Gerald Mars
Biographic Data
| ID | 129052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Mars |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Mars |
| SIGNATURE | MARS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
"I Heard of PrEP-I Didn't Think I Needed it." Understanding the Formation of HIV Risk Perception Among People Who Inject Drugs
Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis medication (PrEP) to prevent HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID) remains extremely low in the United States. West Virginia's rising HIV incidence and highest drug overdose rate in the nation makes it an important locus for opioid use and HIV risk interaction. In this pilot study we pioneered the use of Cultural Theory among PWID to understand HIV-related risk perception arising from four contrasting modes o…
‘The High Five Club’: Social Relations and Perspectives on HIV-Related Stigma During an HIV Outbreak in West Virginia
In the United States, HIV outbreaks are occurring in areas most affected by the opioid epidemic, including West Virginia (WV). Cultural Theory contends that multiple cultures co-exist within societies distinguished by their differing intensities of rules or norms of behavior (‘grid’) or degree of group allegiance/individual autonomy (‘group’). Accordingly, we would expect that perceptions about HIV, including stigma, correspond with individuals’ …
Risk Management: Volume I: Theories, Cases, Policies and Politics
First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management. The volumes includes a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, and provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen, and to the wider field itself. The collections of essays are both international and interdisc…
Risk Management: Volume I
Locating Deviance: Crime, Change and Organizations
This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology. It does so through case studies and by introducing new concepts such as 'organizational perversion', 'tyranny' and 'organizational capture'. Exploring the effects of change and environmental influences such as globalization, new technologies and trade-cycles on the nature and potency of criminogenic communities such …
Locating Deviance: Crime, Change and Organizations
Contents: Foreword Preface: a personal journey, a guide to the book and chapter outlines The basics of cultural theory A cultural theory approach to criminal behaviours - with a comment on the characteristics and vulnerabilities of law enforcers Workplace crime including sabotage - and its wider settings The egalitarian enclave: terrorism - a positive feedback game Hierarchy: dock pilferage - a case study in the methods and morals of occupational…
Back to the Village
East‐End Warehouse: A case study of ‘organisational capture’ and cultural conflicts
This case study is about a warehouse in London’s Dockland with predominantly local staff. It stored and distributed food and drink for contractors. Its market was expanding; the site well positioned. Nonetheless, since takeover by a large shipping company, contracts went unrenewed, ‘stock shrinkage’ mounted, losses increased. The author, part of a small team of consultants, was hired ‘to study and advise’. Customer intrusions are normal in servic…
From the enclave to hierarchy – and on to tyranny: The micro‐political organisation of a consultant’s group
No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell, the concluding lines of Animal farm. This paper discusses a long‐term Participant Observer case study about the evolution of a group of recruitment consultants. It uses ‘Douglasian Cultural Theory’ to record and analyse the po…
Corporate cultures and the use of space: An approach from Cultural Theory
This paper applies and adapts an approach derived from anthropology previously known as grid–group theory and later as Cultural Theory (CT). CT is concerned with connections between forms of organization and the values and behaviors of actors within them. It first briefly outlines the structural bases of CT. In doing so it offers a framework for understanding how corporate organizations can be classified as cultures, demonstrating four archetypal…
Refocusing with applied anthropology
Terrorism: A Positive Feedback Game
This article offers an approach to political systems in enclaves (i.e. closed, dissident minorities) from the standpoint of Cultural Theory; it seeks to identify different kinds of organized dissent, as well as the constraints facing them, most especially those deriving from manipulation and control of information. In this latter case, the resulting choices have implications with regard to both structure and behaviour, which defy all explanations…
The CIA and the KGB: Paranoia is a two-way mirror
Human factor failure and the comparative structure of jobs
Suggests that sources of data on human failure, particularly case studies of specific disasters, have not been able to offer a generalized theory. Suggests that this can best be effected at the level of middle range theory based on analysis of the comparative structure of a workplace organization. Offers an adaptation of an approach from anthropology and cultural theory, that supplies four distinct, exclusive and archetypal workplace structures. …
A case of a factory in uzbekistan; its second economy activity and comparison with a similar case in Soviet Georgia
