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Flavor of the month [[electronic resource] ] : why smart people fall for fads / / Joel Best



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Autore: Best Joel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Flavor of the month [[electronic resource] ] : why smart people fall for fads / / Joel Best Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
Disciplina: 306
Soggetto topico: Social institutions
Fads - Social aspects
Diffusion of innovations
Soggetto non controllato: academia trends
american culture
anthropology
business management
business
creative thinking
creativity
criminal justice
critical thinking
decision making
emerging fads
fad cycle
fads
healthcare
innovation
institutional fads
media
medicine
new ideas
nonfiction
open classrooms
pedagogy fads
perfectibility
pop culture
popular culture
progress
psychology
purging
quality circles
reinvention
short term popularity
social criticism
social sciences
sociology
surging
trends
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Illusion Of Diffusion -- 2. Why We Embrace Novelties: Conditions That Foster Institutional Fads -- 3. The Fad Cycle: Emerging -- 4. The Fad Cycle: Surging -- 5. The Fad Cycle: Purging -- 6. Fad Dynamics -- 7. Becoming Fad-Proof -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such as open classrooms, quality circles, and multiple personality disorder are constantly making the rounds, promising astonishing new developments-novel ways of teaching reading or arithmetic, better methods of managing businesses, or improved treatments for disease. Some of these trends prove to be lasting innovations, but others-after absorbing extraordinary amounts of time and money-are abandoned and forgotten, soon to be replaced by other new schemes. In this pithy, intriguing, and often humorous book, Joel Best-author of the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics-explores the range of institutional fads, analyzes the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle-emerging, surging, and purging. Deconstructing the ways that this system plays into our notions of reinvention, progress, and perfectibility, Flavors of the Month examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions.
Titolo autorizzato: Flavor of the month  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35891-X
9786612358913
0-520-93235-8
1-59875-926-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783671103321
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