Hidden Differences: Doing Business with the Japanese

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An analysis and explanation of the unstated rules of Japanese-American business relations. By drawing Western readers into the world in which they must function, the Halls simplify the process of adapting Western ways to a new environment.

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

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His data does not support his thesis.
Very interesting ideas
Good Report on Cheating but with Bias and Poor Editing
A good book for indiscriminate followers
The moral decline in america...from a liberal point of view

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
David Callahan
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Cheating, argues author David Callahan, is no longer the exclusive purview of lowlife criminals, slick hucksters, and shady characters with ace cards shoved in secretive places. Now everyone's doing it and because everyone sees everyone else doing it, they keep on doing it. Callahan says the trouble begins in America's brutally competitive economic climate, which rewards results and looks the other way when it comes to the ethical and even criminal transgressions of those who come out on the winning end. Certainly there is no shortage of examples of cheating from the business community, and Callahan nimbly dissects the dishonest actions of the usual suspects (Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing) to demonstrate how that same mentality extends out to our educational system, amateur and professional sports, the news media, and even the lives of common citizens who, while they would never think of themselves as being cheaters, are nevertheless inclined to commit the occasional act of beneficial fudging. And while honesty is a nice ideal, Callahan says that cheaters cheat because, contrary to oft-repeated axioms, cheaters win: the chances of being caught are shrinking as are the punishments meted out should one be nabbed, and the benefits of a successful cheat far outstrip any potential threat. Further, Callahan posits that otherwise upright folks who would not cheat are drawn into the practice out of fear that they simply won't be able to make it in modern society otherwise. There's a lot of material for Callahan to work with here, given that every instance of cheating is fair game as source material and is able to be used to construct a theory of epidemic. And the range of material is so broad and the basic argument ("we cheat more") so simple that The Cheating Culture feels a bit like a Newsweek trend piece writ extremely large. Still, it must be noted that Callahan really had all that material to work with and that fact alone is compelling evidence that his premise is dead on. --John Moe

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You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level-from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud-has risen dramatically in the last two decades. Why all the cheating? Why now?
Callahan pins the blame on the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the past two decades. An unfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality have corroded our values, he argues-and ultimately threaten the level playing field so central to American democracy itself. Through revealing interviews and extensive data, he takes us on a gripping tour of cheating in America and offers a powerful argument for why it matters. Lucidly written, scrupulously argued, The Cheating Culture is an important, original examination of the hidden costs of the boom years.

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His data does not support his thesis. .......2007-07-27

I was interested in this book because I have observed increased incidents of cheating on college campuses. Cheating has become bold, blatant and unpunished.

The author makes the case that cheating has increased since 1974. The thesis of the author is that the greed of the political conservatives has caused the epidemic of cheating, and the author even cites a sound-bite from President Reagan, where Reagan says that he hopes that people can still get rich in this country, to support this claim.

The book is an interesting read for the data on how cheating has become socially acceptable among the middle class, but the author's thesis that political conservatives, due to their greed, have caused it is not well made. I would accuse him of neglectful induction: he doesn't examine non-capitalist countries like the former Soviet Union for examples of cheating. He claims that there was a golden age of honesty, and as an example of that points to big law firms that use to only hire the all white upper class sons of wealthy members of the law firm, but now, due to diversity laws, hire the top graduates out of law school. The new high pressure work environment and the drive to get to the top is the cause of cheating in billing. The author claims this is due to post 1974 conservative greed. Yet, the author ignored that sweat shop conditions have existed in the past, and that this law firm is nothing more than a yuppie sweat shop. Further, isn't hiring only the white upper class son's of the partners a way of cheating as well? The author does not address that.

The idea that corporate greed has caused cheating in schools is simply backwards, a confusion of cause and effect. One cheats in school and then goes into the business world, where one cheats in business. People do not, generally, go from cheating in business to cheating in high school.

Cheats have done well in big business since forever; this is nothing new since the Reagan administration. The author does not examine the relationship between the decline of religion and the increase in cheating, either; which is very neglectful induction. It simply does not follow that corporate greed is the root cause of the increase in cheating among the middle class.

Very interesting ideas.......2007-05-13

I really found it interesting the different examples about cheating. We don't get to find out what happens to these people and if they really pay like we have to ie monies, jail time, loss of job, house, cars etc. As the book tells us no they don't; they get away with it without much suffering compared to people who don't have the "money and power". I find it a very sad sad sad comment on what America has become. We need to walk the talk ie Treat People the Way We want to be Treated.

Good Report on Cheating but with Bias and Poor Editing.......2007-02-01

David Callahan provides myriad examples of rampant cheating, lying and corruption in varied fields of American Life. From the ball fields on high school, college and pro levels, to corporate America, schools, politics, there are stories of cheating to get ahead, to get more, to get in, and to get by. These many examples and stories are informative and indicative of a problem with cheating in our culture. Some of the examples are taken from the headlines, like the Enron case and steroids in baseball; other examples are more subtle stories of corrupt morality leading to cheating. Callahan provides an excellent glimpse of the Enron story beyond what I had previously known. Likewise, his writing on steroids in sports is in-depth and interesting. Other examples show how people slip into corruption and cheating or do it outright and brazenly.

