By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann. He demonstrates how Luhmann's theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what they mean by society. Questioning the relationship between personal morality and political will, it challenges the assumption that changing society is merely a matter of changing attitudes and highlights the pitfalls associated with formulating social reform.
Table of Contents:
Contents: R. Richardson, D.C. Riccio, Memory Processes, ACTH, and Extinction Phenomena. M.E. Bouton, Context and Retrieval in Extinction and in Other Examples of Interference in Simple Associative Learning. A.R. Delamater, V.M. LoLordo, Event Revaluation Procedures and Associative Structures in Pavlovian Conditioning. R.R. Miller, N.J. Grahame, Expression of Learning. T.R. Zentall, P.J. Urcuioli, P. Jackson-Smith, J.N. Steirn, Memory Strategies in Pigeons. J.M. Pearce, The Acquisition of Concrete and Abstract Categories in Pigeons. M.R. D'Amato, Comparative Cognition: Processing of Serial Order and Serial Pattern. M.S. Fanselow, F.J. Helmstetter, D.J. Calcagnetti, Parallels Between the Behavioral Effects of Dimethoxy-beta-carboline (DMCM) and Conditioned Fear Stimuli. C.F. Flaherty, Incentive Contrast and Selected Animal Models of Anxiety. L. Dachowski, M.M. Brazier, Consummatory Incentive Contrast: Experimental Design Relationships and Deprivation Effects. T.W. Berger, J.L. Bassett, W.B. Orr, Multiple Memory Systems in the Mammalian Brain Involved in Classical Conditioning. B.S. Kapp, C.G. Markgraf, A. Wilson, J.P. Pascoe, W.F. Supple, Contribution of the Amygdala and Anatomically-Related Structures to the Acquisition and Expression of Aversively Conditioned Responses. T.J. Walsh, J.J. Chrobak, Animal Models of Alzheimer's Disease: Role of Hippocampal Cholinergic Systems in Working Memory. C.F. Flaherty, L. Dachowski, Brain, Emotion, and Cognition: An Overview.
About the Author :
Lawrence Dachowski, Charles F. Flaherty
Review :
"The volume does an excellent job of presenting emerging cross-discipline research programs.... ....It is not easy in such a diversity to maintain a sense of unity , but this volume succeeds in doing so....The editors have performed their duties extremely well.... the organization is excellent at several levels..."
—Contemporary Psychology
