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Author : Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Primer on Social Dynamics written by Kenneth Ewart Boulding and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Snow
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393978452
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (784 download)
Download or read book A Primer on Social Movements written by David A. Snow and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, affordable introduction to collective behavior and social movements.
Author : Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780029045800
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (458 download)
Download or read book A Primer on Social Dynamics written by Kenneth Ewart Boulding and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Schapiro Grosof
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483258017
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book A Research Primer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences written by Miriam Schapiro Grosof and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Research Primer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides an introductory but comprehensive overview of the research process that primarily concerns human subjects. This book discusses the methods of acquiring knowledge, importance of a well-chosen problem, review of the literature, and relationship between theory-building and hypothesis-testing. The common sources of invalidity in practice, non-experimental research types, Stevens' classification of scales, and estimation based on probabilistic sampling are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the role of computer in research, techniques for analysis of data, univariate and bivariate statistics, and assumptions underlying analysis of variance. Other topics include the canonical correlation analysis, non-parametric analysis of variance, deterministic problem analysis techniques, and common errors in presentation of findings. This publication is intended for novice investigators in the broad category of social and behavioral sciences.
Author : Leslie Brissett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000170993
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Dynamics at Boardroom Level written by Leslie Brissett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential? The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) has been at the forefront of thinking about organizations since its inception in 1947. Today, as then, the corporate world is undergoing increasing pressure to demonstrate a sustainable, generative and meaningful impact on society and employees whilst delivering improved services and products. These tensions and others are explored in this important new book, Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders, Coaches and Consultants. In this book, the reader gets a useful framework of theory and practice that broadens vision and deepens thinking about what is happening in boardrooms. The book opens the door to the reader to a new world of board dynamics, edited by those who really understand the deeper workings of the complex human system and its work at board level. This edited volume brings together the insights and contemporary case studies from participants on the Tavistock Institute Dynamics @ Board Level programme that draws on the thinking of Tavistock scholars and practitioners and their work on the dynamics of task, role, authority and power. Edited by programme co-directors Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Leslie Brissett and their fellow Tavistock Associate Tazi Lorraine Smith, and with contributions from senior leadership practitioners and board evaluators from the government, international consultancy firms, FTSE 100 and global UN institutions, this book speaks directly to issues of our time. It represents essential reading for leaders of organizations and businesses, as well as leadership coaches and mental health professionals.
Author : Todd Evans
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9537619613
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics written by Todd Evans and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a diverse collection of topics dealing with some of the fundamental concepts and applications embodied in the study of nonlinear dynamics. Each of the 15 chapters contained in this compendium generally fit into one of five topical areas: physics applications, nonlinear oscillators, electrical and mechanical systems, biological and behavioral applications or random processes. The authors of these chapters have contributed a stimulating cross section of new results, which provide a fertile spectrum of ideas that will inspire both seasoned researches and students.
Author : Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (814 download)
Download or read book A Primer on Social Dynamics written by Kenneth Ewart Boulding and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donella Meadows
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603581480
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Thinking in Systems written by Donella Meadows and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
Author : John F. Rauthmann
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 012813996X
Total Pages : 1406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes written by John F. Rauthmann and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes is a primer to the basic and most important concepts, theories, methods, empirical findings, and applications of personality dynamics and processes. This book details how personality psychology has evolved from descriptive research to a more explanatory and dynamic science of personality, thus bridging structure- and process-based approaches, and it also reflects personality psychology's interest in the dynamic organization and interplay of thoughts, feelings, desires, and actions within persons who are always embedded into social, cultural and historic contexts. The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes tackles each topic with a range of methods geared towards assessing and analyzing their dynamic nature, such as ecological momentary sampling of personality manifestations in real-life; dynamic modeling of time-series or longitudinal personality data; network modeling and simulation; and systems-theoretical models of dynamic processes. - Ties topics and methods together for a more dynamic understanding of personality - Summarizes existing knowledge and insights of personality dynamics and processes - Covers a broad compilation of cutting-edge insights - Addresses the biophysiological and social mechanisms underlying the expression and effects of personality - Examines within-person consistency and variability
Author : Debora Hammond
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457109875
