LEADER 02988nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910963300303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613895387 010 $a9781283582933 010 $a1283582937 010 $a9780252091711 010 $a025209171X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000240916 035 $a(EBL)3414024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11416611 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693562 035 $a(PQKB)11395303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414024 035 $a(OCoLC)811409125 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414024 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593696 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389538 035 $a(OCoLC)923494945 035 $a(Perlego)2382425 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000240916 100 $a20081020d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHuman organizations and social theory $epragmatism, pluralism, and adaptation /$fMurray J. Leaf 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780252034244 311 08$a0252034244 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index. 327 $aEmpirical starting points -- Scepticism, pragmatism, and Kant -- New tools -- Social idea systems -- Technical information systems -- Organizations -- Groups and institutions -- Adaptation -- Conclusion. 330 8 $aIn the 1930s, George Herbert Mead and other leading social scientists established the modern empirical analysis of social interaction and communication, enabling theories of cognitive development, language acquisition, interaction, government, law and legal processes, and the social construction of the self. However, they could not provide a comparably empirical analysis of human organization. The theory in this book fills in the missing analysis of organizations and specifies more precisely the pragmatic analysis of communication with an adaptation of information theory to ordinary unmediated communications. The study also provides the theoretical basis for understanding the success of pragmatically grounded public policies, from the New Deal through the postwar reconstruction of Europe and Japan to the ongoing development of the European Union, in contrast to the persistent failure of positivistic and Marxist policies and programs. 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aOrganization 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aOrganization. 676 $a302.3/5 700 $aLeaf$b Murray J$0911509 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963300303321 996 $aHuman organizations and social theory$94352301 997 $aUNINA