Social, group or collective psychology Books
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology in Communities: Tensions and
Book SynopsisThis volume aims at further articulating and developing the cultural psychological interest in community. It focuses on the processes through which individuals constitute communities and the processes that restrain or enable moving forward with others. This interest is necessary especially now that the world is on the move. Economic crises, political crises and ecological crises have led to reinforced migration patterns, a rise in authoritarianism and xenophobia, and have become a threat to the survival of the world as we know it, particularly to minorities and indigenous communities. At the same time, we are witnessing the birth of new networks, dialogues and actions, generated by people within, between and among communities. Therefore, this volume collects interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical and applied contributions enabling engagement with communities in cultural psychology. This involves both reflections on meaning-making processes and projections on how they feed into social transformation, in exchange with community psychology, anthropology and sociology. People vitally depend on community to effectively negotiate or resist in complex intercultural or intergroup settings. In the wake of human rights violations or to prevent further damage to the environment a community is needed to undertake action. From feminist movements and disability activism to the otherwise marginalized: how do people constitute communities? How do they resist as a community? How can cultural psychology contribute not only to understand meaning-making processes, but also connect them to processes of social transformation? Migration, moving through and connecting to different communities can affect meaning making in significant ways. People consider themselves as members of one or another community, but they also increasingly enter into new settings of social practice with new means for action. How might creative meaning-making build bridges between communities? How might new community arise in between or with others? How can cultural psychology deal with intercultural processes without reifying different cultures? These are the central questions that the, mostly emerging, scholars from many corners of the world address in this book. Their research addresses different institutional settings that are resisted and transformed from within, in dialogue with others. From social work, NGOs and municipal activity to university talent mobility and art projects for youth. Other settings are newly inhabited, from the public square and the social media to a foreign city and neighborhood church. Thus, more communities appear on the map of cultural psychology.Table of Contents Series Editors’ Preface—Creating Cultural Psychology of Community: What Is Needed? Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Tensions and Transformations of Moving in Communities SECTION I: RESISTANCE OR TRANSFORMATION WITHIN, TOWARDS AND FROM COMMUNITIES. Constituting Childbirth Activism in Argentina: A Study of Place, Identity, and Emotions The Performative Momentum of the Hashtag: An Examination of the #MeToo Movement Meaning Making Processes in a Professional Community of Social Workers Making Meaningof Disability in Residents’ Meetings for Municipal Welfare Policy Maneuvering Around Conflicts Between International Development NGOs and Local Communities Toward Poverty Alleviation in Ghana Restoration of Purpose: A Goal-Focused Approach to Cultural Transformation and Well-Being Promotion Among Marginalized Communities Commentary—Experiencing Change: Interrelations Between Individual and Social Transformations SECTION II: MEANING MAKING IN BETWEEN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. Recognition as a Catalyst for Agency: Experiences From an Intercultural Art Project for Young People The Migration Project: Studying the Narrative Construction of Migrant Mobility in a Nonlinear Way Exploring the Tensions and Possible Transformations in Talent Mobility to Estonian Universities Self-Expansion Through Proculturation: Semiotic Movement Toward Curvilinear Development “Apart From Being Taught, You Teach Yourself”: Appropriation and Religious Trajectories Among Children and Youth in a Toba/Qom Neighborhood of Buenos Aires Commentary— Cultural Psychology, Communities, and the Construction of Excluding Spaces: The Production of Foreigners About the Contributors.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology in Communities: Tensions and
Book SynopsisThis volume aims at further articulating and developing the cultural psychological interest in community. It focuses on the processes through which individuals constitute communities and the processes that restrain or enable moving forward with others. This interest is necessary especially now that the world is on the move. Economic crises, political crises and ecological crises have led to reinforced migration patterns, a rise in authoritarianism and xenophobia, and have become a threat to the survival of the world as we know it, particularly to minorities and indigenous communities. At the same time, we are witnessing the birth of new networks, dialogues and actions, generated by people within, between and among communities. Therefore, this volume collects interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical and applied contributions enabling engagement with communities in cultural psychology. This involves both reflections on meaning-making processes and projections on how they feed into social transformation, in exchange with community psychology, anthropology and sociology. People vitally depend on community to effectively negotiate or resist in complex intercultural or intergroup settings. In the wake of human rights violations or to prevent further damage to the environment a community is needed to undertake action. From feminist movements and disability activism to the otherwise marginalized: how do people constitute communities? How do they resist as a community? How can cultural psychology contribute not only to understand meaning-making processes, but also connect them to processes of social transformation? Migration, moving through and connecting to different communities can affect meaning making in significant ways. People consider themselves as members of one or another community, but they also increasingly enter into new settings of social practice with new means for action. How might creative meaning-making build bridges between communities? How might new community arise in between or with others? How can cultural psychology deal with intercultural processes without reifying different cultures? These are the central questions that the, mostly emerging, scholars from many corners of the world address in this book. Their research addresses different institutional settings that are resisted and transformed from within, in dialogue with others. From social work, NGOs and municipal activity to university talent mobility and art projects for youth. Other settings are newly inhabited, from the public square and the social media to a foreign city and neighborhood church. Thus, more communities appear on the map of cultural psychology.Table of Contents Series Editors’ Preface—Creating Cultural Psychology of Community: What Is Needed? Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Tensions and Transformations of Moving in Communities SECTION I: RESISTANCE OR TRANSFORMATION WITHIN, TOWARDS AND FROM COMMUNITIES. Constituting Childbirth Activism in Argentina: A Study of Place, Identity, and Emotions The Performative Momentum of the Hashtag: An Examination of the #MeToo Movement Meaning Making Processes in a Professional Community of Social Workers Making Meaningof Disability in Residents’ Meetings for Municipal Welfare Policy Maneuvering Around Conflicts Between International Development NGOs and Local Communities Toward Poverty Alleviation in Ghana Restoration of Purpose: A Goal-Focused Approach to Cultural Transformation and Well-Being Promotion Among Marginalized Communities Commentary—Experiencing Change: Interrelations Between Individual and Social Transformations SECTION II: MEANING MAKING IN BETWEEN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. Recognition as a Catalyst for Agency: Experiences From an Intercultural Art Project for Young People The Migration Project: Studying the Narrative Construction of Migrant Mobility in a Nonlinear Way Exploring the Tensions and Possible Transformations in Talent Mobility to Estonian Universities Self-Expansion Through Proculturation: Semiotic Movement Toward Curvilinear Development “Apart From Being Taught, You Teach Yourself”: Appropriation and Religious Trajectories Among Children and Youth in a Toba/Qom Neighborhood of Buenos Aires Commentary— Cultural Psychology, Communities, and the Construction of Excluding Spaces: The Production of Foreigners About the Contributors.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Where Culture and Mind Meet: Principles for a
Book SynopsisCultural psychology explores the mutual constitution of persons-minds and socialcultural worlds. It aims to be both transdisciplinary and international in its approach, and to develop theoretical models that remain faithful to people’s lived experiences.This volume further advances these objectives through an exploration of core concepts (especially, normativity, liminality, and resistance), cultural psychology’s foundations in philosophy, and the translation of theory into a methodology for investigating distinctly human ways of relating to the world.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Where Culture and Mind Meet: Principles for a
