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Cooperation, community, and co-ops in a global era

By Carl Ratner (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2013
ISBN
1461458242, 978-1-4614-5824-1, 978-1-4614-5825-8
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-5825-8
Google Books ID
g5WTgR3mN2oC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3335313 bytes)
Series
International and cultural psychology
Edition
1
Pages
230\237
Library
AvaxHome
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-03-27 19:05:18
Cross Cultural Psychology

Description

Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible. But cooperation is not easy in a world dominated by individual, cultural, and national selfish interests. The opposition to cooperation means that cooperation is not natural, but must be instituted through an intellectual and social struggle against countervailing forces. This book discusses issues that are necessary to describe the nature of cooperation and how it can be promoted as a social and ethical ideal amidst a sea of competing interests. Dr. Ratner uses the framework of cooperativism, that is the system of social institutions, social philosophy, cultural psychology and politics that promotes cooperation, as a starting point. Elements of cooperativism are derived from a rigorous analysis of various sources, including the needs of tendencies of human culture and human psychology.

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