Format:
Online-Ressource (XVIII, 227 p. 6 illus, digital)
ISBN:
9781461458258
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1283911396
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9781283911399
Series Statement:
International and Cultural Psychology
Content:
Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global EraCarl RatnerHuman history is largely the story of communities, punctuated by examples of cooperatives--in fact, our level of cooperative behavior is one of the attributes that makes us most human. In recent years, however, concepts such as rugged individualism and social Darwinism have competed against cooperative ideas for supremacy, and today's climate of global economic crisis has found these "me-first" concepts wanting. Now, an important new book posits that current political solutions to acute world problems are inadequate, and that modern society needs to look to its communal roots for recovery--and perhaps survival. Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global Era argues for a societal paradigm shift and details how such a transformation might be accomplished. Taking the evolutionary long view, its author demonstrates how cooperative principles can make a social system not just more efficient and less wasteful of time and resources, but also more democratic, empowering, and fulfilling for everyone involved. In making this compelling case, he: Explains how humans are hard-wired for cooperation, and identifies its psychological competencies.Contrasts aspects of cooperative enterprises before and after the Industrial Revolution.Provides illustrative examples from European cooperative institutions.Analyzes modern social paradoxes such as cooperative individuality.Examines the strengths and shortcomings of the modern international cooperative movement.Explicates a cooperative social philosophy: its structures, behaviors, and values.Social and cultural psychologists as well as sociologists will find Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global Era worth reading, discussing, and debating.
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Cooperation, Community,and Co-Ops in a Global Era; PrefaceThe Need for a Cooperative Social Paradigm; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction to the Praxis of Cooperative Behavior; CooperationCooperation is a Paradoxical, Complex Phenomenon; A Macro Cultural Analysis of CooperationCooperation; Levels, or Forms, of CooperationLevels, or forms, of cooperation; The Plan of this Book; End Notes; References; 2 General Aspects of Cooperation that Potentiate but do not Determine Concrete Cooperation; Cooperation, the Individual, and Development; Cooperation Cooperation is Not AltruismAltruism
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Cooperation, Sociality, Biology, Adaptation, SpeciationCooperation, CultureCulture, Civilization, Collectivism, Communalism; Human Nature Human Nature and Cooperation; Cooperation Cooperation Stimulates and Supports Distinctively Human Psychological Processes; Cooperation cooperationis Unique to Humans; The Social Ontogeny of Cooperation; The Relevance of AbstractAbstract Cooperative Capacity to ConcreteConcrete Cooperation; Ahistorical, Acultural Accounts of Cooperation cooperation and SelfishnessSelfishness; Ahistorical, Acultural Accounts of SelfishnessSelfishness
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Ahistorical, Acultural Accounts of CooperationEnd Notes; References; 3 The Dialectical Relation Between Cooperation and Capitalism: Cooperation Before, During, and After the Advent of Capitalism; The Capitalist Destruction of CooperationCooperation; Capitalist Macro Cultural Factors Generate Individualistic, Anticooperative Behavior; Capitalist Exploitation, NoncooperationCooperation, and Failure/Crisis; Psychological Aspects of CapitalismCapitalism; Capitalist Measures To Overcome Anti-Social, Alienated Psychology/Behavior Compound It; CapitalismCapitalism, Reform, CooperationCooperation
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CooperationCooperation is a Critical Social PraxisEnd Notes; References; 4 Historical Roots of Contemporary CooperativesCooperatives; Nineteenth Century British CooperativesCooperatives; The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers; American Background; Rochdale; The Social--Political Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century British Co-op Movement; Contradictory, Conservative Impulses Within Rochdale; Flaws in Founding Cooperative PrinciplesCooperativesprinciples; The Mondragon Cooperative; Limitations of Mondragon's Cooperative Philosophy; Political NeutralityPolitical neutrality
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Marxist/Socialist CooperationMarxist/Socialist CooperationThe Marxist Approach to Institutionalizing CooperationCooperation Compared with Cooperators' Approach; MarxMarx and Engels' Critique of Owens and Utopian Socialists; Marx's Socialist Cooperativism; End NotesEnd Notes; References; 5 Cooperatives' March to Modernity: Market-Oriented, Apolitical Cooperation; Historical Evaluation of the Market Model of Co-ops; Marx Marx and Engels' Critique of Simple Commodity Production and Markets; Restakis' Caricature of Marxism; Restakis' Caricature of ''Socialist RevolutionsSocialist revolutions''
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Can Apolitical, Market-Based Co-ops Humanize SocietyHumanize society?
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Introduction To The Praxis of Cooperative Behavior -- General Aspects of Cooperation That Potentiate But Do Not Determine Concrete Cooperation -- The Dialectical Relation between Cooperation and Capitalism: Cooperation Before, During, and After The Advent of Capitalism -- Historical Roots Of Contemporary Cooperatives -- Cooperatives’ March To Modernity: Market-oriented, Apolitical Cooperation -- Cooperation in Practice: Successes and Shortcomings of The International Cooperative Movement Today -- Explaining Co-op Weaknesses In Terms of The Dominant Cooperative Paradigm -- An Enriched, Viable, Necessary Cooperative Paradigm for Our Era.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781461458241
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 978-1-461-45824-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-5825-8
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