Book SynopsisCultural psychology explores the mutual constitution of persons-minds and socialcultural worlds. It aims to be both transdisciplinary and international in its approach, and to develop theoretical models that remain faithful to people’s lived experiences.This volume further advances these objectives through an exploration of core concepts (especially, normativity, liminality, and resistance), cultural psychology’s foundations in philosophy, and the translation of theory into a methodology for investigating distinctly human ways of relating to the world.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Cultures and Materialities of Imagination: New
Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Cultures and Materialities of Imagination: New
Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing From Dream to Action: Imagination and
Book SynopsisThe ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its importance among the higher mental functions. This collective volume discusses both the social relevance of imagination, that cannot be reduced to an inter-individual feature, and the cultural-historical conditions of imagining. The authors develop different theoretical and empirical works in which imagining, planning, anticipating, remembering and acting are put in relation with crucial moments of human existence, as early as birth and even after death. The proposal of this volume emerged during a “kitchen seminar” session at the III International Seminar of Cultural Psychology in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil, 2017). The debate revolved around the imaginative capability of human beings and the possibilities to investigate this phenomenon in a new key. The awareness that an innovative theoretical and empirical contribution was needed to the understanding of imaginative phenomena in everyday life led to the proposal of the book From Dream to Action: Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures. The book aims to talk to different audiences: psychologists, sociologists, artists, teachers and healthcare professionals, addressing a variety of life experiences - such as imagining alternative futures when facing a terminal illness, an adoption, a transplant waiting list, or the choice to give up your musical instrument - mobilize multiple dimensions of human psyche, from the basic emotions to the more sophisticated higher mental functions. The constant effort is to understand the psychological and sociocultural dynamics of each event, and to contribute to the understanding of human imagining in the area of semiotic-cultural psychology, dialoguing with contributions from all the human and social sciences.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing From Dream to Action: Imagination and
Book SynopsisThe ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its importance among the higher mental functions. This collective volume discusses both the social relevance of imagination, that cannot be reduced to an inter-individual feature, and the cultural-historical conditions of imagining. The authors develop different theoretical and empirical works in which imagining, planning, anticipating, remembering and acting are put in relation with crucial moments of human existence, as early as birth and even after death. The proposal of this volume emerged during a “kitchen seminar” session at the III International Seminar of Cultural Psychology in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil, 2017). The debate revolved around the imaginative capability of human beings and the possibilities to investigate this phenomenon in a new key. The awareness that an innovative theoretical and empirical contribution was needed to the understanding of imaginative phenomena in everyday life led to the proposal of the book From Dream to Action: Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures. The book aims to talk to different audiences: psychologists, sociologists, artists, teachers and healthcare professionals, addressing a variety of life experiences - such as imagining alternative futures when facing a terminal illness, an adoption, a transplant waiting list, or the choice to give up your musical instrument - mobilize multiple dimensions of human psyche, from the basic emotions to the more sophisticated higher mental functions. The constant effort is to understand the psychological and sociocultural dynamics of each event, and to contribute to the understanding of human imagining in the area of semiotic-cultural psychology, dialoguing with contributions from all the human and social sciences.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Making of Distinctions: Towards a Social Science
Book SynopsisThe volume revolves around the theme ‘inclusive oppositions’ in social sciences that address the issue of making of distinctions and create artificial dichotomies and dualistic view of society. It is set against the currents of systematic reduction of anthropodiversity and psychodiversity, which appears as a pathology of the current neo-liberalist and colonialist model of development. The volume is an attempt to overcome the colonial tendencies and forces to ‘standardize’ and ‘homogenize’ various categories and institutions in society by establishing structural relationality and intersectionality between the parts of the whole ecosystem where in the human and non-human intersect and interact. The volume brings together a unique collaboration in the field of Cultural Psychology and offers the intellectual tools to grasp how a syncretic understanding of Identity and Culture unfolds, particularly in the key domain of gender. The chapters and commentaries uncover cultural dynamics and identity formation from a specific location, the region of Kerala in south-western India. The chapters and commentaries in this volume illustrates that Kerala is a cultural micro-cosmos, in which gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, global market and tradition intersect to create complex and multiple subjects that do not fit in binary categorizations. The compiled volume will be of great value to scholars, researchers and academicians in Social Sciences, particularly Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Philosophy, Anthropology and Economics
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Making of Distinctions: Towards a Social Science
Book SynopsisThe volume revolves around the theme ‘inclusive oppositions’ in social sciences that address the issue of making of distinctions and create artificial dichotomies and dualistic view of society. It is set against the currents of systematic reduction of anthropodiversity and psychodiversity, which appears as a pathology of the current neo-liberalist and colonialist model of development. The volume is an attempt to overcome the colonial tendencies and forces to ‘standardize’ and ‘homogenize’ various categories and institutions in society by establishing structural relationality and intersectionality between the parts of the whole ecosystem where in the human and non-human intersect and interact. The volume brings together a unique collaboration in the field of Cultural Psychology and offers the intellectual tools to grasp how a syncretic understanding of Identity and Culture unfolds, particularly in the key domain of gender. The chapters and commentaries uncover cultural dynamics and identity formation from a specific location, the region of Kerala in south-western India. The chapters and commentaries in this volume illustrates that Kerala is a cultural micro-cosmos, in which gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, global market and tradition intersect to create complex and multiple subjects that do not fit in binary categorizations. The compiled volume will be of great value to scholars, researchers and academicians in Social Sciences, particularly Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Philosophy, Anthropology and Economics
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Other to Other (O2O): Expanding Successful
Book SynopsisOther to Other (O2O): Expanding successful engagement outside your comfort zone is written from an operational perspective. The O2O model was developed to be used with persons and contexts across a range of races, ethnicities, gender identities, ages, abilities, experiences, and environments. The four components of the O2O model: knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and motivation, are introduced and discussed separately, with an analysis and, an incomplete list of the many knowledge, skills, and personal characteristics embedded in successful engagement with Other.Although the first three components are presented in their higher level of knowing, discussion is provided around task analysis and scaffolding of the knowledge and skills. Motivation, the fourth component, is discussed using the Value*Expectation*Cost theory. This theory is described as is the motivation necessary for successful O2O engagements. Examples applying each component in different contexts are provided. Finally, the nonlinear, developmental, intertwined, and dynamic aspects of the O2O model are described.