The good writing on cheating is unfortunately undermined by two things: an overbearing liberal bias in his lengthy opinions and redundancy. His liberal bias causes him to blame the free market, capitalism, unequal distribution of wealth, conservatives and Republicans for about every sympton described in the book; while he ignores cheating by liberal politicians, he emphasizes any cheating or policy blamed for cheating that may in some way be connected to a Republican politician. He even defends Bill Clinton for lying under oath, as it was about his personal life (lesson: cheating is okay for some people if their ends justifies their means.) His suggestions for stopping cheating are, for the most part, ambiguous, typical liberal agenda items. And his opinions go on too long and are redundant, as are many of the examples he gives.

He does make some suggestions that would be helpful...honor codes in schools and character training, but these are short discussions while he spends pages rambling about other topics.

A good editor should have limited the opinions, bias, and redundancy, so the focus would be objective and concise.

A good book for indiscriminate followers .......2006-04-08

If you are looking for a pro socialist (but surprisingly anti-postmodern) and horribly pessimistic view of American society, I recommend this book. If you like vague generalizations and loosely correlated (but very interesting) facts presented as truth, The Cheating Culture is for you.

Apparently people cheat. Cheating is a new phenomenon that has swept our nation. It seems that today, people are cheating on their taxes; corporations are fudging their books, practicing insider trading and misrepresenting themselves. All of these brand new ideas are sweeping the nation, and now, even the common citizen is cheating. I know it's hard to believe, but Mr. Callahan told me so. The past was this beautiful place, where no one ever cheated. Corporations were beacons of morality and it was rare to see anyone cheat, except for maybe Robin Hood, but that was for the greater good. This na?ve and somewhat ignorant banter is the idealized notion of the past and horribly generalized version of the present I found presented in Callahan's book. Corporate lawyers pad their hours therefore secretaries steal more pens. I am all for random associations, in fact, I thought Freakonomics and The Quark and the Jaguar were both great books. But where these books differ is in the consideration of controls and variables. It seems Callahan doesn't believe his hypothesis needs controls and variables.

In my opinion, The Cheating Culture is a weak argument (though perhaps a semi-valid notion) that lacks credibility. One would think (or he would hope) that the flood of statistical data given in his book would denote some scientific validity (looking at other reviews he succeeded in some cases). Alas, this book is sans science. The superlative language Callahan uses (worse, greater, more, etc.) lacks any statistical point of reference to judge whether cheating is indeed worse, greater, etc. When there is a point of reference given he doesn't account for purchasing power parity or other relevant factors. I liken his argument to noticing that Americans make more money than they did in the 50's and then concluding that Americans today are rich. A simple conclusion, and a wrong one. There is too much pertinent information left out of his argument to consider it credible.

Here are some extremely valid factors that Callahan leaves out: Population growth - there are more people to cheat (per capita) which makes cheating more visible; Information Technology - information is disseminated more, more quickly, and to more people (perhaps we are just more aware of cheating); `Old and Fewer Pressures' - in contrast to Callahan's thoughts, the pressure to cheat is not new at all nor is it greater than ever before, the cost of living is less than it was 20, 30, or 50 years ago, unemployment rates are down from 20, 30, or 50 years ago, and the stakes are incomparable (cheating for survival during the Great Depression vs. cheating to get a BMW, tax write off, or yet another million added onto one's salary); Entrepreneurship - there are 10.5 million self employed Americans, this is a ripe environment to bypass corporate pressures and start your own business.

Again, I am not saying Callahan is completely wrong but that there is insufficient evidence in his book to back up his claims. Cheating is a real problem that does impact society. There are interesting points in this book, however it is not at all worth reading the entire thing.

The moral decline in america...from a liberal point of view.......2005-12-28

In today's society, steroid-enhanced sports figures cork their bats, while corporate executives cook their books. In the days after 9/11, banking institutions whose networking system crashed saw their clients draw out millions of dollars they did not own. Parents push to have their children wrongfully diagnosed with learning disorders so they can have extended time on tests. Lawyers exaggerate expense reports; doctors get kick-backs for promoting vitamins; and commission-based mechanics work to find expensive problems on well-running vehicles.

All of these issues are discussed in David Callahan's "The Cheating Culture", as he tries to explain the boom in recent years of Americans trying to get ahead in life by dishonest actions.

One would think this author would find much in common with Bill Bennett, who recently published a book on the moral collapse of America. But if Bennett's book speaks to conservatives, "The Cheating Culture" is meant for liberals.

The author believes our current culture developed its morality during the "me-first" decade of the 1980s. Capitalism, according to the author, removes the socialist notions of caring for the community and doing what is right, replacing them with a Darwinist desire to win at all costs. Add to the overwhelming desire to crush enemies in a capitalist world is the riches that await those who succeed and it is easy to see why people cork bats, inflate expense reports, etc.

