Thane Thomson
We have this tendency to want to make our lives easier – perhaps this is a built-in biological mechanism to conserve energy? So we’ve been constructing systems for ages now: all the way from cars to supercomputers to money-making “systems” that we call organisations. Many people who give advice to entrepreneurs tell them to try [...]
After having passed the “secrecy bill” through parliament yesterday, and with the Mac Maharaj fiasco, a whole range of ridiculing, “naming-and-shaming”, gossip-like articles and public comments/jokes have been popping up:
“Black Tuesday”: There’s more where that came from Evading the questions with Big Mac Info bill: who voted how [...]
In digging around for different people’s understandings of social constructionist philosophy for my thesis, I discovered this great journal article by Steinar Kvale (1995) entitled The social construction of validity. What I was trying to do in my thesis was get back to some of our fundamental assumptions about social phenomena, and in [...]
In trying to understand business in new ways, it seems as though a variety of authors (academic and non-academic) have been trying to apply perspectives from a relatively new “branch” of science that is still busy taking shape: that of emergence. The concept of emergence comes from a variety of different streams of thought.
Jeffrey [...]
Keltner, Van Kleef, Chen and Kraus wrote a really interesting paper in 2008 on social power entitled A reciprocal influence model of social power, and I think that, against the backdrop of emergence and complexity theory and social influence theory, we’re only beginning to scratch the surface as to society’s dynamics in business [...]
I suppose tons of work has been done in coming to an understanding of the development of language, individuality and society, but I would like to describe here the views of an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist named George Herbert Mead. His most prominent work was a piece of the same title as [...]
The definition of a “blanket term” from Wiktionary:
A word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things. The degree of relation may vary. Blanket terms often trade specificity for ease-of-use; in other words, a blanket term by itself gives little detail about the things that it describes or [...]
In doing some background reading for my thesis, a friend of mine, Mikkel Christiansen, gave me a book by David Bohm entitled “Wholeness and the Implicate Order“. Esoteric? Definitely. Difficult to read? Incredibly. Worth the effort? Absolutely.
Bohm, as per the Wikipedia entry, was quite an impressive physicist. The [...]
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