This paper is concerned with the social organization of Santeria, as well as somerelated Afro-American religions observed on the eastern coast of the United States.The author specifies several levels of context and analysis and, as the result of twodecades of fieldwork, is able to provide a description of Santeria social organization atthe local, regional, national, and internat...

This paper explores the evaluation analysis of social governance efficacy in social organizations based on fractional theory. To respond to these emerging social development issues, the CPC Central Committee decided to strengthen social management and social construction, and made some guide social management innovation principles and methods, the local government is based on the actual situati...

Software development is a predominantly social activity. It is important to view software development groups, departments, and corporations as social bodies. We study software organizations by using a novel data-gathering approach that combines several techniques commonly used in social network analysis. We differ from ordinary social anthropology in that we help the organization introspect abo...

The new millennium brings a new uncertain environment in business, besides a strong pressure in companies to improve and establish new company strategies that allow, not only to increase its market participation and to obtain a major level of company performance, but to survive in a market every time more globalized and competitive. Therefore, in the current literature various researchers and a...

In recent years, international organizations, think-tanks, and the social sciences have contributed to a dramatic expansion in the range of composite indices measuring concepts such as human development, governance, or social capital. This paper discusses challenges faced in the design of composite indices, and suggests the method known as matching percentiles as a solution to the problem of ho...

leadership and management competencies required of successful executives of nongovernmental social welfare organizations. This paper summarizes the discrete competencies, summarizes the unique components of leadership, distinguishes leadership from management; and, identifies the sources of power and authority executives may draw upon for these purposes. The paper goes on to identify the specif...

sentially industrial one even our farms are now largely factories. We have seen the increasing integration of our society into a single whole an integration wrought by modern transportation and communication, an integration requiring a corresponding social organization. We have seen an ever broadening size of scope of that social structure until now it is close to encompassing the entire world....