Tag Archives: Fourth Dimension

Google Earth 4: Even Better Cartography Software

Since Google Inc. acquired “Earth View” from Keyhole in 2004, Google created a piece of professional cartography software that everyone and their grandmother can use, and play until they are four hours later and still looking for where your next cousin twice removed lived three decades ago. With its new release, Google has made the […]

Time, the 4th Dimension

Knowledge of time! Long before H.G. Wells, the man behind “The Time Machine,” has always been intrigued by that concept. DiVinci, Nostradamus, Newton, and Einstein all indicated that a fourth dimension exists. In many ways, Welles actually existed in many of the narratives of his stories. Like Jules Verne, science fiction was made in the […]

Understanding the Fourth Dimension

What do We Understand to be the Fourth Dimension? The first step in understanding the fourth dimension is learning that it is the dimension of duration, or time. While this may seem very complicated and abstract at first, and while it is theoretical, understanding the fourth dimension is not actually that complicated, though the implications […]

Using the Hofstede Dimensions to Your Advantage in Business

Expanding the management staff to include people from other cultures living in their home environment requires sensitivity and plenty of research to accommodate the different values and principles these individuals may support. Cultures work in the same way as a persons DNA; although individuals may look the same on the outside, there are internal factors […]

Applied Sociological Theory: Weberian Theory in Modern Society

In Weberian Theory of Rationalization and McDonaldization of Contemporary Society, George Ritzer examines four types of rationality (practical, theoretical, substantive, and formal) and five dimensions of formal rationality. Ritzer’s main vehicle for Weberian theory is the concept of McDonaldization, which he says is the modern day equivalent of Weber’s concept of bureaucracy. Through Ritzer’s application, […]