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Proposing a new scientific method and biosocial theory to explain western society / F. Mervin Baker.
Penn Museum Library GN365.9 .B335 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, F. Mervin, 1921-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociobiology.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 What Needs Explaining 1
- The Successive Waves of Social Growth in Western History and the Wave That is Coming 2
- The Problem: Why do the Waves go to Extremes? 4
- The Solution: A Preview of the Chapters Featuring Three Cockroaches 5
- Chapter 2 A Theory of Growth: Innovation, Growth and Obsolescence 9
- Positive Feedback 9
- The RGD Model: to Show How Positive Feedback Powers Waves of Growth in Species Populations and in Economic Systems 10
- Ramifications of the RGD Model: Showing How to Apply it to Political and Cultural Institutions as Well as Economic Institutions 15
- The RGD Model Ramifies Via Three Kinds of Needed Goods, or 'Supply': 1) Material Resources 2) Effects and Action-Space and 3) Evaluations 17
- Each Kind of 'Supply' Works Differently in the RGD Model 20
- Obstacles to Innovation: Cockroach I Discovered 23
- Chapter 3 Social Growth: Why it Has to be an Institutionalization Process 25
- The Additive Principle 26
- The General Additive Classification: Different Kinds of Goods Needed for Plants, Animals and Humans 28
- The Three Main Types of Control in Society 29
- The Special Additive Classification: The Different Kinds of Control Over Plant, Animal and Human Existence 31
- The Changing Combinations of Social Controls During the Institutionalization Process: Cockroach II Discovered 33
- The Two Phases of Institutionalization Process 34
- Extreme Types of Need/Opportunity Situations 35
- The Charismatic or Decontrolling Phase 36
- The Controlling Phase 38
- Chapter 4 Freeing Up the Sticky Control: How the West Escaped the Trap of Military Empire 43
- The Military-Political Ascendancy 44
- The Religious Ascendancy 45
- The Economic Ascendancy 48
- Antagonistic Growth 49
- Chapter 5 Decontrol in Modern Society: A Unique Combination of Social Controls 55
- The New Release of Undirected Control 56
- Freely Negotiated Exchange 57
- Social Decontrol 58
- Coercion Against Coercion 60
- Morality Against Morality 62
- The Role of Conscience 63
- Undirected Decontrol 65
- Chapter 6 A Recap for Reformers 71
- Prediction and Experiment 71
- Social Growth 73
- Alternative Kinds of Growth and Power 73
- Institutionalization Process and Social Controls 76
- Kinds of Social Decontrol 77
- Countervailing Powers 77
- Counteractive Controls 78
- Undirected Decontrol 79
- Voluntary Decontrol 80
- Natural Crisis: The Source of Antagonisms 81
- Three Crises 82
- Reactive Dynamism 83
- Crisis and Institutionalization 84
- Chapter 7 Reform Proposals 87
- Recover Voluntary Decontrol 88
- Complete the Separation of the Countervailing Powers 91
- Redirect the Bonds of Community and Identity 94
- Rebuild Speaker-Hearer Power 96
- Ignite the Institutionalization Process 98
- A Challenge 101
- Appendix A Definitions for the Special Additive Classification 103
- The Principle of Higher Level Negotiation 103
- Appendix B A Method for the Discovery of General Theory 119
- Concept Formation for Newtonian Dynamics 120
- Concept Formation for the Atomic Theory of Chemistry 125
- Abstracted Aspects 129
- Alterable and Generalized Models 130
- Systematization for Insight 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773483101
- OCLC:
- 39458827
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