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Ecological Perspective on Human Affairs
โ Scribed by Harold Hance Sprout; Margaret T. Sprout
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 248
- Series
- Princeton Legacy Library; 2160
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
"... of interest and value to all serious students of international politics, and indeed of human affairs generally."โThe American Political Science Review
Originally published in 1965.
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โฆ Table of Contents
Foreword
Authors' Acknowledgments
CONTENTS
1. The Ecological Perspective
2. Focal Terms and Concepts
3. Environmental Determinism
4. Free-will Environmentalism
5. Possibilism
6. Probabilistic Models of Behavior
7. The Cognitive Aspect of Man-Milieu Relationships
8. Man-Milieu Relationships Reconsidered in the Light of More General Theories of Explanation
9. Man-Milieu Relationships Reconsidered in the Context of Prediction
10. The Issues Reviewed
Index
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