A review of 'The human web: A bird's-eye view of world history' by J.R. & W.H. McNeill
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
In this book, the authors propose to traverse the field of world history and 'to know how the world got to be the way it is' through the theory of webs of exchanges and communication. Schematically a web is 'a set of connections that link people to one another' and...
How convincing do you find Weber's analysis of the relationship between Protestantism and the rise of modern capitalism?
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Many sociologists have raised the issue of religion and economic behavior but it is Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published in 1904 which has had the biggest impact on the history of sociological thought. The imminent German philosopher of the beginning of the 20th...
WEB. Dubois vs. Booker T. Washington, who had it right?
Essay - 6 pages - Politic philosophy
W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington were two great leaders of the African American community back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who sharply disagreed on strategies to ensure black social and economic rights and progress following the era of radical "Reconstruction". Born a slave in...
What can Web 2.0 do for deliberative democracy?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Democracy and political practices have already gone a long way since the birth of Internet: online campaigns, online votes, speeches on videos that can be watched over and over on video-sharing websites. Internet has transformed the reality of the political bubble in many ways and nowadays, and...
Supermarkets and the World Wide Web
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Morissons, Sainsbury's, Spar, Londis, Aldi, Lidl, etc ...with the upcoming Yule, supermarkets are working twice as hard to achieve their ends. As they proudly display the reassuring colors of Santa Claus on their websites, home pages are a festival of twinkling snowflake...
The theories of the state in classical sociology: Karl Marx and Max Weber
Thesis - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
European sociology for long has been influenced by the works of Marx and Durkheim. However, there has been little importance given to the work of Max Weber. Whenever his works were taken into account, they have been focused mainly on their methodological dimension. It is only recently that...
Business Strategy : Coalix - creating and hosting websites
Case study - 21 pages - Business strategy
A website is a company's face to the world that is accessible by anyone with Internet access. With the economy likely in recession and falling corporate sales, every euro spent is being intensely scrutinized. In spite of unfavorable market conditions, leading research findings indicate that...
Web rating system
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Computer science
This project handles the rating process of the website. There are so many websites around the world that distribute the information given by their owners. It is an effective and easy way to reach the information to the people. There are different types of websites and their pages are with...
Composition of web services in GIS-based emergency response system
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Web services are the pieces of software components, which are distributed over the Internet using some standard protocols. These services can be connected with their clients and can communicate with other web services by using XML based messages through the Internet. Nowadays, the...
Evolution of the stock exchange and its impact on the German market: Max Weber
Thesis - 7 pages - Finance
Max Weber was born on 21st April 1864 in Erfurt, Prussia. Weber's father was a liberal politician and due to his work, he moved along with his family in 1869. Weber completed his High school majoring in Literature in Berlin and proceeded to complete his university studies in History, Economics...
Evaluating the maximum confidence of facts for information provided on the web
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
The World Wide Web is an important information source for us. But, there is no guarantee for the relevance of information retrieved from the Web. The information provided by one Website may be conflicting with the information on the property of an object from other website. In this...
What would Weber say?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
LOYAL, Wisconsin - Horse manure is the main concern of the non-Amish, or who the Amish call the “English,” population. Many Amish commuters that travel to town via horse and buggy have lately failed to clean up their horse droppings. The Amish use the banks and stores of the town, and...
Web mail server for mobile mailing application
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
The Web Mail Server is a mailing system implemented to allow a user to access POP3 mail account through a Mobile SMS and also supports to access POP3 mail account through GUI on intranet. The server will be support to any mobile. To design a Mail Server to address the above problem and...
Curriculum management using web intelligence
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
The major objective of an intelligent tutoring system is to provide adaptivity of the course material according to the learners need and background knowledge. In Automatic Courseware Sequencing, the main idea is to generate the course material that is well suited for the learner according to the...
The types of domination (Weber)
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920), was the founder of "comprehensive" and explanatory sociology , which takes as its starting point, the social actions of individuals, in an attempt to elucidate the reasons. His study of Western society focuses on the rationalization of human...
