Societal Directions And Alternatives
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Societal Directions And Alternatives
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Author : Michael Marien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Societal Directions And Alternatives written by Michael Marien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with History categories.
Societal Directions And Alternatives A Critical Guide To The Literature Natives
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Author : Michael Marien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Societal Directions And Alternatives A Critical Guide To The Literature Natives written by Michael Marien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
The Sane Alternative
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Author : James Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Sane Alternative written by James Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Alternatives
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Alternatives written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Environmental policy categories.
System Theories And A Priori Aspects Of Perception
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Author : J.S. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 1998-04-21
System Theories And A Priori Aspects Of Perception written by J.S. Jordan and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-21 with Psychology categories.
This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations. This line of research was neglected as American psychology migrated towards behaviourism, where perception came to be thought of as being both a neural response to an external stimulus and a mediating neural stimulus leading to, or causing a muscular response. As such, perception becomes a question of how it is the perceiver creates neural representations of the physical world. Gestalt psychology, on the other hand, focused on perception itself, utilising the term Phenomenological Field; a term that elegantly nests perception and the organism within their respective, as well as relative, levels of organisation. With the development of servo-mechanisms during the second world war, systems theory began to take on momentum within psychology, and then in the 1970s William T Powers brought the notion of servo-control to perception in his book, Behavior: The Control of Perception. Since then, scientists have come to see nature not as linear chain of contingent cause-effect relationships, but rather, as a non linear, unpredictable nesting of self referential, emergent coordinations, best described as Chaos theory. The implications for perception are astounding, while maintaining the double-aspect nature of perception espoused by the Gestalt psychologists. In short, system theories model perception within the context of a functioning organism, so that objects of experience come to be seen as scale-dependent, psychophysically-neutral, phenomenological transformations of energy structures, the dynamics of which are the result of evolution, and therefore, a priori to the individual case. This a priori, homological unity among brain perception and world is revealed through the use of systems theories and represents the thrust of this book. All the authors are applying some sort of systems theory to the psychology of perception. However, unlike Dewey we have close to a century of technology we can bring to bear upon the issue. This book should be seen as a collection of such efforts.
Alternative Politics In Contemporary Japan
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Author : David H. Slater
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Alternative Politics In Contemporary Japan written by David H. Slater and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Modern social movements frequently serve as a space to voice concerns in a supportive and collective context and thus are an important venue for individuals to learn how to speak up for themselves. With the rise of new generations and advancement of technology such as digital networks, contemporary Japanese social movements and activism have transformed significantly in recent years, now with more flexibility and less reliance on ideology and institutional foundations. The new patterns provide individuals different spaces and ways to get involved in “politics,” which have shed the traditional settings and expectations. This transformation carries both advantages and risks. In Alternative Politics twelve original ethnographic studies illustrate how social movements are creating new alternatives for Japan in the current century. The term “alternative” has a double meaning. First, it refers to forms of political engagement that are outside the standard politics of political parties and institutional forums. Second, it engages with contemporary movements seeking an alternative politics that is culturally specific and historically embedded, an alternative to past periods of activism in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s often characterized as tainted, and causing the decline of social movement activity for nearly two decades. The introduction written by Slater and Steinhoff places the volume in historical, social, and methodological context and analyzes the main characteristics of the new social movements. Each chapter provides a rich description of a particular movement active between 1990 and 2020, showing what the participants wanted to achieve, how they tried to distance themselves from earlier movements, and how they used new social media and other innovations to do so. The accounts preserve the immediacy of the period when the fieldwork was conducted, but each end with a postscript bringing the movement up to date. Engagingly written by an international community of Japan specialists committed to doing extended fieldwork with small social movement groups, Alternative Politics will appeal to social scientists interested in activism and Japan specialists in various disciplines, as well as undergraduates in a wide range of courses.
Nanotechnology Research Directions For Societal Needs In 2020
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Author : Mihail C. Roco
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-06-17
Nanotechnology Research Directions For Societal Needs In 2020 written by Mihail C. Roco and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This volume presents a comprehensive perspective on the global scientific, technological, and societal impact of nanotechnology since 2000, and explores the opportunities and research directions in the next decade to 2020. The vision for the future of nanotechnology presented here draws on scientific insights from U.S. experts in the field, examinations of lessons learned, and international perspectives shared by participants from 35 countries in a series of high-level workshops organized by Mike Roco of the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with a team of American co-hosts that includes Chad Mirkin, Mark Hersam, Evelyn Hu, and several other eminent U.S. scientists. The study performed in support of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) aims to redefine the R&D goals for nanoscale science and engineering integration and to establish nanotechnology as a general-purpose technology in the next decade. It intends to provide decision makers in academia, industry, and government with a nanotechnology community perspective of productive and responsible paths forward for nanotechnology R&D.
Alternative Futures
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Alternative Futures written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Utopias categories.
American Society
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Author : Talcott Parsons
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17
American Society written by Talcott Parsons and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Social Science categories.
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creative approach to social theory.
Harold Laski Problems Of Democracy The Sovereign State And International Society
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Author : P. Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-06-11
Harold Laski Problems Of Democracy The Sovereign State And International Society written by P. Lamb and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-11 with Political Science categories.
Harold Laski, born in England at the end of the Nineteenth-century, is a theorist who helped shape political thought throughout much of the first half of the Twentieth-century. Primarily recognized for his contribution to the British pluralist tradition, arguing against state sovereignty and advocating devolution of political power to non-state organizations, Laski's latest writings focused on the relation between capitalism and the sovereign state. This book explores both Laksi's pluralist thinking as well as his later writings on the problems of maintaining and developing democracy and freedom both within and in the relations between capitalist societies. Lamb seeks to explore Laski's work on international politics and its continuing significance to the understanding of politics and the state today.