The author links urban unevenness with Hukou, which presents as a key institutional driver of China’s underlying urban-rural chasm. The Hukou system was implemented to allow the state to achieve crash industrialization by putting peasants under closer surveillance: “By immobilizing the peasantry and putting them under close surveillance, the state was able to orchestrate extractions from the agriculturalists to support the paramount goal of crash industrialization” (215). The Hukou system was also implemented as a stepping-stone to turn China into “the world’s low-cost supplier of manufacturing products” (215) by exploiting peasants as an exceedingly low-cost mobile labor force. Hukou was a success kin terms of the economic dividends that it drove, “first through Mao’s forced industrialization and second through the post-Mao “world-factory” strategy” (215-216). The author states that the most common development ideologies associated with the Hukou system are urban bias: “This practice … perhaps not unexpected given the inherently meager concern accorded peasantries in the communist doctrines penned by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin, … the de facto exploitation of the countryside incorporated within the Soviet development model, …and…
foundational studies and theories were established. These “schools of thought” were differentiated by support for either rational or natural systems as well as administrative practices. Central themes across the literature examined the primary differences between rational and natural systems and the selected schools of thought. Theories such as “Taylor’s Scientific Management”, “Fayol’s Administrative Theory”, “Weber’s Theory of Bureaucracy”, and “Simon’s Theory of Administration Behavior”…
They explain how the activity system define a group of people who share a common goal or motive. I completely agree on how an activity system allow certain communities are structurally connected. This is a great way to help you understand community relationships. Activity system is a good system because it “sees all aspects of activity as shaped over time by people’s social interactions with each other and the tools they use” (1). Everyone is in an activity system even if you don’t realize it.…
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In the broadest conception, the term connotes a complex of interacting components together with the relationships among them that permit the identification of a boundary-maintaining entity or process” (p.7). A number of systems were noted and intertwined within the movie. Within each system, a different side of the individual was portrayed. Systems theory “describes human behavior in terms of complex systems. It is premised on the idea that an effective system is based on individual needs,…
Further, the systems theory and the ecological perspective will be employed as methods of explaining presenting issues of the case. Presenting Problems As noted in the case study, Emma was referred to the Family Services Agency by her pediatrician for further assessments of behavioral problems after a recent well…
Rather than hinder or help, it allows me to ask the questions, and explore the complex systems. Archetypes are not used to dictate behavior but to leverage them. Learning to see structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them (Senge, 2006). Systems archetypes or generic structures embody the key to learning to see structures in our personal and organizational lives…
Relational Systems Relational systems are the relationships formed between workmates in an organization when they coordinate their tasks, goals, and missions. Moreover, they pertain to the human system, as they are composed of individuals moving towards or away from one other. In fact, they tend to form patterns while interacting or drifting from each other (Kahn, Barton, & Fellows, 2013). Relational systems are also a way through which objectives in an organization are accomplished.…
Two frameworks that guide the theory, for the case are systems and medical model. In the systems framework the theory chosen to guide the intervention was the family systems theory. For the medical model the theory that best suits the clients problem is pharmapsychology. Systems framework is a series of related assumptions and postulates about all levels of systems (Turner, 1996). The framework is relevant in that it explains the clients current behavior is a result of a series of outside…