A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory

A Formative Trait Psychology with Affect, Cognition and Behaviour

AvMaurice Yolles,Gerhard Fink

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This book explains psychological, sociopolitical and organisational change in multidisciplinary settings. It shows how advanced techniques of contextual analysis can be applied to complex situations and offers a new cybernetic agency paradigm based on living systems theory. It models, diagnoses, and analyses complex, realworld situations to anticipate patterns of behaviour.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-29
Mått:158 x 235 x 41 mm
Vikt:1 176 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:728
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108833325

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Maurice Yolles is a retired Professor in Management Systems at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and has a specialism in social cybernetics. He also headed the Centre for the Creation of Coherent Change and Knowledge. Gerhard Fink was previously the Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University, USA, and was the Director of the doctoral programs at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, between 2002–2009.

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'What a bold intellectual venture! The proposed configuration approach provides a powerful framework and an innovative methodology for the analysis of personality, organization, and culture. It also delivers an operationalization of Magoroh Maruyama's Mindscape Theory.' Markus Schwaninger, Professor Emeritus, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Cybernetic Sociopsychology and Agency: 1. Mindset Agency Theory, an Underview; 2. An Exercise in Configuration; 3. Mindscapes; 4. Normative Personality; 5. Understanding Formative Traits and Behaviour; Part II. From Cognition to Affect: 6. Cognition Agency; 7. Cognition Personality; 8. Affect Types and Mindset Types; 9. Affect and Cognition; Part III. Modelling Identity Types through Agency; 10. Identity as a Component of Personality; 11. Modelling Identity Types: The Case of Donald Trump; 12. Agency, Personality and Multiple Identity Types: The Case of Theresa May; Part IV. Formalising Mindset Agency Theory: 13. Introduction to Psychohistory and Formalism; 14. Illustrating Psychohistory; Part V. Concluding Chapter: 15. Overview.