So, who is right? Bennett or Callahan? I enjoyed both books and think both authors make many credible points. Reading both books will give a reader not only two different theories on the moral decline in America, but will also show some fundamental differences in the ways conservatives and liberals think and argue.

Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (Culture, Media & Identities, Vol. 1) (Culture, Media and Identities series)

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Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (Culture, Media & Identities, Vol. 1) (Culture, Media and Identities series)
Paul du Gay
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This book introduces the substantive and theoretical strands of contemporary cultural studies through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Through the Walkman example, Doing Cultural Studies shows how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces the central ideas, concepts, and methods of analysis involved in doing cultural studies. The authors of this unique work show how the Walkman is a typical cultural artifact and medium of modern culture, and studies how the key cultural processes are discerned. Examining the Walkman culturally leads to exploration of how it is represented, what social identities are associated with it, how it is produced and consumed, and what mechanisms regulate its distribution and use. This unique book offers students insights not only into the basic approaches of cultural studies, but also into how cultural studies can be used to understand the way culture works in the context of our everyday lives.

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing)

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Respecifying Cognition
Astoundingly awful. A joke?

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing)
Jean Lave
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ASIN: 0521357349

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In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world", such as that entailed in grocery shopping or dieting, is, like all thinking, shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally-endowed mind and its total context, a subtle interaction that shapes both the human subject and the world within which it acts.

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Respecifying Cognition.......2006-11-30

Many readers are introduced to Jean Lave's work through Situated Learning (1991) with Etienne Wenger. However, readers interested in the genesis of Lave's two decade long effort to critique a reified understanding of cognition created in the narrow confines of a sterile experimental room by situating the study of learning within the everyday activities of social life may find Cognition in Practice (and also Everyday Cognition (1985) with Barbara Rogoff) insightful. Though the cognitive sciences themselves have moved on from the `information processing' or `transmission' model of learning that is an artifact of the experimental method and a 1960s fascination with the computer, this model of cognition remains endemic in formal educational today and particularly in educational policy decisions such as the No Child Left Behind Act that reveal a belief in the infallibility of science, so Lave's critique remains relevant today, two decades after the book was written.

However, Cognition in Practice aims not merely at critique but at developing a new framework for thinking about cognition - respecifying a `psychological theory of cognition' as an `anthropological' one - and the book is divided into two sections to address each. This endeavor of theory creation does make the book a cumbersome, though not difficult, read at times. The greatest challenge, Lave notes, is involved in depopulating reified meanings of the vocabulary of cognition that we no longer question and respecifying them in specific social/anthropological terms. Lave, in Cognition in Practice, makes the effort to address such dualities as theory/practice and mind/body, revaluing the latter concepts with respect to learning (cognition/learning is another such duality). Yes, two decades later, this is no longer groundbreaking.

Though Cognition in Practice is derived from anthropological ethnographic fieldwork and is therefore empirically-based criticism, it shares many of the goals if not the particular focus of literary critical theory. Indeed, in the two decades since the book was written, the lines have been blurred between what Gee (2000) identifies as more than 20 research programs within the great `social turn' in the social sciences and humanities, as ideas and methodologies have cross-populated within critical communities of practice - Gee's (1999) own "Big D" Discourse is Lave and Wenger's (1991) `Communities of Practice,' for example.

Cognition in Practice lays the groundwork for Situated Learning (1991), and though the latter is probably more familiar to readers and the concepts more refined (e.g. "whole persons acting in social worlds" becomes "legitimate peripheral participation"), readers interested in the cognitive basis for sociocultural theories of cognition that place learning as an activity located not exclusively in the brain but socially constructed in interaction with others and artifacts in everyday contexts will find Cognition in Practice useful.

Astoundingly awful. A joke?.......2006-05-11

One part uncontroversial cognitive psychology and five parts lit-crit bluff--the kind the author clearly doesn't understand, and hopes no one else in the seminar will admit they don't either. To be fair, the almost random juxtaposition of bits of continental philosofeces is consistent with the author's apparent contempt for reason.

If this book was intended to be a hoax, or a test of editorial standards similar to Alan Sokal's bogus article in "Social Text", then I apologize for the low rating, but it really is about time to reveal the joke.

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook

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Doing Business with Japanese Men
Prepare for the worst! Japan is still male-dominated society
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A must-have for any woman doing business with the Japanese

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook
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ASIN: 1880656043

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The only book to look at the uniquely delicate situation that confronts every Western business-woman, whether traveling to Japan or meeting Japanese clients at her home office. Using real-life anecdotes, cultural explanations, and extensive lists of tactics and dos and don'ts, Doing Business with Japanese Men tells women how to quickly establish their authority and work effectively. Included are practical discussions of preparation, meeting protocol, socializing, and gift giving, as well as tips on wardrobe, make-up, special health and safety concerns, and fending off unwanted attention.

