John Mowitt
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520284623
- eISBN:
- 9780520960404
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520284623.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. It seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as ...
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This book is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. It seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds, not just readily classified examples such as speech, music, industrial sounds, or codified signals. The text looks into the fact that beyond hearing and listening we “audit” sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily accommodated within the concept of “sound studies.” To draw attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for the social and political functions they serve, each chapter presents a culturally resonant sound—including a whistle, an echo, a gasp, and silence—to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory, social order, and art-making.Less
This book is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. It seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds, not just readily classified examples such as speech, music, industrial sounds, or codified signals. The text looks into the fact that beyond hearing and listening we “audit” sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily accommodated within the concept of “sound studies.” To draw attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for the social and political functions they serve, each chapter presents a culturally resonant sound—including a whistle, an echo, a gasp, and silence—to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory, social order, and art-making.
Daniel Gold
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520236134
- eISBN:
- 9780520929517
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520236134.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, the author develops a ...
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This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, the author develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths, and examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor. The author looks at whether a peculiarly expressive genre of writing on religion began at a specific moment in history and, if so, what this might suggest about the cultural significance about religio-historical practice.Less
This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, the author develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths, and examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor. The author looks at whether a peculiarly expressive genre of writing on religion began at a specific moment in history and, if so, what this might suggest about the cultural significance about religio-historical practice.
Andromachi Athanasopoulou and Sue Dopson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199681952
- eISBN:
- 9780191761713
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199681952.003.0003
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, HRM / IR
Chapter 2 presents an overview of the eight main theoretical approaches to coaching and their variations as they appear in the literature. These are: cognitive, behavioural, and cognitive-behavioural ...
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Chapter 2 presents an overview of the eight main theoretical approaches to coaching and their variations as they appear in the literature. These are: cognitive, behavioural, and cognitive-behavioural approaches (which also include smaller theoretical streams such as rational emotive behaviour therapy, multimodal approach and mindfulness coaching); psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach; transactional analysis approach; existential approach; humanistic/person-centered approach; neurolinguistic programming (NLP); Gestalt psychotherapy; and solution-focused approach to coaching. The presentation of each of these approaches starts with an overview of the conceptual/theoretical background and origin of the approach, followed by a discussion of its application to coaching and particularly executive coaching, and (where such information exists) a discussion regarding evidence of its impact.Less
Chapter 2 presents an overview of the eight main theoretical approaches to coaching and their variations as they appear in the literature. These are: cognitive, behavioural, and cognitive-behavioural approaches (which also include smaller theoretical streams such as rational emotive behaviour therapy, multimodal approach and mindfulness coaching); psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach; transactional analysis approach; existential approach; humanistic/person-centered approach; neurolinguistic programming (NLP); Gestalt psychotherapy; and solution-focused approach to coaching. The presentation of each of these approaches starts with an overview of the conceptual/theoretical background and origin of the approach, followed by a discussion of its application to coaching and particularly executive coaching, and (where such information exists) a discussion regarding evidence of its impact.
John Kekes
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197514047
- eISBN:
- 9780197514078
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197514047.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter develops human wisdom by considering the reasons for and against four alternative approaches to wisdom: classical, epistemological, psychological, and moral. It discusses the strengths ...
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This chapter develops human wisdom by considering the reasons for and against four alternative approaches to wisdom: classical, epistemological, psychological, and moral. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches and explains the reasons for and against incorporating their components in the gradually emerging conception of human wisdom. One main difference between the humanistic and these approaches is the central importance the former attributes and the latter moots of the personal attitude we all have to how we rightly or wrongly think we should live.Less
This chapter develops human wisdom by considering the reasons for and against four alternative approaches to wisdom: classical, epistemological, psychological, and moral. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches and explains the reasons for and against incorporating their components in the gradually emerging conception of human wisdom. One main difference between the humanistic and these approaches is the central importance the former attributes and the latter moots of the personal attitude we all have to how we rightly or wrongly think we should live.
Marina Welker
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520282308
- eISBN:
- 9780520957954
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520282308.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter shows how newly appointed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) executives strove to moralize the corporation by reworking its boundaries and responsibilities across time and space. The ...
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This chapter shows how newly appointed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) executives strove to moralize the corporation by reworking its boundaries and responsibilities across time and space. The executives drew on divergent strategies to render Newmont more responsible: a humanistic approach meant to induce moral consciousness by fostering the ability to see and critique a corporate self through the eyes of others, and a risk management approach closely tied to the “business case” for CSR and also promised to secure shareholder profits over the long term. This analysis shows that profit maximization and risk management are claim-making devices that people deploy in particular contexts in order to justify or support particular courses of action. They correspond imperfectly to what corporations actually do.Less
This chapter shows how newly appointed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) executives strove to moralize the corporation by reworking its boundaries and responsibilities across time and space. The executives drew on divergent strategies to render Newmont more responsible: a humanistic approach meant to induce moral consciousness by fostering the ability to see and critique a corporate self through the eyes of others, and a risk management approach closely tied to the “business case” for CSR and also promised to secure shareholder profits over the long term. This analysis shows that profit maximization and risk management are claim-making devices that people deploy in particular contexts in order to justify or support particular courses of action. They correspond imperfectly to what corporations actually do.
Frederick J. Newmeyer and Laurel B. Preston (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199685301
- eISBN:
- 9780191765476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685301.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
This chapter begins by noting that despite the fact that it would never occur to the average layperson that all languages are equally complex, such has been the majority opinion of most linguists for ...
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This chapter begins by noting that despite the fact that it would never occur to the average layperson that all languages are equally complex, such has been the majority opinion of most linguists for almost a century. Three independent currents converged in support of the hypothesis of equal complexity. The first is the humanistic doctrine that since all human groups are in a fundamental sense ‘equal’, their languages must be ‘equal’ too. The second is the idea that in order to keep languages useable, complexity in one part of the grammar is necessarily ‘balanced out’ by simplicity in another part of the grammar—this is sometimes called the ‘trade-off hypothesis’. The third derives from the belief that universal grammar does not allow for significant variations of complexity. Special attention is paid to the relevance of creole languages, the debate about recursion, and the theory of parameters.Less
This chapter begins by noting that despite the fact that it would never occur to the average layperson that all languages are equally complex, such has been the majority opinion of most linguists for almost a century. Three independent currents converged in support of the hypothesis of equal complexity. The first is the humanistic doctrine that since all human groups are in a fundamental sense ‘equal’, their languages must be ‘equal’ too. The second is the idea that in order to keep languages useable, complexity in one part of the grammar is necessarily ‘balanced out’ by simplicity in another part of the grammar—this is sometimes called the ‘trade-off hypothesis’. The third derives from the belief that universal grammar does not allow for significant variations of complexity. Special attention is paid to the relevance of creole languages, the debate about recursion, and the theory of parameters.
