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Scott Morton started his academic career in 1966 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, initially in the fields of Accounting and Control Systems.He was founding director of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), serving as director from 1974 to 1976.
The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society (French: Le Temps des tribus : le déclin de l'individualisme dans les sociétés de masse) is a 1988 book by the French sociologist Michel Maffesoli. It argues that mass society, rather than creating a mass of individuals, has resulted in a type of tribalised society.
Systems theory in archaeology is the application of systems theory and systems thinking in archaeology.It originated with the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy in the 1950s, and is introduced in archaeology in the 1960s with the work of Sally R. Binford and Lewis Binford's "New Perspectives in Archaeology" and Kent V. Flannery's "Archaeological Systems Theory and Early Mesoamerica".
However, by 1814, having no teaching position he accepted a position as Saint-Simon's secretary. He collaborated with Saint-Simon on De la réorganisation de la société européenne – a tract calling for the unification of Europe on the basis of a single constitution. [2] However, by 1817 Thierry relinquished this position to Auguste Comte. [3]
Explaining the observed high levels of complexity in ecosystems [1] has been one of the main challenges and motivations for ecological network analysis, since early theory predicted that complexity should lead to instability. [2] Connectance: the proportion of possible links between species that are realized (links/species 2). In food webs, the ...
Hartog is currently a director of research at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) for ancient and modern historiography. [1] He is also one of the 60 historians who founded the Association des Historiens in 1997. [5] Hartog is a member of the Centre Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes.
Jules Régis Debray (French:; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. [1] He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in ...
Maurice Blanchot (/ b l ɑː n ˈ ʃ oʊ / blahn-SHOH; French:; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. [4] His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.