Edelman Politics as Symbolic Action

Mass Arousal and Quiescence
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6990-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Web PDF

Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence deals with the dynamics of development of political threats related to political behavior. The book discusses the conditions under which the dynamics related to political behavior are the prior causes of political arousal, violence, and quiescence. The text examines the influence of governmental activity on people's beliefs and perceptions-how non-empirical cognitions become the resistant basis of change. The text also examines how the individual phenomenon and the group phenomenon become linked through symbol formation and myths. The book discusses emotion as a catalyst of political ritual and political violence as inferred from Theodore Sarbin's role theory. The use of metaphors, language forms, and mass tensions can all be social-psychological and political processes that can lead to political arousal or quiescence. The book also explains major violent disturbances as having patterns reflective of organization, disorganization, or by leadership example; the book notes the popular notion that the organization or the leader's direction starts or worsens the violence as very simplistic. The book then proposes that political perceptions and beliefs are changeable and that phenomenological perceptions of specific groups of people can identify which political behavior are systematic. The text is suitable for political analysts, political scientists, sociologists, and educators involved in group psychology and analyses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edelman, Murray

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Dedication;6
5;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;8
6;Table of Contents;10
7;Chapter 1. AROUSAL AND QUIESCENCE: AN INTRODUCTION;12
7.1;THE INSTABILITY AND AMBIVALENCE OF POLITICAL COGNITIONS;14
7.2;THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITY UPON BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS;18
7.3;PLAN OF THE BOOK;22
8;Chapter 2. ESCALATION AND RITUALIZATION OF POLITICAL CONFLICT;23
8.1;THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF ESCALATION;23
8.2;RITUALIZATION OF POLITICAL CONFLICT;32
8.3;SYMBOLIC CONFLICT AND MASS IMMOBILIZATION;33
8.4;ORGANIZATION AND VIOLENCE;35
9;Chapter 3. INFORMATION AND COGNITION;42
9.1;SEMANTIC AND ESTHETIC INFORMATION;45
9.2;GOVERNMENTAL GENERATION OF COGNITIONS;47
9.3;THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL COGNITIONS;52
9.4;THE POLITICAL FUNCTION OF PUBLIC CONTROVERSY;56
9.5;THE CONDITIONS OF MASS CHANGE IN POLITICAL COGNITIONS;57
9.6;THE DETROIT RIOT OF 1967;59
9.7;THE CONDITIONS OF RECEPTIVITY TO MYTHIC CUES;61
10;Chapter 4. MYTH, EMOTION, AND SELF-CONCEPTION;64
10.1;MYTH AND IDENTITY;64
10.2;EMOTION AS A CATALYST OF POLITICAL RITUAL AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE;67
11;Chapter 5. METAPHOR AND LANGUAGE FORMS;76
11.1;FACTUAL PREMISES IN POLITICAL METAPHORS;78
11.2;VALUE PREMISES IN POLITICAL METAPHORS;81
11.3;LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL IDENTIFICATIONS;83
11.4;FORMS OF MYTHIC EXPRESSION;87
11.5;RHETORICAL EVOCATIONS;91
12;Chapter 6. MASS TENSIONS;95
12.1;OBJECTIVE CONDITIONS;96
12.2;PERCEPTION;107
12.3;THE PRINCIPLES OF TRANSLATION INTO MYTH;110
12.4;THE INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC POLICIES UPON PERCEPTIONS;112
12.5;PERCEPTION OF DEPRIVATION;115
12.6;PERCEPTIONS THAT JUSTIFY PAST ACTIONS;118
12.7;THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ENEMY IN RIOT MYTHS;120
12.8;THE DEFINITION OF AN ENEMY THAT MOBILIZES ALLIES;125
13;Chapter 7. DISORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP;127
14;THE LEADERSHIP OF CROWDS;131
14.1;VULNERABILITY;133
14.2;GOVERNMENTAL VULNERABILITY AND GOVERNMENTAL MILITANCE;139
14.3;RIOT PRECIPITATION AS SOCIAL LEARNING;143
14.4;THE CONVERGENCE OF EXPECTATIONS;146
14.5;INFORMAL CONVERGENCE AND FORMAL ORGANIZATION;148
14.6;RIOTING DISTINGUISHED FROM ORGANIZED COMBAT;149
14.7;RIOT PRECIPITATION AS SYMBOLIC RESPONSE;152
15;Chapter 8. RITUALIZATION: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS;153
15.1;POLITICAL AND SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONS OF UNIONS;153
15.2;MAJOR STATUS AND POWER REALIGNMENTS;163
15.3;THE COOPTATION OF UNIONS;164
16;Chapter 9. ESCALATION: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS;166
16.1;THE TERMS OF ANALYSIS;166
16.2;MYTH AND RITUAL IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS;168
16.3;THE FUNCTIONS OF ESCALATION;170
16.4;THE CHARACTERISTICS OF COGNITIONS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL THREATS;175
16.5;STRATEGIES FOR PEACE;179
17;Chapter 10. HUMAN AND POLITICAL POTENTIALITIES;183
17.1;THE DYNAMIC FORMS OF POLITICAL CONFLICT;187
17.2;IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLITICS;189
17.3;SOME POLICY IMPLICATIONS;190
18;INDEX;194