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2017
Management of meaning, an activity central to mobilizing action both inside and outside organizations, has been studied in the analyses of organizational culture, identity, change, innovation, stakeholder management, and environmental enactment. This review of the conceptual and empirical work in these areas suggests that although meaning-making ...
Violina Rindova, Santosh Srinivas
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Management of meaning, an activity central to mobilizing action both inside and outside organizations, has been studied in the analyses of organizational culture, identity, change, innovation, stakeholder management, and environmental enactment. This review of the conceptual and empirical work in these areas suggests that although meaning-making ...
Violina Rindova, Santosh Srinivas
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2014
In hundred-years time, Angela Doyle will be dead and mostly forgotten. She will be a name among all the other names in the graveyard in Greyrock. To die is to enter into meaninglessness. For the moment, however, her life is full of meaning. We can imagine her busy in and around her home, on the phone, organizing meetings, driving down to the village ...
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In hundred-years time, Angela Doyle will be dead and mostly forgotten. She will be a name among all the other names in the graveyard in Greyrock. To die is to enter into meaninglessness. For the moment, however, her life is full of meaning. We can imagine her busy in and around her home, on the phone, organizing meetings, driving down to the village ...
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2021
This chapter briefly outlines three general conceptions: culture as structure, as distribution of psycho-social traits, as interpretative activity. Specificities, similarities and differences among these approaches are discussed. Moreover, in order to provide common ground to these conceptions, a semantic space of culture is defined.
Marco Cremaschi +3 more
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This chapter briefly outlines three general conceptions: culture as structure, as distribution of psycho-social traits, as interpretative activity. Specificities, similarities and differences among these approaches are discussed. Moreover, in order to provide common ground to these conceptions, a semantic space of culture is defined.
Marco Cremaschi +3 more
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2019
Part 1 Theoretical inquiry: on the importance of theory, Amos Rapoport Amos Rapoport - scholar, conscience and citizen of the environment and behaviour field, Irwin Altman house form and culture - what have we learnt in 30 years?, Roderick Lawrence the new functionalism and architectural theory, Jon Lang.
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Part 1 Theoretical inquiry: on the importance of theory, Amos Rapoport Amos Rapoport - scholar, conscience and citizen of the environment and behaviour field, Irwin Altman house form and culture - what have we learnt in 30 years?, Roderick Lawrence the new functionalism and architectural theory, Jon Lang.
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Culture, or the Meaning of Meaning Making
2021Abstract The exploration and investigation of culture is nothing short of complex since the term itself is used in many ways by both academics and lay publics. Symbolic interactionists and “fellow travelers” tend to approach the study of culture from the position of those who experience and practice it.
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Meanings, culture and communication
Journal of Pragmatics, 1988Abstract The purpose was to explore the potentialities of cross-cultural communication, which is generally assumed to be low. Starting from the assumption that communication consists in transmitting meanings, a system of meaning (by Kreitler and Kreitler) was described which enables the characterization, assessment and comparison of meanings.
Shulamith Kreitler, Hans Kreitler
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The Cultural Meaning of Suicide: What Does That Mean?
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2012Scholars sometimes stress that it is important to know the individual meaning of suicide and the cultural meaning of suicide, but the meaning of these terms remains unclear. The present article discusses this problem and suggests that the individual meaning of suicide is best based on the motives for suicide, while the cultural meaning of suicide is ...
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Thesis Eleven, 1997
The article inquires into the uneasiness of sociological systems theory about culture. Culture alternatively is called the solution to the problem of double contingency (Parsons) and removed from this solution (Luhmann). It is shown that meaning is the more basic term whose description reveals a form rule of social systems which is only patterned, yet
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The article inquires into the uneasiness of sociological systems theory about culture. Culture alternatively is called the solution to the problem of double contingency (Parsons) and removed from this solution (Luhmann). It is shown that meaning is the more basic term whose description reveals a form rule of social systems which is only patterned, yet
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2012
“Culture” is on everyone’s lips these days, but it is too difficult to define. Please refer to the following expressions in some important literature.
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“Culture” is on everyone’s lips these days, but it is too difficult to define. Please refer to the following expressions in some important literature.
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