Culture, Control and Commitment

Culture, Control and CommitmentThis book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. As pointed out in the new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey first appeared; the Japanese are now moving closer to the American "market individualist" model.

tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety

allows the individual the interact with the group

performative and immersive modes of storytelling

It analyses ‘ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical areas

and Austria and looks for evidence of political cooperation and influence across borders during the period 1945-91

the collection encompasses a wide range of fields

The selection includes writers as diverse as Balzac

Drawing on a variety of case studies

and advocates a dialectical and historical approach to the study of the past

film theory

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel both fills and reflects upon that “gap in the literature

highly visual and featuring numerous photographs throughout