This paper focuses on rational choice theory and its potential to explain prosocial behaviour, precisely charitable giving, defined as monetary contributions to nonprofit organisations. When deciding ...whether to donate money, rational individuals apply the principle of maximal utility. There are three motives that drive rational individuals to donate: 1) self-interest and enlightened self-interest; 2) pro-social preferences; 3) reciprocity. Although rational choice theory allows for different motives, they are all expressed in terms of utility gained by the decision maker. This paper shows that rational choice theory while appearing to explain "everything", it does not really explain much. Without the reference to the complexity of people's motivation and the social and institutional factors that shape our choices, behaviour cannot be understood.
The paper analysis the three contextual layers of creating John Cage's Aria for solo voice performed by Cathy Berberia at the 'big stage' of musical neo-avant-garde in Darmstadt. The layers in ...question are: (1) the socio-political context of Germany after World War II, where the denazification process was started at the time, (2) the artistic context of neo-avant-garde musical milieu which was being formed in Darmstadt in that period, and (3) the context of a new epoch in the history of vocal art. The thesis presented here is that an encounter occurred between American experimental and European avant-garde musical practice during the accelerated denazification and liberalisation of German society and the establishment of the Cold War relationship between the East and the West. The piece Aria represents an example of a collaborative work between American and European artists, which turned to be an important step in the history of extended vocal techniques in musical performing and composing.
Various modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and culturally bound social mores but also by a comparative ...perspective, the contributors of this volume ask what can be considered leadership in culture from women's point of view. They deconstruct the notion of leadership as corporative and career-related modes of success by showing how women's agency, power and negotiation in and through music can and should be considered as empowering, transformative and role-modeling. By interweaving several disciplinary perspectives - from ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural management to sociology and anthropology - this volume aims to substantially contribute to the study of women's leadership.
This paper will examine the role of women and, more broadly, the female imagery presented in Bogomil doctrine and practice, as reflected in the Bogomil myth, Biblical exegesis and social reality. The ...paper explores the relationship between the Bogomil mythological accounts and exegetical practice on the one hand, and the society on the other, in order to clarify whether these Bogomil literary techniques were disconnected from society, or not, and to what extent. Bogomil exegesis mirrored the underlying situational contexts, or vice versa. This analysis will also contribute to the wider topic of re-assessing the Bogomil religious identity, as shaped by the elements of the apostolic Christian tradition, but also by extra-canonical and heterodox textual strands.
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