£42.46
Information Age Publishing Other to Other (O2O): Expanding Successful
Book SynopsisOther to Other (O2O): Expanding successful engagement outside your comfort zone is written from an operational perspective. The O2O model was developed to be used with persons and contexts across a range of races, ethnicities, gender identities, ages, abilities, experiences, and environments. The four components of the O2O model: knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and motivation, are introduced and discussed separately, with an analysis and, an incomplete list of the many knowledge, skills, and personal characteristics embedded in successful engagement with Other.Although the first three components are presented in their higher level of knowing, discussion is provided around task analysis and scaffolding of the knowledge and skills. Motivation, the fourth component, is discussed using the Value*Expectation*Cost theory. This theory is described as is the motivation necessary for successful O2O engagements. Examples applying each component in different contexts are provided. Finally, the nonlinear, developmental, intertwined, and dynamic aspects of the O2O model are described.
£78.20
Information Age Publishing The Cultural Psyche: The Selected Papers of
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£47.29
Information Age Publishing The Cultural Psyche: The Selected Papers of
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£80.54
Information Age Publishing Deep Loyalties: Values in Military Lives
Book SynopsisCultural practices and artifacts, in their multiple and varied forms, are grounded on values, which are so deeply internalized by people that usually remain in the background, as taken-for-granted guides for interpretations and decisions in everyday life. Shaping individual moral horizons is at the core of socialization processes, through which older generations aim to disseminate their culturally established values to the new ones, making use of suggestions mainly implicit in daily experiences and interactions.Despite the strength of these processes of cultural canalization, people find particular ways of positioning and interpreting social suggestions, drawing singular life trajectories and developing themselves as unique beings. This is truthful also in case of highly institutionalized settings like the military, in which people play in many forms an agentic role in their own development, being prepared to perform their professional duties in very complex and challenging activity contexts.This book is an invitation to dive deeper into human experiences lived in the military through qualitative and in-depth approaches, observing their affective qualities, the meanings they acquire and how they shape individuals' identities, fostering the development and try-out of specific ethical and moral values.The present work can contribute to research and professional practice in fields related to human development, social processes, education and people management in the military, as well as in other institutional contexts, especially by highlighting the affective, meaningful and moral-ethical dimensions of cultural experiences.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Deep Loyalties: Values in Military Lives
Book SynopsisCultural practices and artifacts, in their multiple and varied forms, are grounded on values, which are so deeply internalized by people that usually remain in the background, as taken-for-granted guides for interpretations and decisions in everyday life. Shaping individual moral horizons is at the core of socialization processes, through which older generations aim to disseminate their culturally established values to the new ones, making use of suggestions mainly implicit in daily experiences and interactions.Despite the strength of these processes of cultural canalization, people find particular ways of positioning and interpreting social suggestions, drawing singular life trajectories and developing themselves as unique beings. This is truthful also in case of highly institutionalized settings like the military, in which people play in many forms an agentic role in their own development, being prepared to perform their professional duties in very complex and challenging activity contexts.This book is an invitation to dive deeper into human experiences lived in the military through qualitative and in-depth approaches, observing their affective qualities, the meanings they acquire and how they shape individuals' identities, fostering the development and try-out of specific ethical and moral values.The present work can contribute to research and professional practice in fields related to human development, social processes, education and people management in the military, as well as in other institutional contexts, especially by highlighting the affective, meaningful and moral-ethical dimensions of cultural experiences.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Intimacy: The Shared Part of Me
Book SynopsisThe concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology. Intimacy refers to a felt experience of interiority that although is intuitively comprehensible, does not have rigorously defined limits. Intimacy can refer to a content, an object, a person, ownership, or even a part of one's own body.A potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm.Exploring the current historical situation leads us to consider intimacy as culture in the making; certainly, in the way it manifests itself, but particularly in how we approach and understand it. The lived (experienced) dimension of intimacy becomes truly important, since it casts new light on what we mean by intimacy in different spheres of the self's life, as well as life with others.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Intimacy: The Shared Part of Me
Book SynopsisThe concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology. Intimacy refers to a felt experience of interiority that although is intuitively comprehensible, does not have rigorously defined limits. Intimacy can refer to a content, an object, a person, ownership, or even a part of one's own body.A potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm.Exploring the current historical situation leads us to consider intimacy as culture in the making; certainly, in the way it manifests itself, but particularly in how we approach and understand it. The lived (experienced) dimension of intimacy becomes truly important, since it casts new light on what we mean by intimacy in different spheres of the self's life, as well as life with others.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Real Talk: Promoting Social Justice in Education
Book SynopsisAs divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change.A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work.If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.
£45.60
Information Age Publishing Real Talk: Promoting Social Justice in Education
Book SynopsisAs divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change.A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work.If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.
£81.60
Information Age Publishing Integrating Experiences: Body and Mind Moving
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have created ourselves. In this perspective, encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. No longer can we ignore questions about how our cultural traditions, practices, beliefs, artifacts and other people constitute how we approach, understand, imagine and remember the world. The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas that advance our understanding of these issues.This second volume in the series features an address by Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie, which is followed by commentary chapters and their response to them. In their lecture, Zittoun and Gillespie propose a model of the relation between mind and society, specifically the way in which individuals develop and gain agency through society. They theorise and demonstrate a two-way interaction: bodies moving through society accumulatedifferentiated experiences, which become integrated at the level of mind, enabling psychological movement between experiences, which in turn mediates how people move through society. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal analysis of diaries written by a woman leading up to and through the Second World War. Commentators further elaborate on the issues of (1) context and history, (2) experience, time and movement, and (3) methodologies for cultural psychology.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Integrating Experiences: Body and Mind Moving
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have created ourselves. In this perspective, encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. No longer can we ignore questions about how our cultural traditions, practices, beliefs, artifacts and other people constitute how we approach, understand, imagine and remember the world. The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas that advance our understanding of these issues.This second volume in the series features an address by Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie, which is followed by commentary chapters and their response to them. In their lecture, Zittoun and Gillespie propose a model of the relation between mind and society, specifically the way in which individuals develop and gain agency through society. They theorise and demonstrate a two-way interaction: bodies moving through society accumulatedifferentiated experiences, which become integrated at the level of mind, enabling psychological movement between experiences, which in turn mediates how people move through society. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal analysis of diaries written by a woman leading up to and through the Second World War. Commentators further elaborate on the issues of (1) context and history, (2) experience, time and movement, and (3) methodologies for cultural psychology.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of recursive Processes
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive processes are at the core of complex social and psychological processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning, re-examining, reflecting and circling back, and these processes allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these ideas have currently thrived.Cultural Psychology of Recursivity shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity, self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity), complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual, imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists, and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching occasions.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of recursive Processes
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive processes are at the core of complex social and psychological processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning, re-examining, reflecting and circling back, and these processes allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these ideas have currently thrived.Cultural Psychology of Recursivity shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity, self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity), complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual, imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists, and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching occasions.
