| Description |
x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Theoretical overview, assumptions, and levels of analysis -- Dynamic goal pursuit: network motivation, emotions, conflict, and power -- Groups, organizations, and goal pursuits over time -- Interventions: leadership, helping, networking, and organizational learning -- Cognition and mental health in social networks -- Conclusions and applications |
| Summary |
"New discoveries across the social sciences highlight "social networks" as phenomena that can influence and change our lives. But what the literature doesn't address is: What gives social networks such power? How do they facilitate and motivate change? In Dynamic Network Theory, James Westaby expertly melds social psychology's traditional focus on individual and collective goals with organizational/management science's analyses of institutional roles. The result is a masterly interdisciplinary work that explores these networks' generation of social capital in formal and informal organizations and settings. This analysis is made possible through a powerful combination of approaches from social psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, organization/management science, social learning, and helping skills. Dynamic Network Theory is a quantum advance over conventional approaches because it directly infuses goals into social network analyses. Reaching beyond past research, the author also shows how the new concepts of "network motivation" and the "network rippling of emotions" have powerful effects on social networks. Westaby expertly uses new dynamic network charts to illustrate the various everyday social networks we encounter in some way at different levels of analysis—from a local community trying to help solve a neighborhood crime, to a firm wondering how to track the source of performance problems, or to transnational terrorist cells figuring out how to plan an attack without central control or coordination. "--Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued in print |
| Subject |
Social psychology.
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Social networks -- Psychological aspects.
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Goal (Psychology)
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Goals.
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Group Structure.
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Psychology, Social.
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| Author |
American Psychological Association.
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| LC no. |
2011022333 |
| ISBN |
9781433810824 |
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1433810824 |
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