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Doing Business with Japanese Men.......2004-08-30

Contains a great deal of information that may or may not be useful to anyone, male or female, doing business in Japan depending on the situation. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt. Seems to be focused on people in relatively large companies doing business with relatively large companies. Would have been enhanced by a thorough editing by someone familiar with Japan and things Japanese as it is marred by some obvious mistakes. Statements about "tea leaves" and "cookies" being used in a tea ceremony, "peanut sauce" being one of the two common sauces used in the shabu shabu dish, etc. make one wonder about the veracity of other statements.

Prepare for the worst! Japan is still male-dominated society.......1999-12-28

As a Japanese businesswoman working for some 20 years, I believe this book will help a lot for those women doing business with Japanese men. Especially those who are new to Japan. Unfortunately, Japanese business world is still male-oriented, and most of Japanese businessmen don't know how to deal with women in business. One of the Japanese businesswomen's complaints is, "Japanese men treat business women only in three manners. Treat them as their wives, daughters, or hostesses at the night bars. They just don't know how to treat them as a collogue or business partnerc" This book consists of actual experiences of many foreign women and how they dealt with. Those experiences are no exaggeration from my eyes. It will be a good preparation to know what you may confront in Japan.

Good.......1999-10-13

The title may ward of half of the population, and that is unfortunate. There are lots of great points that apply to business etiquette in general and are not unique to "women doing buisness" in Japan. The author implies that the foreign woman should take every advantage of her feminin charms on the helpless Japanese Industry, I would only suggest common sense.

Disappointing.......1999-05-10

I was so excited to see this title when I was sent to Tokyo (with 2 American men) on very short notice! I read this book cover-to-cover in preparation. When I got to Tokyo, I was surprised to experience a much more contemporary, advanced culture than had been described. For example, the attire suggestions were completely wrong (and sometimes contradictory). You won't go wrong with classic American business attire. I found that by paying close attention to your Japanese counterparts' mannerisms, being slightly more aggressive than usual (I live in NYC, that may be much more aggressive than I think!), and having someone well-respected introduce you to whomever you will be working with will be very helpful. It also would have been useful to learn more about the Japanese tendency to agree with you, when they really don't understand what you're talking about!

A must-have for any woman doing business with the Japanese.......1998-07-25

A friend loaned me this book, and within minutes, I knew I had to have a copy for myself. Particularly useful for the female executive, this book covers how to establish your authority (and how to handle Japanese men who ignore you and insist on talking to your male subordinates), how to dress, socializing, gift giving, the business card rituals, where the power seat is in the conference room, how to handle inappropriate behavior and sticky situations, communication and correspondence protocol, and numerous other subjects. I am appalled to discover how many mistakes I have made in my business relationships with Japanese companies, but now am sufficiently enlightened to avoid many in the future. If you are female and do business with the Japanese, whether in Japan or in your home country, you must have this book.

Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to 1850 (Institute of Early American History and Culture)

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Wide variety of subjects. Perfect for classroom teaching!

Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to 1850 (Institute of Early American History and Culture)
Judith A. (ed.) McGaw
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This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health.

These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume.

The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.

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Wide variety of subjects. Perfect for classroom teaching!.......1998-10-22

Each chapter talks about a different subject in a clear, logical manner. I had this book for a class on History of American Technology, among others, and it trully was a favorite, one that I'll keep for my own personal use in the classroom.

Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen (Library of Contemporary Thought)

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catchy title but lacks delivery.
Interesting subject, but a disappointing read.
Not at all what I expected
Instead of reading this book, read Molly Haskells
Interesting Topic - Repetitive Thesis

Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen (Library of Contemporary Thought)
Susan Isaacs
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Susan Isaacs's witty imagination has peopled the world with brave dames in films like Compromising Positions and full-bodied novels such as 1998's Red, White, and Blue. The slender and interestingly ornery essay Brave Dames and Wimpettes is part of the monthly Library of Contemporary Thought series, whose most fun title so far is Carl Hiaasen's Disney-bashing diatribe Team Rodent (now available on audiocassette).

So, what's a "brave dame"? "They're passionate about something besides passion," Isaacs writes. Take Jo March, Elizabeth Bennet, Katharine Hepburn, and Roz Russell, who prove "women are as competent and brave as the next guy." Her fave dame, Jane Eyre, "had high moral standards, stood up to injustice, and was willing to leave civilization and face the wild, even death, rather than do wrong."

Wimpettes, who outnumber dames in pop culture, believe in masochism, subterfuge, betrayal of women, and deriving identity from their man. "The world stops at the white picket of their fences.... larger causes--racial equality, justice--are left to the guys."

The book is a romp through books, movies, and TV, as Isaacs puts dozens of women in their place on the dame/wimpette spectrum. Anita Hill? Feh! "This über-wimpette testified before Congress how she endured vile sex talk from a superior rather than (1) report him for harassment ... or (2) tell him to shut the hell up." Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Frances McDormand in Fargo are dames; Ally McBeal and Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction are wimpettes. (Note, however, that Ethan Coen told Amazon.com McDormand is the bad guy in Fargo and Steve Buscemi the good guy.) Julia Roberts is a wimpette in My Best Friend's Wedding but a dame in Mystic Pizza and The Pelican Brief.

