1st Edition

Action Systems An Introduction to the Analysis of Complex Behaviour

By David D. Clarke, Jill Crossland Copyright 1985
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Psychology so relies upon ‘experimental’ work that first-hand experience of important life-events is held to be worthless. In limiting itself to physically defined, ‘objective’ behaviours, such as pressing a switch or picking up a toy, the discipline ignores larger units of action like moving house, adopting a child or committing a crime. In this book, originally published in 1985, what the... Read more

List of Figures.  Acknowledgements.  Preface.  1. Experimental and Related Methods  2. The Analysis of Meaning  3. Language and Action  4. Systems and Cybernetics.  Index.

Biography

David D. Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, and former Head of School, at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds doctorates from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and has taught at both. Having started his career in medical sciences, he mainly researches pathways into and out of dangerous situations including road traffic collisions, evacuations, fights, relationship breakdowns, and mental disorders. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Psychologist.

Dr Jill Collett (was Crossland) works as an executive leadership coach and business psychologist. She specialises in working alongside senior leaders as they build organisational cultures that are purpose driven, happy, inspiring places to work that have a positive impact on the systems within which they are embedded. Jill lives in Oxford with her husband and two daughters.