Social action : a teleological account / / Seumas Miller [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Miller Seumas
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 361.2
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences - Philosophy; Social action
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theories of Social Action; 2 Joint Action; 3 Conventions; 4 Social Norms; 5 Organisations, Agency, and Action; 6 Social Institutions and Social Groups; 7 Collective Rights; 8 Collective Responsibility; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social phenomena, and the fact that conventions and normativity are features of human activity. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. A distinctive feature of the book is that it applies these theories of social action categories to some important moral issues that arise in social contexts such as the collective responsibility for environmental pollution, humanitarian intervention, and dealing with the rights of minority groups. Avoiding both the excessively atomistic individualism of rational choice theorists and implausible collectivist assumptions, this important book will be widely read by philosophers of the social sciences, political scientists and sociologists.
• Titolo autorizzato: Social action
• ISBN: 1-107-12086-1; 1-280-43266-7; 0-511-17481-0; 0-511-04100-4; 0-511-15487-9; 0-511-30243-6; 0-511-61295-8; 0-511-04639-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826384403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II