Format:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415142076
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9780203978948
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development and Society Series v.10
Content:
This book provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing on the social aspects of aid and its motivational foundations
Note:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- PREFACE -- 1 AN AID CYCLE -- The case -- Past -- Present -- Social and organizational psychology -- Health and welfare psychology -- Educational and developmental psychology -- An 'aid cycle'? -- Donors at home -- Donors abroad -- Hosts abroad -- Hosts at home -- An alternative focus -- Part 1 DONORS AT HOME -- 2 DONOR BIAS -- Social cognition -- A basic error -- An actor-observer difference -- A self-serving bias -- Lack of background expertise -- People watching -- Figure and ground -- Negativity bias -- Availability in memory -- Donor bias? -- A possible retort -- Social affect -- The effects of mood -- Defence mechanisms -- Privilege and proximity -- Over-promising and under-delivering -- An 'ultimate' error? -- A second avenue for donor bias -- Cultural contrasts -- An international actor-observer difference -- Theoretical prediction -- Domestic poverty -- Poverty in the developing world -- Donation behavior -- Some possible applications? -- Belief in a socially equitable world: a pivotal motive? -- A wider picture -- Traditional factors -- What traditional factors? -- A systems-theory integration -- 3 THE AID CHAIN -- The aid chain -- Establishing an agenda -- Inconsistent agendas -- Converging to a set agenda -- Polarisation toward incompatible agendas -- Groupthink -- The communication process -- Lack of coordination -- Interagency communication -- Social identity -- Participation -- System constraints -- Types of power -- Case Study-Mahruh Resource Management Project, Egypt -- A task focus vs. enabling meaningful participation -- Part 2 DONORS ABROAD -- 4 LEADERSHIP, PARTICIPATION, AND CULTURE -- A knotty issue -- Trait theory -- Emergent leadership -- Styles and roles -- A common foundation -- Styles -- Roles -- Contingencies
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Cognitive integration: from dissonance to tolerance -- Faith in treatment -- Tolerance and the prevention of AIDS -- Recognizing complexity -- Conclusion -- 11 WHY NOT PAY ME? -- The 'Pay Me!' in Malawi -- The 'Pay Me!' elsewhere -- How does it feel to be an aid 'recipient'? -- A norm of reciprocity -- Breaking the circle -- How does reciprocity link with the 'Pay Me'? -- Assessing cultural contingencies -- Concluding remarks -- 12 MINIMAL CONSTRAINT -- Synopsis -- Minimal constraint -- Closing the circle -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
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Cultural differences -- Cultural contingencies -- Cross-cultural contingencies -- 'Participation' in high resolution -- A systems view -- Breaking the cycle? -- Awareness techniques -- Building bridges -- 5 INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENT -- The Orangi Pilot Project -- From sustainable change to incremental improvement -- Large leaps? -- Field theory -- Stakeholders -- Change as risk -- Small wins -- Making a just noticeable difference -- The psychotherapy analogy -- Whose standards? -- Cultural resistance -- Valuing change -- Community -- The psychology of community rehabilitation -- 6 EXPATRIATE WORK MOTIVATION -- Why do people work? -- From self-perception to equity restoration -- Potential applications -- Remuneration -- Selection -- Socio-cultural and, intergroup effects -- Part 3 HOSTS ABROAD -- 7 WHO SHOULD ADAPT TO WHOM? -- Fitting the person to the project -- Selection biases -- Structured interviews -- Structured tests -- Fitting the project to the person -- Community biases -- Interview techniques -- Structured surveys -- Concluding remarks -- 8 TRANSACTIONAL POSITIONING -- The AIDS Challenge game -- Transactional positioning -- Pathways to a psychology for development -- Realization -- Rejuvenation -- Refutation -- Reconstitution -- Restatement -- Reflection -- Concluding remark -- Part 4 HOSTS AT HOME -- 9 INTERCULTURAL WORK DYNAMICS -- Indignation (at expatriate salaries) -- Reducing input -- Need sensitivity -- Distorting input -- Double demotivation -- Managing it -- Envy (and jealousy)? -- Pull Down-Push Down -- Push Up-Pull Up -- Pull Down-Pull Up -- Push Up-Push Down -- Concluding Remarks -- 10 TOLERANCE AND DEVELOPMENT -- Health promotion: the message from the West -- Diarrhea -- Immunization -- Learning from the community -- Chamba use and misuse -- Integrating traditional and biomedical healing
Additional Edition:
Print version Carr, Stuart Psychology of Aid Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1998 ISBN 9780415142076
Language:
English
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