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Information Age Publishing Psychology in Black and White: The Project of a
Book SynopsisThis book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught.CONTENTSSeries Editor's Preface. New Synthesis: A dynamic theory of Sense-Making Introduction. Psychology as the science of the explanandum PART I – MICRO-PHYSICS OF SENSEMAKING Chapter 1. The meaning of our discontent. Chapter 2. The Semio-Dynamic Model of Sensemaking (SDMS). Chapter 3. Micro-dynamic of sensemaking. Chapter 4. The semiotic Big Bang. PART II. THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS Chapter 5. The contextuality of mind. Chapter 6. Beyond subject and object. Chapter 7. Affect and desire as semiotic processes. Chapter 8. Exercises of semiotic reframing. PART III. A NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH Chapter 9. Field dependency and abduction. Chapter 10. The modelling of sensemaking. Chapter 11. Models and strategies of empirical investigation. Chapter 12. Studies of sensemaking. Epilogue. References.
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Information Age Publishing Psychology in Black and White: The Project of a
Book SynopsisThis book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught.CONTENTSSeries Editor's Preface. New Synthesis: A dynamic theory of Sense-Making Introduction. Psychology as the science of the explanandum PART I – MICRO-PHYSICS OF SENSEMAKING Chapter 1. The meaning of our discontent. Chapter 2. The Semio-Dynamic Model of Sensemaking (SDMS). Chapter 3. Micro-dynamic of sensemaking. Chapter 4. The semiotic Big Bang. PART II. THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS Chapter 5. The contextuality of mind. Chapter 6. Beyond subject and object. Chapter 7. Affect and desire as semiotic processes. Chapter 8. Exercises of semiotic reframing. PART III. A NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH Chapter 9. Field dependency and abduction. Chapter 10. The modelling of sensemaking. Chapter 11. Models and strategies of empirical investigation. Chapter 12. Studies of sensemaking. Epilogue. References.
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Information Age Publishing Amerindian Paths: Guiding Dialogues With
Book SynopsisThis book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples.As such, the project – of which the present book is part – concerns to a meta-theoretical reflection aiming to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology. From this meta-theoretical reflection we have been developing the notion of dialogical multiplication as it implies the diversification (differentiation and dedifferentiation) of semiotic trajectories in interethnic boundaries.
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Information Age Publishing Amerindian Paths: Guiding Dialogues With
Book SynopsisThis book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples.As such, the project – of which the present book is part – concerns to a meta-theoretical reflection aiming to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology. From this meta-theoretical reflection we have been developing the notion of dialogical multiplication as it implies the diversification (differentiation and dedifferentiation) of semiotic trajectories in interethnic boundaries.
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Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of Musical Experience
Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.
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Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of Musical Experience
Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.
£87.40
Wits University Press The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on
Book SynopsisWhat does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African – with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre?Questions such as these are what eminent professor of psychology Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While Setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.Trade ReviewThis book builds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa. Its strength lies in the author’s arguments on psychology as a colonial discipline and what it does as it is transported to the African continent. — Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town Ratele is the kind of scholar whose experience means he can jettison old ways of doing things in favour of experimentation and breaking boundaries. He insists on meddling with and poking at accepted ways of knowing and doing. Innovative in both form and content, the book is an important contribution to our scholarship. — Hugo Canham, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Wits University Press The World Looks Like This from Here: Thoughts on
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Wits University Press Becoming Men: Black masculinities in a South
Book SynopsisBecoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity. Psychologist and academic Malose Langa documents in close detail what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa.The boys discuss a range of topics including the impact of absent fathers, relationships with mothers, siblings and girls, school violence, academic performance, homophobia, gangsterism, unemployment and, in one case, prison life.Deep ambivalence, self-doubt and hesitation emerge in their approach to alternative masculinities premised on non-violent, non-sexist and non-risk-taking behaviour. Many of the boys appear simultaneously to comply with and oppose the prevalent norms, thereby exposing the difficulties of negotiating the multiple voices of masculinity.Providing a rich interpretation of how emotional processes affect black adolescent males, Langa suggests interventions and services to support and assist them, especially in reducing high-risk behaviours generally associated with hegemonic masculinity. This is essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of gender studies who wish to understand manhood and masculinity in South Africa. Psychologists, youth workers, lay counsellors and teachers who work with adolescent boys will also find it invaluable.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 What makes a man a man? Chapter 2 Reshaping masculinities - Understanding the lives of adolescent boys Chapter 3 Backdrop to Alex - South African townships and stories in context Chapter 4 Absent fathers, present mothers Chapter 5 Pressures to perform - Tsotsi boys vs academic achievement Chapter 6 Double standards - Dating, sex and girls Chapter 7 Defying homophobia: 'This is who I am, finish and klaar' Chapter 8 Young fathers and the world of work Chapter 9 'Im still hopeful, still positive' - Holding onto a dream Chapter 10 Safe spaces - Listening, hearing, action Bibliography Notes Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second
Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice.The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism.With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Contributors include: D.G. Arce M., A. Batinti, F. Bose, G. Brennan, M. Brooks, U. Cantner, R.D. Congleton, C.J. Coyne, N.V. Crain, W.M. Crain, R.B. Ekelund Jr, J.S. Ferris, R.K. Fleck, A. Glazer, A. Hamlin, F.A. Hanssen, A.L. Hillman, R.G. Holcombe, L.W. Kenny, Y. Kim, M.S. Kimenyi, K.M. Larkin-Wong, J.G. Matsusaka, F.S. McChesney, R.R. McGregor, D.C. Mueller, M.C. Munger, F. Padovano, A. Pellillo, R. Pietrantonio, A. Razo, L. Razzolini, M. Reksulak, C.K. Rowley, P.H. Rubin, J.M. Shepherd, W.F. Shughart II, R.S. Sobel, T. Stratmann, O. Taiwo, R.D. Tollison, R. Vaubel, M. WohlgemuthTrade Review‘This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.’ -- Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US‘Co-Editors Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini, and William Shughart have assembled a fine extension of the first Elgar Companion to Public Choice that was published in 2003 (Shughart and Razzolini 2003). . . Overall, the 2013 Companion is useful to scholars both as specialists in the specific topics covered and as generalists interested in surveying the field.’ -- Edward J. Lopez, Journal of Public Finance & Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition PART I: THE CHOICE IN PUBLIC CHOICE 1. Individual Choice and Collective Choice: An Overview Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II 2. Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program Charles K. Rowley 3. Political Science and Public Choice Michael C. Munger PART II: THE FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNMENT 4. The Origins of the State Dennis C. Mueller 5. Constitutional Political Economy Alan Hamlin 6. Autocrats and Democrats Armando Razo PART III: SYSTEMS OF COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING 7. Expressive Voting Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks 8. Direct Democracy John G. Matsusaka 9. Legislatures Nicole V. Crain and W. Mark Crain 10. Parliaments Fabio Padovano 11. Federal Systems Randall G. Holcombe 12. Tribal Systems Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Olumide Taiwo PART IV: PUBLIC CHOICE ANALYSES OF THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT 13. The Politics of Elections and Congressional Oversight Russell S. Sobel and Adam Pellillo 14. Judges: Why do they Matter? Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen 15. Monetary Policy Rob Roy McGregor 16. Fiscal Policy J. Stephen Ferris 17. Regulatory Policy Amihai Glazer 18. The Public Choice Perspective on Antitrust Law Fred S. McChesney and Katherine M. Larkin-Wong PART V: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED 19. Rent Seeking Arye L. Hillman 20. Campaign Finance Thomas Stratmann 21. Public Choice and the Law Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd 22. Public Choice and the Modern Welfare State Roger D. Congleton with Alberto Batinti, Feler Bose, Youngshin Kim and Rinaldo Pietrantonio 23. Public Choice and Public Education Lawrence W. Kenny 24. Public Choice and Religion Robert B. Ekelund Jr and Robert D. Tollison 25. Experimental Public Choice Laura Razzolini 26. Evolutionary Public Choice Uwe Cantner and Michael Wohlgemuth PART VI: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ACTORS 27. International Organizations Roland Vaubel 28. The Political Economy of War and Peace Christopher J. Coyne and Adam Pellillo 29. Collective Action and (Counter) Terrorism Daniel G. Arce M. References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods on Trust: Second
Book SynopsisAcclaim for the first edition:'A tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from survey methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics... will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe.'- Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota'This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come.'- John Child, University of Birmingham, UK'This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein.'- Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaDrawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences.This second edition of the Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides a fully updated and extended account of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods for empirical research. While many researchers have already drawn inspiration and insight from the previous edition, the dynamic development of trust research calls for further and deeper engagement with methodological issues, particular methods, practical research experience, and current challenges and innovations as offered by this new edition.Identifying innovative methods for researching trust, this important handbook will prove invaluable for students and academics in the social sciences who are interested in trust, particularly postgraduates planning empirical research on trust, undergraduates researching issues of trust, faculty teaching research-based courses on trust and related topics, and experienced trust researchers looking for reflection, discussion and inspiration.Contributors: S.J. Addison, N. Alex, M.J. Ashleigh, R. Bachmann, D. Barrera, K.M. Bijlsma-Frankema, M.C. Bligh, B.F. Blumberg, G. Breeman, C. Brinsfield, C. Burns, V. Buskens, J.S. Carroll, S.M. Conchie, D.L. Ferrin, D.E. Gibbons, N. Gillespie, C. Goodall, J.C. Kohles, R.M. Kramer, T.M. Kühlmann, A. Langley, V. Le Gall, R.J. Lewicki, E. Meyer, M. Muethel, R. Münscher, B. Nooteboom, J.M. Peiró, A. Pentland, R.L. Priem, W. Raub, R.A. Roe, D.M. Rousseau, R.H. Searle, M. Tillmar, E.M. Uslaner, B. Waber, A.A. Weibel, F. Welter, M. Williams, R. ZolinTrade ReviewAs any field of academic study matures, researchers refine methods for investigating the phenomenon of interest. For research on trust, this Handbook Second Edition reflects where the trust literature has been, where it is now, and where it is going with respect to research methods. If you are a mature trust scholar, or someone starting research on trust, the Handbook is an indispensable resource for evaluating the full range of methods that may be appropriate for your study. --Steven C. Currall, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction. Researching Trust: The Ongoing Challenge of Matching Objectives and Methods Fergus Lyon, Guido Möllering and Mark N.K. Saunders PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Pursuing Ecological Validity in Trust Research: Merits of Multi-Method Research Roderick M. Kramer 3. An Abductive Approach to Investigating Trust Development in Strategic Alliances Véronique Le Gall and Ann Langley 4. Trust Research: Measuring Trust Beliefs and Behaviors Roy J. Lewicki and Chad Brinsfield 5. Agent-Based Simulation of Trust Bart Nooteboom 6. Researching Trust in Different Cultures Friederike Welter and Nadezhda Alex 7. Trust and Social Capital: Challenges for Studying their Dynamic Relationship Boris F. Blumberg, Jose M. Peiró and Robert A. Roe 8. Measuring Generalized Trust: In Defense of the ‘Standard’ Question Eric M. Uslaner PART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 9. Access and Non-Probability Sampling in Qualitative Research on Trust Fergus Lyon 10. Working With Difficult to Reach Groups: A ‘Building Blocks’ Approach to Researching Trust in Communities Christine Goodall 11. Cross-Cultural Comparative Case Studies: A Means of Uncovering Dimensions of Trust Malin Tillmar 12. Using Mixed Methods-Combining Card Sorts and In-Depth Interviews Mark N.K. Saunders 13. Mixed Methods Application in Trust Research: Simultaneous Hybrid Data Collection in Cross-Cultural Settings Using the Board-Game Method Miriam Muethel 14. Using Scenarios as Part of a Concurrent Mixed Methods Design Susan J. Addison 15. Utilising Repertory Grids in Macro-Level Comparative Studies Reinhard Bachmann 16. Deepening the Understanding of Trust: Combining Repertory Grid and Narrative to Explore the Uniqueness of Trust Melanie J. Ashleigh and Edgar Meyer 17. Studying Trust Relationships using Social Network Analysis Roxanne Zolin and Deborah E. Gibbons 18. Hermeneutic Methods in Trust Research Gerard Breeman 19. Using Critical Incident Technique in Trust Research Robert Münscher and Torsten M. Kühlmann PART III QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES 20. Survey Measures of Trust in Organizational Contexts: An Overview Nicole Gillespie 21. The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model: A Method for Studying Trust in Dyadic Relationships Donald L. Ferrin, Michelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. Kohles 22. Embedded Trust: The Analytical Approach in Vignettes, Laboratory Experiments and Surveys Davide Barrera, Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub 23. Measuring the Decision to Trust Using Metric Conjoint Analysis Richard L. Priem and Antoinette A. Weibel 24. Diary Methods in Trust Research Rosalind H. Searle 25. Measuring Implicit Trust and Automatic Attitude Activation Calvin Burns and Stacey M. Conchie 26. A Voice is Worth a Thousand Words: The Implications of the Micro-Coding of Social Signals in Speech for Trust Research Benjamin Waber, Michele Williams, John S. Carroll and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland 27. It Takes a Community to Make a Difference: Evaluating Quality Procedures and Practices in Trust Research Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Denise M. Rousseau Index
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Collective Ink Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