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book The Science of Synthesis written by Debora Hammond and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debora Hammond's The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five founding members-Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, James Grier Miller, and Anatol Rapoport-Hammond traces the emergence of systems ideas across a broad range of disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. Both metaphor and framework, the systems concept as articulated by its earliest proponents highlights relationship and interconnectedness among the biological, ecological, social, psychological, and technological dimensions of our increasingly complex lives. Seeking to transcend the reductionism and mechanism of classical science-which they saw as limited by its focus on the discrete, component parts of reality-the general systems community hoped to complement this analytic approach with a more holistic orientation. As one of many systems traditions, the general systems group was specifically interested in fostering collaboration and integration among different disciplinary perspectives, with an emphasis on nurturing more participatory and truly democratic forms of social organization. The Science of Synthesis documents a unique episode in the history of modern thought, one that remains relevant today. This book will be of interest to historians of science, system thinkers, scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, management, organization development and related fields, as well as the general reader interested in the history of ideas that have shaped critical developments in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Philip Wexler
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103377
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Social Theory in Education Primer written by Philip Wexler and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Theory in Education Primer shows how classical sociology sets the frame for theory and research in education. Three major paradigms are explained in their historical context, and are used as a key to making sense of contemporary work that understands education from a sociological point of view. The central classical theorists considered are seen both in their own context, and also as the founders of the major movements that have continuing influence. The social theories of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber are used to frame and orient concepts for the different models of contemporary work. This primer is essential reading for courses devoted to social theory and education; sociology of education; social foundations of education; history of education; history of sociology; sociological theory; and sociology of knowledge.
Author : Philip Arestis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781843761396
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists written by Philip Arestis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation.
Author : Orrin Edgar Klapp
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412826242
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Inflation of Symbols written by Orrin Edgar Klapp and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Americans are used to keeping tabs on inflation through the use of price indexes and interest rates, and to restraining it through the use of Federal Reserve monetary policy. No tabs, however, are kept on other kinds of inflation, of symbols other than money. Klapp looks into what the inflation of value might mean and how it occurs in social relations, popular culture, mass contagions, fads and fashions, even smiles and kisses. In Klapp's view, symbolic or cultural inflation applies to all social processes in which enlargement, expansion, or oversupply leads to the diminishing of value of a symbol. Its symptoms have been noted in the arts, in communications, and in politics, but there have been few, if any, attempts to analyze the mechanism by which such inflation occurs. The author attempts such an analysis, structuring it around those mechanisms he terms "social magnifiers." On the simplest level, there is mere overstatement, the exaggeration of claims that lose credibility as the reality is seen to fall short. More socially complex are types of magnifiers that involve shared cultural values and large groups of people. These include "crusading," the rhetorical inflation of a conflict into a war of good versus evil; emotional contagion, which through uncritical suggestibility draws large numbers of people into actions that exaggerate value; and self-expansion through identification with others, the vicarious triumphs and careers of heroes and celebrities, a process Klapp terms "emotional hitchhiking. "Finally, there is the market-like type of cultural inflation in which oversupply of a symbol leads to a weakening of its power to elicit desired responses. Klapp demonstrates how this market concept applies to such symbols as credentials, medals, smiles, kisses, greeting cards, religious tokens, fashions, and finally to information itself. The result of Klapp's study is to bring into focus this vast, pervasive, largely unwitting sort of inflation that eats away at cultural values that carry no price in the money market and to isolate various conditions--massness, egalitari-anism, loss of scarcity--that favor social inflation and thereby help us to understand (even to control?) it as a source of disappointment in modern society. This book will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and students of American culture concerned with the erosion of values in an information age.
Author : Robert E. Babe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098606
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Media, Structures, and Power written by Robert E. Babe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing introductions and contributions by other prominent scholars, this volume situates Babe's work within contemporary scholarship and underscores the extent to which he is one of Canada's most prescient thinkers.
Author : K.M. Mohapatra
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180690891
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Technology, Environment and Human Values written by K.M. Mohapatra and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the papers presented at the National Seminar on Human Values and Technological Progress, held at Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur and contributed articles.
Author : National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Office of Technology Transfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Library Book Catalog written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Office of Technology Transfer and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library Book Catalog written by United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
