Concepts and Society (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Softcover

Jarvie, Ian C.

 
9781138971431: Concepts and Society (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
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ISBN 10: 113897143X ISBN 13: 9781138971431
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

The main concern of Dr Jarvie’s book is the relation of belief to action. He argues that people act in society because of beliefs, because of ‘the way they see things’. There is the world of physical and social conditioning – where fixed roles, tropisms, adaptations seem to operate; there is the world of mind – where action, alternatively, seems to originate; but then there is Karl Popper’s ‘third world’ – where dwell the objects of thought (ideals, theories, beliefs, values) which ‘directly affect how people act, and thus affect the way the world is’. Reform, change, improvement, modification, all proceed from the competitive interaction between our private beliefs about the world, and their ‘third world’ brothers. Jarvie contends that the struggle of privately held beliefs to realize themselves in the world through the actions of their believers is a fundamental force behind social change.

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I. C. Jarvie

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113897143X
ISBN 13 
9781138971431
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
234

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