How Societies Learn
By: Daniel Yankelovich
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781351320726
Subjects: International economic relations; Public welfare-Sweden; Public welfare; Social adjustment-Sweden; Social adjustment-United States; Welfare state; État providence
Description: "The theme of Daniel Yankelovich's Zetterberg Lecture is timely and urgent: how do societies learn? We know that individuals can learn, but can collectivities do likewise? More specifically, how can complex political systems adapt to a changing world? Yankelovich focuses specifically on the severe problems of the different attempts to treat welfare in the United States and Sweden. What kind of strategies can be attempted to accommodate these systems to the economic forces of globalization? Yankelovich answers by citing a version of trial and error in human affairs, a process of "lurch and learn." Yankelovich suggests that future changes in welfare systems will have to rely on mechanisms of reciprocity, rather than the claims of specific interest groups. Sociologist and public opinion analyst, Daniel Yankelovich is co-founder with Cyrus Vance and current president of the Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizenship education organization based in New York City. He is a past chairman of the board of Transaction. This is the first of the Hans L. Zetterberg Lecture Series delivered at the City University of Stockholm in 1997"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 To the well-being of society  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 2 The global market economy  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 3 Promise and peril  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 4 The American response  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 5 The Swedish welfare state  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 6 Social learning  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 7 Lurch and learn  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 8 Applying social learning to the welfare state  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 9 Characteristics of the lurch  -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar; title: chapter 10 Reciprocity -- Daniel Yankelovich Emil Uddhammar.