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To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation

France and Germany, two great powers in Europe and the world, had in many respects a similar fate in the first half of the twentieth century. Both nations knew war and defeat, social upheaval, grave economic crisis, as well as political turmoil, including major changes in their political regime. On the other hand, the two countries also faced some very different experiences in the course of their history in this period. Germany had the terrible experience of the Third Reich, while France shared with other powers the agonies of decolonisation. Here is a collection of twenty two studies, dealing with important aspects of the history of the two nations. The studies are grouped under seven headings and include topics like foreign policy in peace and war, domestic changes, the impact of ideologies, the colonical and Jewish aspects. Taken as a whole, these studies offer many new perceptions and insights to the history of France and Germany in the twentieth century

1. Introduction -- 2. Cross Border Media Management in a Digital Environment: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Change -- 3. Strange bedfellows? Business Modelling, Convergence and Change Management -- 4. The effects of big data on media management -- 5. Controlling and Change Management -- 6. Change Management in Human Resources -- 7. Work in Transition: Digital Media and its Transformative Potential for Work -- 8. New Technologies and Organizational Health: How changing requirements of the digital workplace compel employers to think about Workplace Health Promotion -- 9. Managing brands in an ever-changing media environment -- 10. Brand worlds: a guide to creating holistic worlds of brand experiences through communication -- 11. Cross-media Advertising in Times of Chinging Media Environments and Media Consumption Patterns -- 12. The Relevance of Social Media and Corporate Influencers as Potential Change Agents in Corporate Communications -- 13. Convergence, Consumer Behavior and Change Management -- 14. Right to privacy - a (re)measurement -- 15. Managing change related to consumer privacy laws: targeting and personal data use in a more regulated environment -- 16. Sense making as a chnage agent towards CSR strategy in the media -- 17. CSR as "integrity management" in the media industry - an investigation of the top three media organisations from Germany, Austria and Switzerland -- 18. The Normative Turn in the Organization of Media: Ethical Considerations for Change Management in Media Enterprises -- 19. Uncharted Territory: Dtafication as a challenge for journalism ethics -- 20. Harnessing change in a disruptive environment: case studies in media management and innovation -- 21. Change Management and New Organizational Forms of Content Creation -- 22 Digital News Distribution and Intermediaries -- 23. Algorithms on the Internet: Factor of media change and challenge for change management -- 24. The Role of Human Computer Interactoin (HCI) in Change Management -- 25. Everybody is going to Twitch: Game Streaming and its Impact on Research -- 26. 5 G Mobile Targeting Ads -- 27. Conclusion.

1. Introduction: The Case for Action. Expönentiality Cheat Sheet -- 2. The Northern Lights Shine Bright -- Part I Sustainability Leadership Model 1.0: The Foundation -- 3. Purpose-driven Leadership Up Close: Elsa Bernadotte, CEO of Food Waste Startup Karma on Finding Purpose -- 4. A Stake in the Ground Up Close: Henrik Henriksson, CEO of Scania, On Why He Nearly Called for a Strike on Scania Climate Day -- 5. How to Earn Trust Up Close: Former Telia Company CEO Johan Dennelind on Rebuilding Trust After a Corruption Scandal -- Part II Sustainability Leadership Model 2.0: The Core -- 6. Embedding Sustainability in the Core Up Close: Green Battery Cells and Systems Supplier Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson on the Key to Sustainability Integration -- 7. It All Comes Down to Sales Up Close: Åsa Bergman, CEO of Sweco, on Partnering with Customers to Build the Sustainable Communities and Cities of the Future -- 8. Measuring Impact Beyond Profit Up Close: Electrolux CEO Jonas Samuelsson on Combining Sustainability and Profitability -- Part III Sustainability Leadership Model 3.0: The Leap -- 9. The Path to Expönentiality Up Close: Eva Karlsson, CEO of Outdoor Wear Company Houdini on Operationalizing the Planetary Boundaries Framework for Business -- 10. Society as a Stakeholder Up Close: Jacob Wallenberg of Sweden's Leading Business Family on A Century of Having Society in Focus -- 11. Making Business Sense of the SDGs Up Close: Niklas Adalberth, Founder of Klarna and Norrsken Foundation, on Scaling Social Impact -- 12. The Next Sustainability Frontier Is Digital Up Close: Elaine Weidman Grunewald, Co-founder of AI Sustainability Center on Tempering the Positive Exponential Impacts of Technology With Its Ethical and Sustainability Implications -- 13. Finding Your Personal Influencing Platform Up Close: Hans Vestberg, CEO of Verizon on Using His Platform to Energize an Organization and Put Business and Sustainability on a Global Stage -- Part IV Final Thoughts -- 14. Conclusion: No Time to Lose.

