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Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992. Born depicts a major artistic institution trying to maintain its status and legitimacy in an era increasingly dominated by market forces, and in a volatile political and cultural climate. She illuminates the erosion of the legitimacy of art and science in the face of growing commercial and political pressures. By tracing how IRCAM has tried to accomodate these pressures while preserving its autonomy, Born reveals the contradictory effects of institutionalizing an avant-garde. Contrary to those who see postmodernism representing an accord between high and popular culture, Born stresses the continuities between modernism and postmodernism and how postmodernism itself embodies an implicit antagonism toward popular culture..
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Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge
"This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This book is catholic in its reading, sophisticated in its arguments and cautious in its judgements."—Robert Dingwall, Sociology"As an attempt to provide a complex, wide-ranging account this book should be essential reading for specialist students, and it should act as a stimulus for the extension of both empirical research and theory."—Alex Faulkner, Sociological Review"Freidson's book is a concise introduction to the professions, challenging specialists with its puncturing of theoretically induced misconceptions and offering general readers a clear but critical entrée to the theoretical literature concerning this central aspect of modern society."—Andrew Abbott, Science"This is a stimulating and well-written book which opens up a new perspective on the professions as well as contributing to existing debates."—David Podmore, Times Higher Education Supplement.
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Indian Communism: Opposition, Collaboration and Institutionalization
Though Communism has ceased to exist in Europe, it is still found in the Third World where conditions favoring revolutionary change persist This history of the Indian Communist Movement demonstrates how, despite losing its global status, communism has survived in India, though in a different, democratized, form. Ross Mallick traces this process of democratization, as well as the institutionalization of revolutionary Marxism in this immensely readable study. He demonstrates that through electoral success in a parliamentary democracy, the Communist Party of India (CPI) was able to collaborate with a privileged class base which had a vested interest in supporting the party. In doing this, the CPI not only neglected the numerically substantial lower classes, but also failed to tackle the major questions of under-development and to create the necessary conditions for revolutionary change..
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Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization
This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the world, over the past century Using quantitative cross-national data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on national societies. It examines how this world scientific system and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of institutional spheres—the economy, political systems, human rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms. The authors argue that the triumph of science across social domains and around the world is due to its institutionalized cultural authority rather than to its instrumental utility for societies or for their dominant elites. Thus, following the Stanford approach to institutional theory in sociology, the book emphasizes the symbolic or religious role science plays in the modern world. .
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Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization (The New International Relations)
For the past quarter century, John Gerard Ruggie has made fundamental contributions to international relations theorizing, helping to establish what is now described as the "constructivist" approach to the field. This elegantly written collection of essays includes a substantial introduction that surveys the entire range of post-war IR theory and sets the constructivist project within it. Ruggie brings together his most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order..
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Shadow Justice: The Ideology and Institutionalization of Alternatives to Court (Contributions in Political Science)
This first critical examination of informal dispute processing links the institutionalization of alternatives to the court process and the ideology of informalism with the evolution of the American court system. The author connects dispute processing reform to the broader social and political context in which it developed, including the rise of judicial management in the Progressive period and the reconstruction of court unification in the 1970s. Harrington defines legal resources and their distribution in alternative dispute resolution policy before focusing on the institutionalization of this reform in a case study of a federally sponsored Neighborhood Justice Center. In conclusion, Harrington finds that the symbols of informalism and its institutions are a mere shadow of conventional legal practices..
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Peer-Led Team Learning: Evaluation, Dissemination, and Institutionalization of a College Level Initiative (Innovations in Science Education and Technology)
This book is a real-world study of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), a method in which undergraduates work together, under the guidance of a peer leader, in course-connected workshops. PLTL is intended to complement lecture. The text explains how the method evolved into a teaching/learning model. The evaluation uncovered six critical components for successful implementation. Evaluation at each new site looked at implementation, comparing methods, materials, training, and organizational arrangements with what had been found to work effectively. Those disseminating the model used the critical components to frame their presentations. Dissemination of the method is carefully documented and analyzed. Evaluation of the program’s effectiveness was shared. Instructors compared grades of classes or cohorts of students with and without PLTL, with different kinds of controls. The external evaluator measured the quality of implementation, student satisfaction, the impact on leaders, and other factors. Finally, this study looks closely at institutionalization: the essential factors necessary for a program’s sustainability. The evaluation explained in this text is transportable to other programs and pedagogies. “Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is one of the success stories resulting from the National Science Foundation's investment in educational innovation. Gafney and Varma-Nelson provide a coherent, tour-de-force look at the in-depth research that has been carried out, not only to understand the effect of PLTL on student learning, but also to understand the nature of the pedagogical method itself. This monograph is a jam-packed, one-stop destination for anyone who wants to learn what it means to understand a widespread pedagogical development in post-secondary science education.” Brian Coppola, University of Michigan .
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