Author : Valerie Ahl
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780231084819
This basic guide introduces the relationships between observation, perception, and learning that form the substance of hierarchy theory. This theory aims to answer the question of whether there is a basic structure to nature, comprising discreet levels of organization within an overall pattern.
Author : Howard Hunt Pattee
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Gary B. Shelly
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2004-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780619255114
An introduction to the popular World Wide Web browser, this text is designed for a unit of study in an introductory computer concepts course or an applications course, or alone in a one unit course.
Author : Abraham Maslow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Motivation (Psychology)
ISBN : 1365991490
Author : 50minutes,
Publisher : 50 Minutes
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2806265878
Understand the true foundations of human motivation This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Understand the five different levels of needs experienced by all humans • Adapt your marketing strategies to satisfy as many of those needs as possible • Turn your target market into loyal customers ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM| Management & Marketing 50MINUTES.COM provides the tools to quickly understand the main theories and concepts that shape the economic world of today. Our publications are easy to use and they will save you time. They provide both elements of theory and case studies, making them excellent guides to understand key concepts in just a few minutes. In fact, they are the starting point to take action and push your business to the next level.
Author : T. F. H. Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 022648971X
Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals interact both with each other and with the myriad biotic and abiotic components of their surroundings across geographies as well as spatial and temporal scales. In the face of such complexity, ecologists have long sought tools to streamline and aggregate information. Among them, in the 1980s, T. F. H. Allen and Thomas B. Starr implemented a burgeoning concept from business administration: hierarchy theory. Cutting-edge when Hierarchy was first published, their approach to unraveling complexity is now integrated into mainstream ecological thought. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of Hierarchy reflects the assimilation of hierarchy theory into ecological research, its successful application to the understanding of complex systems, and the many developments in thought since. Because hierarchies and levels are habitual parts of human thinking, hierarchy theory has proven to be the most intuitive and tractable vehicle for addressing complexity. By allowing researchers to look explicitly at only the entities and interconnections that are relevant to a specific research question, hierarchically informed data analysis has enabled a revolution in ecological understanding. With this new edition of Hierarchy, that revolution continues.
Author : Thomas Diefenbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135013403
Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way it should be - and are neither willing nor able to think that it could be otherwise. This book raises the awareness of hierarchy, its complexity and longevity. It focuses on a single but fundamental problem of social systems such as dyads, groups, organisations and whole societies: Why and how does hierarchical social order persist over time? In order to investigate the question, author Thomas Diefenbach develops a general theory of the persistence of hierarchical social order. This theory interrogates the problem of the persistence of hierarchical social order from very different angles, in multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary ways. Even more crucially, it traces the very causes of the phenomenon, the reasons and interests behind hierarchy as well as the various mechanisms which keep it going. This is the first time such a theory is attempted. With the help of the theory developed in this book, it is possible to interrogate systematically, comprehensively and in detail how mindsets and behaviours as well as societal and organisational structures enable the continuation of hierarchy
Author : Jim Sidanius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521805407
This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are all basically derived from the basic human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. In essence, social dominance theory presumes that, beneath major and sometimes profound difference between different human societies, there is also a basic grammar of social power shared by all societies in common. We use social dominance theory in an attempt to identify the elements of this grammar and to understand how these elements interact and reinforce each other to produce and maintain group-based social hierarchy.
Author : David A. Lake
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801457696
International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today. Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty, Lake offers a novel view of international relations in which states form social contracts that bind both dominant and subordinate members. The resulting hierarchies have significant effects on the foreign policies of states as well as patterns of international conflict and cooperation. Focusing largely on U.S.-led hierarchies in the contemporary world, Lake provides a compelling account of the origins, functions, and limits of political order in the modern international system. The book is a model of clarity in theory, research design, and the use of evidence. Motivated by concerns about the declining international legitimacy of the United States following the Iraq War, Hierarchy in International Relations offers a powerful analytic perspective that has important implications for understanding America's position in the world in the years ahead.
Author : A. Lachlan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3540370323