Ideally, Isaacs's book should start a lot of excellent arguments. Don't wimp out! --Tim Appelo

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Why are Jane Eyre, Marge Simpson, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer "brave dames"? What makes Ally McBeal, Madame Bovary, and the good wife Beth from Fatal Attraction "wimpettes"?

In this thoroughly witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page, Susan Isaacs argues that assertive, ethical women characters are losing ground to wounded, shallow sisters who are driven by what she calls the articles of wimpette philosophy. (Article Eight: A wimpette looks to a man to give her an identity.) Although female roles today include lawyers like Ally McBeal and CEOs like Ronnie of Veronica's Closet, they are wimpettes nonetheless. A brave dame, on the other hand, is a dignified, three-dimensional hero who may care about men, home, and hearth, but also cares--and acts--passionately about something in the world beyond. Brave dames' stories range from mundane (Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show) to romantic (Francesca in The Horse Whisperer) to fantastic (Xena: Warrior Princess), but whatever they do, they care about justice and carry themselves with self-respect and decency. For a Really Brave Dame, think Frances McDormand as the tenacious, pregnant police chief in Fargo.

Isaacs's unmistakable love of fiction and film shines through even her most scathing wimpette assessments. In the end, she urges us to become "more thoughtful critics." The artist, she says, has the right to create whatever he or she pleases--and we have the right "to applaud or to yell, 'Hey, this stinks!' " If we do so, not only will fiction be improved, but so too might real life.

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catchy title but lacks delivery........2001-03-29

I really disliked this book. While it is an essay based on someone's opinion,the argument was not substantiated with any sort of academic knowledge as to the psychology of the female mind or to world of filmmaking past the writing process. The author's definition of what makes a "Great Dame" in contrast to a "Wimpette" is so narrowly construed that rather than feeling empowered by the "Great Dames" the reader is left outraged by who is considered a wimpette. Susan Isaacs argues that Anita Hill is a wimpette because she should either "(1) report him [Clarence Thomas] for sexual harassment through established procedures or (2) tell him to shut the hell up." Isaacs does not consider that sexual harassment, especially repeated sexual harassment is psychologically damaging to a person. Sexual harassment often preys on a person's inferior position and makes him or her afraid to come forward for fear of ridicule. Also, the author fails to point out that filmmaking remains a male-dominated field. No woman has ever won an Academy Award for Directing or Cinematography. Until women gain an equal voice in the media, the majority of films will continue to have characters that Isaacs deems "wimpettes."

Interesting subject, but a disappointing read........1999-05-18

I have to admitt that it was the title of the book that caught my attention. I was excited to finally find a critique of modern women and the wimpy, unaccountable, excuse-making attitudes many television personalities inflict upon the viewers. My first disappointment was that the book focuses mainly on fictional TV characters, not real people. What is the point of criticising a fictional personality if it is the actress' job to portray her that way? The author missed out on the major wimpette of our time - Oprah Winfrey. While I don't mean to pick on Oprah, I want to point out that there are plently of true cases the author could have used in her book.

Not at all what I expected.......1999-04-25

I picked up this book hoping to gain some insight into the role of women and the characters that they play in books,television, and movies. I consider myself a feminist and I find most books in the Women's Studies sections of bookstores fairly interesting. I did not expect an optimistic viewpoint and Isaacs did not fail in this respect. What I found so annoying and disappointing in this book was Isaacs' insistence in defining what makes a woman a positive role model and what makes her a negative role model. By the end of the book, one begins to feel, (or at least I did as a woman) that any hint of weakness in a woman spells her downfall. For Isaacs, the ingredients that make up a brave dame are no easy feat and I beg to differ with her on several counts. By creating all of these rules for becoming a brave dame, Isaacs undermines what I would argue was her intent - to show that brave dames do exist.

Instead of reading this book, read Molly Haskells.......1999-02-25

I work in publishing and so have the nasty habit of reading the acknowledgement section first. I was initially put off by the fact that Ms. Isaacs thanks another person for doing the research. Then I read that this book came out of an article that was written in 1990. That it does, shows. While there are some references to current shows like lamo Ally McBeel, there are also a lot of tired references to shows like Hope & Gloria (anyone remember that one or it's impact?)And please, aren't we all a little tired of Thelma & Louise references?

Anyway, being a woman, and a woman who loves film, any kind of film and literature, I was very disappointed with this book. I thought it was on about the same level as a college essay, not something that belongs in the Library of Contemporary Thought. It's too "listy" and doesn't give enough arguement or meat--breaking everyone down into wimpettes and near wimpettes or whatever. While I do agree that there aren't many good roles for women these days, I also disagree with many of Isaacs assertions and feel that she missed a lot of good movies. For instance, Joy Luck Club, a facinating movie about women, mothers and daughters, overcoming societies rules and roles, and self-worth is dismissed in one sentence because showing women cooking is supposed to be bad in movies beause it shows us in traditional roles. Huh?

