Knowledge and Action.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Knowledge, Action, and Space: An Introduction -- Open and Contested Research Questions -- The Neglected Spatial Dimension in Modern Social Theory -- The Problematic Legacy of Homo Oeconomicus and Rational Choice Theories -- Recent Developments in Decision-Making Theories and Geographies of Science: Improvements in the Understanding of Relations Between Knowledge, Action, and Space -- Collective Action -- Aims, Claims, and Content of this Volume -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space -- The Relevance of the Spatial Dimension and the Spatial Turn -- The Gaps in Social Theory -- Social Conditions of Scientific Research and the History of Space -- Different Spaces for Different Worlds -- Action, Knowledge, and Space-Space, Knowledge, and Action -- Incorporation of the World and the Construction of Geographical Realities -- Regionalizations and Regions of Meaningful Geographical Realities -- Social Relations of Space -- The Times They Are a-Changing: From Territorial to Digital Social Realities -- Implications: From Space to Action and from Action to the Spatiality of Action -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making -- Late-Modern Action-Theoretic Approaches and "Rational" Interventions -- Poststructuralist Theories of Practice and "Critical" Interventions -- Discursive Articulations and the Return of "Rational" Interventions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Thought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought -- References -- Chapter 5: Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis -- Neoliberalism, Finance Capitalism, and Crisis -- Buying the State -- Finance Capitalism and Environmental Crisis -- Social Unconsciousness -- References.

Chapter 6: How Much Knowledge Is Necessary for Action? -- Definitions of Knowledge and Action -- Knowledge and Belief -- Types of Knowledge -- Action -- Is Action Possible Without Knowledge? -- Is Action Possible Against One's Better Knowledge? -- Can Knowledge Impede Action? -- The Relation Between Knowledge and Action -- The Theory of Planned Behavior -- The Theory of Unconscious Thought -- The Option-Generation Framework -- Evidence From Problem-Solving Research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Knowing and Not Knowing -- Freud and Hayek: Why Quit? -- The Excess Boom in Non-knowledge -- Knowledge as a Societal Construct -- Information and Knowledge -- Observing Non-knowledge, and Some of the Questions I Ask Myself in the Process -- Asymmetric Information/Knowledge -- On the Virtues (Advantages?) of Non-knowledge -- The Societal-Cognitive Functional Differentiation Between Non-knowledge and Societally Determined Knowledge Gaps -- Outlook -- References -- Chapter 8: How Representations of Knowledge Shape Actions -- The Description-Experience Gap -- What Causes the Description-Experience Gap? -- Small Samples -- Recency -- Estimation Error -- Contingent Sampling -- Spatial Search Policies -- Cognitive Strategies in Decisions from Experience -- Neo-Bernoullian Models -- Associative Learning Models -- Heuristics -- Decisions from Experience: A Key to Otherwise Puzzling Human Behavior -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Reflection and Impulse as Determinants of Human Behavior -- The Missing Link Between Knowledge and Action -- A Short Overview of Reflective and Impulsive Styles of Thinking -- Theories of Reflection -- Theories of Impulse -- Bridging the Gap: The Reflective-Impulsive Model -- The Reflective System -- The Impulsive System -- Interaction of Systems -- Common Pathway to Behavior.

Knowledge and Action: Bidirectional Connections -- Determinants of Systematic Behavioral Control -- Motivation and Opportunity -- Self-Regulatory Resources -- Implications of the RIM -- Thinking Is Tough! -- Sometimes No Means Yes If I Can't Process It -- Improving Implicit Self-Esteem -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Planning and the Control of Action -- Controlling Actions by Goals and Implementation Intentions -- The Role of Knowledge Accessibility in Planning and in the Control of Action -- Spontaneous Use of Incidentally Presented Goal-Relevant Information -- Strategic Use of Goal-Relevant Knowledge with MCII -- Strategic Planning of the Automatic Activation of Goal-Relevant Knowledge -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Chapter 11: Pragmatic Philosophy and the Social Function of Knowledge -- How to Define and How to Obscure Knowledge -- Knowledge as Practice: Keeping Information Available -- Social Epistemology and Spatial Difference -- Delocalized and Resituated Knowledge in the Information Age -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual Spaces -- What Is Semantic Knowledge? -- Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces -- Semantic Domains Involved in Children's Development -- Levels of Intersubjectivity -- Emotive Domain -- Visual and Physical Domains -- Category Domain -- Value Domain -- Action Domain -- Goal Domain -- Event Domain -- Some Linguistic Evidence of Semantic Domain Knowledge -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: So What Do You Do? Experimenting with Space for Social Creativity -- Theoretical Framework -- Context: The Studio for Social Creativity -- Method: Action Experiments -- Data Analysis -- Configurations in Spaces of Social Creativity -- Looking Closely at a Sample Session -- Comparative Analysis Across Sessions -- Orientation -- Meeting Mode -- Expansion.

Creation Configuration -- Reflection -- Exhibition -- Rehearsal -- Discussion -- Orientation in Undifferentiated Space -- Orientation in Unencrusted Space -- Qualifying Spaces of Possibility -- Constructing Spaces Conducive to Newness -- The Relationship Between Talking and Doing -- Methodological Reflection -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: The Decision to Move: Being Mobile and Being Rational in Comparative Anthropological Perspective -- Small Places, Big Issues -- State of the Art: Rational Choice Models of Mobility -- State of the Art: Decision-Making Probability -- The Pragmatics of Decision-Making -- Variation in Reasoning -- References -- Chapter 15: Continuity and Change in Older Adults' Out-­of-­Home Mobility Over Ten Years: A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach -- Method -- Study Design -- Sample Description and Drop-Out -- Instruments -- Data Analyses -- Results -- Overview -- Subjective Meaning of Out-of-Home Mobility Over Time -- Perceived Changes in Out-of-Home Mobility Over Time and Perceived Reasons for Such Change -- Satisfaction with Key Areas of Mobility and Satisfaction with Life in General Over Time -- Out-of-Home Mobility -- Public Transport -- Out-of-Home Leisure Activities and Travel -- Life in General -- Exploration of Interindividual Variability Over Time in a Case Contrast Approach -- Discussion -- References -- The Klaus Tschira Stiftung -- Index.

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