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Social conflict --- Social groups --- Conflits sociaux --- Groupes, Dynamique des --- 316.35 --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Sociale groepen. Sociologie van de groep --- Social conflict. --- Social groups. --- 316.35 Sociale groepen. Sociologie van de groep

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In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers a timely, crucial explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda, he describes the social and economic circumstances that set this violence into motion. Hardin explains why hatred alone does not necessarily start wars but how leaders cultivate it to mobilize their people. He also reveals the thinking behind the preemptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway. Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge. In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests--mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies.

Social groups --- Social conflict --- 316.35 --- #SBIB:327.5H20 --- 316.45 --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Sociale groepen. Sociologie van de groep --- Vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- Sociale groepen. Groepsprocessen. Kleine groepen. Interactionele groepsdynamiek --- 316.45 Sociale groepen. Groepsprocessen. Kleine groepen. Interactionele groepsdynamiek --- 316.35 Sociale groepen. Sociologie van de groep --- Social conflict. --- Social groups -- Decision making. --- Social groups. --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Change

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In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice "against nature," such as switching on a light, that assumption may hold true. But in strategic interaction outcomes, indeterminacy is pervasive and often intractable. Whether one is choosing for oneself or making a choice about a policy matter, it is usually possible only to make a guess about the outcome, one based on anticipating what other actors will do. In this book Russell Hardin asserts, in his characteristically clear and uncompromising prose, "Indeterminacy in contexts of strategic interaction . . . Is an issue that is constantly swept under the rug because it is often disruptive to pristine social theory. But the theory is fake: the indeterminacy is real." In the course of the book, Hardin thus outlines the various ways in which theorists from Hobbes to Rawls have gone wrong in denying or ignoring indeterminacy, and suggests how social theories would be enhanced--and how certain problems could be resolved effectively or successfully--if they assumed from the beginning that indeterminacy was the normal state of affairs, not the exception. Representing a bold challenge to widely held theoretical assumptions and habits of thought, Indeterminacy and Society will be debated across a range of fields including politics, law, philosophy, economics, and business management.

Social interaction --- Choice (Psychology) --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Social interaction. --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social psychology

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Hardin presents an essentially economic account of what an individual can come to know and then applies this account to many areas of ordinary life: political participation, religious beliefs, popular knowledge of science, liberalism, culture, extremism, moral beliefs, and institutional knowledge

Prise de décision --- Sociologie de la connaissance --- Interaction sociale --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Decision making. --- Social interaction. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- -Knowledge, Sociology of --- -Decision making --- -Social interaction --- -306.42 --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Electronic information resources --- Decision making --- E-books --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Social interaction --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- 16 --- 174 --- 658.334 --- 338.6 --- Logica. Dialectiek. --- Verband tussen de ethiek en de economie. Ethiek en bedrijf. --- Beroepsvorming en -oriëntatie. Menselijke investeringen. Menselijk kapitaal. --- Wetenschappelijk onderzoek en ontwikkeling. --- Prise de décision. --- Sociologie de la connaissance. --- Interaction sociale. --- Théorie de la connaissance. --- Logica. Dialectiek --- Verband tussen de ethiek en de economie. Ethiek en bedrijf --- Wetenschappelijk onderzoek en ontwikkeling --- Beroepsvorming en -oriëntatie. Menselijke investeringen. Menselijk kapitaal --- Prise de décision. --- Théorie de la connaissance

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Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public distrust justified or do we need to re-evaluate our understanding of trust in the global age? In this wide-ranging book, Russell Hardin sets out to dispel the myths surrounding the concept of trust in contemporary society and politics. He examines the growing literature on trust to analyze public concerns about declining levels of trust, both in our fellow citizens and in our governments and their officials. Hardin explores the various manifestations of trust and distrust in public life – from terrorism to the internet, social capital to representative democracy. He shows that while today’s politicians may well be experiencing a decline in public confidence, this is nothing new; distrust in government characterized the work of leading liberal thinkers such as David Hume and James Madison. Their views, he contends, are as relevant today as they were in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and we should not, therefore, be distressed at the apparent distrust of twenty-first century government. On a personal level, Hardin contends that the world in which we live is much more diverse and interconnected than that of our forebears and this will logically result in higher levels of personal trust and distrust between individuals. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on trust, this book will be a valuable resource for students of government and politics, sociology and philosophy.

#SBIB:35H500 --- 316.4.052 --- 316.4.052 Integrerende processen. Sociale controle. Sociale sancties --- Integrerende processen. Sociale controle. Sociale sancties --- Bestuur en samenleving: algemene werken --- Trust --- Reliability