Little research has been conducted in Australia on the experiences and lives of postoperative trans people. This project grew out of one conducted in 2011 and was conducted from 2012 to 2016. The first author completed an Honors project, supervised by the second author, undertaking a qualitative study using a narrative approach, on the social functioning and daily lives of trans people who had undergone sex reassignment surgery and the influence the surgery had on their lives. That study, entitled Sex reassignment surgery: Panacea, placebo or Pandora's box?-A narrative inquiry, had methodological significance in that it steered away from a quantitative approach to exploring the lived experience of people undergoing sex reassignment surgery. That research suggested that following sex reassignment surgery, trans people have complex psychosocial issues, not the least of which are feelings of grief and loss associated with the procedure and the development of personal identities. As a result of the complexity of the issues and the first author's own recollections of the surgical process, a PhD study was undertaken addressing how trans people who have undergone sex reassignment surgery navigate this life-changing event, whether they considered their needs had been met, and how systems could be improved to cater for those needs. Individuals who identify as transgender are often discriminated against and marginalized by society, based on challenges to heteronormativity and/or an assumed psychiatric condition called gender dysphoria. In terms of research, these circumstances place trans people in the "vulnerable population" category. This case study explores how research involving transgender people involves certain methodological challenges, including issues surrounding sampling and recruitment, ethical considerations, and the relationship between the researcher and the researched when the principal researcher is a member of the target population.

Introduction -- Part 1: Religion and Innovation in Pre-Columbian Societies. 1. Innovation, Religion and Authority at the Formative Period Andean Cult Center of Chavin de Huantar, John W. Rick (Stanford University, USA) ; 2. Religion and Political Innovation in Ancient Mesoamerica, Arthur Joyce (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) and Sarah Barber (University of Central Florida, USA) ; 3. Religion and Innovation at the Emerald Acropolis: Something New under the Moon, Timothy Pauketat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Susan Alt (Indiana University, USA) -- Part 2: Religion and Innovation: Naturalism, Scientific Progress, Enlightenment, and Secularization. 4. The First Enlightenment: The Patristic Roots of Religious Freedom, Timothy Samuel Shah (Georgetown University, USA) ; 5. Religion, Innivation, and Secular Modernity, Peter Harrison (University of Queensland, Australia) ; 6. Religion, Scientific Naturalism, and Historical Progress, Peter Harrison (University of Queensland, Australia) ; 7. Religion, Enlightenment, and the Paradox of Innovation, William J. Bulman (Lehigh University, USA) and Robert G. Ingram (Ohio University, USA) ; 8. Remembering the Reformation, 1817 and 1883: Commemorating the Past as Agent and Mirror of Social Change, Thomas Albert Howard (Gordon College, USA) ; 9. Secularization and Religious Innovation: A Transatlantic Comparison, David Hempton (Harvard Divinity School, USA) and Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham, UK) ; 10. Christian Transnationalists, Nationhood, and the Construction of Civil Society, Dana L. Robert (Boston University, USA) -- Part 3: Religion, Progress and Innovation in the Contemporary World. 11. Sin, Guilt and the Future of Progress, Wilfred M. McClay (University of Oklahoma, USA) ; 12. Religious Innovation and Economic Empowerment in India: An Empirical Exploration, Rebecca Samuel Shah (Georgetown University, USA) ; 13. Century of Progress? Chicago after Daniel Burnham, Philip H. Bess (University of Notre Dame, USA) ; 14. Technologies of Imagination: Secularism, Transhumanism, and the Idiom of Progress, J. Benjamin Hurlbut (Arizona State University, USA) -- Afterword: Innovation and Religion, Today and Tomorrow, Adam Keiper (The New Atlantis) -- Bibliography -- Index.

Since September 11, 2001, we all need tools to help us understand what motivates religious terrorism. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Mark Juergensmeyer asks one of the most important and perplexing questions of our age: Why do religious people commit violent acts in the name of their god, taking the lives of innocent victims and terrorizing entire populations? This, the first comparative study of religious terrorism, explores incidents such as the World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. Updated with a new preface addressing the events of September 11, the book incorporates personal interviews with World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, Juergensmeyer takes us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violent acts. In the process, he helps us understand why these acts are often associated with religious causes and why they occur with such frequency at this moment in history. Terror in the Mind of God places these acts of violence in the context of global political and social changes, and posits them as attempts to empower the cultures of violence that support them. Juergensmeyer analyzes the economic, ideological, and gender-related dimensions of cultures that embrace a central sacred concept--cosmic war--and that employ religion to demonize their enemies. Juergensmeyer's narrative is engaging, incisive, and sweeping in scope. He convincingly shows that while, in many cases, religion supplies not only the ideology but also the motivation and organizational structure for the perpetrators of violent acts, it also carries with it the possibilities for peace. Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to reflect how the pandemic experience has shaped Italian society, under some key aspects.
THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The pandemic is changing much of our lives: relationships, politics, economics, religious attitudes, European and global scenarios. The essay tries to study the most important dynamics in this epochal change.
THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The argumentation starts from anthropological and ethics aspects to end with social and political elements of pandemic time.
RESEARCH RESULTS: The essay try to present a multidisciplinary approach to understand the pandemia. The most important result is to "read" the pandemia as a multifaced phenomena.
CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: It's important to encourage studies where the complexity of our world is interpreted by researchers fo different disciplines. In this particular historical moment, probably, we should do the same lecture about the many wars and conflicts around the world.

