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100	1		_aRatner, Carl. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era _h[electronic resource] / _cby Carl Ratner.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSpringer New York : _bImprint: Springer, _c2013.
300			_aXVIII, 227 p. 6 illus. _bonline resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aInternational and Cultural Psychology, _x1574-0455
505	0		_aIntroduction To The Praxis of Cooperative Behavior -- General Aspects of Cooperation That Potentiate But Do Not Determine Concrete Cooperation -- The Dialectical Relation between Cooperation and Capitalism: Cooperation Before, During, and After The Advent of Capitalism -- Historical Roots Of Contemporary Cooperatives -- Cooperatives’ March To Modernity: Market-oriented, Apolitical Cooperation -- Cooperation in Practice: Successes and Shortcomings of The International Cooperative Movement Today -- Explaining Co-op Weaknesses In Terms of The Dominant  Cooperative Paradigm -- An Enriched, Viable, Necessary Cooperative Paradigm for Our Era.
520			_aCooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global Era Carl Ratner Human history is largely the story of communities, punctuated by examples of cooperatives--in fact, our level of cooperative behavior is one of the attributes that makes us most human. In recent years, however, concepts such as rugged individualism and social Darwinism have competed against cooperative ideas for supremacy, and today's climate of global economic crisis has found these "me-first" concepts wanting. Now, an important new book posits that current political solutions to acute world problems are inadequate, and that modern society needs to look to its communal roots for recovery--and perhaps survival. Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global Era argues for a societal paradigm shift and details how such a transformation might be accomplished. Taking the evolutionary long view, its author demonstrates how cooperative principles can make a social system not just more efficient and less wasteful of time and resources, but also more democratic, empowering, and fulfilling for everyone involved. In making this compelling case, he:   Explains cooperation as a form of life that can resolve current crises and enhance human development.   Shows how most of human history has been cooperative.   Explains modern obstacles to cooperation that must be overcome. Explicates a cooperative social philosophy: its psychology, social relations, property relations, governance. Articulates a psychological theory of cooperation that includes comparative research with animals, evolutionary processes, biological issues, and cultural issues. Explains how cooperative enterprises have practiced cooperation.  Provides examples of co-op strengths and weaknesses  from on-site research into European and American co-ops.    Articulates a revisionist history of the cooperative movement that includes relations with socialist theory and the labor movement. Explains implications of cooperation for democracy and interpersonal relations such as love.                                                                             Social scientists, co-op members, policy makers, social philosophers, mediators, community builders, social reformers, and all those concerned with a viable solution to contemporary crises will find Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops In A Global Era stimulating and informative.
650		0	_aPhilosophy (General).
650		0	_aApplied psychology.
650	1	4	_aPsychology.
650	2	4	_aCross Cultural Psychology.
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773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781461458241
830		0	_aInternational and Cultural Psychology, _x1574-0455
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5825-8
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