Collective Processes

Author : Natalie Donat-Cattin
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035624704

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Collective Processes by Natalie Donat-Cattin Pdf

What does a collective process in architecture entail and how does it influence the planning of our built environment? Although the hierarchically organized office with its claim to individual authorship is still the dominant form of architecture firm, more and more horizontally organized collectives with alternative approaches to architectural planning are emerging. In this insightful survey of renowned European collectives, Natalie Donat-Cattin offers an overview of their working methods, organizational forms, goals, and projects. The book includes statements and projects by: A-A Collective, (ab)Normal, Assemble, baukuh, CNCRT, Colectivo Warehouse, Collectif Etc, constructLab, false mirror office, Fosbury Architecture, la-clique, Lacol, n'UNDO, orizzontale, raumlabor, X=(T=E=N), and Zuloark.

Author : Herbert Blumer,Tamotsu Shibutani
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412825679

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Human Nature and Collective Behavior by Herbert Blumer,Tamotsu Shibutani Pdf

Tamotsu Shibutani is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Social Processes: An Introduction to Sociology and Improvised News: A Sociological Study of Rumor.

Author : Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Volkov
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 288124016X

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Collective Phenomena in Current-carrying Plasmas by Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Volkov Pdf

Author : Gianfranco Minati,Eliano Pessa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387359410

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Collective Beings by Gianfranco Minati,Eliano Pessa Pdf

This book offers an overview on the background to systemics. It introduces the concept of Collective Being as a Multiple System established by processes of emergence and self-organization of the same agents simultaneously or dynamically interacting in different ways. The principles underlying this approach are grounded on the theoretical role of the observer. This view allows to model in a more suitable way complex systems, such as in physics, biology and economics.

Author : Aline Courie-Lemeur
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781394277643

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Innovation, Collective Intelligence and Resiliency in Healthcare Organizations by Aline Courie-Lemeur Pdf

Resilience in healthcare organizations is a complex issue, involving all stakeholders in the healthcare field. It is a highly topical issue, even more so in the wake of the recent health crisis. This book explores the impact of collective intelligence on the resilience of these organizations, and the role played by innovation. Health organizations comprise the structures and systems involved in treating patients, as well as healthcare professionals with medical, social or medico-social expertise, along with institutional and administrative players in the field. Innovation, Collective Intelligence and Resiliency in Healthcare Organizations alternates between theoretical readings and illustrative case studies. Their diversity is the result of their contributors: university researchers, institutional players from healthcare authorities, practicing caregivers in hospital structures or healthcare coordination support systems, and managers of healthcare structures and systems.

Author : Sara Rachel Chant,Frank Hindriks,Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199936519

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From Individual to Collective Intentionality by Sara Rachel Chant,Frank Hindriks,Gerhard Preyer Pdf

Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing tennis. In the past two or three decades it has become increasingly popular to analyze such collective actions in terms of collective intentions. This volume brings together ten new philosophical essays that address issues such as how individuals succeed in maintaining coordination throughout the performance of a collective action, whether groups can actually believe propositions or whether they merely accept them, and what kind of evidence, if any, disciplines such as cognitive science and semantics provide in support of irreducibly collective states. The theories of the Big Four of collective intentionality -- Michael Bratman, Raimo Tuomela, John Searle, and Margaret Gilbert -- and the Big Five of Social Ontology -- which in addition to the Big Four includes Philip Pettit -- play a central role in almost all of these essays. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including dynamical systems theory, economics, and psychology, the contributors develop existing theories, criticize them, or provide alternatives to them. Several essays challenge the idea that there is a straightforward dichotomy between individual and collective level rationality, and explore the interplay between these levels in order to shed new light on the alleged discontinuities between them. These contributions make abundantly clear that it is no longer an option simply to juxtapose analyses of individual and collective level phenomena and maintain that there is a discrepancy. Some go as far as arguing that on closer inspection the alleged discontinuities dissolve

Author : Chen Schechter
Publisher : Corwin
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781544394091

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The Collective Wisdom of Practice by Chen Schechter Pdf

Providing a model for how to learn from successes—instead of failures—The Collective Wisdom of Practice introduces an assets-based approach to designing and implementing professional learning and growth.

