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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Hugh, Editor.

Trist, Beulah, Editor.

Trist, Eric, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

Social psychology.

Social psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (731 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. At the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, they developed a pioneering mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes "The Social Engagement of Social Science." Previous volumes presented two of three interdependent perspectives: the socio-psychological (Volume I, 1990) and the socio-technical (Volume II, 1993). The latest volume, on the socio-ecological perspective, completes the set.The socio-ecological perspective is concerned with the coevolution of systems and their environments. It considers the broader environment which shapes not only the task environments of socio-technical organizations but the institutional and cultural environment that confronts the individual.Volume III focuses on nonhierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments. This perspective provides a guide to institution building for the future.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5128-1906-9

OCLC:

954123742