By: Brian Yost on October 9, 2015
In his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Albert O. Hirschman puts words to a reality that we inherently know, but don’t always have a concise way to express. When people become dissatisfied with an organization, whether it be political, commercial, or something else, they express their dissatisfaction…
By: Garfield Harvey on October 9, 2015
How do we define a noun? A noun is a person, place or thing. Well, what is a pronoun? Traditionally, a pronoun modifies a noun but according to MerriamWebster’s dictionary, a pronoun is used as a “substitute” for a noun. In reading Valentine’s book, there is a complex issue universal idealism of social geography. Social…
By: Kevin Norwood on October 8, 2015
Introduction Social Geographies: Space and Society by Gill Valentine is a very unique look at geography based on the most basic words in the English vocabulary. Using common words such as body, home, community, institution, street, city, rural and nation. The author defines it this way; “the plural social geographies which emerge here are a…
By: Phil Goldsberry on October 8, 2015
Introduction “Why Can’t We Be Friends”, the funk/reggae song of the early 1970’s asks a question that begs to challenge the notion of social geographies. The song was played in space in 1975 when Soviet Cosmonauts and United States Astronauts were completing a joint space mission. Whether it is Russia to the US or male…
By: Travis Biglow on October 8, 2015
Loyalty “Should I Stay or Should I go?” October 8, 15 I am presently in the crossroads with the title of this blog. While I understood that Albert Hirschman was conveying his thought through the eyes of a company or organization that has consumers and members I looked at it from the eyes…
By: Marc Andresen on October 8, 2015
Social Geographies enhance our potential as experts in Leadership and Global Perspectives. We are being led to understand and work in the global community and within the context of our most immediate communities; hence an understanding of the many spaces within which we live and work informs how we study and explore leadership. As Gill…
By: Colleen Batchelder on October 8, 2015
Individuality must be taken into account before proceeding with assumption. Therefore, interaction must seek to understand the individual from a position of equality without the stress of sameness. Valentine proposed, “Individuals and groups have multiple identities, occupying positions along many separate lines of difference at the same time.”[1] When one interacts with those who differ…
By: Pablo Morales on October 8, 2015
Introduction How is our self perception and the way we see and interact with others affected by the spaces we inhabit? And, how are the spaces we inhabit affected by our social perceptions? These are the very questions that professor Gill Valentine sets to explore in her book Social Geographies. Summary Throughout nine well-organized chapters,…
By: Aaron Cole on October 8, 2015
Personal Perspective Shapes Everything The book, Social Geographies by Gill Valentine, is the ideology of how space and society affect each other. Valentine gives researchable data concerning how we as people relate to and interact with each other on a spatial basis. According to Valentine, this connection can exist in “natural” form or from…
By: Jon Spellman on October 8, 2015
Do I stay or do I go? That is the question! When I experience discontent within an organization, I have to ask whether my presence is still helpful to the organization or has the internal conflict I feel risen to such a level that I am doing more harm than good? If I should choose…
By: Jason Kennedy on October 8, 2015
INTRODUCTION The typical book on social formation generally deals with race, gender, socio-economics, health and sexuality. However, Gill Valentine, in her book, takes a unique approach. She does not look at social theory in these distinct categories, rather she focuses on how societies form within a certain space or context. She states her…
By: Aaron Peterson on October 7, 2015
Reading Valentine’s, Social Geographies reminds me of Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf. Although Valentine’s book is about geography and Volf’s is about theology, both deal with the concept of social relations and space. Volf talks about how we humans build walls in our hearts between one another for various reasons and Valentine studies and…
By: Claire Appiah on October 7, 2015
Research and Objective Thinking Gill Valentine: Social Geographies: Space and Society Introduction: In this book, Gill Valentine’s emphasis on space as it relates to all aspects and levels of human social interaction provides the readers in DMIN/lgp6 with yet another way to view, scrutinize and interpret the world we live in. In Sarah Pink’s, Doing…
By: Nick Martineau on October 7, 2015
What a great book! Really…The theory and concepts in this book are important for churches to understand. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by Albert Hirschman required some real focus for me to get through but it was worth it. The basic concepts reflect many of my consumerist habits and got me thinking about their implications…
By: Mary Pandiani on October 6, 2015
For 45 years since Hirschman first developed the framework of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty,[1] researchers from various disciplines – politics, economics, management, psychology, sociology – have incorporated the concept to help explain and understand the manner in which individuals and communities deal with dissatisfaction.[2] In these disciplines, the hopeful intent of the environment, if healthy…
By: Phillip Struckmeyer on October 6, 2015
In his book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states, Albert Hirschman writes of a simple concept … in complicated fashion. Hirschman’s ultimate point is that when customers are dissatisfied with the goods, services, or possible climate and culture of an organization, they have two basic responses: Customers can stop…
By: Rose Anding on October 5, 2015
OUR WORLDVIEW Introduction How we view the world depends on our environment, where we were brought up. It depends on the culture we grew in. Generally, it is defined by the ethnography of the culture that we were brought up in.…
By: Dave Young on September 29, 2015
Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice and Loyalty” may have been written as social theory to be consumed by economists and politicians, but having watched the EXIT door of the church for a couple decades I can see correlations to the church. My comparison may be off-putting for some church folks; we’re often apprehensive when secular theories…
By: Anthony Watkins on September 24, 2015
This is a test blog post. Exciting!
By: Jason Kennedy on September 23, 2015
Is it possible to be both a critical thinker and a Christian? After all according to Elder and Paul, “The uncritical tendency is to place one’s culture, nation, and religion above all others (Elder, p. 13). “ She also states that, “Much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right…
