2007. According to some analysts the recession is the worst since the great depression of 1930s. The world output and trade is forecast to shrink in 2009 – the first such contraction since the end of World War II. The recession is inflicting job losses and wealth loss on an unprecedented scale. In an era of globalization, the GFC has impacted the economies of practically all countries in varying degrees and India is no exception. After a long spell of growth, the Indian economy is experiencing a downturn. Industrial growth is faltering, the current account deficit is widening, foreign exchange reserves are depleting and the Rupee is depreciating. There is gloom in the job market and stock markets have registered a sharp downward spiral. RITES - the Infrastructure People. The Company has come a long way from its inception in 1974 and, apart from India, has operated in 62 countries. The Authors, who have a wide experience in international consultancy, have forcefully brought out the present spread of its consultancy areas and as also its road map for the future. RITES’ contribution in the ...
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