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• POSDCORB is a classic acronym from Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick's 1937 work, Papers on the Science of Administration

POSDCORB Stands For

• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Directing
• Coordinating
• Reporting
• Budgeting

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• 28th President of the United States — Woodrow Wilson
• Widely known as the father of public administration
• 1887 essay: "The Study of Administration"
• Argued administration should be studied scientifically
• Advocated separating administration from politics

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• Charlotte Perkins Gilman defined androcentrism
• She wrote about it in 1911.
• Her book is titled The Man-Made World.
• Androcentrism—the practice of placing a male perspective at the center of culture, history, and human experience

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• Term coined: "Cultural lag"
• Who: American sociologist William F. Ogburn
• Date: 1922
• Book: Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature
• Definition: The time it takes for non-material culture (values, laws) to catch up with rapid advances in material culture (technology)

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• The Sapir–Whorf theory relates language most directly to Language, thought, and perception.
• The idea was first expressed explicitly by 19th-century thinkers
• Founders: Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann Gottfried Herder

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Franz Boas is regarded as the Father of sociocultural anthropology.

• German-American anthropologist (1858–1942)
• Born: July 9, 1858, Minden, Prussia (Germany)
• Died: December 21, 1942 (aged 84), New York City, U.S.

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• Anthropology is the scientific study of human beings.
• It covers all humans across time, including past, present, and future societies.

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• Max Weber is widely considered the father of bureaucratic theory.
• His work "Economy and Society" (1922) is a seminal text on the subject.
• Weber's theory of bureaucracy emphasized the importance of hierarchy, rules, and impersonality in organizational structure.

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China has successfully landed a robot on the surface of Mars on 15 May 2021.

China has become the third country after Russia and the United States of America in history

The rover 'Zhurong' will spend around 90 Martian days on the planet.

A Martian day is around 24 hours and 39 minutes.

This rover is named after the mythical Chinese god of fire.

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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company .

Founded: April 1, 1976, Los Altos, California, United States

Headquarters: Cupertino, California, United States

Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne

Explanation

• William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood.
• He was the first physician to completely describe systemic blood circulation.
• Famous book: De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood) (1628)
• He is known as the Father of Circulation of Blood.

Additional information:

• Birth: 1578
• Death: 1657

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