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The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences' standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals, social groups, and social facts (organizations, institutions, systems). As an active state of social actors, pulsation is defined by eight variables that constitute social phenomena as a whole: (a) intention, (b) reaction, (c) reflection, (d) communication, (e) institutionalization, (f) internalization, (g) structuration, and (h) innovation.

Ivo Komsic argues that social states are pulsating and within those states, social causality is transferred from one social actor to another. Social actors continuously transfer social causality from one to another, depending on the intensity of its pulsation. Balanced or unbalanced, functional or dysfunctional, consensual or imposed, a system will be classified in the

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Introduction – Proposition I – Proposition II – Proposition III – Proposition IV – Proposition V – Concluding Remarks – Afterword: Phenomenology of Anomalous Causality (Nijaz Ibrulj) – Index.

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      Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/29/2017 12:05:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781433137037, 978-1433137037
      ISBN10: 1433137038

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences' standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals, social groups, and social facts (organizations, institutions, systems). As an active state of social actors, pulsation is defined by eight variables that constitute social phenomena as a whole: (a) intention, (b) reaction, (c) reflection, (d) communication, (e) institutionalization, (f) internalization, (g) structuration, and (h) innovation.

      Ivo Komsic argues that social states are pulsating and within those states, social causality is transferred from one social actor to another. Social actors continuously transfer social causality from one to another, depending on the intensity of its pulsation. Balanced or unbalanced, functional or dysfunctional, consensual or imposed, a system will be classified in the

      Table of Contents

      Introduction – Proposition I – Proposition II – Proposition III – Proposition IV – Proposition V – Concluding Remarks – Afterword: Phenomenology of Anomalous Causality (Nijaz Ibrulj) – Index.

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