Book Description
Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.
Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0671657135
Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.
Author : Uriel G. Foa
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : John Levi Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400830532
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form structures. He looks at a range of social structures, from smaller ones like families and street gangs to larger ones such as communes and, ultimately, nation-states. He finds that the relationships best suited to forming larger structures are those that thrive in conditions of inequality; that are incomplete and as sparse as possible, and thereby avoid the problem of completion in which interacting members are required to establish too many relationships; and that abhor transitivity rather than assuming it. Social Structures argues that these "patronage" relationships, which often serve as means of loose coordination in the absence of strong states, are nevertheless the scaffolding of the social structures most distinctive to the modern state, namely the command army and the political party.
Author : Uriel G. Foa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN :
Author : Uriel G. Foa
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jaan Valsiner
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cognition and culture
ISBN : 9788132108504
This book presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment of culture in human lives.
Author : Philip Pettit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198026617
What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects? How does their intentionality and thought connect with their social nature and their communal experience? How do the answers to these questions shape the assumptions which it is legitimate to make in social explanation and political evaluation? These are the broad-ranging issues which Pettit addresses in this novel study. The Common Mind argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial. It holds by the holistic view that human thought requires communal resources while denying that this social connection compromises the autonomy of individuals. And, in developing the significance of this view of social subjects--this holistic individualism--it outlines a novel framework for social and political theory. Within this framework, social theory is allowed to follow any of a number of paths: space is found for intentional interpretation and decision-theoretic reconstruction, for structural explanation and rational choice derivation. But political theory is treated less ecumenically. The framework raises serious questions about contractarian and atomistic modes of thought and it points the way to a republican rethinking of liberal commitments.
Author : Christian von Scheve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317577752
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in understanding emotion at the level of the individual mind and body. Emotion and Social Structures embraces both perspectives to uncover the fundamental role of affect and emotion in the emergence and reproduction of social order. How do culture and social structure influence the cognitive and bodily basis of emotion? How do large-scale patterns of feeling emerge? And how do emotions promote the coordination of social action and interaction? Integrating theories and evidence from disciplines such as psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Christian von Scheve argues for a sociological understanding of emotion as a bi-directional mediator between social action and social structure. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of emotion, microsociology, and cognitive sociology, as well as social psychology, cognitive science, and affective neuroscience.
Author : Kjell Y. Törnblom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 0190066997
"Humans are social animals. Thus, we cannot survive in isolation. We satisfy our needs through seeking, maintaining, and engaging in relationships and interaction with other people. However, social interactions are complex"--
Author : Uriel G. Foa
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN :