Race and social change : a quest, a study, a call to action / Max Klau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klau, Max, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--United States--Case studies.

Social justice.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Anti-racism--United States.

Anti-racism.

Leadership--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, 2017.

Summary:

A powerful study illuminates our nation's collective civic fault lines Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action focuses on a provocative social science experiment with the potential to address these needs. Through an analysis grounded in the perspectives of developmental psychology, adaptive leadership and complex systems theory, the inquiry at the heart of this book illuminates dynamics of race and social change in surprising and important ways. Author Max Klau explains how his own quest for insight into these matters led to the empirical study at the heart of this book, and he presents the results of years of research that integrate findings at the individual, group, and whole system levels of analysis. It's an effort to explore one of the most controversial and deeply divisive subject's in American civic life using the tools of social science and empiricism. Readers will: * Review a long tradition of classic, provocative social science experiments and learn how the study presented here extends that tradition into new and unexplored territory * Engage with findings from years of research that reveal insights into dynamics of race and social change unfolding simultaneously at the individual, group, and whole systems levels * Encounter a call to action with implications for our own personal journeys and for national policy at this critical moment in American civic life At a moment when our nation is once again bitterly divided around matters at the heart of American civic life, Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action seeks to push our collective journey forward with insights that promise to promote insight, understanding, and healing.

Contents:

A personal quest

Introduction to classic social psychology experiments

Understanding systems, part I : systems dynamics

Understanding systems, part II : development towards complexity, fractals, and the hidden process driving social change

The separation exercises

Findings at the interpersonal and intergroup levels

The whole system level of analysis

Lessons for the real world part I : understanding systems thinking and the process of awakening

Lessons for the real world part II : on power, control, and the interconnectedness of our inner and outer worlds

The (dual) call to action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119359432

1119359430

9781119359418

1119359414

OCLC:

972289863