A Model of Human Motivation for Sociology

by Alsted, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9783631529072
• ISBN10: 3631529074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-11
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

List of Tables	9	(2)
List of Figures	11	(2)
Acknowledgements	13	(2)
1 Introduction	15	(20)
The Argument of This Work	16	(4)
Is It Valid to Search for a Basic Human Motivation?	20	(4)
Refining the Agent - Structure Analysis	24	(5)
The Divisions of Micro, Meso and Macro Levels	29	(3)
The Basic Questions to a Model of Motivation	32	(3)
2 Macro-Level Problems	35	(16)
The Structure of Society	35	(7)
The Source of the Structures	37	(2)
The Problem of Ultimate Primacy	39	(3)
Social Change on the Macro-Level: Evolution	42	(8)
Macro-Sociological Measures of Social Change	44	(2)
Ranking Societies	46	(2)
The Driving Force	48	(2)
Macro-Level Theory and Motivation	50	(1)
3 Meso-Level Problems	51	(14)
The Structure of Organisations	51	(7)
Structure as Formal Structure	52	(1)
Structure as Informal Structure	53	(4)
Structure as Motivational Structure	57	(1)
The Direction and Character of Organisational Change	58	(7)
A Measure of Change in Organisations	59	(2)
Ranking Organisations	61	(1)
Development of Organisations Over Time	62	(3)
4 A Model of Motivation: Towards a Better Founding of Macro and Meso
Level Theory	65	(1)
What Are the Dimensions of a Model of Motivation?	65	(2)
The Basic Motivation of the Psyche: Three Views	67	(27)
Personality as Biological Heritage	68	(4)
Personality as Relations	72	(6)
Personality as Existence	78	(3)
Are the Three Different Views Compatible?	81	(12)
The Basic Motivations	93	(1)
A Structural Model of Personality	94	(21)
The Structural Model of the Self	95	(1)
Is It Still Relevant?	96	(3)
Dynamics: Compromise Formation	99	(3)
The First Phases: How Does the Psyche Come Into Being?	102	(3)
The Id	105	(3)
The Superego	108	(3)
The Ego	111	(3)
The Tripartite Model and Motivation	114	(1)
The Phases of Development of the Self	115	(19)
Defence: Improving Reconciliation Techniques	120	(2)
Childhood	122	(3)
Youth and Adulthood	125	(3)
Mature Adult	128	(3)
Personality	131	(3)
A Summation of the Model	134	(3)
5 From Micro to Meso and Macro	137	(22)
Refining the Agent - Structure Analysis	137	(10)
The Structure of Relationships	138	(4)
The Ambivalence of Relations	142	(1)
Social Structures as Psychological Defences	143	(4)
Strengthening the Concepts of Meso and Macro	147	(8)
Social Structures as Meso and Macro Level	147	(3)
What Is the Meso-Level?	150	(3)
'What Is the Macro-Level?	153	(2)
Individual Motivation and the Agent - Structure Problem	155	(4)
6 Patterns on Meso-Level	159	(22)
The Structure of Groups	159	(6)
Stability vs. Change: the Economy of the Group	161	(1)
The Individual vs. the Collective: the Ideology of the Group	161	(1)
Unity and Coherence: the Politics of the Group	162	(3)
Organisational and Institutional Development	165	(13)
Measuring Organisational Change	166	(2)
Ranking Organisations	168	(6)
Development of Organisations	174	(4)
Understanding Groups and Organisations as Collective Psychological Defences	178	(3)
7 Patterns on the Macro-Level	181	(24)
The Structure of Society	181	(10)
The Source of the Structures	181	(9)
The Problem of Ultimate Primacy	190	(1)
Societal Structure as Motivational Structure	191	(1)
Social Change on the Macro-Level: Evolution	191	(14)
Macro-Sociological Measures of Social Change	191	(2)
Ranking Societies	193	(6)
The Driving Force of Evolution	199	(6)
8 Conclusion	205	(4)
REFERENCES	209	(8)
INDEX	217