The cultural bases of soviet central Asia's second economy (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan)
The World of Waiters
Cheats at Work: An Anthropology of Workplace Crime
Family, Community and Unemployment: A Study in Change
This paper provides the first report of an intensive empirical study of social relations of unemployment on a Glasgow housing estate. Its sample is divided into two equal, age-based categories corresponding to families where the male 'head of household' is over 25 and has a previous record of regular work, and those under 25 where such experience is absent. The paper identifies and examines a domestic and work-linked cycle which has been disrupte…
Fiddles and Crime: The Work that Deviants Do
The cultural bases of soviet Georgia's second economy
The Anthropology of Managers
Part-Time Crime: An Ethnography of Fiddling and Pilferage
Crime at Work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft
We argue that the theft of goods from work and their subsequent resale might usefully be considered in a social anthropological frame: as the transferring of goods from our economy's dominant market exchange sphere to what we call the illegal amateur trading sphere. We show that pecuniary reward is alien to the amateur sphere and that a wide range of social features which belie normal market principles characterize the transactions. These feature…
The Cocktail Waitress: Womens Work in A Mans World
The cultural bases of soviet Georgia's second economy
Family, Community and Unemployment: A Study in Change
This paper provides the first report of an intensive empirical study of social relations of unemployment on a Glasgow housing estate. Its sample is divided into two equal, age-based categories corresponding to families where the male 'head of household' is over 25 and has a previous record of regular work, and those under 25 where such experience is absent. The paper identifies and examines a domestic and work-linked cycle which has been disrupte…
Terrorism: A Positive Feedback Game
This article offers an approach to political systems in enclaves (i.e. closed, dissident minorities) from the standpoint of Cultural Theory; it seeks to identify different kinds of organized dissent, as well as the constraints facing them, most especially those deriving from manipulation and control of information. In this latter case, the resulting choices have implications with regard to both structure and behaviour, which defy all explanations…
Crime at Work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft
We argue that the theft of goods from work and their subsequent resale might usefully be considered in a social anthropological frame: as the transferring of goods from our economy's dominant market exchange sphere to what we call the illegal amateur trading sphere. We show that pecuniary reward is alien to the amateur sphere and that a wide range of social features which belie normal market principles characterize the transactions. These feature…
Refocusing with applied anthropology
From the enclave to hierarchy – and on to tyranny: The micro‐political organisation of a consultant’s group
No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell, the concluding lines of Animal farm. This paper discusses a long‐term Participant Observer case study about the evolution of a group of recruitment consultants. It uses ‘Douglasian Cultural Theory’ to record and analyse the po…
Corporate cultures and the use of space: An approach from Cultural Theory
This paper applies and adapts an approach derived from anthropology previously known as grid–group theory and later as Cultural Theory (CT). CT is concerned with connections between forms of organization and the values and behaviors of actors within them. It first briefly outlines the structural bases of CT. In doing so it offers a framework for understanding how corporate organizations can be classified as cultures, demonstrating four archetypal…
The cultural bases of soviet central Asia's second economy (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan)
The Cocktail Waitress: Womens Work in A Mans World
The Cocktail Waitress: Womens Work in A Mans World
Crime at Work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft
We argue that the theft of goods from work and their subsequent resale might usefully be considered in a social anthropological frame: as the transferring of goods from our economy's dominant market exchange sphere to what we call the illegal amateur trading sphere. We show that pecuniary reward is alien to the amateur sphere and that a wide range of social features which belie normal market principles characterize the transactions. These feature…
Part-Time Crime: An Ethnography of Fiddling and Pilferage
The Anthropology of Managers
Fiddles and Crime: The Work that Deviants Do
The cultural bases of soviet Georgia's second economy
Cheats at Work: An Anthropology of Workplace Crime
Family, Community and Unemployment: A Study in Change
This paper provides the first report of an intensive empirical study of social relations of unemployment on a Glasgow housing estate. Its sample is divided into two equal, age-based categories corresponding to families where the male 'head of household' is over 25 and has a previous record of regular work, and those under 25 where such experience is absent. The paper identifies and examines a domestic and work-linked cycle which has been disrupte…
