scholarly journals Dilemma of collective and individual rationality

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-145
Author(s):  
Alexander Kudinov
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Individual Rationality ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Unified Theory

The article discusses the dichotomies of concepts encountered in socio-economic research when constructing a unified theory of human activity. These include the dichotomy of "action and structure" when it comes to embedding a person in a social order; "Egoism and altruism" in the study of rational human behavior in society, as well as the dichotomy of various forms of action such as instrumental and communication action. In connection with this problem, the question arises of the possibility of their study in the framework of incommensurable forms of rationality - "individual and collective".

scholarly journals Legality, legal order, discipline, democracy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Negru ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Public Authorities

Human activity is subject, in one way or another, to norms, in the sense that it cannot be carried out in a disorganized way, outside a certain social order, except for requirements that society submits to all public authorities, officials, organizations, enterprises, institutions, citizens, etc. The regulation of human behavior is done by establishing concrete models of social behavior, by establishing some rights and obligations of the subjects, as well as by some consequences that will follow in case of deviation from the norms.

Towards Intelligent Human Behavior Detection for Video Surveillance

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Nigam ◽  
Rajiv Singh ◽  
A. K. Misra
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Detection ◽  
Video Sequences ◽  
Human Tracking ◽  
Feature Descriptor ◽  
Behavior Detection ◽  
Human Behavior Analysis

Computer vision techniques are capable of detecting human behavior from video sequences. Several state-of-the-art techniques have been proposed for human behavior detection and analysis. However, a collective framework is always required for intelligent human behavior analysis. Therefore, in this chapter, the authors provide a comprehensive understanding towards human behavior detection approaches. The framework of this chapter is based on human detection, human tracking, and human activity recognition, as these are the basic steps of human behavior detection process. The authors provide a detailed discussion over the human behavior detection framework and discuss the feature-descriptor-based approach. Furthermore, they have provided qualitative and quantitative analysis for the detection framework and demonstrate the results for human detection, human tracking, and human activity recognition.

Putting Values and Institutions Back into the Theory of Strategic Action Fields

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack A. Goldstone ◽  
Bert Useem
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Theory Of Social Action

Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam have presented a new theory of how collective action creates the structure and dynamics of societies. At issue is the behavior of social movements, organizations, states, political parties, and interest groups. They argue that all of these phenomena are produced by social actors (which may be individuals or groups) involved in strategic action. This allows Fligstein and McAdam to advance a unified theory of “strategic action fields.” This article takes issue with aspects of Fligstein and McAdam’s important contribution. We argue that that all organizations are not essentially the same; in addition to the location and interactions of their strategic actors, their dynamics are shaped and distinguished by differing values and norms, by the autonomy of institutions embedded in strategic action fields, and by the fractal relationships that nested fields have to broader principles of justice and social organization that span societies. We also criticize the view that social change can be conceptualized solely in terms of shifting configurations of actors in strategic action fields. Rather, any theory of social action must distinguish between periods of routine contention under the current institutions and norms and exceptional challenges to the social order that aim to transform those institutions and norms.

scholarly journals Earthcasting the future Critical Zone

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Goddéris ◽  
Susan L Brantley
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Reaction Front ◽  
Critical Zone ◽  
Multiple Models ◽  
Mechanistic Models ◽  
Silicate Minerals ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Carbonate Reaction

Abstract As humans continue to impact the Critical Zone, we need to project how our environment will evolve into the future. To model such change requires the ability to simulate interactions among the lithosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere — including the activities of humans. Such projections, which some have called earthcasts, must be made with mechanistic models that capture the important phenomena, as well as scenarios of human behavior. As an example, we present earthcasts of future weathering in the mid-continent of the USA into the next century of projected warming. Rates of sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere due to weathering will change in the future as carbonate and silicate minerals are dissolved or precipitated in soil. The downward or upward advance of the carbonate reaction front in the soil is an analogue of the oceanic lysocline. Like the movement of the oceanic lysocline in response to oceanic acidification, this terrestrial lysocline will likely move due to fluxes of CO2 driven by human activity. Understanding this and other responses to perturbations will best be achieved using multiple models for earthcasting.

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