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Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about cultural transformation. Despite the appeal of meme theory, its simplification of complex interactions and other inadequacies as an explanatory framework raise more questions about cultural evolution than it answers. In Beyond the Meme, William C. Wimsatt and Alan C. Love assemble interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution, providing a nuanced understanding of it as a process in which dynamic structures interact on different scales of size and time. By focusing on the full range of evolutionary processes across distinct contexts, from rice farming to scientific reasoning, this volume demonstrates how a thick understanding of change in culture emerges from multiple disciplinary vantage points, each of which is required to understand cultural evolution in all its complexity. The editors provide an extensive introductory essay to contextualize the volume, and Wimsatt contributes a separate chapter that systematically organizes the conceptual geography of cultural processes and phenomena.Any adequate account of the transmission, elaboration, and evolution of culture must, this volume argues, recognize the central roles that cognitive and social development play in cultural change and the complex interplay of technological, organizational, and institutional structures needed to enable and coordinate these processes.Contributors: Marshall Abrams, U of Alabama at Birmingham; Claes Andersson, Chalmers U of Technology; Mark A. Bedau, Reed College; James A. Evans, U of Chicago; Jacob G. Foster, U of California, Los Angeles; Michel Janssen, U of Minnesota; Sabina Leonelli, U of Exeter; Massimo Maiocchi, U of Chicago; Joseph D. Martin, U of Cambridge; Salikoko S. Mufwene, U of Chicago; Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard U; Paul E. Smaldino, U of California, Merced; Anton T\u00f6rnberg, U of Gothenburg; Petter T\u00f6rnberg, U of Amsterdam; Gilbert B. Tostevin, U of Minnesota.

Focusing on research that examines both individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, this volume of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Researchoffers a perspectives on topics such as tax compliance, risk judgement, and affiliation bias.

Justice as the common good -- Of keynes, crisis, and credit : an overview of American fiscal trends in the twentieth century -- Modeling injustice -- Interpreting injustice -- Progressivism and the rise of the American administrative state

Die Interessenvertretung im Wohlfahrtsstaat unter den sich verändernden Kontextbedingungen ist ein zentrales Thema der Sozialpolitikforschung. Veränderungen wie die neuen sozialen Risiken stellen die Sozialpolitik und auch die Interessenorganisationen vor neue Herausforderungen. Zunehmend rücken schwache Interessen (z.B. Geringqualifizierte) in den Mittelpunkt. Daher stehen verschiedene Felder der sozialstaatlichen Interessenvertretung im Zentrum des Bandes. In Deutschland und international vergleichend wird untersucht, inwiefern sich die Konstellationen der Interessenvertretung in der sich wandelnden Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit verändert haben. Die Palette der untersuchten Akteure ist dabei breit: Neben den Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbänden werden auch Parteien und andere Interessenorganisationen untersucht, die sonst in der Forschung zu wenig Beachtung finden. Dazu zählen neben den kommunalen Spitzenverbänden auch die Sozialgerichte und verschiedene bildungspolitische Akteure.Mit Beiträgen von Lena Brüsewitz, Imke Friedrich, Sascha Kristin Futh, Tanja Klenk, Ulrike A.C. Müller, Frank Nullmeier, Sabine Ruß-Sattar, Friedbert Rüb, Wolfgang Schroeder, Benedikt Schreiter, Michaela Schulze, Florian Steinmüller, Christoph Strünck, Felix Welti

Klappentext: This report aims to document and evaluate the outcomes of the regional workshop on "Syrian Refugees and Integration of Syrians" held in Istanbul in February 2017. The workshop was organized by the Global Labour University (GLU) Alumni Network in Turkey in collaboration with International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD),the University of Kassel, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), International Labour Organization (ILO), Global Labour University (GLU), Bogaziçi University Centrefor Educational Policy Studies (BEPAM) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Turkey Office, with particular focus on the composition and narratives of the Syrian refugees through the "fishbowl session".The report finds that Syrian refugees have a very difficult life in Turkey in terms of working conditions, living conditions, discrimination, bureaucracy, lack of enough regulation,child education, language barriers etc. One of the most important concerns for Syrian refugees is child labour. Owing to unemployment of Syrian adults, most parents areforced to send their kids to work. With ineffective state control on employment and labour market, employers prefer to recruit children who are paid low wages, thereby enablingthem to make higher profits. The other problems Syrian refugees face in the labour markets are low wages, long working hours, employment without social insurance, latepayment or non-payment of the wages, discrimination at the workplace, etc. Regarding accommodation, majority of the Syrian refugees live in a populous household, payinghigher rents for lower quality houses in comparison with domestic people. In addition, the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey has a strong gender dimension. The Syrianfemales work as precarious workers at the workplace. They are the most affected and vulnerable workers. In addition, Syrian female refugees also take the responsibility ofthe education of the children who face different types of discrimination at school, with which again Syrian female refugees have to struggle.These problems have created barriers for Syrian refugees in exercising their rights at the workplace and in taking services from public institutions including healthcare andeducation. Besides, as findings show, the Syrian refugees are placed in the lowest strata of the labour markets of Turkey.

Introduction : calling for climate justice! -- What is climate justice? : justice, climate and the media -- Diverging geographies : indigenous peoples, climate change and the UN COP summits -- Summit journalism, indigenous peoples and digitalization : a media ecology perspective -- Activism, agonism, agency : indigenous peoples, media witnessing and the political game of the summits -- (Dis)connections : particularism versus universalism and transnational solidarity