Interesting Topic - Repetitive Thesis.......1999-02-03

After hearing the author talk on public radio, I was looking forward to new information and insights on how women are portrayed in tv, motion pictures, and literature. What Issacs states would be hard to argue, women ARE put into categories - strong vs. weak - or as she puts it, strong dames or wimpettes. However, I would argue that men are put in these categories, as well. It is a very quick read & does provide recommendations at the end concerning books, movies, and television programs that show strong women, not 'wimpettes'. I would suggest any parent or concerned other who feels women and girls are portrayed offensively read Issacs essay for a primer but actually write to the 'powers that be' that are in charge of network decisions,the movie makers, and, finally, the writers that put the 'pictures' in our minds of what a strong women really means.

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Doing Science + Culture
Roddey, Ed. Reid
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Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.
The essays are organized into three broad topics: transnational science and globalization (the movements of people, material resources and knowledges that underwrite scientific practices within and across borders of nation-states and regions); emerging subjects and subjectivities (of research and researchers); and postdisciplinary pedagogies and curricula (the institutional settings of classroom, laboratory, department and academic division).
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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
John McWhorter
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ASIN: 1592400167
Release Date: 2003-10-09

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A rousing polemic in defense of the written word by the New York Times bestselling author of Losing the Race and the widely acclaimed history of language The Power of Babel.

Critically acclaimed linguist John McWhorter has devoted his career to exploring the evolution of language. He has often argued that language change is inevitable and in general culturally neutral-languages change rapidly even in indigenous cultures where traditions perpetuate; and among modernized peoples, culture endures despite linguistic shifts. But in his provocative new book, Doing Our Own Thing, McWhorter draws the line when it comes to how cultural change is turning the English language upside down in America today, and how public English is being overwhelmed by street English, with serious consequences for our writing, our music, and our society.

McWhorter explores the triumph of casual over formal speech-particularly since the dawn of 1960s counterculture-and its effect on Americans' ability to write, read, critique, argue, and imagine. In the face of this growing rift between written English and spoken English, the intricate vocabularies and syntactic roadmaps of our language appear to be slipping away, eroding our intellectual and artistic capacities. He argues that "our increasing alienation from 'written language' signals a gutting of our intellectual powers, our self-regard as a nation, and thus our very substance as a people."
Timely, thought-provoking, and compellingly written, Doing Our Own Thing is sure to stoke many debates about the fate of our threatened intellectual culture, and the destiny of our democracy.
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Thought-provoking and perhaps convincing, though with some weak points.......2007-07-05
John McWhorter has long had a double identity. As a professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, he's written on the evolution of languages over time (THE POWER OF BABEL) and on English dialectology (WORD ON THE STREET). But he's also a cultural commentator, until recently directing his attention to the issues facing African-Americans (LOSING THE RACE and AUTHENTICALLY BLACK). In DOING OUR OWN THING: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care he combines his two interests. McWhorter claims that there's indeed a real problem with the English that we hear today in the media and from our politics, and the English we read in popular literature.

McWhorter, like all reputable linguists, will readily state that all languages are essentially equal in that they serve the basic needs of their bodies of speakers. His argument is not that English is going downhill in a way that is reducing people to unintelligent brutes who can't get their message across. No, McWhorter believes that the decline of oratorical skills and literary flair is simply depriving English-speaking culture of some beauty that people could enjoy. He pairs letters from grade-school dropouts of the 1800s with newspaper articles by professional journalists of today to show that, yes, in days of yore people used to appreciate the skill they could display in writing elegant prose, and everyone was capable of giving it a go. He puts the Gettysburg Address next to what a professional speechwriter prepared for President Bush to show that nowadays our politicians provide uninspiring and half-hearted explanations of their motivations and goals. English in the public sphere, McWhorter claims, is lame.

McWhorter has no problem with people on the street talking like they are wont to. He notes that the civil engineer of a century ago who wrote a lovely letter to his sweetheart likely used much coarser language on the job with his construction men. But there should be a place for linguistic virtuosity. Great literature, which is the very exploitation of a language's possibilities, is today rarely encountered in the mainstream media. Poetry is replaced by the Spoken Word, where there's little elegance or artfullness in the construction, just rants against the Man. Indeed, McWhorter traces much of the downhill trend to the 1960s, when the rebellion against authorities tragically entailed a rejection of fine arts, which was mistakenly seen as elitist.

