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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Betz, Frederick, 1937- Societal dynamics. New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, ©2012 (DLC) 2011939792 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Betz |
ISBN: | 9781461412786 1461412781 1283444291 9781283444293 1461412773 9781461412779 |
OCLC Number: | 765949049 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 344 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents: | Wisdom Versus Knowledge -- Ideology and Dictatorship -- Idealism and Realism: The Normative and the Empirical -- Societal Models -- Ethics in Society -- Universalization of Perspective -- Designing Society -- Redesigning Society -- Reforming Society -- Societal Stasis and Change -- Civilization and Society -- Normative Societal Theory -- Influence, Ideology, and Corruption -- Research Technique. |
Series Title: | Innovation, technology, and knowledge management, 11. |
Responsibility: | Frederick Betz. |
Abstract:
Historically, the disciplines of the physical sciences and biology have provided scientific foundations for societal knowledge But the social science disciplines of sociology, economics, political science have not provided a similar scientific foundation for societal wisdom.
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