Ian C. Jarvie

Concepts and Society (RLE Social Theory) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The main concern of Dr Jarvie's book is the relation of belief to action. He argues that people act in society because of beliefs, because of 'the way they see things'. There is the world of physical and social conditioning - where fixed roles, tropisms, adaptations seem to operate; there is the world of mind - where action, alternatively, seems to originate; but then there is Karl Popper's 'third world' - where dwell the objects of thought (ideals, theories, beliefs, values) which 'directly affect how people act, and thus affect the way the world is'. Reform, change, improvement, modification, all proceed from the competitive interaction between our private beliefs about the world, and their 'third world' brothers. Jarvie contends that the struggle of privately held beliefs to realize themselves in the world through the actions of their believers is a fundamental force behind social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317652014
• Artikelnr.: 41501369

Autorenporträt

I. C. Jarvie

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Preliminaries 1. The Logic of the Situation 2. Understanding and
Explaining in the Social Sciences Part 2. Case Studies 3. Between Adult and
Child: Notes on the Teenage Problem 4. The Idea of Social Class Part 3.
Concepts and Society 5. The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered 6. Concepts
and Society