ISBN:
9781351501965
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Emery, Fred On Purposeful Systems : An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Social systems
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyrigt Page -- dedication -- Contents -- Aldine Transaction 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 -- Conclusion to Part II: A Paradigm for Inquiry -- II 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
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