Fred Emery

On Purposeful Systems

An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior u as a system of purposeful (teleological) events

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780202307985
• ISBN-10: 0202307980
• Artikelnr.: 22192430

Autorenporträt

Fred Emery

Inhaltsangabe

AldineTransaction Introduction
Preface
I. Foundations
1. On Human Behavior as a System
2. Structure
Function
and Purpose
3. The Individuality of Psychological Systems
II. The Process of Pursuing Purposes
4. Generation of Inputs: Perception
Consciousness
and Memory
5. Modeling the Situation: Beliefs
6. Evaluating the Situation: Feelings and Attitudes
7. Formulation and Evaluation of Choices: Thought and Intuition
8. Purposeful Systems and their Environments
III. Interactions of Purposeful Systems
9. Feelings and Communication
10. Signs
Messages
and Language
11. Models of Communication
12. Conflict
Cooperation
and Competition
IV. Social Systems and Beyond
13. Social Groups as Systems
14. Ideal-Seeking Systems
15. Epilogue: Rounding the Conceptual Circle
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Name Index
Subject Index