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The Explanation of Social Action
Author | : John Levi Martin |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780199773312 |
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Why questions? What explanations? -- Causality and persons -- Authority and experience -- The grid of perception -- Action in and on a world -- A social aesthetics -- Valence and habit -- Fields and games -- Explanations explained
The Explanation of Social Action
Author | : John Levi Martin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0197601626 |
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This thought-provoking and ambitious book is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. This paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development of computational social science.
A Theory of Social Action
Author | : R. Tuomela |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789400963177 |
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It is somewhat surprising to find out how little serious theorizing there is in philosophy (and in social psychology as well as sociology) on the nature of social actions or joint act. hons in the sense of actions performed together by several agents. Actions performed by single agents have been extensively discussed both in philosophy and in psycho~ogy. There is, ac cordingly, a booming field called action theory in philosophy but it has so far strongly concentrated on actions performed by single agents only. We of course should not forget game theory, a discipline that systematically studies the strategic interac tion between several rational agents. Yet this important theory, besides being restricted to strongly rational acting, fails to study properly several central problems related to the concep tual nature of social action. Thus, it does not adequately clarify and classify the various types of joint action (except perhaps from the point of view of the agents' utilities). This book presents a systematic theory of social action. Because of its reliance on so-called purposive causation and generation it is called the purposive-causal theory. This work also discusses several problems related to the topic of social action, for instance that of how to create from this perspective the most central concepts needed by social psychology and soci ology. While quite a lot of ground is covered in the book, many important questions have been left unanswered and many others unasked as well.
The Myth of Social Action
Author | : Colin Campbell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1998-07-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521646367 |
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The Myth of Social Action, first published in 1996, is a powerful critique of the sociology of the time and a call to reject the prevailing orthodoxy. Arguing that sociological theory had lost its way, Colin Campbell mounts a case for a new 'dynamic interpretivism' a perspective on human conduct which is more inkeeping with the spirit of traditional Weberian action theory. Discussing and dismissing one by one the main arguments of those who reject individualistic action theory, he demonstrates that this has been wrongly rejected in favour of the interactional, social situationalist approach now dominating sociological thought.
The Logic of Social Action
Author | : Raymond Boudon |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0710008570 |
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The Unintended Consequences of Social Action
Author | : Raymond Boudon |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781349043811 |
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The Structure of Social Action
Author | : Talcott Parsons |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105012273749 |
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Social Action
Author | : Seumas Miller |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001-11-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521788862 |
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Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social phenomena, and the fact that conventions and normativity are features of human activity. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. A distinctive feature of the book is that it applies these theories of social action categories to some important moral issues that arise in social contexts such as the collective responsibility for environmental pollution, humanitarian intervention, and dealing with the rights of minority groups. Avoiding both the excessively atomistic individualism of rational choice theorists and implausible collectivist assumptions, this important book will be widely read by philosophers of the social sciences, political scientists and sociologists.