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Race and social change : a quest, a study, a call to action Max Klau

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2017.Description: viii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781119359289
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.3720973 KL RA
Online resources: Summary: Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action focuses on a provocative social science experiment with the potential to address these needs. Through an analysis grounded in the perspectives of developmental psychology, adaptive leadership and complex systems theory, the inquiry at the heart of this book illuminates dynamics of race and social change in surprising and important ways. Author Max Klau explains how his own quest for insight into these matters led to the empirical study at the heart of this book, and he presents the results of years of research that integrate findings at the individual, group, and whole system levels of analysis. It′s an effort to explore one of the most controversial and deeply divisive subject′s in American civic life using the tools of social science and empiricism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action focuses on a provocative social science experiment with the potential to address these needs. Through an analysis grounded in the perspectives of developmental psychology, adaptive leadership and complex systems theory, the inquiry at the heart of this book illuminates dynamics of race and social change in surprising and important ways. Author Max Klau explains how his own quest for insight into these matters led to the empirical study at the heart of this book, and he presents the results of years of research that integrate findings at the individual, group, and whole system levels of analysis. It′s an effort to explore one of the most controversial and deeply divisive subject′s in American civic life using the tools of social science and empiricism.

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