Exploring the Complexities of Human Action

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Exploring the Complexities of Human Action offers a bold theoretical framework for thinking systematically and integratively about what people do as they go about their lives. Raeff sets the stage for conceptualizing human action by first constructively questioning some conventional practices and assumptions in psychology, such as fragmenting, aggregating, and objectifying. She then articulates an alternative systems conceptualization of action that emphasizes multiple and interrelated processes, and characterizes human action in terms of the complexities of holism, dynamics, variability, and multi-causality. The book also applies this theoretical framework to varied human issues, including mind-body connections, art, diversity, extremism, and freedom. This approach provides a vision of humanity that promotes complex and empathic understanding of human beings that can bring people together to pursue common goals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-07-21
Mått239 x 157 x 38 mm
Vikt771 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor456
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190050436

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Introduction: Some Complexities Part I. Setting the StageChapter 1. Introducing PsychologyChapter 2. Taking a Theoretical TurnChapter 3. Questioning Convention Part II. Conceptualizing ActionChapter 4. Systems Theory and Introducing ActionChapter 5. Constitutive ProcessesChapter 6. Psychological ProcessesChapter 7. Developmental Processes Part III. Implications and ApplicationsChapter 8. Implications for Understanding Human Functioning Integratively and ActivelyChapter 9. Implications for Thinking about Individuality and VariabilityChapter 10. Implications for Pondering Some Complexities of Causality and MeaningChapter 11. Evidence and Research ImplicationsChapter 12. Casting a Wide NetChapter 13. Complex and Empathic Understanding

Human action is famously anything but simple, a situation made abundantly clear by Raeff in this ambitious, scholarly, and introspective work... Worth remarking are two chapters in part 3 delivering, arguably, the core of Raeff's message: "Evidence and Research Implications" (chapter 11), and "Complex and Empathic Understanding" (the final chapter, 13). These chapters alone should entice the philosophically inclined to explore this interesting work, a must-read for scholars of action theory and research.