1st Edition

Legitimacy and the Politics of the Knowable (RLE Social Theory)

By Andrew Benjamin Copyright 1976
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Roger Holme's work in social and industrial psychology is widely respected. The theme of this first collection of his essays is the relationship of the individual with the formal, value-laden group on the one hand and the scientifically known and the philosophically asserted on the other. Roger Holmes looks at the connexions between these two important relationships and considers them in terms of... Read more

1. Freud and Social Class  2. Freud, Piaget and Democratic Leadership  3. The Ownership of Work: A Psychological Approach  4. The University Seminar and the Primal Horde  5. The Nature of Morale  6. Marxism and the Nature of Groups  7. The Politics of the Knowable  8. The Transient and the Subsumed: Some Epistemological Implications of Cross-Cultural Research  9. The Organizational and the Scientific: Two Levels of Discourse  10. A Note on the Definition of Systems  11. Empiricism and Psychoanalysis

Biography

Holmes, Roger