Author : Jack Saul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000527940

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Collective Trauma, Collective Healing by Jack Saul Pdf

Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community-based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing clinical services that are both culturally and contextually appropriate. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes to the field and the world since the book’s initial publication. The book draws on experience working with survivors, their families, and communities in the Holocaust, post-war Kosovo, the Liberian civil wars, and post-9/11 Lower Manhattan. It tracks the development of community programs and projects based on a family and community resilience approach, including those that enhance the collective capacities for narration and public conversation. Clinicians and community practitioners will come away from Collective Trauma, Collective Healing with a solid understanding of new roles they may play in disasters—roles that encourage them to recognize and enhance the resilience and coping skills in families, organizations, and the community at large.

Author : Angela Kallhoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000383287

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Climate Justice and Collective Action by Angela Kallhoff Pdf

This book develops a theory of climate cooperation designed for concerted action, which emphasises the role and function of collectives in achieving shared climate goals. In debates on climate change action, research focuses on three major goals: on mitigation, on adaptation and on transformation. Even though these goals are accepted, concerted action is still difficult to realize. Climate Justice and Collective Action provides an analysis of why this is the case and develops a theory of climate cooperation designed to overcome the existing roadblocks. Angela Kallhoff starts with a thorough analysis of failures of collective action in the context of climate change action. Taking inspiration from theories of water cooperation, she then establishes a theory of joint action that reframes climate goals as shared goals and highlights the importance of adhering to principles of fairness. This also includes an exploration of the normative claims working in the background of climate cooperation. Finally, Kallhoff puts forward proposals for a fair allocation of duties to cooperate with respect to climate goals. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate action, climate justice, environmental sociology and environmental philosophy and ethics more broadly.

Author : Patrick M. Jenlink,Bela H. Banathy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387758435

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Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation by Patrick M. Jenlink,Bela H. Banathy Pdf

This is the second volume to offer a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. It explores different modes of conversation and the application of design conversation within and across various types of human experiences. Coverage examines design conversation from philosophical, cultural, spiritual, and historical perspectives. It also explores philosophical and theoretical perspectives as well as methodological ideas related to conversation.

Author : Bronwyn Davies,Susanne Gannon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335229659

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EBOOK: Doing Collective Biography by Bronwyn Davies,Susanne Gannon Pdf

“At last a book that not only describes what collective biography is but also explains how to use it … The book describes how to set up collective biography workshops in which participants examine how discursive structures and power relations have both enabled and limited the conditions of possibility for their lived experience. Focusing on a more complicated reflexivity than is usually described in social science research, collective biography, inspired by Frigga Haug and refined by Davies, will no doubt be used increasingly by researchers interested in the production of subjects in a postmodern world.” Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, University of Georgia, USA This book introduces the reader to collective biography, an innovative research methodology for use in education and the social sciences. The methodology of collective biography overcomes the theory/practice divide, by putting theory to use in everyday life, and using everyday life to understand and to extend theory. Doing Collective Biography provides guidelines for developing a collective biography project and demonstrates how these guidelines emerged from and were shaped by projects on such topics as subjectivity, power, agency, reflexivity, literacy, gender, and neoliberalism at work. Each chapter gives a detailed example of collective biography in practice, showing how a group of students and/or scholars can work collaboratively to investigate aspects of the production of subjectivity, and clearly demonstrates how poststructural theory can be elaborated and refracted through the experiences of ordinary everyday life. This is key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on Education and social science courses with a research element, as well as for academics and professionals undertaking research projects.

