The purpose of this book is to provide insights that make social interactions more predictable by better understanding how people come to the conclusion that a particular social action is both possible and desirable in a particular relational situation. This it does by demarcating and exploring the implications of a set of situational logics that are grounded in how a person can coherently choose not only to comprehend the actuality of a relational situation, but also to understand why social actions are carried out the way they are in that situation.
Author(s): John Dixon, Rhys Dogan, Alan Sanderson
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 281
THE SITUATIONAL LOGIC OF SOCIAL ACTIONS
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CONTENTS......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
RELATIONAL SITUATIONS IN THE WORLD OF PERSONS......Page 20
THE RELATIONAL INDIVIDUAL......Page 24
MAKING SENSE OF A SOCIAL ARENA......Page 27
EPISTEMOLOGY AND TRUTH......Page 33
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL DICHOTOMY: NATURALISM AND HERMENEUTICS......Page 37
ONTOLOGY AND REALITY......Page 66
THE ONTOLOGICAL DICHOTOMY: STRUCTURE AND AGENCY......Page 68
THE CONTENDING SOCIAL-REALITY DISPOSITIONS......Page 85
CONCLUSION......Page 89
ENGAGING WITH OTHERS: THE CALCULUS......Page 91
RELATIONSHIP-ARRANGING PRINCIPLES: THE OPTIONS......Page 93
FRAMING A RELATIONAL SITUATION TO BEST ADVANTAGE......Page 96
HOMO HIERARCHUS AND THE HIERARCHICAL SITUATIONAL LOGIC......Page 99
HOMO SOCIOLOGICUS AND THE EGALITARIAN SITUATIONAL LOGIC......Page 111
HOMO EXISTENTIALIS AND THE EGOCENTRIC SITUATIONAL LOGIC......Page 118
HOMO ECONOMICUS AND THE INDIVIDUALISTIC SITUATIONAL LOGIC......Page 133
CONCLUSION......Page 143
INTRODUCTION......Page 145
THE INCOMPATIBILITIES OF THE CONTENDING SITUATIONAL LOGICS......Page 146
THE CHALLENGE OF FOLLOWING A DIFFERENT SITUATIONAL LOGIC......Page 148
THE CHALLENGE OF UNDIMINISHED COGNITIVE DISSONANCE......Page 172
CONCLUSION......Page 173
INTRODUCTION......Page 175
REFLEXIVE INTROSPECTION AND THE SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING......Page 176
SOCIAL MEDIATION AND THE SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING......Page 179
MORPHOGENETIC METHODOLOGY AND THE SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING......Page 182
APPLYING MORPHOGENETIC METHODOLOGY TO A SOCIAL ARENA......Page 194
CONCLUSION......Page 198
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 203
ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 265
INDEX......Page 267
