Installation Theory: The Societal Construction and Regulation of Behaviour

ISBN-13: 9781107137592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 520 str.

Saadi Lahlou

Opis

Installation Theory: The Societal Construction and Regulation of Behaviour is a manual of behavioural science for researchers and practitioners who deal with action and cognition in a real-world context. It provides a simple and powerful theoretical framework, 'Installation Theory', to analyse and change behaviour, describes how the context interacts with embodied dispositions in producing behaviour, and explains how such channelling operates and how one can re-design installations to modify behaviour. Informed by a wide range of empirical evidence and data, Installation Theory: The Societal Construction and Regulation of Behaviour includes an accessible synthesis of important theories through which behaviour can be analysed: ecological psychology, activity theory, situated action, distributed cognition, social constructionism, actor-network theory and social representations. The book also provides a detailed analysis of the processes of creation and selection of innovations, proposing a model for the evolution, endurance and resilience of social systems.

Recenzje

'Lahlou presents a bold and innovative theory of social stability and change. At the centre is a multi-level model analysing the opportunities and constraints on behaviour of the physical, institutional and psychological environments. The many implications for, and examples of, behaviour change remind me of Kurt Lewin's dictum 'there is nothing so practical as good theory'.' George Gaskell, London School of Economics and Political Science

Spis treści

1. Installation: a synthetic theory to explain how humans construct systems that support and format individual behaviour; 2. The problem of human action and the problem of social regulation: two sides of the same coin; 3. Theoretical frameworks grounding installation theory; 4. The structure of installations; 5. Endurance of installations: the reconstructive cycle of practice; 6. Selection mechanisms in societal evolution: two cases, science and industry; 7. The evolution of installations; 8. Redesigning installations to change behaviour; 9. Conclusion; 10. References cited.