Explanation and power : the control of human behavior / Morse Peckham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peckham, Morse.

Series:

A Continuum book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Psychology).

Psycholinguistics.

Personality.

Culture.

Social institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Seabury Press, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explanation and Power was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The meaning of any utterance or any sign is the response to that utterance or sign: this is the fundamental proposition behind Morse Peckham's Explanation and Power. Published in 1979 and now available in paperback for the first time, Explanation and Power grew out of Peckham's efforts, as a scholar of Victorian literature, to understand the nature of Roma

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Explanation; II. The Nonverbal; III. Culture and Social Institutions; IV. The Individual; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5576-6

OCLC:

182732699