Complexity, Society and Social Transactions: Developing a Comprehensive Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138894587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 164 str.

Thomas B. Whalen

Opis

Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from across the social sciences, this book contends that society, culture, and economy are emergent from social and environmental transaction and negotiation. With each transaction comes renegotiation, however small, and thus the continuous reconstruction of society in the specious present, with practices, beliefs and traditions becoming part of the accepted canon of a group through continual renegotiation, and deviations from the canon being managed through narrative.

O autorze

Thomas B. Whalen is Assistant Professor of Business in the Business and Economics Department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA.