Penelope Gouk
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
292
1995
In this volume twelve distinguished scholars from the historical social and human sciences reflect on these questions. Six general essays look from the perspective of different disciplines at the concept and interpretation of achievement and consider its complex associations with creativity and innovation. Six historical case studies then focus on England and Japan since the 17th century taking as their point of departure the emergence of English capitalism. They examine how people have written about work and its value and how they have drawn on cultural resources in their attempts to shape their own or others? actions. The link between individual identity and the actions of groups how particular groups have exerted profound effects on entire nations and how such effects may be unintended consequences of individualised and self-interested behaviour are prominent themes.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
292
1995
In this volume twelve distinguished scholars from the historical social and human sciences reflect on these questions. Six general essays look from the perspective of different disciplines at the concept and interpretation of achievement and consider its complex associations with creativity and innovation. Six historical case studies then focus on England and Japan since the 17th century taking as their point of departure the emergence of English capitalism. They examine how people have written about work and its value and how they have drawn on cultural resources in their attempts to shape their own or others? actions. The link between individual identity and the actions of groups how particular groups have exerted profound effects on entire nations and how such effects may be unintended consequences of individualised and self-interested behaviour are prominent themes.