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L I Zhiqian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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structure function mutual eligibility theory new interpretive framework of transformation rural Social management innovation based on the dimension of rural Social Organization
Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University, 2014Co-Authors: L I ZhiqianAbstract:The current rural Social transformation serves fundamentally as the foundation of the rural Social structure changes and reconstruction process,and the in-depth readjustment of rural Social structure adjustment imposes a higher demand on the vehicle construction for new function of re-adaptation. The rural Social Organization itself as an important system embedded in the rural Social structure does not only depend on the Social structural changes for its external form and internal functions,but also plays a formative and reconstructive role in its reshaping of Social structure with its development and innovation. The analysis in this paper was based on the perspective of "structure-function": in the background of transformation rural society management innovation,the new function of rural Social Organization and new Social structure should be effectively integrated,so that the common new order for rural new society is obtained.
Qin Tu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Bettina Bluemling, Qin TuAbstract:While for wind, solar energy or hydropower, energy supply happens directly from the source to the wind wheels, hydropower turbines or solar panels, in the case of biogas, energy production cannot directly take from the energy source, organic matter, but depends on the institutional structures and farmers′ practices involved for making energy available. With the production of bioenergy in rural areas, practices within agriculture are transformed, requiring new ways of organizing production processes. Research has left the question largely unanswered of how agricultural biogas production and use are – and can best be – organized within rural society. Which kinds of Social Organization exist, how are these embedded in existing agricultural institutions and practices, and how do these systems function? Under which conditions may the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use work sustainably? This introduction article to the Special Issue “The Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use” presents a framework for analysing the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use presented hereafter. Analysis parameters are the supply network, distribution network, distribution of benefits, Social boundaries of the system (accessibility) and scale. Using these parameters, the Special Issue articles are outlined.
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The Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Bettina Bluemling, Arthur P J Mol, Qin TuAbstract:While for wind, solar energy or hydropower, energy supply happens directly from the source to the wind wheels, hydropower turbines or solar panels, in the case of biogas, energy production cannot directly take from the energy source, organic matter, but depends on the institutional structures and farmers' practices involved for making energy available. With the production of bioenergy in rural areas, practices within agriculture are transformed, requiring new ways of organizing production processes. Research has left the question largely unanswered of how agricultural biogas production and use are - and can best be - organized within rural society. Which kinds of Social Organization exist, how are these embedded in existing agricultural institutions and practices, and how do these systems function? Under which conditions may the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use work sustainably? This introduction article to the Special Issue "The Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use" presents a framework for analysing the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use presented hereafter. Analysis parameters are the supply network, distribution network, distribution of benefits, Social boundaries of the system (accessibility) and scale. Using these parameters, the Special Issue articles are outlined. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Bettina Bluemling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Bettina Bluemling, Qin TuAbstract:While for wind, solar energy or hydropower, energy supply happens directly from the source to the wind wheels, hydropower turbines or solar panels, in the case of biogas, energy production cannot directly take from the energy source, organic matter, but depends on the institutional structures and farmers′ practices involved for making energy available. With the production of bioenergy in rural areas, practices within agriculture are transformed, requiring new ways of organizing production processes. Research has left the question largely unanswered of how agricultural biogas production and use are – and can best be – organized within rural society. Which kinds of Social Organization exist, how are these embedded in existing agricultural institutions and practices, and how do these systems function? Under which conditions may the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use work sustainably? This introduction article to the Special Issue “The Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use” presents a framework for analysing the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use presented hereafter. Analysis parameters are the supply network, distribution network, distribution of benefits, Social boundaries of the system (accessibility) and scale. Using these parameters, the Special Issue articles are outlined.
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The Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Bettina Bluemling, Arthur P J Mol, Qin TuAbstract:While for wind, solar energy or hydropower, energy supply happens directly from the source to the wind wheels, hydropower turbines or solar panels, in the case of biogas, energy production cannot directly take from the energy source, organic matter, but depends on the institutional structures and farmers' practices involved for making energy available. With the production of bioenergy in rural areas, practices within agriculture are transformed, requiring new ways of organizing production processes. Research has left the question largely unanswered of how agricultural biogas production and use are - and can best be - organized within rural society. Which kinds of Social Organization exist, how are these embedded in existing agricultural institutions and practices, and how do these systems function? Under which conditions may the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use work sustainably? This introduction article to the Special Issue "The Social Organization of agricultural biogas production and use" presents a framework for analysing the different kinds of Social Organization of biogas production and use presented hereafter. Analysis parameters are the supply network, distribution network, distribution of benefits, Social boundaries of the system (accessibility) and scale. Using these parameters, the Special Issue articles are outlined. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Trevor Pinch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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performing sales material scripts and the Social Organization of obligation
Organization Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Asaf Darr, Trevor PinchAbstract:Can a dramaturgical analysis of sales encounters further our understanding of the Social Organization of selling and buying in contemporary markets? The main argument of this paper is that limiting economic action in markets to the formal and often stylized and abstract properties of the exchange, as economists suggest, misses the material and Social Organization of this endeavor. Employing ethnographic methods, we apply our dramaturgical approach to three research sites in three different countries. We show how an often overlooked fundamental ingredient of economic transactions, the situated constitution of Social obligation, is achieved locally on the sales floor. Social obligation allows the sellers and the buyers to move from one stage of the sales encounter to the next, and enables the closing of deals. As part of the constitution of obligation, market actors appeal to scripts which are observable, recurrent activities and patterns of interaction characteristic of a particular setting. Scripts are pr...
Dwight W Read - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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human thought and Social Organization anthropology on a new plane
2012Co-Authors: Murray J Leaf, Dwight W ReadAbstract:Acknowledgments Orthography and Notation List of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Assumptions 3. The Organizational Rubicon of the Upper Paleolithic 4. Fundamentals of Human Social Organization 5. Elicitation of Kinship Terminology Structure 6. Theory of Kinship Terminology Structures 7. Construction of a Kinship Algebra Model 8. Kin Terminology and Social Structure: The Kariera Case 9. Formal Algebraic Construction of the Kariera Terminology 10. The Physical Farm Budget: a Social Charter 11. Idea-Systems and Communication Theory 12. Conclusion References Index About the Authors
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introduction to human thought and Social Organization anthropology on a new plane
2012Co-Authors: Murray J Leaf, Dwight W ReadAbstract:Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of Social Organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares the structure of the systems of thought that Organizations are built upon with the Organizational basis of human thinking as such. An experimental method is used, leading to a new science of the structure of human Social Organizations in two senses. First, it gives rise to a new kind of ethnology that has the combination of empirical solidity and formal analytical rigor associated with the “paradigmatic” sciences. Second, it makes evident that Social Organizations have distinctive properties and require distinctive explanations of a sort that cannot be reduced to the explanations drawn from, or grounded in, these other sciences. Human Social Organizations are created by people using systems of ideas with very specific logical properties. This book describes what these idea-systems are with an unbroken chain of analysis that begins with field elicitation and continues by working out their most fundamental, logico-mathematical generative elements. This enables us to see precisely how these idea systems are used to generate Organizations that give pattern to ongoing behavior. The book shows how Organizations are objectified by community members through symbolic representations that provide them with shared conceptions of Organizations, roles, or relations that they see each other as participating in. The case for this constructive process being pan-Homo sapiens is described, spanning all human communities from the Upper Paleolithic to today, and from the most seemingly primitive Australian tribes to modern-day America and India. While focusing primarily on kinship, Human Thought and Social Organization shows how the analysis applies with equal precision to other Social areas ranging from farming to political factionalism.