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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance de Timothy Jenkins

Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

Autor Timothy Jenkins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iun 2013
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137364456
ISBN-10: 1137364459
Pagini: 100
Ilustrații: X, 100 p. 2 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface Introduction: The issue of the scale of the event – one object or three parties? PART I: THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF THE VARIOUS PARTIES The social scientists The group and the mediums The press PART II: THE EVENTS AND THEIR RATIONALE The sociology of secrecy. Language of science, language of secrecy. A dialogue of the deaf. Gains Bibliography

Notă biografică

Timothy Jenkins is a Reader in Anthropology and Religion, University of Cambridge