Download or read book Beliefs Disbeliefs and Social Actions written by William W. Reeder and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Theory of Social Action written by R. Tuomela and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is somewhat surprising to find out how little serious theorizing there is in philosophy (and in social psychology as well as sociology) on the nature of social actions or joint act. hons in the sense of actions performed together by several agents. Actions performed by single agents have been extensively discussed both in philosophy and in psycho~ogy. There is, ac cordingly, a booming field called action theory in philosophy but it has so far strongly concentrated on actions performed by single agents only. We of course should not forget game theory, a discipline that systematically studies the strategic interac tion between several rational agents. Yet this important theory, besides being restricted to strongly rational acting, fails to study properly several central problems related to the concep tual nature of social action. Thus, it does not adequately clarify and classify the various types of joint action (except perhaps from the point of view of the agents' utilities). This book presents a systematic theory of social action. Because of its reliance on so-called purposive causation and generation it is called the purposive-causal theory. This work also discusses several problems related to the topic of social action, for instance that of how to create from this perspective the most central concepts needed by social psychology and soci ology. While quite a lot of ground is covered in the book, many important questions have been left unanswered and many others unasked as well.

Download or read book A Comparison of Beliefs and Disbeliefs and Reference Category Characteristics as Directive Factors of Social Action in Five Categories written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Growing Plants Without Soil for Experimental Use written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is intended for those with some knowledge of plants who want to grow one or more species for experimental purposes, for demonstrations in schools, or for science projects where limited facilities are available.

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Download or read book Some Factors Related to Role Perception and Job Satisfaction Among Thai Community Development Workers written by Suraphon Kānčhanačhittrā and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incentives and Disincentives Influencing Farmers in the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations written by P. A. M. Misiko and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incentives and Disincentives Related to Adoption of Agricultural Innovations by Small Farmers Madhya Pradesh India written by Prakash Narayan Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Persuasion and Social Movements written by Charles J. Stewart and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict over moral, religious, social, political, and economic values fuel social movements. People form organized collectivities to promote or to oppose changes in societal norms and values. The steady growth in globalization and access to information have increased the perception of threats to identity, values, and culture. Persuasion and Social Movements provides a solid foundation for understanding how people collectively shape society. The latest edition marks three decades of synthesizing, applying, and extending research and theories about the persuasive efforts of social movements. Historic and current examples illustrate the many facets of social movement persuasion: Persuasion is inherently practical; we can study it most profitably by examining the functions of persuasive acts. Even apparently irrational acts make sense to the actoreffective analysis discovers the reasoning behind the acts. People create and comprehend their world through symbols, and it is people who create, use, ignore, or act on these symbolic creations. Although they remain important in social movement persuasion, speeches are now one of many resources for organizing and carrying out a variety of protests. New technologies have transformed how social movements come into existence, constitute organizations, establish coalitions, pressure institutions, and communicate with a wide variety of audiences. Social movements sometimes sell conspiracy theories to skeptical audiences, justify inherently divisive tactics, and use violence as a rhetorical strategy. Institutions and countermovements have a variety of strategies for resistance.

Download or read book Some Factors Related to Communication and Social Participation in Low income Low density Populations written by Njoku E. Awa and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Violence Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats written by T. Balinisteanu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.

Download or read book Social Action written by Gottfried Seebaß and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers contained in this volume are based on the contributions to an international, interdisciplinary Symposium entitled 'Analytical and Sociologi cal Action Theories' which took place in Berlin (West) on September 1-3, 1982. Each part comprises a main paper followed by two (in Part IV three) papers commenting on it. On the whole there is an equal division into philo sophical and sociological papers. In particular each main paper receives both inter- and innerdisciplinary comments. The Berlin Symposium was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn) and, to a smaller extent, by the Freie UniversiHit Berlin; both grants are acknowledged gratefully. Berlin and Helsinki, May 1984 GOTTFRIED SEEBASS RAIMO TUOMELA vii GOTTFRIED SEEBASS INTRODUCTION I. It is a striking fact that the extended efforts of both sociologists and analytical philosophers to work out what is termed a 'theory of action' have taken little, if any, account of each other. Yet of the various reasons for this that come to mind none appears to be such as to foil any hopes for fruitful interdisciplinary exchange. Being concerned, apparently, with the same set of phenomena, viz. individual and social actions, the two theories can reasonably be expected to be partially overlapping as well as competitive and complementary. Accordingly each can eventually be shown by the other to need completion or revision. Whether or to what extent this is the case is subject to inquiry and discussion.

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