ISBN:
9781849407823
,
1849407827
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 216 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schwartz, Howard S., 1942- Society against itself
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Political correctness
;
Organizational behavior
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
;
Organizational behavior
;
Political correctness
;
Massenmedien
;
Organisationsverhalten
;
Political Correctness
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"Political correctness" involves much more than a restriction of speech. It represents a broad cultural transformation, a shift in the way people understand things and organize their lives; a change in the way meaning is made. The problem addressed in this book is that, for reasons the author explores, some ways of making "meaning" support the creation and maintenance of organization, while others do not. Organizations are cultural products and rely upon psychological roots that go very deep. The basic premise of this book is that organizations are made up of the rules, common understandings, an
Abstract:
Organization and meaning : a multi-level psychoanalytic treatment of the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York times / with Larry Hirschhorn -- Religion against itself : psychodynamics of some peculiar television commercials produced by the United Church of Christ -- Antioch against itself : transformation of the meaning of Antioch College -- L'imagination au pouvoir : Britain in the age of Princess Diana.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index. - Description based on print version record
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