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This empirical investigation examines the impact of organizational culture types on job satisfaction in a survey of marketing professionals in a cross‐section of firms in the USA. Cameron and Freeman's (1991) model of organizational cultures comprising of clan, adhocracy, hierarchy, and market was utilized as the conceptual framework for analysis. The results indicate that job satisfaction levels varied across corporate cultural typology. Within the study conceptual framework, job satisfaction invoked an alignment of cultures on the vertical axis that represents a continuum of organic processes (with an emphasis on flexibility and spontaneity) to mechanistic processes (which emphasize control, stability, and order). Job satisfaction was positively related to clan and adhocracy cultures, and negatively related to market and hierarchy cultures.

This paper reflects on the impact of gender in the writing of history by considering the reception of Creating A Nation, the first gendered history of Australia. It argues that while there has emerged an impressive volume of feminist history and with it has come an important acceptance of women's historical experience, the reception of 'gender' within the historical profession has paradoxically been ambivalent and ambiguous. This is the case because of an unease about feminist theory and its relevance to history. There also remains a prevailing belief that a gendered neutral historical place exists, to which historians can retreat.

In this paper I examine the fusing of collective memory, history and popular culture by analyzing current trends in American-made commercial films with historical events as subject matter that have also been distributed to a global audience. Pearl Harbor is the primary case study. Analysis shows that dominant historical narratives are reified by the use of what I term an 'anticipatory-driven' film experience where audience members engage in an interaction with pre-existing mainstream collective memory while their anticipation for impending climactic trauma is systematically heightened. Comparisons are made to other widely released US films about national and international events and 'non-events.' Questions are also raised about the increasing global importance of the memory-history-popular culture nexus post 9-11, and, how US produced films about 9-11 may or may not engage in the practices detailed in this analysis. In this vein the paper concludes with a discussion of how Pearl Harbor was marketed, edited and received in Japan, the second largest audience for Hollywood films and what this implies about social memory construction in a global commercial context.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction: rethinking organizational culture -- 2 Foundations of cultural studies -- 3 The pre-history of organizational culture -- 4 Models of organizational culture -- 5 Sexism, racism, and other common cultural practices -- 6 Redeeming organizational culture: stories and storytelling -- 7 Concluding comments -- Bibliography -- Index.

This chapter argues that the role of religion in the political and social dynamics of the Weimar Republic was determined by two axes of confessional conflict. Alongside the Catholic–Protestant antagonism, there were also significant tensions between secularism and Christianity. Both axes contributed to the formation of different social milieus during the Kaiserreich and supported their continued articulation during the Weimar Republic. The chapter explores developments within the milieus, such as the significant growth and radicalization of freethought within the socialist and communist parties, as well as the shifting relationships between them, which created a fractured and complex set of political struggles, compromises, and alliances. The republic was bookended by efforts to overcome confessional divides in Germany through revolutionary means, on the one hand through the aborted attempt to fully secularize the German state in 1918 and, on the other, the campaign by the National Socialists to win Christian support by calling for 'positive Christianity' to heal Germany's confessional divide by unifying Protestants and Catholics and destroying secularism.

Der Beitrag erörtert den Kulturbegriff in der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann. Dabei orientieren sich die Ausführungen an den folgenden Fragen: Wie kann die Systemtheorie nach Luhmann mit dessen Erbe und seinem schwierigen Verhältnis zur Kultur umgehen? Wohin hat Luhmann die Kultur verjagt, bzw. ist ihm diese Austreibung überhaupt gelungen? In diesem Zusammenhang gilt es ferner zu klären, ob eine Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Selbstbeschreibung ihrerseits auf einen Kulturbegriff verzichten kann. Denn trotz seiner offensichtlichen Ressentiments gegenüber der Kultur stellt Luhmann fest, dass 'Wissenssoziologen sich eigentlich fragen könnten, weshalb dieser Begriff als ein historischer Begriff in die Welt gesetzt worden ist und was damit erreicht werden sollte'. Die arbeitsleitende These lautet, dass auch Luhmann in seiner Beschreibung der Gesellschaft und ihrer Funktionssysteme von Wirtschaft, Politik, Religion, Kunst, Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Recht nicht um eine zumindest indirekte Berücksichtigung dessen, was auch mit 'Kultur' zu benennen ist, herumkommt. Es wird gezeigt, dass 'Kultur' als eine Art Sammelbegriff für jenes Phänomen gelten kann, für das Luhmann in seinem Theoriedesign mindestens die hier vorgestellten Begrifflichkeiten von 'Sinn', 'Semantik', 'Gedächtnis' und 'Selbstbeschreibung' benötigt, um ihm auch ohne explizite Namensnennung analytisch gerecht zu werden. Zur Herleitung und theoretischen Untermauerung dieser 'Substitutionsthese' bedarf es zuvor jedoch einer Darlegung der Luhmannschen Vorstellung von den verschiedenen möglichen Beobachtungsperspektiven. Statt einen weiteren Beschreibungsversuch dessen, was Kultur ist, anzubieten, konzentriert sich der Aufsatz deshalb auf die Beschreibung ihrer Funktion, also auf die Frage, wie Kultur funktioniert. Oder genauer: wie ihre Funktionsweise beobachtet werden kann und wie Luhmann sie beobachtet. (ICG2)

AbstractUnderstanding the influence of multisite evaluation requires careful consideration of cultural context. The author illustrates dimensions of influence and culture with excerpts from four National Science Foundation evaluation case studies and summarizes what influence teaches us about culture and what culture teaches us about influence. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.

"This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought. Deburau and the Théâtre des Funambules are characteristic of Romantic art in that they are closely associated with certain aspirations for social reform, even revolution. Deburau was an iconic figure for intellectuals such as George Sand who effectively considered him to be part of the 'poète-maçon' movement. Edward Nye examines this fascination as well as the myth which developed from it. With its unique framing in art, literature and politics, this book is a must read for undergraduates and postgraduates in theatre, literary studies, and the Romantic period"--

This article focuses on the environmentalist agenda in fitness cultures. The article is an initial critical exploration and limited to an analysis of the key principles of political ecology and environmentalism and the concept of sustainability in understanding the emergence of an environmentalist agenda in fitness cultures marked by shades and grades of green consumerism. Author involvement in outdoor military fitness regimes and a series of visits to activity holiday centres and health/fitness spas in the UK all of which make some claim to being 'green', 'environmentally friendly', and/or 'natural', provided the empirical context for the discussion in this article. It argues for further research from the political ecological field, exploring human/non-human dynamics of the environment, to advance an understanding about which sports and fitness cultures get developed where, how and in whose interests.