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Oral history interview with Marlene Koob
No full textInterview with Marlene Koob, the station agent at King Street Station at the time of this interview. She retired from this role in September 2010. Her father and grandfather also worked at King Street Station.0:04 introduction; 0:35- her career with trains
8:33 how the partnership with the state of WA changed things; 9:45- talks about the oral history of her family
13:30 question about if horses were mentioned
17:00 how she can’t remember going to the station as a child
20:00 Traditional roles of African American workers
25:30 an article that her father is mentioned in; 28:00- earthquakes
30:00 Little things that she likes about her job;
31:33 Side B- things she remembers from her lunch breaks; interview ends1 sound cassette (33 min. 50 sec.) : analo
eine bedeutungstheoretische Perspektive auf ein sozialwissenschaftliches Begriffs- und Theorieproblem
No full textSoftcover, 391 S.: 25,00 €Softcover, 17x24Die Debatte um Sozialkapital ist seit geraumer Zeit in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Mode. Schaut man sich Untersuchungen dazu an, so scheint Sozialkapital für nahezu alles gut zu sein: sei es die Erhöhung des persönlichen Wohlbefindens, die Revitalisierung benachteiligter Stadtquartiere oder die Stärkung der Volkswirtschaft im globalisierten Standortwettbewerb - je mehr Sozialkapital, desto besser! Doch gerade die behauptete enorme Wirkungsbreite sollte zu begrifflicher und theoretischer Wachsamkeit anhalten. Was dient Wissenschaftlern als Gegenstand ihrer Erkenntnisbemühungen, wenn von »Sozialkapital« die Rede ist? Diese Frage klingt banal, ist aber bisher nicht systematisch bearbeitet oder gar in befriedigendem Maße beantwortet worden, obwohl doch zahlreiche Beiträge zur Begriffsdebatte vorliegen. So ist zwar das Problem in den Sozialwissenschaften benannt, doch im Kontext des speziellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Reflexionsrahmens nicht eingelöst worden. Das vorliegende Buch nimmt die bisher vernachlässigte metasprachliche Perspektive ein. Es erhöht damit den wissenschaftlichen Reifegrades der »Sozialkapital«-Debatte und trägt zur Etablierung eines wohlfundierten Systems sozialwissenschaftlicher Begriffe bei. Es bringt Sozialkapital zur Sprache, indem es über eine Kombination einer erkenntnistheoretischen und ontologischen Analyse eine Präzisierung des Objektbereiches erarbeitet.The term "social capital" has become a buzzword with a huge, already diffuse spectrum of application. This should give reason for conceptual and theoretical vigilance. What – in concrete - is the object when "social capital" is mentioned? This question has not been systematically dealt with and even less responsed in a satisfactory degree, although there are many contributions to the discussion of the term. The problem is labelled in the social sciences, but has not been resolved in the context of the specific social-scientific framework. This book takes the neglected metalinguistic perspective. Thus it advances the scientific maturity of the "social capital" debate and contributes to the establishment of a well-founded system in social science terms. It brings up social capital by combining an epistemological and ontological analysis and thus finally develops clarification of the concept
Book review: British pirates and society 1680-1730 by Margarette Lincoln
No full textBritish Pirates and Society 1680-1730 is a captivating and meticulously researched work of social history, which brings to life varied perspectives of the time, writes Marion Koob
Book review: elites: a general model
No full textElites: A General Model applies looks at three distinctly different societies – ancient India, Classical Athens, and the contemporary United States and analyses each societies’ politicians and propagandists, landowners and capitalists, national heroes and celebrities, ordinary folks and outcasts. Marion Koob reviews
Book review: the House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs at work by Emma Crewe
No full textA new book by Emma Crewe explores the day to day lives of Members of Parliament as they cycle through the House of Commons. MPs are pushed and pulled by various interests and allegiances. Marion Koob finds The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work insightful, and is a strong case for anthropologists to be more widely involved in political analysis. The book also gives an excellent overview of the 2010-2015 Parliament, through which the author charts more recent changes, such as the impact of social media and the 24 hours news cycle, the weakening of whips, and more diversified representation
Book review: wombs in labor: transnational commercial surrogacy in India by Amrita Pande
No full textWombs in Labor is an absorbing and meticulously researched work. Amrita Pande fruitfully scrutinises the minutiae of interactions among surrogates and the community of a clinic for their underlying meaning, writes Marion Koob
#IWD2016 Book review: SPQR: a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard
No full textWith SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the renowned Cambridge classicist Mary Beard presents a new history of ‘the Senate and People of Rome’, covering over 1,000 years and a diverse array of themes. Marion Koob applauds this superb book for its gripping narrative threads, its persuasive account of Rome’s contemporary relevance and for drawing attention away from the colourful personalities of the Roman emperors to instead consider the structures and patterns of power through which they ruled. Put simply, this is an essential read
Book review: thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies
No full textThrive explores the new effective solutions to the misery and injustice caused by mental illness. It describes how successful psychological treatments have been developed and explains what works best for whom. It also urges us to do all we can to prevent these problems in the first place, through better schools and a better society. Marion Koob reviews, writing that this is a crucial and necessary book, especially for those who know little about mental illness
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Book review: Presence: bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy
No full textHave you ever wished for a second chance at a job interview, performance or difficult conversation? Drawing upon her popular TED talk, in Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Harvard Business School Professor Amy Cuddy encourages readers to see transformative power in small ‘nudges’ in behaviour, body language and mind-set that can generate a better sense of ‘presence’ in our everyday lives. Marion Koob finds much in the way of useful advice within the book but wonders if its central ideas could have been outlined in a shorter span and wishes for more explicit connection between Cuddy’s claims and related contemporary research
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