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In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art
perspectives on how social interaction influences the development
of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of
disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology,
philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and
primatology. It reviews the nature and type of interactions that
promote development as well as the conceptual frameworks used to
explain the relation between individuals and groups. Social Life
and Social Knowledge comprehensively addresses conceptual questions
central to understanding human life and development: Is the human
form of social life reducible to biological processes? What
psychological abilities constitute the specifically human form of
social life? What are the processes and contexts within which these
abilities develop? How should we conceptualize the links between
social life and the development of thought, and how do individuals
and society contribute to these processes? The book is intended for
philosophers, primatologists, anthropologists, biologists,
sociologists, and developmental and educational psychologists
interested in social development, social cognition, and
developmental psychopathology. It also serves as a resource for
courses in social development and those that focus on the
intersection between cognition, development, and culture.
In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art
perspectives on how social interaction influences the development
of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of
disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology,
philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and
primatology. It reviews the nature and type of interactions that
promote development as well as the conceptual frameworks used to
explain the relation between individuals and groups. Social Life
and Social Knowledge comprehensively addresses conceptual questions
central to understanding human life and development: Is the human
form of social life reducible to biological processes? What
psychological abilities constitute the specifically human form of
social life? What are the processes and contexts within which these
abilities develop? How should we conceptualize the links between
social life and the development of thought, and how do individuals
and society contribute to these processes? The book is intended for
philosophers, primatologists, anthropologists, biologists,
sociologists, and developmental and educational psychologists
interested in social development, social cognition, and
developmental psychopathology. It also serves as a resource for
courses in social development and those that focus on the
intersection between cognition, development, and culture.
Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High
Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has
stirred the imagination of artists and readers far beyond its land
of origin. Its international influence extends from literature to
music, art, film, politics and propaganda, psychology, archeology,
and military history. Now for the first time all references to the
vast Nibelungen tradition have been catalogued in this
comprehensive encyclopedia containing nearly 1000 entries by
several dozen international contributors, including the most
distinguished scholars in the field. Readers will find illuminating
passages on a variety of topics, including literary and
extra-literary references, characters and place names, significant
motifs and concepts, historical background, and cultural reception
through the centuries. This monumental work is an invaluable guide
to a fascinating, age-old tradition.
Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and
empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental
psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the relation
between body and mind have been developed. Common among these
conceptions is the idea that the body plays an important role in
our emotional, social, and cognitive lives. This latest volume in
the Jean Piaget Society Symposia Series illustrates different ways
in which the concept of embodiment can be used in developmental
psychology and related disciplines. It explores the role of the
body in the development of meaning, consciousness, and
psychological functioning. The overall goal is to demonstrate how
the concept of embodiment can deepen our understanding of
developmental psychology by suggesting new possibilities of
integrating biological, psychological, and socio-cultural
approaches. Developmental Perspective on Embodiment and
Consciousness explores embodiment in two ways. First, embodiment is
examined as a condition of and influencing the particular shape of
psychological experience. This sense of embodiment reflects the
effort to put the mind back into the body. Second, embodiment is
examined as a reflective experience in the sense that the mind
forms particular images about the body. This sense of embodiment
reflects the effort to put the body into the mind. The book opens
with a discussion of embodiment from a meta-theoretical
perspective. Then the role of embodiment in grounding conceptual
meaning is examined. This is followed by discussions of the role of
embodiment in strengthening our understanding of emotions,
cognitive development, religious experiences, and social
development. Then the role of the body in spatial cognition and the
role of language in the development of complex forms of
consciousness are explored. The final chapters examine the impact
of culture on the conceptualization of the embodied self. The book
concludes with an overview of the historical context of the
mind-body dualism and a discussion of how the idea of embodiment
transcends this dualism. Intended for researchers and advanced
students in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology,
neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, biology, and sociology,
this new book also serves as a reference for advanced courses on
cognition and development.
Contents: Literary authors and works; Medieval characters and places; Themes, motifs, objects, key words; Sources: history, legend, archaeology, manuscript collections; Scholars and scholarship; Reception of the Nibelungen theme in German-speaking countries: literary authors and works; Reception of the Nibelungen theme outside German-speaking countries (including translations); Music and composers; Art, artists, films, filmmakers, sculpture, sculptors; Miscellaneous (education, historians, politics, psychology, military).
Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and
empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental
psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the relation
between body and mind have been developed. Common among these
conceptions is the idea that the body plays an important role in
our emotional, social, and cognitive lives. This latest volume in
the Jean Piaget Society Symposia Series illustrates different ways
in which the concept of embodiment can be used in developmental
psychology and related disciplines. It explores the role of the
body in the development of meaning, consciousness, and
psychological functioning. The overall goal is to demonstrate how
the concept of embodiment can deepen our understanding of
developmental psychology by suggesting new possibilities of
integrating biological, psychological, and socio-cultural
approaches. Developmental Perspective on Embodiment and
Consciousness explores embodiment in two ways. First, embodiment is
examined as a condition of and influencing the particular shape of
psychological experience. This sense of embodiment reflects the
effort to put the mind back into the body. Second, embodiment is
examined as a reflective experience in the sense that the mind
forms particular images about the body. This sense of embodiment
reflects the effort to put the body into the mind. The book opens
with a discussion of embodiment from a meta-theoretical
perspective. Then the role of embodiment in grounding conceptual
meaning is examined. This is followed by discussions of the role of
embodiment in strengthening our understanding of emotions,
cognitive development, religious experiences, and social
development. Then the role of the body in spatial cognition and the
role of language in the development of complex forms of
consciousness are explored. The final chapters examine the impact
of culture on the conceptualization of the embodied self. The book
concludes with an overview of the historical context of the
mind-body dualism and a discussion of how the idea of embodiment
transcends this dualism. Intended for researchers and advanced
students in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology,
neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, biology, and sociology,
this new book also serves as a reference for advanced courses on
cognition and development.
A social dilemma is a game which at first glance has only
inefficient solutions. If efficient solutions are to be achieved,
some kind of cooperation among the players is required. This book
asks two basic questions, closely intertwined with each other: 1.
How is cooperation possible among rational players in such a social
dilemma? Which changes in the social context of a social dilemma
situation are necessary in order for players to rationally choose
the cooperative option? 2. How do real players actually behave in
social dilemma situations? Do they behave "rationally" at all? Or,
conversely, what kind of reasoning, attitudes, emotions, etc. shape
the behavior of real players in social dilemmas? What kind of
interventions, what kind of internal mechanisms within a real group
may change players' willingness to cooperate? These two general
questions mark the broad spectrum of the problem which has been,
over the last three decades, investigated in various disciplines,
and which has brought many new ideas and new observations into the
study of the old question of social order in a world of born
egoists. Accordingly, this volume contains contributions by
biologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists,
mathematicians, psychologists, and philosophers.
Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well
elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large
computational capacities are now available. Both make
computer-based model building and simulation possible in social
science, whose central aim is in particular an understanding of
social dynamics. Such social dynamics refer to public opinion
formation, partner choice, strategy decisions in social dilemma
situations and much more. In the context of such modelling
approaches, novel problems in philosophy of science arise which
must be analysed - the main aim of this book. Interest in social
simulation has recently been growing rapidly world- wide, mainly as
a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal
computers. The field has also been greatly influenced by
developments in cellular automata theory (from mathematics) and in
distributed artificial intelligence which provided tools readily
applicable to social simulation. This book presents a number of
modelling and simulation approaches and their relations to problems
in philosophy of science. It addresses sociologists and other
social scientists interested in formal modelling, mathematical
sociology, and computer simulation as well as computer scientists
interested in social science applications, and philosophers of
social science.
This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five
different approaches to social science simulation on the individual
level. The volume contains microanalytical simulation models
designed for policy implementation and evaluation, multilevel
simulation methods designed for detecting emergent phenomena,
dynamical game theory applications, the use of cellular automata to
explain the emergence of structure in social systems, and
multi-agent models using the experience from distributed artificial
intelligence applied to special phenomena. The book collects the
results of an international conference which brought together
social scientists and computer scientists both engaged in a wide
range of simulation approaches for the first time.
This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five
different approaches to social science simulation on the individual
level. The volume contains microanalytical simulation models
designed for policy implementation and evaluation, multilevel
simulation methods designed for detecting emergent phenomena,
dynamical game theory applications, the use of cellular automata to
explain the emergence of structure in social systems, and
multi-agent models using the experience from distributed artificial
intelligence applied to special phenomena. The book collects the
results of an international conference which brought together
social scientists and computer scientists both engaged in a wide
range of simulation approaches for the first time.
Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well
elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large
computational capacities are now available. Both make
computer-based model building and simulation possible in social
science, whose central aim is in particular an understanding of
social dynamics. Such social dynamics refer to public opinion
formation, partner choice, strategy decisions in social dilemma
situations and much more. In the context of such modelling
approaches, novel problems in philosophy of science arise which
must be analysed - the main aim of this book. Interest in social
simulation has recently been growing rapidly world- wide, mainly as
a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal
computers. The field has also been greatly influenced by
developments in cellular automata theory (from mathematics) and in
distributed artificial intelligence which provided tools readily
applicable to social simulation. This book presents a number of
modelling and simulation approaches and their relations to problems
in philosophy of science. It addresses sociologists and other
social scientists interested in formal modelling, mathematical
sociology, and computer simulation as well as computer scientists
interested in social science applications, and philosophers of
social science.
The articles collected in this volume have two features in common:
they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they
want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of
a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part
I is focussing on economic evolution, Part II on geographical
development and Part III is related to demographic change. The
present volume aims at providing a new look at this triangle in
view of the classical background of discussions by introducing new
research ideas focussing in nonlinear dynamics and stochastic
modelling. Thus the main purpose of this book is to make a
contribution to the interdisciplinary work needed to integrate the
effortsbetween these three research fields and to serve as a
research source in demonstrating the current state of art in
dynamic modelling. The book isaddressed to social scientists in
general, and those in particular with a background in economics,
geographics and demographics. It should also be of interest to
mathematicians, physicists, and systems analysts interested in
model building and applications of nonlinear dynamics.
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