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Analogies entre histoires de prairiens et histoires d'hommes

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Prologue: Il était une fois le Prairien. C'était un être évolué de la classe des insectes qui vivait depuis des millénaires dans la prairie, un endroit qu'il appelait affectueusement la planète verte. Le prairien se croyait depuis toujours au centre du monde et de l'univers. Les dieux avaient créé pour lui, un monde à son image dans lequel il devait régner au détriment des autres espèces créées pour le satisfaire. ...

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Bu çalışmada sosyoloji, metodoloji ve felsefeden yararlanılarak sosyolojik olarak düşünmenin tekniği araştırılmaktadır. Amaç, düşünme veya araştırma yapma gibi entelektüel bir çalışma esnasında bilimsel dogmalar, düşünce kalıpları veya diğer metodolojik hatalara düşmeden ya da engellere takılmadan sosyal olayların anlaşılmasını sağlayacak pratik bir düşünme metodu oluşturmaktır. Böylece araştırmacının herhangi bir sosyal olgu hakkındaki bilgisi, sadece başkalarının o konuyla ilgili daha önceki anlayışlarıyla sınırlı kalmayarak olayın hakikatine başka yönleriyle de nüfuz edebilecektir. Çalışmada düşünme ve metodolojinin önemli noktaları birleştirilerek sosyolojik düşünmenin temel çerçevesi kurulmaya çalışılmaktadır. Araştırmadaki teori ve pratik bağını koparmamak için konular mümkün olduğu kadar birlikte ele alınmakta ve uygulama örnekleriyle açıklanmaktadır. Bu amaçla sık kullanılan bazı araştırma tekniklerine de yer verilmiştir. Vurgulanması gereken bir husus da metodolojinin araştırma tekniklerinden çok daha ötede ve en az araştırmanın kendisi kadar önemli olduğudur. Bilimsel bir çalışmada her adımın düşünülerek atılması gerekmekt...

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Sosyoloji biliminin tahsili, sosyologlara zaman içinde sosyolojik bir düşünme tarzını sağlamakla birlikte, mevcut standartların ötesine geçecek bakış tarzlarını geliştirme mecburiyeti vardır. Öte yandan, sosyal bilimler sahasındaki diğer araştırmacıların kendi disiplinlerindeki çalışmalarına katkı sağlaması bakımından sosyolojik düşünmeyi dikkate almaları gerekmektedir. Sosyolojik düşünebilmenin yararlı olacağı bir başka kesim de sosyal politikalarla uğraşan veya karar verme görevindeki yöneticiler, yetkililer ve siyasilerdir. Doğru kararların alınması sadece mevcut teknik imkanların en uygun kombinasyonunu sağlamakla değil, mevcut olan tüm faktörler karar verme sürecine dahil edilmesiyle gerçekleşmektedir. Özellikle sosyal determinantlar esas faktör olarak değerlendirmeye katılmalıdır. Bir toplumun kendine has şartları ihmal edilerek yapılan faaliyetler hem eksik hem de bilimsellikten uzaktır. Bu nedenle günümüz insanı için mümkün olduğu kadar geniş bir yelpazeyi dikkate alan ve sürekli geliştirilen sosyolojik bir düşünce biçimi sağlanmalıdır....

