Arthur H Niehoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 138388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur H Niehoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur H |
| FAMILY NAME | Niehoff |
| SIGNATURE | NIEHOFF A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caribbean Transformations
Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introducto…
Retrospective Anthropology
Multiculturalism and Columbus
Applied Anthropology
General, Applied and Theoretical
General, Applied, and Theoretical
Development and Change
Culture Shock
Agents of Change
The primary variables in directed cross-cultural change
From comparative analyses of 171 cases, the principal factors that acted as sanctions or barriers in the introduction of innovations were extracted. They divide themselves into three types of behavior: (a) the techniques, such as communication, demonstration, and flexibility, of the change agent; (b) the motivation--in the form of felt need, practical economic benefit, novelty--for acceptance or rejection by the recipients; and (c) the reaction, …
Slums and Community Development
A Casebook of Social Change
Peasant Fatalism and Socio-economic Innovation
Of the several types of negativism encountered among non-Western peoples, one of the most frequent and significant is fatalism. A number of social scientists have described fatalism as a barrier to change in peasant societies
Theravada Buddhism
Buddhism, particularly the southern variant (Theravada), has been consistently singled out by Western specialist-technicians as a resistance factor of primary importance, impeding the introduction of new ideas or techniques into the countries of Southeast Asia. The negative aspects of belief have been stressed almost exclusively. And although these do exist, they are probably no more important than the positive ones. In fact, there is adequate ev…
Caribbean Transformations
Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introducto…
A Casebook of Social Change
Theravada Buddhism
Buddhism, particularly the southern variant (Theravada), has been consistently singled out by Western specialist-technicians as a resistance factor of primary importance, impeding the introduction of new ideas or techniques into the countries of Southeast Asia. The negative aspects of belief have been stressed almost exclusively. And although these do exist, they are probably no more important than the positive ones. In fact, there is adequate ev…
Peasant Fatalism and Socio-economic Innovation
Of the several types of negativism encountered among non-Western peoples, one of the most frequent and significant is fatalism. A number of social scientists have described fatalism as a barrier to change in peasant societies
Slums and Community Development
A Casebook of Social Change
The primary variables in directed cross-cultural change
From comparative analyses of 171 cases, the principal factors that acted as sanctions or barriers in the introduction of innovations were extracted. They divide themselves into three types of behavior: (a) the techniques, such as communication, demonstration, and flexibility, of the change agent; (b) the motivation--in the form of felt need, practical economic benefit, novelty--for acceptance or rejection by the recipients; and (c) the reaction, …
Culture Shock
Agents of Change
Development and Change
General, Applied and Theoretical
General, Applied, and Theoretical
Applied Anthropology
Multiculturalism and Columbus
Retrospective Anthropology
Caribbean Transformations
Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introducto…
Sociology (10 works) · Citation (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Library science (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works) · Algorithm (3 works) · Economics (3 works)