Author : Thomas J. Anastasio,Kristen Ann Ehrenberger,Patrick Watson,Wenyi Zhang
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262300919

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Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation by Thomas J. Anastasio,Kristen Ann Ehrenberger,Patrick Watson,Wenyi Zhang Pdf

An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia. We form individual memories by a process known as consolidation: the conversion of immediate and fleeting bits of information into a stable and accessible representation of facts and events. These memories provide a version of the past that helps us navigate the present and is critical to individual identity. In this book, Thomas Anastasio, Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Patrick Watson, and Wenyi Zhang propose that social groups form collective memories by analogous processes. Using facts and insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and history, they describe a single process of consolidation with analogous—not merely comparable—manifestations on any level, whether brain, family, or society. They propose a three-in-one model of memory consolidation, composed of a buffer, a relator, and a generalizer, all within the consolidating entity, that can explain memory consolidation phenomena on individual and collective levels. When consolidation is disrupted by traumatic injury to a brain structure known as the hippocampus, memories in the process of being consolidated are lost. In individuals, this is known as retrograde amnesia. The authors hypothesize a "social hippocampus" and argue that disruption at the collective level can result in collective retrograde amnesia. They offer the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as an example of trauma to the social hippocampus and present evidence for the loss of recent collective memory in mainland Chinese populations that experienced the Cultural Revolution.

Author : McDougall, William
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology by McDougall, William Pdf

The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology by William McDougall: Explore the intricacies of collective psychology and group behavior with William McDougall's seminal work. The book delves into the psychological mechanisms that drive human interactions within groups and explores the influence of social dynamics on individual behavior. "The Group Mind" remains a foundational text in the field of social psychology, providing valuable insights into the complexities of human society. Key Aspects of the Book "The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology": Social Psychology: McDougall's book introduces readers to the foundational principles of social psychology and group dynamics. Behavioral Analysis: The author examines the ways in which individuals' actions are influenced by group norms, values, and interactions. Collective Behavior: "The Group Mind" offers a comprehensive exploration of how human behavior shifts and evolves in the context of group settings. William McDougall was a British-American psychologist known for his significant contributions to the field of experimental psychology and social psychology. Born in 1871, McDougall's work focused on topics such as instinct, emotion, and group behavior. "The Group Mind" remains a foundational text in social psychology and has influenced subsequent research and theories on collective behavior and the dynamics of group interactions.

Author : Annalisa Sannino,Viv Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135131128

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Learning and Collective Creativity by Annalisa Sannino,Viv Ellis Pdf

This book brings together leading representatives of activity-theoretically-oriented and socioculturally-oriented research around the world, to discuss creativity as a collective endeavour strongly related to learning to face the societal challenges of our world. As history shows, major accomplishments in arts and technological innovations have allowed us to see the world differently and to identify new learning perspectives for the future which were seldom limited to individual action or isolated activities. This book, while primarily focused on educational insitutions, extends its examination of creativity and learning to include other settings (such as government agencies) beyond the limits of schooling.

Author : Alexandros Kioupkiolis,Giorgos Katsambekis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317071945

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Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today by Alexandros Kioupkiolis,Giorgos Katsambekis Pdf

The 'Arab spring', the Spanish indignados, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the Occupy Wall Street movement all share a number of distinctive traits; they made extensive use of social networking and were committed to the direct democratic participation of all as they co-ordinated and conducted their actions. Leaderless and self-organized, they were socially and ideologically heterogeneous, dismissing fixed agendas or ideologies. Still, the assembled multitudes that animated these mobilizations often claimed to speak in the name of ’the people’, and they aspired to empowered forms of egalitarian self-government in common. Similar features have marked collective resistances from the Zapatistas and the Seattle protests onwards, giving rise to theoretical and practical debates over the importance of these ideological and political forms. By engaging with the controversy between the autonomous, biopolitical ’multitude’ of Hardt and Negri and the arguments in favour of the hegemony of ’the people’ advanced by J. Rancière, E. Laclau, C. Mouffe and S. Zizek the central aim of this book is to discuss these instances of collective mobilization, to probe the innovative practices and ideas they have developed and to debate their potential to reinvigorate democracy whilst seeking something better than ’disaster capitalism’.