The city, by Max Weber
Thesis - 2 pages - Philosophy
Max Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher and economist. He was born in 1864 in Erfurt and died in 1920. His research focuses on the process of rationalization of modern societies in the Western world. In this context, he became interested in the development of capitalism (The Protestant...
Capitalism and Christianity: Weber's capitalist spirit and potential Christian influences
Essay - 9 pages - Philosophy
The questions of what is capitalism and how did it arise have been of central concern to Western economists and sociologists since the 1840s. At that time, commentators began to recognize that a fundamentally new economic and social order - with the expansion of machines in manufacturing and...
Web based reward points management system
Tutorials/exercises - 32 pages - Computer science
The project titled “Web based Reward Points Management System” is designed using Active Server Pages .NET with Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005 as front end and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as back end which works in .Net framework version 2.0. The coding language used is C# .Net....
Marx and Weber: The origins of capitalism
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The realm of social theory is not an easy one to tackle, as it requires one to have significant knowledge of ideas of the past, and the events that helped shape the circumstances that these historical ideas were developed in. For example, when studying contemporary social systems, one must have...
Marx and Weber on the rise of capitalism in the West
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Both Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Max Weber (1864-1920) are great contributors to sociological theory. At the time of their writings, Germany was still almost in the Middle Ages compared to the most advanced capitalist country, England. Both economic development and political liberalization were...
Corporate web communication: Lastfm - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 12 pages - Journalism
Last.fm is a open content music community website and also an Internet radio station with music recommendation system based on each user's and friends' musical taste on the base of a collaborative filter. Objective of this site is to become the biggest music database completed by all users and...
Website evaluation : Audi - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
Audi is a German car manufacturer and a part of the group Volkswagen AG. The official name of the company is Audi AG, and its registered office is located at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The name Audi is the acronym of Auto Union Deutsche Industrie. This name also comes from Latin audi (imperative mode...
Manufacturing knowledge: From print to web
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Internet has arguably been the most significant aspect of technological, economic and social evolution in the past century. What was limited to being a beneficial component of American national security, has blossomed into the worldwide information super highway and focal point for...
A discussion and evaluation of Marx and Weber's views on capitalist society
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Capitalism is defined as an economic "system of wage-labour and commodity production for sale, exchange, and profit, rather than for the immediate need of the producers" (Marshall, 1998: 53). As observed by Karl Marx, capitalism transformed a small proportion of a society's population into...
A discussion and analysis of Marx and Webers theories concerning the development of industrial capitalism
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
It is widely accepted that most of the developed countries in the world today are ‘capitalist' economies. Capitalism in economic terms is a free market system, involving little government intervention (a laissez-faire approach). Capitalism involves investment in the means of production...
Book Review on Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Book review - 5 pages - Economy general
According to Weber, industrial capitalism emerged in the west though the convergence of a number of key factors. Capitalism itself had existed in areas of the world prior to the west and had even shared some of the same key factors. For instance, capitalist enterprises were found to have...
Website evaluation : Audi
Case study - 16 pages - ICT marketing
Audi is a German car manufacturer and a part of the group Volkswagen AG. The official name of the company is Audi AG, and its registered office is located at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The name Audi is the acronym of Auto Union Deutsche Industrie. This name also comes from Latin audi (imperative mode...
Website trust scale analysis
Case study - 86 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Following the boom of new information technologies and widespread use of the Internet in the beginning of the 21st century, a new way to commerce and exchange is born: the E-commerce. E-commerce is defined as: "the sale or the purchase of goods or services, by a company, an administration or any...
Marxist and Weberian lenses: GM layoffs
Essay - 6 pages - Management
DETROIT, MI - General Motors (GM) chief executives announced major restructuring plans aimed at reviving its corporate fortunes. The company's major difficulty has been its declining sales over the past year, which have racked up a total of two billion dollars of losses. Such a decline sharply...
How WEB2 concepts can benefit each stage of the Price Waterhouse Cooper's model ?
Essay - 16 pages - Computer science
The Internet was originally a tool for scientists and military personnel to share information rapidly. However, it has progressively become a tool for both individual users and companies to communicate more efficiently, and to create new relationships (customers, distributors?). The number of...