The cultural bases of soviet central Asia's second economy (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan)
The World of Waiters
A case of a factory in uzbekistan; its second economy activity and comparison with a similar case in Soviet Georgia
Human factor failure and the comparative structure of jobs
Suggests that sources of data on human failure, particularly case studies of specific disasters, have not been able to offer a generalized theory. Suggests that this can best be effected at the level of middle range theory based on analysis of the comparative structure of a workplace organization. Offers an adaptation of an approach from anthropology and cultural theory, that supplies four distinct, exclusive and archetypal workplace structures. …
Terrorism: A Positive Feedback Game
This article offers an approach to political systems in enclaves (i.e. closed, dissident minorities) from the standpoint of Cultural Theory; it seeks to identify different kinds of organized dissent, as well as the constraints facing them, most especially those deriving from manipulation and control of information. In this latter case, the resulting choices have implications with regard to both structure and behaviour, which defy all explanations…
The CIA and the KGB: Paranoia is a two-way mirror
Refocusing with applied anthropology
From the enclave to hierarchy – and on to tyranny: The micro‐political organisation of a consultant’s group
No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell, the concluding lines of Animal farm. This paper discusses a long‐term Participant Observer case study about the evolution of a group of recruitment consultants. It uses ‘Douglasian Cultural Theory’ to record and analyse the po…
Corporate cultures and the use of space: An approach from Cultural Theory
This paper applies and adapts an approach derived from anthropology previously known as grid–group theory and later as Cultural Theory (CT). CT is concerned with connections between forms of organization and the values and behaviors of actors within them. It first briefly outlines the structural bases of CT. In doing so it offers a framework for understanding how corporate organizations can be classified as cultures, demonstrating four archetypal…
East‐End Warehouse: A case study of ‘organisational capture’ and cultural conflicts
This case study is about a warehouse in London’s Dockland with predominantly local staff. It stored and distributed food and drink for contractors. Its market was expanding; the site well positioned. Nonetheless, since takeover by a large shipping company, contracts went unrenewed, ‘stock shrinkage’ mounted, losses increased. The author, part of a small team of consultants, was hired ‘to study and advise’. Customer intrusions are normal in servic…
Back to the Village
Locating Deviance: Crime, Change and Organizations
Contents: Foreword Preface: a personal journey, a guide to the book and chapter outlines The basics of cultural theory A cultural theory approach to criminal behaviours - with a comment on the characteristics and vulnerabilities of law enforcers Workplace crime including sabotage - and its wider settings The egalitarian enclave: terrorism - a positive feedback game Hierarchy: dock pilferage - a case study in the methods and morals of occupational…
Locating Deviance: Crime, Change and Organizations
This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology. It does so through case studies and by introducing new concepts such as 'organizational perversion', 'tyranny' and 'organizational capture'. Exploring the effects of change and environmental influences such as globalization, new technologies and trade-cycles on the nature and potency of criminogenic communities such …
Risk Management: Volume I: Theories, Cases, Policies and Politics
First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management. The volumes includes a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, and provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen, and to the wider field itself. The collections of essays are both international and interdisc…
Risk Management: Volume I
‘The High Five Club’: Social Relations and Perspectives on HIV-Related Stigma During an HIV Outbreak in West Virginia
In the United States, HIV outbreaks are occurring in areas most affected by the opioid epidemic, including West Virginia (WV). Cultural Theory contends that multiple cultures co-exist within societies distinguished by their differing intensities of rules or norms of behavior (‘grid’) or degree of group allegiance/individual autonomy (‘group’). Accordingly, we would expect that perceptions about HIV, including stigma, correspond with individuals’ …
"I Heard of PrEP-I Didn't Think I Needed it." Understanding the Formation of HIV Risk Perception Among People Who Inject Drugs
Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis medication (PrEP) to prevent HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID) remains extremely low in the United States. West Virginia's rising HIV incidence and highest drug overdose rate in the nation makes it an important locus for opioid use and HIV risk interaction. In this pilot study we pioneered the use of Cultural Theory among PWID to understand HIV-related risk perception arising from four contrasting modes o…
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