Cambridge University Press Unisex Multicolor The Individual, Communication, & Society: Essays In Memory Of

Name: Cambridge University Press Unisex Multicolor The Individual, Communication, & Society: Essays In Memory Of
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Cambridge University Press

The Individual, Communication, and SocietyEssays in Memory of Gregory Bateson\nAuthor(s): Robert W. Rieber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521267410, 978-0521267410\nSynopsis\nThe Individual, Communication, and Society is a collection of original essays on communication written by leading scholars in honor of the work of the late Gregory Bateson. Bateson, who began his career as a zoologist at Cambridge University, was one of the most provocative social scientists of the twentieth century. His major contribution was a theory of communication that integrated biological, psychological, and social phenomena. The theory had an important impact on the thinking of a number of influential anthropologists, psychologists, zoologists, and psychiatrists, who found Bateson's ideas not only relevant in their own research settings, but productive for the practical insights they offered into the nature of br.