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Social action: a teleological account

By Miller , Seumas

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0511041004, 052178316X, 0521788862, 9780511041006, 9780511612954, 0511612958
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1270158 bytes)
Pages
xi, 308 pages\322
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Instituties;POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Soci

Description

Social action is central to social thought. Avoiding both the excessively atomistic individualism of rational choice theorists and implausible collectivist assumptions, this 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.;Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theories of Social Action; 2 Joint Action; 3 Conventions; 4 Social Norms; 5 Organisations, Agency, and Action; 6 Social Institutions and Social Groups; 7 Collective Rights; 8 Collective Responsibility; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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