Dissent

About: Dissent is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6544 publications have been published within this topic receiving 113680 citations. The topic is also known as: dissensus & protest.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Abstract: In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that between school, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Abstract: One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

The Future of an Illusion

Abstract: This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession

Abstract: Preface Introduction: nailing jelly to the wall Part I. Objectivity Enthroned: 1. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert 2. The professionalization project 3. Consensus and legitimation 4. A most genteel insurgency Part II. Objectivity Besieged: 5. Historians on the home front 6. A changed climate 7. Professionalism stalled 8. Divergence and dissent 9. The battle joined Part III. Objectivity Reconstructed: 10. The defense of the West 11. A convergent culture 12. An autonomous profession Part IV. Objectivity in Crisis: 13. The collapse of comity 14. Every group its own historian 15. The center does not hold 16. There was no king in Israel Appendix: manuscript collections cited Index.

Minority dissent and team innovation:the importance of participation in decision making

Abstract: This study integrates research on minority dissent and individual creativity, as well as team diversity and the quality of group decision making, with research on team participation in decision making. From these lines of research, it was proposed that minority dissent would predict innovation in teams but only when teams have high levels of participation in decision making. This hypothesis was tested in 2 studies, 1 involving a homogeneous sample of self-managed teams and 1 involving a heterogeneous sample of cross-functional teams. Study 1 suggested that a newly developed scale to measure minority dissent has discriminant validity. Both Study 1 and Study 2 showed more innovations under high rather than low levels of minority dissent but only when there was a high degree of participation in team decision making. It is concluded that minority dissent stimulates creativity and divergent thought, which, through participation, manifest as innovation.