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Founding Father (founding + father)

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Selected Abstracts

American Democratic Interventionism: Romancing the Iconic Woodrow Wilson

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES, Issue 3 2008
Constance G. Anthony
There is an American foreign policy tradition in respect to military interventions in the Third World, which validates the importance of democratic ideals as central to the success of the policy. Woodrow Wilson is the founding father of this tradition. While the normative commitments of Wilson made sense in Victorian America and can probably be considered innovative for his day, the manifest lack of success in transferring democracy through military intervention leads us to question the character of Wilson's interventions and the ideals that motivated them. This essay will consider the content of Wilson's democratic theory and its integration into ideals of national mission and destiny; how this became the philosophical basis for policies of military intervention; the assessments offered by historians of the success of this policy; and the role of racial paternalism in legitimating the policy at the time. In a contemporary respect, we are left with the question of whether we want such a philosophy of democratic interventionism to be the basis for transferring democratic values and practices to Third World countries today. [source]

The History and Status of Linguistic Anthropology in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2002
Lars Karstedt
This article summarizes the historical development and future prospects of German-speaking anthropology, beginning with the role of German scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt, often referred to as the founding father of linguistic anthropology. From Humboldt until World War II, language was frequently dealt with within Austrian, German, and Swiss anthropology. However, after the war, German-speaking anthropologists did not pay much attention to language and linguistics, a situation that has recently begun to change. [source]

Association of British Clinical Diabetologists: Highlights of the Spring 2002 meeting

PRACTICAL DIABETES INTERNATIONAL (INCORPORATING CARDIABETES), Issue 8 2002
16/17 May 200, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
There was a record attendance at the Spring 2002 meeting of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) which was marked by the sad occasion of the retirement of the founding Chairman of ABCD, John Wales (Leeds). The election as new Chairman of Richard Greenwood (Norwich), formerly Hon Secretary and another founding father of ABCD, promised continuity in the Association's burgeoning affairs. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Revisiting Fayol: Anticipating Contemporary Management

BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2005
Lee D. Parker
This study argues that in classifying Fayol as a founding father of the Classical Management School, we have to some extent misrepresented this still important management theorist. The received Fayol portrayed in contemporary texts invariably emerges as a caricature of a much more insightful, complex, visionary and rounded management thinker. This study re-examines Fayol's personal and career history, as well as the arguments presented in his original work, General and Industrial Management. It finds that he was a much more complex and multidimensional figure than his conventional stereotype today, and that his management theories embraced a wider spectrum of approaches and concepts than traditionally identified with the classical management school of thought. In marked contrast to his traditional portrayal, this study uncovers traces of ideas and concepts that anticipated aspects of the human relations movement, systems-based contingency theory, the movement towards greater employee involvement in decision-making and elements of knowledge management. [source]

Missing links: Eugène Dubois and the origins of paleoanthropology

EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2002
Pat Shipman
Abstract Examining the origins of various scientific fields may help to identify particular individuals whose thought, work, and discoveries have had a disproportionately large influence. Such individuals seem to serve as catalysts for a wider set of intellectual reactions, which then give rise to an entire field of study. In this paper, we propose explicit criteria for recognizing the founders of new fields. We contend that Eugène Dubois, best known as the man who found the "missing link" between apes and humans, should be recognized as one of the founding fathers of paleoanthropology. [source]