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Sunuş 1 I. Düşünme ve Sosyoloji 4 A. Bilimsel ve Eleştirel Düşünme 9 B. Realisttik ve İdealisttik Düşünme 10 C. Bilgi Kaynakları ve Objektivite Problemi 11 D. Sosyolojik Düşünmenin Bilgi Kaynakları 15 E. Sosyolojik Düşünme 18 F. Niçin Sosyolojik Düşünme? 20 G. Sosyolojik Alan 25 H. Sosyoloji ve Yakın Bilimler 29 II. Perspektif ve Metot 36 A. Sosyolojik Bakış 36 B. Mikro ve Makro Açılar 39 C. Sosyolojide Araştırma 44 D. Sayısal ve Niteliksel Araştırmalar 48 E. Sosyolojik Düşünmenin Metodolojik Özellikleri 50 F. Sosyolojik Düşünme ve Metot Problemleri 52 III. Düşünme ve Araştırma 55 A. Soru Sorma 55 B. Kavram Tanımlama 60 C. Araştırma Problemi 65 1. Tespiti 66 2. Çözümü 68 D. Beyin Fırtınası 74 E. Konsept Haritası 76 F. Konu Seçimi ve Gerekçelendirme 78 G. Teori Kurma 82 H. Problemden Tebliğe Bir Sosyolojik Düşünme Örneği 85 I. Okuma 94 J. Not Alma 98 K. Yazım 99 L. Sözlü İletişim 109 IV. Bilimsel Metnin Yapısı 113 A. Başlık 114 B. Önsöz 118 C. Giriş 118 D. Problem 119 E. Kaynakların Değerlendirilmesi 120 F. Metodoloji 120 1. Sörvey ve Anket Araştırması 121 2. Gözlem Araştırması 123 3. İçerik A...

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Between 1916 and 1945 Valesca Reimann, from South Australia, taught Western classics, Latin and mathematics at Trinity College, Kandy, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Trinity College was founded on Christianity in a largely Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem country. Sinhalese and Tamil cultures added to the mix. The boys at the school were mostly from these cultures and also came from nearby countries. The school was run along the lines of an English public school. In this book, Valesca Reimann tells how she navigated through this, fell in love with the people and the country and added jungle adventures and visits to historical places along the way - ever curious and mostly undaunted. At the College, she is still remembered as a "legend". ...

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The University of Salford have told me that I own the copyright as I submitted in 1977. It is only more recently , about 2 years ago , that the University started claiming the copyright of students' submitted theses...

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"The "fiddle" was not otherwise very important to the men; they stressed that they did not like to be tied down by it . They chose work in which they could be free and autonomous"...

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A) The historical Development of Fire Fighting B) The Development of the Modern British Fire Service C) The British Fire Service in the Early 1970's D) Fire Brigades Around the World Chapter 2 FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY A) Introduction B) Making Contact with the Fire Brigade and setting up the Interviews C) The Interviews D) After the Interviewing Chapter 3 REWARDS FROM WORK : JOB SATISFACTION AND INCOME A) Job Satisfaction B) Earnings Chapter 4 INFORMAL ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCY ORIENTATION Chapter 5 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND THE COMPROMISE ORIENTATION TO WORK OF CITY FIREMEN A) Introduction B) Education C) National Data on the Fire Service D) The City Firemen E) The City Firemen :Instrumental Factors F) The City Firemen :Expressive Factors G) The Compromise Orientation Chapter 6 THE CITY FIREMEN : PATTERNS OF SOCIABILITY AND LEISURE ...

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The Firemen interviewed were from the local Salford Fire Brigade near Manchester in England. The areas covered by the research included :- their attitudes to firefighting and to the various types of fires they dealt with : how they dealt with the "down time" when not firefighting : the effect of their shift pattern on their family and leisure time : the overall "work-leisure" relationships of these firemen....

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"It's a strange experience when you go in first , and it's really hot.When you go in you usually have a face mask on you know , but your hands are not covered. It's a queer experience. Have you ever put your hands in boiling water? - you pull them out because it is hot but in a hot place there is nowhere to put your hand."...

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I Historical Appraisal and the Fire Service Today II Methodology III Existing Approaches to Work Involvement IV The Fireman as an Occupational Role V Patterns of Sociability and Leisure VI Integrative Emergencies and the Small group...

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Sample pages

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Books by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS This file contains the sample pages of some of my books. It may be noted that all these books are available for free reading on http://www.victoria.org.in/. However, readers who are interested in buying the digital book copy of any of these books may refer this web-link for more details in this regard. March of the Evil Empires; English versus the Feudal Languages Shrouded Satanism in Feudal Languages; Tribulations and intractability of improving others!! CODES of REALITY! WHAT is LANGUAGE? COMPULSORY FORMAL EDUCATION: A travesty! Idiocy of the Indian Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act! Horrendous India! A parade of facade in verbal codes! INDIAN MARRIED LIFE: The undercurrents! Software codes of Reality, Life and Languages! How I worked out the idea starting from zero My Online Writings Vol One The EFFECT of ENGLAND [My Online Writings Part II] Veiled routes to resources in Computers & on the Internet, unVeiled KALEIDOSCOPIC HUES - Indian vernacular Pro-pristine English Digital Magazine ...