Book SynopsisWorking the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures - including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, the book develops the story of struggle, of poverty and depression, but also of gaiety and desire, of a will to live in spite of it all, and to keep working the aisles. It moves the reader through highs and lows, through episodes of ecstasy and thoughts about suicide, and tells how this particular Everyman ended up sane but sorry.Trade ReviewThis exploration of our desires, commercial and otherwise, and how we are manipulated by them and how we manipulate, reaches far beyond the shopping mall critique: Mr Appelbaum ranges from the highly intellectual social psychology and literary deconstruction to a highly personal narrative, with dramatic scenes of arrest and odd love encounters and vivid details from the United States, England, and France. Covering roughly 50 years, from 1960 till a few years ago, Working the Aisles paints a telling picture of the astounding economic and social changes of the half century. This is a very entertaining and at the same time melancholy and thoughtful novel-like trip into our ever-growing appetites. It should satisfy reading appetites of nearly everybody: rigorous scholars and those looking for a good and fresh story. Mr Appelbaum will keep you lively company for a couple of nights. You might even want to light a pipe. --Josip Novakovich, finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, author of April Fool's Day and Shopping for a Better Country
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Responsible Deliberation, between Conversation
Book SynopsisCommunication is a crucial issue in our complex societies tinted by distrust. It is the core of democratic life and almost all human and social actions. Therefore it is essential for communication to be responsible. But responsible communication cannot only be conceived as a deontological issue, framed by ethical compliance requirements or good practices promotion. It should be considered with all the virtualities of communication, from conversation to consideration, going through narrative, interpretation and argumentation. Indeed each of these communicational capacities has its properties, assets, complementarities and limitations. They constitute different ways to be responsive. This book offers a contribution to the debate of Theory of Deliberative Theory (TDD), reexamined here within its different inspiration sources, notably the opposition between communicational turn and system, the fact of moral pluralism and the public reason.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part 1 As Many Critiques as There Are Deliberations 1 Chapter 1 From Defiant Critical Citizenship to Pluralist Political Critique 5 1.1 Testing critical citizenship 7 1.2 Critique as defiance 8 1.2.1 Relational critique 8 1.3 Stealth democracy versus sunshine democracy 11 1.4 From reactive critique to pluralist political critique 14 1.5 The critique of common sense 18 1.6 Intensity of critique towards democracy and propensity to engage 20 1.7 Comparative attractiveness of five features of democracy 25 1.8 From critical citizenship to citizenship critique 26 1.8.1 Democracy, citizenship and types of critique 27 1.8.2 Beyond the four types of critique: communication, responsibility and burdens of judgment 29 1.9 An unusual debate to tame the critics’ 34 Chapter 2 Multiple and Conflicting Origins of Deliberative Democracy 43 2.1 Recent and deflationary definition of deliberative democracy 46 2.2 The sources of deliberative democracy 48 2.2.1 Eight phases in the evolution of a conflict theory 48 2.2.2 Late arrival of philosophy? 51 2.2.3 Three additional steps in the history of TDD 53 2.2.4 A division into two generations 59 2.3. Questionable developments, remaining problems and the promise of theory 60 2.4 TDD from three other perspectives 63 2.5 Contested deliberation and probation 68 Part 2 Disseminated Deliberation between Empirical Analyses and Theoretical Disputes 77 Chapter 3 Deliberation, Argumentation, Multiscale Agreement Modes 79 3.1 Fragmented deliberations under institutional constraints 80 3.2 Access to the agreements 85 3.3 Philosophy and practical deliberations 92 3.3.1 Theory and empirical differences 92 3.3.2 Constructive or critical philosophy 94 3.3.3 Mobilization of philosophy for empirical work 97 3.4 Guaranteed or “unfiltered” deliberation? 102 Chapter 4 More than a “Familial Dispute” at the Foundation of Deliberative Democracy 109 4.1 Between Rawls and Habermas, incompatible perspectives 111 4.1.1 Disputes about the limits of politics and the instruments of representation (Rawlsian division) 114 4.1.2 Playing Rawls against Rawls (Habermasian reconstruction) 114 4.2 Disagreements at the heart of deliberative tools: reflective equilibrium and argumentation 116 4.2.1. The equilibrium control of the conjecture of the original position (Rawls) 116 4.2.2 Reflective equilibrium well understood (Habermas) 118 4.2.3 Theory of incomplete argumentation (Rawls) 119 4.3 Challenges of pluralism and limits of reflective equilibrium 120 4.3.1 Pluralism at the heart of the judgment 121 4.4 Reflective equilibriums put to the test 125 4.4.1 Recomposition of the burdens of judgment 126 4.4.2 Burdens of judgment in search of equilibrium 128 4.5 The law at the risk of democratic debate 130 Part 3 Embodied Rhetoric and Complex Political System 135 Chapter 5 Argumentation Put Into Question 143 5.1 Argumentation, the key to saving communicative rationality 144 5.1.1 Problems of the relationship between reasons and validity 147 5.1.2 Importance of the relationship between reasons and validity 150 5.2 Enigmatic Habermasian additions on argumentation 152 5.3 Expectations and disappointed promises of argumentative hopes 158 5.4 Give up? 160 5.5 Venturing out as the situation requires 163 5.6 Types of questions and components of the argument 165 5.7 The frameworks of argumentation 169 5.8 Arguing, from law to politics 172 5.9 Argumentation, legal methodology, social justice 174 Chapter 6 From Conversation to Consideration 183 6.1 Communication capacities 183 6.1.1 Narration 186 6.1.2 Interpretation 186 6.1.3 Combinations of communication capacities 187 6.2 Conversation 189 6.3 Consideration 194 6.4 Issues, circumstances and responsibilities 198 6.4.1 General issues (hexameter) fixing the circumstances 199 6.4.2 Detailed responsibilities 200 6.4.3 The will is not only a matter of conflicting desires 201 6.4.4 Communicating, from circumstances to political responsibilities 204 6.5 Rhetoric, as essence and perfection of language 206 6.6 System of deliberative systems 212 6.6.1 System functions and levels of pluralism 214 6.6.2 From social deliberation to deliberative systems 216 6.7 Deliberative stage system and expertise 218 Conclusion 225 References 237 Index 251
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Collective Ink Healthy Models for Relationships: The Basic
Book SynopsisWhat do healthy relationships look like? Most of the difficulties we face on a daily basis have to do with our relationships - be it with our partners, families, children, parents - or with our friends, neighbors or colleagues at work. This is why most of us really want to know how we can best get along with other people. What do healthy couple relationships look like? What do healthy families look like? What are the characteristics of respectful, constructive conversations? How can we best navigate through the challenges we meet in our daily lives and disagree with our friends, colleagues and families in a respectful way without running away or going on the attack? Is it possible to speak respectfully and reach compromises which function for everyone involved? In short, what do healthy relationships look like? Barbara Berger’s answer to these important questions are her Healthy Models which describe what healthy relationships look like in practice. The value of these Healthy Models is that when we have clear models of how healthy behavior looks, we can then compare our own relationships to these models and identify what is not working in our relationships. And this can be a big help because then we can begin to work to improve our relationships. The book is packed with practical techniques and exercises.
