Meaning in Action
Meaning in Action

Author: Hendrik Wagenaar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317464966

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This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive overview of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis. It is both theoretically informed and clear and jargon-free as it discusses the specific strengths and weaknesses of different interpretive approaches--all with a practical orientation towards doing policy analysis

From Text to Action
From Text to Action

Author: Paul Ricœur

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1991-09

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0810109921

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With his writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ideology, and religion, Paul Ricoeur has single-handedly redefined and revitalized the hermeneutic tradition. From Text to Action is an essential companion to the now classic The Conflict of Interpretations. Here, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its own philosophical background: Hegel, Husserl, Gadamer, and Weber. He also responds to contemporary figures like K.O. Apel and Jürgen Habermas, connecting his own theorization of ideology to their version of ideology critique.

Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences

Author: Paul Ricoeur

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1107144973

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John B. Thompson's collection of translated essays forms an illuminating introduction to Paul Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory.

Interpretation and Social Knowledge
Interpretation and Social Knowledge

Author: Isaac Ariail Reed

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0226706729

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For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically specific causal explanations of social phenomena.

Action and Inaction in a Social World
Action and Inaction in a Social World

Author: Dolores Albarracín

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1108879705

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This book explains how actions and inactions arise and change in social contexts, including social media and face-to-face communication. Its multidisciplinary perspective covers research from psychology, communication, public health, business studies, and environmental sciences. The reader can use this cutting-edge approach to design and interpret effects of behavioral change interventions as well as replicate the materials and methods implemented to study them. The author provides an organized set of principles that take the reader from the formation of attitudes and goals, to the structure of action and inaction. It also reflects on how cognitive processes explain excesses of action while inaction persists elsewhere. This practical guide summarises the best practices persuasion and behavioral interventions to promote changes in health, consumer, and social behaviors.

Interpretation
Interpretation

Author: Peter Machamer

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2014-06-27

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0822977567

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The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found. Individual topics include: the general nature of interpretation and its forms; comparing and contrasting interpretation and hermeneutics; culture as interpretation seen through Hegel's aesthetics; interpreting philosophical texts; methodologies for interpreting human action; interpretation in medical practice focusing on manifestations as indicators of disease; the brain and its interpretative, structured, learning and storage processes; interpreting hybrid wines and cognitive preconceptions of novel objects; and the importance of sensory perception as means of interpreting in the case of dry German Rieslings.In an interesting turn, Nicholas Rescher writes on the interpretation of philosophical texts. Then Catherine Wilson and Andreas Blank explicate and critique Rescher's theories through analysis of the mill passage from Leibniz's Monadology.

Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning
Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning

Author: Anne Wagner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1402053207

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The study of legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. New problems, changing power structures and societal norms and new faces of injustice – all these force reconsideration, reformulation and even replacement of established doctrines. This book focuses on the application of law in a wide variety of contexts, including international politics and diplomatic practice.

Oxford Handbook of Human Action
Oxford Handbook of Human Action

Author: Ezequiel Morsella

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 0195309987

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In the last decade, there has been a tremendous surge of research on the mechanisms of human action. This volume brings together this new knowledge in a single, concise source, covering most if not all of the basic questions regarding human action: What are the mechanisms by which action plans are acquired (learned), mentally represented, activated, selected, and expressed? The chapters provide up-to-date summaries of the published research on this question, with an emphasis on underlying mechanisms.This 'bible' of action research brings together the current thinking of eminent researchers in the domains of motor control, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, biology, as well as cognitive, developmental, social, and motivational psychology. It represents a determined multidisciplinary effort, spanning across various areas of science as well as national boundaries.