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Category Archives: Social
Social cues to joint actions: the role of shared goals
In daily life, we do not just move independently from how others move. Rather, the way we move conveys information about our cognitive and affective attitudes toward our conspecifics. However, the implicit social substrate of our movements is not easy … Continue reading
How to measure social pain
Against the grain of much twentieth-century research on the nature and function of pain in humans, which tended to focus on injury and the bodily mechanics of pain signaling, recent neuroscientific research has opened a new front in the study … Continue reading
Posted in Pain, Social, Social pain
Tagged pain, social, Social pain
Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era
What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our … Continue reading
Posted in Neoliberal ideology, Neoliberalism, Resilience, Social, Social resilience
Tagged neoliberal ideology, neoliberalism, resilience, social, Social resilience
Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order
This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social … Continue reading
Posted in Morphogenesis, Morphogenic society, Morphostasis, Social, Social change, Social order
Tagged Morphogenesis, Morphogenic society, Morphostasis, social, social change, social order
Social Morphogenesis
The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. … Continue reading
Posted in Morphogenesis, Morphostasis, Social, Social change
Tagged Morphogenesis, Morphostasis, social, social change
Sociobiology and Epistemology
The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, theoretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that deals with the extent to which genetic factors influence or control patterns of behavior as well as the extent to … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Epistemology, Evolution, Social, Sociobiology
Tagged biology, epistemology, evolution, social, sociobiology
Emergence of Social Cohesion in a Society of Greedy Individuals
Human wellbeing in modern societies relies on social cohesion, which can be characterized by high levels of cooperation and a large number of social ties. Both features, however, are frequently challenged by individual self-interest. In fact, the stability of social … Continue reading
The Architecture of the Information Society
The Unified Theory of Information considers society a self-organising and information-generating system hierarchically made up of a series of encapsulated subsystems, as there are technology, ecology, economy, polity, culture. Information society is considered to be endowed with the capability of … Continue reading
Posted in Fuchs, Information, Self-organization, Social
Tagged Fuchs, information, self-organization, social class
Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural Processes
In recent years a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship has emerged on how social and cultural factors shape development. This work has provided important information about the multiple goals and pathways of development throughout the world, yet many issues … Continue reading
Psychology in Social Context
Recent years have seen an increasing recognition of issues with psychology, and a growth in critical approaches to the discipline. However, existing texts in critical psychology are rather advanced for most readers. This book provides an accessible introduction to ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Critical psychology, Psychology, Social, Social mind, Social psychology, Society
Tagged critical psychology, psychology, social, social mind, social psychology, society