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Cognella, Inc Social Psychology: Learning through Case Studies
Book SynopsisSocial Psychology: Learning through Case Studies introduces readers to key concepts within the field through a collection of engaging real-life scenarios. It covers a broad range of topics, including the concept of self, cognitive dissonance, social influence, group processes, prosocial behaviour, aggression, prejudice, and more.Each chapter introduces a specific topic within the realm of social psychology, followed by relevant case studies and questions designed to encourage critical thinking and practical application. Discussion questions following each individual case and key takeaways at the end of each chapter encourage student engagement and retention of the material.Social Psychology is an exceptional resource for courses and programs in social psychology, as well as interdisciplinary studies, especially those that emphasize human behaviour, social interactions, and real-world applications of psychological theories.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology highlights the crucial importance of trust in a wide variety of contexts, such as individual well-being, societal stability and personal and professional relationships. This Handbook is a testament to the profound impact of Ken J. Rotenberg's work on developmental and social psychology.
£180.50
Emerald Publishing Limited Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts
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Emerald Publishing Limited Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts
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Emerald Publishing Limited From ProblemSolving to Responsible DecisionMaking
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Emerald Publishing Limited From ProblemSolving to Responsible DecisionMaking
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook addresses a wide variety of methodological approaches adopted and developed by behavioural economists, exploring the implications of such innovations for analysis and policy. Presenting analytical narratives from renowned economists and economic psychologists, the Handbook applies a broad array of methodological perspectives to behavioural economics. These span from bounded rationality, asymmetric information, and heuristics and biases to fast and frugal heuristics, rational agents and smart decision-makers, and capabilities improvements and institutional design. Chapters further explore diverse areas such as public policy, micro and macroeconomics, labour economics, the firm, decision-making, preference formation, punishment, love, altruism, trust, the environment, money and finance, health, and sports. Providing a pluralistic approach to behavioural economics, the Handbook ultimately introduces readers to an array of possible methodologies that can be adopted to address topical economic issues, as well as facilitating an enriched and nuanced understanding of human behaviour in an economic context. Comparing and contrasting different methodologies within behavioural and neoclassical economics, this dynamic Handbook will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in economics, social psychology, and marketing courses. Policymakers will also benefit from its examination of the implications of behavioural economics for real-world decision making and policy.Trade Review‘The chapters of this Handbook take us beyond the now familiar areas of behavioural economics research and give attention to a wider range of methods and further applications of the findings – a much needed help in the many fields, such as environmental and health economics, in which the usefulness of these findings is just beginning to be realized.’ -- Jack L. Knetsch, Simon Fraser University, Canada‘Behavioral economics needs to go beyond documenting deviations from neoclassical norms and interpreting these as flaws in humans rather in the theory. We need to take uncertainty seriously, take heuristics seriously, and study how people actually make decisions instead of building as-if models. This excellent collection of approaches offers many ways to rethink behavioral economics and equip it with a fresh vision.’ -- Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany‘Morris Altman succeeds in assembling experts from various scholarly disciplines who present the arsenal of research methods in behavioral economics and their potential in applied social research. This is an excellent comprehensive Handbook that is of interest to students and scholars, committed to understanding economic behavior which is often driven by a-rationality and irrationality rather than the capacity to rationally maximize one’s own utility.’ -- Erich Kirchler, University of Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Morris Altman: Introduction PART I BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS METHODS IN GENERAL 2. Gerrit Antonides: Behavioral economic methods 3. Steve J. Bickley , and Benno Torgler: Behavioural Economics, What Have We Missed?” 4. Exploring “Classical” Behavioural Economics Roots in AI, Cognitive Psychology, and Complexity Theory 5. Beryl Chang: Assumptions in Economic Modeling: How Behavioral Economics Can Enlighten PART II REAL WORLD ECONOMICS 6. Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters: RealEconomik: Using the messy human experience to drive clean theoretical advance in economics 7. Pascal Moliner and Patrick Rateau: The common-sense economy PART III BEHAVIOURAL MACROEOCNOMICS 8. Michelle Baddeley: Behavioural Methods for Macroeconomics: Modelling Investment 9. Tobias F. Rötheli: The Business Cycle and the Cycles of Behavioral Economics PART IV BEHAVIOURAL LABOUR ECONOMICS AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM 10. Morris Altman: Behavioural Labour Economics 11. Sodany Tong: Some Implications of X-efficiency Theory for the Role of Managerial Quality as a Key Determinant of Firm Performance and Productivity 12. Morris Altman: Behavioural Theories of the Firm with a Focus on X-Efficiency and Effort Discretion: Implications for Analysis PART V MONEY AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS 13. Agata Gasiorowska & Tomasz Zaleskiewicz: The Psychology of Money 14. Tomasz Zaleskiewicz & Agata Gasiorowska: Taking Financial Advice: Going Beyond Making Good Decisions PART VI BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH ECONOMICS 15. Hannah Rachel Josepha Altman and Morris Altman; Bounded Rationality, Imperfect and Costly Information and Sub-optimal Outcomes in the Sports and Health and Fitness Industries 16. Nazmi Sari: Empirical methods and methodological developments in economics of health and health behavior: A discussion of theory and applications 17. David A. Savage and Derek Friday: The Behavioural Impact of Pandemics: Incomplete Markets and the Supply Chain PART VII ‘EMOTIONS’ AND MORALS, AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS 18. Jefferson Arapoc: Economics of Trust: its nature, measures, determinants, and application 19. Roger Frantz: Intuition and Behavioral Economics. A Very Brief History 20. Natalia V. Czap and Hans J Czap: Conserve the Planet, NOT Empathy! Revising the Empathy Conservation Framework 21. Shinji Teraji: Behavioral Economics of Morality and Sustainability 22. Alexis V. Belianin: Antisocial punishment PART VIII EVALUATION AND FORMATION OF BELIEFS AND PREFERENCES 23. Fang-Fang Tang : Auction Methods of Valuation and the Endowment Effect 24. David Leiser: Statistical approaches to the analysis of belief patterns 25. Matthew G. Nagler: Motivated Preferences 26. Mina Mahmoudi, Mark Pingle, Rattaphon Wuthisatian: Might Ambiguity Exist When None Seems to Exist? PART IX BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES TO POLICY 27. Irene Mussio and Angela C.M. de Oliveira: Norms, networks, nudges: non-traditional approaches to improve healthy behaviors 28. Noah V. Peters and Lucia A. Reisch: Bridging Psychology and Sociology: Towards a Socio- ecological Perspective in Behavioural Economics and Policy Index
