Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts Daniel Beunza and Raghu Garud Introduction As Wall Street specialists in valuation, sell-side securities analysts constitute a particularly important class of market actor.1 Analysts produce the reports, recommendations and price targets that professional investors utilize to inform their buy and sell decisions, which means that understanding analysts’ work can provide crucial insights on the determinants of
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a lower class than what they feel they are. Jane is emphasizing how easily it is to judge someone according to physical appearance and that people fail to see what lies behind the human eye before judging them. Jane shows how superficial and society based race actually is. Jane’s experiment shows how different races became more friendly towards each other, due to the emotional development from this exercise. This exercise increased the motivation of young children to socialize with people who
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G;In what ways, and too what extent has globalization reshaped international politics? In the recent history of international politics, globalization has become a dynamic concept. Martell (2010) key factors of identifying and defining globalization include the greater use of global communication and the decrease of space and time dimensions.. These factors will be explored in detail to obtain a better understanding of the role of globalization and its relationship to international relations.
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Basics in Social Science “Family and Marriage”– What is Family? Family is considered to be one of the oldest institutions of the society. Sociologists have traditionally viewed the family as a social group whose members are related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption and live together, cooperate economically, and care for the young. (Murdock, 1949) ❖ When we think of a family, we picture it as a more or less durable association of husband and wife with or without children or of a man
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CAN LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS BE A SOLUTION? YES. In order to succeed in today’s drug war, governments should legalize drugs. The Netherlands is one government which is applying legalization procedure properly and which has reduction in drug use. According to Trimbos Institute’s and also some other research, this reduction is mostly in more harmful and more hallucinogenic drugs which are LSD, amphetamine, heroin and reduction percentage is 30% since 1983*. Currently, in the Netherlands there is not
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has been suggested to refer to this transition, a few of which refer positively to the emergence of a new type of social system (such as the "information society" or the "consumer society") but most of which suggest rather that a -- 2 -- preceding state of affairs is drawing to a close ("post-modernity," "post-modernism," "post-industrial society," "post-capitalism," and so forth). Some of the debates about these matters concentrate mainly upon institutional transformations, particularly those which
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A. INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale - Family is the basic social unit. Family represents people living together by ties of marriage, blood or adaptation, thus representing a single household. According to sociology, the family has the primary function of reproducing society; biologically, socially, or both. There are various structures of a family based on the relationship shared between the parent and the children. - Life and people are always changing, but the main values and bases of the concept of
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Consumer Culture Theory, Consumer Agency and the Importance of Brands Summary of the Importance and Relevance of Topic Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) refers to the classification of a certain approach to studying consumers and the way that they consume. It was first coined in 2005 by Arnould and Thompson, and it specifically addresses the sociocultural, symbolic, experiential and ideological facets of consumption. Their work is the culmination of over a quarter century of research that treats consumer
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cubicles in Japan, to experience “Wa” firsthand. Visitors who’ve traveled to Japan, often tell of the openness, calamity and helpfulness of the Japanese, everywhere they go. Visitors are embraced by the Japanese, and is it any surprise given the importance they’ve placed on living in harmony? Doesn’t it mean that individuals of all forms would be accepted in Japan? Observations of how Japan’s disabled citizens are treated, suggest otherwise. The cultures of Japan and United States differ, yet there
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Social Compass http://scp.sagepub.com/ Theories of Conversion: Understanding and Interpreting Religious Change Lewis R. RAMBO Social Compass 1999 46: 259 DOI: 10.1177/003776899046003003 The online version of this article can be found at: http://scp.sagepub.com/content/46/3/259 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education Additional services and information for Social Compass can be found at: Email Alerts: http://scp
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