McWhorter extends the argument to music, feeling that popular music today concentrates on rhythm at the expense of other parameters of music. Compare a rap song to a fine jazz tune from half a century ago: once upon a time popular music was rich. This extension is reasonable, but the musical portion of the book is so slim that it seems an after-thought; would that he have fleshed it out a bit. I'm also not sure I buy McWhorter's assertion that English-speaking cultures are the only ones neglecting linguistic virtuosity. Sure, there are cultures out there where speaking eloquently still elicits wonder, but things like poetry are dead in lots of places. Just as the average Dane if he knows who Pia Tafdrup or Ole Sarvig are, or the average Japanese young person if he'd prefer to put down his manga and enjoy some Kawabata instead. The trend may have started in the United States, fount of much international popular culture, but all developed societies are going post-literary.

I am a graduate student of linguistics because I love the diversity of human speech. I am fascinated by the rainbow of languages on Earth, and how within each there is a lively array of registers. But in English, as well as various other languages I speak, things are getting awfully monochromatic and the spice is gone. With DOING OUR OWN THING McWhorter might not be able to stop this massive trend, but it's admirable that he notices there's a problem, and the book is sure to be thought-provoking for the lovers of language, literature, and fine music among us.
A Quest for Complexity.......2005-10-28
Through tracing the simplification of American speech and music over the last century (in some cases, longer), McWhorter demonstrates the loss of complexity, and with it, a love for the English (American) language. Showing his own ambivalence about, or possibly seduction by, this simplification, McWhorter shows how this continued degradation is stripping our public discourse of the very richness and precision we most need in these complex times, though he doesn't hammer this point home. (Note: This book makes much more sense if one realizes that good writing is thought on paper.) McWhorter subtly implies, though never states, that the American public's desire for the 'real,' the 'honest' and the simple, is, perhaps, a mistake.

Very well written (with a few editing mistakes!), I give it 4 stars, as it doesn't provide any ideas for changing the situation. Having said that, I am making efforts to improve my own writing and speaking as a result of this book.
Keeping It Unreal.......2005-07-15
The subtitle of McWhorter's book suggests that we ought to care about the degradation of language and music. Unfortunately, the book remains uneven because he never makes clear why we should care, or whether we can or ought to do anything about it.

McWhorter has no trouble marshalling the evidence. Particularly in the Twenties and the Sixties one could perceive a cultural shift that favored the spoken word over the written -- the casual and spontaneous over the thoughtful and reflective. Many examples are given to illustrate the growing informality in print, TV, and even presidential addresses. There is so much proof, in fact, that McWhorter repeats himself and digresses into personal anecdotes whose relevance is sometimes questionable.

After each example I found myself asking: So is this good or bad? Sometimes he appears to welcome the informality, sometimes to mourn it. Can we do anything about it? The failure to answer these questions may be indecision on McWhorter's part. Or it may reflect the belief that this cultural shift is like an impersonal force of nature which we can neither create nor control, a belief for which I have little sympathy.

McWhorter uses the phrase "artificially crafted," as though any work governed by formal rules or guiding principles is artificial. It follows that stripping away these rules and principles is, to use the slang phrase, "keeping it real." It is not surprising that McWhorter likes rap but dislikes poetry. Rap presumes to be the voice of the street, of the struggles of the downtrodden black man -- of "what's real." Let's leave aside the fact that many of rap's creators and admirers are not downtrodden but well-off, well-educated, and often white. Even calling rap "music" is a stretch. Rap strips music down to rhythm. A rapper talks, usually shouts, in obvious and arbitrary rhymes over the monotonous thump of a computer-generated rhythm, accompanied by a melody or guitar lick stolen from someone else's song (a sample). There is nothing original or musical about it. Most rap expresses only two emotions: anger and lust. This is because it is aimed at teenagers, whose hormones are pumping with anger and lust, and because it is created by people who are teenagers or at least possessive of teenage mentalities.

The attempt to align oneself with what is common, and therefore more "real," is an old habit in cultural history. I too enjoy an occasional Big Mac. But I never confuse it with a healthy meal, let alone gourmet cuisine. Perhaps McWhorter defends rap because it is a guilty pleasure, because he wants to appear hip, or because, as an employee of Berkeley, he must affirm the school's countercultural agenda. Poetry bores McWhorter in part because he considers it the remnant of a snobbish age we are better off leaving behind. There is no bad grammar, he suggests, because the rules of grammar are relative and artificial. And yet the alternative, i.e. "doing our own thing," is itself relative. It is a substitute for consensus, in this case consensus about what constitutes good language and music. This move away from accepted standards and toward individual choice is a move from the permanent to the relative. Does McWhorter favor this move toward cultural relativism?

For my part, I welcome the formal expression of our thoughts and feelings, just as I welcome defense of enduring values and cultural norms. I am reminded of Burke's phrase "the wardrobe of a moral imagination." The most interesting and significant cultural contributions, whether in poetry, music, painting, and so on, are those which reveal real thought, effort, and justification and at least some familiarity with the traditions and methods of those fields. The alternative to form is formlessness. Only within the framework of standards can we maintain any kind of equilibrium. The transmission of these standards helps keep a civilization together. Is it possible that uncertainty and drift are the result of the loss of these standards?

