The argument for intellectual property is rationalized by describing the process in which the product or commodity goes through. For example, a new song is the intellectual property of the individual or individuals who have created it. Record companies go through the expense of buying the rights to the new song, mass producing it, and marketing and advertising it so that the public will know about this new 'product'

The Analysis This experience is a clear-cut case of the informal structure of an organization being key to its success, and also illustrates the extreme importance of networking within one's own organization in order to achieve managerial success. The only reason this project did not fail was that I ultimately decided to talk to everyone in the development department I could find that was somehow related to the project I was

Social Capital in Educational Literature" describes two competing theories of social capital. Bourdieu's theory, postulated in the late 1980s, they report as dealing with the way in which class status provides a sort of collective capital, and in which "essentially institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition" provide for the reproduction of class standing in the next generation and its support within the present generation. In general, it seems

Sociology Article Review: �Social Capital Across the Life Course�In the selected article, social capital is the framework of networks and resources that a person builds over his age by building social networks. The macro-level dependent variable is social capital in while the independent variable is the aging of people. The connection of the dependent variable to the macro-level is made by the social relationships people do overtime in return for

Social capital refers to those aspects that promote cooperation and therefore improve the community. Communities with significant amounts of social capital are more capable of meeting their individual and community needs. Community development on a global level has been defined in numerous ways (Dominelli, 2011). International community development may be described as both a process and a goal. The initiators of development efforts can be local community leaders, local

Bowling Alone/V2 In his book about declining social capital, sociologist Robert Putnam argued that individuals in society are increasingly disconnected from one another. He defined social capital as the connections among people, meaning "social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them" (Putnam 2000, p. 19). In his book Bowling Alone, Putnam explores various explanations that may account for the decline in social capital. People often