The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3 : : The Socio-Ecological Perspective /

The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3 : : The Socio-Ecological Perspective / / Eric Trist, Beulah Trist, Hugh Murray.

World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Murray, Hugh,
Trist, Beulah,
Trist, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (736 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Historical Overview
  • Introduction to Volume III
  • The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments
  • The Next Thirty Years
  • Active Maladaptive Strategies
  • The Extended Social Field and Its Informational Structure
  • Active Adaptation
  • Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains
  • Hyperturbulence and the Emergence of Type V Environments
  • The Vortical Environment
  • Educational Paradigms
  • Adaptive Systems for Our Future Governance
  • Methodological Premises of Social Forecasting
  • A Graph Theoretic Approach to the Investigation of System-Environment Relationships
  • Causal Path Analysis
  • Project Australia
  • Co-Genetic Logic
  • On Various Approaches to the Study of Organizations
  • The Search Conference
  • Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning
  • Connective Planning
  • Planning for Real but Different Worlds
  • Policy
  • The Environment and System Response Capability
  • Industrial Democracy and Regional Decentralization
  • Quality of Working Life and Community Development
  • On Participative Democracy
  • Design and Change in Ship Organization
  • A Position Statement on International Development
  • Some Observations on Workplace Reform
  • Paradigms for Societal Transition
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index

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