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People talk in everyday life about "moral values" and define themselves in moral ways, but social scientists do not pay enough attention to these issues. This book highlights the often-neglected moral aspect of the self, and offers a theory underlying the maintenance of a moral …
"People have strong moral beliefs about right and wrong, yet commonly act contrary to those beliefs. Most of us, at some time or another, have crossed a moral line and yet still view ourselves as moral and have a clean conscience. From intimate relationships to national politics…
The aim of this collection of papers is to help relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. Coherence has been dismissed as a vague, fuzzy and mystical notion with little practical value for the analyst. However, since the 1980s coherence has found its place as a key concept in di…
Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a 'rather mystical notion'. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliograp…
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment an…
"Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinki…
Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of experience. The way in which early Chinese thinkers approached concepts such as one and many, sameness and difference, self and other, and intern…
