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Past Impersonal: Group Process in Human History

Past Impersonal: Group Process in Human History

Hardcover

General Psychology

ISBN10: 0875803458
ISBN13: 9780875803456
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Aug 26 2005
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
In this groundbreaking study, renowned historian Rudolph Binion develops a whole new of understanding human history. Exploring the collective dimension of human behavior in various historic contexts, he argues that people participate in purposeful group actions while pursuing only their own individual ends as far as they know. The basic moving force in history thus [illegible] neither individual motives, nor abstract tendencies such as modernization or globalization, but group process operating in concealment. Through several complementary historic case studies ranging over two millenniums, Binion demonstrates how individuals pursue group purposes, or hidden group agendas, unawares.

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