Societal Dynamics : Understanding Social Knowledge and Wisdom

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Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management ; 11

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index

Societal Dynamics; Series Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Scientific Paradigm; History: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; Scientific Paradigms and Scientific Disciplines; Inanimate: Physical Sciences; Animate: Biological Sciences; Cognitive: Mathematics and Computer Sciences; Societal: Social Sciences and Management; Perceptual Spaces and Scientific Method; Perceptual Space for Observing Physical Nature; Perceptual Space for Observing Societal Nature; Contents; Chapter 1: Wisdom Versus Knowledge; Introduction; Historical Event: Lenin's Bureaucrats; Societal Ethics and Political Ideology

Historical Event: Revolution in Russia in 1917Natural Science; Perceptual Spaces in Science; Historical Event (Continued): Revolution in Russia 1917; Explanatory Relationships in a Societal Perceptual Space; Historical Event (Continued): Revolution in Russia 1917; Summary; Chapter 2: Ideology and Dictatorship; Historical Event: Lenin Seizes Power; Individual and Political Process; Divisive Society and Civil Society; Historical Event: Lenin Wields Power; Individual and Government Structure; Political Parties and Social Theory; Historical Event: Lenin Consolidates Power; Society and Force

Reality and Social TheorySummary; Chapter 3: Idealism and Realism: The Normative and the Empirical; Introduction; Historical Event: Kerensky's Idealism; Perspective Metaspace; Kerensky's Idealism Versus Lenin's Realism; Historical Event - Kerensky's War Policy; Government Policy Decisions; Historical Event: Final Collapse of the Kerensky's Provisional Government; Summary; Chapter 4: Societal Models; Introduction; Historical Event: Joseph Stalin's Policies; System Model of a Society; Historical Event (Continued): Joseph Stalin's Policy; Political System Within a Societal Model

Historical Event (Continued): Stalin's Policy: Collectivization of Russian AgricultureEconomic System Within a Societal Model; Cultural System Within a Societal Model; Technological System Within a Societal Model; Historical Event (Continued): Stalin's Policy; Societal Model Within the Perceptual Space; Principles-of-Order in Societal Systems: Societal Rationality; Summary; Chapter 5: Ethics in Society; Introduction; Historical Event: Nuremberg Trials; Societal Context of Ethics; Historical Event: Hitler's Ethics; Ethics and Social Science Methodology

Historical Event: Nazi Protective Echelon SSInstitutionalization; Perceptual Space of Hitler's Racial Policy; Summary; Chapter 6: Universalization of Perspective; Introduction; Historical Event: The Collapse of the Soviet Union; Perspectives in Perceptual Spaces; Objectivity and Universality in the Social Sciences and History; Historical Event (Continued): The End of the Soviet Union; Perceptual Space of the Collapse of the Soviet Union Event; Judgments of History; Societal Performance and Knowledge; Summary; Chapter 7: Designing Society; Introduction; Historical Event: Chinese Civil Wars

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10.1007/978-1-4614-1278-6 [DOI]

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