The book is unfortunate because McWhorter has a powerful mind that is crowded with thoughts. I agree with some of what he says -- and he always has something interesting to say. But his thesis remains muddled. Is there something worth conserving? Lacking any affirmation of norms, his arguments lead to a helpless and hopeless cultural relativism in which one thing is as good as another, and in which freedom and change are out of our hands. McWhorter is not "keeping it real." He is keeping it mindless and soulless. And that is a peculiar position for a professor to take.
Tempted to give it one star........2005-07-04
This book makes the most grievous error a book can make: it's boring. The title sounded intriguing, but the book is a real snooze. I skipped page after page looking for something of interest to read. Alas, I found nothing. Talk about disappointment. I was hoping for a scathing analysis of the degradation of language in contemporary discourse and music. What I got was...well, I'm not sure but it put me to sleep within 5 minutes. I don't want to read in-depth analyses of speeches from 1856 or whatever. Maybe there's another book out there that discusses the devaluation of language in pop culture in a compelling way. This one ain't...I mean, isn't, it.
Intelligent look on a contraversal subject .......2004-12-26
John McWhorter's "Doing our own thing" examines the decline of formal English in 20th century America, in the same vein as George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language". McWhorter argues that the anti-authoritarian attutide, prevalent to the North American (youth) culture, is responsible for erroding the art of formal English in writing and speech.

In supporting this thesis, McWhorter presented plenty of examples from literature and mass media alike. In my opinion, this is an excellent book on trends in American English, and McWhorter's comments are both insightful and humourous, particularly his footnotes.

Despite the richness in evidence, they are merely circumstancial. Nowhere in his book did McWhorter directly discuss the "anti-authoritarian" movement which was central to his argument. He did, however, admit this shortcoming in various occasions. Most of these examples, in his words, are "symtoms" to a bigger phenomenon. By that, he also implied that Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Britney Spears were products, not causes, of said movement.

On two points I would disagree with McWhorter. First is on his discussion on performing operas in translation, of which he is a strong advocate. McWhorter did contradict himself when he rediculed the French language edition of Seinfeld, confirming my belief, that the issue is simply a matter of opinion.

The other point is McWhorter's criticism of students preparing for the SAT. Quite clearly, if given the means, McWhorter would propose a more rigorous school curriculum for the English language. The point which he (delibrately) missed, is that students who memorise such "SAT" words usually have little understanding on the nuances behind the words, something which McWhorter strived for throughout the book.

Going back to the theme, McWhorter emphasised, that the problem goes much deeper than poor grammar, and he proved the point by writing the entire book with "poor" grammar. Formally written English is higly processed and demands conscious participation from both the writer and the audience. The thinking process stopped with the gradual substituion of spoken English. The people are effectively reduced to a bunch of automatons, effectively throwing their liberty away, an ironic consequence of the counter-culture revolution.

Although McWhorter's opinions are somewhat contraversial, and I do not agree with every one of them wholeheartedly, "Doing our own thing" does make me question the way I perceive the English language, and become conscious of my own thought process.

Postscripts:

1) In response to Mr. Stephen G. Esrati, who commented on the meaning of the word "artful", which Mr. McWhorter generously sprinkled throughout. Indeed, the word "artful" is indicative of one's mental faculty, in a sense of cunning and deceit. This, however, is but one particular aspect of the definition. The context used in McWhorter's book is far from the sinister interpretation provided in Mr. Esrati's review.

2) A lot of people think McWhorter is a sellout for his views on racial issues. I think otherwise. The Chinese identity in America, though emerges much later than the Blacks, is no longer built upon head tax, piggy tails, and laundry stores. Yet we still preserve the core of our culture. Along the same argument, the Black identity needs not be built upon slavery, violence, and poverty. McWhorter urges others not to yield to social pressures and break free from the invisible boundage, a struggle that is universal and transparent.

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Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (Cultural Front Series)
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"Through a composite itinerary which mirrors the amplitude of the author's theoretical interests-in the borderland between literary criticism, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies-the volume contributes to the debate on postmodernism/poststructuralism/feminism with particular force and argumentative intelligence. In fact, the perspective it opens challenges some of the most usual commonplaces of the contemporary feminist debate."
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"A reasoned, commonsensical approach to thorny postmodernphilosophicaland political dilemmas."
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Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis?
In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern and postmodern as opposing or antithetical terms. Rather, we need a historical perspective that is attuned to cultural and political differences within the same time as well as the leaky boundaries between different times.
Neither the modern nor the postmodern are unified, coherent, or self-evident realities. Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class, the end of history, the status of art and aesthetics, postmodernism as "the end of sex," and the politics of popular culture. Placing women at the center of analysis, she suggests, has a profound impact on the way we thing about historical periods. As a result, feminist theory is helping to reshape our vision of both the modern and the postmodern.
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new feminism.......2001-03-06
This book represents a new kind of feminism, one that is more willing to occupy traditionally male bastions like philosophy with great ease and manifest competence. A very strong piece of work.
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