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Contents: Part I. Introduction to Cooperation 1. Perspectives on cooperation in modern society: helping the self, the community and society Mark Van Vugt, Mark Snyder, Tom Tyler and Anders Biel 2. Factors promoting cooperation in the laboratory, in common-pool resource dilemmas, and in large-scale dilemmas: similarities and differences Anders Biel Part II. Individual and Collective Restraint in Common Resources 3. Choosing between personal comfort and our environment: solutions to the transportation dilemma Paul Van Lange, Mark Van Vugt and David De Cremer 4. Why do people cooperate in groups? Support for structural solutions to social dilemma problems Tom R. Tyler 5. An economic analysis of compliance with fishery regulations Aaron Hatcher, Olivier Thebaud and Shabbar Jaffry 6. Collective cooperation in common-pool resources Edella Schlager Part III. Individual and Collective Action in Common Goods 7. Doing good for self and society: volunteerism and the psychology of citizen participation Mark Snyder and Allen M. Omoto 8. Workplace justice and the dilemma of organizational citizenship Russell Cropanzano and Zinta S. Byrne 9. Identity and protest: how group identification helps to overcome collective action dilemmas Bert Klandermans 10. But taxpayers do cooperate! Henk Elffers 11. Willingness to contribute to the finance of public social services Daniel Eek, Anders Biel and Tommy Gärling 12. The universal welfare state as a social dilemma Bo Rothstein Part IV. Commentary 13. Context, norms and cooperation in modern society: a post-script David M. Messick
Why do so many people volunteer to help others in need in society
today? What makes people give up the convenience of driving their
car to benefit a better environment? And why are citizens, in
general, quite prepared to pay taxes to ensure adequate health
care, and support for the elderly and unemployed? These are
examples of a more fundamental question addressed in this book: why
do people cooperate for the welfare of their community, state, or
organization?
Cooperation in Modern Society is a unique collection of
contributions from internationally reputed scholars across the
social sciences.
Research from across the social sciences is converging on
cooperation as a key factor in human functioning. Written by
esteemed political scientists and psychologists, this volume brings
together political scientists and psychologists to identify and
analyze recent social-scientific research on cooperation and
present an overview of current knowledge about its causes and
consequences at the individual and group level.
Illuminates the importance of cooperation in promoting healthy,
well-functioning individuals and groups
Addresses the question of how cooperation research can be applied
to solve real-world problems
Explores sources of cooperative behaviors and the consequences of
cooperative experiences
Provides a synthesis for experts, an overview for novices, and a
survey of current research for policy-makers
A reclusive singer-songwriter makes an album that rocks the world.
Now, as the music industry implodes, two siblings must come
together to battle over their legendary mother's legacy and her
twenty years of silence. A play about music and art, connection and
isolation, power and commerce, and the ever-changing landscape of
what it means to be a family today.
As he plots his escape from the rural Midwest, Travis is discovered
by the one person who might convince him to stay. Two lost souls
must confront the brutal truth about themselves and each other in a
coming-of-age drama where a pair of headlights along one highway
road illuminates a path toward a dangerous future.
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Sojourn Macabre
Mark Snyder
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Mark Snyder
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A long-form conceptualist prose poem written over a period of eight
weeks to mark the death of the author's father. The poem explores
the emotional landscape of coping with the death of a parent as
well as grappling with making sense of the past and looking to the
future.
This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
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