AbstractRecently, the role of personal ties in migration decisions has received considerable attention. However, this aspect has seldom been studied in the context of retirement. This paper addresses this gap by shedding light on the composition of personal networks, types of mobility patterns and retirement locations for four groups of older adults. To this end, two methodological approaches are employed: (1) a qualitative Social Network Analysis to examine the composition of older adults' personal networks and (2) thematic coding to analyse the relational aspects of migration decisions. This paper draws on 29 semi‐structured interviews conducted in Spain and Switzerland in 2020 and 2021. The findings demonstrate that pre‐retirement migration trajectories shape personal network composition. Moreover, personal ties play a critical role in older adults' mobility patterns and choices of retirement location. Overall, this study provides valuable insights into the impact of personal networks on migration decisions of older adults.

This article interrogates shared reading between parents and young children, theorised as 'sensory affinities', understood through a sociological lens. I argue that reading cannot be confined to educational aspects, and towards increased prominence for relational dimensions. I explore the narratives of 29 parents/carers of reading with young children. Drawing on data on the embodied aspects of reading, Mason's concept of affinities illuminates the sensory facets of reading applied to family intimacies. Interventions have hitherto distilled literacy from the wider social context. However, an understanding of reading in the context of families from diverse backgrounds, yields insights into the sensory character of everyday family life. Findings are of significance to sociology broadly, and specifically, families and relationships. Centring families facilitates a fuller understanding of literacy practices. Finally, the focus on an everyday, tangible practice such as reading can support understandings of hidden and taken-for-granted dimensions of family life.

The study refers to the role of building relations between the direct supervisor and employee teams, indicating the opportunities and threats resulting from conducting selected aspects of internal communication in the so-called uniformed organisations. The authors draw attention to the roles of communication competencies and their social overtones, seeing in these elements both opportunities and threats to the involvement of employees in the performance of official tasks, as well as their readiness to deepen relations with their direct superior. The presented results of empirical research concern the organisation of the Ministry of National Defence and the State Fire Service and are only an element of a larger research project. The aim of the research process was to determine the opportunities and threats generated by aspects of organisational communication in the context of maintaining a satisfactory state of personal security of the examined institutions participating in activities in the field of defence and protection of population, property and the environment.

The aim of this paper is to provide a perspective on Spain's foreign policy during the years from 1986 to 2001 concerning the nuclear aspect, both in terms of weapons and energy and in relation to actions carried out in the field of non-proliferation, in order to determine what were the actions of the different Spanish governments in this stage of change and renewal that aligned Spain with the surrounding countries and pushed her to occupy a position in the international arena according to her historical, economic and social status. Having received the subjects of national nuclear field a little attention on the part of the historians in Spain, it becomes necessary to deepen in this aspect so defining of the foreign policy in other countries and that on many occasions it has marked the becoming of the action of the State of form overlapping and out of the main plane of public attention.

This article aims to integrate the wasathiyah paradigm of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) fatwa product and the reality of religious social issues in the midst of the pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This article adopts the normative-sociological approach. This article found that MUI fatwa products acted on strong aspects of moderation (wasathiyah), not just issuing fatwas. Various aspects of considerations (al-muwazanat) in fatwa products are marked by revealing strict arguments by expressing the opinions of the Qur'an, sunna, ijma, qiyas, the opinion of the Imam of the school and credible scholars and the views of other experts who support the issuance of fatwa in accordance with the needs of Muslims. The Washatiyah paradigm of MUI fatwa product is not influenced by political interests. It is in accordance with the maqashid al-shari'ah. The paradigm of MUI fatwa was reflected when recommending to Muslims to support and obey the government.

Adopting complexity thinking in the design, implementation and evaluation of health and social development programmes is of increasing interest. Understanding institutional contexts in which these programmes are located directly influences shaping and eventual uptake of evaluations and relevant findings. A nuanced appreciation of the relationship between complexity, institutional arrangements and evaluation theory and practice provides an opportunity to optimise both programme design and eventual success. However, the application of complexity and systems thinking within programme design and evaluation is variously understood. Some understand complexity as the multiple constituent aspects within a system, while others take a more sociological approach, understanding interactions between beliefs, ideas and systems as mechanisms of change. This article adopts an exploratory approach to examine complexity thinking in the relational, recursive interactions between context and project design, implementation and evaluation. In doing so, common terms will be used to demonstrate the nature of shared aspects of complexity across apparently different projects.

Traditional technology is one of cultural advancement objects that can be found in Loloan stilt houses which are undergoing transformation and decline in quantity. This paper aims to know shape and determinants of stilt houses transformation in East Loloan, as well as to reveal the implications in terms of cultural advancement program. The study applied qualitative methods which were analyzed interpretive descriptive. The results showed that the stilt house consist two forms and has three levels based on the cosmological community. Transformation of houses on stilts, namely addition of space and changes in function of underside caused by determinants: social change, cultural dynamic, transition livelihoods, technology development, activity change, family members structure, build condition, land area, and interest of homeowner. The implication is that most of the aspects of the cultural advancement program have been fulfilled, except for the coaching aspect which has not been touched by community or government.