Adaptive Human Behavior: An Outline for the Study of Human Relations

Edward Wight Bakke

ISBN 10: 0259863246 / ISBN 13: 9780259863243

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Print on Demand. This book explores the concepts of human behavior, with a particular focus on adaptive behavior. The author, a social scientist, introduces a framework for organizing observations of human behavior into a coherent narrative around the themes of goals and resources. The author believes that the primary picture we have of a social group, such as a company or a union, will strongly influence our observations and shape the way we report our findings. In this book, the author posits that social groups form around a set of goals and resources. These goals and resources, along with the participants in the group, their shared values and their interactions, form the â structure of livingâ upon which adaptive behavior is built. By understanding this structure, and how participants are supported and encouraged to live within it, we can better understand how and why people behave as they do. The book provides a fascinating and insightful framework for understanding the structure and dynamics of human behavior in social groups. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: Adaptive Human Behavior: An Outline for the Study of Human Relations
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0259863246
• ISBN 13: 9780259863243
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Sociology

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Excerpt from Adaptive Human Behavior: An Outline for the Study of Human Relations

Primarily for this latter group, but also for the student and social scientist, I have sprinkled the text with numerous detailed illustrations of the specific content of terms and generalizations. Most of them are drawn from field data which I have personally gathered or whose gathering I have super vised. This is dangerous business, for such illustrations may be taken as the total substantial content of the term or generalization and an inadequacy in the latter therefrom inferred. Yet I have preferred to risk the challenge of such inferences by bringing the terms down to earth rather than to seek the security of obscurity. For no term or generalization is scientifically or practically justified, and certainly not useable, it if does not fit the facts to which the terms gives a label or about which the generalization is made.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.