£220.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public Goods and Private Wants: A Psychological
Book SynopsisHow valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. The contributions of economists and political scientists to the study of government spending are discussed, and subjective measures, largely derived from psychology, that could be used to evaluate government spending are considered. The author then uses empirical studies to explain how people value government goods and services, and what they appear to want the government to do. The results have implications for methods of valuing government services, the way people think about government spending and political processes.This accessible and thought-provoking volume will be of interest to academics in the areas of economics, psychology and political science. Those concerned with government decision making will also find it of great value.Trade Review'This is a highly readable account of individual attitudes towards government services written from a psychological perspective.' -- Alistair Munro, Journal of Economic Psychology'Kemp's work is readily accessible to economists. He bridges the gap between psychology and economics with his expertise in both fields, and hopefully his innovative survey research will be taken up.' -- A. Stutzer, Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'In democracy, we ask people whom they would like to govern them. Simon Kemp shows how and why the same principle applies to the types and amounts of public goods that governments supply. If you seek solutions to public-sector supply-demand mismatch - read Kemp's lively, topical treatise.' -- Shlomo Maital, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Economics and Public Goods 3. Government Spending in Democracies 4. Quality of Life 5. Methods of Assessing Value 6. Psychophysical Scaling of Value 7. Taxation and its Relationship to Spending 8. Valuation and Knowledge of Cost 9. What Do People Want the Government to Undertake? 10. Conclusions References Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Public Choice
Book SynopsisThis authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume. It contains state-of-the-art discussions of both old and contemporary problems, including new work by the founding fathers as well as contributions by a new generation of younger scholars.The book reviews the literature of public choice, highlighting the common ground between all rational choice approaches to politics. It demonstrates the important impact of public choice on economics, political science, philosophy and sociology. It will be an indispensable source of reference for many years to the ideas, analytical methods and empirical research in the field.The Companion will serve as the standard reference work for all those engaged in the field of public choice and will be essential reading for politicians and policymakers, scholars in political science, public and social choice, as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Trade Review'. . . this compendium offers a solid introduction into an economic field that is gaining in influence.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Public Choice at the Millennium Part I: Methodology Part II: The Constitutional Framework Part III: Institutions and Mechanisms of Collective Choice Part IV: Public Choice Perspectives on Government and the Economy Part V: The Public Choice Revolution References Index
£71.20
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka
Book SynopsisWhat makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in their companies?Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror. During his short reign, Shaka Zulu established one of the most successful regimes based on terror that has ever existed, from which the traits of despotic leaders are illustrated. Shaka's life history is a study in the psychology of terror, and he can be a proxy for the behavior of any despot, be it from antiquity or modern times. From his leadership behavior fifteen cautionary lessons are derived, offering valuable principles for contemporary leaders.The book also explores the characteristics of totalitarian states, and discusses what can be done to prevent despotic leaders from coming to the fore. Clear parallels are drawn between Shaka's behavior and that of other, more contemporary, leaders including Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein.This fascinating and highly original book will be of enormous interest to a broad audience - from students and academics focusing on leadership, political science, and political psychology, to practitioners such as managers, executives, consultants, and leadership coaches.Trade Review'A serious, but readable, study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- International Journal of Strategic Management'A serious but readable study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- Long Range Planning'This book is the most up-to-date available investigation of the understanding of tyranny and terror that psychologists, psychoanalysts and experts on group and institutional behaviour can provide. Manfred Kets de Vries has produced a masterpiece. He draws on a wealth of published research in the field and relates it in an academically excellent, yet eminently readable, way to the premier problem of the beginning of the 21st century. I strongly recommend it.' -- Anton Obholzer, formerly Tavistock Centre London, Psychoanalyst and Organizational Consultant'From constructive narcissism to reactive narcissism, we are but one step away from megalomania and terror. Professor Kets de Vries traces the origin of leadership by terror to early childhood in this case study of Shaka Zulu. A gruesome story warns us that terror may be inherent in the human condition.' -- Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Historical Context 1. A School for Tyranny: Learning from Hardship, Betrayal and Humiliation 2. The Making of a Military State: Honing the Assegai 3. Ruling by Fear: Bringing Enemies and Allies Alike to Submission Part II: The Question of Character 4. The Inner Theatre of the King: Acting Out Personal Concerns on a Public Stage 5. Monte Cristo in Africa: Seeking Revenge for Past Wrongs 6. The Nature of Relationships: Being Unable to Establish Real Intimacy 7. Paranoia – The Disease of Kings: Exercising Caution Beyond the Bounds of Danger 8. The Terrorist Mind: Protecting the Self by Victimizing Others Part III: Leadership by Terror 9. Following the Leader: Colluding in Cruelty 10. Lessons in Leadership: Teaching by Example and Omission Part IV: Deconstructing Totalitarianism 11. A Throne of Blood: Deploying the Tools of Tyranny 12. Dancing with Vampires: Preventing Tyranny through Effective Governance Bibliography Index
£94.00
