Colin Ward. Writer, social theorist and anarchist, 1924–2010

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Social - Self - Interest by Colin Ash

Abstract This paper is about rational sociality. Retaining rational choice as its basic framework, it aims to enrich it by taking seriously a well-established cultural, social and psychological phenomenon: that some inter-personal relationships have intrinsic value. These are termed primary. Because of the risk of adverse instrumental outcomes, agents offer primary relationships on certain term...

Alex Gillespie G . H . Mead : theorist of the social act

There have been many readings of Mead’s work, and this paper proposes yet another: Mead, theorist of the social act. It is argued that Mead’s core theory of the social act has been neglected, and that without this theory, the concept of taking the attitude of the other is inexplicable and the contemporary relevance of the concept of the significant symbol is obfuscated. The paper traces the dev...

Social service for a medical ward.

On the eve of new legislation which will affect the results of illness for hospital patients, it seems opportune to discuss the present need for an almoner's services on a medical ward and what it is likely to be in the future. In 1943 a study was carried out in this department of a group of patients admitted to a medical ward during a period of six months, and it was concluded that 70 per cent...

Colin Clifford

(In: Rosenblith, W.A. (Ed.), Sensory Communication, Wiley, New York, pp. 303–317). Based on simple behavioural experiments, Reichardt proposed an elegant computational account of motion processing by the visual system of the Chlorophanus beetle. His proposal has been simplified, elaborated and reinvented on at least one occasion but remains the most influential model of visual motion processing...