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Flavor of the Month : Why Smart People Fall for Fads by Joel Best
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780520246263
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520246268
ISBN-13
9780520246263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48046200
Product Key Features
Book Title
Flavor of the Month : Why Smart People Fall for Fads
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, Popular Culture, General
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-022128
Dewey Edition
22
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Dewey Decimal
306
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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 acclaimedDamned 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 Monthexamines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions.
LC Classification Number
2005022128
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