[from Gary Cziko 920327.0945]
Clark McPhail recently filled me in on what's happening in Kansas City in
April. I thought the rest of the network would like to see this as
well.--Gary
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[from Clark McPhail]
April 1-4 are the dates of the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting.
The theme this year is Society and Individual, a theme set by, guess who,
me. The highlight of the meeting as far as I am concerned, since I
organized this and will preside, will be the plenary session on Friday
afternoon, April 3, at 4:30pm: "Individual and Society: An Alternative
Perspective." The first presentation will be by Richard Marken, "A
perceptual control theory analysis of the individual in society." The
second presentation will be by Thomas Bourbon, "A perceptual control theory
analysis of individuals in cooperative behavior." The third presentation
will be by Kent McClelland, "Implications of perceptual control theory for
a sociological understanding of individual and society." The discussant
will be Charles W. Tucker. There will be computer projections of
simulations by Marken and Bourbon. We hope people will be intrigued,
provoked, and even interested in learning more about PCT.
cheers,
Clark