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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a 2005 documentary short subject about writer Norman Corwin. It was directed by Eric Simonson . In addition to Corwin, the cast includes Robert Altman , Norman Lear , Walter Cronkite , Studs Terkel , and radio historians Timothy Troy and Norman Gilliland .
[64] Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. 1979. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. [65] Ethnography of microbiologists working at the Salk Institute. Explains the elevation of observations to the level of fact through a system of credibility. Started the ethnographic laboratory studies movement in the sociology of knowledge.
Triumph of the City has become a seminal text in the field of urban economics and urban planning, influencing policy makers, city planners, economists, and social scientists worldwide. It is credited for bringing attention to the economic and environmental benefits of urban living and has inspired a reevaluation of policies that favor sub-urban ...
Theory and research are blended so successfully that industrial sociology becomes here, as it should, a contribution to general sociology. [ 9 ] In the context of Gouldner’s work, wildcat strikes represent a form of worker resistance against bureaucratic authority and control.
Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary, "Bhau Daji Lad was a scholar and reform-activist, a nationalist of Bombay [Mumbai] in the second half of the 19th cent." [ 2 ] Dhirendra Narain, The legacy of G.S. Ghurye: a centennial festschrift , "Mrs. Sajubai Ghurye is one of the early authors on cookery, a little too flourishing and profitable ...
The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann , a mathematics professor at both Princeton University and IAS.
Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer ; his name appears in the opening titles.
Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, courses, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities. India had the distinction of being the world's largest economy till the end of the Mughal era, as it accounted for about 32.9% share of world GDP and about 17% of the world population.