Cultural Contingencies

Author : Peter Lamal
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Contingencies written by Peter Lamal and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a number of books devoted to a behavior analytic approach to cultural practices have appeared, and this book falls within that domain. At the same time, however, this book is unique in that it minimizes the space devoted to abstract discussion of behavior analytic concepts and principles. Instead, the authors focus exclusively upon particular cultural practices, which are disparate and drawn from three countries, ranging from public health practices to historical utopian communities to various practices of visual artists, art dealers, and gallery owners. In addition, cultural practices regarding women and the changing Japanese society's effect on Japanese women's behavior are considered. Changes in policies aimed at increasing the birth rate in Quebec are analyzed in behavior analytic terms. The wide range of cultural practices addressed by this book are given coherence by the fact that all are addressed by the various authors in terms of behavior analytic concepts and principles. This book is further confirmation of the fact, unappreciated by some, that a behavior analytic approach can address practices that consist of the behaviors of large numbers of people. The authors demonstrate that the behavior analytic approach is not culture-bound. Rather, they show that behavior analytic concepts and principles can illuminate human practices in any culture.

Author : Peter A. Lamal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781560321231
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavioral Analysis of Societies and Cultural Practices written by Peter A. Lamal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to establish a new subdiscipline, namely, behaviour analysis of societies and cultural practices. Included is a discussion of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It looks at entire cultures as the units of analysis and is for anyone with a basic knowledge of the principles of behaviour.

Author : Kennon A. Lattal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475745907
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavior Theory and Philosophy written by Kennon A. Lattal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has three goals with respect to the interplay between philosophy and behavioral psychology's experimental, applied, and interpretive levels of knowing. It aims to examine core principles in the philosophy of science, as they are interpreted by and relate to behavioral psychology; how these core principles interact with different problem areas in the study of human behavior; and how experimental, applied, and interpretive analyses complement one another to advance the understanding of behavior and, in so doing, also the philosophy of science.

Author : Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674167858
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingencies of Value written by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory--haunted by the heresy of relativism--remains captive to classical formulas. Barbara Herrnstein Smith's book confronts the conceptual problems and sociopolitical conflicts at the heart of these issues and raises their discussion to a new level of sophistication. Polemical without being rancorous, Contingencies of Value mounts a powerful critique of traditional conceptions of value, taste, judgment, and justification. Through incisive discussions of works by, among others, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Northrop Frye, Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, and Jürgen Habermas, Smith develops an illuminating alternative framework for the explanation of these topics. All value, she argues, is radically contingent. Neither an objective property of things nor merely a subjective response to them, it is the variable effect of numerous interacting economies that is, systems of apportionment and circulation of "goods." Aesthetic value, moral value, and the truth-value of judgments are no exceptions, though traditional critical theory, ethics, and philosophy of language have always tried to prove otherwise. Smith deals in an original way with a wide variety of contemporary issues--from the relation between popular and high culture to the conflicting conception of human motives and actions in economic theory and classical humanism. In an important final chapter, she addresses directly the crucial problem of relativism and explains why a denial of the objectivity of value does not--as commonly feared and charged--produce either a fatuous egalitarianism or moral and political paralysis.

Author : Gary S. Gregg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198042358
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society written by Gary S. Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifteen years, psychologists have rediscovered culture and its influence on emotion, thought, and self. Many researchers have come to the conclusion that the world's cultures can be ranked according to the degree to which they are individualist or collectivist, with Western cultures falling at the individualist end and non-Western cultures at the collectivist end. These scholars argue that while individualist cultures give rise to "independent" selves, leading Westerners to think and act autonomously, collectivist cultures foster "interdependent" selves, leading non-Westerners, embedded in social-relationships, to think and act relationally. Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society presents an alternative to the individualist- collectivist approach to identity. Unlike most psychological and anthropological studies of culture and self, Gary Gregg's work directly investigates individuals, using "study of lives"-style interviews with young adults living in villages and small towns in southern Morocco. Analyzing these young adults' life-narratives, Gregg builds a theory of culture and identity that differs from prevailing psychological and anthropological models in important respects. In contrast to modernist theories of identity as unified, the life-narratives show individuals to articulate a small set of shifting identities. In contrast to post-modern theories that claim people have a kaleidoscopic multiplicity of fluid identities, the narratives show that the identities are integrated by repeated use of culturally-specific self-symbols, metaphors, and story-plots. Most importantly, the life-narratives show these young Moroccans' self-representations to be pervasively shaped by the volatile cultural struggle between Western-style "modernity" and authentic Muslim "tradition." Offering a new approach to the study of identity, the volume will be of interest to cross-cultural psychologists, anthropologists, scholars of Middle-East societies, and researchers specializing in the study of lives.

Author : Association for History and Computing. International Conference
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9789065501424
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structures and Contingencies in Computerized Historical Research written by Association for History and Computing. International Conference and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849896
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures in Motion written by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Brigid Carroll
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526470845
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership written by Brigid Carroll and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a global and critical perspective with a diverse range of cases and examples throughout, this is an inspiring read for developing leaders operating within global and multicultural work settings. ‘Power’ is taken as central theme for this book, opening up discussion about issues that are often neglected in leadership texts i.e. fairness, equity, justice, resistance, conflict, emancipation, oppression, rationality, politics, globalization, the natural environment, and knowledge. New to this edition: A new prologue: ‘An Unconventional History of Leadership Studies′ A new epilogue on ‘Embodied Leadership, Ethics, and its Affects’ written by David Knights, one of the authors of Embodied Research Methods (pub April 2019) 3 new topical integrative case studies, based on current events: Jacinda Ardern’s pregnancy when PM; #MeToo; and Suma Foods co-operative Updated research and pedagogical features throughout, including the ‘Leadership on Screen’ feature The book is complemented by a range of online resources including PowerPoint slides, videos of the book’s authors providing an overview of the chapter and discussing why the topic is important, access to journal articles discussed in the book, and links to additional relevant material.

Author : Peter Lamal
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Contingencies written by Peter Lamal and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a number of books devoted to a behavior analytic approach to cultural practices have appeared, and this book falls within that domain. At the same time, however, this book is unique in that it minimizes the space devoted to abstract discussion of behavior analytic concepts and principles. Instead, the authors focus exclusively upon particular cultural practices, which are disparate and drawn from three countries, ranging from public health practices to historical utopian communities to various practices of visual artists, art dealers, and gallery owners. In addition, cultural practices regarding women and the changing Japanese society's effect on Japanese women's behavior are considered. Changes in policies aimed at increasing the birth rate in Quebec are analyzed in behavior analytic terms. The wide range of cultural practices addressed by this book are given coherence by the fact that all are addressed by the various authors in terms of behavior analytic concepts and principles. This book is further confirmation of the fact, unappreciated by some, that a behavior analytic approach can address practices that consist of the behaviors of large numbers of people. The authors demonstrate that the behavior analytic approach is not culture-bound. Rather, they show that behavior analytic concepts and principles can illuminate human practices in any culture.

Author : Stuart Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134767102
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychology of Aid written by Stuart Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing on the social aspects of aid and its motivational foundations.