1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465576503321

Autore

Pauwels Lieven

Titolo

Problematic youth group involvement as situated choice : testing an integrated conditions-controls-exposure model / / Lieven Pauwels, Wim Hardyns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hague, [Netherlands] : , : Eleven International Publishing, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

94-6274-363-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

649.153

Soggetti

Problem children

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1 Study background; 2 Balance between theory, research, and policy; 3 Aim of the research: key questions and constructs; 4 Outline of chapters; Chapter 2 Previous research on risk factors of problematic youth group involvement; 1 Introduction; 2 The importance to study early adolescence; 3 Risk factors for problematic youth group involvement and offending; 4 Classification of the risk factors in the present study; 5 Sex and ethnicity as risk factors; Chapter 3 Origins of the integrative conditions-controls-exposure model

1 Introduction2 Some notes on theoretical integration; 3 From social disorganization to collective efficacy and from neighborhoods to micro-places; 3.1 Shaw and McKay and the theory of neighborhood disorganization; 3.2 Frederick M. Thrasher and gangland; 3.3 Criticisms of the original model of neighborhood disorganization; 3.4 Collective Efficacy Theory; 3.5 Problems in neighborhood contextual research; (1) Aggregation bias; (2) The role of perception and observation of events in micro-places

(3) The failure to distinguish between short-term situational effects and long-term developmental effects4 From subjective alienation theory to locus of control theory; 4.1 Alienation theory; 4.2 Locus of control theory; 4.3 Locus of control in Mirowsky and Ross' conditions-



cognitions-emotions model; 4.4 The importance of alienation for theories of problematic youth group involvement; 5 Social bonding theories; 6 Social (cognitive) learning theory; 6.1 Some problems of cause and effect in social learning theories; 6.2 The problem of tautology

6.3 The narrow vision of human nature in social learning theories7 Self-control theory and its evolution; 7.1 The concept of low self-control in Gottfredson and Hirschi's theory; 7.2 The reformulation of the general theory of crime; 7.3 Some criticisms; The relationship between self-control and crime; Moderation effects; 8 The lifestyle/exposure model of offending; Outline placeholder; Some criticisms on the lifestyle models; 9 Situational action theory and the explanation of problematic youth group participation?; Outline placeholder; Key principles of SAT; The causes of the causes

10 ConclusionChapter 4 Problematic youth group involvement as situated action: a meta-theoretical framework; 1 Introduction; 2 Why would we need an analytical meta-theoretical framework?; 2.1 A scientific realist perspective on problematic youth group involvement; 2.2 Explanation; 2.3 Dissection and abstraction; 2.4 Precision and clarity; 2.5 The principle of complex parsimony; 2.6 Action, its causes, and the causes of the causes; 2.7 Mechanisms: the heart of the causal nexus; 3 An emergentist systemist approach of problematic youth group participation

4 A short note on human nature and social order in emergentist systemism



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777638903321

Autore

Casati Roberto <1961->

Titolo

Insurmountable simplicities [[electronic resource] ] : thirty-nine philosophical stories / / Roberto Casati, Achille C. Varzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-283-00799-1

9786613007995

0-231-51040-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VarziAchille C

Disciplina

853/.92

Soggetti

Didactic fiction

Philosophical recreations

Philosophy, Italian

Philosophy

Questions and answers

PHILOSOPHY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-132) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Seven -- Eight -- Coda -- Note

Sommario/riassunto

"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this. "So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles of everyday life. Why do mirrors seem to invert left and right but not up and down? How do we know whether strawberries taste the same for everyone? Where is it written that we must observe the law, and if it is not written, why should we observe it? What if we could swap brains-or the rest of our bodies? Insurmountable Simplicities is filled with stories, dialogues, and epistolary exchanges that cover a range of themes-such as personal identity, causality and responsibility, fortune, the nature of things, the paradoxes of time and space, the interface between logic and language-in captivating and inventive ways. Clear, concise, and intellectually engaging, this internationally acclaimed book



brilliantly demonstrates that the beauty of philosophy resides in its thorough engagement with the simplicities of the world, insurmountable as they might initially appear.