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The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the first works to deal with sociology. (Summary from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk Wikipedia.org )...

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Essay/Short nonfiction, History, Music

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Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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Index A A blow felled Artaxerxes, with a thrust 466 A branch of Est there in the Guelfian tree 392 A bugle small he winded loud and shrill, 162 ?A burning fire, so are those deserts charmed, 307 A Christian once, Macon he now adores, 27 A dreadful thunder-clap at last he heard, 402 A false Armenian did this squadron guide, 380 A gallant steed, while thus the Soldan said, 227 A hard division, when the harmless sheep 40 A hollow cave was in the craggy stone, 234 ?A knight of Genes shall have the hardiment 344 A little higher on the way they met 349 A mass of solid fire burning bright 280 A messenger to Godfrey sage doth tell 179 A messenger, while thus he mused, drew near, 117 A mount of ruins, and of shafts a wood 416 A murdered body huge beside him stood, 194 A Pagan damsel there unwares he met, 15 ?A Pagan therefore thee I fostered have, 278 ?A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains, 148...

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Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains a number of classic Japanese stories, fairy tales, and other folklore; as well as Japanese sermons and non-fiction pieces on special ceremonies in Japanese life, such as marriage and harakiri, as observed by Lord Redesdale. The best know story of these is The Forty-seven Ronins a true account of samurai revenge as it happened at the beginning of 18th century Japan. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837 - 1916) was a British diplomat, collector and writer. He worked in Japan as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the Meiji Restoration. He wrote Tales of Old Japan in 1871....

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fairy tales, Horror/Ghost stories, Myths/Legends, Short

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Tom Swift is approached by Mr. Preston, the owner of a circus, and begins to tell the story of Jake Poddington, Mr. Preston's most skilled hunter. As it turns out, Jake went missing just after sending word to Preston that Jake was on the trail of a tribe of giants, somewhere in South Africa. That was the last Preston has heard of Jake Poddington. Preston would like Tom to use one of his airships to search for Poddington, and if possible, bring back a giant for the circus. Listeners are forewarned that some elements and characters included in Tom Swift books portray certain ethnic groups in a very dated manner that modern readers, and listeners, may find offensive. Despite the racially stereotyped behavior and pronunciation in the books, the Reader believes it makes sense to read what’s written in order to be faithful to the author’s intent.(Introduction by Wikipedia and Tom Weiss)...

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Children

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This book, subtitled How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore, is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)...

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Fairy tales, Fantasy, Children

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Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially-designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone else that relies on the local bank (which is the target of a nefarious bank-run scheme). Tom must solve the mystery and stop the criminals behind the plot before he'll test himself on a 500 mile race against some of the best electric cars and skilled drivers in the United States. Listeners are forewarned that some elements and characters included in Tom Swift books portray certain ethnic groups in a very dated manner that modern readers, and listeners, may find offensive. Despite the racially stereotyped behavior and pronunciation in the books, the Reader believes it makes sense to read what's written in order to be faithful to the author's intent. Summary from Wikipedia and modified by the Reader...

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Teen/Young adult, Adventure, Children

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The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It is the story of the eldest of the King of Ireland's sons, and his adventures winning and then finding Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daughter, who after being won is kidnapped from him by the King of the Land of Mist. It is solidly based in Irish folklore, itself being originally a folktale....

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Children, Myths/Legends, Fiction

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Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome spent some years in Russia as a newspaper correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian and was peripherally involved in the revolution. In the late twenties he married Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary, retired from newspapers and started writing his children’s books. (Summary by AJM)...

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Children, Fairy tales

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If passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road. As life brings Chandra, who suffers from an inferiority complex for his perceived ugliness, and Nithya, who was bogged down being jilted by Vasu, together, they script their fate of fulfillment. And as poetic justice would have it, Sathya, who caused Prema's heart burn, himself was led down the garden path by Kala, doing a "Sathya on Sathya". Just not that, life has in store just deserts for Vasu owing to Nithya's retribution as he tries to stalk her. Besides, after many a fictional twist and turn, the way the story ends, challenges the perception that fact is stranger than fiction. ...

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As if all this was not enough for his tender psyche to cope up with, he had to contend with the sternness of the paternal strictness. Thus, it was only time before the seeds of alienation towards his father were sown in his impressionable mind. But the support he got from his sister and the solace he felt in his mother’s lap helped soothe his ruffled feelings a little. In time, he reached the threshold of youth, but couldn’t cross the despair of adolescence. Oblivious of the possibilities of life, man goes through his journey of disarray, in the itinerary of the past, chasing the mirages of malady even amidst the sands of hope. And that despairs him forever. Into his puberty, as his biology induced in him sexual curiosity, owing to his ungainliness, his youthful urge for reciprocity remained unfulfilled. Being naïve to the feminine nuances, his eyes couldn’t comprehend the emanations of their indifference. When in dismay, as he turned to the mirror for a clue, the reflections of his self-doubts stared him in his face. Yet, goaded by desire, he ogled women but to no avail. And as he went back to the mirror to reassess h...

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Shackles on Psyche End of the Tether Burden of Freedom Onto the Turf Respite by Death Lessons of Life Naivety of Love Dilemma of Disclosure Perils of Youth Absurd Proposal Crossing the Mirage Setting the Pace Oasis of Bliss Busy bees in Honeycomb Twist in the Tale Love in the Bind Turn for the Worse Shadows to the Fore Spurring to Err Tempting the Fate Stooping to Conquer Fouling the Soul Poetic Justice Agony of Penitence Embrace of Love Life of a Kind Just deserts?...

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I have collected this beautiful American Folklore - under the form of aphorisms - from car plates, from various anonymous postings, from expressions heard in my discussions, from e-mails received, etc. Computer jokes, life taken upside-down, job related reflections, family connections, inside-out clichés of language, and so on. They are in a paradoxist style, or close, and full of humor… Some of them are cascading Murphy’s Laws (pessimistically), others are opposite - like Peter’s Laws (optimistically). Their sweetness smiles in the face of adversity, full of irony and auto-irony. I hope readers will enjoy them....

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See a few nice examples from the book text: “I think, therefore I’m single”, “Life is short, break some rules”, or “Black Holes are Where God Divided by Zero”!...

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The Catcher in the Rye and a .44 Magnum prove to be a volatile mix for 16-year-old Jerome who believes that he is the famous author reincarnated.

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A month ago, I was hanging with my friends at the uni and they were all going on about this book they all read. They were all charged and revving and everybody got something different out of it, but they were all redlining, valve bouncing. The book was Catcher in the Rye....

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This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It contains a variety of stories about different aspects of life, including family and marriage, religion, and work. In this first volume, taken from Part I, each story is centered around a particular human character. These range from the charmingly clever (as the character, The Oilman, in the story, The Oilman and His Sons), to the tragically comical (as the character, Jhore, in the story Bajun and Jhore). In later parts, the stories will focus on other subjects, including spirits, animals, and legends from this culture....

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Children, Fairy tales, Animals, Short stories

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The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys. They establish farms and plantations. And finally, they have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island. Johann David Wyss, the author, did not live to complete his tale. Storytellers over the years have injected so many episodes into the various versions that probably none closely match the original. (Indeed, the Baroness de Montholieu expanded the book from two volumes into five when she translated it into French.) This effort was re-translated into English in 1849 by W.H.G. Kingston, abridging the edition severely. It follows the British sensibilities of the period...

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Adventure

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Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige) is a famous work of fiction by Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1906 and 1907. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story. (From translator Velma Swanston Howard's introduction.) (Summary by Lars Rolander and Wikipedia]...

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Fantasy, Fairy tales, Literature, Children